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SAT SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04p57ny (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04pc6kw (Listen) SAT Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir, Wrapping Up SAT SAT Alan Cumming reads his deeply moving memoir about his SAT relationship with his father and the mystery of his maternal SAT grandfather. Today, wrapping up. SAT SAT Written and read by Alan Cumming. SAT Abridged by Sara Davies. SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT Advice and Support SAT Below are details of organisations which offer advice and SAT support relating to the challenging issues this programme SAT raises. You can also call the Radio 4 Action Line on 0800 SAT 044 044. SAT The National Association for People Abused in Childhood SAT is a charity that offers support, advice and guidance to SAT adult survivors of any form of childhood abuse. SAT SAT Phone: 0808 801 0331 SAT www.napac.org.uk SAT SAT HAVOCA – Help for Adult Victims of Child Abuse SAT is run by survivors for adult survivors of child abuse. SAT They provide support, friendship and advice for any adult SAT whose life has been affected by childhood abuse. This SAT includes a wealth of information online as well as allowing SAT people to connect through The HAVOCA Survivor Forums for SAT mutual support. SAT http://www.havoca.org/ SAT SAT SupportLine SAT offers confidential emotional support to children, young SAT adults and adults by telephone, email and post. SAT SAT To speak directly with a SupportLine worker in confidence SAT call 01708 765200. SAT SAT There is also information on their website. SAT www.supportline.org.uk SAT Supportline: information and support for survivors of child SAT abuse SAT http://www.supportline.org.uk/problems/child_abuse_survivors SAT php SAT SAT The NSPCC SAT is a charity specialising in child protection and the SAT prevention of cruelty to children. The charity has a free SAT anonymous 24/7 helpline that provides help, advice and SAT support to adults worried about a child. SAT SAT Helpline: 0808 800 5000 SAT SAT Text: 88858 SAT SAT Email: SAT help@nspcc.org.uk SAT SAT www.nspcc.org.uk SAT SAT WithScotland SAT is a national resource to support professionals working with SAT children and adults at risk of harm and abuse. It is hosted SAT by the University of Stirling and funded by local SAT authorities, Police Scotland, NHS and Scottish Government. SAT SAT If you are a member of the public who is worried about the SAT safety and wellbeing of a child you should report your SAT concerns to the local area where the child lives. Visit SAT www.withscotland.org/public SAT and use the postcode search facility to find the contact SAT details of the local council. SAT SAT For further information use one of the following: SAT SAT Phone: 01786 466320 SAT SAT Email: SAT withscotland@stir.ac.uk SAT www.withscotland.org SAT SAT ChildLine SAT is the UK’s free, 24-hour confidential helpline for children SAT and young people who need to talk. Trained counsellors are SAT there to provide comfort, support and advice about any SAT problem that’s on your mind. Contact them 24 hours a day, SAT every day, by phone or via their website. SAT SAT Helpline: 0800 1111 (calls are free from all existing SAT networks – landline and mobile) SAT www.childline.org.uk SAT SAT Samaritans SAT is available for anyone struggling to cope round the clock, SAT every single day of the year. They provide a safe place to SAT talk where calls are completely confidential. Get in touch SAT by phone or email or find the details for the local branch SAT online SAT SAT Phone: 08457 90 90 90 SAT SAT Email: SAT jo@samaritans.org SAT www.samaritans.org SAT SAT The Everyman Project SAT runs a programme that aims to help men to change their SAT angry, violent or abusive behaviour. It also provides a SAT support service for partners of men on the programme. SAT SAT Phone: 0207 263 8884 SAT www.everymanproject.co.uk SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Alan Cumming SAT Author: Alan Cumming SAT Abridger: Sara Davies SAT Producer: Elizabeth Allard SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04p57p0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04p57p2 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04p57p4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04p57p6 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04pcd79 (Listen) SAT Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04p57p8 (Listen) SAT 'We made them smell blue.' iPM hears from a listener and SAT scientist who has made maggots smell the colour blue. SAT Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Email SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04p57pb (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04p57pd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04pc2zj (Listen) SAT Steart Peninsula, Somerset SAT SAT Felicity Evans visits Steart Marshes on Somerset's Steart SAT Peninsular just as the sea wall is breached to transform SAT this landscape. SAT SAT Rising sea levels are putting the squeeze on wildlife along SAT the coast and also SAT leaving coastal villages under threat of flooding, but SAT earlier this year, The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (The WWT) SAT and the Environment Agency began the creation of the UK's SAT largest new wetland reserve. The sea wall was purposely SAT breached to create an inter-tidal range that will see the SAT development of salt marsh - a habitat that is currently SAT under threat. As WWT Warden Alys Laver explained, in making SAT the breach, Steart Marshes will create safe habitats for SAT rare species whilst also offering a flood defence for the SAT nearby villages. It will also provide an accessible nature SAT reserve for the local community right on their doorstep. SAT SAT For PhD student Adam George of the local Bridgwater College, SAT it's a unique opportunity to study the effects - and SAT possible benefits - of salt marsh creation whilst for SAT Steart's dedicated volunteers - including 14 year old Jo - SAT it's a chance to watch a whole landscape change in their SAT lifetime. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04pqxbd (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Sugar SAT SAT With the sugar beet harvest, or campaign as it's known, SAT currently underway Farming Today This Week explores the SAT British sugar industry. The company, British Sugar, SAT processes all of the UK's sugar beet and works SAT directly with 3,500 farmers. This morning Charlotte Smith is SAT at one of their processing plants in Norfolk. During the SAT campaign a lorry carrying 30 tonnes of sugar beet arrives at SAT the factory, in Wissington, around every 45 seconds. SAT Charlotte finds out how the farmers work with British Sugar SAT and how the sugar beet is processed into the sugar we SAT sprinkle on our cereal. SAT SAT Sugar production quotas in the EU are set to come to an end SAT in 2017. Farming Today This Week asks British Sugar what SAT will happen to the markets in the run up to the end of the SAT quota system. And with high stocks of sugar on the EU SAT market, farmers will face a 20% cut in the price they're SAT paid for the crop next year. British Sugar will also reduce SAT their production by 20% and has offered farmers a one year SAT contract 'holiday', Anna Hill speaks to a farmer in Suffolk SAT who has taken the company up on this offer. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04p57pg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04pqz6n (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT Today's running order SAT 0734 SAT Protestors took to the streets of Mexico this week to vent SAT their anger over the disappearance last month of 43 student SAT protestors after police handed the students over to a drug SAT gang. It highlights the extraordinary extent of violence SAT and corruption in the country much of which has been aimed SAT at women in recent years. It's estimated that as many as SAT 120,000 women were raped in Mexico last year and another SAT 4,000 disappeared after being kidnapped. Many were later SAT found dead. Womens' rights groups claim that only a small SAT fraction of these cases were ever investigated by police. SAT The result, they say, is a culture of impunity for violence SAT women in Mexico. Our Correspondent, Mike Thomson, reports SAT from Mexico City SAT 0743 SAT There is a homecoming parade today for an army medical team SAT that ran what became one of the best hospitals in the world SAT for trauma care. It was in Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. The SAT people who ran the hospital are based at Strensall barracks SAT in York. Reporter Zoe Conway is there. SAT 0749 SAT It's three decades since we heard talk of 'breaking the SAT mould' of British politics. At that time it was the SAT Liberals, in alliance with the SDP, the Social Democrats, SAT who had a string of by-election successes and seemed to SAT threaten the dominance of two-party politics. Now it's UKIP, SAT with Nigel Farage saying after the Rochester and Strood SAT success that it could get as many as 40 seats. Ukip is SAT threatening to make the coming general election a wildly SAT unpredictable affair. Paul Nuttall is Ukip deputy leader and SAT David Owen is one of the founders of the SDP, when it broke SAT from the Labour Party. SAT 0810 SAT The first organised group of NHS volunteers trained to SAT tackle the Ebola crisis leaves for Sierra Leone today. More SAT than thirty of them will complete their training in the SAT country before starting work in British-built treatment SAT centres. One of them is Gareth Ross, a paramedic from SAT Yorkshire. Joanna Reid is head of DIFD Ebola response team SAT in Sierra Leone. SAT 0817 SAT So-called bed blockers are a big problem for the NHS. SAT They're usually old people who can't leave hospital quite SAT simply because there's nowhere for them to go and no-one to SAT look after them. The number of people in that state is the SAT highest it's been for three years. Now some hospitals are SAT threatening to take legal action against people who refuse SAT to have their elderly relatives back home. One of them is SAT Bournemouth and Christchurch and Katie Whiteside is their SAT clinical manager for discharge. SAT 0823 SAT The first opera in Richard Wagner's Ring cycle has been the SAT basis of an experiment to try to find out more about how we SAT hear and understand music. Researchers used the Ring - the SAT four operas usually take more than 13 hours - to measure SAT unconscious indicators of excitement, engagement.....and SAT perhaps the turn-off factor too. It's happening at the Being SAT Human festival. Sir Colin Blakemore is Professor of SAT Neuroscience and Philosophy at University of London, part of SAT the research team. SAT 0831 SAT People who know Ed Miliband say they've never known him as SAT angry as he was yesterday after the by-election in Rochester SAT and Strood. And when you look at the papers this morning SAT you can see why. Because the big story is not about the SAT Tories losing a safe seat to UKIP... it's about the class SAT war and Labour's part in it. It was sparked off by one of SAT his shadow ministers, Emily Thornberry, who'd tweeted a SAT photo of a house decorated with English flags and a white SAT van outside it. She seemed to be sneering at the house's SAT owner. She resigned from the front bench in double-quick SAT time. But the damage had been done and Labour was being SAT presented as an elitist party that's simple no longer in SAT touch with the working class from which it sprang. A party SAT of snobs. Has the party really changed that much? Hazel SAT Blears is a former Labour minister. SAT 0837 SAT The father of a man shot dead by police in Ferguson, SAT Missouri, has appealed for peace ahead of a grand jury SAT decision against the officer. Aleem Maqbool reports. SAT 0841 SAT Plans to close the Imperial War Museum library have been SAT opposed in a petition signed by 9,450 people. The Prospect SAT union said a £4m cut in annual government funding left the SAT institution facing the closure of the library and the loss SAT of around 80 jobs. An Imperial War Museum spokesman said the SAT plans were in response to the need to "reduce costs" and SAT "respond to challenges and opportunities". A consultation is SAT currently underway. Else Churchill is from the Society of SAT Genealogists. SAT 0847 SAT How is OFSTED dealing with the problem of radicalisation in SAT schools? This week it said pupils at six Muslim private SAT schools in east London were 'at risk', and a Church of SAT England school in the same area was criticised for failing SAT to monitor a sixth-form Islamic society. The action was SAT taken after a series of snap inspections. Baroness Perry, a SAT Conservative peer, is a former chief inspector of schools SAT and Jonathan Simons is head of education at the think tank SAT Policy Exchange. SAT SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b04pqz6q (Listen) SAT Carrie Grant SAT SAT Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by vocal coach, SAT singer and television presenter, Carrie Grant. SAT Best known for her role as the vocal coach on the hit talent SAT show, Fame Academy, she has also worked SAT on Pop Idol and The One Show, where she conducted 500 SAT viewers in the life-affirming "virtual choir". SAT SAT Rebecca Root explains how she helps transsexual and SAT transgendered people, like herself, to discover their voice. SAT SAT The first photographer to capture on film the incomparable SAT Kate Bush - we hear from her brother John Carder Bush on how SAT he rescued the negatives from a skip to make a collection of SAT photographs. SAT SAT JP Devlin visits a tattoo convention in Bournemouth. SAT SAT Jockie Reid reveals why he has taken up motorcycling at the SAT age of eighty one. SAT SAT The palaeobiologist, Dr. Victoria Herridge, on her passion SAT for Ice Age mammals and the trip of a lifetime - to take SAT part in an autopsy of a 40,000 year old woolly mammoth. SAT SAT And the writer, Jung Chang, chooses her Inheritance Tracks: SAT God Bless the Child, by Billie Holliday and The Sweetest SAT Embrace by Barry Adamson. SAT SAT Cathy, by John Carder Bush. SAT SAT Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern SAT China by Jung Chang. SAT SAT Woolly Mammoth: The Autopsy - on Channel 4 on Sunday 23 SAT November at 8pm. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Carrie Grant SAT Interviewed Guest: Jung Chang SAT Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Root SAT Interviewed Guest: John Carder Bush SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Victoria Herridge SAT SAT 10:30 The Frequency of Laughter: A History of Radio Comedy SAT b04pqz6s (Listen) SAT 1990-1995 SAT SAT The Frequency of Laughter is a six-part history of radio SAT comedy, covering 1975-2005, presented by journalist and SAT radio fan Grace Dent. In each episode she brings together SAT two figures who were making significant SAT radio comedy at the same time, and asks them about their SAT experiences. This is a conversational history that focuses SAT on the people who were there and the atmosphere within the SAT BBC and the wider comedy world that allowed them to make SAT great radio - or not. SAT SAT This fourth edition features Richard Herring and Sarah Smith SAT looking at radio comedy in the early 1990s, when they were SAT both starting out in - Sarah was the producer who gave SAT Richard his first commission. And while Richard and his SAT double-act partner Stewart Lee made names for themselves as SAT writers and performers, writing for On The Hour as well as SAT their own shows such as Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World SAT and Lee & Herring's Fist of Fun, Sarah was forging a SAT reputation as one of the most talented producers around, not SAT only working on Lee & Herring's output but also The League SAT of Gentlemen and The Harpoon. Grace asks them about the SAT atmosphere within the Radio Comedy department and the SAT creative collaboration within it; they share their memories SAT of former Head of Light Entertainment Radio (as it was then SAT called) Jonathan James-Moore; and they talk about their time SAT working on Week Ending, Radio 4's flagship topical sketch SAT show which ran from 1970-1998. SAT SAT The Frequency of Laughter is presented by Grace Dent, a SAT journalist for The Independent, and is a BBC Radio Comedy SAT production. SAT SAT Presenter ... Grace Dent SAT Guest ... Richard Herring SAT Guest ... Sarah Smith SAT Interviewee ... Armando Iannucci SAT Interviewee ... Diane Messias SAT SAT Producers ... Ed Morrish & Alexandra Smith. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b04pr06t (Listen) SAT George Parker of the Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT What next for Ukip after their Rochester by-election SAT victory? Is there reason to be gloomy about the economic SAT outlook? Two SAT former chancellors give their views. Does Theresa May want SAT to be Conservative leader if the position becomes vacant? SAT And getting politicians to say what they really mean. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04p57pj (Listen) SAT Swimming in Iran SAT SAT Foreign correspondents. Nick Thorpe on the Russian speakers SAT in Ukraine who want the future of their country linked to SAT western Europe, not to Moscow; Thomas Fessy examines how the SAT Islamist fighters of Boko Haram SAT are extending their operations out of Nigeria into SAT neighbouring Cameroon; Shaimaa Khalil in Karachi on the SAT difficulties and the dangers health workers face trying to SAT convince people to be immunised against polio; Chris Bockman SAT in Montpellier has been learning what an exiled Syrian SAT billionaire has to do with the local rugby club and what's SAT the correct etiquette for an American woman keen for a swim SAT in Iran? Amy Guttman has been finding out. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04p57pl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04pr06w (Listen) SAT RBS and Nat West suffered another IT failure this week - the SAT day after they were fined £56m for a previous outage that SAT left 6.5m customers without access to their bank accounts SAT for many days. Why are these SAT annoying stoppages continuing? And what can the banks or the SAT regulator do about them? SAT SAT From this week, even more people will be able to make SAT payments using their mobile phone. PayM - a new service that SAT allows you to move money from your bank account to someone SAT else's using only their mobile phone number - has been SAT extended to all the major banks. And now some banks and SAT building societies are offering the service to small SAT businesses. SAT SAT More Money Box listeners have had their credit card details SAT stolen after booking accomodation through the website SAT Booking.com. SAT SAT And we hear how people who invested money in a SAT foreign-exchange trading website have been left stranded SAT after the site suddenly disappeared. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b04pcd57 (Listen) SAT Series 85, Episode 5 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, who is joined by Susan Calman, Hugo Rifkind and SAT Andy Hamilton, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Hugo Rifkind SAT Panellist: Andy Hamilton SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04p57pn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04p57pq (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04pcd5f (Listen) SAT Louise Bours MEP, Sir Malcolm Bruce MP, Maria Eagle MP, John SAT Hayes MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the John Ferneley Academy in Melton Mowbray, SAT Leicestershire, with UKIP MEP Louise Bours, Sir Malcolm SAT Bruce MP the deputy leader of the Liberal SAT Democrats, Maria Eagle the shadow secretary of state for the SAT environment food and rural affairs and transport minister SAT John Hayes MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04p57ps (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 b04pr06y (Listen) SAT The Havana Quartet, Havana Gold SAT SAT by Leonardo Padura SAT dramatised by Joy Wilkinson SAT SAT Lieutenant Conde goes on a trip through his childhood Havana SAT haunts when a young female schoolteacher at his old school SAT is murdered. And could it be that Conde has SAT finally met the woman of his dreams? Dramatisation of the SAT second novel in the Havana Quartet series. SAT SAT directed by Mary Peate SAT SAT Leonardo Padura's series, published in English as the Havana SAT Quartet, is set over the course of 1989. SAT SAT Leonardo Padura is a novelist and journalist who was born in SAT 1955 in Havana where he still lives. He has published a SAT number of short-story collections and literary essays but he SAT is best known internationally for the Havana Quartet series, SAT all featuring Inspector Mario Conde. SAT SAT In 1998, Padura won the Hammett Prize from the International SAT Association of Crime Writers and in; 2012, he was awarded SAT the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary SAT award. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mario Conde: Zubin Varla SAT Rangel: David Westhead SAT Manolo: Lanre Malaolu SAT Josefina: Lorna Gayle SAT Skinny: Ben Crowe SAT Karina: Tanya Franks SAT Caridad: Elaine Claxton SAT Andres: Ian Conningham SAT Dagmar: Jane Slavin SAT Pedro: Monty d'Inverno SAT Rabbit: Monty d'Inverno SAT Lando: Sam Dale SAT Lazaro: Shaun Mason SAT Red: Jude Akuwidike SAT Jose Luis: Paul Heath SAT Head Teacher: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Author: Leonardo Padura SAT Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson SAT Director: Mary Peate SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b04p845x (Listen) SAT Series 19, Plaisir d'Amour/Can't Help Falling in Love with SAT You SAT SAT In this week's Soul Music Marianne Faithfull recalls the SAT French Love song which went on to inspire Elvis's 60's hit, SAT 'I Can't Help Falling in Love with You'. SAT SAT 'Plaisir d'Amour' is the classical French love song SAT which somehow found its way through 18th century SAT orchestration (Hector Berlioz) and 1960's folk revival, to SAT an unexpected re-invention into the Elvis hit 'I Can't' Help SAT Falling in Love with You'. SAT SAT It's been recorded by Marianne Faithfull and busked on the SAT streets of Paris by 'The Gruffalo' author Julia Donaldson. SAT It has also touched the lives of former American Military SAT Academy Freshman Andrew Scott and recently married couple SAT Henry (76) and Christine Wallace (82) who fell in love on a SAT moonlit New Year's Eve. SAT SAT Written in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, Plaisir d'Amour SAT muses on the pleasures and pains of love and was inspired by SAT a poem which appears in Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's SAT novel 'Célestine'. SAT SAT For 17 year old Marianne Faithfull it was a song of SAT innocence, recorded in a tiny booth in the old Decca studios SAT whilst happily pregnant with her first child. Meanwhile, SAT author Julia Donaldson and husband Malcolm busked it on the SAT streets of Paris. It was the summer of 1969 and police hid SAT in alleyways, still fearful of students following the 1968 SAT riots. SAT SAT As the classical French melody was adopted by Elvis and SAT transformed into 'I Can't Help Falling in Love with You', SAT West Point Military Academy Freshman Andrew Scott learnt to SAT pick it's tune on guitar. It's a song that went on to win SAT the heart of his wife of now 20 years. For Henry and SAT Christine Wallace, it summed everything up "It was what I SAT was looking for, someone to share my life and the words SAT 'take my whole life too was in tune with what I wanted'. SAT SAT Produced By Nicola Humphries. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04pr0xm (Listen) SAT Dame Shirley Bassey; Violinist Kyung Wha Chung; Business SAT woman Karen Blackett OBE SAT SAT Dame Shirley Bassey, one of the most iconic voices in SAT British music, joins Jane to discuss over sixty years in the SAT music industry and her new album, Hello Like Before. SAT SAT Karen Blackett of Mediacom has been named SAT Britain's most influential black person - we hear how she SAT became the first business woman to get the title. SAT SAT A look at how we experience old age, our attitudes, our SAT fears, our hopes. SAT SAT We talk to Masha Alyokina and Nadya Tolokonnikova from SAT Russian, feminist group Pussy Riot who spent 21 months in SAT jail for their anti-Putin protest; SAT SAT Plus an exhibition in Liverpool of Child Migrants sent to SAT Canada, Australia and NZ . The CEO of Refuge Sandra Horley SAT and legendary violinist Kyung Wha Chung. