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SAT SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04pr5g3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04snl1n (Listen) SAT My Life in Houses, Inside My House, I Can Cope SAT SAT I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house SAT in Orton Road, on the outer edges of Raffles, a council SAT estate. I was a lucky girl.' SAT SAT So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses SAT she's SAT lived in, from the sparkling new council house, built as SAT part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her SAT beloved London house of today, via Oxford, Hampstead and the SAT Lake District. As well as a poignant reflection on home and SAT the effect of home on us, My Life in Houses is also a SAT sideways look at the life of one of the greatest SAT contemporary British novelists. SAT SAT Today: As Forster's struggle with cancer continues, she SAT reflects the importance of home, and why, inside her own SAT home, she can cope. SAT SAT Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster is the author of many SAT successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had SAT Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There SAT Anything You Want?, Keeping the World Away, and Over, SAT bestselling memoirs (Hidden Lives and Precious Lives) and SAT biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter SAT Davies and lives in London and the Lake District. SAT Reader: Sian Thomas SAT Writer: Margaret Forster SAT Abridger: Sally Marmion SAT Producer: Justine Willett. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Sian Thomas SAT Author: Margaret Forster SAT Abridger: Sally Marmion SAT Producer: Justine Willett SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04pr5g5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04pr5g7 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04pr5g9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04pr5gc (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04pvq0g (Listen) SAT Spiritual reflection to start the day with The Revd Alison SAT Jack. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04pr5gf (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04pr5gh (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04pr5gk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04pvdhh (Listen) SAT Brownsea Island, Dorset SAT SAT After a trip to Brownsea Island in 1818, George, the Prince SAT Regent declared "'I had no idea I had such a delightful spot SAT in my kingdom'. It may only be 1.5 miles long and 0.75 miles SAT wide but this 500 acre SAT island is full of history, mystery and wildlife. SAT SAT Felicity Evans takes a boat across and meets Claire Dixon of SAT The National Trust, who took over the island in 1963. SAT SAT As Claire explains, many previous inhabitants have left SAT their mark on Brownsea. Colonel Waugh and his wife Mary were SAT walking along the beach in the early 19th century when she SAT got her umbrella stuck in the sand, pulled it out and SAT discovered clay. They built the village of Maryland and SAT started a pottery. At a newly excavated site, you can see SAT some of the cottages that were built for the potters. She SAT also tells the story of the eccentric recluse, Mrs Mary SAT Bonham Christie who threw all the inhabitants off the island SAT and patrolled the beaches with a shotgun. She handed it back SAT to nature and for 45 years, animals, birds and the SAT rhododendron ran wild. SAT SAT Then it's a walk to spot red squirrels with ranger John SAT Lamming, who's lived on the island for over 30 years. SAT Brownsea is one of the few places you can see this highly SAT protected animal and in autumn they are easy to spot, SAT burying food on the woodland floor. SAT SAT Felicity then heads to a low hide over the saltwater lagoon, SAT to meet Reserve manager, Chris Thain, of the Dorset Wildlife SAT Trust to see and hear about the huge diversity of birds that SAT frequent this area. SAT Finally, to the flattest part of the island where Lord Baden SAT Powell hosted his first experimental Scout camp in 1907. SAT Next to a huge memorial stone to the movement, Scout SAT Commissioner, Kevin Philips explains how Brownsea is still SAT visited by thousands of Scouts and Guides every year. Youth SAT group leader and Girl Guide, Amanda Shorey encourages SAT Felicity to have a go at den building, low ropes and SAT archery, just some of the activities going on in The Outdoor SAT Centre. SAT SAT Presenter: Felicity Evans SAT Producer: Julia Hayball. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04stc5q (Listen) SAT Next Generation SAT SAT Sybil Ruscoe meets some of the next generation of farmers at SAT the Fertile Minds event in Cumbria. 150 young farmers meet SAT to discuss ways into the industry, the support available and SAT how to tackle the thorny SAT issue of succession. We hear from a couple who've won the SAT opportunity to take on a starter farm in Scotland, and from SAT apprentices in East Anglia. And Environment Minister Lord de SAT Mauley explains what the government is doing to help the SAT next generation into the agriculture industry. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04pr5gm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04stc5s (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b04stc5v (Listen) SAT Listener Week with Steve Backshall SAT SAT In a special programme for Saturday Live's Listener Week, SAT wildlife presenter Steve Backshall joins Aasmah Mir and SAT Richard Coles to talk about his passion for animals, SAT trekking across the Arctic and gives us the SAT low-down on being a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing. SAT SAT Also with us are listener Simon Digby who has written a SAT series of stories about things he got up to when he was SAT young that he never told his mother. David Heydecker usually SAT spends his Saturday mornings listening to Saturday Live SAT whilst elbow deep in bread dough but this week he's with us SAT sharing the fruits of his labour and how his community also SAT benefits. JP Devlin has been off to visit the extraordinary SAT Pembrokeshire community of Llangwm who have come together to SAT create and perform an opera to celebrate the century of WW1. SAT Martin Greenough wrote to us evangelising about his local SAT ParkRun meeting which is how he spends his Saturday SAT mornings. We sent reporter Geoff Bird off to see if he would SAT be similarly inspired. Then Su Chard is an independent SAT celebrant who is passionate about encouraging fellow SAT listeners to pass down family stories to get the send-off SAT you want. Cat Williams is a listener and military wife who SAT became a counsellor and author after seeing the fall-out of SAT the impact of army life on families. She's lived in SAT countless different countries and communities and now SAT advises people on how to cope. SAT SAT We also have an Inheritance Tracks from listener Ailsa SAT Harris. She chooses Que sera sera by Doris Day and Sir Duke SAT by Stevie Wonder. SAT SAT Deadly Pole to Pole with Steve Backshall is back on your SAT screens from Saturday on BBC 2 between 10-11am. Remember you SAT can send us your questions for Steve: SAT saturdaylive@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Steve Backshall SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Frequency of Laughter: A History of Radio Comedy SAT b04stc5x (Listen) SAT 1995-2000 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 penultimate edition features producer Paul Schlesinger, SAT who spent the late 1990s making shows such as the Sunday SAT Format, People Like Us and Absolute Power before leaving to SAT make television, returning in 2005 to become Head of Radio SAT Comedy; it also features Meera Syal whose Radio 4 sketch SAT show Goodness Gracious Me was the first British Asian comedy SAT hit, later transferring to BBC Two. Grace asks them about SAT the atmosphere within the Radio Comedy department and the SAT attitude of TV Comedy department towards it; they discuss SAT the BBC's reaction to the wide range of Black and Asian SAT talent breaking through; and they discuss what it is about SAT media parodies that works so well on radio. 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 ... Paul Schlesinger SAT Guest ... Meera Syal SAT Interviewee ... Andrew Caspari SAT Interviewee ... Peter Fincham SAT SAT Producers ... Ed Morrish & Alexandra Smith. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b04stc5z (Listen) SAT Helen Lewis of the New Statesman considers politicians and SAT promises. What's the new SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, like? SAT And a paean of praise by the former speaker, Betty SAT Boothroyd, for the Palace of Westminster. SAT SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04pr5gp (Listen) SAT The Buckwheat Barometer SAT SAT Despatches. Steve Rosenberg sets out to discover who the SAT Russian public holds responsible for rising prices and the SAT ailing rouble? Owen Bennett Jones has a series of encounters SAT in Tunis which offer clues to the SAT direction in which the country's heading. Germany takes in SAT more refugees than any other EU country - Jenny Hill in SAT Munich says it's costing a huge amount and there's SAT uncertainty over who will pay the bills. The giant tortoises SAT on the Galapagos Islands may be used to playing a long game SAT but Horatio Clare, who's just been visiting, says the SAT islands' human residents are having to prepare for change. SAT And Carolyn Brown has been finding out why a steady stream SAT of travellers is choosing to stop off at a small town in the SAT north of France. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04pr5gr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04stc61 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b04pvp89 (Listen) SAT Series 85, Episode 6 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, who is joined by Rebecca Front, Hugo Rifkind and SAT Andrew Maxwell, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Rebecca Front SAT Panellist: Hugo Rifkind SAT Panellist: Andrew Maxwell SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04pr5gt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04pr5gw (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04pvp8h (Listen) SAT Natalie Bennett, Alan Johnson MP, Mark Reckless MP, Baroness SAT Stowell SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Skegness Academy School in Lincolnshire with the SAT Leader of the Green Party Natalie Bennett, former Home SAT Secretary Alan Johnson MP, the new SAT UKIP MP for Rochester and Strood in Kent, Mark Reckless, and SAT the Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Stowell. SAT SAT If you would like tickets to Any Questions in Skegness on SAT 28th November 2014 then please email SAT any.questions@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04pr5gy (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 b04stc63 (Listen) SAT The Havana Quartet, Havana Red SAT SAT by Leonardo Padura SAT adapted by Jennifer Howarth SAT SAT Lieutenant Mario Conde's fondly held prejudices are tested SAT by this case involving a man found strangled in Havana Woods SAT wearing a beautiful red dress. A SAT dramatisation of the third story in the Havana Quartet. SAT SAT directed by Mary Peate 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 the SAT 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 Fatman: Shaun Mason SAT Salvador K: Shaun Mason SAT Miki: Jude Akuwudike SAT Matilde: Elaine Claxton SAT Dulcina: Lorna Gayle SAT Alberto Marques: Michael Cochrane SAT Father Mendoza: David Acton SAT Faustino: Sam Dale SAT Alquimio: Ian Conningham SAT Lab Man: Ian Conningham SAT Polly: Roslyn Hill SAT Author: Leonardo Padura SAT Adaptor: Jennifer Howarth SAT Director: Mary Peate SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b04ps556 (Listen) SAT Series 19, Gracias A La Vida SAT SAT Gracias A La Vida - thank you to life - is a song that means SAT a lot to many people around the world. Recorded by artists SAT as diverse as Joan Baez and the magnificent Mercedes Sosa, SAT the song reflects the SAT bittersweet nature of life's joys and sadnesses. To the SAT people of Chile where it was written in 1966 by Violetta SAT Parra, it has become an anthem that brings people together SAT in times of trouble. One man who was tortured and imprisoned SAT under the Pinochet regime in 1973 recalls how playing the SAT song on guitar in prison for other inmates helped keep their SAT spirits and hopes alive under the most brutal circumstances. SAT Australian writer and actor Ailsa Piper recalls being gifted SAT the words to Gracias A La Vida by a fellow walker along one SAT of the holy routes in Spain, and how the song has become a SAT poignant reminder of the fragility of life. SAT SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04stc65 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Listener Week SAT SAT A week of programmes inspired by our listeners. One woman SAT tells us of the devastating impact pornography is having on SAT her marriage - Paula Hall gives advice. 15 year old Immie on SAT her body confidence campaign. SAT Adam asks how he should tackle sexist attitudes at work on SAT building sites. Lawyer turned country singer, Rebecca Bains SAT sings Passing Us By. Three social workers discuss why they SAT love their job. Paula McGuire on how trying all the SAT Commonwealth Sports has boosted her confidence. Listeners SAT Jane and Nicola review the Woman's Hour Listener Week. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Produced by Sophie Powling SAT Edited by Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Sophie Powling SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT Interviewed Guest: Paula Hall SAT Interviewed Guest: Suzi Godson SAT Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Bains SAT Interviewed Guest: Mary Jarrett SAT Interviewed Guest: Anne Chester-Walsh SAT Interviewed Guest: Tracy Coull SAT Interviewed Guest: Paula McGuire SAT Interviewed Guest: Jane Woods SAT Interviewed Guest: Nicola Rollock SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04pr5h0 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04pr5gf (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04pr5h2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04pr5h4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04pr5h6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04stc67 (Listen) SAT Emma Freud, Ronan Keating, Rafe Spall, Jack Thorne, Sara SAT Pascoe, Andreya Triana, Asgeir SAT SAT RONAN KEATING talks to Clive about playing the lead in SAT 'Once'; the musical about a chance encounter between a girl SAT and guy from different worlds but with a shared love of SAT music. RAFE SPALL explains how he SAT relates to his role as ex-con Steve, in Christmas feel-good SAT movie 'Get Santa'. Emma Freud chats to theatre and SAT screenwriter JACK THORNE about his latest play 'Hope', a SAT scathing fable which attacks the squeeze on local SAT government, examines our disillusionment with the current SAT political parties and asks where we go from here. And SAT comedian SARA PASCOE, star of Live at the Apollo, QI, Never SAT Mind The Buzzcocks, Mock The Week, W1A and Twenty Twelve SAT tells Clive why her first nationwide tour is called Sara SAT Pascoe V History. With music from Asgeir who performs 'King SAT and Cross' from his album 'In The Silence - Deluxe Edition' SAT and from Andreya Triani who performs 'Everything You Never SAT Had Pt. II' SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Ronan Keating SAT SAT ‘Once’ is at London’s Phoenix Theatre until 21st March 2015. SAT SAT Boyzone's album 'Dublin To Detroit' is available on Rhino. SAT SAT Sara Pascoe SAT Sara Pascoe Vs History is touring until 30th January 2015. SAT Sara’s at The Lowry, Salford Quays tomorrow and Arts Centre, SAT Swindon on Thursday 4th December and The Marlowe Theatre, SAT Canterbury on Tuesday 9th December. SAT SAT Jack Thorne SAT ‘Hope’ is at London’s Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre until SAT Saturday 10th January 2015. SAT SAT Rafe Spall SAT ‘Get Santa’ is in cinemas from Friday 5th December. SAT Rafe Spall is also starring in a series of unique SAT ‘micro-plays’ uniting journalism and theatre. Check The SAT Guardian website for details. SAT SAT Andreya Triana SAT ‘Everything You Never Had Pt. II’ EP is available now on SAT Counter. SAT Andreya is playing at The Lexington, London on Wednesday SAT 18th February. SAT SAT Ásgeir SAT ‘In The Silence - Deluxe Edition’ is available now on One SAT Little Indian. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04stc69 (Listen) SAT Arminka Helic SAT SAT One of the less likely political partnerships of recent SAT years has been that of the Conservative Foreign Secretary SAT William Hague and the Hollywood actor and director Angelina SAT Jolie. SAT SAT They joined forces three SAT years ago to campaign against rape as a weapon of war, and SAT jointly hosted an international conference in London last SAT summer. SAT SAT This week Mark Coles profiles the woman who brought them SAT together; a refugee from Bosnia who has just taken her seat SAT in the House of Lords. She is Arminka Helic, for ten years a SAT special adviser to William Hague. SAT SAT Hague himself tells us how in 2011 Helic brought Jolie's SAT film "In The Land of Blood and Honey" to him, a film that SAT portrays the tactical use of mass rape against civilians. SAT Helic told him it was a film he needed to watch. SAT SAT Producers: Tim Mansel and Hannah Moor. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04pr5h8 (Listen) SAT William Gibson; Marco Polo; Chimera; Conflict Time SAT Photography; Concerning Violence SAT SAT William Gibson's novel The Peripheral is set in 2 dystopian SAT futures filled with drugs, 3D printers, high-tech SAT surveillance and various legally dubious practices. When SAT readers are immersed in a complete universe SAT of newness, how do they orientate themselves? SAT Netflix newest production is an epic adventure series (10 x SAT 60 minutes) telling the story of Marco Polo; full of SAT spectacle, does it have substance or is it an Oriental Game SAT of Thrones? SAT London's Gate Theatre is staging Chimera - a play about DNA, SAT genetic inheritance and kitchens SAT Tate Modern's exhibition Conflict Time Photography looks at SAT the relationship between photography and sites of conflict SAT over time - eschewing chronological arrangement, it is SAT displayed instead according to how soon after the event the SAT photograph was taken - from moments to a century later. SAT Concerning Violence is a documentary that deals with the SAT struggle for independence of former colonies - how can they SAT free themselves from the yoke of oppression? SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Bidisha, Jim White and Alice SAT Jones. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Bidisha SAT Interviewed Guest: Jim White SAT Interviewed Guest: Alice Jones SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04stc6c (Listen) SAT Singing Together SAT SAT Jarvis Cocker sets out on a musical journey to trace the SAT history of Singing Together, the long-running BBC Schools SAT radio programme which got generations of children singing. SAT He uncovers the stories of those who SAT made the programme, listened as children, and used it in SAT their classrooms. Together they remember Monday mornings at SAT 11am, when pupils up and down the country opened their song SAT books and gathered round as teachers wheeled out their SAT classroom radios. SAT SAT He delves into the archive to uncover the origins of the SAT programme, hearing the first presenter, Herbert Wiseman, SAT describe how he started the series at the outbreak of the SAT Second World War as a way of reaching out to children at a SAT time when many had been evacuated. Wartime teacher Brenda SAT Jenkins, who used Singing Together with her class of SAT evacuees, remembers how 'singing always helped' SAT SAT Jarvis explores the power of singing to bringing people SAT together. He also uncovers the origins of the folk songs SAT used in the programme and traces how it changed though the SAT 1960s and 70's, opening up to musical traditions from around SAT the world. He reflects on the impact of the long running SAT series - which gave many their first introduction to folk SAT heritage- with award winning musician Eliza Carthy. SAT SAT And he asks why recordings of this hugely popular series SAT were not preserved for posterity. Only a handful of episodes SAT survive in the BBC archive but, with the help of a small SAT community of collectors, he sets out to find some of the SAT missing episodes. SAT SAT Producer: Ruth Evans SAT Editor: David Ross. SAT SAT Jarvis leads a singalong SAT SAT 21:00 The Once and Future King b04pr7k0 (Listen) SAT The Queen of Air and Darkness SAT SAT Brian Sibley's dramatisation of T. H. White's classic SAT retelling of the King Arthur story continues. Rebels led by SAT King Lot and Queen Morgause of Orkney challenge Arthur's SAT claim to the throne. As war draws SAT nearer, darker more personal motives for bringing Arthur SAT down emerge. SAT SAT Other parts are played by members of the cast. 