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SAT SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04gcmc8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04gc8p4 (Listen) SAT Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, And They Lived SAT Happily Ever After SAT SAT Adrian Scarborough continues reading from Yuval Noah SAT Harari's ground-breaking account of humankind's remarkable SAT history from insignificant apes to rulers of the world. SAT SAT The world's a better place but are we any happier? SAT SAT Abridged by Penny Leicester SAT Produced by Gemma Jenkins. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Adrian Scarborough SAT Producer: Gemma Jenkins SAT Abridger: Penny Leicester SAT Author: Yuval Noah Harari SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04gcmcb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04gcmcd (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. 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SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04gc2xw (Listen) SAT Dennis Potter and the Forest of Dean SAT SAT "Strange and beautiful, a heart shaped place between two SAT rivers" is how television playwright and author, Dennis SAT Potter described the Forest of Dean, where he grew up. On SAT the 20th anniversary of his death, Felicity Evans explores SAT the landscape that shaped much of his work. SAT SAT The Forest has a rich industrial heritage which Forester and SAT Freeminer, Rich Daniels explains at the former site of the SAT New Fancy coal mine. The old spoil heap now provides SAT spectacular views across the Forest. In the distance, you SAT can see Cannop Ponds and the pit where Dennis' father was a SAT miner. SAT SAT Then it's to Berry Hill, the place where Potter grew up and SAT visited frequently with his own family. Firstly to "Spion SAT Kop", the Potter family home where artist John Belcher now SAT lives and then onto some of the locations used in Potter's SAT work. SAT SAT Felicity meets historian and verderer, Ian Standing who SAT talks about his role in upholding Forest law and culture and SAT shows us the oak trees that Lord Nelson planted. SAT SAT Finally from the ancient forest to the very modern as we SAT visit a nearby café in Coleford to talk to teenagers from SAT the Forest Youth Forum about what it's like to live in the SAT Forest of Dean today. How does the landscape affect them? SAT Dennis Potter was concerned that the "New Foresters" would SAT have no sense of community and not realise how special and SAT unique it is. Were his fears unfounded? SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04gn58r (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Bovine TB and badgers SAT SAT The badger cull started again in Gloucestershire and SAT Somerset this week. This is Year 2 of a four-year pilot SAT project to reduce badger numbers by 70%. The government's SAT decision to use culling as part of its strategy to tackle SAT the spread of bovine TB is proving as controversial this SAT year as it did in 2013. SAT SAT In this programme, Charlotte Smith hears the arguments for SAT and against the cull. She speaks to the Farming Minister and SAT to the Badger Trust, which this week won the right to appeal SAT against a High Court judgement that the cull is still legal, SAT despite the removal of the Independent Expert Panel which SAT oversaw it last year. We hear from reporters who have been SAT out in the cull zones at night - with both the marksmen SAT whose job is to find and shoot badgers, and the campaigners SAT whose mission is to stop them. SAT SAT Farming Today This Week also explores other options for SAT tackling TB, including the vaccination possibilities for SAT both badgers and cattle, and the need for increased SAT biosecurity on farms. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04gcmcq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04gn617 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b04gn619 (Listen) SAT Val McDermid and Invictus Games SAT SAT Presented by Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir is at the Invictus SAT Games. SAT SAT The award winning crime writer Val McDermid has written 28 SAT novels, selling more than 10 million copies worldwide. She SAT joins Richard to talk about her passion for football, her SAT musical aspirations and where she finds inspiration for her SAT novels. SAT SAT Former Royal Marine and medallist Andy Grant lost his right SAT leg in Afghanistan in 2009. He describes how vital sport has SAT been to his rehabilitation and the amazing feeling of SAT winning Gold for the 1500 metres. SAT SAT JP Devlin talks to R2 Breakfast presenter Chris Evans about SAT the importance of reading with his children and why he finds SAT it so emotional. SAT SAT Award winning photographer Paul Clarke explains how he SAT changed career late in life and reinvented himself, by SAT swapping a bottle of tequila for a camera. SAT SAT Mary Wilson sustained injuries to her cheek, toes and SAT shoulder, while on a Military Horse Riding course with the SAT Royal Artillery. She has since taken part in the US Warrior SAT Games 2013. She talks about the events she's taking part in SAT for the Invictus Games, and how she's recently completed 282 SAT Munros. SAT SAT Tony Harris's vehicle was hit by an explosion whilst on SAT patrol in Afghanistan. He spent 10 months in hospital and SAT his leg was amputated due to infection. He has since taken SAT part in the Dakar Rally. He is now a member of the sitting SAT volleyball team and explains that taking part in sport has SAT been vital to his recovery. SAT SAT And we hear the Inheritance Tracks of actress Rebecca Front, SAT who chooses We All Laughed by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis SAT Armstrong and Siciliano, The second movement of Bach's SAT Second Piano Concerto, performed by Glenn Gould. SAT SAT The Invictus Games run until Sunday 14 September. SAT SAT The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid is published by Little, SAT Brown. SAT SAT Chris Evans reads The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers to his SAT children. SAT SAT Paul Clarke won the Professional category of the Event SAT Photography Awards 2014. SAT SAT Producer: Louise Corley. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Val McDermid SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT Interviewed Guest: Andy Grant SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Chris Evans SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Clarke SAT Interviewed Guest: Mary Wilson SAT Interviewed Guest: Tony Harris SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b04gn91j (Listen) SAT Series 8, Harrogate SAT SAT Jay Rayner and the panel are in Harrogate for this week's SAT episode of the culinary panel programme. SAT SAT Taking questions from a local audience are food historian SAT Annie Gray, Scottish-Indian fusion chef Angela Malik, school SAT food adviser and restaurateur Henry Dimbleby, and champion SAT of daring DIY cookery Tim Hayward. SAT SAT The team discuss tea, toffee and sulphurous spa water. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT Producer: Victoria Shepherd SAT Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b04gn93k (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT All eyes are on Scotland in the last few days before the SAT referendum on Independence. Whatever the result there will SAT be change in the make-up of the United Kingdom so what can SAT we expect? What can we deduce from former Prime Minister SAT Gordon Brown's last minute emergence as a pivotal figure in SAT the debate? SAT Plus how and why Speaker Bercow attracts controversy. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04gn93m (Listen) SAT Domestic Strife SAT SAT Kate Adie introduces Correspondents' stories. This week Paul SAT Wood hears warnings of civil war returning to Lebanon; SAT Andrew Harding reflects on the Pistorius trial; Darius SAT Barzagan can't get the images of MH17 out of his head; Niall SAT O'Gallagher joins Catalans celebrating their National Day SAT and calling for independence; and Lucy Ash meets Ivory SAT Coast's most famous actress to talk about infidelity. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04gcmcs (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04gn93p (Listen) SAT Scotland decides; Jewellery insurance heist; Pensions SAT freedom SAT SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance, with SAT Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b04gch03 (Listen) SAT Series 44, Episode 1 SAT SAT Steve Punt is joined by Terry Mynott, David Quantick, Mitch SAT Benn, Laura Shavin and Jon Holmes for a comic romp through SAT the week's news. SAT SAT Written by the cast with additional material from Andy SAT Woolton, Carrie Quinlan and Alice Gregg. Produced by SAT Alexandra Smith. SAT Listen to or download The Now Show SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Panellist: Terry Mynott SAT Panellist: David Quantick SAT Panellist: Mitch Benn SAT Panellist: Jon Holmes SAT Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04gcmcv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04gcmcx (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04gch09 (Listen) SAT John Swinney MSP, Ruth Davidson MSP, Michelle Thomson, Jim SAT Murphy MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen with John Swinney SAT MSP Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth in SAT the Scottish Government, and the Leader of the Scottish SAT Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, Managing Director of Business SAT for Scotland Michelle Thomson and Shadow Secretary of State SAT for International Development Jim Murphy MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04gnb6h (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01mnxw7 (Listen) SAT The Martin Beck Killings, The Laughing Policeman SAT SAT In the fourth of the Martin Beck Killings, Beck is now a SAT Detective Superintendant. But his promotion hasn't made him SAT any more cheerful; if anything, it's only confirmed his SAT gloomy belief that the best way to solve crimes is by hard SAT slog, dogged persistence, a grimly realistic view of human SAT nature - and the occasional flash of sheer intuition. His SAT team of colleagues, headed by Lennart Kollberg and Frederick SAT Melander, are used to his stubborn ways and his frequent SAT colds. His wife Inga isn't as tolerant. SAT SAT The Laughing Policeman begins on the evening of a big SAT demonstration in Stockholm against the Vietnam war; as the SAT police are dealing with protesters outside the American SAT embassy, a mass shooting on a bus in a suburb ends with nine SAT dead, including one of Martin Beck's team. The trail to find SAT the murderer leads Beck back to an unsolved case from the SAT past that had puzzled the Swedish police for years. SAT SAT Dramatised for radio by Jennifer Howarth SAT Original Music by Elizabeth Purnell SAT Directed by Sara Davies. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Credits SAT Martin Beck: Steven Mackintosh SAT Lennart Kollberg: Neil Pearson SAT Frederick Melander: Adrian Scarborough SAT Inga Beck: Lucy Black SAT Ingrid Beck: Lauren Crace SAT Einar Ronn: Russell Boulter SAT Asa Torell: Clare Corbett SAT Schwerin: Robert Blythe SAT Gun Kollberg: Sally Orrock SAT Mechanic: Sam Alexander SAT Blonde Malin: Christine Absalom SAT Workman: Harry Livingstone SAT Birgersson: Jonathan Tafler SAT Car Showroom Manager: Robert Blythe SAT Forsberg: Patrick Brennan SAT Writer: Maj Sjowall SAT Writer: Per Wahloo SAT Writer: Jennifer Howarth SAT Director: Sara Davies SAT SAT 15:30 The Lost Genius of Judee Sill b04g8hrd (Listen) SAT "I coulda sworn I heard my spirit soarin' SAT Guess I'm always chasin' the sun SAT Hopin' we will soon be one SAT Until it turns around to me, then I try to run" SAT SAT Ruth Barnes delves into the extraordinary story of the SAT musician Judee Sill. SAT SAT The first act signed to David Geffen's Asylum Records in the SAT early 1970s, Judee Sill produced two astonishingly beautiful SAT albums in her lifetime. SAT SAT Seemingly emerging from the Laurel Canyon scene, her music SAT wove a diverse tapestry of influences - from gospel piano to SAT Bach, rhythm and blues to country, forty-part vocal SAT harmonies blending into piano ballads... SAT SAT So why did Judee Sill disappear from view? Ruth Barnes SAT traces Judee's peculiar life story - hearing tales of armed SAT robberies, reform school and addiction, alongside musical SAT invention and heartstopping songs. SAT SAT With contributions from family, friends, lovers and devotees SAT of her music including JD Souther, XTC's Andy Partridge, Jim SAT Pons, Tommy Peltier and 'Whispering' Bob Harris. SAT SAT Producer: Eleanor McDowall SAT A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT The lyrics to Ridge Rider - written by Judee Sill SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from The Lost Genius of Judee Sill (2) SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04gnbxx (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour; Biba at 50; Clare Balding; new Poirot SAT SAT Barbara Hulanicki celebrates the 50th Birthday of Biba. As SAT life expectancy increases, jobs for life become a thing of SAT the past. How easy is to take up a different career or SAT juggle different projects? Crime writer Sophie Hannah on SAT bringing Hercule Poirot back to life in a new novel. Ruzwana SAT Bashir, inspired by the revelations from Rotherham to talk SAT publicly about the abuse she suffered as a child, explains SAT why it's so hard for British-Asian women to speak out about SAT sexual abuse. Plus Clare Balding on her new book "Walking SAT Home", family life and her broadcasting career. Is being SAT embarrassed by your parents a rite of passage every child SAT has to go through? And with an increasing range of SAT technology available and a growing number of dedicated SAT children's channels, we look at the children's TV industry SAT and what its future holds. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Emma Wallace SAT Editor; Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Biba’s 50th Birthday SAT SAT This month marks fifty years since the fashion boutique Biba SAT first opened its doors on Abingdon Road, London. Biba moved SAT twice to bigger premises and eventually it moved in to its SAT own department store, but it quickly became financially SAT untenable and in 1975, the founder, Barbara Hulanicki, sold SAT the company and since then she has had no involvement with SAT Biba’s various relaunches. To celebrate the brand’s 50th SAT birthday, the V&A Museum have published SAT The Biba Years 1963-1975 SAT . Jenni talks to Barbara about founding, and losing, one of SAT the biggest fashion brands of the 20th Century and our SAT reporter Henrietta Harrison speaks to some of Biba’s most SAT influential devotees. SAT SAT Reinventing Yourself SAT SAT As life expectancy increases, jobs for life become a thing SAT of the past and pensions fail to provide enough to live on, SAT many more of us are re-inventing ourselves. So how easy is SAT it to take up a different career or juggle different SAT projects? What qualities do you need? Is it something that SAT women are particularly good at? How useful is the internet? SAT Rosie Boycott SAT currently the Mayor of London’s Food Advisor and SAT Sophia Stuart SAT currently a digital strategist, have both reinvented SAT themselves. SAT SAT The Long + Short SAT SAT Sophie Hannah SAT Nearly 40 years after Agatha Christie killed him off, SAT Hercule Poirot exercises his little grey cells in a new SAT novel by crime writer Sophie Hannah. The Monogram Murders SAT begins in a London coffee house where a terrified woman SAT confides in Poirot and then disappears. This is the first SAT time the guardians of Agatha Christie’s estate have allowed SAT a ‘new’ Christie novel to be written. Sophie Hannah joins SAT Jane to describe how it felt as an Agatha Christie super-fan SAT to step into the literary shoes of her heroine. SAT SAT Children's Television SAT Listen With Mother; Thomas the Tank Engine; Grange Hill; SAT Blue Peter and the Teletubbies. Over the last 50 years the SAT UK has built a reputation for producing some of the most SAT high quality children's programming in the world. For many SAT years children were happy to sit comfortably and watch with SAT mother but the last decade has seen enormous changes in SAT children's viewing. It's estimated that around 71% of under SAT 12 year olds have access to a tablet device for viewing. And SAT with an increasing range of technology available and a SAT growing number of dedicated children's channels, how are SAT children changing the ways in which they view television? SAT SAT Ruzwana Bashir SAT SAT The shocking sexual abuse and exploitation of more than 1400 SAT girls in Rotherham involved predominantly white victims and SAT perpetrators of Pakistani origin. But, as we heard on last SAT week’s Woman’s Hour, British-Pakistani women are also the SAT victims of abuse by men within their communities. One, now a SAT successful, young businesswoman, was inspired by the SAT revelations from Rotherham to talk publicly about the abuse SAT she suffered as a child in the hope it would prompt others SAT to come forward. Jane speaks to Ruzwana Bashir about why SAT it’s so hard for British-Asian women to speak out about SAT sexual abuse. SAT SAT SAT SAT Other Organisations: SAT SAT NSPCC PANTS campaign SAT SAT SAT MOSAC SAT MOSAC is a voluntary organisation supporting all non-abusing SAT parents and carers whose children have been sexually abused. SAT They provide advocacy, advice and information, befriending, SAT counselling, play therapy and support groups following SAT alleged child sexual abuse. Visit their website or call SAT their national helpline on 0800 980 1958. SAT SAT Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre SAT The CEOP Centre is the UK's national police agency set up to SAT tackle child sexual abuse. If you are worried about SAT someone's behaviour towards a child, online or offline, you SAT can report this at SAT www.ceop.police.uk SAT You can get help, advice and support on all issues related SAT to internet safety for young people by visiting SAT www.clickceop.net SAT SAT Childline SAT 0800 1111 SAT Get help and advice about a wide range of issues, talk to a SAT counsellor online. You can also send ChildLine an email or SAT post on the message boards. SAT SAT NSPCC Helpline SAT NSPCC Child Protection Helpline - SAT 0808 800 5000 SAT The NSPCC is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to stopping SAT child abuse. You can call their child protection helpline or SAT contact them via email at SAT help@nspcc.org.uk SAT SAT MAPPA SAT Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) support SAT the assessment and management of the most serious sexual and SAT violent offenders. SAT SAT The Lucy Faithfull Foundation SAT The Lucy Faithfull Foundation (LFF) is the only UK-wide SAT child protection charity committed solely to reducing the SAT risk of children being sexually abused. LFF’s staff work SAT with all those affected by abuse including adult male and SAT female sexual abusers; young people with inappropriate SAT sexual behaviours; victims of abuse and other family SAT members. SAT SAT The Home Office Disclosure Scheme SAT Keeping children safe: your right to ask for a police check SAT If you are worried about someone in your child’s life, you SAT can get them checked by the police to see if they have a SAT record of child sexual offences. Find out what you need to SAT do to get someone checked. SAT SAT NAPAC SAT NAPAC is the National Association for People Abused in SAT Childhood. It is a registered charity providing support and SAT information for people abused in childhood. SAT SAT Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation (Pace) SAT Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation (Pace) works SAT alongside parents and carers whose children are or are at SAT risk of being sexually exploited by perpetrators external to SAT the family. They also offer guidance and training to SAT professionals on how child sexual exploitation affects the SAT whole family. They were formerly known as CROP. SAT SAT SAT Rights of Women SAT SAT Helping women through the law SAT SAT Clare Balding SAT Clare Balding SAT stole the hearts of everyone watching the London 2012 SAT Olympic and Paralympic games. Now hailed a national treasure SAT (and been given an OBE), her warm and intelligent reporting SAT style has become her winning formula. She has won a BAFTA SAT for TV personality of the year and we even named her on our SAT very first Power List…but it’s not all been clear sailing. SAT She was publicly ‘outed’ as a lesbian in 2003 by the tabloid SAT press, recovered from thyroid cancer and struggled against SAT people judging her sexual orientation rather than her SAT achievements. Now comfortable with sexuality, Clare talks to SAT Jenni Murray about being openly gay, her rather eccentric SAT family and live reporting and the benefits of walking and SAT presenting the Radio 4 series SAT Ramblings SAT which she writes about in her new book, Walking Home – My SAT Family and Other Rambles. SAT SAT SAT SAT Walking Home – My Family and Other Rambles by Clare Balding SAT is published by Penguin. SAT SAT Embarassed by Your Parents SAT Judy Murray has spoken about her son Andy’s embarrassment SAT over her appearance on Strictly Come Dancing. Andy thinks SAT his mother will be “absolutely terrible” and will cringe SAT with embarrassment if he has to watch her. But isn’t being SAT embarrassed by your parents a rite of passage every child SAT has to go through? Self-confessed embarrassing mother and SAT comedian SAT Maxine Jones SAT has been mortifying her sons for years. She joins SAT actor/comedian and child of embarrassing parents SAT Tiff Stevenson SAT to discuss the embarrassing things parents put us through. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Emma Wallace SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT Interviewed Guest: Barbara Hulanicki SAT Interviewed Guest: Rosie Boycott SAT Interviewed Guest: Sophia Stuart SAT Interviewed Guest: Sophie Hannah SAT Interviewed Guest: Ruzwana Bashir SAT Interviewed Guest: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Maxine Jones SAT Interviewed Guest: Tiffany Stevenson SAT Interviewed Guest: Kay Benbow SAT Interviewed Guest: Anne Wood SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04gngmj (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04gcph3 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04gcmcz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04gcmd1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04gcmd3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04gnhnn (Listen) SAT Kate Tempest, Cerys Matthews, Edward Petherbridge, Aisling SAT Bea, Nikki Bedi SAT SAT Clive sees a Clown in the Moon with musician and broadcaster SAT Cerys Matthews, who has a successful music career, her own 6 SAT Music show and is now the curator of 'The Goodlife SAT Fesitval'. Cerys has also contributed to 'Dylan Thomas: a SAT Centenary Celebration'; a collection of specially SAT commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work, SAT and exploring his lasting legacy. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi gets down with poet and rapper Kate Tempest. At SAT 16, Kate rapped at strangers on night buses and pestered MCs SAT to let her on the mic at raves. She's written poems for SAT Amnesty International, The Royal Shakespeare company and won SAT last year's Ted Hughes Award for her work 'Brand New SAT Ancients'. Kate talks to Nikki about her new book of poetry SAT 'Hold Your Own' and performs 'The Beigeness' and 'The Truth' SAT from her album 'Everybody Down'. SAT SAT Actor Edward Petherbridge has had a distinguished stage and SAT screen career spanning over 50 years. While rehearsing for SAT the role of King Lear 7 years ago, Edward suffered a major SAT stroke. He tells Clive about how, at this time he discovered SAT that the entire role of Lear still existed word for word in SAT his mind. His show 'My Perfect Mind', is a celebration of SAT the resilience of the human spirit through the prism of SAT Shakespeare's great tragedy. SAT SAT Irish actress, comedian and writer Aisling Bea is one of the SAT country's fastest rising comic talents. As a stand-up, she SAT won the prestigious So You Think You're Funny? Award in SAT Edinburgh, 2012 making her the second woman ever to win it SAT and the first to do so in 20 years. Aisling talks to Clive SAT about starring in the likes of 'Dead Boss', 'Cardinal Burns' SAT and Radio 4's 'Mick's and Legends' SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Kate Tempest, Cerys Matthews, Edward SAT Petherbridge, Aisling Bea, Nikki Bedi (2) SAT SAT Cerys Matthews SAT ‘Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration’ is published by SAT Bloomsbury and available now. SAT ‘The Good Life Experience’ is at Hawarden Estate Farm Shop, SAT Flintshire on Saturday 20th September. SAT ‘Cerys on 6’ is on Sunday mornings at 10.00 on BBC 6 Music. SAT SAT Kate Tempest SAT ‘Everybody Down’ is available now on Big Dada. SAT Kate is playing at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on Friday SAT 10th, Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham-By-Sea on Monday 27th SAT and O2 Academy, Oxford on Friday 7th November. Check her SAT website for further dates. SAT ‘Hold Your Own’ is published by Picador on 9th October. SAT SAT Edward Petherbridge SAT ‘My Perfect Mind’ is at Young Vic, London until Thursday SAT 25th September, then touring from Monday 29th September to SAT Saturday 15th November. SAT SAT Aisling Bea SAT Aisling is performing at Manford's Comedy Club, Birmingham SAT on Saturday 13th, Phoenix Pub, London on Monday 15th, SAT Hamilton Pub, London on Wednesday 17th and she is also SAT hosting The Big Top at Greenwich Comedy Festival on Sunday SAT 28th September. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04gnhnq (Listen) SAT Jack Ma SAT SAT How did Jack Ma, a teacher with no business training, become SAT one of China's - indeed, the world's - most successful SAT entrepreneurs? SAT SAT The BBC's business editor Kamal Ahmed looks at the man SAT behind the online retail giant Alibaba Group - a company SAT described as a mix between Amazon and Ebay - which is due to SAT list on the New York Stock Exchange later this month, making SAT Alibaba one of the most valuable internet companies in the SAT world. SAT SAT Jack Ma is no ordinary business leader. How many other SAT global tycoons like to fill a stadium with their employees SAT only to step on stage, be-wigged, to deliver not bland SAT corporate messages, but Lion King songs? SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Presenter: Kamal Ahmed. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04gnhns (Listen) SAT Destiny, Pride, The Leftovers, Ali Smith, Horst SAT SAT Destiny: the most expensive video game ever produced has SAT just been released - a perfect excuse for us to explore the SAT rich and diverse world of gaming. SAT SAT Pride is a lighthearted film about lesbian and gay groups SAT from London who supported miners during the 84 miners' SAT strike - leading to an unexpectedly harmonious and fruitful SAT relationship. SAT SAT What would America be like after a Rapture-like event when SAT 2% of the population will be taken into heaven and the rest SAT are left behind? The Leftovers is a TV series that considers SAT a post-rapture-like USA. SAT SAT Ali Smith's new novel is called How To Be Both - 2 SAT complimentary self-contained stories that can be read in SAT either order. SAT SAT Horst was a German American fashion photographer whose work SAT is featured in a new exhibition at London's Victoria and SAT Albert Museum. SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Kevin Jackson, Barb Jungr and SAT Catherine O'Flynn. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Horst: Photographer of Style SAT Horst: Photographer of Style SAT runs from 6 September 2014 - 4 January 2015 at the V&A SAT Museum in London. Main Image: Muriel Maxwell, American Vogue SAT cover, 1 July 1939, © Condé Nast / Horst Estate SAT SAT How To Be Both SAT How To Be Both by Ali Smith is published by Hamish Hamilton. SAT SAT Pride SAT Directed by Matthew Warchus, Pride is in cinemas from Friday SAT 12 September, certificate 15. SAT SAT The Leftovers SAT SAT A ten episode series, The Leftovers begins on Tuesday 16 SAT September, 9pm, Sky Atlantic. SAT SAT Destiny SAT The game Destiny is published by Activision Blizzard. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Kevin Jackson SAT Interviewed Guest: Barb Jungr SAT Interviewed Guest: Catherine O'Flynn SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04gnhnv (Listen) SAT Media and the Middle East SAT SAT The rockets and missiles fly, from Israel into Gaza, from SAT Gaza into Israel. It's the latest iteration of the conflict SAT between Israel and its Arab neighbours which has flared SAT since the very founding of the Jewish state in 1948. SAT SAT Accompanying the conflict has been an unprecedented level of SAT media coverage. And almost nothing is uncontested. Every SAT sentence, every word of a news report is parsed for signs of SAT bias by individuals and organisations dedicated to ensuring SAT a fair deal for their point of view. Coverage is measured in SAT minutes and seconds of airtime. Media organisations stand SAT accused, by both sides, of prejudice, systemic bias and SAT deliberate distortion. SAT SAT Why does this particular conflict, above all others, attract SAT the attention it does? And why does it create such strong SAT emotion, even among those with no connection to the region? SAT SAT John Lloyd, a contributing editor at the Financial Times, SAT examines the evolution of coverage of the Arab-Israeli SAT conflict from the founding of Israel to the present day. SAT SAT With contributions from journalists and those who monitor SAT them, Lloyd asks why there is such focus both on the SAT conflict itself and on those who report it. He traces the SAT way reporting has developed from the early television age, SAT through the introduction of 24-hour news channels to the SAT inception of social media. And he examines the challenges of SAT reporting fairly and accurately on a conflict in which every SAT assertion is contested. SAT SAT Producer: Tim Mansel. SAT SAT 21:00 The Barchester Chronicles b04g79nx (Listen) SAT Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage, A Word of Warning SAT SAT by Anthony Trollope, dramatised by Nick Warburton SAT SAT Mark Robarts, Vicar of Framley, worries that Lady Lufton may SAT find out about the Bill he has put his name to, but she's SAT more interested in plotting with Susan Grantly to marry SAT their respective children. Which would scupper Mark's SAT sister's potential happiness forever. SAT SAT Music composed by David Robin, Jeff Meegan and Julian SAT Gallant SAT SAT Produced & directed by Marion Nancarrow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mrs Baxter: Maggie Steed SAT Mark Robarts: Pip Carter SAT Fanny Robarts: Charity Wakefield SAT Lady Lufton: Kate Buffery SAT Lord Lufton: Joe Coen SAT Lucy Robarts: Sarah Ovens SAT Nathaniel Sowerby: Nicholas Farrell SAT Miss Dunstable: Hattie Morahan SAT Mr Crawley: Adam Kotz SAT Susan Grantly: Charlotte Emmerson SAT Mrs Smith: Elaine Claxton SAT Griselda: Sarah Sweeney SAT Footman: David Cann SAT Hotel Waiter: David Cann SAT Director: Marion Nancarrow SAT Adaptor: Nick Warburton SAT Author: Anthony Trollope SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04gcmd5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Future Proofing b04g8rhl (Listen) SAT Can Civility Survive? SAT SAT CAN CIVILITY SURVIVE? SAT SAT We live in a world that is being globalised by SAT ever-accelerating trade and technology. SAT SAT And we live in a world that is being tribalised by resurgent SAT group identities. SAT SAT In such a world, can the complex, delicate codes of civility SAT - the hidden wiring of civilisation - survive? SAT SAT Future Proofing challenges three people from very different SAT disciplines to find out. SAT SAT Mathematician Hannah Fry talks to a woman whose mother's SAT railway suicide provoked a storm of online abuse. SAT SAT And she gathers all tweets sent in the UK in the week before SAT the programme, to test out where and when we Brits are at SAT our most uncivil. SAT SAT Literary scholar Ian Sansom travels to meet a couple of SAT London police officers who have retired to Cumbria to run a SAT fish and chip shop. Is the countryside really more civil SAT than the city? And what does Geoff Mulgan, one of our SAT leading scholars of the future, make of Ian's findings? SAT SAT Meanwhile, journalist Saira Shah revisits the terrifying SAT story of her brother's wrongful imprisonment in a Pakistani SAT torture prison - and how her understanding of the codes of SAT civility helped her get him out. SAT SAT And so, finally, Hannah, Saira and Ian meet to compare notes SAT and try to fathom whether civility has a future - and if so, SAT how it will have to adapt to survive in the 21st century. SAT SAT Producers: Laurence Grissell and Phil Tinline. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b04g825s (Listen) SAT Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for SAT its 50th series. SAT SAT In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by SAT writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy SAT types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, SAT Ian McKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... SAT have all graced the Quote Unquote stage. 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SUN SUN Here are evil grandmothers according to Rachmaninoff and SUN inspiring ones from New York journalist Adriana Trigiani; we SUN meet Victor Hugo, the doting grandfather, and Seamus Heaney, SUN the devoted grandson; and musician Josef Suk plays the work SUN of his revered grandfather. SUN SUN The readers are Emily Raymond and Jasper Britton. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b04gnhvv (Listen) SUN Urbanites in the countryside SUN SUN Phil Palmer and Michael Butcher were dedicated urbanites, SUN living and working in central London, until they moved to SUN start a new life in the country just over 5 years ago. What SUN started as a dream of a holiday home turned in to a full SUN time job farming 40 acres, raising rare breed animals and SUN running their own micro brewery. 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SUN Registered Charity No 1084718 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN ' Prisoners Education Trust'. SUN SUN Prisoners’ Education Trust SUN SUN Prisoners’ Education SUN Trust (PET) provides distance learning courses, arts and SUN hobby materials, SUN advice and support in subjects and levels not available in SUN prisons. PET SUN believes every prisoner should have the opportunity to SUN benefit from education, SUN and has helped over 28,000 prisoners since the SUN organisation’s foundation in SUN 1989. PET promotes and argues the case for prisoner SUN education, and undertakes SUN research informed by prisoner learners, to improve policies SUN and practice in the SUN long-term. The charity works across England and Wales and SUN supports just under SUN 2,000 men and women in prison each year. SUN SUN Frank: Final year degree student SUN SUN “The first course I SUN did with PET gave me confidence and helped me to get a job SUN within 7 months of SUN leaving prison and that was the first job I’ve ever had. SUN It’s allowed me to SUN join in society and to give something genuinely back.” SUN SUN Marvin: painter, playwright, actor SUN SUN “Because PET SUN supported me, I thought there’s things I can do. Art SUN teaches you to work SUN through your mistakes, get your own style, have SUN confidence.” After receiving SUN arts materials in prison, Marvin won awards and achieved a SUN BA at Central St SUN Martins. SUN SUN Kristen: “the course was life changing” SUN SUN Kristen is back with SUN her children and off drugs after studying a counselling SUN course with PET’s help. SUN “The course was life changing. It gave me a goal and a SUN focus. It helped me to SUN distance myself from the past and look forward." SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04gct6s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04gct6v (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04gnj8k (Listen) SUN Drawing on Scotland's spiritual riches as the Referendum SUN nears. SUN From St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh SUN Led by the Provost, The Very Revd Graham Forbes. SUN Preacher: The Right Revd John Chalmers, Moderator of the SUN General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. SUN With the Cathedral Choir directed by Duncan Ferguson. SUN Organist: Donald Hunt. SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04gch0c (Listen) SUN The Horror of War SUN SUN Lisa Jardine says while documenting and commemorating the SUN First World War we should not lose sight of its horror. SUN "Wars are not heroic, even if they prompt acts of heroism by SUN soldiers and civilians. Our young people, raised in a SUN Britain at peace for 70 years, need to know that." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvyfs (Listen) SUN White-Bearded Manakin SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Sir David Attenborough presents the White-Bearded manakin of SUN tropical South America. The sound of party-poppers exploding SUN in a forest clearing tells you that white-bearded manakins SUN are displaying at a lek. At a carefully chosen spot each SUN male clears the forest floor of leaves and other debris SUN before his performance begins. The commonest display is the SUN snap-jump. As he jumps forward he strikes the back of his SUN wings together creating a loud snapping sound followed by an SUN excited "pee-you" call. Snap-jumps are often followed by SUN grunt jumps or a manoeuvre known as "slide-down-the-pole". SUN These displays continue throughout the day, but intensify SUN when females visit. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN White-bearded manakin (Manacus manacus) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Nigel Bean / naturepl.com SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01055017 SUN © Nigel Bean / naturepl.com SUN SUN Recording of white-bearded manakin by Curtis A Marantz / SUN Ref: ML 117134 SUN SUN This programme contains a SUN wildtrack recording SUN of the white-bearded manakin kindly provided by The Macaulay SUN Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology; recorded SUN by Curtis A Marantz, 23 Jan 1997 in Brazil. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04gnjft (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 b04gnjg2 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Mary Cutler SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Ben Archer: Thomas Lester 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 Matt Crawford: Kim Durham SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Annabelle Schrivener: Julia Hills SUN Buddy: Gavin Brocker SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b04gnjhk (Listen) SUN New Labour SUN SUN When Tony Blair delivered the phrase: 'New Labour, New SUN Britain!' to the 1994 party conference, his first as leader, SUN it was the result of a decade of change within the party. SUN Kinnock had rebranded it, introducing the rose as party SUN emblem and had distanced the Labour Party from its far-left SUN factions. SUN SUN When John Smith came in, he launched the 'Prawn Cocktail SUN Offensive' of the City and tackled the Union block vote, SUN pushing through reform in 1993. His sudden death ushered in SUN a new, young leader, Tony Blair, who swiftly removed the SUN reference in the party's constitution to 'common ownership SUN of the means of production' and New Labour was born. SUN SUN 20 years on, Sue MacGregor brings together some of the key SUN people involved in the New Labour 'Project'. SUN SUN Peter Mandelson is one of its founding architects. He SUN relaunched the Party under Kinnock, bringing in ad-man SUN Philip Gould with his focus groups and marketing techniques. SUN SUN Anji Hunter was at Tony Blair's side from 1987 until 2001. SUN Starting as his research assistant, she ran his office when SUN he was Leader of the Opposition, becoming Director of SUN Government Relations for Blair's government in 1997. SUN SUN Regional Party organizer, Margaret, now Baroness McDonagh, SUN helped expel the so-called 'loony-left' from the party in SUN the 80s, pushed through the changes to Clause 4 and would SUN later become the Labour Party's first female General SUN Secretary. SUN SUN Margaret Beckett was Deputy Labour Leader under John Smith SUN and shadow Health Secretary under Tony Blair. SUN SUN Peter Hyman was one of Blair's strategy men and SUN speech-writers; and Sue, now Baroness Nye, kept Neil SUN Kinnock's diary, before becoming Gordon Brown's right-hand SUN woman for the next 18 years. SUN SUN Producer: Rose de Larrabeiti SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04gct6x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b04g8404 (Listen) SUN Series 70, Episode 5 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts his 900th edition of Just A Minute SUN and Paul Merton, Holly Walsh, Sheila Hancock and Russell SUN Kane try to talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, SUN repetition or deviation. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Holly Walsh SUN Panellist: Sheila Hancock SUN Panellist: Russell Kane SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04gnjjp (Listen) SUN Ethiopian Teff - An Ancient Grain SUN SUN Teff has been grown in Ethiopia for Millennia. SUN Traditionally, it's ground, milled, mixed with water and SUN fermented for days to make the sour staple flatbread injera. SUN SUN Cultivation of this mysterious and tiny grain has been SUN concentrated in Ethiopia for thousands of years. But now SUN that's changing as the health-conscious Western world SUN realise the nutritional secrets this crop might bestow. SUN SUN In this edition of the Food Programme, Sheila Dillon meets SUN UK entrepreneurs bringing foods, normally seen as Ethiopian SUN to new diners, and speaks to experts to hear how the rise in SUN popularity of teff is affecting the farmers back home. SUN SUN Ethiopian food in the UK SUN SUN Find out more about Tutu and Sophie here: SUN Tutu's Ethiopian Table in Reading SUN Tobia Teff SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04gct6z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04gnjjr (Listen) SUN National and international news with Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 13:30 Power in the Blood: The Life of Ian Paisley b04jzg2d (Listen) SUN William Crawley looks back at the controversial life and SUN legacy of former Northern Ireland First Minister Ian SUN Paisley. SUN SUN Producer: Robbie Meredith. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04gcfmd (Listen) SUN Postbag at Barnsdale SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts a correspondence edition of the SUN horticultural panel programme from Barnsdale Gardens. Matt SUN Biggs, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood are joined by Nick SUN Hamilton to answer questions sent in by post, online and SUN through social media. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN SUN Q. Is it safe to feed delicate seedlings with the tank SUN water, which when being discharged can contain rust from the SUN tank? Does iron rust have an adverse effect on the plants? SUN SUN A. Too much iron in the soil could be a problem for SUN seedlings, but it shouldn't cause too much harm to SUN established plants. Try to avoid using it on containers as SUN the contaminant can build up and become more of an issue. SUN SUN Q. Am I better having vertical or horizontal growing SUN containers for Strawberries? SUN SUN A. Choose vertical pots if you are short of space. SUN Traditional strawberry pots with holes in the sides are too SUN small. If you do choose a pot, add a pipe of grit with holes SUN to the middle and water through that. Buckets make good SUN containers because they can be suspended and keep the plant SUN away from pests. SUN SUN Q. For at least 10 years I have grown Runner Beans in tubs SUN with a wigwam of canes on a very sunny south facing patio. SUN Early on the yield was excellent but has declined over the SUN years with 90 % of the flowers falling off without setting SUN this year. Can you help? SUN SUN A. The problem is usually a shortage of water. Perhaps the SUN compost isn't retaining the moisture. The canes could SUN possibly carry a disease. The variety shouldn't have any SUN effect. SUN SUN Q. I have inherited some Blueberry bushes and I am not sure SUN what to do with them. How should they be pruned and SUN re-potted? SUN SUN A. Blueberries can be left for many years without being cut SUN back. If you do prune, take out the old growth and leave the SUN young shoots. Look out for scale by going along the stem and SUN simply rubbing it off. You need to use ericaceous, lime-free SUN compost. They ideally need a cubic metre per Blueberry, but SUN most people don't have that much room. They need a lot of SUN water but beware of water-logging. SUN SUN Q. At the end of the garden a mixed hedge separates the SUN garden from a field. Blackthorn shoots keep appearing in the SUN grass. I assume these are runners from the hedge. I am SUN reluctant to paint them with glyphosate for fear of damaging SUN the bushes in the hedge. Is there any other way of removing SUN these runners or would it be safe to use glyphosate gel? SUN SUN A. They could be runners or separate plants that have SUN sprouted from the Blackthorn stones. Dig a trench close to SUN the hedge, severing all of the sucker roots to ensure they SUN aren't connected to the main hedge. You could tease the SUN runners out from the grass and the lawn will recover quite SUN quickly. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04gnjw4 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about life as an SUN immigrant, adopting a child, and surviving sexual abuse, SUN from Wales and Leeds in the Omnibus edition of the series SUN that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 The Barchester Chronicles b04gnm5q (Listen) SUN Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage, A Gift of Fire SUN SUN by Anthony Trollope, dramatised for radio by Nick Warburton SUN SUN After a lot of proposals made and turned down in Barchester, SUN Miss Dunstable decides to hold a party. Lord Lufton - turned SUN down by Lucy - finally comes back from his fishing trip, SUN unaware that Lucy is now nursing the Vicar's wife in SUN typhus-ridden Hogglestock..... SUN SUN Music composed by David Robin, Jeff Meegan and Julian SUN Gallant SUN SUN Produced & directed by Marion Nancarrow SUN SUN And we return to Anthony Trollope's Barchester in "The Small SUN House at Allington", will be broadcast in December. SUN SUN Credits SUN Mrs Baxter: Maggie Steed SUN Mark Robarts: Pip Carter SUN Fanny Robarts: Charity Wakefield SUN Lucy Robarts: Sarah Ovens SUN Lady Lufton: Kate Buffery SUN Lord Lufton: Joe Coen SUN Mr Sowerby: Nicholas Farrell SUN Miss Dunstable: Hattie Morahan SUN Mr Crawley: Adam Kotz SUN Mary: Pippa Bennett-Warner SUN Susan Grantly: Charlotte Emmerson SUN Griselda: Sarah Sweeney SUN Mrs Smith: Elaine Claxton SUN Gossip: Elaine Claxton SUN Duke: David Cann SUN Drinker: David Cann SUN Bailiff: David Cann SUN Drinker: Clive Hayward SUN Gossip: Clive Hayward SUN Servant: Clive Hayward SUN Director: Marion Nancarrow SUN Producer: Marion Nancarrow SUN Adaptor: Nick Warburton SUN Author: Anthony Trollope SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04gntl7 (Listen) SUN Ali Smith on How to Be Both SUN SUN Ali Smith has been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize for SUN the third time this year for her novel How To Be Both. It's SUN a book of two halves - set in the present day and the SUN fifteenth century - united by themes of art, love and loss. SUN SUN Stella Duffy has just published an anthology of her short SUN stories. She talks about looking back over twenty years of SUN writing life and reveals what a short story can do that the SUN novel can't. SUN SUN Novelist Kamila Shamsie on the book she'd never lend, her SUN childhood copy of a much loved children's classic and a SUN publisher gives us an insider's tip about an exciting new SUN title. SUN Ali Smith discusses Hotel World with Bookclub SUN Lean more about the BBC National Short Story Award SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN How to to Both by Ali Smith Published by Penguin SUN SUN Everything is Moving, Everything is Joined, The Selected SUN Stories of Stella Duffy Published by Salt SUN SUN The Sermon on the Fall of Rome by Jerome Ferrari, translated SUN by Goeffrey Strachan Published by MacLehouse Press SUN SUN A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie Published by SUN Bloomsbury SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Ali Smith SUN Interviewed Guest: Stella Duffy SUN Interviewed Guest: Kamila Shamsie SUN Producer: Nicola Holloway SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b04gnzrt (Listen) SUN Poets Laureate SUN SUN Roger McGough with a selection of works by Poets Laureate SUN past and present including Wordsworth, Tennyson, Betjeman, SUN Ted Hughes and Carol Ann Duffy. There's also a Cecil Day SUN Lewis poem read by his son Daniel Day-Lewis, recorded as SUN part of the exhibition 'Poetry for the Palace: Poets SUN Laureate from Dryden to Duffy' at The Queen's Gallery, SUN Palace of Holyroodhouse. Readers Anton Lesser and Alice SUN Arnold. SUN SUN This week's poems SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN The Reverie of Poor Susan SUN SUN by William Wordsworth SUN SUN From Common Ground; an Anthology SUN SUN Published by Carcanet Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Happy the Man- part of John Dryden’s translation of Horace’s SUN Odes. Extract from ‘Horace, Odes, Book III, xxix’ SUN SUN Taken from Dryden – Selected Poems. SUN SUN Published by Longman SUN SUN SUN SUN The Cataract of Lodore SUN SUN by Robert Southey SUN SUN From Southey’s Poems SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Break, Break, Break SUN SUN by Alfred Lord Tennyson SUN SUN From Selected Poems of Tennyson SUN SUN Published by Macmillan SUN SUN SUN SUN To the River Lodon SUN SUN by Thomas Wharton SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.bartleby.com/333/85.html SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from There is a Hill SUN SUN by Robert Bridges SUN SUN From Robert Bridges’ Poetical Works SUN SUN Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Sea Fever SUN SUN by John Masefield SUN SUN Taken from John Masefield – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by William Heinemann Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN Children Leaving Home SUN SUN by C. Day Lewis SUN SUN From C. Day Lewis - The Complete Poems SUN SUN Published by Sinclair-Stevenson SUN SUN SUN SUN Dilton Marsh Halt SUN SUN by John Betjeman SUN SUN From John Betjeman – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by John Murray SUN SUN SUN SUN Horses SUN SUN by Ted Hughes SUN SUN From Ted Hughes – New Selected Poems 1957-1994 SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Spring Wedding SUN SUN by Andrew Motion SUN SUN Taken from The Telegraph website SUN http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1487433/Spring-Weddin SUN .html SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN English Elms SUN SUN by Carol Ann Duffy SUN SUN Taken from BBC Newsnight website SUN http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8922106.stm SUN SUN SUN SUN Charge of the Light Brigade SUN SUN by Alfred Lord Tennyson SUN SUN From Selected Poems of Tennyson SUN SUN Published by Macmillan SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Daniel Day-Lewis SUN Reader: Anton Lesser SUN Reader: Alice Arnold SUN SUN 17:00 High St Fashion: Weaving New Threads b04g8jhc (Listen) SUN The collapse of the Rana Plaza clothing factory in SUN Bangladesh was the deadliest disaster in the history of the SUN garment industry. It brought about a series of SUN recriminations, alliances, promises and calls for change. SUN SUN With Bangladesh's clothing industry, predicted to quadruple SUN in size over the next twenty years, a New York based private SUN equity firm has come up with an idea to make Bangladesh's SUN factories sustainable and efficient - as well as profitable. SUN With backing from the Soros family, Tau Investment SUN Management's plan is a bold one. They aim to provide a SUN capitalist solutions to capitalism's failures. SUN SUN The Guardian's Sarah Butler travels to Dhaka to meet Tau's SUN owners and asks whether the Bangladesh factory owners need SUN their help. SUN SUN Producer: Barney Rowntree SUN A Tonic production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04gnhnq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04gct71 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04gct73 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04gct75 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04gnzvn (Listen) SUN On this week’s Pick of the Week, Andy Kershaw hears why SUN Stephen Fry’s life is just a picnic – with wasps; there’s an SUN eyewitness report of how the Chinese are building artificial SUN islands to take over international waters; the forensic SUN geneticist behind the claims to the definitive SUN identification of Jack the Ripper gets a bit of a grilling; SUN then there’s the story of a remarkable, but largely SUN forgotten, ‘wild child’ of Los Angeles music; and nothing SUN whatsoever about the Scottish referendum. SUN SUN Andy Kershaw SUN SUN Born in Littleborough, Lancashire, Andy's enthusiasm for a SUN wide range of performance and live music found a firm SUN foothold while he was Entertainments Secretary at Leeds SUN University. Here, he booked performances for a succession of SUN hugely successful groups and artists, including Ian Dury, SUN Dire Straits, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop and Duran SUN Duran. SUN SUN Andy's broadcasting career began at Radio Aire, moving on to SUN present The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1984 after meeting its SUN producer Trevor Dann while working as a roadie for Billy SUN Bragg. He co-presented Live Aid the following year, when he SUN also began presenting his first show for Radio 1. He SUN remained a presenter on the network until 2000, and has SUN since worked on Radio 3 and Radio 4 on programmes including SUN From Our Own Correspondent, the Today programme and The SUN World Tonight. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04gnzxn (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Gossip from the Garden Pond b04gqzgp (Listen) SUN The Water Boatman and Great Diving Beetle SUN SUN The Water Boatman played by Sandi Toksvig and the Great SUN Diving Beetle played by David Ryall, reveal the truth about SUN life in a garden pond, in the second of three very funny SUN tales, written and introduced by Lynne Truss, with sound SUN recordings by Chris Watson and Tom Lawrence. SUN SUN Messing about in water is what the Water Boatman loves to do SUN most of all. Well actually the Water Boatman is a Boatwoman SUN and in truth she is a Backswimmer not a Water Boatman, but SUN she prefers to be called Water Boatman and being a decisive SUN no-nonsense type, so be it! Her days are spent rowing around SUN the pond and scooping up whatever tasty morsel takes her SUN fancy and trying her hardest to ignore the 'singing' of her SUN ardent admirer, Reg. Stridulation is the technical term for SUN Reg's singing; moving one part of his body against another SUN (a bit like crickets and grasshoppers) to create a courtship SUN 'song'. His persistence finally pays off, but does he win SUN her heart? SUN SUN Meanwhile, the Great Diving Beetle soars up and down through SUN the depths, spreading fear wherever he goes. With his coat SUN of armour, fantastic mandibles for tearing prey to pieces SUN and a highly unpleasant habit of ejecting toxic fumes at SUN potential predators, he's a creature to avoid! He did have a SUN mate once, but he ate her, and brothers and sisters too, but SUN he ate them. So all alone, he has plenty of time to think SUN and armed with his ballistic missiles he daydreams about SUN being a film star; a hero with super powers, and a match for SUN any creature ... even Batman! One evening though, whilst SUN flying round the neighbourhood, he comes across a shocking SUN scene at a nearby pond, and drawing on his armoury of SUN weapons, he defends the rights of his fellow beetles in a SUN vicious battle. SUN SUN Download the progamme for free SUN This programme will be available to download for free via SUN the BBC "Best of Natrual History Radio" podcast after SUN broadcast. Click SUN here SUN to access the podcast. SUN SUN Pond life inspiration SUN An illustration of pond life created by SUN Kenneth Anderson SUN for an article featured by Saga Magazine about the series. © SUN Kenneth Anderson. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Lynne Truss SUN Water Boatman: Sandi Toksvig SUN Great Diving Beetle: David Ryall SUN Producer: Sarah Blunt SUN Writer: Lynne Truss SUN SUN 19:45 Jessie Kesson Short Stories b04gqzv8 (Listen) SUN Cold in Coventry SUN SUN The second in a series of readings from the work of the SUN acclaimed Scottish author Jessie Kesson. Best known for her SUN novels "Another Time, Another Place" and "The White Bird SUN Passes", Jessie Kesson's writing was often inspired by SUN events from her own life and by the landscape of North East SUN Scotland. SUN SUN Tonight, a poignant short story that evokes a young orphan SUN girl's fears for her future when she returns 'In Disgrace' SUN from her first job in service, to face the formidable Madam SUN Superintendent of the Training Institution for Destitute SUN Girls. SUN SUN Jessie Kesson (1916 - 1994) was a prolific writer of novels, SUN poems, stories, newspaper features and radio plays. She came SUN through a hard start in life (born in the Inverness SUN workhouse, raised in an Elgin slum, removed from her SUN neglectful but much-loved mother to an orphanage in SUN Aberdeenshire) with a passionate determination to be a SUN writer. She combined a successful writing career with a SUN variety of jobs, from cleaner to artist's model, and was a SUN social worker for nearly twenty years, settling finally in SUN London with her husband. SUN SUN Reader ..... Lizzy Watts SUN Abridger ..... Kirsteen Cameron SUN Producer ..... Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Lizzy Watts SUN Author: Jessie Kesson SUN Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b04gr1vs (Listen) SUN Understanding the Scottish referendum polls SUN SUN Tim Harford talks to the pollsters about how they are trying SUN to gauge the political mood in Scotland ahead of the SUN independence referendum next week. He interviews Anthony SUN Wells of YouGov and Martin Boon of ICM. Plus, he analyses SUN UKIP's Nigel Farage's claim that more than half the SUN population of Scotland is on benefits. SUN SUN "More people are suffering from malnutrition as a result of SUN worsening food poverty, experts have warned", reported the SUN BBC. But is this true? Tim Harford gets the facts straight SUN with Professor Marinos Elia, who chairs the Malnutrition SUN Action Group of the British Association for Parenteral and SUN Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN). SUN SUN And does the "Curse of Strictly Come Dancing" really exist? SUN The tabloids think so, as they breathlessly report on the SUN relationship break-ups of contestants and their dancing SUN tutors on the BBC One show. But Tim Harford isn't so sure. SUN He crunches the numbers with the help of John Moriarty, a SUN maths lecturer at Manchester University. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04gcfmj (Listen) SUN Rev Ian Paisley, Sir Donald Sinden, Caroline Gooding, SUN Anthony Smith, Andrew McLaglen SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on former First Minister of Northern SUN Ireland and DUP leader Ian Paisley. SUN SUN The actor Sir Donald Sinden. Dame Judi Dench and Gyles SUN Brandreth pay tribute. SUN SUN Anthony Smith, the writer and broadcaster who enjoyed SUN ballooning and travelled across the Atlantic on a home-made SUN raft at the age of 84. SUN SUN And the lawyer and disability rights campaigner Caroline SUN Gooding - who played a key role in bringing about the SUN Disability Discrimination Act of 1995. SUN SUN The Reverend Ian Paisley SUN SUN Matthew spoke live to William McCrea, MP for South Antrim SUN and to the former BBC Northern Ireland Correspondent, Denis SUN Murray. SUN SUN SUN Born 6 April 1926; died 12 September 2014 aged 88. SUN SUN Sir Donald Sinden (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend Gyles Brandreth and to fellow SUN actor Dame Judi Dench. SUN SUN Born 9 October 1923; died 11 September 2014 aged 90. SUN SUN Anthony Smith SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his son Adam Smith and to his friend and SUN fellow balloonist, Robin Batchelor. SUN SUN Born 30 March 1926; died 7 July 2014 aged 88. SUN SUN Caroline Gooding SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her fellow campaigners Agnes Fletcher and SUN Sir Bert Massie. SUN SUN Born 7 March 1959; died 19 July 2014 aged 55. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Judi Dench SUN Interviewed Guest: Gyles Brandreth SUN Producer: Fiona Couper SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04gn93p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04gnhyf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04gc3sr (Listen) SUN Which way now for Scottish businesses? SUN SUN Peter Day talks to businesses in Scotland and asks how they SUN see the future in the light of the referendum campaign. SUN Could there be a return to the status quo or has so much SUN changed already as a result of the political debate, SUN regardless of which way the vote goes? SUN SUN Peter Day assesses the future through the eyes of video SUN games companies in Dundee, young entrepreneurs in Edinburgh SUN and established Scottish business leaders. SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Professor Louis Natanson SUN SUN Head of the School of Arts, Media and Computer Games, SUN Abertay University, Dundee SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Chris van der Kuyl SUN SUN Chairman 4J Studios, Chairman Entrepreneurial Scotland SUN SUN SUN SUN Colin Anderson SUN SUN Managing Director, Denki SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Simon Doyle SUN SUN Managing Director, Junkfish SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Will Wright SUN SUN Director, Hidden Armada SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Mark Hastings SUN SUN CEO, Guerilla Tea SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Jamie Coleman SUN SUN Managing Director, Codebase SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Gareth Williams SUN SUN CEO Skyscanner SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Richard Dixon SUN SUN Founder, Vets Now SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Jo Bisset SUN SUN Managing Director, Web Rigging Services SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Jim McColl SUN SUN Chief Executive Clyde Blowers Capital SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Katherine Garrett-Cox SUN SUN Chief Executive, Alliance Trust SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04gr1y2 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04gr1y4 (Listen) SUN Mary Riddell of The Telegraph analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04gc2xy (Listen) SUN Pride; Anton Corbijn on Philip Seymour Hoffman; SUN screenwriters secrets SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN The producer of Pride, David Livingstone, discusses the SUN film's evolution from script to screen and reveals what he SUN thinks about his comedy being touted as the next Full Monty. SUN SUN A Most Wanted Man director Anton Corbijn talks about working SUN with Philip Seymour Hoffman in his last starring role before SUN his untimely death earlier this year. SUN SUN Is being a writer on a film a thankless task ? Jeremy Brock, SUN whose credits include the adaptation of The Last King Of SUN Scotland, reveals the plight of the lowly scribe. SUN SUN Clare Binns and Tim Robey discuss the highlights of this SUN year's Toronto Film Festival and assess Oscar hopefuls like SUN the Stephen Hawking bio-pic The Theory Of Everything. SUN SUN BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters' Lecture SUN Founded by screenwriter Jeremy Brock, the SUN 2014 BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters' Lecture Series SUN begins on Thursday 18 September at the BFI Southbank in SUN London. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: David Livingstone SUN Interviewed Guest: Anton Corbijn SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Brock SUN Interviewed Guest: Clare Binns SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Robey SUN Producer: Stephen Hughes SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04gnht6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04gct86 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 The Educators b04g8qfg (Listen) MON Paul Howard-Jones MON MON Most parents will have witnessed the magnetic effect of MON computer games on children. The combination of skill, memory MON and risk, leading to an eventual prize, can engage people of MON any age for hours at a time. MON MON Paul Howard-Jones is a psychologist specialising in MON education and neuroscience. He tells Sarah Montague why a MON better understanding of what makes games so compelling, MON could lead to more effective teaching. MON MON Research suggests that combining a reward with an element of MON risk-taking can increase the brain's appetite for learning MON and success. MON MON In classrooms this could mean pupils collecting a running MON score, as they would in a game, then risking some of their MON points on a chance outcome, such as a roulette wheel spin. MON MON Paul also discusses research into sleep, memory, and MON transcranial electrical stimulation - putting a low voltage MON across the scalp - and the impact these things have on our MON ability to learn. MON MON Presenter: Sarah Montague MON Producer: Joel Moors. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b04gnhrz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04gct88 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04gct8b (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04gct8d (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04gct8g (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04gr2bg (Listen) MON Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and MON broadcaster Anna Magnusson. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04gr2bj (Listen) MON Equine welfare crisis, EU-US trade deal, Irish beef, MON Strawberries MON MON The equine industry is worth £7 billion pounds a year to the MON economy and, in the last 12 months, 4.5 million Britons went MON riding. But the British Horse Society says it is also in the MON grip of a welfare disaster, with too many horses and not MON enough good homes. This week we are looking at the successes MON and challenges of the equine industry and kick off by MON speaking to Lee Hackett, director of policy at the British MON Horse Society. MON Charlotte also discusses the risks and opportunities that MON could come out of a proposed free trade deal between Europe MON and the United States. The European farmers' organisation MON Copa Cogeca says it could mean problems for beef and pig MON farmers who would be forced to compete with cheaper American MON meat, but potentially good news for wine and olive oil MON producers who would benefit from a new market for luxury MON products. MON Sticking with trade concerns, Irish beef farmers have MON accused retailers on both sides of Irish Sea of paying them MON less than their British counterparts even though their MON product meets the same standard. They have organised MON protests to highlight low prices and RTE's Damien O'Reilly MON has a special report from Dublin. MON Strawberry growers in the UK may be able to maintain yields MON and reduce irrigation inputs by up to 40%, by inoculating MON plants with naturally-occurring soil-dwelling fungi, MON according to scientists at East Malling Research in Kent. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anna Jones. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04gct8j (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvz9y (Listen) MON Guira Cuckoo MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Sir David Attenborough presents the guira cuckoo of central MON South America. Guira cuckoos break all the usual rules of MON their family. They are very sociable and travel in noisy MON gangs, feeding and roosting together. But what makes the MON behaviour of guira cuckoos so different is that several MON females often lay their eggs in a single nest, sometimes as MON many as 20 eggs which are tended by the respective mothers . MON This is known as co-operative breeding. Whether a female MON recognises her own eggs isn't certain, but it's possible MON that they can distinguish them by variable markings on the MON eggshells and single them out for special care. MON MON Guira Cuckoo (Guira guira) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Roy Mangersnes/naturepl.com MON MON NPL Ref MON 01261884 MON © Roy Mangersnes/naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b04gr42x (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The Educators b04fzd9h (Listen) MON Daisy Christodoulou MON MON It's a relatively new dilemma for teachers. If the answer to MON almost anything is available with a search, should children MON be taught to remember facts, or how to find and use them? MON MON Teacher and writer Daisy Christodoulou tells Sarah Montague MON why she thinks a generation of school children are being let MON down by discovery learning, which places emphasis on MON students finding out for themselves. MON MON It's the opposite of traditional 'chalk and talk'. But have MON classrooms already moved too far towards skills and group MON work, in the interest of pleasing inspectors? MON MON Based on her own time in classrooms, Daisy Christodoulou MON believes young people have vast gaps in their knowledge and MON understanding, and that traditional fact-based lessons would MON serve them better. MON MON Presenter: Sarah Montague MON Producer: Joel Moors. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 09:30 The Ideas That Make Us b03sb2v3 (Listen) MON Series 2, Peace MON MON Bettany Hughes explores changing ideas of peace through MON images of war-torn Syria and by talking to a man on the MON brink of death. MON MON The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the MON history of the most influential ideas in the story of MON civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. MON MON In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award-winning MON historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each MON programme with the first, extant evidence of a single MON word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels both forwards MON and backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have MON been moulded by history and have shaped the human MON experience. Here Bettany explores changing ideas of peace MON with photojournalist Paul Conroy, historians Dr. David Gwynn MON and Dr. Faisal Devji, Consultant in Palliative Medicine MON Emily Collis and Davor Seselj. MON MON Other ideas examined in The Ideas that Make Us are idea, MON desire, agony, fame, justice, wisdom, comedy, liberty, and MON hospitality. MON MON Producer: Dixi Stewart. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b04gr47w (Listen) MON Please, Mr Postman, Episode 1 MON MON In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert MON in Hyde Park, future Cabinet Minister Alan Johnson and his MON young family left West London to start a new life. The MON Britwell Estate in Slough, notorious among the locals, came MON as a blessed relief after the tensions of London's troubled MON Notting Hill, and the local community welcomed them with MON open arms. MON MON Alan Johnson had become a postman the previous year and, in MON order to support his growing family, took on every bit of MON overtime he could, often working twelve-hour shifts six days MON a week. It was hard work, but not without its compensations MON - the crafty fag snatched in a country lane, the farmer's MON wife offering a hearty breakfast and even the mysterious MON lady on Glebe Road who appeared daily, topless, at her MON window as the postman passed by. MON MON Please, Mister Postman paints a vivid picture of England in MON the 1970s, where no celebration was complete without a Party MON Seven of Watney's Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather MON than the exception, and Sunday lunchtime was about beer and MON bingo. But as Alan Johnson's life appears to be settling MON down and his career in the Union of Postal Workers begins to MON take off, his close-knit family is struck once again by MON tragedy. MON MON Episode 1: MON Christmas 1967 and a teenage Alan Johnson is a shelf stacker MON at Anthony Jackson's supermarket in East Sheen. He dreams of MON pop stardom, but the need for money and a chance meeting at MON his sister's Christmas party change his life in unexpected MON ways. MON MON Read by Alan Johnson MON MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Alan Johnson MON Producer: David Roper MON Author: Alan Johnson MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04gr4gb (Listen) MON Choosing a secondary school; Jane Green; The art of flirting MON MON Choosing a secondary school for your child can be MON bewildering. Open Days, Ofsted Reports and tables of results MON might help but might not tell you if a school would be right MON for your child. Are good local state schools losing out MON because of rumours and out of date information? How can MON parents find out what schools are really like? Madeleine MON Holt is the Founder of Meet The Parents, a scheme designed MON to get communities to commit to good local comprehensive MON schools. MON MON Bestselling author Jane Green has a new novel out, Saving MON Grace, her most autobiographical to date. The novel is about MON Grace Chapman, a beautiful woman, living comfortably with MON her husband, bestselling author, Ted, in a farmhouse on the MON Hudson River in New York state. But the arrival of a new MON assistant to Ted changes everything and soon Grace begins to MON feel side lined in her home and marriage. Is Grace becoming MON paranoid or there is more to Beth than first appears? In MON this novel, Jane Green has drawn upon her own experience of MON being misdiagnosed with bi-polar disorder. She was treated MON with anti-psychotic drugs and reacted to them very badly. MON Jane pursued the correct diagnosis for her illness and it MON turned out that she had Lyme's disease. She joins Jane MON Garvey in the studio. MON MON What Does the Oscar Pistorious Verdict Mean for South MON African Women? MON MON “What message is this sending?” That was the question asked MON by one of the women protesting outside Oscar Pistorius’s MON trial on Friday. The athlete was found guilty of the MON culpable homicide of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but not MON guilty of her murder. So how has the verdict been received MON in a country where three women are killed every day by their MON partners? MON "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON MON MON MON Jane speaks to the BBC’s Southern Africa correspondent Nomsa MON Maseko. MON MON How To Choose A Secondary School MON MON Choosing a secondary school for your child can be MON bewildering. Open Days, Ofsted Reports and tables of results MON might help but might not tell you if a school would be right MON for your child. Are good local state schools losing out MON because of rumours and out of date information? How can MON parents find out what schools are really like? Madeleine MON Holt is the Founder of Meet The Parents, a scheme designed MON to get communities to commit to good local comprehensive MON schools. MON MON Jane Green MON Bestselling author Jane Green has a new nove MON l MON out, Saving Grace, her most autobiographical to date. The MON novel is about Grace Chapman, a beautiful woman, living MON comfortably with her husband, bestselling author, Ted, in a MON farmhouse on the Hudson River in New York state. But the MON arrival of a new assistant to Ted changes everything and MON soon Grace begins to feel side lined in her home and MON marriage. Is Grace becoming paranoid or there is more to MON Beth than first appears? In this novel, Jane Green has drawn MON upon her own experience of being misdiagnosed with bi-polar MON disorder. She was treated with anti-psychotic drugs and MON reacted to them very badly. Jane pursued the correct MON diagnosis for her illness and it turned out that she had MON Lyme’s disease. She joins Jane Garvey in the MON studio. MON "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON MON Flirtology MON MON According to several studies, when it comes to flirting with MON the opposite sex, we are surprisingly bad at recognising the MON signs. And since most people fear rejection, they use MON tentative or indirect strategies. So how accurately can you MON tell is someone is flirting or just being friendly? MON Are there universal signs of flirting? MON How do the British compare to other cultures when it comes MON to attracting or expressing romantic interest and how can MON they get better at it? MON Jane will be joined by social anthropologist and author of MON ‘The Flirt Interpreter’ Jean Smith, comedian MON Tom Craine MON who writes a Sex and the Single Guy column for Cosmo MON magazine and MON Charly Lester MON London based journalist who blogs about dating and founder MON of the UK Dating Awards. MON MON MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Madeleine Holt MON Interviewed Guest: Jane Green MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04gr57c (Listen) MON Queens of Noise: Rip It Up, Episode 1 MON MON Louise Wener and Roy Boulter's music drama returns as MON all-girl band Velveteens surf the wave created by their MON first single all the way from Top of The Pops to the west MON coast of America. MON MON Music Directors ..... Brian Rawling and Marky Bates MON MON Directed by Toby Swift MON MON Starting as an idea from Radio 2's Head of Music, Jeff MON Smith, Queens of Noise explores the music industry in the MON days before the internet changed almost everything. And so MON was born Velveteens, an all-girl band ready and willing to MON fight their way to the top. Now signed to a major record MON label and with a single in the lower reaches of the charts, MON next on the agenda is the debut album and the first American MON tour. It's a challenge that would be rather easier if Rain MON hadn't just had an abortion, Beth wasn't in a drug-fuelled MON love affair with the lead singer of a rival band and MON Sylvie's mum wasn't on the verge of meltdown. MON MON Credits MON Sylvie: Samantha Robinson MON Beth: Anneika Rose MON Rain: Hannah Arterton MON Sam: Joe Absolom MON Christy: Clare Corbett MON Alec: Damian Lynch MON Richard: Matthew Watson MON Director: Toby Swift MON Writer: Roy Boulter MON Writer: Louise Wener MON MON 11:00 Journey of a Lifetime b04gr5hh (Listen) MON Wrestling With the Future MON MON The winner of this year's BBC/Royal Geographical Society MON award for a dream travel project is Irishman Peter MON Geoghegan. His ambition: to learn the physically exhausting MON skills of traditional Mongolian wrestling, on the ground in MON the depths of the Mongolian countryside. But with the MON nation's economy undergoing a phenomenal boom, this MON mineral-rich nation, now an industrial powerhouse, must face MON uncomfortable choices between tradition and change. MON MON Mongolia's wrestlers are world famous; they eat prodigiously MON and grapple fearlessly for hours in the searing sun. To be a MON wrestler is not just part of manhood's rituals, it's an MON integral part of being a Mongolian, indissolubly linked to MON the people's old traditional life as nomadic herders: a MON Mongolian nomad must possess the strength to bodily lift his MON beasts. Each year the national Naadam or games brings MON together the country's greatest wrestling champions, in MON exhausting contests of bodily strength and guile. But today, MON as Peter Geoghegan discovers when he joins a band of three MON dozen men at one of their training camps, they now arrive in MON sleek new four-by-fours and often work in western-style jobs MON in the traffic-choked capital, Ulan Bator. MON MON As the falcons wheel over the steppe, Peter nurses his many MON bruises and ponders the future of a nation at a critical MON crossroads between a cherished past and a lucrative MON future... MON MON Producer: Simon Elmes. MON MON 11:30 The Pale Horse b04gr786 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON by Agatha Christie MON dramatised by Joy Wikinson MON MON New adaptation of this atmospheric murder mystery with an MON ingenious scam at its heart. MON MON Part Two. Despite his girlfriend's irritation, young - fogey MON Mark Easterbrook can't resist looking into a series of MON recent deaths. MON MON Directed by Mary Peate. MON MON LEJEUNE: Watch out, the ladder! MON MON OSBORNE: Inspector Lejeune! I take this as an honour, I do MON indeed, sir. MON MON MON MON LEJEUNE: It’s really not, Mr Osborne. Please, finish MON trimming your hedge. MON MON MON MON OSBORNE: I received your acknowledgement of my letter, but MON I never imagined that I’d see you in person again. MON MON MON MON LEJEUNE: Watch out, the ladder! MON MON MON MON HE STEADIES IT. OSBORNE CLIMBS DOWN. MON MON MON MON Ron Cook and Michael Bertenshaw in studio with spot studio MON manager Pete Ringrose MON MON Credits MON Mark Easterbrook: Jason Hughes MON Ginger: Georgia Groome MON Thyrza: Eleanor Bron MON Inspector Lejeune: Michael Bertenshaw MON Hermia: Phoebe Pryce MON Osborne: Ron Cook MON Venables: Nicholas Jones MON Mrs Davis: Jane Slavin MON Gorman: Clive Hayward MON Rhoda: Elaine Claxton MON Thomasina: Georgie Fuller MON Director: Mary Peate MON Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson MON Author: Agatha Christie MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04gct8l (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04gr7ct (Listen) MON 15 September 1914 - Jack Wilson MON MON It's the day of the memorial service, and everyone brings MON their own grief. MON MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Music: Matthew Strachan MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON "The gate way to the trenches" MON MON Credits MON Jack: Ashley Kumar MON Florrie: Claire Rushbrook MON Joe: Lloyd Thomas MON Ralph: Nicholas Murchie MON Sylvia: Deborah Findlay MON Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw MON Kitty: Ami Metcalf MON Officer: Clive Hayward MON Adam: Leo Montague MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04gr865 (Listen) MON IVF costs, Responsibility Deal, high-intensity workouts, MON romance fraud MON MON Fertility Fairness questioned all 211 Clinical Commissioning MON Groups in England about their provision of IVF treatment, MON including how much it costs them. The results show a big MON variation in the amounts they say they are paying for IVF, MON with some paying under £3000 and others claiming to pay up MON to £10,000. Why is there such a disparity in fertility MON treatment costs and what's it's impact on patients? MON MON The government has held a meeting with representatives from MON the food industry to check on the progress of the MON Responsibility Deal. That's the commitment by the big food MON and drink companies to help tackle obesity and alcohol MON abuse. It was launched in 2011, but the pledges they've MON signed up to are voluntary. So three years on, when it comes MON to reducing salt and sugar, what progress has been made? MON MON CrossFit workouts incorporate elements from high-intensity MON interval training, olympic weightlifting and gymnastics. It MON started in the United States, in 2008 there were only 500 MON gyms worldwide, there are now more than 10,000. We look at MON why it's so popular. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04gct8n (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04gr867 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Thames Crossings b01s4740 (Listen) MON Beginnings MON MON Episode 1 (of 5): Beginnings MON MON The River Thames has run softly through Piers Plowright's MON largely unplanned life. In this five-part series, he visits MON different points along its course where his life has crossed MON the great river. MON MON In this first programme he seeks out the river's source in a MON dry field in Gloucestershire and finds his way, MON meanderingly, to Lechlade, where he spent family holidays as MON a child. Along the route, he meets people who spend their MON lives by the river - and takes the occasional dip. MON MON Produced by Alan Hall. MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04gnzxn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01djr4p (Listen) MON Jailbird Lover MON MON Mid-Wales: and a lonely bachelor avoids personal contact as MON much as humanly possible, despite the best efforts of his MON well-meaning but nosey next door neighbours. MON MON Gwilym Lloyd whiles away his time, pottering in the garden, MON learning the harmonica and writing letters to women serving MON long-term prison sentences in various jails around the MON world. Women that he knows he'll never have to meet. MON MON When South Londoner Layla O'Dowd is released on early parole MON and suddenly shows up on the the doorstep of Gwilym's rural MON Welsh cottage out of the blue, his whole world is turned MON upside down. In the modern social media jungle of internet MON profiles and identity theft, the art of letter writing may MON seem quaintly old fashioned, but that doesn't mean that it's MON not fraught with the very same dangers. MON MON Craig Hawes is a new Welsh writer. Jailbird Lover is his MON first Afternoon Drama. He takes a dark subject and shines a MON comedic light on crime, nosey neighbours, waterfalls, fate MON and true romance. MON MON The music was played by harmonica virtuoso Julian Jackson. MON MON A BBC Cymru/Wales Production, directed by Emma Bodger. MON MON Credits MON Gwilym: Charles Dale MON Layla: Claire-Louise Cordwell MON Mrs Davies: Suzanne Packer MON Owen Davies: Iestyn Jones MON Consuelo: Manon Edwards MON Writer: Craig Hawes MON Director: Emma Bodger MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b04gr8jn (Listen) MON Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for MON its 50th series. MON MON In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by MON writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy MON types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, MON Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... MON have all graced the Quote Unquote stage. MON MON Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the MON origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the MON famous panel to share their favourite anecdotes. MON MON Episode 6 MON Actress, writer and comedienne Maureen Lipman MON Presenter and newsreader Penny Smith MON Journalist, political commentator and president of YouGov MON Peter Kellner MON Comedian, writer and actor Sanjeev Kohli MON MON Presenter ... Nigel Rees MON Reader ... Charlotte Green MON Producer ... Carl Cooper. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Maureen Lipman MON Panellist: Penny Smith MON Panellist: Peter Kellner MON Panellist: Sanjeev Kohli MON Reader: Charlotte Green MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04gnjjp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Yesterday's Papers: The End of the Music Press MON b04gr9h5 (Listen) MON Yesterday's Papers - the end of the music press MON MON With weekly sales down from a high of 250,000 to less than MON 10,000, the end of the UK music press is nigh. But music MON journalist and former magazine editor turned successful MON blogger David Hepworth isn't mourning its loss. Recalling MON the golden ages of Melody Maker, NME, Smash Hits and other MON ground-breaking and agenda-setting publications with writers MON including Richard Williams, Danny Baker, Mark Ellen, Jude MON Rogers and Danny Kelly, David explores the long decline of MON pop in print and asks - in the words of the Rolling Stones - MON who needs yesterday's papers? MON MON Contributors: Richard Williams, Mark Ellen, Danny Baker, MON Danny Kelly, John Doran, Jude Rogers, Rob Fitzpatrick. MON MON Producer: Trevor Dann MON A Trevor Dann production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04grb9v (Listen) MON Agnosticism MON MON When it comes to belief how tenable a position is "I don't MON know"? According to a 2013 You Gov poll, 18% of young people MON when asked about belief in some "spiritual greater power" MON answered exactly that. The noisy debate between atheists and MON religionists has drowned out those that fit into neither MON camp - the Agnostics. But beyond "I don't know" what does it MON mean to be an Agnostic and is it a viable theological and MON philosophical position when it comes to the biggest MON questions of life? MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss Agnosticism are Mark Vernon, MON former Church of England priest and author of "How To Be An MON Agnostic;" Alister McGrath Professor of Science and MON Religions at Oxford University and President of the Oxford MON Centre for Christian Apologetics; and Dr Arif Ahmed Senior MON Lecturer in Philosophy at Cambridge University. MON MON Producer: Catherine Earlam. MON MON 17:00 PM b04grb9x (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04gct8q (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b04grchn (Listen) MON Series 70, Episode 6 MON MON Just how hard can it be to talk for a minute without MON hesitation, repetition or deviation? Jonathan Ross, Liza MON Tarbuck, Alun Cochrane and Paul Merton find out. Nicholas MON Parsons keeps the score in his legendary style. MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Jonathan Ross MON Panellist: Liza Tarbuck MON Panellist: Alun Cochrane MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04grcn8 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04grcnb (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04gr57c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Philosopher's Arms b04grcnd (Listen) MON Series 4, Trolleyology MON MON Pints and Philosophical Problems with Matthew Sweet. This MON week, trolleyology: how should you decide between two MON morally troubling courses of action? This is a question MON which affects both soldiers in the heat of action and MON decision-makers in the NHS. Matthew is joined in the snug by MON philosopher David Edmonds. MON MON Producer: Luke Mulhall. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04gc0pq (Listen) MON Thailand's Slave Fishermen MON MON It has one of the largest fishing fleets in the world and MON much of the catch from Thailand's fishing boats ends up on MON Japanese, European and American plates. Yet the industry MON stands accused of profiting from slave labour. MON MON The BBC's Becky Palmstrom investigates this tale of modern MON day slavery. She travels to Thailand and Myanmar to find out MON why and how illegal migrants are being forced onto Thai MON fishing boats, many of them working for months unpaid. She MON hears allegations of cruelty and even murder. MON MON In Thailand Becky meets Ken, from rural Myanmar, who hoped MON to make a better life for himself and his ageing parents. He MON ended up being trafficked twice onto Thai fishing boats. The MON BBC team was able to bring his parents, back in Myanmar, the MON first news they had had of their son for four years. MON MON The Thai authorities admit that most of their fishing fleet MON is unregistered and much of it relies on illegal migrant MON labour. The Thai government insists it is making every MON effort to clamp down on trafficking and forced labour in its MON fishing industry. Yet the US State Department has recently MON downgraded Thailand to Tier 3 in its "Trafficking in Persons MON Report (TIP)" - a measure of how little it believes Thailand MON is doing to curb the problem. MON MON Producer: John Murphy. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04g8hrb (Listen) MON Giant Otters in the Pantanal MON MON The Pantanal is a huge wetland which lies predominantly MON within the borders of Brazil. It boasts a diverse array of MON wildlife including the giant otter, which at two meters long MON is the world's largest species of otter. Protected by its MON remote location and the difficulty and expense of developing MON wetlands, the Pantanal has remained largely intact. However MON Brazil has seen years of rapid economic development, and MON while growth may have slowed for now, it's only a matter of MON time before the opportunities the Pantanal holds will be MON worth the costs. In this episode Monty Don finds out what MON the future holds for the Pantanal. MON MON Dr Miriam Marmontel MON MON Miriam MON Marmontel is an oceanographer at the MON Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul MON with an MSc in MON Marine Biology from the University of Miami and a PhD in MON Wildlife Conservation MON from the MON University of Florida MON in Gainesville. MON MON Twenty years ago she turned her MON attention to freshwater mammals, and has been working with MON the five Amazonian MON genera (manatees, giant otters, Neotropical otters, pink MON and tucuxi MON dolphins) since then. She has since lived and worked in MON Tefé, Amazonas state, MON Brazil, where she is a researcher with the Mamirauá MON Institute for Sustainable MON Development, and leads a research group on Amazonian MON aquatic mammals, working MON in the Mamirauá and Amanã sustainable development reserves. MON MON In the early 2000s MON she spent some time in the Brazilian Pantanal, working with MON giant river otters, MON and then started a research program on giant otters in the MON Amanã Reserve. MON MON Jane Madgwick MON Jane graduated from York (BSc Human and Environmental MON Biology) and University College London (MSc Conservation). MON She became CEO of MON Wetlands International MON in 2004. She now leads an international team through a MON network of 16 offices operating in over 100 countries in MON Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and Russia. MON A science-based organisation, Wetlands International focuses MON on building knowledge and facilitating action to manage MON wetlands for biodiversity conservation, water security, MON disaster risk reduction, climate resilience and livelihoods. MON It works with a broad range of partners, including MON governments, business and industry and civil society MON organisations to leverage change. MON Jane’s position in Wetlands International follows seven MON years working on freshwater and MON wetlands for WWF MON in Europe, Australia and globally as well as 10 years as MON Conservation Director of a multiple use wetland (The Broads) MON in the UK. MON Before that she was an ecological researcher working in MON Somalia, Belize, Yemen and Australia. She has particular MON expertise in the ecological restoration of wetlands and on MON water resource management policy. MON MON Dr Antonio Ioris MON Dr Ioris is a human geography lecturer with a particular MON interest in the political aspects of the interconnections MON between nature and society. He has conducted extensive MON research in several countries, including Scotland, Brazil, MON Portugal and Peru, using water management as an entry point MON into the political ecology of the allocation, use and MON conservation of natural resources. MON Ioris has a long experience with policy-making and project MON management in the UK through his work at the MON Scottish Environment Protection Agency MON at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the MON Caribbean in Chile and at the Ministry of the Environment in MON Brazil. MON Main areas of research are related to the search for MON environmental justice in the urban and regional context and MON the multiple obstacles faced by marginalised communities to MON influence environmental decision-making. MON MON Professor Lee Alston MON Professor Lee Alston is the new MON Ostrom Chair and Professor of Economics, and Director of the MON Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University MON and a former professor of economics and behavioural science MON at Colorado University in Boulder. He is also a Research MON Associate of National Bureau for Economic Research, Past MON President of the International Society for the New MON Institutional Economics and President-Elect of the Economic MON History Association. MON Alston’s research interests over the years have focused on MON the important roles of institutions, beliefs and contracts MON in shaping economic and political outcomes in multiple MON domains. Issues examined include the governance and use of MON natural resources historically and today; the growth of the MON US welfare system in the US in the 1960s; and the historical MON trajectory of Brazil from 1964 to present. MON In a forthcoming book, Alston argues that since 1994, Brazil MON has been on a virtuous path. He researched the state of MON natural resources in the Amazon in: MON Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property MON Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier MON which he co-authored with Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo MON Mueller. MON MON 21:30 The Educators b04fzd9h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04gct8s (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04grdb8 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04grdbc (Listen) MON The Children Act, Episode 6 MON MON Juliet Stevenson continues Ian McEwan's powerful and MON haunting new novel, The Children Act - a story about faith, MON love and the Law and about the welfare of children and the MON duty of those who care for them. MON MON Fiona Maye is an esteemed High Court Judge presiding over MON cases in the Family Court and admired for her 'godly MON distance and devilish understanding'. But beneath her MON professional composure, her happy marriage of thirty years MON is in trouble and a recent case has caused her heartache. MON Now she faces a life or death decision. MON MON For religious reasons, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy is MON refusing life-saving treatment, and his devout parents MON support his wishes. Should the secular court overrule MON sincerely held faith? What really lies in the boy's best MON interests? Today the judge must make her ruling. MON MON Ian McEwan is one of the UK's leading novelists, his many MON novels include Atonement, Enduring Love and On Chesil Beach. MON MON The reader is Juliet Stevenson MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Juliet Stevenson MON Producer: Di Speirs MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Author: Ian McEwan MON MON 23:00 The Human Zoo b04795tv (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 1 MON MON The Human Zoo is a place to learn about the one subject that MON never fails to fascinate: ourselves. Are people led by the MON head or by the heart? How rational are we? And how do we MON perceive the world? MON MON It's a curious blend of intriguing experiments to discover MON our biases and judgements, with explorations and examples MON taken from what's in the news to what we do in the kitchen - MON all driven by a large slice of curiosity. MON MON Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick MON University, will be on hand as guide and experimenter in MON chief, together with the many other experts popularising a MON fast-growing subject in academia and the bookstores. MON MON Presenter: Michael Blastland MON Producer: Toby Murcott MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b04dqwyc (Listen) MON Series 17, The Roman Way MON MON Alan Dein follows the fast-moving story of a squatter who MON takes over a pub in Luton - he says for the benefit of the MON local community. MON MON The Roman Way is a sprawling 1960s pub at the centre of the MON Lewsey Farm housing estate. MON MON The landlord of fourteen years, Declan, made the decision MON earlier this year to give up the business and return to MON Ireland to start a new life. MON MON But, just as Declan is leaving, on his very last morning in MON the pub, Biggs turns up; a larger-than-life local character MON determined to take over the pub on behalf of the newly MON formed Lewsey Farm Community Action Group. MON MON Dressed in a hoodie and bandana and carrying a heavy chain, MON he negotiates his way past police and a representative from MON the pub's owners, and - in his terminology - 'legally MON occupies' the building. MON MON Over the next few weeks the story takes many unexpected MON twists and turns, and draws in bailiffs, security guards, MON police and the local community. MON MON Alan Dein watches as the story comes to a conclusive end. MON MON Producer: Karen Gregor. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04gct9q (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04gr47w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04gct9s (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04gct9v (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04gct9x (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04gct9z (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04grdtx (Listen) TUE Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and TUE broadcaster Anna Magnusson. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04grdtz (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dw6yc (Listen) TUE Spix's Macaw TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Sir David Attenborough presents the now extinct in the wild, TUE Spix's macaw. The Spix's macaw was declared extinct in 2000 TUE when the last known wild born male disappeared from its TUE final refuge in Brazil. Fortunately this strikingly TUE beautiful member of the parrot family survives in captivity. TUE The Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation centre in Qatar is TUE providing a reservoir for an organised breeding programme TUE which is now managed by several conservation organisations TUE under the guidance of the Brazilian government. Soon it is TUE hoped the bird that inspired the film Rio, can once more fly TUE free in the wild. TUE TUE Spix's Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Roland Seitre / naturepl.com TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01386353 TUE © Roland Seitre / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04grl93 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 What's the Point of...? b04grl95 (Listen) TUE Series 6, British Board of Film Classification TUE TUE The BBFC has been going just over a century. In the early TUE days directors could suffer the censor's snips for a long TUE list of transgressions - unnecessary exhibition of TUE underclothing, indecorous dancing and even talk of the TUE relationship between capital and labour. These are more TUE liberal, even libertarian times. We gave up the blue pencil TUE for books and the theatre a long time ago. Now the "C" in TUE BBFC stands for "classification" not "censor." Cinemas are TUE struggling and the commercial power of the public picture TUE house has been bypassed by the ungovernable internet. We can TUE now also watch whatever we want, whenever we want to without TUE the BBFC looking over our shoulder. So what is the point of TUE the BBFC? TUE TUE Producer: Phil Pegum. TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b04grlrn (Listen) TUE Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters TUE TUE In the summer of 1964 the author Ken Kesey led a group of TUE friends on a roadtrip across America. Travelling in a TUE converted school bus and experimenting with LSD along the TUE way, they called themselves the Merry Pranksters. Their trip TUE would become one of the defining moments of American TUE counterculture. Hear from Ken Babbs who was on that bus. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04hc1jn (Listen) TUE Please, Mr Postman, Episode 2 TUE TUE In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert TUE in Hyde Park, future Cabinet Minister Alan Johnson and his TUE young family left West London to start a new life. The TUE Britwell Estate in Slough, notorious among the locals, came TUE as a blessed relief after the tensions of London's troubled TUE Notting Hill, and the local community welcomed them with TUE open arms. TUE TUE Alan Johnson had become a postman the previous year and, in TUE order to support his growing family, took on every bit of TUE overtime he could, often working twelve-hour shifts six days TUE a week. It was hard work, but not without its compensations TUE - the crafty fag snatched in a country lane, the farmer's TUE wife offering a hearty breakfast and even the mysterious TUE lady on Glebe Road who appeared daily, topless, at her TUE window as the postman passed by. TUE TUE Please, Mister Postman paints a vivid picture of England in TUE the 1970s, where no celebration was complete without a Party TUE Seven of Watney's Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather TUE than the exception, and Sunday lunchtime was about beer and TUE bingo. But as Alan Johnson's life appears to be settling TUE down and his career in the Union of Postal Workers begins to TUE take off, his close-knit family is struck once again by TUE tragedy. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE Alan Johnson participates in his first strike, and takes his TUE first steps on a union career that would eventually lead to TUE higher office. TUE TUE Read by Alan Johnson TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Alan Johnson TUE Producer: David Roper TUE Author: Alan Johnson TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04grlrq (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 b04grm09 (Listen) TUE Queens of Noise: Rip It Up, Episode 2 TUE TUE British all-girl band Velveteens are ready for America but TUE is America ready for Velveteens? It's a very long way to go TUE to play to people who've never heard of you. TUE TUE Music directors ..... Brian Rawling and Marky Bates TUE TUE Directed by Toby Swift. TUE TUE Credits TUE Beth: Anneika Rose TUE Rain: Hannah Arterton TUE Sylvie: Samantha Robinson TUE TJ: Clive Hayward TUE Christy: Clare Corbett TUE US cop: Damian Lynch TUE Director: Toby Swift TUE Writer: Roy Boulter TUE Writer: Louise Wener TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04grm6g (Listen) TUE Ground-Nesting Birds TUE TUE Ground nesting birds such as terns are particularly TUE vulnerable to being disturbed. People are increasingly TUE accessing the countryside for all sorts of recreation from TUE walking and mountain biking to bird watching and TUE photography. Is disturbance really a problem for wildlife? TUE And how can we limit the effect while still encouraging fun TUE and healthy ways to spend our time. TUE TUE 11:30 The Lost Women of British Jazz b04grm6j (Listen) TUE Janine H. Jones uncovers the secret history of women's jazz TUE and the tragic story of how a burgeoning musical equality TUE was deliberately snuffed out. TUE TUE Ivy Benson, Gracie Cole and Kathy Stobart became household TUE names in jazz and dancehall, only after battling throughout TUE the 1940s and 50s to gain recognition and respect in a TUE male-dominated industry; a struggle that was repeated by TUE other women over many decades. TUE TUE This programme transports us back to post-WWI Britain, where TUE women were experiencing their first taste of emancipation. TUE The UK was becoming a hotbed of music. Bars, clubs and TUE bottle parties hosted bands every night and ladies were TUE jazzing right alongside the men. In their own words, lady TUE musicians of the Jazz Age tell their stories. Rare archive TUE recordings fill in the skipped beats of their history and TUE Janine reveals how first their careers, and their rightful TUE place in history, was quashed. TUE TUE Researcher Jen Wilson, historian Val Wilmer and drummer TUE Sheelagh Pearson break new ground in this under-researched TUE area and expose the hidden truth about the role of the TUE pioneering women in early jazz. TUE TUE Producers: Hannah Loy and Janine H. Jones. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04gctb1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04grnjh (Listen) TUE 16 September 1914 - Victor Lumley TUE TUE Lieutenant Lumley is a man with a plan. TUE TUE Written by Sarah Daniels TUE Music: Matthew Strachan TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Victor: Joel MacCormack TUE Sylvia: Deborah Findlay TUE Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Kitty: Ami Metcalf TUE Dorothea: Rachel Shelley TUE Tom: Matthew Watson TUE Albert: Harry Myers TUE Florrie: Claire Rushbrook TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04grnjk (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04gctb3 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04grnjm (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Thames Crossings b01s5d47 (Listen) TUE Learning TUE TUE Episode 2 (of 5): Learning TUE TUE The River Thames has run softly through Piers Plowright's TUE largely unplanned life. In this five-part series, he visits TUE different points along its course where his life has crossed TUE the great river. TUE TUE In today's programme he returns to Oxford where, fifty years TUE ago, he studied history. He swims in his favourite spot at TUE Port Meadow, meets a retired boat builder and talks to TUE Sarah, the lock-keeper at Godstow. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04grcn8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b02ykyg6 (Listen) TUE The Sensitive, Black Island TUE TUE By Alastair Jessiman. In the second of two new cases for the TUE psychic detective, Thomas and Kat go on holiday to the TUE Western Isles. But Thomas is soon drawn into a dangerous TUE game with a celebrated actor. TUE TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE Credits TUE Thomas Soutar: Robin Laing TUE Kat: Julie Duncanson TUE Richie: Steven McNicoll TUE Guy: Laurie Brown TUE DI Crawford: Simon Tait TUE Cameron: Haris Young TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE Writer: Alastair Jessiman TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b04gn91j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b04grpd5 (Listen) TUE El Nino: Driving the Planet's Weather TUE TUE Meteorologist, Peter Gibbs investigates the global impact of TUE the weather phenomenon El Nino. Forecasts predict El Nino TUE will occur at the end of this year, creating fear in many TUE communities around the world. TUE TUE Flooding, drought and famine have all been caused by the TUE phenomenon in the past. Peruvian fishermen are often the TUE first to notice as warmer waters change the behaviour of TUE coastal fish stocks. Peter hears what they've already TUE noticed and finds out how these changes could have ripple TUE effects around the world. The anchovies in Peruvian waters TUE are caught to feed farmed salmon but they're also an TUE important food source for seabirds. The warm waters could TUE also cause an imbalance in marine life and weather changes TUE that will impact on global crop yields. TUE TUE Peter Gibbs looks into the possible impacts of El Nino, how TUE long it would take to recover and what's being done to TUE prepare. TUE TUE Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 16:00 Out of the Ordinary b01r993j (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 1 TUE TUE In a new documentary series uncovering stories from the left TUE field, Jolyon Jenkins reports on the extreme treatments bald TUE men are putting themselves through. They are commissioning TUE laboratories in China to manufacture unproven, untested, and TUE potentially dangerous drugs to cure their hair loss. Is it a TUE hiding to nothing or will they succeed where the drug TUE companies haven't? TUE TUE Men have always gone bald but now they're not putting up TUE with it. An explosion of online forums has created a "hair TUE loss community". "It's a silent epidemic", says Spencer TUE Kobren, founder of The Bald Truth forum. "Hair loss doesn't TUE physically hurt, but we liken it to a cancer of the spirit". TUE Kobren runs a weekly radio show in which callers express TUE their pain and frustration. Joe isn't sure whether it would TUE be worse to have actual cancer: "I'd rather have one or two TUE good years of hair," he says. "I want to hear the birds TUE sing, I want to walk on the beach, I want to be free of this TUE terrible disease." TUE TUE In an attempt to deal with encroaching baldness, some young TUE men are reading up on the latest medical research into hair TUE loss and seeking out chemists to manufacture molecules they TUE hope will work. There's no guarantee that the chemicals they TUE are buying are pure, and the buyers have no real idea of the TUE correct dose; but it speaks to their desperation. Some of TUE them report unpleasant side effects. Few of them can show TUE convincing hair regrowth. TUE TUE Presenter Jolyon Jenkins, a "hair loss sufferer" for two TUE decades, investigates this subculture. Along the way he has TUE a consultation for a hair transplant (£10-£15,000) and looks TUE into "hair systems" - or as some call them, wigs. Does loss TUE of hair really decrease a man's attractiveness TUE significantly? And how did a normal part of being a man TUE become a debilitating disease? TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04g8m0t (Listen) TUE Series 34, Stella Rimington on Dorothy L Sayers TUE TUE Dame Stella Rimington, former director of MI5 and a TUE celebrated crime writer herself, nominates for a Great Life TUE that of Dorothy L Sayers. Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey TUE novel was published in the 1920s, the Golden Age of crime TUE fiction, and he is still very much with us, appearing often TUE on Radio 4 Extra. She went on to enjoy a huge popularity TUE with her crime novels and then turned to writing Christian TUE essays and plays, most notably the series for the BBC on the TUE life of Christ - which stirred up a great controversy as TUE no-one had before impersonated Jesus on the radio. Dame TUE Stella tells Matthew Parris why the paradoxes and TUE contradictions in Dorothy Sayers' life fascinate her, and TUE explains how Sayers' writing influences her own. With Seona TUE Ford, chairman of the Dorothy L Sayers Society. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Stella Rimington TUE Producer: Christine Hall TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04grrf8 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04gctb5 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself b04grrpq (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE A brand new impression and sketch show that looks behind the TUE scenes at the life and work of star impressionist Lewis TUE Macleod (Newsjack, Postman Pat, The Phantom Menace, Dead TUE Ringers) with Kate O'Sullivan, Duncan Wisbey and Julian TUE Dutton. TUE TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ensemble: Lewis Mcleod TUE Ensemble: Kate O'Sullivan TUE Ensemble: Duncan Wisbey TUE Ensemble: Julian Dutton TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04grrz7 (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04grrz9 (Listen) TUE Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, TUE literature, film, media and music. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Samira Ahmed TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04grm09 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b04grs67 (Listen) TUE Abused but Not Heard TUE TUE Knowl View special school for boys has become infamous as TUE the haunt of Cyril Smith. Prosecutors now say 'Mr Rochdale' TUE should have been charged with abuse of boys while he was TUE alive. But he was not the only one. In the first of a new TUE series, former pupils in the 1970s, 80s and 90s tell File on TUE 4 how a web of abusers, including local paedophiles and TUE other pupils preyed on boys as young as eight while people TUE supposed to protect them looked the other way. Previous TUE police investigations came to nothing. Now a new probe is TUE underway, focusing on who could be guilty of a criminal TUE cover up. But what became of the innocent? Jane Deith hears TUE from some of those who experienced life in Knowl View. TUE Telling their stories for the first time, they describe TUE childhoods twisted by sexual abuse...and say they're still TUE waiting to be heard and believed. TUE So what are the chances that they will - finally - get TUE justice? TUE TUE Reporter: Jane Deith TUE Producer: Sally Chesworth. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04grspj (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Patients Doing It for Themselves b04grspl (Listen) TUE Patient power is on the rise. But is it rising too far? TUE Frustrated by the time it takes to develop new drugs, the TUE ethical barriers to obtaining clinical data or the TUE indifference of the medical profession to obscure diseases, TUE patients are setting up their own clinical trials and TUE overturning the norms of clinical research. TUE TUE A DIY clinical trial sounds like a joke - and a dangerous TUE one at that. But as Vivienne Parry discovers, it's real and TUE on the rise as greater access to medical data allows more TUE patients to play research scientists and medics at their own TUE game. TUE TUE Patients lie at the very heart of clinical research - TUE without them there is none. Yet they come way down the food TUE chain when it comes to transparency about their own health, TUE blinded as they usually are to what pills they're taking and TUE whether they are actually doing them any good. Even after TUE the trial is published they're left with little TUE understanding of whether the treatment could work for them TUE and licensing is usually years away. So it's perhaps hardly TUE surprising that patient networks have sprung up to redress TUE the balance. Much of this current patient led research now TUE takes place through online communities, with activists and TUE the articulate ill demanding more say in their treatment. TUE TUE Vivienne Parry looks at some examples of patient led TUE research which have challenged the medical establishment. TUE She also asks how far can this go: should patients be TUE prevented from experimenting with procedures or drugs that TUE might kill them ? TUE TUE 21:30 What's the Point of...? b04grl95 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04gctb7 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04grsvw (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04grsvy (Listen) TUE The Children Act, Episode 7 TUE TUE Juliet Stevenson continues Ian McEwan's powerful and TUE haunting new novel, The Children Act - a story about faith, TUE love and the Law and about the welfare of children and the TUE duty of those who care for them. TUE TUE Fiona Maye is an esteemed High Court Judge presiding over TUE cases in the Family Court and admired for her 'godly TUE distance and devilish understanding'. But beneath her TUE professional composure, her happy marriage of thirty years TUE is in trouble and recent cases have caused her heartache. TUE TUE Should the secular court overrule sincerely held faith? What TUE really lies in a child's best interests? When is a child TUE still a child? TUE TUE Today, off on the northern circuit, Fiona finds that her TUE recent ruling that a child's welfare is best served by TUE intervention is not so easily left behind. TUE TUE Ian McEwan is one of the UK's leading novelists, his many TUE novels include Atonement, Enduring Love and On Chesil Beach. TUE TUE The reader is Juliet Stevenson TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Juliet Stevenson TUE Producer: Di Speirs TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Author: Ian McEwan TUE TUE 23:00 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now b04gwg7c (Listen) TUE Series 2, Rewelcome TUE TUE Comedy's best kept secret ingredient returns with another TUE series of his own sketch show. Sketches, characters, sound TUE effects, bit of music, some messin' about, you know... TUE TUE In this episode, we meet Kim Jong Un's haircut and David TUE Livingstone's trousers, plus we extol the wonders of drink TUE and sneezing. TUE TUE Kevin Eldon is a comedy phenomenon. He's been in virtually TUE every major comedy show in the last fifteen years, but not TUE content with working with the likes of Chris Morris, Steve TUE Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse, TUE Stewart Lee, Julia Davis and Graham Linehan, he's finally TUE decided to put together his own comedy series for BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE After all the waiting - Kevin Eldon Will See You Now... TUE TUE Appearing across the series are Amelia Bullmore ("I'm Alan TUE Partridge", "Scott & Bailey"), Julia Davis ("Nighty Night"), TUE Paul Putner ("Little Britain"), Justin Edwards ("The TUE Consultants"), David Reed ("The Penny Dreadfuls") & TUE Catherine Shepherd ("Cardinal Burns", "Harry & Paul") TUE TUE Written by Kevin Eldon TUE with additional material by Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris ("A TUE Touch Of Cloth", "That Mitchell & Webb Sound") TUE TUE Original music by Martin Bird TUE TUE Produced & directed by David Tyler TUE TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 TUE TUE Kevin Eldon is one of the UK's most noted comic actors. His TUE list of credits include - TUE TUE Father Ted TUE I'm Alan Partridge TUE Brass Eye TUE Black Books TUE Hot Fuzz TUE The IT Crowd TUE Skins TUE Big Train TUE Green Wing TUE Spaced TUE Nighty Night TUE Utopia TUE Fifteen Stories High TUE TUE Kevin Eldon Will See You Now is a Pozzitive production, TUE produced by David Tyler. TUE TUE David Tyler's radio credits include Cabin Pressure, Armando TUE Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Marcus Brigstocke's The Brig TUE Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, Bigipedia, Thanks A TUE Lot, Milton Jones!, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, The TUE 99p Challenge, Strap In - It's Clever Peter, My First TUE Planet, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going back a TUE bit, Radio Active. His TV credits include Paul Merton - The TUE Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The Paul & Pauline Calf TUE Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon and TUE exec producing Victoria Wood's dinnerladies. TUE TUE Comedy's best kept secret ingredient returns with another TUE series of his own sketch show. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Kevin Eldon TUE Performer: Amelia Bullmore TUE Performer: Julia Davis TUE Performer: Paul Putner TUE Performer: Justin Edwards TUE Performer: David Reed TUE Performer: Catherine Shepherd TUE Writer: Kevin Eldon TUE Writer: Jason Hazeley TUE Writer: Joel Morris TUE Director: David Tyler TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE TUE 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b041vvvm (Listen) TUE Series 16, Getting the House Ready TUE TUE 74 year old Myf Barker is turning her enormous home into a TUE wedding venue in the hope that it will make money. Kate TUE Lamble meets the family and uncovers memories amid the TUE chaos. TUE TUE Purton House has been lived in by Myf, her late husband and TUE her children for decades. It's a rambling family mansion TUE with grounds, and an organic farm attached. But Myf has an TUE eye to the future and wants to leave the house to her TUE children as a viable business. So she's working to turn the TUE property into a venue where weddings can be held and bridal TUE families can stay the night. TUE TUE Her main job is to convert the upstairs rooms so that they TUE meet the standards of the most exacting couples. Old TUE furniture has to be renovated, walls have to be painted and TUE new bathrooms are being put in. Myf will even have to move TUE out of her own bedroom which is being turned into a sitting TUE room. TUE TUE It's a daunting workload. Will it be ready on time? TUE TUE Kate Lamble meets Myf, some of her grown up children TUE including daughters Rowie and Talia and also Glenn, the son TUE she fostered. She hears about the renovations and finds out TUE what the house and its landscape symbolises for all of them, TUE especially since the death of Rowie's husband Alex several TUE years ago. TUE TUE Producer; Emma Kingsley. TUE TUE Purton House TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04gctc5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04hc1jn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04gctc7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04gctc9 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04gctcc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04gctcf (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04grt7k (Listen) WED Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and WED broadcaster Anna Magnusson. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04grt7m (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dw6z4 (Listen) WED Red-Headed Woodpecker WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Sir David Attenborough presents the red-headed woodpecker WED found in North America. With Its inky black wings, snow WED white body and crimson hood, the red-headed woodpecker is WED one of the most striking members of its family, a real WED 'flying checker-board'. This striking Woodpecker has an WED ancient past, fossil records go back 2 million years and the WED Cherokee Indians used this species as a war symbol. More WED recently and nestled amongst Longfellow's epic poem The Song WED of Hiawatha, the grateful Hiawatha gave the red headed WED woodpecker its red head in thanks for its service to him. WED WED Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com WED WED NPL Ref WED 01299255 WED © Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com WED WED Recording of red-headed woodpecker by Wilbur L Hershberger / WED Ref: ML 168035 WED WED This programme contains a wildtrack recording of the WED red-headed woodpecker WED kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab WED of Ornithology; recorded by Wilbur L Hershberger on 19 June WED 2011, West Virginia, USA. WED WED WED WED Link: WED http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/168305 WED WED 06:00 Today b04gvq04 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Great Lives b04cc7cr (Listen) WED Series 34, Jonathan Meades on Edward Burra WED WED Writer Jonathan Meades nominates the English artist Edward WED Burra, who died in 1976, for "great life" status, arguing WED that he deserves to be better known. WED WED Burra painted sailors, drinkers and prostitutes in Toulon; WED jazz musicians in Harlem; surreal wartime pictures of WED soldiers in terrifying bird masks; and, in his later years, WED landscapes in which anthropomorphic and malevolent machines WED bite chunks out of the countryside. Disabled with rheumatoid WED arthritis from an early age, Burra barely went to school and WED so escaped the Edwardian upper class upbringing that would WED otherwise have been his destiny. At once camp yet apparently WED celibate, Burra was intensely private and disliked talking WED about either himself or art - or, as he called it, "fart". WED WED Matthew Parris chairs the discussion, and is joined by WED Burra's biographer Jane Stevenson. WED WED Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Matthew Parris WED Interviewed Guest: Jonathan Meades WED Interviewed Guest: Jane Stevenson WED Producer: Jolyon Jenkins WED WED 09:30 Publishing Lives b03xgl42 (Listen) WED Series 2, Paul Hamlyn WED WED Robert McCrum explores the stories of five great British WED publishers. WED WED Paul Hamlyn revolutionised the British book trade in the WED 20th century, turning it from a cosy club serving the elite WED into an industrial powerhouse. A Jewish émigré from Berlin, WED he entered publishing by selling books from a barrow at WED Camden Market. But he soon ran low on stock and started his WED own firm, printing books cheaply but handsomely in Eastern WED Europe. His great insight was that beautiful colour plate WED books could be produced for the mass market at very low WED prices. WED WED Hamlyn was an outsider who was looked down on by the WED gentlemen who had traditionally dominated publishing, but he WED achieved his ambition to become the biggest publisher on the WED block. Along the way he transformed the industry with a WED revolution in lifestyle books - cookery, gardening, history, WED art - mass-produced at high quality. WED WED Hamlyn was at the forefront of the non-fiction revolution WED that transformed bookshops and brought colour to post-war WED Britain. Marguerite Patten's Cookery in Colour of 1962 WED quickly became an unprecedented bestseller. Today's WED bestseller lists, packed with celebrity chefs, would have WED been inconceivable before Paul Hamlyn discovered and WED developed this new market. WED WED Robert McCrum talks to publishing insiders including Tim WED Hely Hutchinson and Lady Helen Hamlyn. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04hc1jq (Listen) WED Please, Mr Postman, Episode 3 WED WED In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert WED in Hyde Park, future Cabinet Minister Alan Johnson and his WED young family left West London to start a new life. The WED Britwell Estate in Slough, notorious among the locals, came WED as a blessed relief after the tensions of London's troubled WED Notting Hill, and the local community welcomed them with WED open arms. WED WED Alan Johnson had become a postman the previous year and, in WED order to support his growing family, took on every bit of WED overtime he could, often working twelve-hour shifts six days WED a week. It was hard work, but not without its compensations WED - the crafty fag snatched in a country lane, the farmer's WED wife offering a hearty breakfast and even the mysterious WED lady on Glebe Road who appeared daily, topless, at her WED window as the postman passed by. WED WED Please, Mister Postman paints a vivid picture of England in WED the 1970s, where no celebration was complete without a Party WED Seven of Watney's Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather WED than the exception, and Sunday lunchtime was about beer and WED bingo. But as Alan Johnson's life appears to be settling WED down and his career in the Union of Postal Workers begins to WED take off, his close-knit family is struck once again by WED tragedy. WED WED Episode 3: WED Alan Johnson becomes more active in his union and joins the WED Labour Party. But his political inspiration comes from WED unlikely sources - Glasgow communist Jimmy Reid and his WED Tory-supporting brother-in-law Mike. WED WED Read by Alan Johnson WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Alan Johnson WED Producer: David Roper WED Author: Alan Johnson WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04gvrjq (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 b04gvrjs (Listen) WED Queens of Noise: Rip It Up, Episode 3 WED WED By Louise Wener. After a roller coaster ride across the WED States, Velveteens finally arrive in California to play the WED famous Troubadour club. Has it been worth the journey? WED WED Music directors ..... Brian Rawling and Marky Bates WED WED Directed by Toby Swift. WED WED Credits WED Rain: Hannah Arterton WED Sylvie: Samantha Robinson WED Beth: Anneika Rose WED Sam: Joe Absolom WED TJ: Clive Hayward WED Director: Toby Swift WED Writer: Louise Wener WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04gvsnk (Listen) WED Sarah and Natalie - Blind Faith WED WED Fi Glover hears how a child's blindness was misdiagnosed as WED psychological when in fact it was the result of a tumour, in WED this conversation between the now 17 year old and her WED mother, proving yet again that it's surprising what you hear WED when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Don't Log Off b04gvsnm (Listen) WED Series 5, Enduring Love WED WED Alan Dein crosses the world via Facebook and Skype, hearing WED the real life dramas of random strangers. WED WED In this first programme of the new series, Alan discovers WED some moving stories of couples under pressure. WED WED Alan builds up a relationship with Hank and Norma in WED Arkansas, USA following them over the course of a difficult WED year as harp-playing Hank draws on his own near-death WED experience to deal with Norma's breast cancer. As Hank puts WED it: "I worked hard to survive, and I deserve my companion in WED life..." WED WED Alan also tracks the fortunes of a young couple in love, WED trying to make a go of it despite the fact one lives in WED southern Italy and the other in Slovakia. WED WED Plus a veteran of the first Gulf War - now a long distance WED lorry driver - recalls how he salvaged his own relationship WED after it faltered as a result of long absences from home. WED WED 11:30 Wordaholics b04gvtj0 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Radio 4's word-obsessed comedy panel game - with stars from WED across the world of wordplay coming together to score points WED off each other, under the well-read eye of chairman Gyles WED Brandreth WED WED Today's panellists are Irish comedian Ed Byrne, Tasmanian WED stand up and art expert Hannah Gadsby, punmaster general WED Milton Jones and classics boffin Natalie Haynes. WED WED Today's Letter of the week is 'N'. Ed Byrne explains what WED the phrase 'nuking the fridge' means and Hannah Gadsby WED deduces what the Sicilian phrase 'go to Naples' means. WED WED In a round about derogatory terms Natalie Haynes is asked WED what a 'fishbagger' was in the late nineteenth century and WED Milton Jones is asked what the American term 'ballclankers' WED from the 1960s might have meant. WED WED The panellists also attempt to ban their least favourite WED words including 'blog', 'Christmas', 'fablet' and 'simples'. WED WED And finally they try to unearth the meaning of some words WED found in a dictionary of thieves' slang from 1673. WED WED Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle. WED Producer: Claire Jones. WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Gyles Brandreth WED Panellist: Ed Byrne WED Panellist: Hannah Gadsby WED Panellist: Milton Jones WED Panellist: Natalie Haynes WED Writer: Jon Hunter WED Writer: James Kettle WED Producer: Claire Jones WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04gctch (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04gvvbq (Listen) WED 17 September 1914 - Gabriel Graham WED WED Councillor Graham sees a new side to Folkestone. WED WED Written by Sarah Daniels WED Music: Matthew Strachan WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw WED Isabel: Keely Beresford WED Esme: Katie Angelou WED Hilary: Craige Els WED Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson WED Adam: Leo Montague WED Ottoline: Ruth Lass WED Bill: Ben Crowe WED Harry: Sean Murray WED Writer: Sarah Daniels WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04gvvbs (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04gctck (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04gvvbv (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Thames Crossings b01s5f3m (Listen) WED Pilgrimage WED WED Episode 3 (of 5): Pilgrimage WED WED The River Thames has run softly through Piers Plowright's WED largely unplanned life. In this five-part series, he visits WED different points along its course where his life has crossed WED the great river. WED WED In this programme, Piers visits Ewelme, a small village in WED the scoop of the Chiltern Hills where his sister is buried WED across the way from Jerome K Jerome. WED WED Produced by Alan Hall WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04grrz7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04gvw1t (Listen) WED The Man Who Turned Into a Sofa WED WED A depressed man and the sofa that sorted him out. A true WED story of illness overcome written by Andrew Peters and WED performed by him. his partner and their daughter. And a WED sofa. With original music by William Goodchild. Who needs a WED Freudian couch when you've got the most comfortable sofa in WED the world? Producer: Tim Dee. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Andrew Peters WED Reader: Andrew Peters WED Producer: Tim Dee WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b04gw6mh (Listen) WED Couples and Money WED WED How do you manage money as a couple? Whether your setting up WED or splitting up your finances, call 03700 100 444 from 1pm WED to 3.30pm on Wednesday e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Personal finance may not be the most romantic conversation WED to have when you're starting life as a couple but you will WED have to take on joint financial decisions, goals and WED responsibilities. WED WED Whether your personal circumstances and spending habits are WED similar or different you may have questions about protecting WED or making the most of your assets. WED WED How do you maximise the tax advantages of marriage and civil WED partnerships? WED WED What are the rules about transferring allowances and assets? WED WED Which of you will be responsible for household bills, joint WED bank accounts, loans or credit agreements and what happens WED if you split up? WED WED In the event that a relationship does break down, how can WED you untangle your money and home fairly? WED WED Can cohabitation and prenuptial agreements help and what are WED the differences between Scotland and England? WED WED Joining presenter Ruth Alexander will be: WED WED Anita Monteith, Institute of Chartered Accountants in WED England and Wales. WED Rachael Kelsey, Family Law Specialist, Sheehan Kelsey WED Oswald, Edinburgh. WED Marilyn Stowe, Senior Partner, Stowe Family Law. WED Dennis Hussey, Money Adviser, National Debtline WED WED To talk to the team call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on WED Wednesday or e-mail your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED Standard geographic call charges apply. WED WED 15:30 Patients Doing It for Themselves b04grspl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 The Educators b04gvm7n (Listen) WED Sugata Mitra WED WED Professor Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology WED at Newcastle University, imagines a future where children WED teach themselves. Famous for his Hole-in-the-Wall WED experiment, he believes when young people are given the WED right tools and encouragement, their innate sense of wonder WED can allow them to learn almost anything from one another. He WED believes the days of traditional schooling where teachers WED stand at the front, and facts are taught and recalled, are WED numbered. WED WED Professor Mitra's dreams are not going unheard either. Last WED year his TED wish to build a "School in the Cloud" won him WED the first $1m TED Prize. Since then, he and his team have WED gone on to open five learning in the cloud labs in schools WED in India and in the North East of England. WED WED In this programme, Sarah Montague finds out how Professor WED Mitra's Hole-in-the-Wall experiment, whereby computers WED connected to the internet were placed in the walls of Indian WED slums, has evolved into a concept called a Self-Organised WED Learning Environment (SOLE). She hears how groups of WED children with minimal supervision can teach themselves, and WED how a team of retired teachers, or Grannies, use webcams to WED provide support and encouragement during the SOLE session. WED WED Presenter: Sarah Montague WED Producer: Joel Moors. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04gw6rk (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04gw6rm (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04gctcp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b04gyp8k (Listen) WED Series 10, How to Eat Food WED WED Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves. WED WED In this show, in order to help explain one of our most WED fundamental acts as human beings, Jeremy Hardy picks up the WED topic of food with the chopsticks of enquiry and then drops WED it on his trousers of former cleanliness. WED WED Helping him tackle the subject will be special guests Vicki WED Pepperdine (Getting On, My First Planet) and Speaks To The WED Nation regular, Paul Bassett Davies. WED WED Welcome to "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation", a series of WED debates in which Jeremy Hardy engages in a free and frank WED exchange of his entrenched views. Passionate, polemical, WED erudite and unable to sing, Jeremy returns with a new series WED of his show, famous for lines like "Kids should never be WED fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. My 12-year old WED daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I told her she WED was old enough to go out and make her own". WED WED Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they WED first heard "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show WED was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on WED a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since WED the show went out on Thursdays. The Light Entertainment WED department was besieged, questions were asked in the House WED and Jeremy Hardy himself became known as the man responsible WED for the funniest show on radio since Money Box Live with WED Paul Lewis. WED WED Since that fateful first series, Jeremy went on to win Sony WED Awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for WED Chemistry. He is a much-loved regular on both The News Quiz WED and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. He can't sing. WED WED Written by Jeremy Hardy WED WED Produced by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jeremy Hardy WED Performer: Vicki Pepperdine WED Performer: Paul Bassett Davies WED Writer: Jeremy Hardy WED Producer: David Tyler WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04gw71f (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04gw71h (Listen) WED Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, WED literature, film, media and music. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: John Wilson WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04gvrjs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Future Proofing b04gw7xr (Listen) WED The Immortality of the Crab WED WED To be human is to seek immortality, whether by freeing the WED soul or freezing your brain. It's the root of religion, the WED inspiration of philosophy and the driving force behind WED music, art and literature. Tom Shakespeare daydreams about WED everlasting life. A poet with a chisel in his hand struggles WED for posterity, an archivist fights to keep everything WED forever and an anaesthetist tiptoes the fine line between WED unconsciousness and death. And then there are the layered WED meanings in a phrase of Spanish... what is "the immortality WED of the crab"? WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04gw7xt (Listen) WED Series 4, Judgement at Last WED WED Tiffany Jenkins argues that we need more judgement about WED quality in art, culture and life. WED WED Tiffany's field of expertise is the arts. She says that WED judgement about quality is unfashionable in today's art WED world, and this is a problem. She believes that only by WED being clear about how judgements are reached, and discussing WED them openly, can we hope to reach a consensus on a common WED culture. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b04grpd5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Great Lives b04cc7cr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04gctcr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04gw88d (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04gw88g (Listen) WED The Children Act, Episode 8 WED WED Juliet Stevenson continues Ian McEwan's powerful and WED haunting new novel, The Children Act - a story about faith, WED love and the Law and about the welfare of children and the WED duty of those who care for them. WED WED Fiona Maye is an esteemed High Court Judge presiding over WED cases in the Family Court and admired for her 'godly WED distance and devilish understanding'. But beneath her WED professional composure, her happy marriage of thirty years WED is in trouble and recent cases have caused her heartache. WED WED Should the secular court overrule sincerely held faith? What WED really lies in a child's best interests? And as the boy WED whose life she has saved through the court's intervention WED makes an epic journey and seeks her out, what should Fiona WED do now? WED WED Ian McEwan is one of the UK's leading novelists, his many WED novels include Atonement, Enduring Love and On Chesil Beach. WED The reader is Juliet Stevenson WED The abridger is Sally Marmion WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Juliet Stevenson WED Producer: Di Speirs WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Author: Ian McEwan WED WED 23:00 Jigsaw b04gw8cg (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED Award-winning stand-up comedians Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine WED and Nat Luurtsema combine their talents to piece together a WED rapid-fire and surreal sketch show. WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Dan Antopolski WED Performer: Tom Craine WED Performer: Nat Luurtsema WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b01jxslj (Listen) WED Series 3, Election Fever WED WED Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of WED 21st Century Wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated 2000 WED year-old Scottish sorcerer with enough power in his small WED finger to destroy a town, yet insufficient clout to get a WED speed bump installed outside his cave by the local council. WED Even for such a skilful sorcerer, modern life is rubbish! WED WED In this episode, Mordrin (David Kay) finally gets an WED opportunity to get a seat on the Wizard Council. The Golden WED Phoenix has flown down the chimney at the Wizard Chambers WED signifying the start of the election process, which only WED happens every 150 years, and Mordrin has been called to WED stand. It's a brilliant chance for Mordrin to finally get WED some clout in the Wizard community, the only downside is WED that failure to win at the ballot box will result in certain WED fiery death under the Golden Phoenix. Mordrin decides to WED call upon Bernard (Jack Docherty) to be his campaign WED manager. WED WED Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Mordrin: David Kay WED Bernard the Blue: Jack Docherty WED Geoff: Gordon Kennedy WED Wilma the White: Karen Dunbar WED Leprechaun Leader: Michael Smiley WED Writer: David Kay WED Writer: Gavin Smith WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED WED 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b039c5d3 (Listen) WED Series 14, The Wedding WED WED Mimi and Ryan are getting married. Alan Dein presents a WED fly-on-the-wedding cake documentary that follows them WED through the day, from waking up with a hangover to WED chucking-out time at Sale Rugby Club. WED WED In between there's a church wedding, a christening (their WED daughter Isabella is six months old), photographs, confetti, WED a lavish home-made buffet, speeches (ranging from tearful to WED inappropriate), dancing and a lot of laughter. WED WED 'We want to be a proper family,' says Ryan. WED 'It's the biggest party I'll ever throw in my life,' says WED Mimi. 'It started out as a budget wedding but it got a bit WED out of hand.' WED WED Producer: Peter Everett. WED WED THU THURSDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04gctfn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04hc1jq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04gctfq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04gctfs (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04gctfv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04gctfx (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04gw8pl (Listen) THU Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and THU broadcaster Anna Magnusson. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04gw8pn (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 b04dw7p8 (Listen) THU Superb Lyrebird THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Sir David Attenborough presents the superb lyrebird of THU eastern Australia. Superb lyrebirds are about the size of THU pheasants. During courtship, as the male struts and poses, THU he unleashes a remarkable range of sounds. Up to 80% of the THU lyrebird's display calls are usually of other wild birds. THU However, if kept in captivity, they can mimic a chainsaw, THU camera click, gunshot and a whole host of other man made THU sound. Research recently discovered that the lyrebird THU co-ordinates his dancing displays to particular sounds. But THU superb lyrebirds are promiscuous performers and it's quite THU likely that another male may have played the leading role THU while he dances and sings away. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Roger Powell / naturepl.com THU THU NPL Ref THU 01140081 THU © Roger Powell / naturepl.com THU THU 06:00 Today b04gwchh (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Archive on 4 b04gnhnv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04hc1q5 (Listen) THU Please, Mr Postman, Episode 4 THU THU In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert THU in Hyde Park, future Cabinet Minister Alan Johnson and his THU young family left West London to start a new life. The THU Britwell Estate in Slough, notorious among the locals, came THU as a blessed relief after the tensions of London's troubled THU Notting Hill, and the local community welcomed them with THU open arms. THU THU Alan Johnson had become a postman the previous year and, in THU order to support his growing family, took on every bit of THU overtime he could, often working twelve-hour shifts six days THU a week. It was hard work, but not without its compensations THU - the crafty fag snatched in a country lane, the farmer's THU wife offering a hearty breakfast and even the mysterious THU lady on Glebe Road who appeared daily, topless, at her THU window as the postman passed by. THU THU Please, Mister Postman paints a vivid picture of England in THU the 1970s, where no celebration was complete without a Party THU Seven of Watney's Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather THU than the exception, and Sunday lunchtime was about beer and THU bingo. But as Alan Johnson's life appears to be settling THU down and his career in the Union of Postal Workers begins to THU take off, his close-knit family is struck once again by THU tragedy. THU THU Episode 4: THU Juggling a rural post-round - where he gets his first view THU of the Home Secretary's country retreat, Dorneywood - and THU with a growing role in the trade union, Alan finds himself THU at an inevitable crossroads between the family life he had THU worked so hard to build and the exciting demands of THU political office. THU THU Read by Alan Johnson THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Alan Johnson THU Producer: David Roper THU Author: Alan Johnson THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04gwcxz (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 b04gwd4b (Listen) THU Queens of Noise: Rip It Up, Episode 4 THU THU by Roy Boulter. Sam has to read the riot act after securing THU legendary producer Thomas Monmouth, aka Mono, to produce the THU girls' first album. THU THU Music directors ..... Brian Rawling and Marky Bates THU THU Directed by Toby Swift. THU THU Credits THU Sylvie: Samantha Robinson THU Beth: Anneika Rose THU Rain: Hannah Arterton THU Sam: Joe Absolom THU Mono: Harry Myers THU Joyce: Jane Slavin THU Director: Toby Swift THU Writer: Roy Boulter THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04gwdgx (Listen) THU Ivory Coast's School for Husbands THU THU In one remote district in Ivory Coast, men are going back to THU school. Their studies are part of a UN-backed project dubbed THU 'the school for husbands' and designed to save the lives of THU women and children. THU The idea is to teach decision makers - the men - about the THU importance of family planning, check-ups, and pre-natal care THU for their wives. The aim is to help women and also improve THU general welfare in farming villages where food is scarce and THU incomes are dependent on the weather and good fortune. THU Lucy Ash hears stories from the schools for husbands and THU finds out why Ivory Coast's health system is struggling to THU recover from the post-election crisis three years ago, even THU as the country's economy roars ahead. THU THU Producer: Michael Wendling. THU THU 11:30 Heaven and Earth: Le Ly Hayslip b04h85ql (Listen) THU Vietnamese writer Le Ly Hayslip reflects on her life and THU work shedding new light on her country's experience of the THU war. THU THU Much of what we know about Vietnam we know through the prism THU of western, primarily American, culture. Two autobiographies THU written by the Vietnamese-American author Le Ly Hayslip THU offer an important insight into the war and its aftermath THU from a Vietnamese perspective. THU THU It's 25 years since the publication of her first memoir, THU When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's THU Journey from War to Peace, which was followed in 1993 by her THU second book, Child of War, Woman of Peace. In this THU programme, Le Ly gives us unique access into her home in THU Vietnam to talk about her life and the two books that tell THU her remarkable story of suffering, survival and her mission THU to heal the wounds between America and her homeland. THU THU Le Ly was tortured in a South Vietnamese government prison THU for "revolutionary sympathies", raped by the VC, and fled to THU Saigon before fleeing to America. There she married THU unhappily, prospered, and returned to her village in Vietnam THU 13 years later. She has since set up the East Meets West THU foundation to reconcile Americans and Vietnamese, and the THU Global Village Foundation providing development assistance THU to rural Vietnam. THU THU The programme includes in interview with the director Oliver THU Stone, who was so moved by Le Ly's story he made a film THU about her - 1993's Heaven and Earth. Says Stone: 'That she THU has been through so much and can talk honestly the way she THU does is the key to her book and the understanding of it and THU that's why I wanted to make the film - to understand someone THU who had suffered even more than I had. And I can learn from THU her.' THU THU Producer: Eve Streeter THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04gctfz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b04gwfbr (Listen) THU 18 September 1914 - Ralph Winwood THU THU A momentous day for the Winwood household. Ralph has THU something very important to tell Dorothea, who has something THU very important to tell Ralph. THU THU Written by Sarah Daniels THU Music: Matthew Strachan THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Ralph: Nicholas Murchie THU Isabel: Keely Beresford THU Dorothea: Rachel Shelley THU Marieke: Olivia Ross THU Kitty: Ami Metcalf THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04gwfd1 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04gctg1 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04gwfh0 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Thames Crossings b01s5g50 (Listen) THU Words and Flesh THU THU Episode 4 (of 5): Words and Flesh THU THU The River Thames has run softly through Piers Plowright's THU largely unplanned life. In this five-part series, he visits THU different points along its course where his life has crossed THU the great river. THU THU Piers' journey brings him to Cookham and Maidenhead, where THU he views the river through the work of his favourite artist, THU the painter Stanley Spencer, and explores the town's racy THU reputation: 'Are you married or are you from Maidenhead?' THU THU Producer by Alan Hall THU A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04gw71f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04gwk84 (Listen) THU The Basin THU THU The Basin by Dan Allum THU THU When Nina wakes the morning after her wedding to find her THU new husband sitting outside their trailer skinning a rabbit, THU it's a vivid reminder that her life has changed completely THU overnight. Nina gave up her home and career to become a THU Traveller's wife and although she's excited to take on the THU new challenge, she still has to come to terms with why she THU made such a big and hurried leap in the first place. THU THU Produced by Charlotte Riches. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Credits THU Writer: Dan Allum THU Nina: Ellie Kendrick THU Jake: Joe Sims THU Daze: Candis Nergaard THU Producer: Charlotte Riches THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b04gwlf8 (Listen) THU Series 28, The Dales Way THU THU Clare Balding embarks on her first leg of The Dales Way, in THU the company of Sarah Howcroft. Sarah, an enthusiastic walker THU and climber for many years, along with her husband founded THU one of the foremost outdoor clothing companies. The Dales THU Way is an 82 mile route, starting at Ilkey in Yorkshire. THU Sarah and Clare walk along the River Wharfe to Bolton Abbey. THU THU Producer Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Eileen Peck THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04gnhyf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b04gntl7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04gwlll (Listen) THU Nick Cave discusses a documentary on his life and work THU 20,000 Days On Earth, which casually mixes fact with THU fiction. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Nick Cave THU Producer: Philip Sellars THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04gwlln (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04gwlw2 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04gctg3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b04gwlw4 (Listen) THU Series 3, About Intelligence THU THU EPISODE ONE: ABOUT INTELLIGENCE THU THU In a mix of stand-up and re-enacted family life - Nathan THU Caton illustrates what can happen when you try to prove to THU your family how clever you are. THU THU Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU THU Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing is a series about young, THU up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the THU first in his family to graduate from University, opted not THU to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand THU at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's THU horror and disgust. They desperately want him to get a THU 'proper job.' THU THU Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and THU rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving THU family as he tries to prove himself. THU THU The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with THU scenes from his family life. THU THU Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of THU the disappointed family members. At the end of the day she THU just wants the best for her son. However, she'd also love to THU brag and show her son off to her friends, but with Nathan THU only telling jokes for a living that's kind of hard to do. THU THU Martin a.k.a. Dad works in the construction industry and was THU looking forward to his son getting a degree so the two of THU them could work together in the same field. But now Nathan THU has blown that dream out of the window. Martin is clumsy and THU hard-headed and leaves running the house to his wife (she THU wouldn't allow it to be any other way). THU THU Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe Nathan turned down THU architecture for comedy. She can't believe she left the THU paradise in the West Indies and came to the freezing United THU Kingdom for a better life so that years later her grandson THU could 'tell jokes!' How can her grandson go on stage and use THU foul language and filthy material... it's not the good THU Christian way! THU THU So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan THU do? Will he persevere and follow his dreams? Or will he give THU in to his family's interference? Or will he finally leave THU home?! THU THU Producer Katie Tyrrell. THU THU Credits THU Nathan: Nathan Caton THU Grandma: Mona Hammond THU Mum: Adjoa Andoh THU Dad: Curtis Walker THU Tyree: Alhaji Fofana THU Reverend Williams: Don Gilet THU Himself: Vernon Kay THU Writer: Nathan Caton THU Writer: James Kettle THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04gwm0s (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04gwm0v (Listen) THU Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, THU literature, film, media and music. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Samira Ahmed THU Interviewed Guest: Denzel Washington THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04gwd4b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04gwm0z (Listen) THU The Right to be Forgotten THU THU Simon Cox asks why people want to have some results wiped THU from Google searches and if the new EU law is just the start THU of more privacy for EU citizens. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04gwm26 (Listen) THU Myanmar Awakening THU THU Peter Day travels to Myanmar, formally known as Burma, to THU find out how the country is trying to emerge from its THU undeveloped past into the modern interconnected world. After THU the lifting of sanctions a few years ago, foreign businesses THU flocked to take a look at one of the least developed markets THU in the world. But is the country really open for business? THU With poor infrastructure, political uncertainty and THU out-dated laws, can Myanmar make the leap into the 21st THU century? THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04gwlln (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Disabled and Behind Bars b042zb50 (Listen) THU Nikki Fox is well behaved. She's never been to prison. This THU is a good thing anyway, but particularly so because Nikki THU has muscular dystrophy, and gets around in a mobility THU scooter. THU THU The UK's prison population is getting older, and as a result THU the prison service has to manage increasing numbers of THU inmates with physical disabilities. Can it cope with their THU needs? THU THU Nikki speaks to former inmates, justice officials, and The THU Prisons Minister to investigate whether disabled prisoners THU experience harsher treatment than others. She discovers a THU world where staff refuse to push wheelchairs, disabled THU prisoners are held in the wrong level of security, lack of THU access can mean weeks without showering, and where one man's THU experience left him on a life support machine. THU THU Is a system so reliant on Victorian buildings able to THU provide the sort of equal access and treatment expected in THU the outside world? Does prison culture discriminate against THU disabled people in ways that are now unacceptable in normal THU society? Are staff sufficiently trained to help with varied THU physical needs in an era of government cuts and fewer THU resources? Is it even fair to expect them to do so? THU THU Nikki asks what the prison service and the government are THU doing to improve conditions for disabled people, and avoid a THU "double punishment", at the same time as ensuring they face THU justice. She hears about schemes encouraging prisoners to THU help each other, the push to develop new more accessible THU prisons, and the sentencing options open to judges. THU THU Nikki sets out on her scooter to tackle these issues and THU discover what it's really like to be "Disabled and Behind THU Bars". THU THU Producer: Neil Cowling THU An Alfi Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 21:58 Weather b04gctg5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 Scotland Decides b00752nh (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU As polls close across Scotland at the end of a long THU referendum campaign, James Naughtie and Rachel Burden THU present the results. THU THU Editors: Giles Edwards and Chris Hunter. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04gwm5k (Listen) THU The Children Act, Episode 9 THU THU Juliet Stevenson continues Ian McEwan's powerful and THU haunting new novel, The Children Act - a story about faith, THU love and the Law and about the welfare of children and the THU duty of those who care for them. THU THU Fiona Maye is an esteemed High Court Judge presiding over THU cases in the Family Court and admired for her 'godly THU distance and devilish understanding'. But beneath her THU professional composure, her happy marriage of thirty years THU is in trouble and recent cases have caused her heartache. THU THU Above all the surprise arrival of Adam Henry, the teenager THU whose life she saved through the court's intervention, has THU left her exposed and shaken. THU THU How do you find safe ground again when you have overstepped THU the mark? THU THU Ian McEwan is one of the UK's leading novelists, his many THU novels include Atonement, Enduring Love and On Chesil Beach. THU THU The reader is Juliet Stevenson THU The abridger is Sally Marmion THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Juliet Stevenson THU Producer: Di Speirs THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Author: Ian McEwan THU THU 23:00 Scotland Decides b04hgskl (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU As polls close across Scotland at the end of a long THU referendum campaign, James Naughtie and Rachel Burden THU present the results. THU THU Editors: Giles Edwards and Chris Hunter. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2014 FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04gcth9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04gcthc (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04gwmhg (Listen) FRI Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and FRI broadcaster Anna Magnusson. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04gwmjd (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dw7qv (Listen) FRI Black Stork FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Sir David Attenborough presents the globally widespread but FRI secretive black stork. High up in a forest canopy, the black FRI stork is a large but fairly secretive and mostly silent FRI bird. They are also strong migrants capable of sustained FRI flight, flying up to 7,000 kilometres or more, often over FRI open seas. Black storks are summer visitors to eastern FRI Europe and breed from Germany across Russia to Japan. A FRI small population is resident in Spain, but most birds FRI migrate south in winter to Africa, India or China. Unlike FRI their relative the more flamboyant and colonial nesting FRI white stork, black storks are a solitary nester. It is at FRI this time of the year adults can produce a few grunts or FRI bill clapping sounds during courtship, the young however are FRI far more vocal at the nest. FRI FRI Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Wild Wonders of Europe / FRI Damschen / naturepl.com FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01281153 FRI © Wild Wonders of Europe / Damschen / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04gyp7k (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b04gnjhk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04hc1r3 (Listen) FRI Please, Mr Postman, Episode 5 FRI FRI In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert FRI in Hyde Park, future Cabinet Minister Alan Johnson and his FRI young family left West London to start a new life. The FRI Britwell Estate in Slough, notorious among the locals, came FRI as a blessed relief after the tensions of London's troubled FRI Notting Hill, and the local community welcomed them with FRI open arms. FRI FRI Alan Johnson had become a postman the previous year and, in FRI order to support his growing family, took on every bit of FRI overtime he could, often working twelve-hour shifts six days FRI a week. It was hard work, but not without its compensations FRI - the crafty fag snatched in a country lane, the farmer's FRI wife offering a hearty breakfast and even the mysterious FRI lady on Glebe Road who appeared daily, topless, at her FRI window as the postman passed by. FRI FRI Please, Mister Postman paints a vivid picture of England in FRI the 1970s, where no celebration was complete without a Party FRI Seven of Watney's Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather FRI than the exception, and Sunday lunchtime was about beer and FRI bingo. But as Alan Johnson's life appears to be settling FRI down and his career in the Union of Postal Workers begins to FRI take off, his close-knit family is struck once again by FRI tragedy. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI By 1982 Alan Johnson's union career is going from strength FRI to strength with a position on the Executive beckoning. Work FRI keeps him away from home and the Thatcher government at its FRI height ensures life is tough for the union. But the biggest FRI storm clouds transpire to be personal rather than political. FRI FRI Read by Alan Johnson FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Alan Johnson FRI Producer: David Roper FRI Author: Alan Johnson FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04gypdk (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 b04gypdp (Listen) FRI Queens of Noise: Rip It Up, Episode 5 FRI FRI First single - tick. First Top of the Pops appearance - FRI tick. First U.S. tour - tick. First member to leave? FRI Velveteens fight on. By Roy Boulter. FRI FRI Music directors ..... Brian Rawling and Marky Bates FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift. FRI FRI Credits FRI Rain: Hannah Arterton FRI Beth: Anneika Rose FRI Sylvie: Samantha Robinson FRI Sam: Joe Absolom FRI Richard: Matthew Watson FRI Digby: Matthew Watson FRI Mono: Harry Myers FRI Director: Toby Swift FRI Writer: Roy Boulter FRI FRI 11:00 My Family and Other Ibex b04gypsg (Listen) FRI Chemist and broadcaster Andrea Sella returns to the mountain FRI landscape of his childhood to see how this icy world has FRI changed over the past century. FRI FRI In his father's study hangs a photography that Andrea has FRI always been told was taken by Vittorio Sella, a distant FRI relation regarded by many as the greatest of all mountain FRI photographers. It depicts the Cogne valley in northwestern FRI Italy, a place where Andrea, and his father before him, FRI spent summers as a children hiking and climbing the FRI surrounding peaks. Described as "unspoiled" in guidebooks, FRI on the surface the valley looks just as it did when Andrea FRI was a child. But look closer and things have changed. After FRI a visit to the archive of Vittorio's photographs where he FRI finds a time capsule of the mountains of the late 19th FRI century, he sets out to see the mountains today. FRI FRI With Vittorio's photos in his backpack, Andrea hikes from FRI Cogne up into the Gran Paradiso National Park in search of FRI the region's most iconic creature - the Alpine Ibex. Forty FRI years ago, Andrea saw these mountain goats all over the FRI valley. A population that rose strongly through the 1980's FRI has declined sharply, changes that scientists like Dr Achaz FRI von Hardenberg are trying to understand. Evidence points to FRI milder winters as having surprising impacts on Ibex numbers. FRI Further along the path, Andrea meets Park Ranger Marco FRI Grosa, who has lived here for 30 years, guarding his beloved FRI Alpine plants from oblivious tourists. He's also noticed FRI subtle changes to the distribution of flora and how they're FRI creeping slowly up the mountain as the snow line recedes. FRI Finally, Andrea meets mountain guide Alfredo Abraham, who FRI once took him on an ice climb as a child. Abraham reveals FRI that, today, he and has colleagues have all but thrown away FRI their crampons; the ice Andrea remembers has melted. For FRI villages like Cogne, dependent on melt water from the FRI glaciers, there are worrying signs, as once-reliable springs FRI dry up. FRI FRI In this highly personal story about family, memory, and FRI landscape, Andrea Sella explores the photographic and FRI environmental legacy of Vittorio's work and learns FRI first-hand how a world he once thought of as timeless, is FRI being steadily transformed. FRI FRI Producer: Rami Tzabar. FRI FRI 11:30 My First Planet b04ck1nv (Listen) FRI Series 2, They Came To Test Our Brains! FRI FRI A pub quiz and a talking yam spell disaster for Brian when FRI he accidentally discovers his IQ. Oh - and that's what FRI Archer's lungs look like. Thank you Lillian. FRI FRI The return of the hit sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and FRI Vicki Pepperdine ("Getting On") set on a shiny new planet. FRI FRI Welcome to the colony. We're aware that, having been in deep FRI cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some FRI supplementary information. FRI FRI Personnel: FRI Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on FRI the voyage so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst), is FRI now in charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, FRI and his desire to sort things out with a nice friendly FRI meeting infuriates the colony's Chief Physician Lillian FRI (Vicki Pepperdine), who'd really rather everyone was walking FRI round in tight colour-coded tunics and saluting each other. FRI She's also in charge of Project Adam, the plan to conceive FRI and give birth to the first colony-born baby. Unfortunately, FRI the two people hand-picked for this purpose - Carol and FRI Richard - were rather fibbing about being a couple, just to FRI get on the trip. FRI FRI Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and FRI also Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an FRI "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer FRI the question - if humankind were to colonise space, is it FRI destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and FRI infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) FRI FRI Written by Phil Whelans FRI Produced and Directed by David Tyler. FRI FRI Credits FRI Brian: Nicholas Lyndhurst FRI Lillian: Vicki Pepperdine FRI Mason: Tom Goodman-Hill FRI Archer: Phil Whelans FRI Carol: Letty Butler FRI Richard: John Dorney FRI The Yam: Walter Plinge FRI Writer: Phil Whelans FRI Director: David Tyler FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04gcthf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04gypvz (Listen) FRI 19 September 1914 - Kitty Wilson FRI FRI Hatch, match and dispatch. Parenthood, marriage and death FRI all feature in Kitty's day, and none of them FRI straightforward. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Marieke: Olivia Ross FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Victor: Joel MacCormack FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04gypzt (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04gcthh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04gypzw (Listen) FRI National and international news with Martha Kearney. FRI FRI 13:45 Thames Crossings b01s5gjv (Listen) FRI The Boat Is Waiting FRI FRI Episode 5 (of 5): The Boat is Waiting FRI FRI The River Thames has run softly through Piers Plowright's FRI largely unplanned life. In this five-part series, he visits FRI different points along its course where his life has crossed FRI the great river. FRI FRI Piers' pilgrimage along the river reaches its conclusion in FRI south-west London, where the Thames becomes tidal and where FRI he lived with his young family. He visits Eel Pie Island and FRI meets Walter De La Mare's grandson. FRI FRI Produced by Alan Hall FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04gwm0s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04gyq38 (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 6 FRI FRI Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly. Ep 6. FRI FRI Last in the current series about the Manchester paralegals. FRI Frank and Cheryl prepare to leave. But can they both leave FRI their pasts behind? FRI FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank: David Schofield FRI Sarah: Kathryn Hunt FRI Ronnie: Rachel Austin FRI Cheryl: Mandi Symonds FRI Mark: Terence Mann FRI Fat Doug: Eric Potts FRI Francesca: Isabella Wulff FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Tom Fry FRI Writer: Sharon Kelly FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04gyqnp (Listen) FRI Harrogate FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Harrogate. FRI FRI Produced by Darby Dorras. FRI Assistant producer: Hannah Newton. FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Finery b04gyqnr (Listen) FRI In Edith Pearlman's short story, Tom the student is fitted FRI for a FRI pinstripe suit, which he'll wear to great effect on his FRI Irish FRI travels.. FRI FRI Reader Sara Kestelman FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Sara Kestelman FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI Writer: Edith Pearlman FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04gyqtd (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b04gyqtg (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04gyqtj (Listen) FRI Annette and Paul - Living with Parkinson's FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a couple who have come to terms with FRI the changes imposed on their lives by Parkinson's Disease, FRI and have found that there is much they can still do, proving FRI once again that it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04gyqtl (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04gcthk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b04gyqtn (Listen) FRI Series 44, Episode 2 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guests Elis FRI James for a comic romp through the week's news. With Mitch FRI Benn and Laura Shavin. FRI FRI Written by the cast, with additional material from Andy FRI Woolton, Nadia Kamil and Liam Beirne. Produced by Alexandra FRI Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Panellist: Elis James FRI Panellist: Mitch Benn FRI Panellist: Laura Shavin FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04gyrbt (Listen) FRI Fallon makes a decision. Meanwhile, things are difficult for FRI Roy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Johnny Richards: Tom Gibbons FRI Sharon Richards: Celia Nelson FRI Wayne Tucson: Clive Wood FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Writer: Joanna Toye FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04gyrk3 (Listen) FRI Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, FRI literature, film, media and music. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Kirsty Lang FRI Interviewed Guest: Zach Braff FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04gypdp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04gypw3 (Listen) FRI Douglas Alexander MP, Sir Tom Devine FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh with Shadow Foreign FRI Secretary Douglas Alexander and the historian Sir Tom FRI Devine. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04gyrk5 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue, with Prof Lisa FRI Jardine. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Lisa Jardine FRI Producer: Sheila Cook FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04gyrk7 (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 15-19 September 1914 FRI FRI Folkestone honours its dead, and our characters' worlds all FRI seem up-ended. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Officer: Clive Hayward FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Jack: Ashley Kumar FRI Ottoline: Ruth Lass FRI Victor: Joel MacCormack FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Harry: Sean Murray FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Marieke: Olivia Ross FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Joe: Lloyd Thomas FRI Tom: Matthew Watson FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04gcthm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04gyrk9 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04gyrkc (Listen) FRI The Children Act, Episode 10 FRI FRI Juliet Stevenson reads the final episode of Ian McEwan's FRI unsettling new novel, The Children Act - a story about FRI faith, love and the Law and about the welfare of children FRI and the duty of those who care for them. FRI FRI Fiona Maye is an esteemed High Court Judge presiding over FRI cases in the Family Court and admired for her 'godly FRI distance and devilish understanding'. But beneath her FRI professional composure, her happy marriage of thirty years FRI is in trouble and recent cases has caused her heartache. FRI FRI Tonight as she prepares for the Christmas concert the FRI troubles of the year seem finally behind her, but can the FRI past be left behind? FRI FRI Ian McEwan is one of the UK's leading novelists, his many FRI novels including Atonement, Enduring Love and On Chesil FRI Beach. FRI FRI The reader is Juliet Stevenson FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Juliet Stevenson FRI Producer: Di Speirs FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Author: Ian McEwan FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b04g8m0t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Lives in a Landscape b03zy1bt (Listen) FRI Series 16, The Show Must Go On FRI FRI Alan Dein follows Pat & Hayley Mallon - a husband and wife FRI singing duo - around the pubs of Bath. The show must go on - FRI even as 69 year old Pat prepares for major surgery on an FRI aneurysm. FRI FRI Bath's pub circuit is a far cry from the packed houses that FRI Pat was playing with his 5 piece Country & Western band back FRI in the 1980s. His has been a life well-lived. During those FRI heady days, he was on two bottles of whiskey and 100 FRI cigarettes a day. FRI FRI But now Pat's facing the prospect of major surgery. Fearing FRI he may not be able to return to gigging, he's grooming wife FRI Hayley - 23 years his junior - to take over. FRI FRI Producer: Laurence Grissell. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04gyrt1 (Listen) FRI Kate and Lucy - Living While Dying FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a 21 year old with Ehlers-Danlos FRI Syndrome, a life-shortening condition; she and her mother FRI share her determination to make the most of the time that FRI she has. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
12 September, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 13/09/2014 - 19/09/2014
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