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Shirley Bassey SAT Dame Shirley Bassey, one of the most iconic voices in SAT British music joins Jane to discuss 60 years in the music SAT industry. To celebrate her Diamond Jubilee Dame Shirley is SAT launching her new album, SAT Hello Like Before SAT SAT Karen Blackett SAT A leading businesswoman, Karen Blackett CEO of the SAT advertising giant MediaCom UK, has been named as the most SAT influential black person in Britain. She beat off SAT competition from household names like Lenny Henry and Idris SAT Elba as well as other black business and political leaders SAT to head the Powerlist 2015. SAT SAT Britain's child migrants SAT From the 1860’s over 100,000 children were sent from Britain SAT to Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries SAT through child migration schemes. The Merseyside Maritime SAT Museum, are holding an exhibition called SAT ‘On their own: Britain’s child migrants SAT ’ SAT which explores the lives of the child migrants sent from SAT Britain. Jenni speaks to Eleanor Moffat, a curator from the SAT museum and Tony Chambers, a former child migrant. SAT SAT Refuges for domestic violence SAT SAT On Thursday a series of vigils organised by SAT Women’s Aid SAT will be held around the country to mark the loss of SAT specialist domestic violence services. As part of our series SAT looking at refuges and domestic abuse, Sandra Horley, CEO SAT of SAT Refuge SAT joins Jenni to discuss the situation facing refuges and why SAT Refuge believes there is a need for more gender specific SAT legislation. SAT Men's Advice Line SAT SAT Pussy Riot SAT Pussy Riot is a SAT Russian, feminist SAT SAT punk rock SAT SAT protest group SAT They came to the attention of the Western media in early SAT 2012 when three members were arrested for staging an SAT anti-Putin demonstration in the Christ the Saviour cathedral SAT in Moscow. Masha Alyokina and Nadya Tolokonnikova spent 21 SAT months in jail for their efforts. The two joined Jenni to SAT talk about prison, their ongoing protest work and living SAT with a continued threat to their safety. SAT SAT Elizabeth Bullivant SAT Elizabeth Bullivant ,aged 89, is a hydrangea specialist who SAT used to open her garden to the public. In 2012 she moved in SAT with her daughter. Soon after she became very ill, so ill SAT that everyone thought she would die. She defied SAT expectations, moved from hospital into a nursing home, then SAT came back to her family. Her granddaughter, Kate, talks to SAT her. SAT SAT Kyung Wha Chung SAT Kyung Wha Chung returns to London for the first time in 12 SAT years, performing on December 2nd at The Royal Festival SAT Hall. Why has she decided to come back and how has injury SAT affected her career? SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Interviewed Guest: Shirley Bassey SAT Interviewed Guest: Karen Blackett SAT Interviewed Guest: Sandra Horley SAT Interviewed Guest: Kyung Wha Chung SAT Interviewed Guest: Elizabeth Bullivant SAT Interviewed Guest: Masha Alyokina SAT Interviewed Guest: Nadya Tolokonnikova SAT Interviewed Guest: Tony Chambers SAT Interviewed Guest: Ellie Moffat SAT Interviewed Guest: Julia Neuberger SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04p57pv (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b04pr0xp (Listen) SAT Upside-down Management SAT SAT What is the role of a business leader? To tell staff what to SAT do or allow them to decide for themselves? One theory about SAT management is that it should turn itself upside-down and SAT permit those closest to the SAT customer to dictate all sorts of business decisions SAT including pricing, marketing and how to deal with SAT complaints. This programme, first broadcast in 2013, won the SAT Wincott Radio Journalism of the Year Award. SAT SAT Guests SAT John Timpson, Chairman Timpson Group SAT Nikki King, Honorary Chair, Isuzu Truck UK SAT Sir Gerry Robinson, Chairman Moto Hospitality SAT Producer : Rosamund Jones. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04p57px (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04p57pz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04p57q1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04pr0xr (Listen) SAT Arthur Smith, Sir Terry Wogan, Patricia Cornwell, Lissa SAT Evans, Kiruna Stamell, Frazey Ford, Sinkane SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Sir Terry Wogan, Patricia SAT Cornwell, Lissa Evans, Kiruna Stamell and Arthur Smith for SAT an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With SAT music from Frazey Ford and Sinkane. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Sir Terry Wogan SAT SAT ‘The Little Book of Common Sense’ is published by Orion and SAT available now. SAT SAT Terry is appearing on ‘My Teenage Diary’, which is on SAT Thursday 27th November at 18.30 on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Patricia Cornwell SAT ‘Flesh And Blood’ is published by Harper Collins and SAT available now. SAT SAT Lissa Evans SAT Crooked Heart' is published by Doubleday and available on SAT Thursday 6th November. SAT SAT Kiruna Stamell SAT SAT ‘ONE OF US WILL DIE’ is at Forest Arts Centre, Walsall on SAT Wednesday 26th and The Glasshouse Centre, Stourbridge on SAT Friday 28th November. SAT SAT SAT Kiruna is also starring in ‘Great Britain’ at the Theatre SAT Royal Haymarket, London until Saturday 10th January 2015. SAT SAT SAT SAT Sinkane SAT SAT ‘Mean Love’ is available now on City Slang Records. SAT SAT Sinkane’s playing at Oslo, London on Monday 1st December. SAT SAT Frazey Ford SAT ‘Indian Ocean’ is available now on Nettwerk. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04pr1w0 (Listen) SAT Grace Mugabe SAT SAT Grace Mugabe has been an almost silent figure at her SAT husband, Robert Mugabe's side for almost two decades. Now SAT she is starting to flex her own political muscles, which SAT some are interpreting as a bid for the SAT Presidency. But does she have the skill and the support to SAT secure the top job and a Mugabe dynasty? In December she SAT will head Zanu-PF's Women's League which will make her one SAT of the most powerful people in Zimbabwe's governing party. SAT Jo Fidgen questions how much 'soft' power she already has SAT over her husband and whether she makes a credible political SAT leader? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04p57q3 (Listen) SAT Institute of Sexology, What We Do in the Shadows, Behind the SAT Beautiful Forevers, Robert Edric, Legacy SAT SAT London's Wellcome Institute has a new exhibition entitled SAT The Institute of Sexology which it describes as "a candid SAT exploration of the most publicly discussed of private acts". SAT How will our reviewers tiptoe SAT gently around the explicit nature of what's on show? SAT What We Do In The Shadows is a New Zealand vampire comedy SAT film about a group of bloodsucking flatmates (a SAT 'dracumentary' if you will) - who does the washing-up in the SAT house of the undead? SAT Behind The Beautiful Forevers is David Hare's new play at SAT London's National Theatre, based on the non-fiction book of SAT the same name by Pulitzer Prize winning author Katherine SAT Boo. It deals with life death and hope in a Mumbai undercity SAT Robert Edric is an acclaimed British novelist whose latest SAT book explores the life of Branwell Bronte - brother of the SAT more famous sisters - whose life couldn't match theirs. SAT Legacy is a new Danish TV police programme. What is it about SAT the Scandi Noir genre that keeps on gripping UK audiences? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Helen Lewis Pat Kane and Amanda SAT Craig. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Lewis SAT Interviewed Guest: Pat Kane SAT Interviewed Guest: Amanda Craig SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04pr1w2 (Listen) SAT Art School, Smart School SAT SAT Brian Eno, Grayson Perry and others reflect on the state of SAT the art school. SAT SAT British art schools have produced some of the world's most SAT successful artists, designers, filmmakers and musicians. SAT Britain has built SAT up a strong reputation for creativity around the world and SAT politicians are interested in capitalising on our creative SAT brand. SAT SAT Brian Eno was at art school at a particularly exciting time. SAT In the sixties, art colleges were independent and SAT experimental; students were challenged to rethink what art SAT and art education were about. Brian relates his memories of SAT Ipswich College of Art under the radical educationalist Roy SAT Ascot, and reflects on the importance of this experience. SAT But he also sounds a warning note - he says art schools are SAT under huge pressures and the effects are threatening SAT creativity. SAT SAT This programme brings together artists, musicians, art SAT tutors and archive recordings to explore the last half SAT century of art education and the state of Britain's art SAT schools today. SAT SAT We hear the perspectives of high profile figures in art and SAT design - Grayson Perry, Richard Wentworth, Eileen Cooper, SAT Peter Kindersley, and Jay Osgerby to name a few. SAT SAT Britain depends on its art schools if it's to sustain its SAT reputation for creativity. But are art schools becoming too SAT much like universities and excluding those very people who SAT will produce the innovations of the future? SAT SAT Produced by Isabel Sutton SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 The Once and Future King b04p5m1w (Listen) SAT The Sword in the Stone SAT SAT Brian Sibley's dramatisation of T. H. White's classic SAT retelling of the King Arthur story continues. Wart's SAT remarkable education at the hands of the wizard Merlyn draws SAT to a close. SAT SAT Original music by Elizabeth Purnell SAT Directors: Gemma Jenkins, Marc Beeby and David Hunter. SAT SAT Credits SAT Arthur: Paul Ready SAT Merlyn: David Warner SAT Wart: Edward Bracey SAT Archimedes: Bruce Alexander SAT Sir Ector: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Kay: Paul Heath SAT King Pellinore: Sam Dale SAT Sir Grummore Grummursum: David Acton SAT Lancelot: Alex Waldmann SAT The Pike: Shaun Mason SAT Badger: Elaine Claxton SAT Sergeant-at-Arms: Ian Conningham SAT Author: TH White SAT Adaptor: Brian Sibley SAT Director: Gemma Jenkins SAT Director: Marc Beeby SAT Director: David Hunter SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04p57q5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b04pbmjv (Listen) SAT The Moral Limits of Advertising SAT SAT You know Christmas has arrived when there's a furious row SAT about what's on the telly. This year it's about the SAT Sainsbury's advert. It features a recreation of the 1914 SAT Christmas day truce when the Germans and SAT British abandoned their trenches to play football in No SAT Man's land. The fact that it portrays an incredibly SAT sanitised version of the First World War with not a spot of SAT mud, or drop of blood in sight has certainly angered many. SAT But even more questions are being asked about the last scene SAT in the ad. In it the chiselled young Tommy gives his equally SAT handsome German adversary a bar of chocolate and we're left SAT with the message "Christmas is for sharing". The chocolate SAT is of course being sold in Sainsbury stores until Christmas SAT with the money raised going to the Royal British Legion. SAT While many have found it moving it's also attracted a SAT barrage of criticism for cashing in on the collective SAT feeling of remembrance that has been so powerful in this SAT centenary year of WW1. The contrast between this advert and SAT the poppies at the Tower of London couldn't be more SAT profound. Sainsbury say they've partnered with The Royal SAT British Legion to ensure this story is told with SAT authenticity and respect and they hope it will help keep SAT alive the memory of the fallen. And the money raised will be SAT going to a very good cause. But is it still crass and SAT cynical? Are there really some things that money shouldn't SAT buy? Are some things we hold so dear to ourselves, or our SAT collective memories that to monetise them, through SAT advertising or sponsorship, amounts to sacrilege? Or is that SAT just our own moral squeamishness? Would we really be happier SAT if we maintained our moral purity and the British Legion had SAT less money? What are the moral boundaries when it comes to SAT advertising and sponsorship? Presented by David Aaronovitch. SAT SAT Panellists: Matthew Taylor, Michael Portillo, Claire Fox and SAT Melanie Phillips. SAT SAT Witnesses: Ally Fogg, Adrian Shaughnessy, Dave Trott and Jon SAT Alexander. SAT SAT Produced by Phil Pegum. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b04p7yfz (Listen) SAT Series 28, Episode 9 SAT SAT (9/13) SAT Russell Davies is joined by competitors from Wiltshire, SAT Surrey and the West Midlands in the ninth heat of the SAT general knowledge music quiz. SAT SAT Up for grabs is the single remaining place in this year's SAT semi-finals, which begin next week. To be in with a chance SAT of winning it, our trio will have to demonstrate the widest SAT possible knowledge of music of all eras, from the core SAT classical repertoire through to rock and pop of the past 50 SAT years. SAT SAT They will also have to answer questions on a specialist SAT musical subject - the catch being that they must choose SAT their topic on the spot from a list of which they've had no SAT prior warning, and no chance to prepare. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT MICHAEL KEMP, from Trowbridge in Wiltshire, who's retired; SAT SAT JAMES PESTELL, a marketing director from Horsham in West SAT Sussex; SAT SAT TONY SMITH, a retired teacher from Birmingham. SAT SAT 23:30 Dorset Rewritten b04p5skv (Listen) SAT Before Thomas Hardy, there was another Dorset poet. His name SAT was William Barnes. Scrape a finger across Hardy's Dorset SAT and you'll find Barnes' underneath. Daljit Nagra goes in SAT search of Hardy's friend, forebear SAT and inspiration. SAT SAT William Barnes was fascinated by language and the dialect SAT used by the people around him. But today he's been all but SAT forgotten. Barnes inspired Hardy, Larkin, and Hopkins yet SAT Britain has never taken him to its heart. Barnes was SAT fascinated by language, obsessed even. He was a polymath. He SAT believed in Pure English and wanted to distil words to their SAT Anglo -Saxon origins; 'photograph' for instance, becomes, SAT 'sun-print'. Curious then that while his poetry is thick SAT with dialect, Barnes spent most of his life teaching English SAT in its conventional form, as a curate and a school master. SAT SAT A former Poet Laureate, a young teacher from Barnes' SAT Blackmore Vale, and a dialect poet from the Black Country SAT reflect on the curious verse of 'the other' Dorset poet. SAT SAT Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury. SAT SAT More on Barnes... SAT Listen to Tom Burton's talk: SAT Hearing is Believing: The Dialect of William Barnes SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04pr536 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 A Shepherd in London b03q59t5 (Listen) SUN Flocking to Selfridge's SUN SUN Episode 1: Flocking to Selfridge's by Jerome Vincent SUN SUN In the 1920s and 30s, sheep were used in London parks to SUN keep the grass down. Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Clapham SUN Common and Hampstead Heath all had sheep SUN grazing on them, and there was much competition between SUN shepherds to get their flocks chosen for the privilege. SUN There was considerable profit to be made too - for when they SUN were good and fat, the sheep were herded to Smithfield Meat SUN Market to be prepared for the table. SUN SUN In Flocking to Selfridge's, writer Jerome Vincent imagines SUN the experiences of George Donald, a shepherd from SUN Aberdeenshire, who has brought his flock (aided by his SUN faithful sheepdog Birk) to graze in Hyde Park. George is no SUN stranger to the capital, but is always astonished by the way SUN in which Londoners behave, likening the crowds in Oxford SUN Street to mindless flocks of sheep. SUN SUN It's 1925, and technology is moving on apace. One day in the SUN park, George bumps into a fellow Scot - a young man at the SUN cutting edge of the next new thing. He's John Logie Baird, SUN the inventor of television, and George Donald is able to SUN give him a word of advice. SUN SUN Reader: Bill Paterson SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Bill Paterson SUN Producer: David Blount SUN Writer: Jerome Vincent SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04pr538 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04pr53b (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04pr53d (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04pr53g (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04pr6rg (Listen) SUN The bells of All Saints Church, Allesley. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b04pr1w0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04pr53l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04pr6rj (Listen) SUN High Flight SUN SUN Inspired by memories of a childhood visit to the cinema to SUN see Star Wars, Kester Brewin reflects on our yearning to fly SUN - or, in the words of World War Two pilot John Magee, to SUN slip 'the surly bonds of earth, SUN And dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings'. SUN SUN He talks with the philosopher Simon Critchley and draws on SUN writings from Revelations, Julian Barnes, Clive James and a SUN recently deceased friend. SUN SUN With music by Arvo Pärt, Bonnie Prince Billy and Jeff SUN Buckley. SUN SUN Readers: Felicity Finch, Ella Kenion and Sam West. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b04pr6rl (Listen) SUN Whooper Swans SUN SUN When freezing temperatures descend on Iceland, whooper swans SUN migrate south to the Highlands of Scotland where they flock SUN together on wet land, whooping musically to one another in SUN high and low tones. The beauty SUN of the whooper swan has long been revered and over the SUN winter months the Insh Marshes Nature Reserve plays host to SUN this spectacular gathering. Living World presenter Trai SUN Anfield and the RSPB's Catherine Vis-Christie take to the SUN marshes to see how these elegant birds are faring after SUN their long journey to Scottish shores. SUN SUN Catherine Vis-Christie SUN Catherine Vis-Christie is the Community Engagement Officer SUN for SUN Cairngorm Futurescapes SUN and has worked for the SUN RSPB SUN and other conservation bodies in various guises over the SUN years. SUN In her current role she devises and delivers community SUN engagement, bringing local communities closer to nature and SUN the landscape through partnership working. SUN Catherine has always lived in Badenoch and Strathspey and is SUN passionate about the nature, history and culture of the SUN area. SUN Having started her early birding years with The RSPB’s then SUN Young Ornithologists Club, Catherine has continued to enjoy SUN and observe the natural world and hopes to help others find SUN and share the enthusiasm she feels for all nature. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04pr53n (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04pr53q (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04pr6rn (Listen) SUN 'Religious war'; Cardinal Vincent Nichols; Gurus SUN SUN In the aftermath of the attack on a synagogue in West SUN Jerusalem, some politicians have warned against the SUN Israeli-Palestinian conflict developing into a 'religious SUN war'. This week's presenter William Crawley SUN examines the latest wave of violence in the region. We also SUN hear from Cardinal Vincent Nichols who has spent the last SUN week on pilgrimage in the Holy Land. SUN SUN A Church of England school has been placed into special SUN measures after failing to safeguard pupils from Islamic SUN extremism. Trevor Barnes visits one school which claims to SUN have dealt with a plot to 'radicalise' the curriculum. SUN SUN The chairman of the Trussell Trust tells Sunday that delays SUN in benefit processing and low wages are resulting in record SUN numbers of people using their foodbanks. SUN SUN This week saw a deadly stand-off in India between police and SUN supporters of the controversial Hindu guru Rampal, who was SUN arrested in connection with a murder case. We explore the SUN status of gurus and why many command such huge followings. SUN SUN What can multinational companies learn from the Jesuits SUN about how to do business? Quite a lot, according to an SUN assistant professor at Warwick Business School. We find out SUN why. SUN SUN We explore the religious themes and resurgence of interest SUN in the song-writing of Jake Thackray, who rose to fame on TV SUN shows including 'The Frost Report' and 'That's Life!'. SUN SUN And we hear the story of a couple with more than a hundred SUN years of volunteering between them, who are being recognised SUN with a special award from their Bishop on Sunday. SUN SUN Producers: SUN Dan Tierney SUN Zoe Ashworth SUN SUN Series producer: SUN Amanda Hancox SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Cardinal Vincent Nichols SUN Dr Wendy Pullan SUN Dr Jose Bento Da Silva SUN Chris Mould SUN Paul Thompson SUN Soutik Biswas SUN Alfred and Doreen Whitelock. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04pr6rq (Listen) SUN Family Rights Group SUN SUN Grandmother of five, Chris Leaves, makes the Radio 4 Appeal SUN for Family Rights Group, the charity advising families whose SUN children are involved with, or need children's services. The SUN charity was a lifeline for SUN Chris, when she and her husband took on their two youngest SUN grandchildren, because of problems the children's mother was SUN having. Family Rights Group advises people like Chris, as SUN well as parents, friends or relatives involved in a child's SUN life. SUN Registered Charity No 1015665 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Family Rights Group. SUN SUN The Charity SUN SUN For 40 years Family Rights Group has been advising families SUN in England and Wales whose children are in need, are SUN subject to child SUN protection enquiries or are in care. SUN Some are mothers or fathers with mental health problems or SUN learning SUN difficulties, others are grandparents, siblings, aunts, SUN uncles or friends who SUN are considering taking on a child who cannot remain at SUN home. SUN SUN The Charity’s work enables children to live safely and SUN thrive within the family. SUN SUN Advice Service SUN SUN Over 7000 families a year get advice from SUN Family Rights Group. The service helps them to: SUN SUN Advocacy SUN SUN Some families need more than phone advice. SUN £110 enables the charity to draft letters and negotiate SUN with the local SUN authority, for example on behalf of a sibling who wants to SUN raise her younger SUN brother and prevent him being taken into care. SUN SUN A recent study found that 84% of these family SUN and friends carers who received support from our advice and SUN advocacy service SUN said that it helped the family to stay together SUN (Featherstone, 2012). SUN SUN Local Support Groups SUN SUN Many grandparents, who are raising their SUN grandchildren, feel very isolated from their peers, as do SUN other relatives in SUN these circumstances. Taking on the children causes many SUN carers to fall into SUN severe poverty and they struggle to get basic help, such as SUN counselling for SUN children who have suffered prior trauma or tragedy. Local SUN family and friends care groups set up SUN by Chris Leaves, on behalf of Family Rights Group can make SUN a tremendous SUN difference, enabling carers to meet others in a similar SUN situation, share SUN knowledge and feel less alone. Local fun days are often the SUN first time the children SUN meet others like themselves, who cannot live with their SUN parents and are being SUN raised by family and friends carers. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04pr53s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04pr53v (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04pr6rs (Listen) SUN Sung Mattins for the Feast of Christ the King from Her SUN Majesty's Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. The choir SUN directed by Huw Williams sings music by composers associated SUN with the Chapel and with the Monarchy - SUN Gibbons, Tomkins, Stanford, Britten and Vaughan Williams - SUN and the preacher is the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dr Richard SUN Chartres, Bishop of London and Dean of Her Majesty's Chapels SUN Royal. Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04pcd5h (Listen) SUN Dostoevsky and Dangerous Ideas SUN SUN John Gray points to lessons from the novels of Dostoevsky SUN about the danger of ideas such as misguided idealism SUN sweeping away tyrannies without regard for the risks of SUN anarchy. "Dostoevsky suggests that the end SUN result of abandoning morality for the sake of an idea of SUN freedom will be a type of tyranny more extreme than any in SUN the past." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Gray SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlvwj (Listen) SUN Asian Crested Ibis SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Chris Packham presents the rare Asian crested Ibis formerly SUN common in Japan and China. The crested ibis is mainly SUN white with a shaggy white crest and a red face; but in the SUN breeding season its plumage is tinged with ash-grey. Under SUN its wings is a subtle peach tone, a colour known in Japan as SUN toki-iro. Unfortunately its beauty hasn't saved the crested SUN ibis from persecution in Japan, China or Siberia where it SUN used to breed. It was thought to be extinct in China, until SUN seven birds were found in 1981. In 2003 the crested ibis SUN became extinct in the wild in Japan. Now, crested ibis are SUN conservation symbols in the Far East. They are strictly SUN protected in China where they are being reintroduced to SUN increase the small wild population. In Japan the first wild SUN Japanese crested ibis chick flew from its nest in 2012. SUN SUN Asian / Japanese Crested Ibis (Nipponia nippon) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Aflo / naturepl.com SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01460084 SUN © Aflo / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04pr6rv (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b04pr6rx (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Mr Wallace: Michael Matus SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04pr6rz (Listen) SUN Rt Hon Theresa May SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the Right Honourable Theresa May SUN MP - the longest serving Home Secretary in fifty years. SUN SUN For those who think her political lineage seems directly SUN descended from the Iron Lady, Theresa SUN May's metal has certainly been stress-tested in the past few SUN weeks. She's apologised twice in parliament for having SUN failed to appoint a suitable head to lead the historical SUN child abuse inquiry; a minister in her department resigned, SUN claiming working with her had been like "walking through SUN mud". Then there has been the controversy over the non-vote SUN on the European Arrest Warrant and finally news this week SUN that 1 in 5 crimes are unrecorded. SUN SUN Just as well that she has a reputation as a woman who knows SUN her own mind and is willing to speak it. She famously said SUN the Conservatives were perceived as the 'nasty party'. Her SUN excoriating speech to the Police Federation dealt head on SUN with long-term corruption and incompetence in their ranks SUN and was received with stunned silence. SUN SUN So unflinching, resilient, driven and, if a recent poll is SUN to be believed, a popular choice among Conservative voters SUN to be the next Prime Minister. She has, so far, remained SUN tight-lipped on any ambition to lead her party. SUN SUN She says, "I think you have to believe in what you're doing SUN - that's key. If you do believe you are doing the right SUN thing - that gives you resilience". SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Theresa May SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04pr53x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04p7yg7 (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 1 SUN SUN The 62nd series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote SUN to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based SUN entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run SUN at the Richmond Theatre where SUN regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined on the panel by Jo Brand, with Jack Dee as the SUN programme's reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will know SUN to expect inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin SUN Sell at the piano. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Jack Dee SUN Panellist: Barry Cryer SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN Panellist: Jo Brand SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04pr6x4 (Listen) SUN Get Ahead Treats for Christmas SUN SUN Sheila Dillon invites Diana Henry to provide a guide to an SUN Eastern Christmas. With experts Bee Wilson and Sally Butcher SUN on hand, Diana looks at 'get ahead' treats, and finds out SUN why certain foods from the east SUN feature so prominently at Christmas. SUN SUN They also explore some of the symbolism of 'exotic' food SUN stuffs like dates and pomegranates that have become so much SUN part and parcel of the Christmas feast. All of the recipes SUN are featured on The Food Programme website. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Diana Henry SUN Interviewed Guest: Sally Butcher SUN Interviewed Guest: Bee Wilson SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04pr53z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04pr6x6 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b04pr7jw (Listen) SUN Series 3, Crime, Gangs and Food SUN SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli meets the woman who broke-up a notorious SUN South London gang through the power of faith, food and SUN motherly love. In 2006 Pastor Mimi Asher discovered that her SUN 13 year-old-son Michael had SUN joined Brixton's "Organised Crime" gang. Violence was SUN spiralling out-of-control on her estate, a crime-ridden SUN no-go area nicknamed "Baghdad" and she feared a bleak SUN outcome for her son. The journey that followed is an SUN extraordinary story and it's a one Hardeep unravels as he SUN arrives in Brixton to cook Punjabi goat curry for Pastor SUN Mimi, her son Michael Adusei and former gang leader Karl SUN Lokko. SUN SUN Producer: Catherine Earlam. SUN SUN Hardeep, Mimi, Michael and Karl have lunch SUN SUN Hardeep’s Punjabi Goat Curry SUN SUN Hardeep with Pastor Mimi and former gang leader Karl Lokko SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04pcd4v (Listen) SUN Norwich SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural panel programme from SUN Norwich. Matt Biggs, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Wilson join SUN him to answer questions from the audience. Peter delves into SUN the John Innes archives and SUN learns all about the man behind the compost. We hear Bob's SUN topical tips and take a tour of his garden. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN SUN Q. How do we maximize our yield of squashes? We have dry, SUN sandy soil and get lots of male flowers and two or three SUN squashes on each plant if we're lucky. SUN SUN A. The soil isn't right for growing squashes, so dig a hole SUN and fill it with all the compost and manure you can get your SUN hands on. Then cover it with a black plastic sheet over the SUN top to keep the moisture in. Water it heavily. SUN Alternatively, get an old builders' bag and fill it with SUN compost and grow the plants in there. This will be easier SUN than digging the dry soil. Try the 'Crown Prince' variety as SUN it stores very well. Butternut Squash is also a good SUN variety. Keep the male flowers on. SUN SUN Q. Does the panel advise keeping heads on Hydrangeas in the SUN winter or not? SUN SUN A. Leave some of them on and cut some of them off. This will SUN provide some protection for the buds below and it also looks SUN attractive. However, if you leave them on too long they can SUN break; so cut them in the spring. SUN SUN Q. What is likely to look best in spring for an open garden? SUN I have a sunny garden with soil that is a mix of clay and SUN loam. SUN SUN A. Think about reliable plants with long flowering periods. SUN Try Lavender, Flocks, shrub Roses and make sure your lawn is SUN mown to perfection and your edges are cut. Brush the paths SUN down and rake the soil. SUN SUN Q. Can I make my own bulb fibre? SUN SUN A. It would be difficult to make your own as Sphagnum moss SUN is hard to come by. Leaf mould would be a good substitute - SUN you could sterilize it in the oven first. Don't use SUN multi-purpose compost as the fertilizer can damage the SUN roots; if anything, use a mix of seed compost, peat-free SUN potting compost and charcoal. If you're only going to use SUN the bulbs once, you can grow them in any inert, SUN moisture-retaining substance such as gels or old clothes. SUN SUN Q. What variety of fruit bushes would the panel suggest for SUN an east-facing fence and a west-facing wall? The soil is SUN poor. SUN SUN A. You'll need to get loads of organic matter in, even grow SUN in containers or a raised bed. In the east-facing spot, Red SUN Currents, Culinary Cherries and Gooseberries would grow SUN well. On the west-facing wall have a go at Apricots or SUN Peaches. Grow the plants up against the wall. You could also SUN try figs on the west-facing wall, as they don't need good SUN soil. Also try a grapevine - the newer varieties such as SUN Boskoop Glory and Siegerrebe would grow well. SUN SUN Q. What would the panel suggest I plant for a light, SUN spreading canopy that will provide shade in the summer? I'd SUN prefer a deciduous tree that wasn't too imposing. The SUN proposed planting area is small. SUN SUN A. Try a Sorbus cashmiriana but be wary about putting in a SUN tree where another tree has just been removed. Try growing SUN climbing Roses, a Jasmine or a Honey Suckle over a trellis SUN and until these get going put in Sweet Peas or Nasturtiums SUN for shade in the summer. SUN SUN Q. The leaves of my Streptocarpus (Cape Primrose) are SUN growing to a size that is out of proportion with the plant. SUN What is happening? SUN SUN A. The plant is in too shady a position and is being fed too SUN much. SUN SUN Q. If you were to have your first allotment, what would be SUN your first big purchase? SUN SUN A. Bob suggests a greenhouse, cold frame or polytunnel. Matt SUN Biggs suggests a steel fork and Matthew Wilson suggests SUN luxury spa weekends booked throughout the year to recover SUN from all the hard work! SUN SUN John Innes' legendary compost recipes SUN Discover more about John Innes' compost recipes SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04pr7jy (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces three excerpts from one of the last SUN conversations a mother dying from cancer will have with her SUN adult daughter. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of SUN contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer SUN to have a conversation with someone close to them about a SUN subject they've never discussed intimately before. The SUN conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of SUN producers from local and national radio stations who SUN facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not SUN BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts SUN up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment SUN of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited SUN conversations are being archived by the British Library and SUN used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique SUN portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. SUN You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN Content Support Organisations SUN Breakthrough Breast Cancer SUN is SUN determined to stop breast cancer taking the lives of the SUN women we love. Their SUN cutting edge research, focused entirely on breast cancer, SUN is discovering how to SUN prevent breast cancer, how to detect it earlier and how to SUN treat it more SUN effectively. Their website includes information about their SUN work into breast SUN cancer detection, diagnosis, treatment and prevention, as SUN well as an SUN interactive guide to NHS breast screening and award winning SUN health information SUN on breast cancer signs and symptoms, risk factors, and SUN family history. SUN SUN Phone: 08080 100 200 SUN www.breakthrough.org.uk SUN SUN Breast Cancer Care SUN is SUN just a phone call or mouse-click away, providing specialist SUN support and SUN tailored information to anyone affected by the disease. The SUN charity’s clinical SUN expertise and emotional support network help thousands of SUN people find a way to SUN live with, through and beyond breast cancer. SUN SUN Helpline: 0808 800 6000 SUN www.breastcancercare.org.uk SUN SUN CoppaFeel! SUN is a breast SUN cancer awareness charity which focuses on promoting early SUN detection of breast SUN cancer by encouraging people under 35 to regularly check SUN their breasts. Their SUN website tells you what to look out for, and offers a free SUN reminder service by SUN text, email or app. To spread their message with a personal SUN touch, CoppaFeel! SUN have a team of Boobettes who visit schools, youth groups, SUN and work places to SUN tell their own stories of breast cancer and raise awareness SUN of the importance SUN of regular breast checks. The charity is also represented SUN at university SUN campuses across the country by a dedicated group of Boob SUN Team members who raise SUN awareness of CoppaFeel!’s key messages amongst their fellow SUN students. SUN www.coppafeel.org SUN SUN The National Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline SUN exists to ensure that those worried about SUN their family history have access to full information on all SUN the options SUN currently available, referrals where appropriate, and full SUN peer support for SUN whatever option is chosen, as well as to ensure that those SUN affected have the SUN opportunity to make informed choices. It is also an SUN important role of the SUN helpline to reassure those worrying unnecessarily. SUN SUN Helpline: 01629 813000 (24 SUN hours a day) SUN www.breastcancergenetics.co.uk SUN SUN Macmillan Cancer Support SUN wants SUN to make sure no one faces cancer alone. The charity SUN provides medical, SUN practical, emotional and financial support to cancer SUN patients, their carers SUN friends and family. You can get information from its SUN website, emotional support SUN through its telephone helpline and online community or SUN benefits advice and SUN one-off grants to help with the costs of cancer. SUN SUN Helpline: 0808 808 0000 SUN www.macmillan.org.uk SUN SUN Cruse Bereavement Care SUN is SUN there to support you after the death of someone close. If SUN someone you know has SUN died and you need to talk, you can call their helpline or SUN get in touch by SUN email. Support is offered throughout England, Wales and SUN Northern Ireland SUN including face to face, telephone, email and group support, SUN as well as SUN information, publications and bereavement support for SUN children. Support in SUN Scotland is offered through Cruse Bereavement Care SUN Scotland. SUN SUN Helpline (England, Wales, NI): SUN 0844 477 9400 (weekdays 9:30am–5pm) SUN SUN Cruse Bereavement Care SUN Scotland: 0845 600 2227 SUN SUN Email: SUN helpline@cruse.org.uk SUN SUN www.cruse.org.uk SUN SUN SupportLine SUN offers SUN confidential emotional support to children, young adults SUN and adults by SUN telephone, email and post. SUN SUN To speak directly with a SUN SupportLine worker in confidence call 01708 765200. SUN SUN There is also information on SUN their website. SUN www.supportline.org.uk SUN SUN 15:00 The Once and Future King b04pr7k0 (Listen) SUN The Queen of Air and Darkness SUN SUN Brian Sibley's dramatisation of T. H. White's classic SUN retelling of the King Arthur story continues. Rebels led by SUN King Lot and Queen Morgause of Orkney challenge Arthur's SUN claim to the throne. As war draws SUN nearer, darker more personal motives for bringing Arthur SUN down emerge. SUN SUN Other parts are played by members of the cast. SUN SUN Original music by Elizabeth Purnell SUN Directors: Gemma Jenkins, Marc Beeby and David Hunter. SUN SUN Credits SUN Arthur: Paul Ready SUN Merlyn: David Warner SUN Queen Morgause: Kate Fleetwood SUN King Lot: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Archimedes: Bruce Alexander SUN Kay: Paul Heath SUN Wart: Edward Bracey SUN Young Kay: Ethan Hammer SUN Gawaine: Shaun Mason SUN Young Gareth: Roslyn Hill SUN Sir Kay: Paul Heath SUN Madam Mim: Jane Slavin SUN Herald: Ian Conningham SUN Page: Monty d'Inverno SUN Author: TH White SUN Adaptor: Brian Sibley SUN Director: Gemma Jenkins SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Director: David Hunter SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04pr9hy (Listen) SUN Mirza Waheed on The Book of Gold Leaves SUN SUN Mirza Waheed is a Kashmiri novelist whose new book, The Book SUN of Gold Leaves, is a Romeo and Juliet style love story set SUN in wartorn 1990s Srinigar. He talks to Mariella about SUN whether he feels a responsibility to SUN write about his home country and the conflict there. Also on SUN the programme, vampire chronicler Anne Rice reveals the book SUN she'd never lend and why it informs her work. And the SUN novelist Tessa Hadley and Dr Sarah Dillon discuss the joys SUN of forensic dissection of texts as we begin a new series: SUN Close Reading - examining how great writing works. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The Book of Gold Leaves by Mirza Waheed SUN SUN A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen SUN SUN The Catholic Daily Missal SUN SUN SUN SUN Read the first chapter of The Book of Gold Leaves by Mirza SUN Waheed SUN The Book of Gold Leaves: Chapter 1 SUN by Mirza Waheed SUN SUN A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen SUN SUN The chestnut, darkening into summer, canopied them over; SUN over their heads were its expired candles of blossom, brown SUN – desiccated stamens were in the dust. Over everything SUN under the tree lay the dusk of nature. Only the car-tracks SUN spoke of ever again going or coming; all else had part in SUN the majestic pause, into which words were petering out. SUN This was not so much a solution as a dissolution, a SUN thinning-away of the accumulated hardness of many seasons, SUN estrangement, dulledness, shame at the waste and loss. A SUN little redemption, even only a little, of loss was felt. SUN The alteration in feeling, during the minutes in which the SUN two had been here, was an event, though followed by a deep SUN vagueness as to what they should in consequence do or say. SUN Impossible is it for persons to be changed when the days SUN they have still to live stay so much the same – as for these SUN two, what could be their hope but survival? Survival seemed SUN more possible now, for having spoken to one another had been SUN an act of love. No word, look or touch were for some time SUN to be needed to add more: instinctively now they rested, SUN almost apart, under the saturating chestnut, with what they SUN knew at work in them slowly. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Mirza Waheed SUN Interviewed Guest: Anne Rice SUN Interviewed Guest: Tessa Hadley SUN Interviewed Guest: Dr Sarah Dillon SUN SUN 16:30 Woods beyond a Cornfield b04prbfc (Listen) SUN A beautiful, dark poem by Stanley Cook - a Yorkshireman - SUN about events in the edgelands where he grew up. It evokes SUN the translucent beauty of South Yorkshire and its harshness SUN - especially the inhabitants' hard SUN working lives. Threaded through it is the murder of a local SUN girl who, "lost for something to do", plays truant one day, SUN only to be killed by a local man. SUN SUN Cook couldn't abide poverty being romanticised. He cared SUN about people who suffered hardship and returned home from SUN his Oxford scholarship with clear-sighted passion. He has SUN influenced Yorkshire writers including his publisher, Peter SUN Sansom of the Poetry Business in Sheffield, who was mentored SUN and taught by Cook. SUN SUN Liz White (Chrysothemis in Electra at the Old Vic and star SUN of TV's Our Zoo and Life on Mars), Richard Stacey (Alan SUN Ayckbourn regular), young Ruby-May Martinwood and the folk SUN musician and political activist, Ray Hearne, read Stanley SUN Cook's heartfelt poem - with a soundtrack recorded in South SUN Yorkshire through the Autumn. SUN SUN Produced by Frances Byrnes SUN A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b04p86c4 (Listen) SUN Continuing Healthcare: The Secret Fund SUN SUN Is demand for long term nursing about to tip NHS finances SUN over the edge? SUN SUN Under the system of "Continuing Healthcare" people with SUN complex medical needs can claim the costs of nursing and SUN medical help to keep them SUN out of hospital. But the system has become mired in SUN controversy with many people claiming they've been denied SUN funding to which they are entitled. SUN SUN Now there's a deluge of backdated claims against Clinical SUN Commissioning Groups. SUN SUN File on 4 finds the backlog is creating long delays in new SUN assessments of patients. SUN SUN And it hears claims the assessments themselves are a SUN postcode lottery, with the chances of being deemed eligible SUN varying wildly between GP commissioning groups. SUN SUN The programme also hears evidence of NHS commissioners and SUN councils fighting each other not to take responsibility for SUN patients. SUN SUN Patients and their families are going to the health SUN ombudsman in their hundreds. SUN SUN 18 clinical commissioning groups are already going to end SUN the year in the red, with some threatened with being put in SUN special measures over their finances. Now they owe millions SUN of pounds in backdated claims, plus interest. SUN SUN Is this creating an incentive to squeeze spending on SUN continuing care? GP commissioners are about to be asked to SUN put £1.9 billion into the pot for new joined-up health and SUN social care services. Do they have the money, or the will, SUN to buy into joined-up care? SUN SUN Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Nicola Dowling. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04pr1w0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04pr541 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04pr543 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04pr545 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04prbff (Listen) SUN This week we have Mother Courage in various guises, from the SUN mum who took on a South London gang with love - and apple SUN crumble, to Karen in The Listening Project reassuring her SUN daughter that all will be well SUN when she's gone. A scorching performance by Sorcha Cusack SUN desperately holding house and home together in Juno and the SUN Paycock. We eavesdrop on the poignant final meeting of the SUN Normandy Veterans Association, and the sweetest proposal SUN between Henry and Christine for whom the lyrics, 'take my SUN hand, take my whole life too' have a whole new meaning when SUN your combined age is 158. SUN SUN Sheila McClennon SUN SUN Sheila hails from the Wirral but started her career off at SUN BBC Radio Shropshire, before moving on to work on TV SUN programmes such as Wogan, SUN Primetime and reporting for London Tonight. SUN SUN Moving back to radio Sheila has presented Woman's Hour, You SUN & Yours, The Message, Sunday and is a regular here at Pick SUN of the Week. SUN SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04prbfh (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Hal b04pr6sy (Listen) SUN Death SUN SUN Hal Cruttenden stars as a forty-something husband and father SUN who, years ago, decided to give up his job and become a stay SUN at home father. His wife, Sam, has a successful business SUN career which makes her travel SUN more and more. His children, Lilly and Molly, are growing up SUN fast, and his role as their father and mentor is diminishing SUN by the day. SUN SUN So what can Hal do as he reaches a crossroads in his life? SUN Help is (sort of) at hand in the form of his eager mates - SUN Doug, Fergus and Barry - who regularly meet at their local SUN curry house for mind expanding conversations that sadly SUN never give Hal the core advice he so desperately needs. SUN SUN Hal is confused even further as he regularly has visions of SUN his long dead and highly macho father, who he's forced to SUN engage in increasingly frustrating conversations. SUN SUN In this second episode, Hal faces a horrifying thought - he SUN might have testicular cancer. So he tries to look mortality SUN in the face - not easy for an overly sensitive and emotional SUN man. He tries to bond with his entrepreneurial stepson Jack, SUN but a visit to a football match doesn't work out as Hal SUN planned. SUN SUN An unlikely form of salvation arrives when it's suggested SUN that Hal takes part in a charity run. Things take an SUN unexpected turn and Hal actually surprises himself - but not SUN in the way he planned. SUN SUN The cast includes co-writer Dominic Holland, Ed Byrne, Anna SUN Crilly, Gavin Webster, Dominic Frisby and Samuel Caseley. SUN SUN Produced by Paul Russell SUN An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Hal: Hal Cruttenden SUN Actor: Dominic Holland SUN Actor: Ed Byrne SUN Actor: Anna Crilly SUN Actor: Gavin Webster SUN Actor: Dominic Frisby SUN Actor: Samuel Caseley SUN Writer: Hal Cruttenden SUN Writer: Dominic Holland SUN Producer: Paul Russell SUN SUN 19:45 Grounded b04prbfk (Listen) SUN Dreamland SUN SUN A series of specially commissioned stories - each taking our SUN relationship with the land beneath our feet as a starting SUN point. In 'Dreamland' by the Guyanese writer Fred D'Aguiar, SUN the lack of land and the SUN craving for space is the driving force which is overwhelmed SUN by the events of the story. SUN SUN Read by David Ajao SUN SUN Commissioned for radio by Ellah Allfrey SUN SUN Directed by Jill Waters SUN A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: David Ajao SUN Writer: Fred D'Aguiar SUN Director: Jill Waters SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b04pcd51 (Listen) SUN Since August, listeners to Radio 4's You and Yours have had SUN their daily diet of consumer and social affairs cut by 12 SUN minutes - in the first place to make way for the opening SUN salvoes of Radio 4's 600-part World SUN War 1 drama Home Front. Since then a number of mixed SUN programmes have occupied the slot - with mixed responses SUN from Feedback listeners. Are these bite-size portions the SUN future of radio? The Commissioning Editor, Mohit Bakaya, SUN explains his thinking for the future of the slot. SUN SUN How does the BBC gauge the views of the silent majority who SUN never make direct contact with the BBC or Feedback? SUN Elizabeth Lane, Research Manager for Radio 4 and 4 Extra, SUN has the answers. SUN As he grows a beard and takes on the bushtucker trial, is SUN Michael Buerk living up to his surname down under? And do SUN his reality TV antics really deserve a nightly slot on Radio SUN 4? SUN SUN Catch-up radio on the BBC's TV iPlayer becomes even harder SUN to access for some listeners. First it was lost from smart SUN televisions and now it's no longer available on TV set top SUN boxes. So what's going on - and when will the service return SUN to normal? SUN SUN And comedian Jake Yapp gives us his version of Feedback in SUN 60 seconds. SUN SUN Produced by Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4 SUN Kashmiri novelist Mirza Waheed talks to Mariella Frostrup SUN about his new novel The Book of Gold Leaves which is a love SUN story set against the backdrop of war. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04pcd4z (Listen) SUN Sir Thomas Macpherson, Mike Nichols, Alexander Grothendieck, SUN Paul Vaughan, Leonore Davidoff and Jimmy Ruffin SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Sir Tommy Macpherson who won the Military Cross three times SUN during the war for daring exploits which included bluffing SUN thousands of German troops into surrendering. SUN SUN The film and stage SUN director Mike Nichols who brought us Dustin Hoffman in The SUN Graduate and the Monty Python musical Spamalot. SUN SUN Alexander Grothendieck - described by Le Monde newspaper as SUN "the greatest mathematician of the 20th century" SUN SUN Paul Vaughan, the long serving presenter of Radio 4's arts SUN programme Kaleidoscope and the voice of the TV science SUN series Horizon. SUN SUN And the feminist historian and sociologist Leonore Davidoff SUN who put class and gender relations at the heart of her work. SUN Her studies advanced the understanding of women's history SUN and she was the founding editor of the journal Gender and SUN History. SUN SUN Sir Thomas Macpherson SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his daughter, Ishbel Macpherson and to his SUN biographer and friend, Richard Bath. SUN SUN Born 4 October 1920; died 6 November 2014 aged 94. SUN SUN Mike Nichols (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke live in the studio to the theatre critic, Matt SUN Wolf. SUN SUN Born 6 November 1931; died 19 November 2014 aged 83. SUN SUN Alexander Grothendieck SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Dr Eugenia Cheng, Senior Lecturer in the SUN School of Mathematics and Statistics, at the University of SUN Sheffield and to Professor Luc Illusie whose PhD was SUN supervised by Grothendieck 1964. SUN SUN Born 28 March 1928; died 13 November 2014 aged 86. SUN SUN Paul Vaughan SUN SUN Matthew spoke to John Boundy, the former head of BBC Radio SUN Arts who produced the last edition of Kaleidoscope. SUN SUN Born 24 October 1925; died 14 November 2014 aged 89. SUN SUN Leonore Davidoff SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her friend, the historian Angela V. John. SUN SUN Born 31 January 1932; died 19 October 2014 aged 82. SUN SUN Jimmy Ruffin SUN SUN Born 7 May 1936; died 17 November 2014 aged 78. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04pr06w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04pr6rq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b04p7ygh (Listen) SUN Precedents or Principles? SUN SUN We firmly believe that our choices - about what we eat and SUN how we vote - reflect the inner core of our being. But do SUN those choices originate in principle - or simply because of SUN what we have done in the past? SUN Psychologist Nick Chater asks if precedent matters more than SUN principles and discovers a complex interplay between the two SUN forces which govern the choices we make. SUN Producer: Simon Coates. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04pr547 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04prbm7 (Listen) SUN Agnes Poirier analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04pc2zl (Listen) SUN Julianne Moore on Mockingjay part 1, Randall Wright on SUN Hockney and the men behind The Lego Movie SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Julianne Moore about her role in the SUN new HUNGER GAMES movie, MOCKINGJAY Part 1. The Director SUN Randall Wright shares his experience of working with and SUN making a film documentary about SUN David Hockney and continuing The Story Of The Sound Effect SUN series, Randy Thom talks about the importance of alien sound SUN in CONTACT. SUN And with news of an extended Franchise Francine talks to SUN Chris Miller and Phil Lord, the directors of THE LEGO MOVIE, SUN about the success of their film, the trick of appealing to SUN both young and old audiences and their childhood triumphs as SUN master builders of spaceships made from plastic bricks. SUN SUN 2001: A Space Odyssey SUN SUN Towards the end of November The Film Programme will SUN celebrate the re-release of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space SUN Odyssey. If you'd like to leave a recorded message with your SUN memories of seeing the film, for possible inclusion in the SUN programme, please call 020 3614 4807. Standard geographic SUN charges from landlines and mobiles will apply SUN SUN Mike Nichols SUN SUN With news of the death of Director Mike Nichols here’s a SUN chance to hear him talking to Francine in 2008 on the SUN release of his last film, Charlie Wilson’s War SUN http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008mdgn SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Randy Thom SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04pr6rj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04pr55b (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04pbmjj (Listen) MON Shoes - Islamic Youth Culture in Western Europe MON MON Shoes - a journey through our lives and identities. From MON 'brothel creepers' to perilous stilettos, our choice of MON footwear changes and evolves over a life time. Laurie Taylor MON talks to Victoria Robinson, Reader MON in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, about the ways MON in which shoes can, variously, plunge us back into the past MON or inform the present. Whether worn for comfort or glamour, MON they are powerful indicators of taste and identity. Also, MON Maruta Herding, a sociologist at the German Youth Institute, MON discusses her Europe wide research into Muslim youth, MON subcultures. She's joined by Tufyal Choudhury lecturer in MON law at the University of Durham. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Victoria Robinson MON MON Reader in Sociology and Director of the Centre for Gender MON Research, Sheffield University MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Victoria Robinson MON The temporal landscape of shoes: a life course perspective MON Hockey, J., Dilley, R., Robinson, V. and Sherlock, A. (2014) MON The Sociological Review, 62: 255–275 MON doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.12154 MON MON Maruta Herding MON MON Sociologist at the German Youth Institute (Deutsches MON Jugendinstitut e.V.) in Halle, Germany MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Maruta Herding MON Inventing the Muslim Cool: Islamic Youth Culture in Western MON Europe MON Publisher: Transcript-Verlag MON ISBN-10: 3837625117 MON ISBN-13: 978-3837625110 MON MON Tufyal Choudhury MON MON Lecturer in law, Durham University MON MON Find out more about MON Tufyal Choudhury MON Interculturalism: Europe and Its Muslims in Search of Sound MON Societal Models MON Michael Emerson (Editor), Tufyal Choudhury (Editor) MON Publisher: Centre for European Policy Studies MON ISBN-10: 9461380518 MON ISBN-13: 978-9461380517 MON At Home in Europe: Muslims in Europe, A Report on 11 EU MON Cities MON The Open Society Foundations MON ISBN-10: 1936133016 MON ISBN-13: 978-1936133017 MON MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography MON Thinking Allowed in association with the British MON Sociological Association announces the annual award for a MON study that has made a significant contribution to MON ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a MON culture or sub-culture. MON Are you involved in social science research and completing MON or will have completed ethnography this year? The Award is MON open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or MON researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution MON of higher education. MON MON An entry should be a MON completed ethnography MON a qualitative research project which provides a detailed MON description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole MON authored book or peer reviewed research article published MON during the calendar year of the award will be eligible. MON MON The judges for the Award are yet to be announced. MON MON The judges will be looking for work which displays MON flair MON originality MON and MON clarity MON alongside sound methodology. The work should make a MON significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in MON the relevant area of research. MON MON The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that MON shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will MON be awarded a prize of £1000. MON MON The winner of the Award will be announced at the MON BSA Annual Conference MON in April 2015. MON MON Read on for essential information and details on how to MON enter. MON MON HOW TO ENTER: MON MON You may submit one entry only, which must be sole authored. MON MON All entries must include the summary and contact details and MON a hard copy or electronic copy (attachments must be under MON the filesize of 10MB) of the ethnography. MON MON Email a summary of your work to MON ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk MON (no more than 250 words) along with your name and phone MON number. MON Please include the name of your paper in the 'Subject' MON category of your email. MON If you are submitting a paper MON it can be attached to your email, provided it is no more MON than 10MB. If you receive no automatic email confirmation MON your paper is too large and you will need to send it by MON post. MON If you are submitting a book MON (which must be published during this year) it should be MON posted to: MON Thinking Allowed MON Ethnography Award MON Room 6045 MON Broadcasting House MON London MON W1A 1AA MON Entries must be submitted by the closing date of 31st MON December 2014 MON TERMS & CONDITIONS: MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography Terms and MON Conditions MON MON MON 1. To be eligible to enter you must meet the following MON criteria: MON MON 2. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested. MON The BBC’s decision as to the eligibility of individual MON entrants will be final and no correspondence will be entered MON into. MON MON 3. Entrants must submit by way of email to MON ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk MON a summary outlining the nature of an ethnography undertaken MON and published by the entrant. 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Each entry MON will be a completed ethnography, a qualitative research MON project which provides a detailed, in-depth, description of MON the everyday life and practice of a group, people, or MON culture. Judges will be looking for work which displays MON flair, originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. MON It should make a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. MON MON 11. The prize will consist of: £1,000. The judges' decision MON will be final and the BBC will not enter into correspondence MON with the applicants. In the event of two outstanding MON entries, the prize of £1000 will be shared. MON MON 12. The finalists will be contacted by telephone in spring MON of 2015 and the winner announced in April 2015. If a MON selected entrant cannot be contacted after reasonable MON attempts have been made to do so, the BBC reserves the right MON to offer the prize to the next best entry. MON MON 13. 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MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04prcs8 (Listen) MON Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04prcsb (Listen) MON Farm energy, Farm secretaries, Next generation MON MON Farmers could be supplying more low-carbon power, according MON to a report from the Farm Power Coalition. The coalition is MON made up of farming groups, businesses and non-governmental MON organisations, and it estimates MON that there are significant untapped resources across UK MON farms to produce low-carbon power. The report claims around MON ten gigawats - that's equivalent to more than three times MON the capacity of the proposed new nuclear power plant at MON Hinkley - could be produced on farms. But how do we balance MON that with the need to produce food? Charlotte Smith finds MON out. MON MON Farm secretaries play a vital role in keeping farms' MON paperwork up to date, but the Institute of Agricultural MON Secretaries and Administrators says finding new recruits is MON getting harder. Anna Hill's been to meet a group of farm MON secretaries in Suffolk who were attending a special briefing MON on how reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy will change MON the work they do. MON MON And what opportunities will agriculture bring for the next MON generation? Farming Today starts a week-long look at the MON farmers of the future. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04pr55n (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlvyv (Listen) MON Red-Billed Tropicbird MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Chris Packham presents a true global ocean going mariner, MON the red-billed tropicbird. These elegant birds are masters MON of the winds and tides. There are three species of MON tropicbirds and all of them nest on tropical islands, MON spending the rest of the year roaming the open ocean. All MON are instantly recognisable by their very long whippy central MON tail-feathers which can be longer than the rest of the bird. MON With scarlet beaks, black wing-tips and white-tail streamers MON from a distance they look all-white, but a closer view MON reveals a narrow black mask. Red-billed Tropicbirds nest on MON the ground and use their impossibly long tails in courtship MON displays, moving the feathers to register excitement or MON aggression. In flight they are graceful soarers and MON swoopers, and often call a trill chattering rattle in MON mid-air chases. This sound which resembles a bosun's MON (boatswain's) whistle, gave rise to their alternative name MON of 'Bosun Bird'. MON MON Red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com MON MON NPL Ref MON 01399393 MON © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b04prcsd (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b04prcsg (Listen) MON Science Fiction MON MON Tom Sutcliffe explores our relationship with computer MON technology and the interplay of alien and familiar in MON science fiction. Tom's joined in the studio by writer MON William Gibson, novelist Michel Faber, LSE MON Professor Judy Wajcman and historian Dominic Sandbrook. How MON have computer technologies transformed our sense of outer MON space, cyber space and our own inner space? MON MON Producer: Simon Tillotson. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: William Gibson MON Interviewed Guest: Michel Faber MON Interviewed Guest: Judy Wajcman MON Interviewed Guest: Dominic Sandbrook MON Producer: Simon Tillotson MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b04prh8v (Listen) MON My Life in Houses, I Was a Lucky Girl MON MON I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house MON in Orton Road, on the outer edges of Raffles, a council MON estate. I was a lucky girl.' MON MON So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses MON she's MON lived in, from the sparkling new council house, built as MON part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her MON beloved London house of today, via Oxford, Hampstead and the MON Lake District. Forster's houses aren't just bricks and MON mortar, but homes which have all meant something to her and MON which have all had a profound effect on her - from her MON writer's 'room of one's own', to the family hub and finally MON a sanctuary in times of illness. It is also a sideways look MON at the life of one of the greatest contemporary British MON novelists. MON MON Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster is the author of many MON successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had MON Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There MON Anything You Want?, Keeping the World Away, and Over, MON bestselling memoirs (Hidden Lives and Precious Lives) and MON biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter MON Davies and lives in London and the Lake District. MON MON Reader: Sian Thomas MON Writer: Margaret Forster MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Sian Thomas MON Author: Margaret Forster MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04prh8x (Listen) MON Listener Week: Porn, 50:50 Childcare MON MON Do black, Asian and minority ethnic women get a fair deal in MON the media? The effect of porn on a relationship. Does 50:50 MON childcare work as well for children as it can for parents? MON We hear from Paula McGuire MON from Glasgow who set herself a series of sporting challenges MON and found they boosted her confidence in ways she could MON never have imagined. And a listener asks for advice: should MON I get back in touch with an ex? MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey MON Produced by Jane Thurlow. MON MON "My Partner is Addicted to Porn" MON MON We hear from a listener who is MON struggling to continue in a relationship with her partner MON due to his obsession MON with pornography. Therapist Paula Hall, who specialises in MON the field of sex and MON pornography addiction and is chair of MON ATSAC (Association for the Treatment of MON Sex Addiction and Compulsivity) MON joins Jane to discuss the issues raised. MON MON MON Diversity and women in the media MON Nicki MON Heywood emailed to ask why black, Asian and Ethnic Minority MON (BAME) women working in MON the media are being marginalised. MON The Creative Skillset 2012 Employment Census of the Creative MON Industries MON found MON a major drop in the representation of Black Asian and MON Minority Ethnic people MON from 6.7% in 2009 to 5.4% in 2012. Jane is joined by Lucy MON Pilkington, who sits on the BAFTA learning and MON events committee and is an executive producer, to discuss MON why production teams MON are not more diverse, how to get more BAME people employed MON in managerial roles, MON and whether diversity schemes really MON change things. MON MON Children with two homes MON MON Listener Andrea Fawell contacted us to describe how she and MON her MON ex-husband Nigel share custody of their daughters; they MON swap every couple of days MON between the homes that are a few miles apart. The system MON was set up 11 years MON ago when Andrea and Nigel divorced but, as Gemma and Jade MON become young teenagers, Andrea worries whether the constant MON tooing and froing between two homes will MON continue to work. Reporter Henrietta Harrison went to speak MON to the family one MON evening at Dad’s house. MON MON Paulamusttryharder MON MON Paula MON McGuire was, by her own admission, a very ordinary person MON until the Commonwealth MON Games came to Glasgow. She then set up the blog MON paulamusttryharder MON and challenged MON herself to try her hand at not just one but all seventeen MON Commonwealth Games. MON Jane speaks to Paula about the lasting impact the MON experience has had on her MON life. MON MON Listener Advice: Should I get in touch with my ex? MON MON We put a listener’s dilemma to Paula Hall. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Jane Thurlow MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04prh8z (Listen) MON Syria: Bread and Bombs, Episode 1 MON MON Black comedy by Tina Pepler. MON MON Hassan, Jamil and Samara are taking the hazardous journey MON through Turkey across the Syrian border with a convoy of MON lorries loaded with nappies, baby milk and food parcels. MON MON But there's MON tension in the group of aid workers. Jamil is old school and MON likes to do things by the book. Hassan is a maverick, used MON to doing things his own way and getting his own way. And MON Samara has brought her puppets along.. MON MON Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON Credits MON Bashi: Paul Chahidi MON Bouthy: Paul Chahidi MON Khaled: Yucef Bouabdelli Sadouki MON Jamil: Amir El-Masry MON Mahmoud: Kae Bahar MON Hassan: Tariq Jordan MON Samara: Betsabeh Emran MON Sami: Monty d'Inverno MON Youssef: Monty d'Inverno MON Soldier: Paul Heath MON Helper: Paul Heath MON Writer: Tina Pepler MON Director: Mary Ward-Lowery MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b04prh91 (Listen) MON Series 18, The Horses of Holme Wood MON MON Bradford Council regularly monitors horse numbers on its MON Holme Wood estate, with workers and police carrying out late MON night raids to round them up. Alan Dein meets the animal MON owners and explores their bitter MON battle with the council as they tether horses in parks, MON alleys and even their own gardens. MON MON Gaz has tried dogs, cats and guinea pigs. Last week when his MON seven kids wanted a new pet he picked up a £50 horse form a MON mate on the street. The horse is now in his back garden and MON during the day he risks the council's wrath by moving it MON into the park outside his home. It is a huge council estate MON but his home is let by a private landlord and although he MON has no income he's asking that landlord if he can build a MON stables for Sausage in his garden! The estate is literally MON teeming with horses and no one bats an eyelid at one more MON joining their ranks. MON MON Across the road Pip is engaged in a game of cat and mouse MON with council officials as he tries to hide his horses. MON Eviction notices have been served on his parents and he's MON received an anti-social behaviour order for having horses MON loose on the estate. His Mum won't have him back home after MON a bitter argument which ended with the police being called. MON He's now homeless and out of school. MON MON And then there's nine year old Holly Leigh who has long MON dreamed of owning a horse. That dream has just come true and MON Billy is now in the garden of her small council home. MON MON The Holme Wood estate is home to about 10,000 people and MON pets of all variety, from horses to pigs, snakes, lizards MON and monkeys. But it's the horses that are causing the MON problems... MON MON Producer: Sue Mitchell. MON MON 21 year old Pip out collecting scrap metal with his horse, MON Jack MON MON Holly-Leigh with her horse Billy in Holme Wood MON MON 11:30 Start/Stop b04prh93 (Listen) MON Series 2, Pregnancy MON MON Hit comedy about three marriages in various states of MON disrepair. Starring Jack Docherty, Kerry Godliman, John MON Thomson, Fiona Allen, Charlie Higson and Sally Bretton. MON This week Cathy has some big news for MON Barney: she's pregnant. Alice faces up to the fact she can't MON get pregnant. And Fiona has a big idea for Evan about a MON small operation he could have which means she won't ever get MON pregnant again. MON In this week's episode Cathy reveals to a shocked Barney MON that she is pregnant. Fiona suggests to a shocked Evan that MON he get a vasectomy. And David suggests to a shocked Alice MON that they adopt. MON MON Producer ..... Claire Jones. MON MON Credits MON Barney: Jack Docherty MON Cathy: Kerry Godliman MON Fiona: Fiona Allen MON Evan: John Thomson MON David: Charlie Higson MON Alice: Sally Bretton MON Producer: Claire Jones MON Writer: Jack Docherty MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04pr55q (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 A History of Ideas b04prhq3 (Listen) MON How Can I Tell Right from Wrong? MON MON A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in MON many voices. MON MON Melvyn is joined by four guests with different backgrounds MON to discuss a really big question. This week the question is MON 'How do I tell MON wrong from right?' MON MON Helping him answer it are Neuro-psychologist Paul Broks, MON Philosopher Angie Hobbs, Theologian Giles Fraser and Lawyer MON Harry Potter. MON MON For the rest of the week Paul, Angie, Giles and Harry will MON take us further into the history of ideas about morality MON with programmes of their own. MON MON Between them they will examine the idea of conscience and MON moral intuitions, the relationship between morality and the MON law, whether moral systems can work on the battlefield and MON what the brain seems to do when we are making moral MON decisions. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04prhq5 (Listen) MON Horses on Housing Estates; The UK Bicycle Industry; MON Unlimited 3G MON MON Some mobile phone customers are being misled into taking out MON contracts which leave them with no internet service. We MON investigate how some "unlimited" services and not what they MON seem. MON The RSPCA is MON concerned about the health of horses kept in gardens on MON housing estates and is working with local communities to MON make sure they're being properly looked after. MON Chances are if you owned a bike before the 1980s, it was a MON British made. The UK was once the innovation and MON manufacturing hub of the cycling world. But what's the MON current state of the industry? MON If you drive an electric car in London you're probably MON having difficulties getting from one side of the capital to MON the other. Despite millions of pounds in government grants, MON we report on why nearly a third of charging points are MON faulty. MON MON Presenter: Shari Vahl MON Producer: Samantha Fenwick. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04pr55s (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04prhzq (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Terror Through Time b04prhzs (Listen) MON Mossad: The Wrath of God MON MON "Perception is power" says one former head of Mossad. If MON that's true, then Israel's international spy agency is very MON powerful indeed. MON MON When the planes struck the twin towers in 2001, it was MON Mossad that the MON world's security agencies turned to, drawing on their MON decades of experience in fighting terrorism. Their MON reputation is based upon the drama and daring of the MON operations they mount. From the Wrath of God campaign MON against the Palestinians suspected of planning the Munich MON Olympics massacre to the assassination plots against MON prominent figures in Hamas and Hezbollah, Mossad attacks MON have regularly made headline news. Even when their MON operations go disastrously wrong, killing innocent people or MON leading to the arrest of their agents, they still serve to MON strike fear in the enemies of Israel. MON MON In the first episode of ten examining the world of terrorism MON in the run-up to 9/11, Fergal Keane asks if the reputation MON of Mossad has been a help or a hindrance to peace in the MON Middle East. Has the agency's ruthlessness destroyed the MON efforts of moderate voices on both sides or stopped the MON worst perpetrators of violence in their tracks? MON MON Fergal is joined by the author of a new history of Mossad, MON Ronan Bergman, by Palestinian activist and victim of a MON Mossad attack, Bassam Abu Sharif and by ex-Mossad chiefs, MON Shabtai Shavit and Efraim Halevy. MON MON Producer: Alasdair Cross. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04prbfh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rg1gr (Listen) MON Lost in Mexico, Episode 1 MON MON Part 1 (of 2) MON MON British backpackers, Rachel (Olivia Darnley) and Sally (Lucy MON May Barker) falsely claim they have been robbed in order to MON get a pay-out from their travel insurance when they get MON home. MON MON Unfortunately, MON they get caught out when the Mexican police decide to go MON back to their hotel and search their room. Charged and MON arrested for insurance fraud, unable to speak Spanish, the MON girls are sucked into the vortex of the Mexican penal MON system. MON MON It's a life-changing experience that tests their friendship MON to the limit, in this two-part coming-of-age drama by MON Ingeborg Topsøe, recorded in Mexico. MON MON Written by Ingeborg Topsøe MON MON Casting: Marilyn Johnson and David Psalmon MON Script Editor: Mike Walker MON Sound Design: Steve Bond and Rodrigo Hernández Cruz MON Production manager in Mexico: David Psalmon, assisted by MON Patricia Madrid MON MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON MON Directed by John Dryden MON MON A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Rachel: Olivia Darnley MON Sally: Lucy May Barker MON Rachel's Mother: Saskia Wickham MON The Policeman: Joaquin Cosio MON The Lawyer: Enrique Arreola MON Eduardo: Emilio Savinni MON Auntie Claudia: Norma Angelica MON Ana: Aida Lopez MON Alejandro: Israel Islas MON Diego: Diego Hernandez MON The American Girl: Karla Souza MON Actor: Brian Alvarez MON Actor: Ruben Olivarez MON Actor: Claudia Nin MON Actor: Patricia Madrid MON Actor: Sebastian Policanti MON Actor: Leon Ockenden MON Writer: Ingeborg Topsoe MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON Director: John Dryden MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b04prj0x (Listen) MON Series 28, Semi-Final 1, 2014 MON MON (10/13) MON Paul Gambaccini is back in the questionmaster's chair as the MON 2014 season of the annual music quiz reaches the semi-final MON stage. Three heats winners from earlier in the series return MON to compete for MON a coveted place in the Counterpoint Final. MON MON The competition may get stiffer but the rules don't change: MON and each of the semi-finalists will have to choose a special MON musical topic on which to answer individual questions, with MON no prior warning of what the subjects are going to be. MON MON This week's contestants are from the London area and from MON Derbyshire. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04pr6x4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Still Life Poet b04ps15k (Listen) MON Scotland's National Poet, Liz Lochhead, came across one poem MON of Soutar's that gave her the shivers, but she knows very MON little about the man and the rest of his work. MON MON William Soutar produced many collections of MON poetry, most of which he wrote in one room and in what was MON to become his deathbed. Soutar had developed a debilitating MON condition of the spine which paralysed him from the waist MON down. Unable to move and with only a window to see the MON world, he became a Still Life Poet. MON MON In his final years, Soutar wrote diaries which show a man MON with a wicked sense of humour, caricaturising his numerous MON bed side visitors and turning his ailments into playful MON rhymes. We also discover a mind that dissects everything MON from war, religion, sex and mortality, through to the songs MON sung by the blackbirds outside his window. MON MON William Soutar was arguably one of Scotland's greatest poets MON and a key figure of the Scottish Literary Renaissance but MON why has his name been buried? MON MON Liz Lochhead travels to the Soutar house in his hometown of MON Perth to find out and to assess how this sense of place, MON along with his disability, shaped his writing with the help MON of people who believe his name and work should be MON remembered. MON MON Readings by Monty d'Inverno MON MON Produced by Emily Smallman. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04ps15m (Listen) MON Avatars MON MON The word "Avatar" was not conceived by a Hollywood film MON producer but comes from the Sanskrit word for "descent". It MON relates to when a deity manifests in an earthly embodiment. MON In Christianity "incarnation" MON describes the coming of the divine in bodily form to the MON world in which we inhabit. Does this make Jesus an "Avatar"? MON Some Hindu's believe so. In this programme Ernie Rea MON explores the parallels and distinctions between the two and, MON as new technologies offer the prospect of digital "Avatars" MON able to simulate our personalities in the online world after MON death, discusses what such developments tell us about MON contemporary attitudes to life-after-death and immortality. MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the theology and digital MON reinvention of "Avatars" are Dr Chetna Kang, Hindu priest MON and psychiatrist, David Law Professor of Christian Thought MON and Philosophical Theology, and Dr John Troyer, Deputy MON Director of the Centre of Death and Society at the MON University of Bath. MON MON Producer: Catherine Earlam. MON MON 17:00 PM b04ps15p (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04pr55x (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04ps15r (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 2 MON MON The 62nd series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a MON return visit to the Richmond MON Theatre. Regulars Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Tim MON Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on the panel by Jo Brand MON with Jack Dee in the chair. At the piano - Colin Sell. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Jo Brand MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04ps15t (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04ps15w (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04prh8z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Meaning of Mongol b04ps15y (Listen) MON Imagine your nationality was used by people all around the MON world to describe someone with a learning disability or a MON stupid person. That's what happened to Uuganaa Ramsay. A MON Mongol, born and brought up on the MON Mongolian steppe, living in a yurt and herding goats, she MON came to live in the UK and when her son Billy was diagnosed, MON she realised that the word mongol meant someone with Down's MON Syndrome. Insult was added to injury when she discovered MON derivatives of mongol such as mong, are used as a term of MON abuse meaning an idiot. MON MON Uuganaa wants to know how this happened. Searching for MON answers she explores the life of John Langdon Down, who MON initially diagnosed Down's Syndrome as mongolian idiocy, and MON discovers how the term travelled the world. Did anyone do MON anything about it, she wonders, and why and when was the MON term finally changed. MON MON Just as mongol fizzled out of common parlance, new forms of MON the word, meaning both Down's Syndrome and idiot, became MON more popular, and are still more acceptable today than MON derogatory words referring to race or sexuality, revealing MON worrying social attitudes towards disability. MON MON Having lost her child, and her clear sense of identity, MON Uuganaa returns to Mongolia to see what Mongols think of MON these different meanings of the word, and ultimately MON reconnects with the true meaning of Mongol she grew up with. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04pbqq9 (Listen) MON Hunting the Taliban MON MON Mobeen Azhar reports from Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, MON where police are at war with the Taliban. Given rare access MON to the work of the police by a Senior Superintendent in MON Karachi's Criminal Investigation MON Department, Mobeen joins officers on a night time raid in MON search of the men who train suicide bombers. He meets a MON suspect in custody who brags about planting bombs and MON describes how he urges teenage boys to sacrifice their lives MON in violent jihad. Mobeen also talks to a businessman who was MON kidnapped for ransom and meets the families of police MON officers who have been killed by the militants. MON Assassinations linked to political parties have blighted the MON city for over a decade but today, more than 70 groups MON representing the militant Taliban are also fighting for MON control. This guerrilla war, once confined to the tribal MON belt of Waziristan has moved into Karachi with devastating MON results. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04p80gy (Listen) MON Mangroves - Putting Nature Back? MON MON Monty Don will be posing to experts who specialise in large MON scale restoration projects, like the Can Gio mangrove in MON Vietnam which was destroyed by Agent Orange during the MON Vietnam War, whether a restored MON mangrove forest can ever be the same as the original.. Some MON argue that we could never hope to reproduce what we MON destroyed, but as long as what we create functions and is MON biodiverse, then that is all that matters. Others say that MON in our fast changing world there is no permanence and our MON best strategy is to build in resilience for the future. MON Difficult, fascinating problems that raise many questions MON about our understanding of nature and wilderness. MON MON Dr Karen Diele MON Dr Karen Diele is a Reader in Marine Sciences at MON Edinburgh Napier University MON and the MON Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland MON (MASTS). Karen’s research topics include the dynamics, MON conservation and management of coastal ecosystems, in MON particular mangrove forests, and their associated fauna. She MON has been conducting primary research on the biology, ecology MON and diversity of marine invertebrates and their responses to MON environmental pressures. MON At the MON Can Gio Biosphere Reserve MON in Vietnam, Karen and colleagues studied the effects of MON typhoon and lightning disturbance on planted monospecific MON mangrove forests and their associated macrobenthic fauna. MON In Brazil she has led several projects focussing on the MON biology and functional role of a mangrove crab harvested by MON fishermen and learned how community-based marine protected MON area management is taking place. MON MON Dr James Aronson MON James Aronson is a restoration ecologist at the Centre MON d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle and Evolutive (CNRS), in MON Montpelier, France, and at the Missouri Botanical Garden, MON where he is co-founder of the MON Restoring Natural Capital Alliance MON While working on the conceptual advancement and MON mainstreaming of science-based ecological restoration, he MON also participates in or advises on ecosystem and landscape MON restoration programs in tropical, Mediterranean-climate and MON dry-land regions of the world. MON He is a representative-at-large of the MON Society for Ecological Restoration MON (SER), and editor-in-chief of the SER-Island Press book MON series, MON The Science and Practice of Ecololgical Restoration MON . MON MON Professor Richard Hobbs MON Professor Richard Hobbs is an ecologist, with experience MON working in Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe and the MON United States. MON He grew up in Scotland and completed a BSc in Ecological MON Science at the MON University of Edinburgh MON followed by an MA in Biology at the MON University of California Santa Barbara MON on a Fulbright Scholarship. MON He completed my PhD at the MON University of Aberdeen MON working on post-fire dynamics of heathland communities, MON supervised by Professor Charles Gimingham. After completing MON his PhD, he was a postdoctoral fellow at MON Stanford University MON working with Professor Hal Mooney on serpentine grassland MON dynamics. MON He joined the Wildlife & Ecology division of Australia's MON national science agency, CSIRO, in in 1984 and worked on the MON dynamics of fragmented ecosystems in the Western Australian MON wheatbelt. MON He became Officer in Charge of the Western Australian MON laboratory in 1997 and in 2000 took up a Chair in MON Environmental Science at Murdoch University and was awarded MON an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship in 2006. He joined MON the MON University of Western Australia MON in 2009. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b04prcsg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04pr55z (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04ps3bj (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04ps3bl (Listen) MON In Love and War, Episode 1 MON MON "[He] unfolds a portrait of himself in gouache [...] It is a MON good likeness, he thinks, if a little tragic, and big-eared. MON She has drawn a man - given him something to grow into." MON MON Esmond Lowndes's father is a MON leading light in the British Union Of Fascists. In 1937, MON Esmond is sent down from Cambridge in disgrace and MON dispatched instead to Florence to set up Radio Firenze - an MON English-language radio station aiming to form closer ties MON between Fascists in Italy and England. MON MON Esmond finds love and loss, and his journey of MON self-discovery becomes increasingly and - as Italy moves MON into war - more tightly intertwined with the fortunes of MON Florence, the city he has made his home. MON MON And at every turn, he comes up against the local Blackshirt MON leader, the brutal Mario Carita. MON MON Episode 1 (of 10) MON April 1937. At Croydon Aerodrome, Esmond says goodbye to his MON family and begins his journey to Florence. MON MON Alex Preston lives with his family in London. His first MON novel, This Bleeding City, was selected as one of MON Waterstones New Voices 2010. His second, The Revelations, MON was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. MON Alex is a journalist and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at MON the University of Kent. MON MON Reader: Carl Prekopp MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON MON Produced by Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Carl Prekopp MON Author: Alex Preston MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b04ps3bn (Listen) MON Series 4, Angelique Kidjo (the A-Side) MON MON John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks MON to leading performers and songwriters about the album that MON made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live MON audience at the BBC's iconic Maida MON Vale Studios. MON MON Programme 5. 'Ayé' with Angélique Kidjo MON MON John Wilson talks to the Grammy nominated singer-songwriter MON and activist from Benin about her breakthrough album Ayé MON released in 1994 and hears her perform exclusive versions of MON key tracks. With songs including "Agolo," "Adouma" and MON "Djan-Djan", the album has been described as "a spellbinding MON one-world statement" where "Kidjo treats her voice like it's MON a percussion instrument". MON MON One of ten children, Angélique Kidjo grew up in Benin in MON West Africa. But in the 1980s she moved to Paris to escape MON the communist regime and began synthesising the music of her MON native country with rock, funk, electronica and Euro-pop. MON MON Kidjo has collaborated with artists as diverse as Alicia MON Keys, Philip Glass, the Kronos Quartet and Peter Gabriel and MON been declared as the "the undisputed Queen of African MON Music." Her albums regularly top the World Albums Charts and MON her gift is said to be "to pour what could so easily be MON anger and frustration into songs that uplift and inspire MON us." MON MON Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme MON (as well as some that weren't) can be heard on the MON 'Mastertapes' pages on the Radio 4 website. MON MON Producer: Clare Walker. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b04ps3bq (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04pr571 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04prh8v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04pr573 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04pr575 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04pr577 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04pr579 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04ps54w (Listen) TUE Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04ps54y (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 b04mlvyx (Listen) TUE Flightless Cormorant TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Chris Packham presents the flightless cormorant adapted to TUE its Galapagos world. The isolated Galapagos Islands are TUE famous for their unique wildlife which has evolved to adapt TUE to a landscape free of predators. This absence of predators TUE has allowed the native cormorant to dispense with the need TUE to fly, why waste energy when there's nothing to fly away TUE from? This is the only flightless member of the cormorant TUE family, which feeds on fish and for that reason it has TUE developed stronger feet for swimming after its prey. They TUE nest on the rocky coasts of Fernandina and Isabela islands TUE and the population can dip below a thousand birds especially TUE after hurricanes or collapses in local fish numbers. They TUE recover quickly though, but are vulnerable to introduced TUE dogs which nearly eliminated the cormorants on Isabela TUE Island. TUE TUE Flightless Cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01399182 TUE © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04ps550 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b04bsgvm (Listen) TUE Reith Lectures: 2014, Why Do Doctors Fail? TUE TUE Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande explores the nature of TUE fallibility and suggests that preventing avoidable mistakes TUE is a key challenge for the future of medicine. TUE TUE Through the story of the story of a TUE life-threatening condition which affected his own baby son, TUE Dr. Gawande suggests that the medical profession needs to TUE understand how best to deploy the enormous arsenal of which TUE it has acquired. And his challenge for global health is to TUE address the inequalities in access to resources and TUE expertise both within and between countries. TUE TUE This first of four lectures was recorded before an audience TUE at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Dr. TUE Gawande's home town of Boston in Massachusetts. The other TUE lectures are recorded in London, Edinburgh and Delhi. TUE TUE The series is introduced and chaired by Sue Lawley. The TUE producer is Jim Frank. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04snkx0 (Listen) TUE My Life in Houses, A Room of One's Own TUE TUE I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house TUE in Orton Road, on the outer edges of Raffles, a council TUE estate. I was a lucky girl.' TUE TUE So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses TUE she's TUE lived in, from the sparkling new council house, built as TUE part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her TUE beloved London house of today, via Oxford, Hampstead and the TUE Lake District. Forster's houses aren't just bricks and TUE mortar, but homes which have all meant something to her and TUE which have all had a profound effect on her - from her TUE writer's 'room of one's own', to the family hub and finally TUE a sanctuary in times of illness. It is also a sideways look TUE at the life of one of the greatest contemporary British TUE novelists. TUE TUE Today: The studious young Forster makes it to Oxford, and a TUE 'room of one's own'. TUE TUE Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster is the author of many TUE successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had TUE Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There TUE Anything You Want?, Keeping the World Away, and Over, TUE bestselling memoirs (Hidden Lives and Precious Lives) and TUE biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter TUE Davies and lives in London and the Lake District. TUE Reader: Sian Thomas TUE Writer: Margaret Forster TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Sian Thomas TUE Author: Margaret Forster TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04ps552 (Listen) TUE Listener Week: Social Work, Big Feet TUE TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04sn1h1 (Listen) TUE Syria: Bread and Bombs, Episode 2 TUE TUE Black comedy by Tina Pepler. TUE TUE Hassan, Jamil and Samara are taking the hazardous journey TUE through Turkey across the Syrian border with a convoy of TUE lorries loaded with nappies, baby milk and food parcels. TUE TUE Hassan is TUE just about to test out the contents of one of their food TUE parcels when they reach the first checkpoint. TUE TUE Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE Credits TUE Bashi: Paul Chahidi TUE Bouthy: Paul Chahidi TUE Khaled: Yucef Bouabdelli Sadouki TUE Jamil: Amir El-Masry TUE Mahmoud: Kae Bahar TUE Hassan: Tariq Jordan TUE Samara: Betsabeh Emran TUE Sami: Monty d'Inverno TUE Youssef: Monty d'Inverno TUE Soldier: Paul Heath TUE Helper: Paul Heath TUE Writer: Tina Pepler TUE Director: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04ps554 (Listen) TUE Snapping Turtles - Taking the Long View TUE TUE What do elephants, snapping turtles and guillemots have in TUE common? They are all examples of 'long-lived' animals with TUE some species living longer than the careers of the TUE scientists who study them. In this TUE episode of Shared Planet Monty Don talks to Tim Birkhead and TUE Phyllis Lee, both scientists who have studied the behaviour TUE of long-lived species and both argue that you discover TUE insights into long-lived animals can will help their TUE conservation and our ability to share the planet with them. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b04ps556 (Listen) TUE Series 19, Gracias A La Vida TUE TUE Gracias A La Vida - thank you to life - is a song that means TUE a lot to many people around the world. Recorded by artists TUE as diverse as Joan Baez and the magnificent Mercedes Sosa, TUE the song reflects the TUE bittersweet nature of life's joys and sadnesses. To the TUE people of Chile where it was written in 1966 by Violetta TUE Parra, it has become an anthem that brings people together TUE in times of trouble. One man who was tortured and imprisoned TUE under the Pinochet regime in 1973 recalls how playing the TUE song on guitar in prison for other inmates helped keep their TUE spirits and hopes alive under the most brutal circumstances. TUE Australian writer and actor Ailsa Piper recalls being gifted TUE the words to Gracias A La Vida by a fellow walker along one TUE of the holy routes in Spain, and how the song has become a TUE poignant reminder of the fragility of life. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04pr57c (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 A History of Ideas b04ps558 (Listen) TUE Theologian Giles Fraser on Moral Character TUE TUE How do you make good moral decisions when you have no time TUE to make them? TUE TUE This is a question that troubled Giles Fraser after he met TUE soldiers who had served in Afghanistan. The moral codes TUE Giles had studied TUE required a lot of time for thinking and reflection but you TUE simply don't get that when deciding whether to shoot on the TUE battle field. This led Giles to think about the Greek TUE philosopher Aristotle and his system of virtue ethics - a TUE way of thinking about morals that emphases character rather TUE than rules. TUE TUE Giles talks to former SAS soldier Andy McNab and philosopher TUE Nancy Sherman on how do you distinguish right from wrong in TUE today's 'battle space' where the rules of engagement are no TUE longer clear. And whether the answer is to be in a 2500 year TUE old piece of Greek thinking. TUE TUE This programme is part of a week of programmes. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04ps5xw (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04pr57f (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04ps5xy (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Terror Through Time b04ps5y0 (Listen) TUE State Sponsored Killers TUE TUE Governments don't just fight terrorists, sometimes they use TUE them for their own ends. Fergal Keane discusses the extent TUE of state involvement in terrorism through the 70s and 80s. TUE He's joined by Professor Richard TUE English of St Andrews University, Kay Schiller of Durham TUE University and by former CIA agent, Milt Bearden. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04ps15t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rjlky (Listen) TUE Lost in Mexico, Episode 2 TUE TUE Part 2 (of 2) TUE TUE British backpackers Sally and Rachel, have been arrested in TUE Mexico City after going to a police station and falsely TUE claiming to have been robbed - in order to receive a pay-out TUE on their travel TUE insurance. TUE TUE Having been caught out, they are now in prison awaiting TUE trail, their friendship tested to the limit and their hopes TUE of a speedy return home fading. TUE TUE Written by: Ingeborg Topsøe TUE TUE Casting: Marilyn Johnson and David Psalmon, TUE Script Editor: Mike Walker, TUE Sound Design: Steve Bond and Rodrigo Hernández Cruz TUE Production manager in Mexico: David Psalmon, assisted by TUE Patricia Madrid TUE TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE TUE Directed by John Dryden TUE TUE A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rachel: Olivia Darnley TUE Sally: Lucy May Barker TUE Rachel's Mother: Saskia Wickham TUE The Policeman: Joaquin Cosio TUE The Lawyer: Enrique Arreola TUE Eduardo: Emilio Savinni TUE Auntie Claudia: Norma Angelica TUE Ana: Aida Lopez TUE Alejandro: Israel Islas TUE Diego: Diego Hernandez TUE The American Girl: Karla Souza TUE Actor: Brian Alvarez TUE Actor: Ruben Olivarez TUE Actor: Claudia Nin TUE Actor: Patricia Madrid TUE Actor: Sebastian Policanti TUE Actor: Leon Ockenden TUE Writer: Ingeborg Topsoe TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Director: John Dryden TUE TUE 15:00 The Design Dimension b04ps6py (Listen) TUE Series 2, Designing Protest TUE TUE In the second of a new series, Tom Dyckhoff, writer about TUE architecture, looks at the world we inhabit through the lens TUE of design. TUE TUE Through the experiences of an activist on the streets of TUE Ferguson, Missouri, who TUE made a gas mask from a 'how to' guide exhibited at the TUE Victoria and Albert Museum, and the playfully provocative TUE design of giant 'carbon bubbles' for a climate change march, TUE Tom explores the history and the practice of design in TUE protest. TUE TUE Fashion writer Cally Blackman reflects on Victorian TUE 'rational fashion' and political T-shirts in the era of TUE Margaret Thatcher, to test Quentin Bell's declaration that TUE the history of fashion is largely about protest. TUE TUE And Catherine Flood, the curator of Disobedient Objects, TUE discusses with the comedian and political activist Mark TUE Thomas how necessity can be the mother of inventive design TUE for those engaged in movements for social change. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall and Hana Walker-Brown TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b04ps6q0 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Angelique Kidjo (the B-Side) TUE TUE John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks TUE to leading performers and songwriters about the album that TUE made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live TUE audience at the BBC's iconic Maida TUE Vale Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John TUE initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, TUE and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. TUE Both editions feature exclusive live performances. TUE TUE Programme 6, the B-side. Having discussed the making of her TUE breakthrough album 'Ayé' (in the A-side of the programme, TUE broadcast on Monday 24th November and available online), TUE Angélique Kidjo responds to questions from the audience and TUE performs acoustic live versions of some of the tracks from TUE the album which was released twenty years ago. TUE TUE Producer: Clare Walker. TUE TUE 16:00 Spin the Globe b04ps6q2 (Listen) TUE Series 2, 323BC - The Death of Alexander the Great TUE TUE In the last of the current series of Spin the Globe TUE Historian Michael Scott goes back to the Ancient World. In TUE 323 BC China's warring states continue to strive for TUE dominance. The Nanda dynasty of Northern TUE India, still reeling from the shock of Alexander the Great's TUE assault on its northern territories, is close to collapse in TUE the face of the legendary leadership of Chandragupta Maurya. TUE In the distant and uncharted West a mysterious collection of TUE islands is circumnavigated by the extraordinary explorer and TUE Geographer Pytheas of Massalia, providing the first clear TUE idea of the extent and civilisations of the British Isles. TUE And yet in a European world dominated by the civilisations TUE of Ancient Greece it's a year shattered by the death of TUE Alexander the Great. At the height of his powers with plans TUE for further expeditions to the South and West the relatively TUE young commander dies under circumstances that remain a TUE mystery to this day. However, there's no mystery to the TUE impact his death would have from the Iberian peninsula in TUE the West to the Ganga valley in the east. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b04ps71w (Listen) TUE Dawn O'Porter and Graham Fellows TUE TUE Dawn O'Porter and Graham Fellows, AKA John Shuttleworth, TUE talk with Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books, TUE including two tales of alienation, Steppenwolf by Hermann TUE Hesse and Green Girl by Kate Zambreno, TUE and Nancy Mitford's gossipy tale of adultery and a scheming TUE child in post war France and England. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Dawn O'Porter TUE Interviewed Guest: Graham Fellows TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04ps71y (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04pr57h (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b04ps720 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Running on Empty TUE TUE Tom is worried for his health when he's invited on an TUE adventure-packed stag weekend of "coasteering", an activity TUE that involves hurling oneself off tall rocks and into the TUE sea. But that's nothing compared with TUE what his dad is preparing himself for: the Sheffield TUE marathon. An event he's decided to enter to, in his eyes, TUE get one over on the next door neighbour. TUE TUE Credits TUE Tom: Tom Wrigglesworth TUE Granny: Judy Parfitt TUE Dad: Paul Copley TUE Mum: Kate Anthony TUE Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth TUE Writer: James Kettle TUE Writer: Miles Jupp TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04pshdc (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04pshdf (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04sn1h1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Afghanistan: The Lessons of War b04pshdh (Listen) TUE A former commander of British and Coalition forces in TUE Helmand embarks on a personal journey to find out what has TUE been achieved by the thirteen-year campaign in Afghanistan. TUE It is a quest that leads Former Major TUE General Andrew Mackay to some of the key military and TUE political figures of the past decade. TUE TUE He puts searching questions to former US General David TUE Petraeus and ISAF Commanders General John McColl and General TUE David Richards, to discover if there ever was a coherent TUE strategy for coalition troops. TUE He reflects on what was achieved in Afghanistan with leading TUE politicians including former US Secretary of Defense Robert TUE Gates and former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband. TUE And he looks to the future of the country with a senior TUE figure from the current Afghan government - Mohammad Mustafa TUE Mastoor, Deputy Minister for Finance. TUE TUE General Mackay also believes that any future interventions TUE should be based on lessons learnt in the Afghanistan TUE campaign. But what are those lessons? He hears from experts TUE who have studied the campaign to help him consider the role TUE he played and to find out what conclusions can be drawn. TUE TUE Andrew Mackay : "I think whoever you are when you go to an TUE extreme environment such as Helmand, you are never the same TUE person when you come back. I was interested in considering TUE the role that I played as the commander of British forces in TUE Helmand and the journey that it had taken me on." TUE TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane TUE Editor: David Ross. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04pshdk (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b04pshdm (Listen) TUE If you have extremely suspicious thoughts, or you hear TUE voices that other people can't hear, traditionally these are TUE seen as signs of mental illness, such as schizophrenia or TUE bipolar disorder. This week a major TUE new report from the British Psychological Society calls for TUE a radical change in the way we think and offer help to TUE people who are experiencing psychosis. Claudia Hammond TUE investigates how our knowledge, attitudes and treatment of TUE psychosis and schizophrenia have changed over the past TUE decade. TUE TUE 21:30 Document b04bn28m (Listen) TUE In the first of the new series of Document, Gordon Corera TUE travels to Stockholm to investigate theories about the 1986 TUE assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. TUE TUE He begins with newly-discovered documents TUE written by the late novelist and investigator of the TUE far-right, Stieg Larsson. TUE TUE But the trail leads him to the role of various secret TUE services, to questions about elements of the Stockholm TUE police, to South African dirty tricks, and ultimately back TUE to Britain, where he makes a surprising discovery. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE Gordon Corera in Stockholm TUE TUE Document presenter Gordon Corera on TUE Stockholm’s Tunnelgatan steps – up which Olof Palme’s TUE assassin escaped. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04pr57k (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04pshdp (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04snbfs (Listen) TUE In Love and War, Episode 2 TUE TUE "[He] unfolds a portrait of himself in gouache [...] It is a TUE good likeness, he thinks, if a little tragic, and big-eared. TUE She has drawn a man - given him something to grow into." TUE TUE Esmond Lowndes's father is a TUE leading light in the British Union Of Fascists. In 1937, TUE Esmond is sent down from Cambridge in disgrace and TUE dispatched instead to Florence to set up Radio Firenze - an TUE English-language radio station aiming to form closer ties TUE between Fascists in Italy and England. TUE TUE Esmond finds love and loss, and his journey of TUE self-discovery becomes increasingly and - as Italy moves TUE into war - more tightly intertwined with the fortunes of TUE Florence, the city he has made his home. TUE TUE And at every turn, he comes up against the local Blackshirt TUE leader, the brutal Mario Carita. TUE TUE Episode 2 (of 10) TUE Esmond meets Fiamma Ricci and some of the British expatriate TUE community in Florence. TUE TUE Alex Preston lives with his family in London. His first TUE novel, This Bleeding City, was selected as one of TUE Waterstones New Voices 2010. His second, The Revelations, TUE was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. TUE Alex is a journalist and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at TUE the University of Kent. TUE TUE Reader: Carl Prekopp TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE TUE Produced by Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Carl Prekopp TUE Author: Alex Preston TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE TUE 23:00 What the Future? b04pshdr (Listen) TUE Drugs TUE TUE Britain, in a desperate attempt to look fashionable, TUE legalises marijuana. Soon her majesty the Queen lights up TUE the first ceremonial joint on the balcony of Buckingham TUE Palace. Now perpetually stoned, politicians TUE legalise other drugs to perk us all up a bit. But soon a TUE drug addled nation turns to beat poetry, henge sell-offs and TUE injury claims to fund its habit. TUE TUE Kirsty Wark presents a documentary from the future... TUE Starring Nadia Kamil, Geoffrey McGivern, Kieran Hogson, and TUE Alistair McGowan. With Alice Scott-Gemmill, Max Olesker and TUE Jane Slavin. TUE TUE Recorded 30 years from now, What the Future plunges into the TUE world of tomorrow and investigates how decisions and actions TUE concerning the current topics of today could have massive TUE repercussions on our later lives. Dealing with issues ripped TUE from the headlines, torn from the news agenda and hacked to TUE shreds from Facebook feeds, WTF investigates how a single TUE alteration now could create a chain reaction that TUE permanently compromises the future for all. TUE TUE Written by Madeleine Brettingham, Steve Burge and Dale Shaw. TUE TUE Produced by Victoria Lloyd. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Kirsty Wark TUE Performer: Nadia Kamil TUE Performer: Geoffrey McGivern TUE Performer: Kieran Hodgson TUE Performer: Alistair McGowan TUE Performer: Alice Scott-Gemmill TUE Performer: Max Olesker TUE Performer: Jane Slavin TUE Writer: Madeleine Brettingham TUE Writer: Steve Burge TUE Writer: Dale Shaw TUE Producer: Victoria Lloyd TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b04pshdt (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04pr58h (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04snkx0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04pr58k (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04pr58m (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04pr58p (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04pr58r (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04pshg5 (Listen) WED Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04pshg7 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlvyz (Listen) WED Great Snipe WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Chris Packham presents the superbly camouflaged great snipe WED of Eastern Europe. A thin drizzle of tinkling notes WED mingled with rhythmic tapping drifts across a Polish marsh WED in spring a sign that great male snipes are displaying. WED Great snipe are wading birds with short legs and very long WED two-toned bills, which they use to probe bogs and wet ground WED for worms. Across much of Europe having newly returned from WED its sub-Saharan wintering grounds a number of northern and WED eastern European marshes, set stage as breeding sites for WED the larger, great snipe. They court females at traditional WED lekking or displaying grounds where several males vie for WED attention. Perched on a small mound, males gather at sunset WED to fan their white outer tail feathers, puff out their WED chests and produce a medley of very un-wader-like calls. The WED females, looking for a mate, are attracted to the dominant WED males at the centre of the lek. WED WED Great snipe (Gallinago media) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Erlend Haarlberg / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01389769 WED © Erlend Haarlberg / naturepl.com WED WED 06:00 Today b04v5hg2 (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 b04pshgc (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04snky9 (Listen) WED My Life in Houses, In Need of Modernisation WED WED I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house WED in Orton Road, on the outer edges of Raffles, a council WED estate. I was a lucky girl.' WED So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses WED she's lived in, from the sparkling new council house, built WED as part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her WED beloved London house of today, via Oxford, Hampstead and the WED Lake District. Forster's houses aren't just bricks and WED mortar, but homes which have all meant something to her and WED which have all had a profound effect on her - from her WED writer's 'room of one's own', to the family hub and finally WED a sanctuary in times of illness. It is also a sideways look WED at the life of one of the greatest contemporary British WED novelists. WED Today: The wreck that becomes the family home. WED Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster is the author of many WED successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had WED Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There WED Anything You Want?, Keeping the World Away, and Over, WED bestselling memoirs (Hidden Lives and Precious Lives) and WED biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter WED Davies and lives in London and the Lake District. WED Reader: Sian Thomas WED Writer: Margaret Forster WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Sian Thomas WED Author: Margaret Forster WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04pshgf (Listen) WED Listener Week: Miranda Hart WED WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b04sn1r5 (Listen) WED Syria: Bread and Bombs, Episode 3 WED WED Black comedy by Tina Pepler. WED WED Hassan, Jamil and Samara have taken the hazardous journey WED across the Syrian border to Idlib with a convoy of lorries WED loaded with nappies, baby milk and food parcels. WED WED The school where WED Samara was teaching has been bombed and Hassan has gone WED AWOL. Jamil is fuming. WED WED Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED Credits WED Bashi: Paul Chahidi WED Bouthy: Paul Chahidi WED Khaled: Yucef Bouabdelli Sadouki WED Jamil: Amir El-Masry WED Mahmoud: Kae Bahar WED Hassan: Tariq Jordan WED Samara: Betsabeh Emran WED Sami: Monty d'Inverno WED Youssef: Monty d'Inverno WED Soldier: Paul Heath WED Helper: Paul Heath WED Writer: Tina Pepler WED Director: Mary Ward-Lowery WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04pshgh (Listen) WED Mike and Philip - A Love of the Railway WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between two volunteers WED on the historic Talyllyn narrow-gauge steam railway, who WED compare notes on how working on it benefits them personally. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 WED initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in WED which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation WED with someone close to them about a subject they've never WED discussed intimately before. The conversations are being WED gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and WED national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every WED conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an WED important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then WED edited to extract the key moment of connection between the WED participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being WED archived by the British Library and used to build up a WED collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK WED in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more WED about The Listening Project by visiting WED bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 To Rent or Not to Rent b04pshgk (Listen) WED Leah is a young renter from Bristol who would like to buy a WED house, but can't afford it. Getting on the property ladder WED in the UK is, as we know, becoming harder than ever for the WED younger generation. Even though WED the rental market is growing, young people are struggling WED with high rents, insecure tenancies, and often poor quality WED housing. Added to that, come the psychological and social WED pressures of not owning your own home. WED WED Meanwhile Germany is often held up as a model for renting WED where, for decades, it's been easy, socially acceptable, and WED common to rent even for long periods of time. Leah travels WED to Berlin, where many people rent their homes. She meets her WED counterparts and compares the legal, social, psychological, WED economic and emotional realities of life when you rent, and WED when there is little peer or parental pressure of 'when are WED you going to buy?' WED WED Producer: Beth O'Dea. WED WED 11:30 Hobby Bobbies b04pshk4 (Listen) WED Series 2, Sinkhole WED WED Return of the sitcom where Britain's longest serving PCSO WED -and Britain's laziest - make quite a pairing. WED WED Written by Dave Lamb (the voice of Come Dine With Me) and WED starring Richie Webb (Horrible Histories), Nick WED Walker, Chris Emmett and Noddy Holder. WED WED This week, when an enormous sinkhole opens up the police WED need to do a little more than "look into it". WED WED Written by Dave Lamb WED WED Produced by Steve Doherty WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Geoff: Richie Webb WED Nigel: Nick Walker WED The Guv: Sinead Keenan WED Nina: Pooja Shah WED Bernie: Chris Emmett WED Geoff's Dad: Noddy Holder WED Producer: Steve Doherty WED Writer: Dave Lamb WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04pr58t (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 A History of Ideas b04pss4j (Listen) WED Neuropsychologist Paul Broks on Morality and the Brain WED WED The eighteenth century writer Jeremy Bentham thought that WED telling right from wrong as simple: morally right things WED were the ones that increased the total of human happiness. WED Wrong things were the ones that WED increased the stock of suffering. His principle is known as WED utilitarianism. WED WED It sounds rational, but does it do justice to the way we WED actually think about morality? Some things seem wrong even WED when, according to utilitarianism, they are right. WED WED Recently, philosophers and psychologists have started to WED apply experimental methods to moral philosophy. In this WED programme, neuropsychologist Paul Broks looks at the recent WED research. Some experimenters, such as Guy Kahane in Oxford, WED have been putting people in scanners to see which bits of WED the brain are most active when they struggle with moral WED dilemmas. Fiery Cushman at Harvard has been getting people WED to carry out simulated immoral acts (such as asking WED volunteers to fire a fake gun at the experimenter) to see WED how they react to unpleasant but essentially harmless tasks. WED And Mike Koenigs at Wisconsin Madison University has been WED looking at how psychopathic criminals and people with brain WED damage deal with moral puzzles. One school of thought now WED suggests that utilitarianism, far from being the "rational" WED way to decide right from wrong, is actually most attractive WED to people who lack the normal empathic responses - people WED very like Jeremy Bentham, in fact. WED WED This programme is part of a week of programmes looking at WED the history of ideas around Freedom. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04pss4l (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04pr58w (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04pss4n (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Terror Through Time b04pss4q (Listen) WED Afghan Dawn WED WED Fergal Keane on the first stirrings of Islamic WED fundamentalist violence in Afghanistan. How and why did this WED remote country earn its reputation as the crucible of global WED terror? WED With journalist Ahmed WED Rashid; former CIA officer, Milt Bearden; aide to Ahmad Shah WED Massoud, Massoud Khalili; and South Asia Correspondent of WED the Guardian and Observer, Jason Burke. WED WED Producer: Isobel Eaton. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04pshdc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04pss4s (Listen) WED Mercury 13 WED WED In the early 1960s Wally Funk and Jerrie Cobb were two of WED thirteen young women pilots who secretly took NASA's WED gruelling astronaut selection tests. They passed with flying WED colours, in some cases beating the WED scores of the men. Anita Sullivan's drama-documentary WED explores why they were never allowed to go into space. WED WED Narrated by Laurel Lefkow and featuring an interview with WED astronaut candidate, Wally Funk. WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. WED WED Credits WED Jerrie Cobb: Samantha Dakin WED Randolf Lovelace: William Hope WED Tom Harris: William Hope WED John Glenn: William Hope WED Jackie Cochran: Laurel Lefkow WED Brigadier General Flickinger: Morgan Deare WED Dr Shurley: Morgan Deare WED Congressman Anfuso: Morgan Deare WED Jane Hart: Claire Inie-Richards WED Narrator: Laurel Lefkow WED Interviewed Guest: Wally Funk WED Director: Kate McAll WED Writer: Anita Sullivan WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b04pss4v (Listen) WED Financial Help and Support for Carers WED WED Need financial help or support to care for a relative or WED friend? Call 03700 100 444 from 1.00pm to 3.30pm on WED Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED Over 6 million people across the UK provide care for a WED loved one who is disabled, seriously ill or no longer able WED to look after themselves. WED WED While many people try to maintain a job and a caring role, WED others have to leave work altogether resulting in financial WED hardship. The charity Carers UK say that around 6 in 10 WED carers face debts because of their responsibilities and that WED carers often miss out on the help they are entitled to. WED WED Are you claiming the financial benefits or grants available WED to you? WED WED Do you need assistance or a break from caring? WED WED Does your home need adapting? WED WED How do you get a carers assessment and what does it involve? WED WED What are your rights if you want to work flexibly, reduce WED your hours or begin work again after time off? WED WED Or perhaps you're a small employer whose staff need to WED combine work and a caring role? WED WED Whatever you need help with, presenter Paul Lewis and guests WED will be waiting for your call. Joining Paul will be: WED WED Marian Gell, Contact a Family. WED Eddy Graham, Carers UK. WED Lucy McLynn, Legal Advisor to Employers for Carers. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or WED e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b04pshdm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b04pss4x (Listen) WED Creative Britain - Sexology WED WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED Robert Hewison WED WED Cultural historian WED WED Find our more about WED Robert Hewison WED Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain WED Publisher: Verso Books WED ISBN-10: 1781685916 WED ISBN-13: 978-1781685914 WED WED Kaye Wellings WED WED Professor of Sexual & Reproductive Health Research and Head WED of the Department of Social and Environmental Health WED Research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine WED WED Find out more about WED Kaye Wellings WED Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective WED Publisher: Open University Press WED ISBN-10: 0335244815 WED ISBN-13: 978-0335244812 WED WED Exhibition: Undress Your Mind WED WED Find out more about WED The Institute of Sexology WED WED WED Exibitions: 20 November 2014 - 20 September 2015 WED WED Address: Wellcome Collection WED 183 Euston Road WED London NW1 2BE WED WED tel: +44 (0)20 7611 2222 WED email: WED info@wellcomecollection.org WED WED The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography WED Thinking Allowed in association with the British WED Sociological Association announces the annual award for a WED study that has made a significant contribution to WED ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a WED culture or sub-culture. WED WED Are you involved in social science research and completing WED or will have completed ethnography this year? The Award is WED open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or WED researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution WED of higher education. WED WED An entry should be a WED completed ethnography WED a qualitative research project which provides a detailed WED description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole WED authored book or peer reviewed research article published WED during the calendar year of the award will be eligible. WED WED The judges for the Award are yet to be announced. WED WED The judges will be looking for work which displays WED flair WED originality WED and WED clarity WED alongside sound methodology. The work should make a WED significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in WED the relevant area of research. WED WED The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that WED shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will WED be awarded a prize of £1000. WED WED The winner of the Award will be announced at the WED BSA Annual Conference WED in April 2015. WED WED Read on for essential information and details on how to WED enter. WED HOW TO ENTER: WED WED You may submit one entry only, which must be sole authored. WED WED All entries must include the summary and contact details and WED a hard copy or electronic copy (attachments must be under WED the filesize of 10MB) of the ethnography. WED WED Email a summary of your work to WED ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk WED (no more than 250 words) along with your name and phone WED number. WED Please include the name of your paper in the 'Subject' WED category of your email. WED If you are submitting a paper WED it can be attached to your email, provided it is no more WED than 10MB. If you receive no automatic email confirmation WED your paper is too large and you will need to send it by WED post. WED If you are submitting a book WED (which must be published during this year) it should be WED posted to: WED Thinking Allowed WED Ethnography Award WED Room 6045 WED Broadcasting House WED London WED W1A 1AA WED Entries must be submitted by the closing date of 31st WED December 2014 WED TERMS & CONDITIONS: WED The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography Terms and WED Conditions WED WED WED 1. To be eligible to enter you must meet the following WED criteria: WED WED 2. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested. WED The BBC’s decision as to the eligibility of individual WED entrants will be final and no correspondence will be entered WED into. WED WED 3. Entrants must submit by way of email to WED ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk WED a summary outlining the nature of an ethnography undertaken WED and published by the entrant. Please include the name of WED your paper in the 'Subject' category of your email. The WED summary should not be longer than 250 words. The ethnography WED must consist of a qualitative research project which WED provides a detailed, in-depth description of the everyday WED life and practice of a group, people or culture and been WED included in a peer-reviewed paper or in a book published in WED 2014. All entries and research must be in English. WED WED 4. The email entry must include the following information WED and contact detail for the entrant: full name, postal WED address, institution of higher education, email address and WED contact telephone number. WED WED 5. If you are submitting a book (which must be published WED during this year) it should be posted to: Thinking Allowed WED Ethnography Award, room 6045 Broadcasting House, London W1A WED 1AA. If it is a paper, it can be attached to your email, WED provided it is no more than 10MB. If you receive no WED automatic email confirmation your paper is too large and you WED will need to send it by post. WED WED 6. All entries must include the: (i) summary (by email); WED (ii) the contact details (by email) and (ii) hard WED copy/electronic copy (if under 10MB) of the ethnography. WED WED 7. Only one entry will be allowed per person. WED WED 8. Entries cannot be submitted by any other method or they WED will not be considered. WED WED 9. All entries must be sole authored. WED WED 10. A panel of 5 highly experienced academics will select WED six finalists. These may be contacted by the Production Team WED for an interview. From the finalists, the panel will select WED an overall winner. The selection criteria will be based on WED the work which displays flair and originality, and which WED makes a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. Each entry WED will be a completed ethnography, a qualitative research WED project which provides a detailed, in-depth, description of WED the everyday life and practice of a group, people, or WED culture. Judges will be looking for work which displays WED flair, originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. WED It should make a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. WED WED 11. The prize will consist of: £1,000. The judges' decision WED will be final and the BBC will not enter into correspondence WED with the applicants. In the event of two outstanding WED entries, the prize of £1000 will be shared. WED WED 12. The finalists will be contacted by telephone in spring WED of 2015 and the winner announced in April 2015. If a WED selected entrant cannot be contacted after reasonable WED attempts have been made to do so, the BBC reserves the right WED to offer the prize to the next best entry. WED WED 13. The winner should refrain from referring to the award in WED order to promote commercial ventures. All references must be WED compliant with BBC branding policies. WED WED 14. The BBC will only ever use personal details for the WED purposes of administering the scheme. Please see the WED BBC’s Privacy Policy WED . WED WED 15. Closing date for entries is 23:59 on 31st December 2014. WED All entries which are received after that will not be WED considered. WED WED 16. The BBC cannot accept any responsibility for any problem WED with the internet or electronic mail system. WED WED 17. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and WED must not infringe the rights of any other party. The BBC WED accepts no liability if entrants ignore these rules and WED entrants agree to fully indemnify the BBC against any claims WED by any third party arising from any breach of these rules. WED WED 18. Entrants retain the copyright in their original ideas WED but on being selected will grant to the BBC a licence to WED broadcast their entry (or parts thereof) across all media, WED as well as use it on any online platforms on standard WED prevailing BBC terms (as agreed with the Writer’s Guild, WED Society of Authors and Personal Managers Association). WED WED 19. By applying for the award, entrants warrant that they WED have legal capacity to enter the scheme and agree to be WED bound by these terms and conditions. WED WED 20. The names of the all selected entrants and any entrant WED whose entry is broadcast or used on-line will be made WED public. Entrants must agree to take part in any post-event WED publicity if required. WED WED 21. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify any entry which WED breaches any of these terms and conditions. WED WED 22. The BBC reserves the right to cancel or alter the award WED (including amending these terms and conditions) at any WED stage, including members of the judging panel if deemed WED necessary in its opinion, and if circumstances arise outside WED its control. In this event, a notice will be posted on the WED following website: WED http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thinkingallowed WED WED WED 23. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of WED England and Wales. WED WED WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04pss4z (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04pss51 (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04pr590 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b04pss53 (Listen) WED Football WED WED In Paul Sinha's History Revision the acclaimed stand-up and WED eleventh best UK quizzer Paul Sinha looks through all of WED human history and examines how we came to be where we are. WED He starts with something everyday, WED something we all know to be true; he then reveals the quirks WED of history and the fascinating stories that led up to this WED point. WED WED In this first edition, Paul takes as his starting point the WED World Cup Final in June 2014, the biggest sporting event on WED the planet, a billion people watching twenty-five or so WED Germans and Argentinians play football in Rio de Janeiro, WED Brazil. How did we end up here? it's a story that takes in WED fifteenth-century explorers, the slave trade, mass WED immigration, industrialisation, and British Army medical WED tests. Because no-one and nothing exists in a vacuum. WED WED Paul Sinha is an acclaimed stand-up who was nominated for WED the Edinburgh Comedy award for his show Saint or Sinha?. He WED frequently appears on The News Quiz, The Now Show, and WED Fighting Talk. He is a resident 'chaser' on the ITV quiz WED show The Chase. He wrote and starred in one-offs The Sinha WED Test (2011) and The Sinha Games (2012) on Radio 4 and in WED 2013 had his own four-part series, Paul Sinha's Citizenship WED Test. WED WED Written and performed by Paul Sinha. WED Produced by Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Paul Sinha WED Performer: Paul Sinha WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04pss55 (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04pss57 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04sn1r5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b04pss59 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04pss5c (Listen) WED Series 4, Esther Woolfson WED WED Is it time to radically re-think pet ownership? In this WED highly challenging and thought provoking Four Thought the WED writer Esther Woolfson argues that a lifetime spent sharing WED her home with a variety of birds and WED animals - rook, magpie, crow, starling, canaries, parrots, WED rats and rabbits - has led her to understand just how little WED we really know about the capacities and feelings of other WED beings. Pushing us to consider why we own pets in the first WED place Esther's talk promises to have you looking at Rover, WED Ginger, Fluffy or Socks in a whole new light. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b04pv6kq (Listen) WED Vagus Nerve WED WED Stimulating the vagus nerve can help people who have WED epilepsy that isn't controlled with drugs. Now some WED researchers think a similar approach could have positive WED effects against inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid WED arthritis and Crohn's. Gaia Vince reports on this new field WED of research. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b04pshgc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04pr592 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04pv6ks (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04snf0j (Listen) WED In Love and War, Episode 3 WED WED "[He] unfolds a portrait of himself in gouache [...] It is a WED good likeness, he thinks, if a little tragic, and big-eared. WED She has drawn a man - given him something to grow into." WED WED Esmond Lowndes's father is a WED leading light in the British Union Of Fascists. In 1937, WED Esmond is sent down from Cambridge in disgrace and WED dispatched instead to Florence to set up Radio Firenze - an WED English-language radio station aiming to form closer ties WED between Fascists in Italy and England. WED WED Esmond finds love and loss, and his journey of WED self-discovery becomes increasingly and - as Italy moves WED into war - more tightly intertwined with the fortunes of WED Florence, the city he has made his home. WED WED And at every turn, he comes up against the local Blackshirt WED leader, the brutal Mario Carita. WED WED Episode 3 (of 10) WED The party at the British Institute to celebrate the WED coronation of King George VI doesn't go according to plan. WED WED Alex Preston lives with his family in London. His first WED novel, This Bleeding City, was selected as one of WED Waterstones New Voices 2010. His second, The Revelations, WED was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. WED Alex is a journalist and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at WED the University of Kent. WED WED Reader: Carl Prekopp WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED WED Produced by Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Carl Prekopp WED Author: Alex Preston WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED WED 23:00 James Acaster's Findings b04pv6kv (Listen) WED Series 1, Paint WED WED Triple Foster's nominated comedian James Acaster presents WED the results of his research. This week, he's been WED investigating 'Paint'. With Nathaniel Metcalfe ('Fresh from WED the Fringe') and Bryony Hannah ('Call the Midwife'). WED WED Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: James Acaster WED Ensemble: Nathaniel Metcalfe WED Ensemble: Bryony Hannah WED Presenter: Lyndsay Fenner WED Writer: James Acaster WED WED 23:15 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01d2hf1 (Listen) WED Series 1, Superstition WED WED Tim Key tells the tale of Mike Figg, an intensely WED superstitious man. Tom Basden plays the xylophone and has WED brought his own beaters. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b04pv6vz (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04pr5b4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04snky9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04pr5b6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04pr5b8 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04pr5bb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04pr5bd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04pv732 (Listen) THU Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04pv734 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlpfd (Listen) THU Wild Turkey THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Chris Packham presents the wild turkey of North American THU woodlands. We are so used to seeing mass-produced captive THU turkeys (the centrepiece for many a Thanksgiving meal in the THU United States and Canada) that the sight and sound of a THU displaying male wild turkey is a real surprise. With his THU tail fanned and red wattles a-quiver; he struts-his-stuff in THU a woodland clearing to win the favours of the less THU flamboyant hens. There are now around 7 million wild turkeys THU in the USA. But it wasn't always so. Wild turkeys were THU nearly wiped out in many states by over-shooting and THU woodland clearance. Their numbers fell from tens of millions THU in pre-Columbus days, to about thirty thousand by the last THU Century. Land which had been previously cleared for farming THU was allowed to return to woodland. Wild turkeys were THU released back into areas where they'd been wiped out. This THU along with hunting controls and behavioural research allowed THU their numbers to increase and their spectacular displays are THU once again a common sight in many areas of the USA. THU THU Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Rolf Nussbaumer / naturepl.com THU THU NPL Ref THU 01157932 THU © Rolf Nussbaumer / naturepl.com THU THU Recording of wild turkey by Geoffrey A Keller / Ref: ML THU 50137 THU THU This programme contains a wildtrack THU recording of wild turkey THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Geoffrey A Keller on 14 Apr THU 1990, at Valentine, Cherry County, Nebraska, USA THU THU Recording of wild turkey by Gregory F Budney / Ref: ML THU 129251 THU THU This programme contains a wildtrack THU recording of wild turkey THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Gregory F Budney on 16 Apr 2002, THU at Hakalau Forest, Hawaii County, Hawaii, USA THU THU 06:00 Today b04pv736 (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 b04pv8j1 (Listen) THU Listener Week on In Our Time THU THU This week is Listener Week on In Our Time. Melvyn Bragg and THU guests discuss a topic chosen from several hundred suggested THU by listeners. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04snl04 (Listen) THU My Life in Houses, Secure and Safe THU THU I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house THU in Orton Road, on the outer edges of Raffles, a council THU estate. I was a lucky girl.' THU So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses THU she's lived in, from the sparkling new council house, built THU as part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her THU beloved London house of today, via Oxford, Hampstead and the THU Lake District. Forster's houses aren't just bricks and THU mortar, but homes which have all meant something to her and THU which have all had a profound effect on her. It is also a THU sideways look at the life of one of the greatest THU contemporary British novelists. THU Today: After the frenzy of North London life in the sixties, THU a fairytale cottage in the North of England offers rest and THU refuge. THU THU Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster is the author of many THU successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had THU Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There THU Anything You Want?, Keeping the World Away, and Over, THU bestselling memoirs (Hidden Lives and Precious Lives) and THU biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter THU Davies and lives in London and the Lake District. THU Reader: Sian Thomas THU Writer: Margaret Forster THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Sian Thomas THU Author: Margaret Forster THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04pv8j3 (Listen) THU Listener Week THU THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04sn2y9 (Listen) THU Syria: Bread and Bombs, Episode 4 THU THU Black comedy by Tina Pepler. THU THU Hassan, Jamil and Samara have taken the hazardous journey THU across the Syrian border to Idlib with a convoy of lorries THU loaded with nappies, baby milk and food parcels. THU THU Jamil has been taken prisoner. THU THU Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU Credits THU Bashi: Paul Chahidi THU Bouthy: Paul Chahidi THU Khaled: Yucef Bouabdelli Sadouki THU Jamil: Amir El-Masry THU Mahmoud: Kae Bahar THU Hassan: Tariq Jordan THU Samara: Betsabeh Emran THU Sami: Monty d'Inverno THU Youssef: Monty d'Inverno THU Soldier: Paul Heath THU Helper: Paul Heath THU Writer: Tina Pepler THU Director: Mary Ward-Lowery THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04cfhm1 (Listen) THU Searching for Annie in Liberia THU THU Gabriel Gatehouse reports from the Liberian capital Monrovia THU on the devastating impact of Ebola upon its people. In one THU case, a patient called Annie, 38, was discovered in her THU crowded shared house in harrowing THU conditions. She was taken away to hospital but disappeared THU into the system. Gabriel and his team go in search of Annie THU and along the way meet the medics and families on the front THU line of the Ebola crisis. THU THU 11:30 Arnold of the Five Towns b0477m6z (Listen) THU Writer Arnold Bennett was a man of many worlds. Born in 1867 THU amidst the roar and industry of The Potteries, he became a THU giant of the London literati, renowned far beyond the THU capital for works such as The Old THU Wives' Tale, The Card and Anna of the Five Towns. THU THU But Bennett was not just a novelist. From screenplays to THU 'how to' books, Evening Standard articles to Woman magazine, THU he was wildly prolific, unashamed of earning a living from THU his art, and as capable of describing the minutiae of grand THU hotels as he was the life of the charwoman. THU THU Mourned by the likes of Lord Beaverbrook and Somerset THU Maugham when he died in 1931, Arnold Bennett earned a level THU of wealth and celebrity in his lifetime of which many THU writers might now only dream. THU THU So why does this man - who once wrote in his journal that he THU "would not care a bilberry for posterity" - seem to have THU somewhat fallen from fame? What's his legacy in his THU hometown? And what could his life and work say to 21st THU century Britain? THU THU In this programme, Bennett fan Samira Ahmed reappraises the THU reputation of this self-made man from the Potteries, THU visiting places as diverse as The Savoy Hotel and Stoke City THU FC. She tours Burslem's Bennett landmarks, delves into the THU archive at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and walks the THU floorboards of the Middleport Pottery as she hears how it THU inspired one of Bennett's best-loved works. THU THU Interviewees include Dame Margaret Drabble, historian and MP THU Tristram Hunt, writer Sathnam Sanghera and many others. THU THU Producer: Alice Bloch THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04pr5bg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 A History of Ideas b04pvc0g (Listen) THU Lawyer Harry Potter on Morality and the Law THU THU Criminal Barrister Harry Potter asks whether the law should THU enforce morals, and if so, which morals? THU THU Should the law tell us what we can and can't do? Or should THU it go further and tell us what is right, and what THU is wrong? THU THU Criminal Barrister Lawyer Harry Potter asks what a moral law THU might be, in a multi-faith multi-cultural Britain. His key THU thinker is Jeremy Bentham - 18th century English eccentric THU and radical - whose theory of Utilitarianism fused law and THU morality. THU THU Harry introduces the grisly tale of cannibalism which THU challenged the Victorian version of Christian law; he THU surveys the transformation of the law from the 1960s, with THU former Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge: from the imprisonment THU of homosexuals to gay marriage. And Professor Philip THU Schofield from University College London explains Bentham's THU radical concepts, which promised the greatest happiness for THU the greatest number of people and would have resulted in the THU tearing down of our great institutions. THU This programme is part of a week of programmes looking at THU the history of ideas around Freedom. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04pvc0j (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04pr5bj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04pvc0l (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Terror Through Time b04pvc0n (Listen) THU Tiger, Tiger THU THU Fergal Keane visits Sri Lanka to reassess the impact of the THU suicide bombers of the Tamil Tigers. THU In 2009, the Sri Lankan government claimed an unprecedented THU and highly controversial victory in the history THU of counter terrorism. THU THU After 26 years of conflict, it annihilated the separatist THU group by military force. In this edition of "Terror Through THU Time", Fergal Keane returns to Colombo, the capital of Sri THU Lanka, to recall the Tamil Tigers' long struggle and the way THU they made one, devastating weapon of modern terror their THU own. THU THU With Dr. Atreyee Sen, lecturer in Contemporary Religion and THU Conflict at Manchester University; Dr. Miranda Alison, THU Associate Professor in Politics and International Studies at THU the University of Warwick; Ananthi Sasitharan, Tamil THU activist; Mia Bloom, Professor of Security Studies at the THU University of Massachusetts- Lowell; and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, THU Sri Lanka's Secretary of Defence. THU THU Producer: Isobel Eaton. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04pss55 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01j5j2n (Listen) THU Homeowners THU THU Homeowners THU Written by Kellie Smith THU THU Wrapped up in the excitement of moving into their first THU home, Kate and Mark receive the shock of their lives when THU they discover that the house's previous owners have THU neglected THU to move out. Their dream home suddenly turns into a THU nightmare. A dark, unsettling thriller starring Frances THU Barber. THU THU Produced by Pauline Harris THU Directed by Charlotte Riches. THU THU Credits THU Kate: Rebecca Callard THU Mark: Graeme Hawley THU Penny: Frances Barber THU Derek: Russell Richardson THU Writer: Kellie Smith THU Producer: Pauline Harris THU Director: Charlotte Riches THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04pvdhh (Listen) THU Brownsea Island, Dorset THU THU After a trip to Brownsea Island in 1818, George, the Prince THU Regent declared "'I had no idea I had such a delightful spot THU in my kingdom'. It may only be 1.5 miles long and 0.75 miles THU wide but this 500 acre THU island is full of history, mystery and wildlife. THU THU Felicity Evans takes a boat across and meets Claire Dixon of THU The National Trust, who took over the island in 1963. THU THU As Claire explains, many previous inhabitants have left THU their mark on Brownsea. Colonel Waugh and his wife Mary were THU walking along the beach in the early 19th century when she THU got her umbrella stuck in the sand, pulled it out and THU discovered clay. They built the village of Maryland and THU started a pottery. At a newly excavated site, you can see THU some of the cottages that were built for the potters. She THU also tells the story of the eccentric recluse, Mrs Mary THU Bonham Christie who threw all the inhabitants off the island THU and patrolled the beaches with a shotgun. She handed it back THU to nature and for 45 years, animals, birds and the THU rhododendron ran wild. THU THU Then it's a walk to spot red squirrels with ranger John THU Lamming, who's lived on the island for over 30 years. THU Brownsea is one of the few places you can see this highly THU protected animal and in autumn they are easy to spot, THU burying food on the woodland floor. THU THU Felicity then heads to a low hide over the saltwater lagoon, THU to meet Reserve manager, Chris Thain, of the Dorset Wildlife THU Trust to see and hear about the huge diversity of birds that THU frequent this area. THU Finally, to the flattest part of the island where Lord Baden THU Powell hosted his first experimental Scout camp in 1907. THU Next to a huge memorial stone to the movement, Scout THU Commissioner, Kevin Philips explains how Brownsea is still THU visited by thousands of Scouts and Guides every year. Youth THU group leader and Girl Guide, Amanda Shorey encourages THU Felicity to have a go at den building, low ropes and THU archery, just some of the activities going on in The Outdoor THU Centre. THU THU Presenter: Felicity Evans THU Producer: Julia Hayball. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04pr6rq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b04pr9hy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04pvdhk (Listen) THU 2001: A Space Odyssey Special THU THU As 2001: A Space Odyssey is re-released in cinemas, Francine THU Stock presents a special edition on Stanley Kubrick's THU masterpiece. THU THU 'My God, it's Full of Stars' were the last words of Dave THU Bowman before he journeyed THU through the Stargate, according to writer Arthur C. Clarke THU but it's an apt description for this edition of The Film THU Programme. Francine journeys through time and space to THU uncover broadcast treasures, goes in search of HAL and loses THU herself in the delights of the Stanley Kubrick Archive in THU London's University of the Arts in the company of 2001 THU chronicler Piers Bizony. Joining Francine on her voyage of THU discovery are the voices of production designer Harry Lange, THU make-up genius Stuart Freeborn, editor Ray Lovejoy, all now THU so much stardust, as well as those urbane spacemen Keir THU Dullea & Gary Lockwood, Moonwatcher Dan Richter & Stargate THU designer Douglas Trumbull. Open the Pod Bay Doors HAL! THU THU Producer THU Mark Burman. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Piers Bizony THU Interviewed Guest: Harry Lange THU Interviewed Guest: Stuart Freeborn THU Interviewed Guest: Ray Lovejoy THU Interviewed Guest: Keir Dullea THU Interviewed Guest: Gary Lockwood THU Interviewed Guest: Daniel Richter THU Interviewed Guest: Douglas Trumbull THU Producer: Mark Burman THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04pvdhm (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04pvdhp (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04pr5bl (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 My Teenage Diary b04pvf6l (Listen) THU Series 6, Terry Wogan THU THU Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by the broadcaster Terry THU Wogan, whose diary describes his life in Limerick when he THU was 15. THU THU The young Terry serves his first Mass, spends hours in the THU cinema, loves playing Subuteo THU with his friends and - when he's tired - simply eats his THU lunch in bed. THU THU Produced by Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Rufus Hound THU Interviewed Guest: Terry Wogan THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04pvfbg (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04pvfbj (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04sn2y9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04pvfbl (Listen) THU Virgin Galactic THU THU Should Sir Richard Branson have known about safety issues THU associated with the fatal crash of a Virgin Galactic rocket THU in October 2014? Lesley Curwen tells the story behind the THU crash and asks whether the Virgin brand can survive the THU tragedy. THU THU Producer: Simon Coates. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04stlw4 (Listen) THU A Tale of Two Sanctions THU THU Peter Day talks to companies affected by economic sanctions THU imposed against Russia, and by retaliatory sanctions imposed THU by Russia, and asks how they cope when they suddenly lose a THU key market. He also asks how effective sanctions are and who THU they hit the hardest. THU THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04pvdhm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b04pv8j1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b04pr5bn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04pvfrv (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04snf35 (Listen) THU In Love and War, Episode 4 THU THU "[He] unfolds a portrait of himself in gouache [...] It is a THU good likeness, he thinks, if a little tragic, and big-eared. THU She has drawn a man - given him something to grow into." THU THU Esmond Lowndes's father is a THU leading light in the British Union Of Fascists. In 1937, THU Esmond is sent down from Cambridge in disgrace and THU dispatched instead to Florence to set up Radio Firenze - an THU English-language radio station aiming to form closer ties THU between Fascists in Italy and England. THU THU Esmond finds love and loss, and his journey of THU self-discovery becomes increasingly and - as Italy moves THU into war - more tightly intertwined with the fortunes of THU Florence, the city he has made his home. THU THU And at every turn, he comes up against the local Blackshirt THU leader, the brutal Mario Carita. THU THU Episode 4 (of 10) THU While Goad recovers in hospital after Carita's attack, THU Esmond falls under the spell of Fiamma and Goad's son, THU Gerald. THU THU Alex Preston lives with his family in London. His first THU novel, This Bleeding City, was selected as one of THU Waterstones New Voices 2010. His second, The Revelations, THU was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. THU Alex is a journalist and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at THU the University of Kent. THU THU Reader: Carl Prekopp THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU THU Produced by Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Carl Prekopp THU Author: Alex Preston THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU THU 23:00 Another Case of Milton Jones b012wzpg (Listen) THU Series 5, Milton Jones - Gardening Expert THU THU Milton crosses stamens with a deadly rival in the vicious THU cutthroat world of gardening. He's joined in his endeavours THU by his co-stars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Dave Lamb THU ("Come Dine With Me") and Margaret THU Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda"). THU THU Milton Jones returns to BBC Radio Four for an amazing 9th THU series - which means he's been running for longer than THU Gardeners' Question Time and answered more questions on THU gardening as well. THU THU Britain's funniest Milton and the king of the one-liner THU returns with a fully-working cast and a shipload of new THU jokes for a series of daffy comedy adventures THU THU Each week, Milton is a complete and utter expert at THU something - brilliant Mathematician, World-Class Cyclist, THU Aviator, Championship Jockey... THU THU ... and each week, with absolutely no ability or competence, THU he plunges into a big adventure with utterly funny THU results... THU THU "Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a THU flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners" - The THU Guardian. THU THU "King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times THU THU "If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The THU Daily Mail THU THU Written by Milton with James Cary ("Think The Unthinkable", THU "Miranda"), the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton," THU returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a THU shipload of new jokes. THU THU The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ( "Spamalot"), THU Lucy Montgomery ("Down The Line"), Dave Lamb ("Come Dine THU With Me") and Ben Willbond ("Horrible Histories") THU THU David Tyler's radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm THU Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, Another Case Of Milton THU Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley THU Hogg Goes Off, The 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree THU and even, going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits THU include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, THU Absolutely, The Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's THU Run, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria THU Wood's dinnerladies. THU THU Produced & directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b04pvh14 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04pr5cl (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04snl04 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04pr5cn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04pr5cq (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04pr5cs (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04pr5cv (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04pvk17 (Listen) FRI Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04pvk19 (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 b04mlvz1 (Listen) FRI Madagascan Harrier-Hawk FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Chris Packham presents the Madagascan Harrier-hawk from FRI Madagascar. Among the branches of a Madagascan forest, FRI there's a flutter of wings and a flash of double-jointed FRI feet. The Madagascan harrier-hawk is a striking bird, FRI uniform grey above and finely-barred beneath with black FRI wing-tips and a white-banded black tail. There's a patch of FRI sulphurous skin around its bill and eyes: and its long legs FRI are also bright yellow. Those long legs help the FRI harrier-hawk hunt for food that's beyond the reach of most FRI other birds of prey. Using its wings for balance and FRI twisting its flexibly-jointed legs at seemingly impossible FRI angles, the harrier-hawk inserts its talons into tiny holes, FRI relying on its sense of touch to locate its prey. Madagascar FRI harrier-hawks do hunt more conventionally by gliding over FRI the forest, seizing small birds, reptiles and mammals such FRI as the Verreaux's sifaka. FRI FRI Madagascar Harrier-hawk (Polyboroides radiatus) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Pete Oxford / naturepl.com FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01163651 FRI © Pete Oxford / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04pvk1c (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 b04pr6rz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04snl1n (Listen) FRI My Life in Houses, Inside My House, I Can Cope FRI FRI I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house FRI in Orton Road, on the outer edges of Raffles, a council FRI estate. I was a lucky girl.' FRI FRI So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses FRI she's FRI lived in, from the sparkling new council house, built as FRI part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her FRI beloved London house of today, via Oxford, Hampstead and the FRI Lake District. As well as a poignant reflection on home and FRI the effect of home on us, My Life in Houses is also a FRI sideways look at the life of one of the greatest FRI contemporary British novelists. FRI FRI Today: As Forster's struggle with cancer continues, she FRI reflects the importance of home, and why, inside her own FRI home, she can cope. FRI FRI Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster is the author of many FRI successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had FRI Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There FRI Anything You Want?, Keeping the World Away, and Over, FRI bestselling memoirs (Hidden Lives and Precious Lives) and FRI biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter FRI Davies and lives in London and the Lake District. FRI Reader: Sian Thomas FRI Writer: Margaret Forster FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Sian Thomas FRI Author: Margaret Forster FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04pvk1f (Listen) FRI Listener Week FRI FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04sn50x (Listen) FRI Syria: Bread and Bombs, Episode 5 FRI FRI Black comedy by Tina Pepler. FRI FRI Hassan, Jamil and Samara have taken the hazardous journey FRI across the Syrian border to Idlib with a convoy of lorries FRI loaded with nappies, baby milk and food parcels. FRI FRI Jamil has had a FRI visit from Khaled, pretending to be his son. Hassan has a FRI plan to get him out of prison. FRI FRI Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. FRI FRI Credits FRI Bashi: Paul Chahidi FRI Bouthy: Paul Chahidi FRI Khaled: Yucef Bouabdelli Sadouki FRI Jamil: Amir El-Masry FRI Mahmoud: Kae Bahar FRI Hassan: Tariq Jordan FRI Samara: Betsabeh Emran FRI Sami: Monty d'Inverno FRI Youssef: Monty d'Inverno FRI Soldier: Paul Heath FRI Helper: Paul Heath FRI Writer: Tina Pepler FRI Director: Mary Ward-Lowery FRI FRI 11:00 Hot Gossip! b04pvb7m (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI If language elevates us above other animals, why does human FRI society seem to spend so much time gossiping? Perhaps it's FRI because without gossip there would be no society and FRI language would be much less FRI interesting. In the first of two programmes, Geoff Watts FRI explores our fascination with small talk and chit chat. FRI Where did gossip come from, why did it evolve and how has it FRI changed (and changed us) in the digital age? FRI FRI If your guilty pleasure is rifling through gossip magazines, FRI then here's a reassuring message: you are merely fulfilling FRI an evolutionary drive. The brain is 'hard-wired' to be FRI fascinated by gossip - which not only helps members of your FRI social group to bond but can also help to police those in FRI the group who transgress. Biologist call them 'free-riders' FRI and in large social groups, free-riders can wreak havoc with FRI the society unless they're policed - by gossip. FRI FRI For anthropologist Robin Dunbar, author of the now classic FRI text, 'Grooming, Gossip and The Evolution of Language', it FRI is not the pearls of wisdom that makes the world go round FRI but everyday tittle tattle: "we are social beings and our FRI world is cocooned in the interests and minutiae of everyday FRI social life. They fascinate us beyond nature". Gossip, which FRI Dunbar says can be traced back to social grooming in apes, FRI makes up around two-thirds of general conversation according FRI to his research. Without gossip says Dunbar "there can be no FRI society". FRI FRI Of course, historically, culturally, morally gossip has FRI rarely been seen as anything but good. In Judaism where FRI derogatory speech about another person has a special name - FRI 'Lashon Hara' or 'evil tongue', it is, says Rabbi Jonathan FRI Sacks, "...regarded it as one of the worst of all sins'. FRI Gossip is said to kill three people, "the one who says it, FRI the one he/she says it about, and the one who listens in. FRI Gossip is not just a sinful act but one that contaminates FRI others". Nowhere is this more evident than recent cases of FRI internet trolling and cyber bullying. "we need a new ethic" FRI argues Sacks. But are we even capable of changing our nasty FRI habits? FRI FRI 11:30 The Missing Hancocks b04pvk1j (Listen) FRI The New Neighbour FRI FRI Between 1954 and 1959, BBC Radio recorded 102 episodes of FRI Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's comedy classic Hancock's Half FRI Hour. The first modern sitcom, it made stars of Tony FRI Hancock, Sid James and Kenneth FRI Williams, and launched Galton and Simpson on one of the most FRI successful comedy-writing partnerships in history. But 20 FRI episodes of the show are missing from the BBC archives, and FRI have not been heard since their original transmission nearly FRI sixty years ago. Now, five of those episodes have been FRI lovingly re-recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC FRI Radio Theatre, featuring a stellar cast led by Kevin McNally FRI as The Lad Himself. FRI FRI Tonight's episode: The New Neighbour. Tony has a new FRI neighbour, whose night-time routine is very, very FRI suspicious..... FRI FRI Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and with the classic FRI score newly recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra, the show FRI stars Kevin McNally, Kevin Eldon, Simon Greenall, Robin FRI Sebastian and Susy Kane. The New Neighbour was last FRI broadcast in March 1956. FRI FRI Produced by Ed Morrish and Neil Pearson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Hancock: Kevin McNally FRI Actor: Kevin Eldon FRI Actor: Simon Greenall FRI Actor: Robin Sebastian FRI Actor: Susy Kane FRI Writer: Ray Galton FRI Writer: Alan Simpson FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI Producer: Neil Pearson FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04pr5cx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 A History of Ideas b04pvp7l (Listen) FRI Philosopher Angie Hobbs on the Value of Conscience FRI FRI Philosopher Angie Hobbs examines the concept of conscience FRI or moral intuition and asks whether it stands up to rational FRI scrutiny. FRI FRI In his Novel 'The Brothers Karamazov' the 19th century FRI Russian writer Dostoevsky FRI posed a moral dilemma - would it be morally right to murder FRI an innocent child in exchange for Paradise on earth for all FRI other humans. FRI FRI In other words does the end ever justify the means or are FRI there actions which are simply unacceptable whatever the FRI benefit? FRI FRI Angie Hobbs examines our moral intuitions and our sense of FRI 'conscience' by talking through Dostoevsky's dilemma and FRI asking what we really mean when we declare an act FRI unconscionable. FRI FRI This programme is part of a week of programmes looking at FRI the history of ideas around Freedom. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04pvp7n (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04pr5cz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04pvp7q (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Terror Through Time b04pvp7s (Listen) FRI Northern Ireland: The End Game FRI FRI Fergal Keane is joined by Tony Blair's Chief of Staff, FRI Jonathan Powell and by Professor Richard English of St FRI Andrews University to discuss the peace deal that brought FRI the long conflict with the IRA to an end. FRI FRI Producer: Owen McFadden. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04pvfbg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04pvp7v (Listen) FRI My Dad Keith FRI FRI My Dad Keith Written by Maxine Peake FRI FRI Maxine Peake writes and stars in this tale of teenage angst, FRI mid-life crisis and drumming. FRI FRI The play debuts Mike Joyce the drummer from The Smiths in FRI his first acting role. FRI Reaching her 40th birthday and with her grandad in hospital, FRI Steph begins to reflect on her life, loves and the quest to FRI find out who her dad was. As a teenager a fractious FRI relationship with her mother pushes Steph towards her FRI grandad and together they set out to piece together the FRI clues to the identity of her dad. They come to a startling FRI conclusion about him. FRI FRI Steph loves drumming - on anything. She's not got a drum kit FRI but taps out her life using kitchen utensils and releases FRI her tensions and worries on any surface available. FRI FRI Directed By Michelle Choudhry. FRI FRI Credits FRI Steph: Maxine Peake FRI Carole: Siobhan Finneran FRI Jeff: Mike Joyce FRI Young Jeff: Nico Mirallegro FRI Young Steph: Rebecca Ryan FRI Lily: Rachel Austin FRI Grandad: Roger Morlidge FRI Writer: Maxine Peake FRI Director: Michelle Choudhry FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04pvp7x (Listen) FRI North Wales FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI North Wales. Toby Buckland, Bob Flowerdew and Anne FRI Swithinbank take questions from the audience. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Short Rides in Fast Machines b04pvp7z (Listen) FRI The Fall of Paris FRI FRI A multi-contributor series of specially-commissioned radio FRI stories about speed. FRI FRI Every generation observes that life is getting faster - the FRI pace of change, of action, or communication. Our cars, FRI trains, boats FRI and planes are faster than ever. And as every world-record FRI on the athletic track confirms, we're still getting faster FRI ourselves. The title is inspired by the minimalist FRI composition by John Adams ('Short Ride In A Fast Machine'). FRI FRI Episode 2: FRI "The Fall Of Paris" by Toby Litt FRI A video-clip goes viral online with unforeseen and different FRI consequences for the film-maker and his subject. FRI FRI Toby Litt was born in 1968 and grew up in Bedfordshire. In FRI 2003, he was named one of Granta's Best of Young British FRI Novelists. His stories 'The Melancholy' (2010), 'People FRI Carry Roses' (2011) and 'The Sandy' (2012) featured in FRI previous Sweet Talk series for BBC Radio 4. His latest FRI collection of short stories 'Life-Like' will be published in FRI November 2014. FRI FRI Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI FRI Produced by Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Writer: Toby Litt FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04pvp81 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b04pvp83 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04pvp85 (Listen) FRI Grace and Marie - Big Schools and Big Changes FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between eleven year olds FRI in their first term at secondary school about the challenges FRI of the transition to 'big school'. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that FRI offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people FRI across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone FRI close to them about a subject they've never discussed FRI intimately before. The conversations are being gathered FRI across the UK by teams of producers from local and national FRI radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library and used to build up a FRI collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK FRI in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more FRI about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04pvp87 (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04pr5d1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b04pvp89 (Listen) FRI Series 85, Episode 6 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, who is joined by Rebecca Front, Hugo Rifkind and FRI Andrew Maxwell, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Rebecca Front FRI Panellist: Hugo Rifkind FRI Panellist: Andrew Maxwell FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04pvp8c (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Keri Davies FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Keri Davies FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Richard Grenville: Pip Torrens FRI Tod Foster: Ben Hull FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04pvp8f (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04sn50x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04pvp8h (Listen) FRI Natalie Bennett, Alan Johnson MP, Juergen Maier, Mark FRI Reckless MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Skegness Academy School in Lincolnshire with the FRI Leader of the Green Party Natalie Bennett, former Home FRI Secretary Alan Johnson MP, the CEO of FRI Siemens in the UK Juergen Maier and the new UKIP MP for FRI Rochester and Strood in Kent, Mark Reckless. FRI FRI If you would like tickets to Any Questions in Skegness on FRI 28th November 2014 then please email FRI any.questions@bbc.co.uk. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04pvp8k (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Ideas b04pvp8m (Listen) FRI Omnibus, How Do I Tell Right from Wrong? FRI FRI A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in FRI many voices. FRI FRI Melvyn is joined by four guests with different backgrounds FRI to discuss a really big question. This week the question is FRI 'How do I tell FRI wrong from right?' FRI FRI Helping him answer it are Neuropsychologist Paul Broks, FRI Philosopher Angie Hobbs, Theologian Giles Fraser and Lawyer FRI Harry Potter. FRI FRI For the rest of the week Paul, Angie, Giles and Harry will FRI take us further into the history of ideas about morality FRI with programmes of their own. FRI FRI Between them they will examine the idea of conscience and FRI moral intuitions, the relationship between morality and the FRI law, whether moral systems can work on the battlefield and FRI what the brain seems to do when we are making moral FRI decisions. FRI FRI In this omnibus edition all five programmes from the week FRI are presented together. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04pr5d3 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04pvp8p (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04sngfy (Listen) FRI In Love and War, Episode 5 FRI FRI "[He] unfolds a portrait of himself in gouache [...] It is a FRI good likeness, he thinks, if a little tragic, and big-eared. FRI She has drawn a man - given him something to grow into." FRI FRI Esmond Lowndes's father is a FRI leading light in the British Union Of Fascists. In 1937, FRI Esmond is sent down from Cambridge in disgrace and FRI dispatched instead to Florence to set up Radio Firenze - an FRI English-language radio station aiming to form closer ties FRI between Fascists in Italy and England. FRI FRI Esmond finds love and loss, and his journey of FRI self-discovery becomes increasingly and - as Italy moves FRI into war - more tightly intertwined with the fortunes of FRI Florence, the city he has made his home. FRI FRI And at every turn, he comes up against the local Blackshirt FRI leader, the brutal Mario Carita. FRI FRI Episode 5 (of 10) FRI Borrowing Father Bailey's car, Esmond, Gerald and Fiamma FRI help Norman Douglas to flee from Florence. FRI FRI Alex Preston lives with his family in London. His first FRI novel, This Bleeding City, was selected as one of FRI Waterstones New Voices 2010. His second, The Revelations, FRI was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. FRI Alex is a journalist and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at FRI the University of Kent. FRI FRI Reader: Carl Prekopp FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI Produced by Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Carl Prekopp FRI Author: Alex Preston FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b04ps71w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b04pvp8r (Listen) FRI News from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04pvp8t (Listen) FRI Fi Glover introduces another intimate and revealing FRI conversation that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain. FRI
22 November, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 22/11/2014 - 28/11/2014
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