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 Queen Morgause: Kate Fleetwood SAT King Lot: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Archimedes: Bruce Alexander SAT Kay: Paul Heath SAT Wart: Edward Bracey SAT Young Kay: Ethan Hammer SAT Gawaine: Shaun Mason SAT Young Gareth: Roslyn Hill SAT Sir Kay: Paul Heath SAT Madam Mim: Jane Slavin SAT Herald: Ian Conningham SAT Page: Monty d'Inverno 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 b04pr5hb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b04bsgvm (Listen) SAT Reith Lectures: 2014, Why Do Doctors Fail? SAT SAT Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande explores the nature of SAT fallibility and suggests that preventing avoidable mistakes SAT is a key challenge for the future of medicine. SAT SAT Through the story of a life-threatening condition SAT which affected his own baby son, Dr. Gawande suggests that SAT the medical profession needs to understand how best to SAT deploy the enormous arsenal of knowledge which it has SAT acquired. And his challenge for global health is to address SAT the inequalities in access to resources and expertise both SAT within and between countries. SAT SAT This first of four lectures was recorded before an audience SAT at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Dr. SAT Gawande's home town of Boston in Massachusetts. The other SAT lectures are recorded in London, Edinburgh and Delhi. SAT SAT The series is introduced and chaired by Sue Lawley. The SAT producer is Jim Frank. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b04prj0x (Listen) SAT Series 28, Semi-Final 1, 2014 SAT SAT (10/13) SAT Paul Gambaccini is back in the questionmaster's chair as the SAT 2014 season of the annual music quiz reaches the semi-final SAT stage. Three heats winners from earlier in the series return SAT to compete for SAT a coveted place in the Counterpoint Final. SAT SAT The competition may get stiffer but the rules don't change: SAT and each of the semi-finalists will have to choose a special SAT musical topic on which to answer individual questions, with SAT no prior warning of what the subjects are going to be. SAT SAT This week's contestants are from the London area and from SAT Derbyshire. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT ROBERT CHARLESWORTH, a retired financial consultant from SAT London; SAT SAT IAN CLARK, a videographer from Leytonstone in East London; SAT SAT RICHARD ELY, a trainer from Alfreton in Derbyshire. SAT SAT 23:30 Woods Beyond a Cornfield b04prbfc (Listen) SAT A beautiful, dark poem by Stanley Cook - a Yorkshireman - SAT about events in the edgelands where he grew up. It evokes SAT the translucent beauty of South Yorkshire and its harshness SAT - especially the inhabitants' hard SAT working lives. Threaded through it is the murder of a local SAT girl who, "lost for something to do", plays truant one day, SAT only to be killed by a local man. SAT SAT Cook couldn't abide poverty being romanticised. He cared SAT about people who suffered hardship and returned home from SAT his Oxford scholarship with clear-sighted passion. He has SAT influenced Yorkshire writers including his publisher, Peter SAT Sansom of the Poetry Business in Sheffield, who was mentored SAT and taught by Cook. SAT SAT Liz White (Chrysothemis in Electra at the Old Vic and star SAT of TV's Our Zoo and Life on Mars), Richard Stacey (Alan SAT Ayckbourn regular), young Ruby-May Martinwood and the folk SAT musician and political activist, Ray Hearne, read Stanley SAT Cook's heartfelt poem - with a soundtrack recorded in South SAT Yorkshire through the Autumn. SAT SAT Produced by Frances Byrnes SAT A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04stdrk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 A Shepherd in London b03s6jv9 (Listen) SUN Looking for Angels SUN SUN Episode 2: Looking for Angels by Sarah Salway 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 grazing SUN on them, and there was much competition between shepherds to SUN get their flocks chosen for the privilege. There was SUN considerable profit to be made too - for when they were good SUN and fat, the sheep were herded to Smithfield Meat Market to SUN be prepared for the table. SUN SUN In Looking for Angels, writer Sarah Salway has George SUN Donald, a shepherd from Aberdeenshire, visit an Open Air SUN School for children with TB, which existed on Clapham Common SUN in the 1920s. Accompanied by his flock (and his faithful dog SUN Birk), George befriends both staff and pupils, including a SUN young schoolmaster suffering from shell shock, and a Cockney SUN girl who proves herself an able shepherdess. 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: Sarah Salway SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04stdrn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04stdrs (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04stdrv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04stds0 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04stgy8 (Listen) SUN The bells of the Church of St Mary and St Benedict, Buckland SUN Brewer in Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b04stc69 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04stds4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04stgyd (Listen) SUN As I Was Young and Easy SUN SUN John McCarthy explores the sense of timeless wonder that we SUN can experience in childhood. Unravelling Dylan Thomas's poem SUN Fern Hill, where delight and joy run carefree alongside the SUN poignant tension of time's SUN relentless force, John asks if these temporary moments of SUN grace are mere fleeting illusion or whether they have a SUN deeper significance. SUN SUN Is a sense of being immersed in one's surroundings the SUN preserve of a child growing up in a rural idyll, or can city SUN children experience this too? SUN SUN John joins the former Children's Laureate and author of War SUN Horse and Private Peaceful, Michael Morpurgo, in Devon where SUN he runs Farms for City Children. He shares his insights into SUN what moments of escape from time can give children and how SUN they can sustain us for the rest of our lives. SUN SUN And Camila Batmanghelidjh, psychotherapist and founder of SUN Kids Company (an organisation that provides support to SUN vulnerable children and young people), reveals the emotional SUN and environmental conditions that allow children's SUN imaginations to flourish - where a state of 'merger' becomes SUN 'the start of spiritual life'. SUN SUN Readings range from Ted Hughes to Raymond Carver, and Arthur SUN Ransome to Arundhati Roy. Music includes excerpts from SUN Debussy, Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita, and Yann Tiersen. SUN SUN Picture credit: Nick Hedges SUN SUN Readers: Guy Masterson and Chetna Pandya SUN SUN Produced by Ruth Abrahams SUN SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: Fern Hill SUN SUN Poet: Dylan Thomas SUN SUN Publication: Dylan Thomas: Collected Poems 1934 - 1953 SUN SUN Publisher: Phoenix SUN SUN Title: Swallows and Amazons SUN SUN Writer: SUN Arthur Ransome SUN SUN Publisher: Red Fox SUN SUN Title: Full Moon and Little Frieda SUN SUN Poet: Ted Hughes SUN SUN Publication: Collected Poems of Ted Hughes SUN SUN Publisher: Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN Title: Happiness SUN SUN Poet: Raymond Carver SUN SUN Publication: All of Us: The Collected Poems SUN SUN Publisher: Vintage SUN SUN SUN Title: In Search of Lost Time SUN SUN Writer: SUN Marcel Proust SUN SUN Publisher: Modern Library SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN The God of Small Things SUN SUN Writer: Arundhati Roy SUN SUN Publisher: Harper Perennial SUN SUN Title: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of SUN Early Childhood SUN SUN Poet: William Wordsworth SUN SUN Publication: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth SUN SUN Publisher: Wordsworth Editions SUN SUN SUN Archive Recording SUN SUN Dylan Thomas reading Fern Hill (recorded in 1952) SUN SUN From: Dylan Thomas Volume I SUN SUN Label: Caedmon Records SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b04stgyg (Listen) SUN The End of an Era in Dairy SUN SUN It's the end of an era at Cherry Oaks Farm in Shropshire, as SUN Neil and Jayne Madeley say goodbye to their dairy herd after SUN thirty years of milking. They've been forced to sell their SUN prize-winning cattle because SUN of the falling price of milk. The ripples caused by the SUN volatile global commodity market have hit their 150 acre SUN farm at the foot of the Shropshire Hills, and they can no SUN longer balance the books. Sybil Ruscoe meets the Madeleys as SUN they dismantle a lifetime's work as dairy farmers. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04stds6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04stds8 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04stgyn (Listen) SUN Pope in Turkey, Lord Fowler and Silent Night SUN SUN Caroline Wyatt reports from Istanbul on the Pope's visit to SUN Turkey and Dorian Jones looks at what the Pope's efforts for SUN unification mean for Christians on both sides of the divide. SUN Kevin Bocquet reports SUN on four Black churches in London who have opened HIV testing SUN clinics to help diagnose Black African men and women who SUN currently have the highest rate of HIV infection in the UK. SUN Followed by Lord Fowler who says all churches should be SUN doing more in the fight against HIV/AIDS. SUN William Crawley talks to Bishop Larry Jones from St Louis SUN about the events in Ferguson this week as the US comes to SUN terms with some of the worse civil rights unrest in years. SUN This week the House of Lords debated the role of religion in SUN public life as part of the public consultation for the SUN Commission for Religion and Belief in British Public Life. SUN Commission members Andrew Copson and Ed Kessler discuss. SUN As The Simpson celebrate 25th years, William explores the SUN theological highlights of the show with Mark Pinsky the SUN author of author of "The Gospel According to The Simpsons: SUN The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family." SUN Football stadiums and other venues are preparing to hold SUN Silent Night Carol Services in December to remember the SUN Christmas day truce in 1914 , and we reveal the new version SUN of Silent night. SUN SUN Producers SUN Carmel Lonergan SUN David Cook SUN SUN Editor SUN Amanda Hancox SUN SUN Contributors SUN Lord Norman Fowler SUN Andrew Copson, The British Humanist Association SUN Ed Kessler, The Woolf Institute SUN Roy Crown, The Christian charity HOPE Together SUN Matt Baker, Sports Chaplaincy UK SUN Mark Pinsky, Author and religious journalist SUN Bishop Larry Jones from St Louis. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04stgyr (Listen) SUN Motivation SUN SUN Michael Palin presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Motivation, a SUN charity working mainly in developing countries, to support SUN disabled people to stay healthy, get mobile and play an SUN active part in their SUN communities. SUN Registered Charity No 1079358 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Motivation' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Motivation'. SUN SUN Motivation SUN Around 70 million people in the developing world need an SUN appropriate wheelchair. SUN Without basic mobility, they are unable to leave their SUN homes, go to school or to work. Many are left to lie on the SUN floor. Many more die from preventable complications. Most SUN live in extreme poverty. SUN It doesn't have to be this way. Motivation's wheelchairs, SUN services and training are creating a fairer society, where SUN everyone has the freedom to live, love, work and play. SUN Our wheelchairs are designed specifically for the rough SUN terrain often found in developing countries and, because one SUN size doesn't fit all, each wheelchair is individually fitted SUN and prescribed by a trained professional. SUN But, the right wheelchair is just the start. To really put SUN the wheels in motion, we give disabled people the specialist SUN training and support they need to stay healthy, get mobile SUN and live independently. SUN SUN Brighter futures for children like Sunday SUN SUN 3-year-old Sunday lives in Uganda. He has cerebral palsy SUN and, without the right wheelchair and support, his mother SUN Agnes struggled to care for him. Sunday’s neighbours called SUN him ‘ghost’ because they believed his disability was caused SUN by curse (not uncommon in parts of Africa). SUN Things started looking up for Agnes and Sunday when they SUN attended a Motivation training course for parents of SUN disabled children. These courses not only change attitudes, SUN but give parents like Agnes the knowledge and skills to feed SUN their children safely and encourage communication. SUN Motivation has since fitted Sunday with his first wheelchair SUN and he has improved so much that Agnes now hopes he will be SUN able to go to school one day. SUN SUN Inspiring confidence in people like Billy SUN SUN A near-fatal car crash left Billy from Malawi paralysed. SUN But, at a time when he needed support the most, Billy’s wife SUN left him; he lost his job and many of his friends. With the SUN right wheelchair and training from Motivation, he got his SUN life back on track. Now, he’s putting the wheels in motion SUN for others by volunteering for Motivation as ‘peer trainer’, SUN giving other disabled people the skills and confidence they SUN need to live independent lives. SUN Watch a video about Billy at SUN www.motivation.org.uk/wheels_in_motion SUN SUN Lifting people like Maya out of poverty SUN SUN Maya lives in Nepal. When she decided to help an elderly SUN neighbour feed his buffalo, she never expected that an act SUN of kindness would change her life forever. While climbing a SUN tree to collect foliage for the animals, she fell. Maya SUN would never walk again. SUN 800 million disabled people around the world live in SUN poverty. For Maya, with no means to work or provide for her SUN family, the future looked bleak. With a new Motivation SUN wheelchair, she could finally leave her home and is now able SUN to run a convenience store in her local community. She can SUN now feed her family. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04stdsb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04stdsf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04stgyt (Listen) SUN For the first Sunday in Advent and St Andrew's Day. SUN From St Salvator's Chapel in the University of St Andrews. SUN Theme: 'We are the clay and you are our potter' With the SUN University Chaplain, The Revd SUN Donald MacEwan SUN St Salvator's Chapel Choir directed by Thomas Wilkinson SUN Readings: Isaiah 64:1-9 SUN Mark1: 16-20 SUN Hymns: O Come, O come Emmanuel SUN God is our refuge and our strength (Stroudwater) SUN Sing of Andrew, John's disciple (Nettleton) SUN Lo, he comes with clouds descending (Helmsley) SUN Anthems: I look from afar (Matin Responsory) SUN A spotless rose (Howells) SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04pvp8k (Listen) SUN Thinking the Unthinkable SUN SUN John Gray argues that "thinking the unthinkable" as a way of SUN making policy does nothing more than extend conventional SUN wisdom to the point of absurdity and fails to take account SUN of the complexities of reality. SUN "Capitalism has lurched into a crisis from which it still SUN has not recovered. Yet the worn-out ideology of free markets SUN sets the framework within which our current generation of SUN leaders continues to think and act." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Gray SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlvyz (Listen) SUN Great Snipe 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 superbly camouflaged great snipe SUN of Eastern Europe. A thin drizzle of tinkling notes SUN mingled with rhythmic tapping drifts across a Polish marsh SUN in spring a sign that great male snipes are displaying. SUN Great snipe are wading birds with short legs and very long SUN two-toned bills, which they use to probe bogs and wet ground SUN for worms. Across much of Europe having newly returned from SUN its sub-Saharan wintering grounds a number of northern and SUN eastern European marshes, set stage as breeding sites for SUN the larger, great snipe. They court females at traditional SUN lekking or displaying grounds where several males vie for SUN attention. Perched on a small mound, males gather at sunset SUN to fan their white outer tail feathers, puff out their SUN chests and produce a medley of very un-wader-like calls. The SUN females, looking for a mate, are attracted to the dominant SUN males at the centre of the lek. SUN SUN Great snipe (Gallinago media) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Erlend Haarlberg / naturepl.com. SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01389769 SUN © Erlend Haarlberg / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04stgyw (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 b04stgyy (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Keri Davies SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer SUN ..... Richard Attlee SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran ..... Eleanor Bron SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Johnny Phillips ..... Tom Gibbons SUN Charlie Thomas ..... Felix Scott SUN Richard Grenville ..... Pip Torrens SUN Tod Foster ..... Ben Hull. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Richard Grenville: Pip Torrens SUN Tod Foster: Ben Hull SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04stgz0 (Listen) SUN Damian Lewis SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actor, Damian SUN Lewis. SUN SUN As part of the wave of British talent that's crashed onto SUN America's shores in recent years his impact has made a deep SUN impression on the creative SUN landscape. His role as Sergeant Brodie in Homeland saw him SUN win both an Emmy and Golden Globe and along with Band of SUN Brothers, The Forsyte Saga and a long list of other credits, SUN he now ranks as one of our most well recognised and highly SUN regarded performers. SUN SUN Things didn't always look so peachy: aged 11, and in the SUN school production of Princess Ida, he forgot the entire SUN third act and stood mute in front of a packed auditorium. SUN Tellingly, rather than scuttling into the wings with shame SUN he soldiered on and by 16 he knew performing was, more than SUN anything, what he wanted to do. SUN SUN He says, "I am a person who is ambitious. I'm ambitious to SUN get the very best from every moment and even if that's just SUN taking my children to the zoo ... I want it to be the best SUN it can be.". SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Damian Lewis SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04stdsk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04ps15r (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 2 SUN SUN The 62nd series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment SUN for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a SUN return visit to the Richmond SUN Theatre. Regulars Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Tim SUN Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on the panel by Jo Brand SUN with Jack Dee in the chair. At the piano - Colin Sell. 