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SAT SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04l01tg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6rm5 (Listen) SAT 1848: The People's Flag and Karl Marx SAT SAT Neil MacGregor reflects on the events of 1848, when black, SAT red and gold became the colours of the flag for a united SAT Germany, and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The SAT Communist Manifesto. SAT SAT Producer Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04l01tj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04l01tl (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04l01tn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04l01tq (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04l3lzs (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with SAT Shaunaka Rishi, Director of the Oxford Centre of Hindu SAT Studies. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04l01ts (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04l01tv (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04l01tx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b04l3br1 (Listen) SAT Series 28, The Dales Way, Part Five SAT SAT Clare Balding is now really into her stride as she comes SAT close to the end of her journey along The Dales Way, walking SAT from Dent to Sedburgh. The route is one of the most popular SAT in England and enjoyed by SAT thousands every year, mainly thanks to the enthusiastic SAT group of volunteers who run The Dales Way Association. Today SAT she walks with two of their members, Chris Grogan and Kath SAT Doyle who explain why this route means so much to them. SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Chris Grogan SAT Interviewed Guest: Kath Doyle SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04lp3x1 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04l01tz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04lp3x3 (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 b04lp3x5 (Listen) SAT Bryan Adams SAT SAT Suzy Klein and Richard Coles are joined by the SAT singer-songwriter, musician and photographer, Bryan Adams. SAT And John Peel's widow Sheila Ravenscroft selects her SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Bryan Adams SAT Interviewed Guest: Jung Chang SAT SAT 10:30 Ivy Benson: Original Girl Power b04lp3x7 (Listen) SAT Melanie Chisholm celebrates the musical legacy of British SAT band leader Ivy Benson - who rose to fame in the 1940s with SAT Her All Girl Band - and speaks to some of the surviving SAT members from that era. SAT SAT Ivy Benson was SAT a gutsy and glamorous woman. Fifty years before Melanie was SAT shouting about Girl Power as a member of The Spice Girls, SAT Ivy Benson and the members of her band were risking their SAT lives entertaining Allied troops in war-torn Europe and SAT fighting their very own battle of the sexes back at home. SAT She was born in Holbeck, Leeds in 1913 and formed her all SAT girl band in 1939 in an attempt to address the inequalities SAT in pay between male and female musicians. Within a few SAT years, Ivy rose to become one of the Britain's best known SAT band leaders with bookings 52-weeks-a-year at top venues SAT including the London Palladium. SAT In 1943, Ivy won a prestigious contract to become one of the SAT BBC's resident dance bands. This appointment caused SAT controversy in the male dominated musical establishment and SAT led to what became known as The Battle of the Saxes. The SAT Band Leaders Section of the Musicians' Union even sent a SAT delegation to Broadcasting House to complain about Ivy's SAT appointment. SAT "Speaking from personal experience, I find it incredibly SAT inspiring to hear of Ivy's story. It seems a real shame she SAT isn't better known to my generation. I hope this programme SAT goes a little way to change that. She certainly was the SAT originator of Girl Power!" (Melanie Chisholm). SAT Contributors include Joyce Clark, June Smith, Margaret SAT Chappell, Gloria Russell, Sylvia England and Patsy O'Hara, SAT who were all members of Ivy's band during its heyday of the SAT 1940s. SAT Producer: Clair Wordsworth SAT A Sue Clark production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b04lp3x9 (Listen) SAT Isabel Hardman of the Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster as parliament returns after the summer recess. SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04l01v1 (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04l01v3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04l01v5 (Listen) SAT More pension freedoms SAT SAT Paul Lewis interviews David Cameron about plans to allow SAT savers to make tax-free withdrawals from their pension funds SAT whenever they want. Critics say there's a risk people will SAT spend their retirement money too SAT soon or fall into the hands of investment sharks. So why is SAT the prime minister so sure it makes financial sense? Paul SAT also gets a view from the pensions industry, discussing the SAT detail of how it all might work with Alan Higham, retirement SAT director at Fidelity. SAT Plus: student payday loans; Christmas saving schemes; and SAT stock market falls. SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b04l3lxy (Listen) SAT Series 44, Episode 6 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Jon Culshaw are joined by special guest Nish SAT Kumar for a comic romp through the week's news. With Laura SAT Shavin, Mitch Benn and Jon Holmes. SAT SAT Written by the cast, with additional material from Gareth SAT Gwynn, Carrie Quinlan and Chris Coltrane. Produced by SAT Alexandra Smith. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Jon Culshaw SAT Panellist: Nish Kumar SAT Panellist: Laura Shavin SAT Panellist: Mitch Benn SAT Panellist: Jon Holmes SAT Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04l01v7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04l01v9 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04l3ly4 (Listen) SAT Lord Heseltine, Chuka Umunna MP, Frances O'Grady, James SAT Delingpole SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Thame Arts & Literature Festival with Conservative SAT peer Lord Heseltine, Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna SAT MP, the General Secretary of the TUC, Frances O'Grady and SAT the columnist and author James Delingpole. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04l01vc (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b0076htk (Listen) SAT Under Milk Wood SAT SAT A special chance to hear the highly-acclaimed 2003 SAT production of this classic 'play for voices', celebrating SAT the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas. Richard Burton's SAT unforgettable 1963 performance as First SAT Voice is remixed with Sian Phillips as Second Voice and an SAT all-Welsh cast, including early appearances by Ruth Jones SAT and Matthew Rhys, and a cameo role from John Humphrys. The SAT play is a comic, affectionate and mischievous portrait of a SAT day in the life of the mythical Welsh village of Llareggub SAT (read it backwards) and has become one of the most famous SAT radio plays ever written. SAT Groundbreaking from its first performance onstage in New SAT York City in 1953, the play went on to win the Prix Italia SAT for its innovative style, in its first BBC recording 60 SAT years ago. The 2003 production was streamed online in 5.1 SAT surround sound and now that 5.1 mix will also be available SAT on-demand via the iPlayer in another BBC first. SAT Composer John Hardy SAT Musicians Paula Gardiner, Lee Goodall, Dewi Watkins SAT Sound design Nigel Lewis SAT Director Alison Hindell. SAT SAT Credits SAT First Voice: Richard Burton SAT Second Voice: Sian Phillips SAT Captain Cat: Glyn Houston SAT Polly Garter: Eiry Thomas SAT Rosie Probert: Mali Harries SAT Mog Edwards: Matthew Rhys SAT Myfanwy Price: Lisa Palfrey SAT Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard: Christine Pritchard SAT Mr Ogmore: Sion Probert SAT Mr Pritchard: Islwyn Morris SAT Reverend Eli Jenkins: Wayne Forester SAT Willy Nilly: Iestyn Jones SAT Cherry Owen: Andy Hockley SAT Mrs Cherry Owen: Ruth Jones SAT Mr Pugh: Steffan Rhodri SAT Mrs Pugh: Sara McGaughey SAT Lily Smalls: Catrin Rhys SAT Sinbad Sailors: Steven Meo SAT Mrs Beynon: Sharon Morgan SAT Voice of a Guidebook: John Humphrys SAT Author: Dylan Thomas SAT Director: Alison Hindell SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04lp3xc (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04l01vf (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b04l3cmq (Listen) SAT TripAdvisor Etc SAT SAT Online postings about hotels, restaurants, hairdressers, SAT electricians: How much can you trust the views of a total SAT stranger when it comes to deciding what to buy, where to go SAT and whose skills and services to SAT employ? How do review sites monitor their online ratings and SAT ensure they're genuine? Evan Davis and guests discuss the SAT power of user-generated reviews that can make or break a SAT business. What can firms do to limit the damage of a bad SAT review and how can they maximise a positive review? SAT Guests: SAT Stephen Kaufer, President and CEO, TripAdvisor SAT Colleen Curtis, Vice President, European Marketing, Yelp SAT Kevin Byrne, Founder and CEO, Checkatrade SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04l01vh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04l01vk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04l01vm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04lp3xf (Listen) SAT Graham Norton, Jamie Cullum, Mira Sorvino, Angela Barnes, SAT Scottee, Eliza Shaddad SAT SAT A decade after his first autobiography, 'So Me', comic and SAT presenter Graham Norton's new memoir is a work on the theme SAT of love. Graham and Clive discuss 'The Life and Loves of a SAT He Devil' - the story of SAT Graham's loves and obsessions from childhood to present day. SAT Clive talks to Academy Award and Golden Globe winning SAT actress Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) about starring in SAT contemporary supernatural drama series 'Intruders', set in SAT the moody Pacific Northwest. SAT Clive's co-host Scottee chats with award winning SAT broadcaster, song-writer and musician Jamie Cullum, whose SAT seventh album 'Interlude' has enabled Jamie to pursue SAT another passion; photography: Jamie's been developing his SAT skills behind the lens, taking shots of the people and SAT places he encountered on his recent US tour. He performs SAT 'Make Someone Happy' from 'Interlude'. SAT Clive's funny bone is tickled by comedian Angela Barnes, SAT whose debut solo show, 'You Can't Take It With You' took the SAT Edinburgh Fringe by storm this summer. After a career in SAT health and social care, Angela decided to realise a long SAT held ambition and give comedy a go and within a year she had SAT won the 2011 BBC New Comedy Award. SAT With more music from Eliza Shaddad who performs 'Waters' SAT from her EP of the same name. SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04l01vp (Listen) SAT Richard Flanagan SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04l01vr (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs sharp, critical discussion of the SAT week's cultural events. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04mqt7h (Listen) SAT Speaking as a Member of the Public SAT SAT Man on the Street. Tom, Dick and Harry. The Man on the SAT Clapham Omnibus. The Voice of the People. For decades, SAT "ordinary people" have been stopped in the street to give SAT interviewers their opinions on diverse SAT subjects in the ubiquitous format of the vox pop. Why? SAT Comedian and writer Danny Wallace revisits decades of SAT television and radio archives to listen again to the SAT multitude who happened to be walking down the street when a SAT reporter needed a random opinion about soap flakes or SAT capital punishment. SAT It all began in 1930s America, with the programme Vox Pop in SAT Houston, Texas where a presenter literally ran a microphone SAT cable out of the radio station window to interview people on SAT the street. However, the technique didn't become a regular SAT feature of British broadcasting until the 1960s. Now, it's SAT impossible to turn on the news without hearing at least one SAT neatly randomised set of opinions from members of the Great SAT British Public. SAT Danny considers why the vox pop is so omnipresent, what "the SAT public" actually means and why we need the views of so many SAT ordinary people on radio and TV. BBC voxing queen Esther SAT Rantzen looks back on the thousands of people she SAT buttonholed for That's Life. Comedian Charlie Higson SAT considers why comedy ran away with the format. Deputy SAT Director of BBC News Fran Unsworth makes a serious case for SAT the use of seemingly random opinions in news programmes. SAT Deputy Political Editor James Landale, tells Danny about a SAT strange vox he conducted that recently went viral. We also SAT hear from Greg Packer, native New Yorker who's been voxed so SAT many times that the Associated Press had to ban him from SAT being quoted. SAT Produced by Colin McNulty SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b04l065l (Listen) SAT For Whom the Bell Tolls, Episode 1 SAT SAT By Ernest Hemingway SAT Adapted by Ed Hime SAT SAT Part 1 SAT SAT High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a young SAT American volunteer prepares to blow up a vital bridge as SAT part of a Republican offensive during the Spanish SAT Civil War. There, in the mountains and surrounded by the SAT enemy, he camps with a band of guerrillas tasked with SAT helping him. But he soon makes a dangerous enemy within the SAT camp and, despite his better judgement, is drawn to Maria, a SAT young woman who has escaped Franco's rebels. SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Colin Stinton SAT Robert Jordan: Patrick Kennedy SAT Pablo: Ralph Ineson SAT Pilar: Melanie Kilburn SAT Maria: Leah Brotherhead SAT Anselmo: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Agustin: Paul Heath SAT Rafael: Shaun Mason SAT El Sordo: Ian Conningham SAT Primitivo: David Acton SAT Andres: Arthur Hughes SAT Fernando: Monty d'Inverno SAT Adaptor: Ed Hime SAT Author: Ernest Hemingway SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04l01vt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b04l10jy (Listen) SAT Talking to Terrorists SAT SAT Former US vice president Dick Cheney famously said "we don't SAT negotiate with evil - we defeat it." Unfortunately history SAT is not on his side. It seems that almost every time a new SAT terrorist group comes along and SAT we declare we'll never negotiate with them, we end up doing SAT just that. The IRA, the PLO, Taliban, Hamas to name a few - SAT we've eventually talked to them all. So why not talk to SAT ISIS? Policymakers understandably respond with righteous SAT anger and determination after a horrible event. Negotiations SAT can give legitimacy to terrorists and their methods and set SAT a dangerous precedent. Yet terrorists are rarely, if ever, SAT defeated by military means alone. ISIS may seem to be well SAT beyond the pale at the moment, but will that always be the SAT case? And how do we make that judgement? A former director SAT of the Israeli security agency Shin Bet has said he'd SAT advocate talking to anyone - even the Iranians. That way, he SAT said "we discover they don't eat glass and they that we SAT don't drink petrol." Are people's lives being sacrificed as SAT conflicts drag on because we refuse to talk to preserve our SAT moral purity? Or do we have to take a stand between right SAT and wrong, good and evil when it comes to a group such as SAT ISIS? Should we - can we - balance the forces of pragmatism SAT and principle when it comes to the prospect of talking to SAT terrorists? Moral Maze - Presented by Michael Buerk SAT Panellists: Matthew Taylor, Michael Portillo, Claire Fox and SAT Anne McElvoy SAT Witnesses: James Fergusson, Dr John Bew, Jonathan Moore and SAT Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones SAT Produced by Phil Pegum. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b04l0gdn (Listen) SAT Series 28, Episode 4 SAT SAT (4/13) SAT Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair for the SAT fourth heat in the current series of the wide-ranging music SAT quiz. Three contestants answer questions on every genre of SAT music, from every era SAT of the classical repertoire through to jazz and show tunes, SAT film music, rock and pop. SAT This week's contest comes from Salford and the competitors SAT are from Sunderland, Chester and the Wirral. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b04l065q (Listen) SAT Four Midlands Poets SAT SAT Roger McGough and four Midlands poets are on stage at the SAT Birmingham Literature Festival to read their favourite poems SAT of the region along with new ones of their own. The poets SAT are Bohdan Pieseki, Stephen SAT Morrison-Burke, Jacqui Rowe and Liz Berry. Birmingham will SAT rarely have sounded brighter. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04lp4yh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Brazilian Bonanza b03c4839 (Listen) SUN Asi Es La Vida - That's Life SUN SUN Rebecca Callard reads Paloma Vidal's short story Asi Es La SUN Vida - That's Life in which a filmmaker returns to her past SUN to research her next project. SUN SUN Asi Es La Vida - That's Life is first published in English SUN in SUN the October 2013 issue of the storytelling magazine, Litro, SUN which this month focuses on contemporary women's writing SUN from Brazil. SUN Paloma Vidal is the author of the novels Mar azul (Rocco, SUN 2012) and Algum lugar (7Letras, 2009) and the short story SUN collections Mais ao sul (Língua Geral, 2008) and A duas mãos SUN (7Letras, 2003). She is a professor of literary theory at SUN the Federal University of São Paulo and an editor of Grumo SUN magazine. She lives in São Paulo. SUN Hilary Kaplan is a poet and translator of Brazilian poetry SUN and fiction. She received a 2011 PEN Translation Fund award SUN for her translation of Rilke Shake by Angélica Freitas. SUN Abridged and produced by Elizabeth Allard. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Rebecca Callard SUN Producer: Elizabeth Allard SUN Abridger: Elizabeth Allard SUN Author: Paloma Vidal SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04lp4yk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04lp4ym (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04lp4yp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04lp4yr (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04lp624 (Listen) SUN The bells of the Parish Church of St Mary, Bishopstoke in SUN Hampshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b04l01vp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04lp4yw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04lp626 (Listen) SUN George Herbert SUN SUN George Herbert provided the series Something Understood with SUN its title and so is, in a sense, the programme's literary SUN patron. Mark Tully presents a celebration of the seventeenth SUN century metaphysical poet's SUN life and work in conversation with his latest biographer SUN John Drury, and discusses the relevance Herbert can still SUN have for us today. SUN There are readings of Herbert's work and the music his verse SUN has inspired. The featured authors and composers include SUN Vikram Seth, T S Eliot, Alec Roth, Sandy Denny and Vaughan SUN Williams. SUN The readers are Jane Whittenshaw, David Westhead and Francis SUN Cadder. SUN Produced by Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b04lp628 (Listen) SUN Getting to the heart of country life with a look at SUN individual farming endeavours. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04lp4yy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04lp4z0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04m3rrs (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04lp62b (Listen) SUN Unseen SUN SUN Emilia Fox presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Unseen, a charity SUN that helps survivors of human trafficking by providing a SUN 24/7 safe-house where they can rebuild their lives. The SUN charity also trains police and SUN health workers to identify victims and works with government SUN at a strategic level to shape policy and take effective SUN action. SUN Registered Charity No 1127620 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Unseen'. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04lp4z2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04lp4z4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04lp62d (Listen) SUN Let None Be a Stranger SUN SUN There are not many relationships that can survive 200 SUN hundred years, and shape the course of history - but that's SUN the depth of the connections being marked this year in the SUN bicentenary celebrations between SUN Jamaican and British Baptists. Out of the horrors of the SUN transatlantic slave trade, this alliance worked in union SUN over two centuries, to bring justice and reconciliation in SUN the face of one of history's great atrocities. In 1814 the SUN relationship was strengthened when John Rowe and his wife SUN answered a call for support issued by Jamaican Baptists in SUN Kingston. Two hundred years later, the Jamaican Baptist SUN Union and British Baptists join together to remember the SUN past, celebrate the present and look forward to their shared SUN future. Leader, Pastor Bryan Scott. Preacher: the Revd Karl SUN Johnson, General Secretary of the Jamaica Baptist Union; SUN with the Revd Neville Callam, President of the Baptist World SUN Alliance and the Revd Lynn Green, General Secretary of the SUN Baptist Union of Great Britain. With the award winning Town SUN Hall Gospel Choir directed Colin Anderson. Producer: Rowan SUN Morton Gledhill. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04l3ly6 (Listen) SUN The Football Fallacy SUN SUN Adam Gopnik explains why the English are better at watching SUN football than they are playing it and why the Americans are SUN better at talking about democracy than they are at SUN practising it. SUN SUN "Call this the SUN Constructive Fallacy of the Secondary Activity - or, SUN perhaps, The Delusion of Mastery SUN through Proximity.". SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN Editor: Richard Knight SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkxj9 (Listen) SUN Galapagos Mockingbird SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Miranda Krestovnikoff presents a bird which intrigued SUN Darwin, the Galapagos mockingbird. There are four species of SUN Mockingbird in the Galapagos islands, which probably all SUN descended from a single migrant ancestor and then SUN subsequently evolved different adaptations to life on their SUN separate island clusters, hence their fascination for SUN Charles Darwin. The most widespread is the resourceful SUN Galapagos Mockingbird. Unlike other mockingbirds which feed SUN on nectar and seeds, the Galapagos mockingbird has adapted SUN to its island life to steal and break into seabird eggs and SUN even attack and kill young nestlings. They'll also ride on SUN the backs of land iguanas to feed on ticks deep within the SUN reptiles' skin and will boldly approach tourists for foot. SUN They aptly demonstrate the theory of the "survival of the SUN fittest". SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04lp4z6 (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 b04lp6vd (Listen) SUN Phoebe is on the move, and Adam discovers the truth. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Graham Ryder: Malcolm McKee SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04mgsj9 (Listen) SUN Debbie Wiseman SUN SUN Kirsty Young interviews the composer Debbie Wiseman. SUN SUN Her work is wide ranging, but her talents are most often SUN employed in crafting lyrical, melodic scores for film and SUN TV. Her credits include Land Girls, Judge SUN John Deed, Haunted and Father Brown. Now a visiting SUN Professor at the Royal College of Music, her unlikely SUN introduction to the piano came at the age of 8 when she SUN found a bashed up old instrument sitting in the corner of a SUN hotel dining room. SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Debbie Wiseman SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04lp4z8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Museum of Curiosity b04l0gdv (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 2 SUN SUN This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his SUN curator Phill Jupitus welcome the hugely knowledgeable SUN co-star of Pointless, Richard Osman, the author of SUN Flipnosis: The Art of Split-Second Persuasion SUN and The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons In Life From Saints, SUN Spies and Serial Killers, Professor Kevin Dutton and the SUN Natural History Museum's curator of Solanaceae (the order of SUN plants that includes potatoes, tomatoes and deadly SUN nightshade) Dr Sandra Knapp. SUN This week, the Museum's Steering Committee discusses why SUN psychopaths don't seem to blink; why cushions on beds are SUN the most pointless things in existence; how an 18th century SUN Swedish botanist knew everything; the evolutionary SUN advantages of smiling; the confectionary milestone that was SUN Cadbury's Dairy Milk; and the culinary revolution of SUN freeze-dried potatoes that taste of Styrofoam. SUN The show was researched by James Harkin and Stevyn Colgan of SUN QI. SUN The producers were Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Lloyd SUN Presenter: Phill Jupitus SUN Interviewed Guest: Richard Osman SUN Interviewed Guest: Kevin Dutton SUN Interviewed Guest: Sandra Knapp SUN Producer: Richard Turner SUN Producer: Dan Schreiber SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04lpd9r (Listen) SUN In a Stew about Rabbits SUN SUN Sheila Dillon discovers the delights of eating rabbit meat, SUN but also why some people think it is unjustifiable. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma SUN Weatherill. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04lp4zb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04lp4zd (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 The Waiting b04dmxw6 (Listen) SUN Waiting is an inescapable fact of life - it invades so much SUN of our daily activity. We barely notice that we are waiting, SUN unless the wait is accompanied by frustration, impatience, SUN boredom, restlessness and SUN helplessness. The pleasurable acts of waiting often pass us SUN by. SUN The physician and writer Raymond Tallis examines the nature SUN of waiting - how it operates and how it causes both pleasure SUN and anguish. SUN He considers the ways in which waiting plays with our sense SUN of time. He looks at how waiting invades the workplace and SUN is frequently used as a way of exerting power. He describes SUN the various ways in which waiting is used in music and SUN literature and how it appears in the language of love. He SUN talks to a prisoner about the life of waiting and considers SUN the role of waiting within spiritual life. SUN Why do we wait? And how best should we be waiting? SUN Producer: Anthony Denselow SUN A Kati Whitaker production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04l3lxt (Listen) SUN Anglesey SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the panel programme from Anglesey. Toby SUN Buckland, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank take questions SUN from a local audience. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SUN SUN A Somethin' SUN Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN Q. What is the best way to keep a Venus Fly Trap alive in SUN the absence of winter flies? SUN A. Keep it in a cool, well-ventilated, frost-free place - SUN perhaps a windowsill. Only water it a little bit and don't SUN feed it. Nip of the buds off in the winter and wait until SUN spring to let it flower. SUN Q. After fruiting well, my strawberries are in full flower SUN again. Should I cut these flowers off? SUN A. They will fruit and ripen with the help of a bit of SUN warmth (perhaps move them into the greenhouse), but the SUN plant will be using up the energy it would have reserved for SUN next year's crop. SUN Q. I'm from Yorkshire, and yet I can't grow Rhubarb. What SUN can I do? SUN A. Buy virus free clones, plant them in partial sun, partial SUN shade. Don't plant it in waterlogged areas or over rock. SUN Plant them somewhere they can put down deep roots and SUN prepare the soil with manure. You could also try growing SUN Rhubarb from seed - the 'Glaskin's Perpetual' variety works SUN well from seed. SUN Q. Am I going to live to regret not removing the stubs of SUN trees along a bank where I'm planting shrubs and perennials? SUN A. Leave the stubs in but pull out the suckers. The roots of SUN the trees will help hold the bank together but put in plants SUN with roots that will also help keep the bank together: SUN Cotoniasters - Dameri or Periwinkle varieties. SUN Q. My mature Olive tree bears no fruit. What can I do? SUN A. There are specific varieties for northern climates but SUN sticking to your existing tree, all you can do is encourage SUN it with high-potash feed and prune it. SUN Q. My cabbages are splitting. How can I stop this? SUN A. Cabbages like good firm soil. Keep them well watered SUN through dry spells. SUN Q. I live in a wet and windy village high above sea level. SUN What perennials can I plant in my southwest facing clay-soil SUN garden for some colour? SUN A. Cranesbills are great for colour. The 'Roseanne' variety SUN flowers from May through to October. 'Azure Rush' also SUN flowers for a really long season. 'Johnsons' Bloom', SUN 'Magnificum' and 'Dusky Crug' are also great varieties. The SUN 'Broadway Lights' variety of Shaster Daisy Leucanthemum SUN would grow well, as would Phsostegia (Obedient Plant). SUN Cloudberries and Salmonberries, the Strawberry- Potentilla SUN cross 'Pink Panda', Wild Strawberries, Myrica Gale (Bog SUN Mertyl) and Bilberries are other plants to try. SUN Q. What is wrong with my Plum tree? The leaves are brown and SUN shrivelled, as are the fruits. SUN A. If the fruits are touching in a cluster, the fruits in SUN the middle will rot and the rot will spread amongst the SUN fruit. Thin the fruit clusters to avoid this happening and SUN remove all the rotten plums now to reduce the chances of the SUN infection spreading to next years' crop. SUN Q. What is the ideal gift for a gardener? SUN A. A good new pair of secateurs or jam from the garden's SUN fruits and Chillies. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04lpd9t (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about adoption by civil SUN partners, getting around the Underground with a disability, SUN and children dealing with their alcoholic father's death, SUN from Cardiff, Devon and London. SUN in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b04lpd9w (Listen) SUN For Whom the Bell Tolls, Episode 2 SUN SUN By Ernest Hemingway SUN Adapted by Ed Hime SUN SUN Part 2 SUN SUN High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, Robert SUN Jordan, a young American volunteer, camps with a band of SUN guerrillas as they prepare to blow up a vital bridge as SUN part of a Republican offensive during the Spanish Civil War. SUN In the camp Robert Jordan has forged loyalties, made a SUN dangerous enemy and fallen in love. He also has reason to SUN fear that the enemy are aware of the offensive. But as the SUN appointed hour approaches, it may be too late and he must SUN face the inevitable. SUN Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. SUN SUN Credits SUN Narrator: Colin Stinton SUN Robert Jordan: Patrick Kennedy SUN Pablo: Ralph Ineson SUN Pilar: Melanie Kilburn SUN Maria: Leah Brotherhead SUN Anselmo: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Agustin: Paul Heath SUN Rafael: Shaun Mason SUN El Sordo: Ian Conningham SUN Primitivo: David Acton SUN Andres: Arthur Hughes SUN Fernando: Monty d'Inverno SUN Adaptor: Ed Hime SUN Author: Ernest Hemingway SUN Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04lpd9y (Listen) SUN Writing for Television and Novels; Catalan Literature SUN SUN News and features from the world of books, presented by SUN Mariella Frostrup. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b04lpdb0 (Listen) SUN Birmingham Literature Festival SUN SUN Roger McGough presents an as-it-happens request edition on SUN stage at the Birmingham Literature Festival as audience SUN members pick their favourite poems. Will it be Not Waving SUN but Drowning or The Way through the SUN Woods, The Listeners or Timothy Winters, The Sunne Rising or SUN Snake? The readers are Eleanor Tremain and Peter Marinker. SUN Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Eleanor Tremain SUN Reader: Peter Marinker SUN Producer: Tim Dee SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b04l0x07 (Listen) SUN NHS: Testing the Market SUN SUN In the biggest outsourcing to date, the NHS in England has SUN announced it is tendering a huge £700 million contract for SUN providing NHS cancer care in Staffordshire and SUN Stoke-on-Trent, along with another SUN £500million for end of life care in the region. Officials SUN say it will streamline services and provide better treatment SUN while critics say it's the most reckless privatisation yet. SUN BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym investigates.. SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04l01vp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04lp4zg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04lp4zj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04lp4zl (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04lpdb2 (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay chooses her highlights from the previous seven SUN days of BBC Radio. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Liz Barclay SUN Producer: Stephen Garner SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04lpdb4 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b04lpdb6 (Listen) SUN Gerard Manley Hopkins SUN SUN Radio 4's literary panel show, hosted by James Walton. SUN Recorded at the Hay Festival with team captains Sebastian SUN Faulks and John Walsh and guests Russell Davies and Sue SUN Limb. SUN SUN This week's author is Gerard Manley Hopkins. SUN SUN Produced by Alexandra Smith. SUN SUN 19:45 Under My Bed b04lpdb8 (Listen) SUN Getting Ink SUN SUN Three writers fictionally explore the memories and stories SUN of what characters might have stashed away in the dark, SUN under their beds with some shocking revelations. SUN SUN Many children believe there is a monster or SUN something strange and dark and menacing lurking under their SUN bed, just waiting to leap out when the lights are off and SUN everyone is asleep. As we grow up it's a place for hiding SUN things, for playing or exploring. Later still it's where we SUN stash the overspill of student or adult lives, where we keep SUN boxes of photos or the detritus of life that holds memories SUN we can't bring ourselves to throw away. It's where we hide SUN the Christmas presents, stash diaries, love letters and SUN wedding albums. As we get older still perhaps it's the place SUN where slippers, half read books or life savings nestle. And SUN it's a place which evolves and changes with us throughout SUN life. SUN Reader ..... Patrick Kennedy SUN Writer ..... Patrick Neate SUN Producer ..... Gemma McMullan. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Patrick Kennedy SUN Writer: Patrick Neate SUN Producer: Gemma McMullan SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b04l3nnr (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04lh20k (Listen) SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. With Matthew Bannister. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04l01v5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04lp62b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b04l0gf3 (Listen) SUN Meet the Family SUN SUN Politicians love talking about supporting families. But, SUN asks Jo Fidgen, do they understand modern family life? And SUN how far can or should the state change the way families SUN live? There's endless focus on young SUN children and childcare, while family care for the elderly is SUN rarely mentioned. She hears from policy insiders, those who SUN have to define families to make their businesses work, SUN individuals facing extraordinary challenges as family life SUN changes with society and across the generations. SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby SUN Editor: Hugh Levinson. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04lp4zq (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04lpf6g (Listen) SUN George Parker of The Financial Times analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04l3br3 (Listen) SUN Agnes B; Jeffrey Katzenberg; Animal Farm and the CIA SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN Fashion designer turned film producer Agnes B. discusses her SUN directorial debut My Name Is Hmmm... and reveals her SUN life-long affair with cinema. SUN SUN The head of DreamWorks Animation, Jeffrey SUN Katzenberg, considers the future of animated films and looks SUN back at a career he describes as a rollercoaster. SUN Animal Farm was the first animated film made by the British SUN film industry in 1954. But what nobody realised at the time, SUN least of all the producers Halas and Batchelor, was that the SUN film was financed by the CIA as part of the Cold War effort. SUN Frances Stonor Saunders and Professor Tony Shaw reveal the SUN intrigue and deception behind the production. SUN Medical adviser Carlton Jarvis describes how he helps actors SUN play doctors and nurses. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Agnes B SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeffrey Katzenberg SUN Interviewed Guest: Frances Stonor Saunders SUN Interviewed Guest: Tony Shaw SUN Interviewed Guest: Carlton Jarvis SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04lp626 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 20 OCTOBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04lp50w (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04l10jf (Listen) MON Drug Mules; 'Dads Only' Parenting Project MON MON Drug Mules - Laurie Taylor talks to Jennifer Fleetwood, MON Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leicester, MON about her study of women in the international cocaine trade. MON Drawing on 'in depth' interviews with MON female traffickers imprisoned in Ecuador, she uncovered MON narratives which went beyond the stock dichotomy of helpless MON 'victims' versus confident 'agents'. MON Also, a 'dads only' parenting project. Alan Dolan, Associate MON Professor in the Warwick Medical School at the University of MON Warwick, considers how learning to be a good father can MON clash with ideals of masculinity as well as traditional MON notions of fathering. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b04lp624 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04lp50y (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04lp510 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04lp512 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04lp514 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04lpsbl (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with MON Shaunaka Rishi, Director of the Oxford Centre of Hindu MON Studies. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04lpsbn (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04lp516 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkxq8 (Listen) MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Panamanian Montezuma MON oropendola. In a clearing in the humid rainforest in Panama MON a MON tall tree appears to be draped in hanging baskets. These are MON the nests of a New World blackbird, Montezuma oropendola. MON The male produces an ecstatic bubbling liquid call as he MON displays to females, reaching a crescendo whilst bowing MON downwards from his perch, spreading his wings and raising MON his tail. They weave long tubular basket-like nests from MON plant fibres, which they suspend in clusters from tall MON trees. Colonies can contain up to one hundred and seventy MON nests, but more usually number about thirty. MON MON 06:00 Today b04lpsbq (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b04lpsbs (Listen) MON Napoleon MON MON What was Napoleon's impact during his lifetime, in France MON and across Europe and how much of this can we see today? MON With Tom Sutcliffe, Andrew Roberts examines the man in his MON new biography, Jenny Uglow explores MON living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815, Sudhir MON Hazareesingh looks at his legend, while musicologist Gavin MON Plumley focuses on Schubert in Vienna in the aftermath of MON Napoleon. MON Producer: Simon Tillotson. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Andrew Roberts MON Interviewed Guest: Jenny Uglow MON Interviewed Guest: Gavin Plumley MON Interviewed Guest: Sudhir Hazareesingh MON Producer: Simon Tillotson MON MON 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6sjj (Listen) MON Gutenberg: In the Beginning Was the Printer MON MON Neil MacGregor examines the life and legacy of Johannes MON Gutenberg, who invented moveable type and pioneered the MON printing press. For many, it is the moment at which the MON modern world began, as the book as we know MON it was born. It is without doubt the point at which access MON to knowledge stopped being the privilege of the few. MON Producer Paul Kobrak. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04lpsbv (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04lpsbx (Listen) MON The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The Letter MON MON In Rachel Joyce's best selling novel, The Unlikely MON Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Queenie Hennessy is told she has MON days to live. She sends a letter of rose pink paper in which MON she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a MON letter that inspires a walk, a cast of well-wishers, a MON journey of its own. Harold will save her. MON Harold's story began its life as an award winning Radio 4 MON play so it only seems apt that this newly published novel MON begins its life hand in hand with a radio dramatisation by MON the author. MON In this novel there is a second letter - a quieter, longer, MON more complicated letter. It is in this one that Queenie MON reveals the shocking and beautiful truth of her life. It is MON Queenie's story and it is a love song to the man she loves. MON 'It's all very well for a man to step out of his front door MON and tell his friend to wait while he walks the length of MON England. It's an entirely different kettle of fish when you MON are the woman at the other end.' MON Directed by Tracey Neale. MON MON Credits MON Queenie: Sophie Thompson MON Harold: Paul Venables MON Sister Mary Inconnue: Roslyn Hill MON David: Monty d'Inverno MON Sister Catherine: Elaine Claxton MON Sister Lucy: Hannah Genesius MON Finty: Jane Slavin MON Mr Henderson: Michael Bertenshaw MON Napier: Shaun Mason MON Author: Rachel Joyce MON Director: Tracey Neale MON MON 11:00 On Language Location b04lpsbz (Listen) MON Bhutan MON MON Bhutan is a landlocked country in the eastern Himalaya, best MON known as a Buddhist kingdom where the policy of 'Gross MON National Happiness' replaced GDP. Anthropologist and MON linguist Mark Turin has special access to MON enter Bhutan as part of a major collaborative research MON project to document the country's endangered oral MON traditions. He is there to help identify which of Bhutan's MON languages and cultures are most at risk as the country opens MON up to global influences through television and the internet. MON Mark takes a journey from Thimphu, the capital, across high MON mountain passes, to the village of Ura in rural Bumthang MON district. There he participates in a dramatic five-day MON festival of rituals and fire dances. He meets members of MON parliament, teachers, and broadcasters who speak not only MON Dzongkha, the national language, but English and their local MON indigenous languages. Along the way, Mark learns more about MON the challenges facing communities who live in Bhutan's MON remote valleys. MON A journey through the cultural and linguistic landscape of MON the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, presented by anthropologist MON Mark Turin. MON Producer Mark Rickards. MON MON 11:30 Kerry's List b04lpsc1 (Listen) MON Series 2, Nostalgia MON MON Kerry Godliman and husband Ben (Ben Abell) decide to sell MON their house and Kerry reluctantly has to deal with the MON modern version of Beelzebub - the dreaded estate agent! MON MON Their house sale forces Kerry to finally MON organise her photo collection and she takes a stroll down MON memory lane to remember various scenes from her incident MON filled childhood. She remembers her first date with MON husband-to-be Ben and has a flashback to her student days MON with fellow housemates Diane and Rachel. MON This week's list includes sketch a self portrait, bleach MON tash, take kids to cinema and grout! Kerry has to have MON another chat with her doom laden father Martin who brings MON her down to earth with a bang as he shares his negative MON views on house moving. MON There's also a chat with best friend Hazel (Bridget MON Christie) and we find out how stressful it can be choosing a MON child's name. MON The cast includes co-writer David Lane Pusey, Rosie MON Cavaliero, Lucy Briers, Nicholas Le Prevost, Dominic Frisby, MON Jen Brister and Melissa Bury. MON Producer: Paul Russell MON An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Kerry Godliman MON Actor: Ben Abell MON Actor: Melissa Bury MON Actor: David Pusey MON Actor: Bridget Christie MON Actor: Lucy Briers MON Actor: Rosie Cavaliero MON Actor: Nicholas Le Prevost MON Producer: Paul Russell MON Writer: Kerry Godliman MON Writer: David Pusey MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04lp518 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 21st-Century Mythologies b04lpxwx (Listen) MON Her Majesty the Queen MON MON In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes MON began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular MON culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In MON this series of witty talks, the MON acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series MON of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. MON Conrad ranges over the defining popular icons of our era, MON from the Shard, to the Kardashians to today, Her Majesty the MON Queen. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04lpxwz (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04lp51b (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04lpxx1 (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Hidden Histories of the Information Age b04lpxx3 (Listen) MON Enfield Exchange MON MON "Hello Girls" MON MON In 1960 the women telephonists of the Enfield exchange said MON goodbye to the last manual telephone exchange in Greater MON London. For decades they had put through calls using this MON plugboard machine, MON providing a polite and friendly voice to any caller. With MON the expertise of the Science Museum's Keeper of Technology, MON Dr Tilly Blyth, and Curator of Communication, John Liffen, MON Aleks Krotoski uncovers the hidden histories of the life of MON the exchange and how it provided a new kind of employment MON for young women. MON Part of the Enfield Exchange is on display in the new MON Information Age gallery at the Science Museum. The gallery MON tells the story of the evolution in how we communicate with MON each other. The objects in the exhibition represent cultural MON moments from the last 200 years - not just technological MON innovations. MON We also hear from the women who worked as telephonists about MON the relationship between the supervisors and operators, some MON of whom were only 15 years old, the aches and pains the MON plugboard caused and the prestige brought by a job with the MON GPO. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04lpdb4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ghgk5 (Listen) MON The Hedge MON MON By Anita Sullivan. MON MON Marion and Richard live a quiet life in their perfect MON garden, sheltered from a turbulent world by their manicured MON hedge. Then one day, after an explosive row with their MON daughter Sophie, out MON of the hedge emerges a mysterious hand. Slowly the outside MON world starts to bleed into their fragile haven. MON A strange and darkly allegorical tale about a family and its MON fears. MON Directed by James Robinson MON A BBC Cymru Wales Production. MON MON Credits MON Marion: Fiona Shaw MON Richard: Peter Ellis MON Sophie: Tanya Franks MON Narrator: Dorien Thomas MON Writer: Anita Sullivan MON Producer: James Robinson MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b04lpxx5 (Listen) MON Series 28, Episode 5 MON MON (5/13) MON The fifth heat of the 2014 series sees competitors from MON Leeds, Leek in Staffordshire and Ulverston in Cumbria facing MON Russell Davies' wide-ranging music questions. The programme MON comes from Media City MON in Salford. MON Orchestral music, chamber music, opera, church music, jazz, MON folk, stage and film musicals, classic rock and sixty years MON of pop hits are all fair game - with the contestants having MON no idea where the next question will take them. There are MON plenty of musical extracts to suit every taste, with full MON details of the music played available on the programmes' MON webpages. MON The winner will go through to the series semi-finals later MON in the year. MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04lpd9r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 50 Years of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang b04lpxx7 (Listen) MON Writer and Broadcaster Brian Sibley tells the story of James MON Bond author Ian Fleming's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 50 MON years on from publication. MON MON Most of us know the film of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with its MON inventor father, Caractacus Potts, the twins Jemima and MON Jeremy and their adventures in their flying car. But few MON realise that Ian Fleming's original book is quite different. MON Potts was 'Pott' (or Crack Pott) in the book, the original MON manuscript's adventures take place in Kent and Northern MON France, and it was screenwriter Roald Dahl who added the MON characters of the Child Catcher and Truly Scrumptious. MON Brian Sibley speaks to Fleming's nieces, Lucy Fleming and MON Kate Grimond, and to Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, MON to hear how Fleming's only children's book was written and MON published. MON Fleming told the original story aurally to his son Caspar, MON and he only decided to write it down long hand when he was MON convalescing after serious illness. The book coincided with MON the last years of Fleming's life and contain some of the MON elements of the Bond Books - a great adventure story at its MON heart and the love of cars. The vehicle itself was inspired MON by Fleming watching the racing at Brooklands and a legendary MON driver called Count Zborowksi, who had a car named Chitty MON Bang Bang. MON Brian Sibley goes to Brooklands to take a spin on the old MON race track, as well as talking to original illustrator John MON Burningham and the writer of the sequels, Frank Cottrell MON Boyce. He also catches up with legendary composer of the MON film score Richard M. Sherman. MON Producer: Laura Parfitt MON A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b04lpxx9 (Listen) MON Series 6, Language MON MON We communicate with each other in more ways than ever and MON with an ever expanding range of devices and platforms. But MON they all piggy back on an earlier invention, our original MON social networking technology - MON language. MON In this edition of the Digital Human Aleks Krotoski explores MON the idea of language as a technology itself and how people MON over the years have attempted to improve it; re-engineer it MON for maximum efficiency, or use it as a lever of social MON change. MON She speaks to Professor David Crystal about how we're living MON through a period of rapid language growth comparable to the MON renaissance or industrial revolution. Evolutionary biologist MON Mark Pagel explains how we can consider language as a MON technology devised by natural selection while linguist Arika MON Okrent charts the attempts down the years by those who think MON they can perfect the function of language by devising their MON own. MON Producer: Peter McManus. MON MON 17:00 PM b04lpxxc (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04lp51d (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b04lpxxf (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 3 MON MON Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and curator Phill Jupitus MON discuss some new curiosities. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Lloyd MON Presenter: Phill Jupitus MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04lpxxh (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04lpyhs (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6sjj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Year of the Drone b04k9gj6 (Listen) MON Will Robson gets exclusive access to some of the British MON military's most secretive, sophisticated and controversial MON drones, and talks to the men and women who operate them. He MON gets an insider perspective on MON what it means to fight a war remotely, and finds out how MON long distant combat affects those at the controls. MON In a remote corner of west Wales, in a matt green shipping MON container, a group of engineers and military officials crowd MON around a high-tech bank of screens and joysticks. A monitor MON feeds them live aerial footage of the Carmarthenshire MON coastline. The image is crisp, they can make out dolphins MON swimming in the wake of a fishing trawler. They're testing MON the limits of the British Army's Watchkeeper surveillance MON drone, one of a new fleet of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) MON which have an £850m pound price tag. MON The British military is a global leader in UAS technology, MON and Watchkeeper is just one element. As drones become ever MON more important to the way Britain fights its wars, the MON Government's Select Defence Committee are demanding more MON transparency. MON While the military have welcomed UAS as a way of reducing MON costs and casualties, not everyone is convinced. Critics say MON that drones could bring an age of airborne occupation and MON dispassionate warfare. They claim that when war can be MON fought without consequence to the aggressor, violence MON quickly becomes easier than diplomacy. MON Will Robson explores the debate around one of this MON generation's most divisive military technologies. MON Produced by Harry Graham MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b04lpyhv (Listen) MON The Idea of the Caliphate MON MON What is a caliphate? What ideals does such an Islamic state MON embody - and how could or should it be implemented? Analysis MON consults a range of voices to explore how the concept has MON evolved and has been expressed MON over the centuries. Edward Stourton talks to historians, MON religious scholars and political thinkers who offer their MON perspectives on caliphates of the past, the revivalist MON rhetoric of the present and the beliefs shared by many MON Muslims about its future return. MON Presenter: Edward Stourton MON Producer: Polly Hope. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04l0tg8 (Listen) MON Insects and Street Lights MON MON Artificial lighting is ubiquitous in the developed world - MON but the effects of night time illumination on wildlife are MON not yet fully understood. While we know that artificial MON light changes the behaviour of some MON animals we're still a long way from knowing whether those MON changes can damage wildlife populations. This week Monty Don MON finds out what we do know with particular regard to an MON important but often overlooked group of animals - insects. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b04lpsbs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04lp51g (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04lpyhx (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04lpyhz (Listen) MON Nora Webster, Alone in a Crowd MON MON From the author of Brooklyn, a powerful and honest portrayal MON of one woman's journey through grief, and towards hope, read MON by Brid Brennan. MON MON It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two MON young sons in a MON small town on the east coast of Ireland. Her husband, MON Maurice, has just died and Nora must work out how to forge a MON new life for herself, and her children. MON Today: On a rare night out in a pub, Nora finds herself MON alone on a crowd. MON Reader: Brid Brennan MON Writer: Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the MON author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship and MON The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker MON Prize, and Brooklyn which was longlisted for the Man Booker MON Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, plus an earlier MON collection of stories, Mothers and Sons. MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Brid Brennan MON Author: Colm Toibin MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett MON MON 23:00 Wireless Nights b04lpyj1 (Listen) MON Series 3, Reaching for the Moon MON MON Jarvis Cocker attempts to fly to the moon, with the aid of MON astronaut Chris Hadfield - famous for his rendition of David MON Bowie's Space Oddity on the International Space Station. MON MON En route he hears stories of those touched by the moon in MON its many manifestations. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b04lpyj3 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04lp52d (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6sjj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04lp52g (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04lp52j (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04lp52l (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04lp52n (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04mttcz (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with TUE Shaunaka Rishi, Director of the Oxford Centre of Hindu TUE Studies. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04lpzym (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and Produced by Sally Challoner. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hky3h (Listen) TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff presents Australia's satin bowerbird. TUE Then male is a blackish looking bird with bright purple TUE eyes, whose plumage diffracts the light to produce an indigo TUE sheen with a metallic lustre. He builds a U-shaped bower of TUE sticks on the forest floor into which he hopes to lure a TUE female. But brown twigs on a brown woodland floor aren't TUE very eye-catching, so he jazzes up the scene with an array TUE of objects from berries and bottle-tops to clothes-pegs and TUE even ballpoint pens. All have one thing in common: they are TUE blue. The male dances around his bower to attract the TUE greenish females: often holding something blue to impress TUE her. As he poses, he calls enticingly to advertise his TUE prowess. Once she's made her choice, she will leave to build TUE her nest and rear her young alone. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04lpzyp (Listen) TUE News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday TUE in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b04lpzyr (Listen) TUE Margaret Boden TUE TUE Maggie Boden is a world authority in the field of artificial TUE intelligence - she even has a robot named in her honour. TUE Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of TUE Sussex, Maggie has spent a TUE lifetime attempting to answer philosophical questions about TUE the nature of the human mind, but from a computational TUE viewpoint. TUE "Tin cans", as she sometimes calls computers, are TUE information processing systems, the perfect vehicle, she TUE believes, to help us understand, explore and analyse the TUE mind. TUE But questions about the human mind and the human person TUE could never be answered within one single academic subject. TUE So the long career of Maggie Boden is the very epitome of TUE cross-disciplinary working. From medicine, to psychology, to TUE cognitive and computer science, to technology and TUE philosophy, Professor Boden has spent decades straddling TUE multiple academic subjects, helping to create brand new TUE disciplines along the way. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b04lpzyt (Listen) TUE Isabel Oakeshott and Surrogacy TUE TUE Political journalist and commentator Isabel Oakeshott almost TUE went down the route of surrogacy in India, after having four TUE miscarriages when trying for her second child. In the end, TUE she did have a baby TUE naturally, but has always wondered about the route she TUE almost took. TUE In the first of two interviews for One to One, she talks to TUE Natalie, who had twins through a surrogate in the UK, and TUE she explores how surrogacy works here. Natalie and her TUE husband attended social events, where surrogates and TUE 'intended parents' meet, in the hope that they would be TUE 'picked' by a surrogate. TUE Producer: Sara Conkey. TUE TUE 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6scv (Listen) TUE Dürer: An Artist for All Germans TUE TUE Neil MacGregor focuses on the work of Dürer (1471-1528), TUE arguing that he is the defining artist of Germany, his image TUE - and his self-image - known to all Germans. He was a new TUE kind of artist, clearly TUE fascinated by himself, and the first great artist in Europe TUE to paint so many self-portraits. He embodies the Renaissance TUE idea of the artist as a hero and a star, the artist of a new TUE world and a new technology. Dürer was also the first artist TUE to sell his work widely throughout Europe. TUE Producer Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04lpzyw (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 b04m0q75 (Listen) TUE The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, Harold Fry TUE TUE By Rachel Joyce TUE TUE While Harold Fry walks from Devon to the hospice in TUE Berwick-upon-Tweed, Queenie makes notes and Sister Mary TUE Inconnue types them up. They won't stop until he arrives and TUE that is how Queenie will keep waiting. TUE TUE Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE Credits TUE Queenie: Sophie Thompson TUE Harold: Paul Venables TUE Sister Mary Inconnue: Roslyn Hill TUE Sister Catherine: Elaine Claxton TUE Sister Lucy: Hannah Genesius TUE Finty: Jane Slavin TUE Mr Henderson: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Napier: Shaun Mason TUE Author: Rachel Joyce TUE Director: Tracey Neale TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04lpzz0 (Listen) TUE Hen Harriers: Trust in Conservation TUE TUE Hen harriers are persecuted in the British Isles because TUE they eat grouse. Seals cause problems for salmon fishermen; TUE lions eat the livestock of pastoralists in Africa and so on. TUE All over the world there are TUE conflicts between people and wildlife, often with TUE devastating consequences. In Shared Planet this week Monty TUE Don looks at how we are approaching solving these issues, TUE who is taking the bull by the horns and getting people TUE around a table to come up with a shared solution? Conflict TUE resolution is growing area that brings together scientists, TUE local people, businesses, NGOs and many others who are TUE affected by wildlife conflict. It is a demanding task TUE finding a solution that all parties feel they can accept, on TUE a par with the negotiations undertaken with trade unions by TUE ACAS. This new area for conservation brings political and TUE social science to sit alongside traditional conservation TUE ideas. Monty Don investigates. TUE TUE 11:30 Chant b04lpzz2 (Listen) TUE In Chant, Richard Coles delves into the 1990's when a TUE recording of Benedictine monks singing became so popular it TUE sold in the millions around the world. If an album of TUE classical music sold anywhere near one TUE million copies at that time, it was considered unusual. For TUE one to sell more than that was unprecedented. Adding further TUE to this phenomenon was the fact that this was unfamiliar TUE music at the time, Gregorian Chant, performed not by TUE celebrity artists who might attract a large following, but TUE by monks from a remote corner of Northern Spain. EMI TUE marketed this album Canto Gregoriano, or Chant as it was TUE named in America, as a unique antidote to stress. TUE Richard Coles with former EMI employees Kick Klimbie and TUE Jane McCann, retrace EMI's marketing tactics in the TUE promotion of Canto Gregoriano. Professor Adrian North will TUE also be providing insights throughout the programme into the TUE psychology of marketing, exploring what drives people to buy TUE certain things, and how music can impact upon us physically TUE and emotionally. Richard Coles also takes a trip to the Isle TUE of Wight, where Gregorian Chant is still an important aspect TUE of life at both St Cecilia's Abbey and Quarr Abbey, and TUE questions whether such music is still capable of having any TUE meaning or impact upon our lives in the twenty-first TUE century. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04lp52q (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 21st-Century Mythologies b04lpzz4 (Listen) TUE The Oyster Card TUE TUE In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes TUE began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular TUE culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In TUE this series of witty talks, the TUE acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series TUE of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. TUE Conrad ranges over the defining effluvia of our era, from TUE the Shard, to the Kardashians to today, the Oyster Card. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04lq03h (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04lp52s (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04lq03k (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Hidden Histories of the Information Age b04m3bcc (Listen) TUE Tat-1 TUE TUE In 1957 the singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul TUE Robeson in 1957 performed a concert to an audience sitting TUE in St Pancras Town Hall in London. Astonishingly, Paul TUE Robeson was in New York at the time, TUE and he was performing live over a transatlantic phone line. TUE Robeson was an outspoken critic of lynching laws and TUE anti-fascism. Because of his support of these causes, he was TUE a victim of early attempts by the US FBI to quash civil TUE rights activism, and was blacklisted by the State TUE Department. His passport was cancelled so he could not leave TUE the US. TUE But Robeson was also an innovator, who used the latest tools TUE to go around the restrictions that were imposed upon him. TUE When the authorities increasingly tried to silence him, he TUE used technology to make his voice heard. TUE Aleks Krotoski tells the story of how Paul Robeson came to TUE perform for his British fans using the new transatlantic TUE telephone cable, called TAT-1, It was laid between 1955 and TUE 1956, and it linked Newfoundland, Canada and Oban on the TUE West Coast of Scotland. TUE TAT-1 is one of the objects on display in the Information TUE Age Gallery at the Science Museum in London. This new TUE gallery features the evolution in how we communicate with TUE one another. The objects in the gallery represent cultural TUE moments from the last 200 years, not just technological TUE innovations. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04lpxxh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Tommies b03thc49 (Listen) TUE 21 October 1914 TUE TUE by Jonathan Ruffle. TUE TUE Series created by Jonathan Ruffle TUE TUE Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness TUE accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at TUE war, exactly 100 years ago. TUE TUE Through it all, we TUE follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow TUE signallers, from the Lahore Division of the British Indian TUE Army. They are the cogs in an immense machine, one which TUE connects situations across the whole theatre of the war, TUE over four long years. TUE Indira Varma, Lee Ross and Alex Wyndham star in this story, TUE set at Ypres during the first Battle of Langemarck. Mickey's TUE signals unit goes forward with the British offensive. And TUE just as no battle plan survives contact with the enemy, so TUE Mickey's plan to be a battlefield tourist is not about to TUE survive contact with an artillery captain on a mission of TUE his own. TUE Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE Credits TUE Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross TUE Commentator: Indira Varma TUE Maberly Dunster: Alex Wyndham TUE Horace Greenwood: Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Jacca Nancarrow: Joseph Kloska TUE Captain Paddon: Damian Lynch TUE Captain Richardson: Monty d'Inverno TUE Colonel Firmin: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Pipe Major Maclaurin: David Cann TUE Producer: David Hunter TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonathan Ruffle TUE Director: David Hunter TUE Writer: Jonathan Ruffle TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b04lq28m (Listen) TUE Series 6, Behind the Curtain TUE TUE Secret telephone discos for cold calling salesmen, moral TUE dilemmas which emerge behind the scenes on a reality TUE television show and Joe Dunthorne attempts to gain access to TUE the OULIPO. TUE TUE Josie Long peers behind the TUE curtain to reveal stories from behind the scenes. TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b04lq28p (Listen) TUE Making a Splash TUE TUE Tom Heap meets Darren Reynolds, a health and environment TUE professor, who has developed a mini treatment plant that can TUE turn dirty water into clean drinkable water. TUE TUE The technology could be transported around the TUE globe and put to use in places where clean water is scarce, TUE such as in areas where there is a humanitarian crisis. TUE Costing The Earth discovers how the machine works and looks TUE at other technology that could improve the water supplies of TUE millions of people around the world. TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b04lq28r (Listen) TUE Can the PM Go to War? TUE TUE With British military aircraft now deployed against the TUE forces of Islamic State in Iraq, Law in Action asks whether TUE the Prime Minister needs to seek consent from Parliament TUE before committing the British TUE military to action overseas. TUE Joshua Rozenberg hears from Sir Malcolm Rifkind, chair of TUE the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee, TUE and Gavin Phillipson of Durham University. TUE Did the vote in the House of Commons in 2013 rejecting TUE military action against president Assad of Syria create a TUE convention that should now be followed in all cases? TUE Also: the minister of justice and Lord Chancellor, Chris TUE Grayling, gave evidence this week to the House of Lords TUE Constitution Committee. He was asked whether the Lord TUE Chancellor should be a lawyer. Mr Grayling, who is not a TUE lawyer, did not think so. But what do others think? And does TUE it matter? TUE And TV justice: we hear from the criminal barrister Robert TUE Rinder who, as "Judge Rinder", is attracting large audiences TUE to his ITV show, in which he adjudicates on real disputes. TUE Presenter: Joshua Rozenberg TUE Producers: Keith Moore and Tim Mansel TUE Editor: Richard Knight. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b04lq2ls (Listen) TUE Adam Hills and Steven Pinker TUE TUE Last Leg presenter and comedian Adam Hills and psychologist TUE and popular science author Steven Pinker discuss their TUE favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Under discussion are TUE two tales of non conformists, TUE Albert Camus' The Outsider and Richard Bach's Jonathan TUE Livingston Seagull, as well as Strunk & White's Elements of TUE Style, a style guide written in the 1930s but still TUE influential today. The guests talk about whether Camus' TUE protagonist is a sociopath or a pathetic man to be pitied, TUE and whether Jonathan Livingston Seagull is an inspiration or TUE a product of California's 1970s hot tub scene. TUE Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Adam Hills TUE Interviewed Guest: Steven Pinker TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04lq2lv (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04lp52v (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life b04lq2lx (Listen) TUE Health and Beauty TUE TUE A new series from multi-award winning comic Mark Watson TUE where he attempts to answer the big questions and make sense TUE of life, nimbly assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden. TUE TUE Mark and his two henchmen tackle academic TUE and abstract topics. Themes will be examined from every TUE angle, torn apart, laughed at and put back together again in TUE an effort to understand ourselves and the world around us, TUE and make it a slightly better place using stand-up, poetry, TUE songs and dippy interactions. TUE This week Mark looks at "Health & Beauty". Our world is full TUE of people telling us how to be healthier and more TUE attractive. But how can we tell if we are well, both TUE mentally and physically? Does living more healthily lead to TUE better mental health, or not so much because you have to eat TUE stuff like cabbage and you wish you were dead? At the same TUE time many people claim to be beautiful, but does beauty TUE really matter or is it, as the popular saying goes, in the TUE eye of the beholder? TUE Why is it so hard to get to the bottom of what will make us TUE look and feel good, and will this eternal quest ever end? TUE Mark Watson is a multi-award winning comedian - his awards TUE include the inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize 2006. He is TUE assisted by Tim Key, winner of an Edinburgh Comedy Award in TUE 2009, and Tom Basden who won the the If.Comedy Award for TUE Best Newcomer in 2007. TUE Written and performed by Mark Watson, Tim Key and Tom Basden TUE Produced by Lianne Coop TUE An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04lq2lz (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04lq2yd (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6scv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b04lq2yg (Listen) TUE Ebola TUE TUE Ebola is now regarded as an international threat to peace TUE and security, according to the World Health Organisation. TUE Yet, when the WHO was first warned of an unprecedented TUE outbreak, the organisation said it was TUE "still relatively small." TUE Now the UK has asked for volunteers to travel to West Africa TUE to try to bring Ebola under control. Thousands of American TUE troops are also flying out to the region. But could all this TUE have been avoided? Simon Cox asks why it took so long for TUE the world to wake up to the threat posed by Ebola? He also TUE investigates the treatments that are now, belatedly, being TUE developed - treatments that have existed for decades. TUE Vaccines and other drugs are being rushed into production at TUE an unprecedented pace, by-passing the usual safety controls. TUE However, all predictions are that many more people will die TUE before the disease is brought under control. Even then, will TUE it become endemic? TUE Reporter: Simon Cox TUE Producer: John Murphy. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04lq2yj (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b04lq2yl (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b04lpzyr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04lp52x (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04lq2yn (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04lq2yq (Listen) TUE Nora Webster, That Is Why God Made Music TUE TUE From the author of Brooklyn, a powerful and honest portrayal TUE of one woman's journey through grief, and towards hope in TUE rural Ireland. TUE It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two TUE young sons in a TUE small town on the east coast of Wexford. The love of her TUE life, Maurice, has just died and so Nora must work out how TUE to forge a new life for herself, and for her grieving TUE children. TUE Today: Nora discovers the healing power of music. TUE Reader: Brid Brennan TUE Writer: Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the TUE author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship and TUE The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker TUE Prize, and Brooklyn which was longlisted for the Man Booker TUE Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, plus an earlier TUE collection of stories, Mothers and Sons. TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Brid Brennan TUE Author: Colm Toibin TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE TUE 23:00 Small Scenes b04lq2ys (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode two of the symphonious sketch show, starring Daniel TUE Rigby, Sara Pascoe, Mike Wozniak, Cariad Lloyd and Henry TUE Paker. This week, Oxford Zoo is annexed by its own monkey TUE kingdom and a young woman falls TUE under the romantic spell of "The Great Dimbleby." TUE Written by Benjamin Partridge, Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak. TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Daniel Rigby TUE Performer: Sara Pascoe TUE Performer: Mike Wozniak TUE Performer: Cariad Lloyd TUE Performer: Henry Paker TUE Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer TUE Writer: Benjamin Partridge TUE Writer: Henry Paker TUE Writer: Mike Wozniak TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b04lq2yv (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04lp53v (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6scv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04lp53x (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04lp53z (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04lp541 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04lp543 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04mttth (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with WED Shaunaka Rishi, Director of the Oxford Centre of Hindu WED Studies. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04lsl1q (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and Produced by Sally Challoner. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkygm (Listen) WED Red-Billed Quelea WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the World's most numerous WED bird; red billed quelea. Red-billed queleas are the most WED numerous birds in the world and as part of the weaverbird WED family sound and look like small neat sparrows. Their WED ability to adapt to local conditions and travel for food WED allows large populations of fast-breeding queleas to build WED up. The statistics are mind-boggling. Some flocks of WED red-billed quelea can comprise millions of birds which may WED take hours to fly past. There are probably between one and a WED half and ten billion birds in Africa. They breed in vast WED colonies; one colony in Nigeria covered one hundred and ten WED hectares and contained thirty one million nests. WED WED 06:00 Today b04lsl1s (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b04lsl1v (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6scx (Listen) WED Porcelain: The White Gold of Saxony WED WED Neil MacGregor focuses on how 18th century German chemists WED discovered the secrets of Chinese porcelain, known then as WED 'white gold' - translucent, fine-glazed, and much-coveted. WED Porcelain became a lucrative WED source of income, and was used for prestigious diplomatic WED gifts. The Meissen porcelain factory remained one of the WED most prestigious parts of German manufacturing right up WED until 1945. WED Producer Paul Kobrak. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04lsl1x (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 b04m0rzf (Listen) WED The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, David WED WED By Rachel Joyce WED WED As Harold walks, Queenie writes. She tells of how she fell WED in love with Harold twenty four years ago and the day she WED met his son, David. WED WED Directed by Tracey Neale. WED WED Credits WED Queenie: Sophie Thompson WED Harold: Paul Venables WED Sister Mary Inconnue: Roslyn Hill WED David: Monty d'Inverno WED Sister Catherine: Elaine Claxton WED Sister Lucy: Hannah Genesius WED Finty: Jane Slavin WED Mr Henderson: Michael Bertenshaw WED Author: Rachel Joyce WED Director: Tracey Neale WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04lsl1z (Listen) WED Christine and Adam - Keeping Mum WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation asking when is it right to WED tell somebody else's secret? A mother and son have different WED ideas about whether she should have revealed his sexuality. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio WED 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain WED in which people across the UK volunteer to have a WED conversation with someone close to them about a subject WED they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations WED are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from WED local and national radio stations who facilitate each WED encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, WED and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, WED and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection WED between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations WED are being archived by the British Library and used to build WED up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the WED UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn WED more about The Listening Project by visiting WED bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Soldiers of the Empire b04lsl23 (Listen) WED The Fight in Fairyland WED WED On 22 October 1914, a Flemish priest from a village near WED Ypres recorded in his diary that Indian troops had been WED arriving throughout the hours of darkness in London double WED decker buses. The First Battle of WED Ypres had just begun and the Indian soldiers were being WED moved up to the front line. WED Santanu Das tells the story of the Indian Army on the WED Western Front, from disembarkation in Marseilles where the WED troops were greeted by excited crowds, to the grim reality WED of the trenches. Ill-equipped and inadequately trained for WED industrial combat, they nonetheless resolutely held one WED third of the British frontline between October and December WED 1914. WED Santanu speaks to the grandchildren and great-grandchildren WED of officers and men. Some of these descendants have WED re-discovered diaries and detailed accounts of the war which WED chronicle their ancestors'' encounters with local people and WED describe the mutual curiosity between the Indian soldiers WED and the French and Flemish villagers. Close bonds sprang up WED between the Indians and the local families with whom they WED billeted, with many sepoys home about their 'French WED mothers'. WED Back in India, the families waited for news from the front WED which was sometimes very slow to come back. The grandson of WED one Indian sowar (cavalryman) didn't discover how his WED grandfather had died until 40 years after the end of the WED First World War, when he heard from an old comrade how his WED grandfather died from his wounds after saving the life of a WED British officer at the Battle of Cambrai. WED Produced by Philippa Goodrich WED A Juniper TV production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04lsl25 (Listen) WED Series 2, Tempting Fete WED WED 2/6: Tempting Fete. In this second episode of the series, WED Lucy borrows Kat's guitar and finds that this machine WED irritates aliens. Meanwhile tempers are fraught as WED preparations are made for the annual village WED fete, and Richard receives some surprising news from The WED Computer. WED Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully is a sitcom WED about an alien race that have noticed that those all-at-once WED invasions of Earth never work out that well. So they've WED locked the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green WED behind an impenetrable force field in order to study human WED behaviour and decide if Earth is worth invading. WED The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new WED alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the WED weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when WED the force field went up. So along with Lucy Alexander (the WED only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against WED whatever you've got) she forms The Resistance - slightly to WED the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard who wish WED she wouldn't make so much of a fuss, and much to the WED annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his WED unintelligible minions and The Computer (his WED hyperintelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run WED the invasion. WED Written by Eddie Robson WED Script-edited by Arthur Mathews WED Original music written and performed by Grace Petrie WED Produced by Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Katrina Lyons: Hattie Morahan WED Richard Lyons: Peter Davison WED Margaret Lyons: Jan Francis WED Lucy Alexander: Hannah Murray WED Field Commander Uljabaan: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Computer: John-Luke Roberts WED Madeleine: Jane Slavin WED Penny: Elaine Claxton WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED Writer: Eddie Robson WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04lp545 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 21st-Century Mythologies b04lsl27 (Listen) WED Celebrity Pets WED WED In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes WED began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular WED culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In WED this series of witty talks, the WED acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series WED of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. WED Conrad ranges over the defining effluvia of our era, from WED the Shard, to the Kardashians to today, celebrity pets. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04lsl29 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04lp547 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04lsl2c (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Hidden Histories of the Information Age b04m3gc6 (Listen) WED Our World WED WED On June 25th 1967, 400 million people across the globe WED watched a ground-breaking TV show. It was called, in WED English, OUR WORLD and it was a feat beyond technological WED imagination: it was the first programme that WED linked up countries live by satellite. So everyone was WED watching what was happening on the other side of the world - WED or possibly next door - at the exact moment in time when it WED was actually happening. WED In our modern, 24-hour news world, it's hard to understand WED just how monumental this was, both technologically and WED politically. It was the golden age of television. Youth WED culture had a voice that was about to get much louder. WED International diplomacy was stretched to breaking point. And WED our world was rapidly shrinking. WED Aleks Krotoski tells the story of how the programme came WED about. She talks to curators from the Science Museum. WED The yellowing pages of Our World's original script is one of WED the exhibits in the new Information Age gallery at the WED Science Museum. It tells the story of the evolution in how WED we communicate with one another. The objects in the WED exhibition represent cultural moments from the last 200 WED years - not just technological innovations. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04lq2lz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04n94m3 (Listen) WED Golden Years, Friedrichstrasse, Berlin WED WED by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. WED WED The first of two plays based on the myths of rock and roll. WED When artist Karin gives an interview about her new WED exhibition she reveals the long-hidden true story behind an WED iconic photo of herself and a 70s rock star. WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED Credits WED Karin: Emma Fielding WED Petra: Francesca Annis WED Holger: Wilf Scolding WED Christina: Elaine Claxton WED Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Director: Marc Beeby WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b04lsmhj (Listen) WED Renting and Letting WED WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on personal WED finance. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b04lq2yl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b04lsmhl (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04lsmhn (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04lsmhq (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04lp549 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b01q8l39 (Listen) WED Series 2, Valentine's Day WED WED Tradition in the Trench/MacIlveny household dictates that WED Valentine's Day is the one day of the year when Damien is WED not allowed in the kitchen and Anthony can be left alone to WED cook a special meal to celebrate WED the occasion... much to Damien's chagrin. WED Meanwhile, Damien struggles to finish the links to a new WED series for Sky Arts all about the dietary habits of the WED great poets. And his dad has an unfortunate accident whilst WED walking the dog... WED Produced by: Sam Michell. WED WED Credits WED Damien Trench: Miles Jupp WED Anthony MacIlveny: Justin Edwards WED Damien's Mother: Selina Cadell WED Builder: Ben Crowe WED Mr Mullaney: Brendan Dempsey WED Marion Duffett: Lesley Vickerage WED Producer: Sam Michell WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04lsmhs (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04lsmhv (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6scx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b04lsmhx (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04lsmhz (Listen) WED Series 4, Risk and Reward WED WED Entrepreneur Robyn Scott tells the remarkable story of her WED transformative work with murderers and other violent WED criminals in one of South Africa's most notorious jails, and WED she argues that accepting more risk will improve public WED services. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b04lq28p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b04lsl1v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04lp54c (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04lsmj1 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04lsmj3 (Listen) WED Nora Webster, The Power of a Widow's Curse WED WED From the author of Brooklyn, a powerful and honest portrayal WED grief and hope in rural Ireland, read by Brid Brennan. WED WED It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two WED young sons in a small town on the east WED coast of Ireland. Her husband has just died and Nora is WED struggling to work out how to forge a new life for herself, WED and for her grieving children. WED Today: When her son's education comes under threat, Nora WED realises the power of a widow's curse. WED Reader: Brid Brennan WED Writer: Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the WED author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship and WED The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker WED Prize, and Brooklyn which was longlisted for the Man Booker WED Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, plus an earlier WED collection of stories, Mothers and Sons. WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Brid Brennan WED Author: Colm Toibin WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b01gvryw (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Nigel finds himself agreeing to join an unusual Simon and WED Garfunkel tribute act. Meanwhile Belinda is attempting to WED keep a coachload of WED pensioners captive in the Arts Centre Gift Shop. WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Nigel Penny: Richie Webb WED Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine WED Alf: Dave Lamb WED Jonathan: Dave Lamb WED Eric: Jim North WED Steve: Jim North WED Jemima: Jess Robinson WED Writer: Richie Webb WED Producer: Richie Webb WED Director: Nick Walker WED WED 23:15 Terry Pratchett b01r9rtv (Listen) WED Eric, Episode 3 WED WED Adapted by Robin Brooks. WED WED Terry Pratchett's many Discworld novels combine a WED Technicolor imagination with a razor sharp wit, especially WED when he rewrites Faust as spotty teenage demonologist Eric. WED WED 3/ 4 Eric has WED summoned a demon and wished to meet the most beautiful woman WED in the world. Unfortunately, this lands him in a wooden WED horse in the middle of a rather famous siege. Fortunately, WED he is accompanied by junior wizard Rincewind, and his WED indefatigable Luggage. WED Rincewind ..... Mark Heap WED Death ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Eric ..... Will Howard WED Lavaeolus ..... Rick Warden WED Elenor ..... Christine Absalom WED Sergeant ..... Ben Crowe WED Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie WED Creator ..... Robert Blythe WED Director ..... Jonquil Panting. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b04lsmj5 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04lp55g (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6scx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04lp55j (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04lp55l (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04lp55n (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04lp55q (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04n69cp (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with THU Shaunaka Rishi, Director of the Oxford Centre of Hindu THU Studies. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04lsqgn (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkyht (Listen) THU House Crow THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the house crow, native of THU southern Asia. Leggier and longer-billed than the slightly THU larger European carrion crow and having a charcoal grey bib THU and collar and raucous call, these are common birds in towns THU and villages from Iran through India to Thailand. As THU scavengers they eat almost anything, which is how they've THU come to live alongside us. We provide water as well as food THU and have introduced the birds into areas of the Middle East THU and Africa. Although they don't fly long distances, the THU crows often hop aboard ships and arrive in foreign ports. THU Ship-assisted house crows have the potential to spread THU around the globe, a beautiful example of avian exploitation THU of human activity. THU THU 06:00 Today b04lsqgq (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b04lsqgs (Listen) THU The Haitian Revolution THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Haitian Revolution. THU In 1791 an uprising began in the French colonial territory THU of St Domingue. Partly a consequence of the French THU Revolution and partly a backlash against THU the brutality of slave owners, it turned into a complex THU struggle involving not just the residents of the island but THU French, English and American forces. By 1804 the former THU slaves had won, establishing the first independent state in THU Latin America and the first nation to be created as a result THU of a successful slave rebellion. But the revolution also THU created one of the world's most impoverished societies, a THU legacy which Haiti has struggled to escape. THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6sd1 (Listen) THU From Clock to Car: Masters of Metal THU THU Neil MacGregor focuses on the long tradition of German THU metalwork, from finely-engineered clocks to the Volkswagen THU Beetle. German gold and silversmiths were established as the THU best in the world, but it was for THU the making of scientific instruments that Germany's workers THU of the other metals were especially renowned. They worked THU across a whole range of disciplines at the highest level, THU combining academic, scientific and practical skills with THU mathematics and creative artistry. THU Producer Paul Kobrak. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04lsqgv (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 b04m3ckm (Listen) THU The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, Poems THU THU By Rachel Joyce THU THU Harold Fry has been walking forty days and Queenie waits. THU She writes and Sister Mary types. Did David steal the poems THU and will Queenie's secret be revealed? THU THU Directed by Tracey Neale. THU THU Credits THU Queenie: Sophie Thompson THU Harold: Paul Venables THU Sister Mary Inconnue: Roslyn Hill THU David: Monty d'Inverno THU Sister Catherine: Elaine Claxton THU Sister Lucy: Hannah Genesius THU Finty: Jane Slavin THU Mr Henderson: Michael Bertenshaw THU Author: Rachel Joyce THU Director: Tracey Neale THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b04lp55s (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Cuba Offline b04lsqgx (Listen) THU Cuba is one of the last pre-internet cultures on the planet. THU Partly as a result of the US blockade, partly because of the THU Cuban government's policy, only a small elite can get THU online. Most people over school THU age have never experienced the internet. But as Nick Baker THU finds out with the aid of Anglo-Cuban journalist Arnaldo THU Hernandez Diaz, things are beginning to change. THU Nick and Arnaldo go to state-run internet cafés, speak to THU bloggers, and visit one of the country's first estate THU agents. It has a dot com address but, however modern it THU looks, it isn't really online. A staff member has to shell THU out for expensive hotel Wi-Fi to update the website. Nick THU and Arnaldo also learn about the lively unofficial market in THU downloaded TV and movies, circulating door to door rather THU than digitally. THU If and when the internet becomes widely accessible, the THU effect on Cuba's economy might be more significant than the THU impact on freedom of speech. The programme also looks at the THU American attempt to infiltrate Cuba's fledgling mobile phone THU and text service, and what the state is doing to defend THU itself from 'harmful outside influences'. THU Speakers include Cubans queuing for hours to get email THU service on their phones and people who would dearly love to THU get connected, to spread their opinions or advertise their THU services. THU There's no question Cuba is preparing itself for increased THU internet access, and it will have a major effect on social, THU cultural and media life there. Nick and Arnaldo consider the THU potential damage to Cuba's very personal social culture, and THU the political impact of Cuba finally getting online. THU Produced by Nick Baker THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04lp55v (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 21st-Century Mythologies b04lsqgz (Listen) THU The E-Reader THU THU In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes THU began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular THU culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In THU this series of witty talks, the THU acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series THU of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. THU Conrad ranges over the defining effluvia of our era, from THU the Shard, to the Kardashians to today, the e-reader. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04lsqh1 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04lp55x (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04lsqh3 (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Hidden Histories of the Information Age b04m3ftg (Listen) THU Leo Computer THU THU The company that brought computers into business was Lyons, THU known for its cakes and teashops. Aleks Krotoski tells the THU story of how this technology transformed office work. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04lsmhs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04n9301 (Listen) THU Golden Years, Monty Street, Mansfield THU THU by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. THU THU The second of two plays based on the myths of rock and roll. THU Ezra and Lottie are an ordinary couple with an extraordinary THU problem - a dead rock star in their bathtub. And why are THU there Hell's Angels at their door? THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU Credits THU Ezra: Robert J Purdy THU Lottie: Esther Coles THU Bruno: Ken Bones THU Miranda: Jaimi Barbakoff THU Shrek: Harry Myers THU Maggie: Elaine Claxton THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Director: Marc Beeby THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b04lsr0n (Listen) THU Series 28, The Dales Way, Part Six THU THU Clare Balding enjoys the final leg of The Dales Way in the THU company of one of the men who designed it, Colin Spearman. THU Colin, joined by his wife Fleur, explains his intention of THU linking the industrial THU conurbations of West Yorkshire with the Lake District. As THU they walk from Staveley to Bowness, Clare reflects on her THU experience of the route and how much it has meant to her. THU Colin , Fleur and Clare celebrate the end of the journey THU with ice cream and a paddle in Lake Windermere. THU Producer Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Colin Spearman THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04lp62b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b04lpd9y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04lss81 (Listen) THU Francine Stock presents a new series running throughout The THU Film Programme for the next two months- The Story Of The THU Sound Effect. To mark the BFI's season Days Of Fear And THU Wonder, the programme will hear from THU the people who created some of the most famous sound effects THU in the history of science fiction cinema. This week, Ben THU Burtt on the light sabre. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Ben Burtt THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04lss83 (Listen) THU Dr Lucie Green investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04lss85 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04lp55z (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b04lss87 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 2 THU THU John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, THU regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things THU like Miranda, records a fourth series of his hit sketch THU show. THU THU 2/6: This second edition of the THU fourth series has a sketch that you'll never really own; the THU rudest of awakenings for one particular pet; and a look at THU the often ignored positive side of stereotyping. THU The first series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme was THU described as "sparklingly clever" by The Daily Telegraph and THU "one of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite THU some time" by The Guardian. The second series won Best Radio THU Comedy at both the Chortle and Comedy.co.uk awards, and was THU nominated for a Radio Academy award. The third series THU actually won a Radio Academy award. THU In this fourth series, John has written more sketches, like THU the sketches from the other series. Not so much like them THU that they feel stale and repetitious; but on the other hand THU not so different that it feels like a misguided attempt to THU completely change the show. Quite like the old sketches, in THU other words, but about different things and with different THU jokes. (Although it's a pretty safe bet some of them will THU involve talking animals.) THU Written by and starring ... John Finnemore THU Also featuring ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry THU Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. THU Original music by ... Susannah Pearse. THU Producer ... Ed Morrish. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: John Finnemore THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: Simon Kane THU Ensemble: Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU Writer: John Finnemore THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04lstkm (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04lstkp (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6sd1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b04lq28r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b04lstkr (Listen) THU Flash Sales THU THU Flash sale companies are growing fast. Evan Davis and guests THU discuss how this new retail sector is changing the way we THU shop. How does the business model work? Just how low can the THU prices go? And are these THU internet discounters a help or a hindrance for luxury THU brands? THU Guests : THU Victoria Walton, co-founder Sportpursuit THU Jamie Jackson, executive vice-chairman MySale Group THU Ilan Benhaim, co-founder Vente-Privee THU Producer : Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04lss83 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b04lsqgs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b04lp561 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04lstkt (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04lstkw (Listen) THU Nora Webster, She Had No Idea What to Do THU THU From the author of Brooklyn, a powerful and honest portrayal THU grief and hope in rural Ireland, read by Brid Brennan. THU It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two THU young sons in a small town in THU Wexford. Her husband has just died and Nora is trying to THU find a way to forge a new life for herself, and for her THU grieving children. THU Today: With Donal struggling at school and Aine becoming THU more and more involved in politics, Nora fears she cannot THU hold the family together. THU Reader: Brid Brennan THU Writer: Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the THU author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship and THU The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker THU Prize, and Brooklyn which was longlisted for the Man Booker THU Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, plus an earlier THU collection of stories, Mothers and Sons. THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Brid Brennan THU Author: Colm Toibin THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett THU THU 23:00 52 First Impressions with David Quantick b04lstky (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Journalist and comedy writer David Quantick has met and THU interviewed hundreds of people. What were his first THU impressions, how have they changed and does it all matter? THU THU In this second programme (of four), there THU are stories about David Bowie, Fidel Castro and his dad, THU among others. THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b04lstl0 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 24 OCTOBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04lp577 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6sd1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04lp579 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04lp57c (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04lp57f (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04lp57h (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04n69jm (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with FRI Shaunaka Rishi, Director of the Oxford Centre of Hindu FRI Studies. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04lsxh1 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkylk (Listen) FRI King Eider FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Arctic specialist the FRI king eider duck. Relatives of the larger common eider found FRI around the British coast, king eiders breed around the FRI Arctic and sub-Arctic coasts of the northern hemisphere. As FRI true marine ducks they can dive to depths of 25 metres on FRI occasion, to feed on molluscs and marine crustaceans. The FRI drake King Eider has colourful markings; having a black and FRI white body with a reddish bill, surmounted by an FRI orange-yellow shield. His cheeks are pale mint-green and his FRI crown and nape are lavender-grey. He uses his bill pattern FRI and head colours in a highly ritualised display to woo his FRI mate, fluffing up his chest and issuing an amorous coo-ing FRI call. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04lsxh3 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b04mgsj9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6sd5 (Listen) FRI Bauhaus: Cradle of the Modern FRI FRI Neil MacGregor focuses on the Bauhaus school of art and FRI design, founded in Weimar in 1919. FRI Our cities and houses today, our furniture and typography, FRI are unthinkable without the functional elegance pioneered by FRI the Bauhaus. FRI FRI Producer Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04m3jct (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 b04m3cf2 (Listen) FRI The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The Arrival FRI FRI By Rachel Joyce FRI FRI Queenie is waiting for Harold Fry to arrive but she is FRI running out of time. As she writes we discover why she has FRI hidden away from him for over twenty years. FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale. FRI FRI Credits FRI Queenie: Sophie Thompson FRI Harold: Paul Venables FRI Sister Mary Inconnue: Roslyn Hill FRI Sister Catherine: Elaine Claxton FRI Sister Lucy: Hannah Genesius FRI Finty: Jane Slavin FRI Mr Henderson: Michael Bertenshaw FRI David: Monty d'Inverno FRI Author: Rachel Joyce FRI Director: Tracey Neale FRI FRI 11:00 Reclaiming the Swastika b04lsxh5 (Listen) FRI For most people in the West, the swastika remains FRI inextricably linked to the atrocities committed by the Nazis FRI in the last century. But there have been calls to reclaim FRI the symbol from its Nazi links and FRI restore its origin as an ancient symbol signalling good FRI luck. For many, such a suggestion is an outrageous affront FRI to good taste. FRI So can these two views ever be reconciled? Mukti Jain FRI Campion examines the symbol's long and surprising pre-Nazi FRI history and discovers how the Nazi adoption of it is based FRI on a mistaken interpretation of ancient Indian texts. FRI She talks to historians, visits the world's oldest FRI identified swastika in Ukraine, meets a tattoo artist in FRI Copenhagen with a mission to revive the ancient symbol and FRI hears what the swastika means today to a 93 year old Jewish FRI holocaust survivor. FRI Produced by Mukti Jain Campion FRI A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Jeeves Live b03y00qw (Listen) FRI Series 2, Jeeves Takes Charge FRI FRI Martin Jarvis performs the second of two of two celebrated FRI P.G. Wodehouse stories, starring Bertie Wooster and his FRI urbane valet Jeeves. FRI FRI Recorded before a live audience, the performance was a FRI highlight of the FRI 2013 Cheltenham Festival of Literature. FRI This is Bertie's account of how he hired Jeeves as his FRI 'gentleman's personal' gentleman. Jeeves's first task is to FRI assist Bertie in spiriting away a scandalous family memoir, FRI before publication. And more crucially, extricating the FRI young master from the clutches of Florence. FRI It's a one-man tour de force - as well as Jeeves and FRI Wooster, Jarvis also portrays Bertie's fiendish fiancée FRI Florence Craye. In reviews for his previous one-man Radio 4 FRI Wodehouse performance, The Times said, "Outshining all was FRI Martin Jarvis in the funniest performance of the FRI year...Jarvis switched unerringly from one character to the FRI next." FRI Martin Jarvis received a Theatre World Award for his FRI performance as Jeeves in 'By Jeeves' on Broadway. FRI Directed by Rosalind Ayres FRI A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Martin Jarvis FRI Director: Rosalind Ayres FRI Author: PG Wodehouse FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04lp57k (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 21st-Century Mythologies b04lsxh7 (Listen) FRI The 9/11 Museum FRI FRI In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes FRI began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular FRI culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In FRI this series of witty talks, the FRI acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series FRI of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. FRI Conrad ranges over the defining cultural icons of our era, FRI from the Shard, to the Kardashians to today, the e 9/11 FRI Museum. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04m3jcw (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04lp57m (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04lsxh9 (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Hidden Histories of the Information Age b04m3jcy (Listen) FRI GPS FRI FRI Soldiers traditionally learned to find their way around with FRI a compass and a map. Aleks Krotoski explores how GPS FRI transformed navigation during the first Gulf War in 1991. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04lstkm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01hxpxw (Listen) FRI The Grudge FRI FRI A wry political comedy from James Graham. The only British FRI prime minister ever to be assassinated was shot as he FRI entered the House of Commons. Two centuries later, as the FRI turbulent elections of 1997 loom, could FRI that event change the political landscape of a sleepy rural FRI constituency, its settled incumbent and unwitting FRI electorate? FRI Director ..... Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI Credits FRI Henry Bellingham: Robert Bathurst FRI Roger Percival: Stephen Critchlow FRI Corrine: Christine Absalom FRI Georgia: Lizzy McInnerny FRI Cafe owner: David Holt FRI Librarian: David Holt FRI Reporter: David Holt FRI Party Chairman: Peter Hamilton Dyer FRI George Turner: Peter Hamilton Dyer FRI Marjorie: Tracy Wiles FRI Martin: Harry Livingstone FRI Labour Candidate: Gerard McDermott FRI Writer: James Graham FRI Producer: Peter Kavanagh FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04lsxhc (Listen) FRI Findon FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from FRI Findon in West Sussex. Bunny Guinness, Christine Walkden and FRI Matthew Wilson take questions from the audience of local FRI gardeners. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Ian Fleming's Thrilling Cities b04lsxhf (Listen) FRI Chicago and New York FRI FRI In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was FRI commissioned by the Sunday Times to explore some of the FRI world's most exotic cities. Travelling to the Far East and FRI then to America, he left the bright main FRI streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in FRI favour of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, FRI gangsters and geishas. The result is a series of vivid FRI snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world. FRI Fleming wrote, 'On November 2nd, armed with a sheaf of FRI visas...one suitcase...and my typewriter, I left humdrum FRI London for the thrilling cities of the world. All my life I FRI have been interested in adventure and abroad. I have enjoyed FRI the frisson of leaving the wide, well-lit streets and FRI venturing up back alleys in search of the hidden, authentic FRI pulse of towns. It was perhaps this habit that turned me FRI into a writer of thrillers.' FRI In today's episode, Fleming flies to the USA and visits the FRI garage in Chicago where the St. Valentine's Day Massacre FRI took place. In New York, he thrills at the sight of the FRI traffic lights changing from red to green in unison all the FRI way down Park Avenue. FRI Read by Simon Williams FRI Abridged by Mark Burgess FRI Produced by David Blount FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04m3jd0 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b04m3jd2 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04lsy01 (Listen) FRI Christine and Adam - Understanding Dad FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a mother and son about FRI the distance between the son and his father, and the FRI similarities she sees in them. 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 Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04m3jd4 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04lp57p (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b04lsy03 (Listen) FRI Series 85, Episode 1 FRI FRI Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Producer: Lyndsay Fenner FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04lsy0c (Listen) FRI Roy goes a step too far, and Ed disgraces himself. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Jazzer McCready: Ryan Kelly FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04lsy0l (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6sd5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04lsy0t (Listen) FRI Dr Carol Bell, Carwyn Jones AM, Rhun Ap Iorwerth AM, Bernard FRI Jenkin MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Theatr Brycheiniog in Brecon, Powys, with Welsh First FRI Minister Carwyn Jones AM, Energy expert Dr Carol Bell, Chair FRI of the Public Administration FRI Select Committee Bernard Jenkin MP and Plaid Cymru's FRI Economic Spokesman Rhun Ap Iorwerth AM. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04lsy13 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04lsyrg (Listen) FRI Omnibus, Episode 3 FRI FRI Prof Kathy Willis, Director of Science at the Royal Botanic FRI Garden, Kew, with the omnibus edition of her history of our FRI changing relationship with plants during the early 20th FRI century. FRI FRI Kathy Willis examines how FRI the complete picture of photosynthesis led to new FRI opportunities to manipulate plant growth; the ability of FRI plants to exhibit multiple forms that shed light on why FRI flowering plants evolved so quickly; the legacy of tree FRI diseases during the 20th century; the hunt for wild FRI ancestors of our domestic crops in order to maintain FRI resilience within our future food supplies; and botanical FRI medicines and the hunt for new medicinal cocktails at home FRI and abroad. FRI Producer Adrian Washbourne. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04lp57r (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04lsyrj (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04lsyrl (Listen) FRI Nora Webster, Will We Be Alright? FRI FRI From the author of Brooklyn, a haunting portrayal of grief FRI and hope in rural Ireland, read by Brid Brennan. FRI It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two FRI young sons in a small town in Wexford. FRI Her husband has just died and Nora is struggling to work out FRI how to forge a new life for herself, and for her grieving FRI children. FRI Today: A message from her dead husband forces Nora finally FRI to move on. FRI Reader: Brid Brennan FRI Writer: Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the FRI author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship and FRI The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker FRI Prize, and Brooklyn which was longlisted for the Man Booker FRI Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, as well as an earlier FRI collection of stories, Mothers and Sons. FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Brid Brennan FRI Author: Colm Toibin FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b04lq2ls (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b04lsyrn (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04lsyrq (Listen) FRI Christine and Adam - The Isolation of Depression FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a son who hid FRI the worst of his depression and his mother who wants to FRI understand what happened. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot FRI of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK FRI volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them FRI about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. FRI The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams FRI of producers from local and national radio stations who FRI facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not FRI BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts FRI up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment FRI of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited FRI conversations are being archived by the British Library and FRI used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique FRI portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. FRI You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
17 October, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 18/10/2014 - 24/10/2014
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