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 b04sthgq (Listen) SUN A Bronx Food Tale SUN SUN New York's south Bronx is still one of the city's most SUN deprived and areas; low incomes, unemployment and health SUN problems abound. In the 1970's it captured headlines for a SUN "burn for hate" policy that appeared to SUN have taken hold; abandoned (and sometimes occupied) SUN buildings were set on fire and raised to the ground. Entire SUN blocks were destroyed giving the borough, in some eyes, the SUN look of a war zone. SUN SUN In recent years the changes that have unfolded in the Bronx SUN have been significant. In part the progress made, making the SUN area more desirable to live in, and home to a more united SUN community, can be put down to food. New York City has had a SUN network of public gardens where food can be grown dating SUN back to the 1880's but in recent years, this resource has SUN taken on new meaning, and in the Bronx it's changed lives. SUN SUN Sheila Dillon meets Karen Washington a woman who's using SUN food and farming to transform her part of the Bronx through SUN "the Garden of Happiness", a three-quarter acre abandoned SUN lot that she turned into an "urban farm" back in 1988. It's SUN gone from strength to strength and this garden, in which SUN Mexicans, African-American, Asian and Caribbean neighbours SUN come together to grow food, has changed a part of the south SUN Bronx for good. SUN SUN In the programme Karen Washington explains why the garden SUN has not only become a valuable source of fresh food but has SUN also helped solve many of the social issues in the SUN neighbourhood. SUN SUN Sheila also speaks to Marcel Van-Ooyen, head of Grow NYC, a SUN part of the Mayor's office in New York, to hear how the SUN city's gardens have also become part of an anti-obesity SUN strategy. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Karen Washington SUN Interviewed Guest: Marcel Van Ooyen SUN Producer: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04stdsn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04stlcb (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b04stlcd (Listen) SUN Series 3, The Kemp Family SUN SUN The final programme in the series takes Hardeep Singh Kohli SUN to Bath where he meets the Kemps - a family more connected SUN than most. Barnaby Kemp is recovering from a kidney SUN transplant. The donor was his sister. SUN But its not the first time he has received a kidney from a SUN family member and it may not be the last. As Hardeep gets SUN busy cooking the family lunch he hears about a long journey SUN from shock diagnosis to transplant surgery from father to SUN son and sister to brother. SUN Producer: Catherine Earlam. SUN SUN Hardeep and the Kemps SUN SUN As Hardeep cooks lunch he hears how a sudden diagnosis set SUN the lives of the Kemp family on a dramatically different SUN trajectory SUN SUN Lunch is served - Hardeep’s parsley and wine poached chicken SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04pvp7x (Listen) SUN North Wales SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN North Wales. Toby Buckland, Bob Flowerdew and Anne SUN Swithinbank take questions from the audience. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: SUN Claire Crofton SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN SUN Q Can you tell me what it the secret of success with SUN Florence Fennel? Ours looked spectacular but the stem has SUN not swollen. SUN SUN A. Florence Fennel is difficult to grow - requiring warmth SUN and rich soil that never dries out. Taking off the older SUN leaves can encourage swelling at the base, keep the plant SUN warm, well watered and well fed. However, you can still use SUN the stems for flavouring. Sow the plant after the longest SUN day of the year so that it produces the bulb at the base. SUN Use a mulch of newspaper sheets to keep it warm. SUN SUN Q. Can you cut back Phormiums? What is the best way to do SUN this? How should I feed the plants? SUN SUN A. Toby suggests using secateurs. Anne suggests digging up SUN the clump and separating it out to reduce the size. If you SUN would like a less vigorous species, try the 'Alison SUN Blackman' variety. Don't feed the plants as growth is SUN vigorous enough. They require a lot of watering though. SUN SUN Q. Why do my Courgette plants produce loads of male flowers, SUN very few female flowers and thus very few courgettes? SUN SUN A. The plants tend to produce lots of male flowers at the SUN beginning of the season and then later on female flowers and SUN fruits - so if the plants are somewhere cool, you're less SUN likely to get fruit. Likewise, if the plants are too hot or SUN too dry, you'll only get male flowers. Mulching could help SUN to keep the moisture in. It's important to sacrifice the SUN first fruits for a bigger crop. SUN SUN Q. I'm having trouble growing plants in my rockery. I've SUN heard that ferns can poison other plants - could this be the SUN problem? SUN SUN A. Bob isn't sure it's true that ferns can poison other SUN plants but ferns tend to thrive in places that other plants SUN don't. The problem might be more to do with the lack of soil SUN in your rockery. You might be better trying to grow alpines SUN in the little niches in the rocks. Alternatively, you could SUN dismantle the rockery, kill off the ferns, improve the soil SUN and reassemble the rocks so that plants have enough room to SUN put their roots down below ground level. SUN SUN Q. This year my lettuce sowings went straight to seed SUN despite regular thinning. SUN SUN A. They flower when they are stressed - drought and heat can SUN cause stress. Iceberg Lettuce is a good variety to grow in SUN hot summers where heat and drought are likely. In future, SUN plant thinner and thin out in the early stages of growth and SUN water regularly to prevent this from happening. SUN SUN Q. None of my Camellias grown from seed have flowered - what SUN can I do to encourage flowering? SUN SUN A. The plants flower well in the warmth. Some plants take a SUN long time to flower. SUN SUN Q. I've fallen in love with many different plant families, SUN what plant families have the panel fallen for and are they SUN still together? SUN SUN A. Anne loves Irises, particularly bearded Irises - one SUN called 'Celebration Song' is particularly lovely. She also SUN loves Asclepiads, the Hoyas, Stephanotis and the Stapeliads. SUN Toby loves the Labias and the Indian Bean Tree for its Latin SUN name - Bignoniodes. Bob loves the Rosaceae family. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04stlcg (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about moving up to secondary SUN school, walking on and caving beneath limestone, and SUN volunteering on the Talyllyn railway, from Devon, Cumbria SUN and Wales in the Omnibus edition of the SUN series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you SUN listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 The Once and Future King b04stlcj (Listen) SUN The Ill-Made Knight SUN SUN Brian Sibley's dramatisation of T. H. White's classic SUN retelling of the King Arthur story continues. Full of zeal SUN for Arthur's new chivalric order, Lancelot rides into SUN Camelot. 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 Guenever: Lyndsey Marshal SUN Lancelot: Alex Waldmann SUN Uncle Dap: Sam Dale SUN Elaine: Hannah Genesius SUN Agnes: Roslyn Hill SUN Nimue: Bettrys Jones SUN Old Man: David Acton SUN Old Woman: Elaine Claxton SUN Morgana Le Fay: Jane Slavin SUN Knight: David Acton SUN Knight: Shaun Mason SUN Knight: Ian Conningham 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 b04stlcl (Listen) SUN Mal Peet on The Murdstone Trilogy SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Mal Peet about his latest book SUN The Murdstone Trilogy, his first novel for adults. SUN SUN Beta Life is an experiment which sets out to discover what SUN happens when you mix writers and scientists SUN in a creative laboratory, the result is a diverse collection SUN of short story stories all set in 2070. SUN SUN And novelist Tomas Gonzalas, author of In The Beginning Was SUN The Sea, delivers his literary postcard from the foothills SUN of Colombia. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The Murdstone Trilogy by Mal Peet - Publisher: David SUN Fickling Books SUN SUN In the Beginning was the Sea by Tomas Gonzalas - Publisher: SUN Pushkin Press SUN SUN Beta Life - Publisher: Comma Press SUN SUN Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Mal Peet SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b04stlcn (Listen) SUN Series 4, Extinctions SUN SUN Paul Farley listens to old and new poetry of extinction one SUN hundred years after the death of Martha, the last ever SUN passenger pigeon. With poems from Fleur Adcock, Sean SUN O'Brien, W.S. Merwin and David Harsent and SUN the sounds of X-ray audio, the samizdat music of the Soviet SUN Union that used black-market plates of skulls and ribcages SUN to capture the beginnings of rock and roll. Producer: Tim SUN Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 Afghanistan: The Lessons of War b04pshdh (Listen) SUN A former commander of British and Coalition forces in SUN Helmand embarks on a personal journey to find out what has SUN been achieved by the thirteen-year campaign in Afghanistan. SUN It is a quest that leads Former Major SUN General Andrew Mackay to some of the key military and SUN political figures of the past decade. SUN SUN He puts searching questions to former US General David SUN Petraeus and ISAF Commanders General John McColl and General SUN David Richards, to discover if there ever was a coherent SUN strategy for coalition troops. SUN He reflects on what was achieved in Afghanistan with leading SUN politicians including former US Secretary of Defense Robert SUN Gates and former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband. SUN And he looks to the future of the country with a senior SUN figure from the current Afghan government - Mohammad Mustafa SUN Mastoor, Deputy Minister for Finance. SUN SUN General Mackay also believes that any future interventions SUN should be based on lessons learnt in the Afghanistan SUN campaign. But what are those lessons? He hears from experts SUN who have studied the campaign to help him consider the role SUN he played and to find out what conclusions can be drawn. SUN SUN Andrew Mackay : "I think whoever you are when you go to an SUN extreme environment such as Helmand, you are never the same SUN person when you come back. I was interested in considering SUN the role that I played as the commander of British forces in SUN Helmand and the journey that it had taken me on." SUN SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane SUN Editor: David Ross. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04stc69 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04stdsv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04stdsy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04stdt1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04stlcq (Listen) SUN This week's Pick of the Week features actor Sam West on why SUN he's the number one fan of the shipping forecast; Radio 3 SUN goes in for a spot of triple-tonguing with a trombone that SUN thinks it's in its third SUN trimester; and there's a salute to one of the most popular SUN radio programmes of all time – it had millions of listeners SUN during its half-century on air – and yet how many editions SUN are kept in the BBC archive? Just three. Join John Waite SUN then to hear some rare radio “gold". SUN SUN John Waite SUN Born in Stoke-on-Trent, John Waite joined the BBC as a SUN trainee in 1973 working his way up to being a news presenter SUN on BBC Radio London by the early 1980s. He then crossed over SUN to Radio 4 in 1986, where he presented You & Yours, many SUN documentaries, and Face The Facts, where he can still be SUN heard today. SUN In John's own words - SUN BEST MOMENT IN CAREER: Presenting a special programme for my SUN cousin Terry Waite, which he did manage to hear in his SUN Beirut hostage cell. SUN WORST MOMENT IN CAREER: Being so keen to get my microphone SUN close to Prince Charles I stood heavily on his toe. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04stlcs (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Hal b04stlcv (Listen) SUN Crime 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 to 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 third episode, Hal becomes the latest victim to a SUN series of car crimes that have happened near his home. Not SUN only has his own personal car space been invaded, but his SUN beloved CD collection has been stolen - including Abba, SUN Dolly Parton and The Pet Shop Boys. SUN SUN How can Hal survive this tragedy? SUN SUN In the process of trying to cope with this crime, Hal also SUN tries to find the real man in himself - but in attempting to SUN do this, only scares his young daughters and reduces them to SUN tears. SUN SUN The cast includes co-writer Dominic Holland, Ed Byrne, Ronni SUN Ancona, Anna Crilly, Gavin Webster, Dominic Frisby, Samuel SUN Caseley and Emily and Lucy Robbins. 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: Ronni Ancona SUN Actor: Anna Crilly SUN Actor: Gavin Webster SUN Actor: Dominic Frisby SUN Actor: Samuel Caseley SUN Actor: Emily Robbins SUN Actor: Lucy Robbins SUN Writer: Hal Cruttenden SUN Writer: Dominic Holland SUN Producer: Paul Russell SUN SUN 19:45 Shorts: Writing West b04stlcx (Listen) SUN Adrift at the Athena SUN SUN SHORTS: New writing. New writers. SUN SUN The first of three Midlands Odysseys: short stories written SUN in response to The Odyssey - transplanting episodes from SUN Homer's epic to contemporary Midlands settings. SUN SUN Ulysses SUN Tate has been away for a long time and is trying to get SUN home. At the Athena launderette, he meets a woman who shows SUN him great kindness. SUN SUN By Kit de Waal. SUN SUN Producer: Mair Bosworth. SUN SUN About the Author SUN SUN Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother and SUN Kittian father. She worked for fifteen years in criminal and SUN family law and writes about the urban underbelly, forgotten SUN and overlooked places. SUN SUN She writes short stories and flash fiction and has just SUN finished her first novel. She won the Bridport Prize for SUN Flash Fiction in 2014, came second in the Costa Short Story SUN Prize 2014 with ‘The Old Man & The Suit’, second in the Bath SUN Short Story Prize 2014 with ‘The Beautiful Thing’ and was SUN longlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize 2014. SUN SUN Kit de Waal on Writing 'Adrift at the Athena' SUN SUN "I hadn’t read the Odyssey – it’s one of those great works SUN I always thought I would get around to one day – but SUN fragments had survived from school and bits of films I’d SUN seen. I’d heard snatches of it and knew that James Joyce’s SUN Ulysses SUN was loosely based on the story, so when I was commissioned SUN to write a re-imagined chapter in a contemporary setting, I SUN jumped at the chance. SUN SUN I chose not to read any interpretations and academic studies SUN but read the Nausicaa episode to see what I made of it and SUN found that there were parallels with something I already had SUN in mind, sitting on my shoulder, waiting to be written. It SUN was about a man and a launderette and contained a lot of the SUN elements that fitted Nausicaa’s story – journeying, water, SUN desire and restraint. Although my chapter is written from a SUN male perspective, I think it is Nausicaa’s story and every SUN woman’s story. Mother, carer, sister, confessor, lover, wife SUN – these are the roles we adopt in life, often within a SUN single relationship. I hope I have done us justice." SUN SUN A Midlands Odyssey SUN SUN Kit de Waal’s SUN Adrift at the Athena SUN is one of three stories adapted for BBC Radio 4's SUN Shorts: Writing West SUN from the short story collection SUN A Midlands Odyssey SUN commissioned by Writing West Midlands and published by Nine SUN Arches Press in October 2014. The editors of the anthology SUN were Polly Stoker, Elisabeth Charis and Jonathan Davidson. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Kit de Waal SUN Producer: Mair Bosworth SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b04pvp83 (Listen) SUN The BBC World Service is now funded by the licence fee which SUN means the UK public is now paying for a service that many SUN rarely use. Roger Bolton talks to the service's outgoing SUN director, Peter Horrocks, about SUN the challenges facing his successor. SUN SUN Radio 4's PM programme continues to keep its audience up to SUN date with Michael Buerk's progress on I'm a Celebrity, Get SUN Me Out Of Here. Many listeners love these light-hearted SUN jungle moments; many others feel they have no place in a SUN serious news programme. PM's editor Joanna Carr defends the SUN programme's character and explains why the esteemed SUN presenter of the Moral Maze is fair game for a bit of SUN leg-pulling. SUN SUN As part of Listeners' Week, Radio 4's In Our Time asked for SUN suggestions for the topic of this week's programme. Roy SUN Bailey and Lauren Hall's idea of Franz Kafka's The Trial was SUN chosen from over 900 entries. They give their verdict on the SUN programme, and Melvyn Bragg and his producer Tom Morris talk SUN to Roger about what made Roy and Lauren's Kafkaesque SUN proposal stand out. SUN SUN Produced by Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04pvp81 (Listen) SUN PD James, 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, Glen A Larson, Medlin SUN Lewis-Spencer, Arthur Butterworth MBE SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Baroness James of Holland Park - the crime novelist P.D. SUN James - who was also a Governor of the BBC. SUN SUN Then a real life criminal: 'Mad ' Frankie Fraser - an East SUN End gangster noted for his SUN violence who spent a total of 42 years in prison. SUN SUN Also: TV director Glen A. Larson who brought us Quincy, SUN Magnum PI and Battlestar Galactica. SUN SUN Medlin Lewis-Spencer, the Mayor of Hackney who defected from SUN Labour to the Conservatives SUN SUN And the composer Arthur Butterworth who was often inspired SUN by the British landscape. SUN SUN PD James (Baroness James of Holland Park, pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the former BBC Secretary, John McCormick. SUN SUN Born 3 August 1920; died 27 November 2014 aged 94. SUN SUN “Mad” Frankie Fraser SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Professor Dick Hobbs of Essex University. SUN SUN Born 13 December 1923; died 26 November 2014 SUN aged 90. SUN SUN Glen A Larson SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet. SUN SUN Born 3 January 1937; died 14 November 2014 aged 77. SUN SUN Medlin Lewis-Spencer SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her husband James Spencer and her brother SUN Winston Lewis. SUN SUN Born 28 April 1951; died 12 October 2014 aged 63. SUN SUN Arthur Butterworth MBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his biographer, Paul Conway. SUN SUN Born 4 August 1923; died 20 November 2014 aged 91. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04stc61 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04stgyr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04stlw4 (Listen) SUN A Tale of Two Sanctions SUN SUN Peter Day talks to companies affected by economic sanctions SUN imposed against Russia, and by retaliatory sanctions imposed SUN by Russia, and asks how they cope when they suddenly lose a SUN key market. He also asks how effective sanctions are and who SUN they hit the hardest. SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Andrew Hodgson SUN SUN Chief Executive, SMD SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Yuri Botiuk SUN SUN Partner, Pinsent Masons SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Ian McFadden SUN SUN Chairman of Scottish Pelagic Processors’ Association SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Alex Wiseman SUN SUN skipper and Chairman of Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s SUN Association SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Robert Duthie SUN SUN Managing Director, Denholm Seafoods SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Sinclair Banks SUN SUN General Manager, Lunar Freezing SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Sir Andrew Wood SUN SUN Former British Ambassador to Russia SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Lord Lamont SUN SUN Chairman British-Iranian Chamber of Commerce SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN David Macdonald SUN SUN Director Group Sales, Hunt & Palmer SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN David Lidington MP SUN SUN Minister for Europe SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04stdt5 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04stlrg (Listen) SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04pvdhk (Listen) SUN 2001: A Space Odyssey Special SUN SUN As 2001: A Space Odyssey is re-released in cinemas, Francine SUN Stock presents a special edition on Stanley Kubrick's SUN masterpiece. SUN 'My God, it's Full of Stars' were the last words of Dave SUN Bowman before he SUN journeyed through the Stargate, according to writer Arthur SUN C. Clarke but it's an apt description for this edition of SUN The Film Programme. Francine journeys through time and space SUN to uncover the mysteries of this 1968 classic. Searching for SUN the mind of H.A.L. and lost alien worlds among the delights SUN of the Stanley Kubrick Archive at London's University of the SUN Arts. Joining Francine on her voyage of discovery are 2001 SUN chronicler Piers Bizony, former urbane spaceman Keir Dullea SUN and the woman who built the moon! Other voices include SUN production designer Harry Lange, make-up genius Stuart SUN Freeborn, editor Ray Lovejoy, all now so much stardust, as SUN well as those of lead ape 'Moonwatcher' (Dan Richter) & SUN Stargate deviser Douglas Trumbull. Open the Pod Bay Doors SUN HAL! SUN SUN Producer SUN Mark Burman. SUN SUN Thanks to the listeners who gave us their memories of 2001: SUN A Space Odyssey SUN Thank you to Barbara Vesey, Dariush Ahlavi, Martin Holland, SUN Mark Henshall, Patrick Kelly, and Maria, Fiona & Ken for SUN sharing their memories of first seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey SUN and to all the other listeners who called in - we would have SUN loved to have had more time to include you all. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Piers Bizony SUN Interviewed Guest: Harry Lange SUN Interviewed Guest: Stuart Freeborn SUN Interviewed Guest: Ray Lovejoy SUN Interviewed Guest: Keir Dullea SUN Interviewed Guest: Gary Lockwood SUN Interviewed Guest: Daniel Richter SUN Interviewed Guest: Douglas Trumbull SUN Producer: Mark Burman SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04stgyd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 01 DECEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04stdwb (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04pss4x (Listen) MON Creative Britain - Sexology MON MON Creative Britain: Laurie Taylor explores its rise and fall MON with the British historian, Robert Hewison, who provides an MON assessment of the cultural policies of New Labour and the MON Coalition. Why has culture failed MON to escape class? Also, a new Sexology exhibition prompts an MON analysis of the changing field of sex research. Kaye MON Wellings, Professor of Sexual & Reproductive Health Research MON at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, MON charts a history involving book burning, scandal and shame. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Robert Hewison MON MON Cultural historian MON MON Find our more about MON Robert Hewison MON Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain MON Publisher: Verso Books MON ISBN-10: 1781685916 MON ISBN-13: 978-1781685914 MON MON Kaye Wellings MON MON Professor of Sexual & Reproductive Health Research and Head MON of the Department of Social and Environmental Health MON Research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine MON MON Find out more about MON Kaye Wellings MON Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective MON Publisher: Open University Press MON ISBN-10: 0335244815 MON ISBN-13: 978-0335244812 MON MON Exhibition: The Institute of Sexology MON MON Find out more about MON The Institute of Sexology MON MON MON Exibitions: 20 November 2014 - 20 September 2015 MON MON Address: Wellcome Collection MON 183 Euston Road MON London NW1 2BE MON MON tel: +44 (0)20 7611 2222 MON email: MON info@wellcomecollection.org 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 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 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. Please include the name of MON your paper in the 'Subject' category of your email. The MON summary should not be longer than 250 words. The ethnography MON must consist of a qualitative research project which MON provides a detailed, in-depth description of the everyday MON life and practice of a group, people or culture and been MON included in a peer-reviewed paper or in a book published in MON 2014. All entries and research must be in English. MON MON 4. The email entry must include the following information MON and contact detail for the entrant: full name, postal MON address, institution of higher education, email address and MON contact telephone number. MON MON 5. If you are submitting a book (which must be published MON during this year) it should be posted to: Thinking Allowed MON Ethnography Award, room 6045 Broadcasting House, London W1A MON 1AA. If it is a paper, it can be attached to your email, MON provided it is no more than 10MB. If you receive no MON automatic email confirmation your paper is too large and you MON will need to send it by post. MON MON 6. All entries must include the: (i) summary (by email); MON (ii) the contact details (by email) and (ii) hard MON copy/electronic copy (if under 10MB) of the ethnography. MON MON 7. Only one entry will be allowed per person. MON MON 8. Entries cannot be submitted by any other method or they MON will not be considered. MON MON 9. All entries must be sole authored. MON MON 10. A panel of 5 highly experienced academics will select MON six finalists. These may be contacted by the Production Team MON for an interview. From the finalists, the panel will select MON an overall winner. The selection criteria will be based on MON the work which displays flair and originality, and which MON makes a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. 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. The winner should refrain from referring to the award in MON order to promote commercial ventures. All references must be MON compliant with BBC branding policies. MON MON 14. The BBC will only ever use personal details for the MON purposes of administering the scheme. Please see the MON BBC’s Privacy Policy MON . MON MON 15. Closing date for entries is 23:59 on 31st December 2014. MON All entries which are received after that will not be MON considered. MON MON 16. The BBC cannot accept any responsibility for any problem MON with the internet or electronic mail system. MON MON 17. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and MON must not infringe the rights of any other party. The BBC MON accepts no liability if entrants ignore these rules and MON entrants agree to fully indemnify the BBC against any claims MON by any third party arising from any breach of these rules. MON MON 18. Entrants retain the copyright in their original ideas MON but on being selected will grant to the BBC a licence to MON broadcast their entry (or parts thereof) across all media, MON as well as use it on any online platforms on standard MON prevailing BBC terms (as agreed with the Writer’s Guild, MON Society of Authors and Personal Managers Association). MON MON 19. By applying for the award, entrants warrant that they MON have legal capacity to enter the scheme and agree to be MON bound by these terms and conditions. MON MON 20. The names of the all selected entrants and any entrant MON whose entry is broadcast or used on-line will be made MON public. Entrants must agree to take part in any post-event MON publicity if required. MON MON 21. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify any entry which MON breaches any of these terms and conditions. MON MON 22. 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MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04tvql9 (Listen) MON Spiritual reflection to start the day with The Revd Alison MON Jack. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04sttd1 (Listen) MON Scientists at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany MON are working with colleagues in India to develop wheat which MON can thrive in hotter climates. They hope their research will MON eventually result in crops MON varieites which may be more resilient to climate change. MON MON Farmers in France have taken their sheep to the Eiffel Tower MON to protest about the impact wolf attacks are having on their MON flocks. MON MON This is the busiest time of year for farmers producing MON turkeys, sprouts and other festive specialitities. Farming MON Today meets the people growing our traditional Christmas MON meals. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04stdwt (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04sttd3 (Listen) MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Chris Packham presents the wedge-tailed shearwater of the MON Indian and Pacific oceans. Wedge-tailed shearwaters are MON large sepia brown seabirds with long wings and streamlined MON bodies. They feed mainly on fish and squid which they scoop MON from the surface or catch by diving. While the parents are MON careering over the open seas, their solitary chick squats MON alone in its island burrow. The return of the adults means a MON welcome feast for the chick. Its reward is a mouthful of MON warm and waxy stomach oil, the digested remains of the MON adults prey. It may sound revolting to us, but this oil is MON rich in energy and allows the chick to grow even bigger than MON its parents before losing weight again prior to its first MON flight, which happens a few weeks after the adult birds have MON abandoned it to its fate. MON MON Wedge-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Yukihiro Fukuda / naturepl.com. MON NPL Ref 01405075 MON © Yukihiro Fukuda / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b04sttd5 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b04sttd7 (Listen) MON Evolution and Extinction MON MON Tom Sutcliffe discusses evolution and extinction with Jules MON Pretty, who's been travelling to meet "enduring people in MON vanishing lands" and is concerned about their future; with MON Andreas Wagner on solving what he MON calls evolution's greatest puzzle - how can random mutations MON over a mere 3.8 billion years solely be responsible for MON eyeballs; poet Ruth Padel on what we can learn from animals MON and Chris Stringer who's been looking at ancient human MON occupation of Britain and how homo sapiens may have driven MON other humans to extinction. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Producer: Simon Tillotson MON Interviewed Guest: Jules Pretty MON Interviewed Guest: Andreas Wagner MON Interviewed Guest: Ruth Padel MON Interviewed Guest: Chris Stringer MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b04sttd9 (Listen) MON Discontent and Its Civilizations, Episode 1 MON MON These timely 'dispatches from Lahore, New York and London' MON encompassing memoir, art and politics, collect the best MON essays of the award-winning author of The Reluctant MON Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid. MON MON Hamid makes a MON compelling case for recognising our common humanity while MON relishing our diversity, for resisting the artificial MON mono-identities of religion or nationality or race, and for MON always judging a country or nation by how it treats its MON minorities as 'Each individual human being is, after all, a MON minority of one'. MON MON In this first episode Hamid muses on his fractured youth, MON growing up in Lahore and California, and the creation of MON language, art and identity in different locations. MON MON Read by Sanjeev Bhaskar MON MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON Produced by Clive Brill MON MON A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Author: Mohsin Hamid MON Abridger: Eileen Horne MON Producer: Clive Brill MON Reader: Sanjeev Bhaskar MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04sttdc (Listen) MON Hormones Special MON MON To what extent, if any, are women affected by hormones MON during their lives? MON MON Girls in a Birmingham secondary school talk about mood MON fluctuations. MON MON Norwich GP Dr Amanda Howe discusses what brings women to see MON her in MON their adult, childbearing years. MON Psychiatrist Dr Michael Craig who works at the Female MON Hormone Clinic at the South London and Maudsley NHS MON Foundation Trust talks to Jane about the relationship MON between hormones and mental health. MON Women in their forties onwards could find themselves feeling MON agitated, confused and unable to sleep. Dr Annie Evans MON explains that these symptoms are possible signs that women MON are entering the perimenopause part of their lives. MON MON GP Amanda Howe explains what women need to consider when MON thinking about taking HRT. And Dr Jan Toledano from the MON Marian Gluck Clinic explains what the difference is between MON conventional HRT and Bio-identical hormones. MON MON Writer Helen Lederer talks about taking HRT, why she had to MON stop taking testosterone and life after the menopause. MON MON Teen Hormones MON MON Reporter Anna Bailey speaks to secondary school teenagers in MON Birmingham, to see if they are affected by their hormones. MON MON Adult Life: Hormones MON MON How much impact do hormones have on our lives as we go about MON our day to day lives. Of course there are dramatic changes MON at puberty, pregnancy and at the menopause. But what about MON the other times? Dr Amanda Howe, a GP in Norwich, joins Jane MON to discuss the kind of problems women bring to her, of which MON only of some can be blamed on hormones MON MON Hormones and Mental Health MON A bit moody, finding your partner, children or work MON colleagues particularly annoying? Most women at some point MON in their lives have had occasion to reflect, “Oh, it’s that MON time of the month.” For the vast majority of us, though, PMT MON is a fairly minor irritant. But for a small percentage of MON women, hormonal fluctuations pre-menstrually, MON post-natally MON and around the time of the MON menopause MON can be severe enough to stop them living normal lives. MON We’ve all heard of post-natal depression. MON PMS (premenstrual syndrome) MON is perhaps less well known and GPs and psychiatrists have MON been known to misdiagnose severe premenstrual syndrome as MON bipolar disorder. Jane speaks to a listener who was MON misdiagnosed in this way. She is also joined by MON psychiatrist MON Dr Michael Craig MON who works at the Female Hormone Clinic at the South London MON and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. MON MON Peri-Menopause MON MON New research by Nuffield Health has revealed that one in MON four women aged between 40-65 are struggling to cope with MON different aspects of life due to hormonal change MON – MON with one in ten considered quitting their job. Whilst the MON menopause is a widely used term – the time leading up to the MON transition peri-menopause, is a less well-known and well MON used term. But symptoms can still have a detrimental affect MON on their lives. MON MON Post-Menopause MON MON Writer Helen Lederer talks to Jane about taking HRT, why she MON had to stop taking testosterone and life after the MON menopause. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Lederer MON Interviewed Guest: Amanda Howe MON Interviewed Guest: Michael Craig MON Interviewed Guest: Annie Evans MON Interviewed Guest: Jan Toledano MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04stvbm (Listen) MON Carol, Episode 1 MON MON A tender and unsettling love story about two women - one of MON them married, and the other nineteen - who risk everything MON to be together. MON MON Written by Patricia Highsmith, who is best-known as one of MON the twentieth MON century's most accomplished thriller-writers - a role she MON assumed overnight when Alfred Hitchcock turned her sublimely MON disturbing first novel, Strangers On A Train, into a hit MON movie in 1951. MON MON Written a year later, Carol broke all the rules for the MON portrayal of lesbians in American fiction. Despite warnings MON from her publisher and her agent that a lesbian novel would MON ruin her new-found reputation, the book became a major MON best-seller, with over a million sales when it was released MON in paperback - and Highsmith went on to write thirty more MON books before her death in 1995. MON MON Carol is a genuinely groundbreaking classic - and a truly MON modern love story. MON MON Episode 1: MON A struggling, young theatre designer - nineteen-year old MON Therese Belivet - takes a temporary Christmas job in a New MON York store. A week before Christmas, a glamorous stranger MON comes into the toy department to buy a doll for her daughter MON - and suddenly Therese's life will never be the same again. MON MON Written by Patricia Highsmith MON Adapted and directed by Neil Bartlett MON MON Produced by David Blount MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Carol: Miranda Richardson MON Therese: Andrea Deck MON Mrs Robichek: Beverley Klein MON Miss Davis: Liza Ross MON Richard: Gunnar Cauthery MON Actor: Barbara Barnes MON Actor: David Jarvis MON Author: Patricia Highsmith MON Adaptor: Neil Bartlett MON Director: Neil Bartlett MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b04stvxt (Listen) MON Series 18, Last Port of Call MON MON Alan Dein visits an old mariners' home on the banks of the MON River Mersey. Mariners' Park in Wallasey is home to over 150 MON former Merchant Navy seamen and their wives or widows. Many MON of them set off on their MON maiden voyage as young sailors from Liverpool, passing the MON home on their port side as they embarked on a life of MON discovery, adventure and hard work at sea. Now, having MON "swallowed the anchor", they settled here in retirement and MON watch the occasional vessel pass up and down the river. MON MON But, as Alan discovers, life on dry land has given many of MON these sailors a new lease of life. They track ships on the MON internet, take the ferry across the Mersey and throw MON themselves into a sports day. But he also finds a reflective MON side to the Park and a very strong attachment to its own MON history. The Merchant Navy is often overlooked in MON Remembrance services, but not at Mariners' Park. MON MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON Captain Ron Pengelly by the Atlantic Remembrance Stone in MON Mariners’ Park, Wallasey MON MON Captain Ron Pengelly at Mariners’ Park, with the River MON Mersey behind him MON MON 11:30 Start/Stop b04stvxw (Listen) MON Series 2, David's Villa 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 the three couples are invited MON to David's villa in Italy. Barney and Evan go out early to MON help David with some renovations. Meanwhile Fiona tries to MON help Cathy to get bikini-ready. Alice, of course, is already MON bikini-ready...which Barney is looking forward to MON confirming. 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 b04stdwx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04sty1h (Listen) MON 1 December 1914 - Sylvia Graham MON MON The Graham household prepares for an arrival. MON MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Sylvia: Deborah Findlay MON Dorothea: Rachel Shelley MON Esme: Katie Angelou MON Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw MON Hilary: Craige Els MON Isabel: Keely Beresford MON Juliet: Lizzie Bourne MON Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw MON Ralph: Nicholas Murchie MON Pallbearer: Clive Haywood MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04sty1k (Listen) MON Hidden Uni Costs; Help to Downsize; Cutting-edge Cinema MON MON New research shows that one in five students find university MON to be poor value for money - and its not just the fees that MON leave students struggling. As the Competitions and Markets MON Authority reviews consumer MON regulation for higher education, You and Yours investigates MON what the hidden charges are for students, how they arise and MON what can be done about them. MON MON A group of MPs wants to the government to introduce measures MON to help elderly homeowners to downsize. They say better MON planning and assistance would make the process easier and MON free up housing for younger buyers. Will it work? MON MON Cinema audiences are falling and ticket prices are rising. MON We take a look at the cutting edge technologies that the MON industry hopes will tempt us back to the movie-houses. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04stdx1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04sty1n (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Terror Through Time b04sty1q (Listen) MON Beirut: City of Terror MON MON Beirut became a crucible of terrorism in the 1980s. Fergal MON Keane revisits the time of kidnap, chaos and the birth of MON Hezbollah. He drops into Hezbollah's Mleeta 'theme park' and MON discusses the period with Paul MON Salem of the Carnegie Institute, Matthew Levitt of the MON Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Timur Goksel MON of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force. MON MON Producers: Alasdair Cross and Ghadi Sary. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04stlcs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04sty1s (Listen) MON Behind Closed Doors, A Bad Night Out MON MON Behind Closed Doors: A Bad Night Out MON By Clara Glynn MON MON The first in a series of three dramas following London MON barrister Rebecca Nyman. Following a drunken altercation in MON a town centre a man has been arrested and MON held in police custody overnight. But the events of that MON night are disputed and the case explores whether the police MON acted improperly and gave evidence that was not entirely MON accurate. Is there a case for paying compensation? MON MON Producer/director: David Ian Neville. MON MON Credits MON Rebecca Nyman: Clare Corbett MON Barrister Charlie Haines: Dan Starkey MON Rafid: Danny Rahim MON Judge: Jane Whittenshaw MON PC George Simmers: Ben Crowe MON Dr Polly Andrews: Jane Slavin MON Dorina Balan: Bettrys Jones MON Callum Brown: Monty d'Inverno MON Writer: Clara Glynn MON Director: David Neville MON Producer: David Neville MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b04sty1v (Listen) MON Series 28, Semi-Final 2, 2014 MON MON (11/13) MON Who wrote the original James Bond theme as first heard in MON the film Dr No? And which Renaissance artist wrote poems MON which have been set to music by both Benjamin Britten and MON Shostakovich? MON MON Paul Gambaccini MON asks the questions in the second semi-final of the general MON knowledge music quiz, with another place in the 28th MON Counterpoint Final up for grabs. MON MON This week's semi-finalists, from the Vale of Glamorgan, MON Wiltshire and Cheshire, have all won their heats with MON impressive scores, and the competition is sure to be tough. MON As always, they will each have to choose a special musical MON topic on which to answer individual questions, with no prior MON warning of the categories offered. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04sthgq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Catacombs of the Mind b04sxxsx (Listen) MON Bruce Lacey has been a mischievous and radical presence in MON British culture for more than six decades. Now aged 87, he MON reflects on his life and work. MON MON He's made an epic breadth of work as a satirical performer, MON assemblage artist, filmmaker and creator of earth rituals. MON MON After studying painting at the Royal College of Art in the MON 1950s, he made props for TV comedy - combining a love of MON variety theatre and mechanical know-how to create effects MON like Footo the Wonder Boot Exploder for The Goons and MON Michael Bentine's performing fleas. MON MON He became part of London's satire boom, performing with MON neo-Dadaist jazz band The Alberts in the hit madcap cabaret MON show, An Evening of British Rubbish. Lenny Bruce was so MON impressed he tried to become their manager. MON MON Later Lacey created assemblages like The Womaniser, which MON expressed feelings about the dehumanising effects of Cold MON War society. His robot Rosa Bosom still has pride of place MON in his parlour - she was 'best man' at his wedding and was MON once crowned the Alternative Miss World. MON MON Moving to Norfolk, Lacey concentrated on performance work MON from the late 70s, committing himself to becoming a MON transmitter of nature's force in almost shamanistic MON community arts and ritual action performances. He still MON lives in the same Norfolk farmhouse, surrounded by his MON extraordinary personal archive and collections. MON MON Contributions from Jeremy Deller, Andrew Logan, Julian MON Spalding, Lynda Morris, William Fowler, Jonny Trunk and MON Ashley Hutchings of Fairport Convention, who wrote the song MON "Mr Lacey" about him. MON MON Produced by Caroline Hughes MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04stzf1 (Listen) MON Plague narratives and Ebola MON MON How are religious plague narratives affecting the responses MON to the Ebola outbreak? MON Throughout history, people have sought explanations for such MON deadly epidemics. Pre scientific societies thought that MON plagues were a punishment from the gods who were displeased MON with human behaviour. We have a better understanding of the MON causes and effects of disease today, but such ideas persist MON in many quarters and can still have a subconscious influence MON on contemporary attitudes to illness. MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by Dr Jane Stevens Crawshaw, Leverhulme MON early careers research fellow in History at Oxford Brookes MON University; the Rev Monsignor Robert J Vitillo, special MON Advisor on Health and HIV at the Catholic organisation MON Caritas International; and Joel Baden, Professor of Hebrew MON Bible at Yale University. MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b04stzf3 (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04stdx4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04stzf5 (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 3 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit MON to the Victoria Hall in Stoke-on-Trent. Regulars Barry MON Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the MON panel by Omid Djalili, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin MON Sell provides piano accompaniment. 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: Andy Hamilton MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04stzf7 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04stzf9 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04stvbm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Republican Rehab b04stzfc (Listen) MON For many, Texas epitomises Tough on Crime, with a vast MON prison population and high numbers of executions. Probably MON not the first place you would think of looking for MON innovative approaches to criminal justice MON reform, but that's what happened with conservatives adopting MON a new Right on Crime approach, cancelling construction of MON prisons and putting the money into treatment and MON rehabilitation instead. MON MON Danny Kruger, a former speechwriter to David Cameron of 'hug MON a hoodie' fame, who now runs a charity working with MON ex-offenders, finds out how it works. MON MON In Austin he meets Marc Levin, head of the Right on Crime MON campaign at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, who has MON signed up prominent conservatives like Newt Gingrich, Jeb MON Bush, Grover Norquist, David Keene, and Pat Nolan. MON MON Heading into Dallas, Danny visits an empty prison, a visible MON sign that the prison population is going down. MON MON Then he attends a drugs court presided over by Judge Francis MON in jeans and cowboy boots. In the evening Danny attends a MON graduation ceremony for former felons who have completed a MON course with the Prison Entrepreneurship Program preparing MON them to put their skills to legitimate use on the outside. MON MON Texas senator Jerry Madden tells Danny how he was made Chair MON of the Corrections Committee and told not to build more MON prisons and managed to persuade his fellow conservatives and MON liberal colleagues to vote for the reforms. MON MON Whilst a new political consensus may be forming around the MON need to reduce re-offending, fundamental differences remain MON over the causes of crime and mass incarceration, as Marc MON Mauer of The Sentencing Project explains. MON MON With British prisons expanding in an age of austerity, Danny MON asks David Davis MP if the Right on Crime approach in MON America could work for conservatives in the UK. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04cfhm1 (Listen) MON Searching for Annie in Liberia MON MON Gabriel Gatehouse reports from the Liberian capital Monrovia MON on the devastating impact of Ebola upon its people. In one MON case, a patient called Annie, 38, was discovered in her MON crowded shared house in harrowing MON conditions. She was taken away to hospital but disappeared MON into the system. Gabriel and his team go in search of Annie MON and along the way meet the medics and families on the front MON line of the Ebola crisis. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04ps554 (Listen) MON Snapping Turtles - Taking the Long View MON MON What do elephants, snapping turtles and guillemots have in MON common? They are all examples of 'long-lived' animals with MON some species living longer than the careers of the MON scientists who study them. In this MON episode of Shared Planet Monty Don talks to Tim Birkhead and MON Phyllis Lee, both scientists who have studied the behaviour MON of long-lived species and both argue that you discover MON insights into long-lived animals can will help their MON conservation and our ability to share the planet with them. MON MON Professor Tim Birkhead MON Professor MON Tim Birkhead MON of the MON University of Sheffield’s Department of Animal and Plant MON Sciences MON has been studying guillemots on MON Skomer Island MON since 1972. Before beginning his study as part of his PhD, MON no one had tried to conduct a census of guillemots. MON He came up with an innovative way to count the birds and MON determine how many chicks were produced each year. By MON marking birds individually with colour rings he was able to MON measure their breeding success, see how old they are when MON they first start to breed and see how long the birds live. MON When he began his studies, the guillemot population breeding MON on Skomer was just 2,000 individuals, yet pictures of the MON island 30 years earlier show that there had been around MON 100,000 guillemots then. In 2011, the population showed MON signs of recovery when around 20,000 individuals were MON recorded. MON MON Matt Keevil MON Matt Keevil works at a long term research project in MON Algonquin Provincial Park MON that has been studying snapping turtles in Lake Sasajewun MON since 1972. MON He patrols nesting areas and measures the size and number of MON eggs that each mother turtle lays. This information allows MON researchers to keep track of the size of the population, the MON growth and survival of each individual turtle, and how many MON eggs the females lay. MON MON Professor Phyllis C. Lee MON Educated at Stanford University in California, she moved to MON the UK after a spell working with MON Jane Goodall in Tanzania MON in the mid 1970s. She completed her PhD in animal behaviour MON at Cambridge in 1981 with the eminent ethologists, MON Richard Wrangham MON and MON Robert Hinde MON and returned to Kenya in 1982 to study the MON Amboseli elephants with Cynthia Moss MON - work which continues to this day. MON She was one of the main editors on the recently published MON University of Chicago book – The Amboseli elephants, which MON details over 30 years of research findings on this unique MON population. MON Previously a Reader in Behavioural Biology and Conservation MON at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Downing MON College, she is now Professor and Head of Psychology in the MON School of Natural Sciences at the University of Stirling MON and a core member of the MON Scottish Primate Research Group MON As the past President of the MON Primate Society of Great Britain MON she has been involved with a number of government science MON initiatives, and she has taken part in TV documentaries and MON radio interviews. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b04tqlw2 (Listen) MON Evolution and Extinction MON MON Discussion programme that sets the cultural agenda for the MON week. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON MON 21:58 Weather b04stdxc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04stzff (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04stzfh (Listen) MON In Love and War, Episode 6 MON MON "He [...] unfolds a portrait of himself in gouache [...] It MON is a good likeness, he thinks, if a little tragic, and MON big-eared. She has drawn a man - given him something to grow MON 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 6 (of 10) MON Esmond receives bad news from England and learns more about MON Father Bailey and, especially, Ada. 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 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 b04stzfk (Listen) MON Series 4, The Boomtown Rats (the A-Side) MON MON John Wilson continues with the series in which he talks to MON leading performers and songwriters about the album that made MON them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience MON at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale MON Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John MON initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, MON and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. MON Both editions feature exclusive live performances. MON MON Programme 7, A-side. 'A Tonic For The Troops' MON MON Named after a gang in Woody Guthrie's autobiography, The MON Boomtown Rats had a series of hits between 1977 and 1985. MON Signed by Mercury records the same year that punk rock MON exploded in Britain, it was their second album 'A Tonic for MON the Troops', with tracks like "She's So Modern", "Like MON Clockwork" and "Me and Howard Hughes", that brought them MON their first Number 1 hit with "Rat Trap". MON MON It's an album that treats dark themes like suicide and MON euthanasia in an often upbeat, pop-punk style - one critic MON described the track "Eva Braun" as "the happiest, cheeriest, MON best upbeat song about Hitler ever written." And another MON said "Vintage superstars who look like eyesores and sound MON like dinosaurs should carefully study this album." MON MON The band broke-up in 1986, but reformed in 2013 to tour the MON UK. This will be a unique opportunity not only to hear them MON talk about their album but also to see them perform MON exclusive versions of key tracks. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b04stzhs (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 02 DECEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04stdyq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04sttd9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04stdys (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04stdyv (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04stdyx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04stdyz (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04tvqmc (Listen) TUE Spiritual reflection to start the day with The Revd Alison TUE Jack. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04sv1rz (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04sv1s1 (Listen) TUE Greater Rhea 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 greater rhea roaming the South TUE American pampas. Greater rheas are the largest birds in TUE South America and look like small brown ostriches. They're TUE flightless, but can avoid danger by sprinting away on sturdy TUE legs reaching speeds of up to 60 kilometres per hour. TUE Gauchos, the horsemen of the pampas, used to hunt them on TUE horseback using a bolas; a well-aimed bolas would wrap TUE around the rhea's legs or neck and bring it down in a tangle TUE of feathers and limbs. In the breeding season males call TUE loudly to proclaim territories, and to woo potential mates TUE the male runs around erratically, spreading his wings and TUE booming. He mates with several females who lay their eggs in TUE the same nest. Then the females depart to mate with another TUE male leaving the first male to incubate the clutch and rear TUE the huge brood of chicks on his own. TUE TUE Greater Rhea (Rhea americana) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Luiz Claudio Marigo / TUE naturepl.com. TUE N TUE PL Ref 01131063 TUE © Luiz Claudio Marigo / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04sv1s3 (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 b04sv1s5 (Listen) TUE Reith Lectures: 2014, The Century of the System TUE TUE The surgeon and writer Atul Gawande argues that better TUE systems can transform global healthcare by radically TUE reducing the chance of mistakes and increasing the chance of TUE successful outcomes. TUE TUE He tells the story of TUE how a little-known hospital in Austria managed to develop a TUE complex yet highly effective system for dealing with victims TUE of drowning. He says that the lesson from this dramatic TUE narrative is that effective systems can provide major TUE improvements in success rates for surgery and other medical TUE procedures. Even a simple checklist - of the kind routinely TUE used in the aviation industry - can be remarkably effective. TUE And he argues that these systems have the power to transform TUE care from the richest parts of the world to the poorest. TUE TUE The programme was recorded at The Wellcome Collection in TUE London before an audience. TUE TUE The Reith Lectures are chaired and introduced by Sue Lawley TUE and produced by Jim Frank. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04t6wrg (Listen) TUE Discontent and Its Civilizations, Episode 2 TUE TUE These timely 'dispatches from Lahore, New York and London' TUE encompassing memoir, art and politics, collect the best TUE essays of the award-winning author of The Reluctant TUE Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid. TUE TUE Hamid makes a TUE compelling case for recognising our common humanity while TUE relishing our diversity, for resisting the artificial TUE mono-identities of religion or nationality or race, and for TUE always judging a country or nation by how it treats its TUE minorities as 'Each individual human being is, after all, a TUE minority of one'. TUE TUE Peripatetic author Hamid relocates to London to pursue his TUE career and eventually finds love in the city with his wife TUE and baby daughter. But Lahore, city of his birth, is TUE calling... TUE TUE Read by Sanjeev Bhaskar TUE TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Author: Mohsin Hamid TUE Abridger: Eileen Horne TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE Reader: Sanjeev Bhaskar TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04sv2gs (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04sv2gv (Listen) TUE Carol, Episode 2 TUE TUE A tender and unsettling love story about two women - one of TUE them married, and the other nineteen - who risk everything TUE to be together. TUE TUE Written by Patricia Highsmith, who is best-known as one of TUE the twentieth TUE century's most accomplished thriller-writers - a role she TUE assumed overnight when Alfred Hitchcock turned her sublimely TUE disturbing first novel, Strangers On A Train, into a hit TUE movie in 1951. TUE TUE Written a year later, Carol broke all the rules for the TUE portrayal of lesbians in American fiction. Despite warnings TUE from her publisher and her agent that a lesbian novel would TUE ruin her new-found reputation, the book became a major TUE best-seller, with over a million sales when it was released TUE in paperback - and Highsmith went on to write thirty more TUE books before her death in 1995. TUE TUE Carol is a genuinely groundbreaking classic - and a truly TUE modern love story. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE In the week before Christmas Mrs Carol Aird, a married TUE housewife, has met Therese Belivet, a would-be theatre TUE designer, across the counter of the toy department in a big TUE New York store. It's now two days later, and Therese has TUE accepted an invitation out to Carol's home in New Jersey. TUE She hasn't told her boyfriend. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Carol..............Miranda Richardson TUE Therese...........Andrea Deck TUE Hargess...........Colin Stinton TUE Richard...........Gunnar Cauthrey TUE Abby..............Lorelei King TUE with David Jarvis, Beverley Klein and Liza Ross TUE TUE Written by Patricia Highsmith TUE Adapted and directed by Neil Bartlett TUE TUE Produced by David Blount TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Carol: Miranda Richardson TUE Therese: Andrea Deck TUE Mrs Robichek: Beverley Klein TUE Miss Davis: Liza Ross TUE Richard: Gunnar Cauthery TUE Actor: Barbara Barnes TUE Actor: David Jarvis TUE Author: Patricia Highsmith TUE Adaptor: Neil Bartlett TUE Director: Neil Bartlett TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04sv2gx (Listen) TUE Wildlife and Drought in East Africa TUE TUE Monty Don presents the series that explores the complex TUE interface between a growing human population and wildlife. TUE TUE Professor Scott Creel TUE Scott Creel is TUE Professor of Ecology at Montana State University TUE His current research mainly examines risk effects, or the TUE costs of anti-predator responses by prey species. Recent TUE research with many species has shown that TUE direct killing constitutes only a fraction of the total TUE limiting effect of predators on their prey. TUE He and his students recently examined the responses of elk TUE to variation in the risk of predation by wolves, including TUE changes in behavior, group size, habitat selection, feeding TUE ecology, and spatial distributions. They related these TUE responses to changes in nutrition, physiology, demography TUE and population dynamics. This work won the 2010 Carl Gustav TUE Bernhard Medal from the TUE Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences TUE His primary field research is now with the TUE Zambian Carnivore Programme TUE headed by Dr Matt Becker, to examine risk effects and TUE carnivore conservation in three ecosystems (Liuwa, South TUE Luangwa and Kafue National Parks), with several species of TUE predators and prey. This work aims to measure variation in TUE direct predation rates and risk effects, to identify the TUE ecological factors that drive this variation, and provide TUE data for the conservation and management of predators and TUE prey. In this work, the team studies African wild dogs, TUE lions, spotted hyenas, cheetahs and leopards, together with TUE their primary prey, which varies among species and TUE ecosystems, but notably includes African buffalo, giraffe, TUE wildebeest, zebra, impala, puku, lechwe and oribi. TUE TUE TUE Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton TUE Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton, pictured here in 1999, is one of TUE world’s leading authorities on elephant conservation. His TUE work focuses on understanding elephant choices by studying TUE their movements and integrating findings into conservation TUE and management strategies. He is the founder and CEO of TUE Save the Elephants TUE a British trust with a mission is to secure a future for TUE elephants in Africa. TUE During the 1960s, Douglas-Hamilton carried out the first TUE in-depth scientific study of wildelephant social behavior in TUE Tanzania, which paved the way for much of elephant research TUE andconservation today. He introduced behavioral ecology to TUE elephant conservation through detailed monitoring and TUE recording of births, deaths and migrations. TUE In 1979, Douglas-Hamilton led a comprehensive ivory trade TUE study for USFWS that provided a foundation for subsequent TUE ivory trade monitoring. He chronicled how Africa’s elephant TUE population was halved between 1979 and 1989, and he was the TUE first to alert the worldto the poaching crisis and was TUE instrumental in bringing about the world ivory trade ban. TUE From 1980 to 1982 he developed and led a successful TUE emergency anti-poaching program inUganda’s national parks, TUE where elephants were on the brink of extinction. His work TUE has leddirectly to the halt in the species’ precipitous TUE decline and to the subsequent stabilization of many elephant TUE populations. TUE Douglas-Hamilton was elected regional advisor for the TUE International Union for Conservation of TUE Nature (East Africa Region) TUE and served this role until 1988. Through the mid-1990s, TUE hecoordinated a number of elephant studies and projects TUE including the Tsavo Elephant Count onbehalf of Government of TUE Kenya and the East African Wildlife Society, European TUE Economic Community / World Wildlife Fund African Elephant TUE Programme, EC African Elephant Surveyand Conservation TUE Project, Lake Manyara National Park Aerial Survey and the TUE United NationsEnvironment Programme/World Wildlife Fund TUE African Elephant Database Project. TUE TUE Dr Bilal Butt TUE Bilal Butt is an Assistant Professor at the TUE School of Natural Resources and Environment TUE and a faculty affiliate of the TUE African Studies Center TUE at the University of Michigan. He is a people-environment TUE geographer with regional specialisations in sub-Saharan TUE Africa and technical expertise in geospatial technologies, TUE ecological monitoring and social-scientific appraisals. TUE His general research interests lie at the intersection of TUE the natural and social sciences to answer questions of how TUE people and wildlife are coping with, and adapting to TUE changing climates, livelihoods and ecologies in semi-arid TUE regions of sub-Saharan Africa. TUE Currently, he is investigating the spatiality of livelihood TUE strategies (resource access and utilization) among pastoral TUE peoples under regimes of increasing climatic variability and TUE uncertainty, and the nature of the relationships between TUE wildlife and livestock in East Africa. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b04sv2gz (Listen) TUE Series 19, There Is a Light That Never Goes Out TUE TUE The Smiths' 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' is TUE explored through personal stories. Released in 1986 on 'The TUE Queen Is Dead' album, it has become an anthem of hope, loss TUE and love. As a teenager, Andy TUE listened to it with his father, as he drove him to work. TUE They had a moment of connection, and when his father died TUE suddenly a few weeks later, the song took on huge TUE significance. When her young son was ill, Sharon Woolley TUE drew strength from this music as she sat by his bedside in TUE the small hours of the morning. For comic artist Lucy TUE Knisley, the song got her through a bad break-up with her TUE long-term boyfriend - and it's meaning changed for her when TUE unexpected events unfolded. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04stdz1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04sv2l0 (Listen) TUE 2 December 1914 - Kitty Wilson TUE TUE No news is good news, but for Kitty, good news is TUE devastating. TUE TUE Written by Sarah Daniels TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Kitty: Ami Metcalf TUE Adam: Leo Montague TUE Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies TUE Florrie: Claire Rushbrook TUE Lilian: Lisa Brookes TUE Tom: Clive Hayward TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04svd0f (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04stdz3 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04svd0h (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Terror Through Time b04svd0k (Listen) TUE Death Wish: Battling Suicide Bombers TUE TUE Fergal Keane visits Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to discover how TUE Israeli society reacted to a wave of suicide bombers. He's TUE joined by Assaf Moghadan, a researcher at the International TUE Institute for Counter Terrorism, TUE former Israeli Army commander Nitzan Nuriel and by Professor TUE Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04stzf7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04svd0m (Listen) TUE Behind Closed Doors, Excluded TUE TUE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: Excluded TUE By CLARA GLYNN TUE TUE The second in a series of three dramas following London TUE barrister Rebecca Nyman. Thirteen year-old Cassius Young has TUE been excluded from his Academy school in Croyden. TUE He has been accused of bringing a knife onto the premises TUE and persistently breaking school rules. This drama takes us TUE into a 'School Exclusion Hearing' where the school governors TUE hear testimony from Cassius, his mother, the headmaster and TUE other staff. The school will decide whether the exclusion TUE should be permanent. Rebecca represents Cassius at the TUE hearing. TUE TUE Producer/director: David Ian Neville. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rebecca Nyman: Clare Corbett TUE Maryanne Young: Frances Ashman TUE Sam Stent: Ewan Bailey TUE Pernille Conley: Michelle Newell TUE Mr Hollis: Ashley Cook TUE Susan Robbin: Cathleen McCarron TUE Cassius Young: Chase Willoughby TUE Writer: Clara Glynn TUE Director: David Neville TUE Producer: David Neville TUE TUE 15:00 The Design Dimension b04svfs1 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Ageing Gracefully TUE TUE Tom Dyckhoff, the writer about architecture, looks at the TUE world we inhabit through the lens of design. TUE TUE In today's episode, he talks to Sir Kenneth Grange about his TUE ideas on designing furniture for older people, TUE for whom the shiny surfaces and minimal comfort of much TUE modernist design poses challenges. TUE TUE He visits a retro-fitted 'Fifties home in Staffordshire and TUE the site of the soon-to-be restored vintage-style amusement TUE park, Dreamland in Margate, asking at what point a building, TUE object or experience should become monumentalised. TUE TUE And from Brooklyn, New York Tom hears about 'creative TUE caring' and the need to 'respect age' for the objects in our TUE lives, from participants in the Fixers' Collective. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall and Hana Walker-Brown TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b04svfs3 (Listen) TUE Series 4, The Boomtown Rats (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 8, the B-side. Having discussed the making of "A TUE Tonic For The Troops", their 1978 hit album (in the A-side TUE of the programme, broadcast on Monday 1st December and TUE available online), Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats respond TUE to questions from the audience and performs acoustic live TUE versions of some of the tracks from the album which brought TUE them their first Number 1 single with 'Rat Trap'. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 Trauma Medicine b04svfs5 (Listen) TUE The Fight for Life TUE TUE In the first of two programmes Dr Kevin Fong looks at how TUE wars and conflicts have helped to drive emergency medicine TUE in the 21st century, both on and off the battlefield. TUE Drawing on his own experiences as a TUE junior doctor at the scene of a terrorist bombing in 1999, TUE through to his current job, flying on the UK's air ambulance TUE service, Kevin discovers how the challenges of the past TUE continue to shape the future. TUE TUE Kevin meets one of the fathers of emergency medicine - James TUE Styner, an American orthopaedic surgeon, now in his 80s. His TUE realisation - in the 1970's - that trauma care was in TUE desperate need of revolution didn't come out of research or TUE clinical trials, but in the wake of tragic and terrifying TUE events. It began with a plane crash: Jim as pilot, his wife TUE beside him and his four young children sleeping in the rear. TUE When bad weather caused him to lose altitude, the plane TUE crashed into trees at 168 miles per hour. The resulting TUE scene was horrific: His wife was killed on impact, three of TUE his four children lay unconscious and Jim himself was badly TUE injured. In the dark and with temperatures dropping rapidly, TUE Jim dragged his kids out of the plane, searched for his TUE wife's body and then made his way through the woods to the TUE road where he eventually flagged down a passing car. TUE TUE However, as Randy and James explain, once at the local TUE hospital, their problems continued. Horrified to discover TUE that the local doctors were largely unprepared to deal TUE effectively with the traumatic injuries his children had TUE suffered he vowed there and then to make amends. "When I can TUE provide better care in the field with limited resources than TUE my children and I received at the primary facility, there is TUE something wrong with the system and the system has to be TUE changed". James Styner went onto develop the first TUE systematic approach for dealing with severe injuries - ATLS TUE or Advanced Trauma Life Support. This approach has TUE transformed trauma medicine and is now taught in over 50 TUE countries. It has undoubtedly saved countless lives and was TUE what Kevin, as a junior doctor, relied upon to get him TUE through the shock of attending the scene of the London Soho TUE pub bombing, 15 years ago. TUE TUE It was those experiences that again came to mind when Kevin TUE met medical workers in Boston who attended to the victims of TUE the marathon bombing in 2013. One of those on duty that day TUE was Ricky Kue of Boston Medical Center: "After the blast, I TUE had this gut-wrenching moment where everything just sank in TUE my body and I realised what we'd always trained for and what TUE we thought would never happen, just did". TUE TUE In the course of the programme, Kevin speaks to other trauma TUE specialists who have attended horrific events, such as TUE terrorist bombings or major railway disasters. What becomes TUE clear is that whilst these incidents as awful as they are, TUE don't always drive the evolution of trauma care as in TUE Styner's case, they do nevertheless, serve a purpose. They TUE benchmark the system, revealing its strengths and TUE weaknesses, showing us from a medical standpoint, what the TUE state of the art in trauma care at that time is capable of TUE and asking whether we have learnt the difficult lessons of TUE the past. TUE TUE Please note: both programmes in this series have been TUE re-versioned and were originally broadcast on the BBC World TUE Service earlier this year. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b04svfs7 (Listen) TUE Sean Lock and Roisin Conaty TUE TUE Comedians Sean Lock and Roisin Conaty discuss their TUE favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. One of the novels on TUE the agenda is Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic The TUE Handmaid's Tale, which changed a young TUE Roisin's whole world view. Sean's choice is the Getaway by TUE Jim Thompson with its weird ending, and Harriett chooses TUE Beryl Bainbridge's novel set on the Titanic, Every Man for TUE Himself. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Sean Lock TUE Interviewed Guest: Roisin Conaty TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04svfs9 (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04stdz5 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b04svfsc (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Separatists TUE TUE When the lights from a new zebra crossing outside Tom's TUE parent's house causes insomnia in the Wrigglesworth TUE household, Tom's dad is forced to take matters into his own TUE hands and cause a fuss. Not perhaps in the TUE way everyone else would though... TUE TUE Meanwhile, Tom is down in London preparing himself for a TUE visit from the bailiffs. 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 b04svfw9 (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04svjbg (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04sv2gv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Teaching Economics After the Crash b04svjbj (Listen) TUE At universities from Glasgow to Kolkata, economics students TUE are fighting their tutors over how to teach the subject in TUE the wake of the crash. The Guardian's senior economics TUE commentator, Aditya Chakrabortty, TUE reports from the frontline of this most unusual and TUE important academic war. TUE TUE The banking crash plunged economies around the world into TUE crisis - but it also created questions for economics itself. TUE Even the Queen asked why hardly any economists saw the TUE meltdown coming. Yet economics graduates still roll out of TUE exam halls and off to government departments or the City TUE with much the same toolkit that, just five years ago, TUE produced a massive crash. TUE TUE Now economics students around the world are demanding a TUE radical change of course. In a manifesto signed by 65 TUE university economics associations from over 30 different TUE countries, students decry a 'dramatic narrowing of the TUE curriculum' that they say prefers algebra to the real world TUE and teaches them there's only one way to run an economy. TUE TUE As fights go, this one is desperately ill-matched - in one TUE corner, young people fighting to change what they're taught; TUE in the other, the academics who've built careers researching TUE and teaching the subject. Yet the outcome matters to all of TUE us, as it is a battle over the ideas that underpin how we TUE run our economies. TUE TUE Aditya meets the students leading arguing for a rethink of TUE economics. He also talks to major figures from the worlds of TUE economics and finance, including George Soros, the Bank of TUE England's chief economist Andy Haldane, and Cambridge author TUE Ha-Joon Chang. TUE TUE Produced by Eve Streeter TUE A Greenpoint production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Want to know more? TUE We asked the programme's contributors to recommend the TUE economics books (or blogs) they have found especially TUE influential. TUE Here is their suggested reading list: TUE Dr Ha-Joon Chang TUE • Herbert Simon: Reasons in Human Affairs (Stanford TUE University Press 1983) TUE TUE • Phyllis Deane: The State and the Economic System: An TUE Introduction to the History of Political Economy (Opus 1989) TUE Rob Johnson TUE • Frank Knight: Risk Uncertainty and Profit (1921) ; On the TUE History and Methods of Economics (1956) TUE TUE • John Maynard Keynes: General Theory (1936); A Treatise on TUE Probability (1921) TUE TUE • Rajani Kanth: Breaking with the Enlightenment TUE (NJ Humanities Press 1997) TUE TUE • Stuart Ewen: PR!: The Social History of Spin (Basic Books TUE 1998) TUE Professor Steve Keen TUE • Hyman Minsky: Can "It" Happen Again? (Routledge 1982) TUE TUE • John Blatt: Dynamic Economic Systems (Routledge 1983) TUE TUE • Karl Marx: Grundrisse (1939) TUE TUE TUE Professor Diane Coyle TUE • John McMillan: Reinventing the Bazaar - A Natural History TUE of Markets (Norton 2003) TUE TUE • Thomas Schelling: Micromotives and Macrobehaviour (Norton TUE 1978) TUE Dr Victoria Bateman TUE • John Maynard Keynes: The General Theory of Employment, TUE Interest and Money (chapter 12) TUE TUE • Avner Offer: The Challenge of Affluence (OUP 2006) TUE TUE • Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking TUE Public vs Private Sector Myths (Anthem Press 2013) TUE Professor Wendy Carlin TUE • David Soskice and Peter Hall (ed): Varieties of Capitalism TUE (OUP 2001) TUE TUE • Paul Seabright: The Company of Strangers: a Natural TUE History of Economic Life (PUP 2004) TUE Professor Philip Mirowski TUE nakedcapitalism.com or larspsyll.wordpress.com TUE Lord Robert Skidelsky TUE • Josh Ryan-Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Werner and TUE Andrew Jackson: Where Does Money Come From? A Guide to the TUE UK Monetary and Banking System (New Economics Foundation TUE 2014) TUE TUE • Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig: The Bankers' New Clothes: TUE What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It TUE (Princeton University Press 2013) TUE TUE • Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee: The Second Machine TUE Age: Work Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant TUE Technologies (WW Norton 2014) TUE Dr Devrim Yilmaz TUE • Karl Polanyi: The Great Transformation (1944) TUE Professor Danny Quah TUE • Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative TUE Information (Graphics Press 2001) TUE TUE • Paul Kennedy: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: TUE Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 TUE (Random House 1989) TUE TUE • Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of TUE Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years (Vintage 1998) TUE Yuan Yang, Rethinking Economics TUE • Tony Lawson: Economics and Reality (Routledge 1997) TUE Joe Earle, Post-Crash Economics Society TUE • George Packer: The Unwinding (Faber 2014) TUE TUE • Rod Hill and Tony Myatt: The Economics Anti-Textbook: A TUE Critical Thinker's Guide to Economics (Zed 2010) TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04svjbl (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b04svjbn (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond reports on current issues in mental health TUE and research findings from the world of psychology and TUE neuroscience. TUE TUE 21:30 Document b04cbbls (Listen) TUE The Saur Death List of Afghanistan TUE TUE David Loyn investigates how a lost document is helping TUE Afghanistan come to terms with its painful past. TUE TUE It revolves around the lesser known moment when Afghanistan TUE began to fall apart: 1978, two years before the TUE Soviet invasion. Lesser known, partly because the world TUE wasn't really paying attention but also because evidence of TUE state murder and disappearance was covered up after the TUE co-called Saur Revolution. That is, until now. A war crimes TUE trial in the Netherlands has unearthed a list of 5000 TUE prisoners detained, tortured and killed by the radical TUE communist regime in 1978 / 79. TUE TUE This 'Death List' has less than half the total number of TUE people unaccounted for during that period but it has finally TUE given families of the disappeared confirmation of the fate TUE of their loved ones and allowed them to mourn. The TUE reverberations of this are being felt strongly in TUE Afghanistan. This story is told through the eyes of a TUE remarkable survivor of these purges whose name is on the TUE list of the dead. TUE TUE This 'Death List' leads us to the issue of justice and TUE accountability for war crimes in Afghanistan, not just from TUE 1978 but over the following three decades. Post 9/11 the TUE West dealt with warlords whose very poor human rights TUE records went unquestioned and many of them now hold powerful TUE government positions in Afghanistan. It raises the question: TUE when will the country be able to face the crimes of its TUE recent past and bring the perpetrators to justice? It's a TUE question on the lips of many ordinary Afghans. TUE TUE Producer Neil McCarthy. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04stdz8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04svjbq (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04svjbs (Listen) TUE In Love and War, Episode 7 TUE TUE "He [...] unfolds a portrait of himself in gouache [...] It TUE is a good likeness, he thinks, if a little tragic, and TUE big-eared. She has drawn a man - given him something to grow TUE 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 7 (of 10) TUE As the world is plunged even deeper into war, Esmond and Ada TUE travel to the coast on a mission for the Resistance. 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 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? b04svjbv (Listen) TUE Living Longer TUE TUE As we all live longer, soon the elderly population TUE outnumbers the young. The multiplexes are crammed full of TUE sex romps starring Bill Nighy and soluble ham is a big TUE seller. Soon, the Baby Boomers take over. TUE While young people starve and suffer, the old blow billions TUE on sending Danny Baker to the moon. But the population TUE shrinks, and the elderly take drastic measures to solve the TUE problem, creating something called a Sentient Organ Sac. It TUE doesn't go well. 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, Ewan Bailey, TUE Roslyn Hill, Hannah Genesius, Monty d'Inverno and Paul TUE Heath. 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 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: Ewan Bailey TUE Performer: Roslyn Hill TUE Performer: Hannah Genesius TUE Performer: Monty d'Inverno TUE Performer: Paul Heath TUE Writer: Madeleine Brettingham TUE Writer: Steve Burge TUE Writer: Dale Shaw TUE Producer: Victoria Lloyd TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b04svjbx (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 03 DECEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04stf0h (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04t6wrg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04stf0k (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04stf0m (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04stf0p (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04stf0r (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04vwr3s (Listen) WED Spiritual reflection to start the day with The Revd Alison WED Jack. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04svjxd (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Lucy Bickerton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04svjxg (Listen) WED Atlantic (Island) Canary 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 Atlantic canary singing in the WED Tenerife treetops. The ancestor of our cage-bird canaries WED is the Island or Atlantic Canary, a finch which is native to WED the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands which include WED Tenerife. The Canary Islands were named by early travellers WED "the islands of dogs from 'canis', the Latin for dogs, WED because of the many large dogs reputedly found there. And so WED the common and popular song-bird which is now a symbol of WED the islands became known as the canary. Unlike their WED domestic siblings, wild Island canaries are streaky, WED greenish yellow finches: males have golden- yellow WED foreheads, females a head of more subtle ash-grey tone. But WED it's the song, a pulsating series of vibrant whistles, WED trills and tinkling sounds; that has made the canary so WED popular. They were almost compulsory in Victorian and WED Edwardian parlours; a far cry from the sunny palm -fringed WED beaches of the Atlantic islands. WED WED Atlantic (or Island) Canary (Serinus canaria) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Wild Wonders of Europe Relanzon / WED naturepl.com. WED NPL Ref 01257843 WED © Wild Wonders of Europe Relanzon / naturepl.com WED WED Recording of island canary by Andrea L Priori / Ref: ML WED 79093 WED WED This programme contains a WED wildtrack recording of the island canary WED kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab WED of Ornithology; recorded by Andrea L Priori on 2 Jul 1992 , WED in Tompkins County, New York, USA. WED WED 06:00 Today b04svjxj (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 b04svjxl (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04t6xcz (Listen) WED Discontent and Its Civilizations, Episode 3 WED WED These timely 'dispatches from Lahore, New York and London' WED encompassing memoir, art and politics, collect the best WED essays of the award-winning author of The Reluctant WED Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid. WED WED Hamid makes a WED compelling case for recognising our common humanity while WED relishing our diversity, for resisting the artificial WED mono-identities of religion or nationality or race, and for WED always judging a country or nation by how it treats its WED minorities as 'Each individual human being is, after all, a WED minority of one'. WED WED Back in Lahore, rising young author Mohsin Hamid gets to WED grip with the writer's solitary life, and, inspired by WED writers he loves, develops both his craft as a writer - and WED his fitness. WED WED Read by Sanjeev Bhaskar WED WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Author: Mohsin Hamid WED Abridger: Eileen Horne WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Reader: Sanjeev Bhaskar WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04svjxn (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b04svjxq (Listen) WED Carol, Episode 3 WED WED A tender and unsettling love story about two women - one of WED them married, and the other nineteen - who risk everything WED to be together. WED WED Written by Patricia Highsmith, who is best-known as one of WED the twentieth WED century's most accomplished thriller-writers - a role she WED assumed overnight when Alfred Hitchcock turned her sublimely WED disturbing first novel, Strangers On A Train, into a hit WED movie in 1951. WED WED Written a year later, Carol broke all the rules for the WED portrayal of lesbians in American fiction. Despite warnings WED from her publisher and her agent that a lesbian novel would WED ruin her new-found reputation, the book became a major WED best-seller, with over a million sales when it was released WED in paperback - and Highsmith went on to write thirty more WED books before her death in 1995. WED WED Carol is a genuinely groundbreaking classic - and a truly WED modern love story. WED WED Episode 3: WED Carol is battling her husband for custody of their daughter, WED Nerinda. Three weeks after their first meeting, Therese has WED agreed to escape New York and accompany Carol on a car trip. WED Her boyfriend isn't happy. WED WED Written by Patricia Highsmith WED Adapted and directed by Neil Bartlett WED WED Produced by David Blount WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Carol: Miranda Richardson WED Therese: Andrea Deck WED Richard: Gunnar Cauthery WED Actor: David Jarvis WED Author: Patricia Highsmith WED Adaptor: Neil Bartlett WED Director: Neil Bartlett WED Producer: David Blount WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04svjxs (Listen) WED Gee and David - A Literary Marriage WED WED Fi Glover introduces a successful writer and her physicist WED husband as they embark on writing a novel together, proving WED once again it's surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio WED 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain WED in which people across the UK volunteer to have a WED conversation with someone close to them about a subject WED they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations WED are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from WED local and national radio stations who facilitate each WED encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, WED and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, WED and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection WED between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations WED are being archived by the British Library and used to build WED up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the WED UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn WED more about The Listening Project by visiting WED bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Disabled and Broody: My Impossible Choice b043x48s (Listen) WED Award-winning presenter Julie Fernandez draws on personal WED experience to explore an agonising decision: whether to have WED children, if it means passing on disabilities? WED WED Julie's children would have a 50/50 chance of WED inheriting her brittle bone disease and she and her husband WED decided not to take the risk. It was a painful choice - at WED odds with Julie's strongly-felt beliefs about disability WED equality. WED WED In this programme she talks with disarming honesty to others WED faced with a similar choice, including actor Warwick Davis WED and wife Sam who have two children - both have inherited WED Warwick's condition, a rare form of dwarfism. She also WED follows a couple embarking on a complex form of reproductive WED medicine. Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis is a type of WED IVF treatment which involves screening embryos for genetic WED defects at only 8 cells. It offers many disabled parents WED their only chance of having the healthy baby they long for. WED But making the choice not to pass on disability raises WED complex issues. As Julie herself says, "If my parents had WED made that choice, I would not be here." WED WED Whilst some fear the recent developments in genetic WED screening are a form of eugenics, contributors also talk WED about the painfully raw feelings passing on a disability can WED evoke. WED WED Julie Fernandez asks the big questions about a WED philosophically challenging issue which divides disabled WED people in this country; and reveals our attitudes to WED disability generally. WED WED Presenter: Julie Fernandez WED WED Contributors: Roberto Ruiz, Sophie Ruiz, Mike, Aurelia, WED Micheline Mason, Lucy Mason, Warwick Davis, Sam Davis. WED WED Producers: Elizabeth Burke Hilary Dunn WED A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Hobby Bobbies b04svjxv (Listen) WED Series 2, Vice WED WED The characterful 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), WED Nick Walker, Chris Emmett and Noddy Holder. WED WED This week, the tiny Haling police force is thrown into WED confusion when The Guv orders a crackdown on vice in their WED patch. Can social media help unveil the mysterious Big WED Brenda? WED WED Cast: 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 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 Writer: Dave Lamb WED Producer: Steve Doherty WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04stf0t (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04svjym (Listen) WED 3 December 1914 - Dorothea Winwood WED WED All is not well in the Winwood household, but Ralph cannot WED fathom why not. WED WED Written by Sarah Daniels WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Dorothea: Rachel Shelley WED Ralph: Nicholas Murchie WED Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw WED Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown WED Hilary: Craige Els WED Isabel: Keely Beresford WED Ivor: Alun Raglan WED Writer: Sarah Daniels WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04svk10 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04stf0x (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04svk12 (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Terror Through Time b04svk14 (Listen) WED Mujahideen On Tour WED WED Foreign Islamic fighters flocked to Bosnia during the Balkan WED wars of the 1990s. Fergal Keane visits Sarajevo to ask if WED they helped kick-start a new wave of terrorism. He's joined WED by the former United Nations High Representative for Bosnia, WED Paddy Ashdown. WED WED Producer: Alasdair Cross. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04svfw9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04svk27 (Listen) WED Behind Closed Doors, Catastrophic Injury WED WED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: Catastrophic Injury WED By CLARA GLYNN WED WED The last in a series of three dramas following London WED barrister Rebecca Nyman. Jane Gibson is fighting for WED compensation from an NHS Hospital, claiming that WED because of negligence by the midwife during childbirth her WED baby was born with Cerebral Palsy. Set in court, Rebecca WED Nyman is representing the hospital in what is an emotionally WED charged hearing for both sides. The compensation award is WED crucial for the mother to offset the additional costs she WED will have to ensure the best care for her son. WED WED Producer/director: David Ian Neville. WED WED Credits WED Rebecca Nyman: Clare Corbett WED Jane Gibson: Alison Pettitt WED Wendy Haslow: Adjoa Andoh WED Marcus Bridge: Forbes Masson WED Prof Channon: Forbes Masson WED Charlie Denton: Neil Stuke WED Dr Mary Wentworth: Elaine Claxton WED Judge Henry Cross: Michael Bertenshaw WED Prof John Leet: Philip Whitchurch WED Writer: Clara Glynn WED Director: David Neville WED Producer: David Neville WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b04svk29 (Listen) WED Saving and Investing WED WED Saving and investing dilemma? For the best rates on cash WED accounts or to ask about investing, call 03700 100 444 from WED 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED Will Chancellor George Osborne WED have any good news for savers when he delivers his final WED Autumn Statement of this parliament on Wednesday? WED WED In his March budget the Chancellor announced that cash and WED shares Isas would become a new single ISA, with an annual WED tax-free savings limit of £15,000. If you haven't used your WED annual ISA allowance you may want to ask about the best WED interest rates? WED WED If you would rather have instant access to your money or a WED monthly income from your savings, what are the best options WED for you? WED WED Can you receive interest without tax already taken off? WED WED If you can afford to take a risk and are don't need access WED to your money in the short term how do you find out about WED investing? WED WED What are the pros and cons of investing through a platform WED or paying a financial advisor? WED WED Whatever you want to know, Lesley Curwen and guests will be WED waiting for your call. Joining Lesley will be: WED WED Brian Dennehy, Chartered Financial Planner, FundExpert.co.uk WED Claire Walsh, Chartered Financial Planner, Aspect 8 WED Sylvia Waycot, Editor, Moneyfacts 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 b04svjbn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b04svk2y (Listen) WED Port Cities; Middle Class Alcohol Use WED WED Port cities in the global age; from Marseilles to Liverpool WED and New Orleans. Laurie Taylor talks to Alice Mah, a WED sociologist at the University of Warwick, about her study of WED transformation along city WED waterfronts. What happens when world harbours are relegated WED to minor seaports? Can they ever return to their former WED greatness? Also, middle class alcohol use often exceeds safe WED levels but little research explains why. Lyn Brierley-Jones, WED a Research Fellow at the University of Sunderland, explores WED the meaning of drinking amongst professional workers. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Alice Mah WED WED Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, WED University of Warwick WED WED Find out more about WED Alice Mah WED Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront WED Work, and Radicalism WED Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan WED ISBN-10: 1137283130 WED ISBN-13: 978-1137283139 WED WED Lyn Brierley-Jones WED WED Research Fellow in the Department of Pharmacy, Health and WED Well-being, University of Sunderland WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Lyn Brierley-Jones WED WED Abstract: WED Habitus of ‘home’ and ‘traditional’ drinking: a qualitative WED analysis of reported middle class alcohol use WED Brierley-Jones, L., Ling, J., McCabe, K. E., Wilson, G. B., WED Crosland, A., Kaner, E. F. and Haighton, C. A. (2014) WED Sociology of Health & Illness, 36: 1054–1076 WED doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12145 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 b04svk30 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04svk36 (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04stf11 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b04sxr8s (Listen) WED Food 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 his WED own high street in south London. Firstly, what historical WED evens gave his hometown its name? But more than that - how WED did it end up being culinarily dominated by Chinese and WED Indian restaurants? The story starts in 1600 and takes in WED trade, invasion, opium, a bloody civil war that left thirty WED million people dead, giant greenhouses and the cultivation WED of saffron. 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 b04sxr8v (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04sxr8x (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04svjxq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b04sxr8z (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04tc6pp (Listen) WED Series 4, Writing for a Living WED WED Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of the seminal memoir book Prozac WED Nation, revisits the process of writing the book. And on the WED twentieth anniversary of its publication, she explores the WED relationship between writing WED and the need to pay the bills. WED WED Speaking in front of an audience at McNally Jackson Books in WED New York City, Elizabeth argues that people have lost their WED minds trying to write great literature. Instead, she says, WED "If your whole thing is 'I can't starve', you'd be stunned WED with what you come up with. You'll be thinking of what you WED need, not what you want. You'll definitely come up with the WED next right thing." WED WED The host is Amanda Stern. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b04sxr93 (Listen) WED New Space to Fly WED WED As our skies become more crowded Jack Stewart examines the WED long awaited modernisation of air traffic control. With WED traffic predicted to reach 17 million by 2030 more flights WED will mean more delays. For many a WED new approach to controlling flights is long overdue since WED aircraft still follow old and often indirect routes around WED the globe, communication between the ground and air is still WED by VHF radio, and any flexibility is heavily constrained by WED a fragmented airspace operated by many national authorities. WED WED Jack Stewart examines how aviation technologists have come WED up with a radical solution: it enables pilots once airborne, WED to choose their own route. "Free Routing ", it's argued, WED will allow more direct flights, no planes to be caught up in WED holding patterns, reduced fuel emissions and flights WED departing and arriving on time. Crucially, free routing will WED enable a tripling of flights than currently we're capable of WED controlling. WED But will the ability of pilots to choose their own routes WED increase the risk of collision? Researchers argue it will in WED fact produce even safer skies. Jack Stewart visits NATS air WED traffic control centre that annually looks after the safety WED of over 2 million over British airspace to hear how such a WED system could evolve. WED WED Jack finds out how free routing could work from the WED engineers at Indra UK - who're trialling such a system in WED airspace controlled by the NATS Prestwick air traffic WED control centre. In a new approach they're turning "reactive" WED air traffic control into a more strategic approach with WED computer designed flight trajectories utilizing much of the WED currently underused satellite navigation that is fitted on WED modern aircraft. It will enable aircraft to be safely spaced WED closer together and at the same time predict potential WED "conflicts" of spacing much further ahead of the routes WED being taken, leaving less room for human error. WED WED And as automation begins to play a greater role in all WED aspects of flight planning and control is the era of WED pilotless planes moving a step closer? WED WED Producer: Adrian Washbourne. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b04svjxl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04stf15 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04sxr95 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04sxr97 (Listen) WED In Love and War, Episode 8 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 8 (of 10) WED With Florence now under occupation by the Germans, the WED Resistance steps up its operations to get the Jewish WED population to safety. 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 The Lach Chronicles b04sxr99 (Listen) WED Series 2, Sally's Gone Blue WED WED Lach was the King of Manhattan's East Village and host of WED the longest running open mic night in New York. He now lives WED in Scotland and finds himself back at square one, playing in WED a dive bar on the wrong side WED of Edinburgh. WED WED His famous night, held in various venues around New York, WED was called the Antihoot. Never quite fitting in and lost WED somewhere lonely between folk and punk music, Lach started WED the Antifolk movement. He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff WED Buckley and many others. He discovered and nurtured lots of WED talent including Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches WED - but nobody discovered him. WED WED In this episode, entranced by the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, WED Lach harvests his extraworldy experiences and starts a new WED adventure into an unexplored world - comedy. WED WED Produced by Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio. WED WED 23:15 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01dht2y (Listen) WED Series 1, Egypt WED WED This week Tim Key is on a cultural pilgrimage to Cairo, as WED he grapples with the meaning of 'Egypt'. Tom Basden plays WED guitar, while wearing a fez. 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 b04sxr9c (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 04 DECEMBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04stf31 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04t6xcz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04stf33 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04stf35 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04stf37 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04stf39 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04vwrhn (Listen) THU Spiritual reflection to start the day with The Revd Alison THU Jack. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04sxv23 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04sxv25 (Listen) THU Red-Necked Nightjar 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 nocturnal red-necked nightjar of THU the Spanish countryside. Like others in the family, THU red-necked nightjars are nocturnal birds which feed on large THU insects, snapping them up with huge bristle-lined mouths. A THU summer migrant, the red-necked nightjar breeds mainly in THU Spain, Portugal and North Africa. It is closely related to THU the common European nightjar, but it sounds very different. THU By day they hide on the ground among scrub where their THU cryptic patterns provide excellent camouflage. They're the THU colour of mottled bark and as you'd expect from their name, THU have a rusty-red collar. As the sun sets, they emerge from THU their hiding places to glide and turn on slender wings THU through scrub and pinewoods, occasionally warning rivals by THU clapping their wings together over their backs with a sound THU like a pistol-shot. Between bouts of moth-chasing, they THU settle on a pine branch and pour forth their repetitive, but THU atmospheric song. THU THU Red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Roland Seitre / naturepl.com. THU NPL Ref 01469770 THU © Roland Seitre / naturepl.com THU THU 06:00 Today b04sxv27 (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 b04sxv29 (Listen) THU Zen THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Zen. It's often thought of THU as a form of Buddhism that emphasises the practice of THU meditation over any particular set of beliefs. In fact Zen THU belongs to a particular intellectual THU tradition within Buddhism that took root in China in the 6th THU century AD. It spread to Japan in the early Middle Ages, THU where Zen practitioners set up religious institutions like THU temples, monasteries and universities that remain important THU today. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Luke Mulhall THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04t6xtm (Listen) THU Discontent and Its Civilizations, Episode 4 THU THU These timely 'dispatches from Lahore, New York and London' THU encompassing memoir, art and politics, collect the best THU essays of the award-winning author of The Reluctant THU Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid. THU THU Hamid makes a THU compelling case for recognising our common humanity while THU relishing our diversity, for resisting the artificial THU mono-identities of religion or nationality or race, and for THU always judging a country or nation by how it treats its THU minorities as 'Each individual human being is, after all, a THU minority of one'. THU THU Hamid recounts his experience of Islamophobia both pre and THU post 9-11, and considers the fearsome consequences of THU terrorism and the death of Bin Laden on his country. THU THU Read by Sanjeev Bhaskar THU THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Author: Mohsin Hamid THU Abridger: Eileen Horne THU Producer: Clive Brill THU Reader: Sanjeev Bhaskar THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04sxv2c (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04sxv2f (Listen) THU Carol, Episode 4 THU THU A tender and unsettling love story about two women - one of THU them married, and the other nineteen - who risk everything THU to be together. THU THU Written by Patricia Highsmith, who is best-known as one of THU the twentieth THU century's most accomplished thriller-writers - a role she THU assumed overnight when Alfred Hitchcock turned her sublimely THU disturbing first novel, Strangers On A Train, into a hit THU movie in 1951. THU THU Written a year later, Carol broke all the rules for the THU portrayal of lesbians in American fiction. Despite warnings THU from her publisher and her agent that a lesbian novel would THU ruin her new-found reputation, the book became a major THU best-seller, with over a million sales when it was released THU in paperback - and Highsmith went on to write thirty more THU books before her death in 1995. THU THU Carol is a genuinely groundbreaking classic - and a truly THU modern love story. THU THU Episode 4: THU Driving West across America from New York, Carol and Therese THU have become lovers in a motel room in the town of Waterloo. THU By the time they reach Utah, Carol's battle with her husband THU for custody of their daughter seems very far away. However, THU everything they've left behind is just about to catch up THU with them. THU THU Written by Patricia Highsmith THU Adapted and directed by Neil Bartlett THU THU Produced by David Blount THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Carol: Miranda Richardson THU Therese: Andrea Deck THU Lobby Clerk: Colin Stinton THU Landlady: Liza Ross THU Actor: Barbara Barnes THU Actor: David Jarvis THU Author: Patricia Highsmith THU Adaptor: Neil Bartlett THU Director: Neil Bartlett THU Producer: David Blount THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04sxv2h (Listen) THU Yemen's Swap Marriages THU THU 'I'll marry your sister if you marry mine. And if you THU divorce my sister, I'll divorce yours.' That is Yemen's THU 'Shegar', or swap marriage, an agreement between two men to THU marry each other's sisters, thereby THU removing the need for expensive dowry payments. But the THU agreement also states that if one marriage fails, the other THU couple must separate as well, even if they are happy. THU THU BBC Arabic's Mai Noman returns to her native Yemen and hears THU the stories of two women who have loved and lost because of THU Shegar. THU THU Nadia lives in the village of Sawan on the outskirts of the THU capital Sana'a with her family. She was married off at the THU age of twenty two and has three children. But because of her THU family's decision to marry her in the Shegar tradition she THU was forced to divorce and now she and her mother have to THU live with the stigma that goes with it. THU THU Nora and her brother Waleed had little say in marrying their THU cousins through Shegar. But when one marriage failed hard THU choices had to be made by everyone. Mai asks why an old THU tradition that forces you to love only to force you to part, THU is still practised in Yemen. THU THU 11:30 Theatre of the Abused b04styb4 (Listen) THU A radical wave of feminist theatre has taken the subject of THU sexual violence to a new level - depicting attacks against THU women in explicit, visceral and disturbing detail. In this THU programme playwright April de THU Angelis examines if it has gone too far. THU THU Is there really a need to show so much violence on stage? THU From feminist comedy to verbatim theatre so powerful it THU leaves you reeling, women are getting their stories seen THU like never before. April asks if acting out sexual violence THU in all its gory detail, moves women forward in the debate or THU does it run the risk of becoming simply voyeuristic? She THU speaks with four women theatremakers whose plays all take a THU very different approach to the subject. THU THU Yael Farber's "Nirbhaya" gave voice to previously silent THU victims in a devastating look at the breadth of violence THU perpetrated against women in India, reflected through the THU lens of the tragic death of Jyoti Singh Pandey. "A Girl is A THU Half Formed Thing" powerfully examined the lifetime of abuse THU a young girl was subjected to in a gut-wrenching and THU shattering monologue. "Freak" led us through the sexual THU journeys of aunt and niece, in a world where the line THU between sex, violence and ownership of one's own sexuality THU is dangerously fragile. The National Theatre takes on THU feminism with their play "Blurred Lines" which angrily THU questioned the objectification and victimisation of women, THU as depicted in pop videos. THU THU April also speaks with Dr Lucy Nevitt, author of 'Theatre THU and Violence', cultural sociologist Dr Tiffany Jenkins who THU believes the portrayal of sexual violence onstage is too THU often demeaning and to Lyn Gardner, the theatre critic who THU has written extensively on the subject. THU THU Producer: Susannah Tresilian. THU THU Support Organisations THU THU For details of organisations which offer advice and THU support, go online to bbc.co.uk/actionline or call the Radio THU 4 Action Line to hear recorded information on 0800 044 044. THU Lines are open 24 hours and are free from most landlines. THU Some networks and mobile operators will charge for these THU calls. THU The National Rape Crisis Helpline THU is accessible 365 days a year to women calling from anywhere THU in England and Wales who have survived any form of sexual THU violence, no matter how long ago, offering specialised, THU confidential support, information and referral details THU completely free of charge. The helpline is also available to THU provide an immediate source of support to friends and family THU of survivors, as well as other professionals, to understand THU how best to support female survivors of sexual violence. THU THU Helpline: 0808 802 9999 THU THU For Counselling, Advocacy Support and information: 0208 683 THU 3311 (weekdays 10am-6pm) THU www.rasasc.org.uk THU The Survivors Trust THU has over 130 member agencies based in the UK and Ireland THU which provide specialist support for women, men and children THU who are survivors of rape, sexual violence or childhood THU sexual abuse. THU THU Email: THU info@thesurvivorstrust.org THU www.thesurvivorstrust.org THU Rape Crisis Scotland THU provides a national rape crisis helpline for anyone affected THU by sexual violence, no matter when or how it happened. The THU helpline offers free and confidential crisis support and THU information. They can also put you in touch with local rape THU crisis centres or other services for ongoing support. THU THU Phone: 0808 801 03 02 THU THU Email: THU support@rapecrisisscotland.org.uk THU www.rapecrisisscotland.org.uk THU THU THU NEXUS NI THU works across Northern Ireland to respond to the needs of THU survivors of sexual violence. They offer counselling to THU victims of rape, sexual violence and sexual abuse. Contact THU your local Nexus office by phone or email to arrange THU counselling or to ask for more information. THU THU Nexus NI: 028 9032 6803 THU THU Email: THU info@nexusni.org THU www.nexusni.org THU THU Victim Support THU THU If you’ve been a victim or witness of any crime you can get THU emotional and practical help from Victim Support, whether or THU not it has been reported to the police. THU THU Phone: 0845 30 30 900 THU www.victimsupport.org.uk THU THU Victim Support Scotland THU offers emotional and practical support to all victims and THU witnesses of crime across Scotland. THU THU Supportline: 0845 603 9213. THU www.victimsupportsco.org.uk THU THU Victim Support NI THU offers emotional and practical support to all victims and THU witnesses of crime across Northern Ireland. THU THU Phone: 02890 244 039 or Victim Support Line: 0845 30 30 900 THU www.victimsupportni.org.uk THU THU The National Association for People Abused in Childhood THU is a charity that offers support, advice and guidance to THU adult survivors of any form of childhood abuse. THU THU Phone: 0808 801 0331 THU www.napac.org.uk THU THU Samaritans THU is available for anyone struggling to cope round the clock, THU every single day of the year. They provide a safe place to THU talk where calls are completely confidential. Get in touch THU by phone or email or find the details for the local branch THU online THU THU Phone: 08457 90 90 90 THU THU Email: THU jo@samaritans.org THU www.samaritans.org THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04stf3c (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b04sxxsz (Listen) THU 4 December 1914 - Jessie Moore THU THU In a town where recruitment is in the air, Jessie is THU determined to do her bit for the war effort, but can't seem THU to find anything to do. THU THU Written by Sarah Daniels THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson THU Adam: Leo Montague THU Ernie: Sean Connolly THU Hilda: Bella Hamblin THU Isabel: Keely Beresford THU Ivy: Lizzy Watts THU Mickey: Ben Pettengell THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04sxxt1 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04stf3f (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04sxzqg (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Terror Through Time b04sxzqj (Listen) THU Laying Down the Law THU THU After 9/11 the United Nations demanded that all member THU states tighten their laws to fight terrorism. Fergal Keane THU asks if freedom was threatened in the rush to legislate. THU THU He's joined by former Mossad chief, THU Efraim Halevy, Brian Jenkins of the Rand Corporation, Conor THU Gearty from the London School of Economics.and the UK THU Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David THU Anderson QC. THU THU Producer: Alasdair Cross. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04sxr8v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04sxzql (Listen) THU Tongues of Fire THU THU Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1913. W.B. Yeats plans to stage a THU play by the mystical Bengali poet and Nobel laureate THU Rabindranath Tagore. But he doesn't reckon on the disruptive THU antics of the young, ambitious THU playwright-to-be Sean O'Casey. David Pownall imagines the THU fireworks between the two legendary Irishmen. THU THU Prize-winning author David Pownall was fascinated to read THU about Nobel laureate Tagore's visit to Dublin. Both Tagore THU and Yeats shared a passion for mysticism, which they THU incorporated into their work - with mixed results, as in THU Tagore's short play 'The Post Office' which Yeats here plans THU to stage in the Abbey Theatre. Cast and crew alike are THU baffled at the slight, symbolic drama, much to Yeats' THU exasperation. THU THU Researching the subject, Pownall realised that at this THU period the unperformed young playwright Sean O'Casey would THU have been barking at Yeats' heels. He yearned to have a THU first play put on the Abbey stage. And also that if O'Casey THU and Tagore had met, they would have had much in common: both THU would be keenly aware that writing in English, rather than THU in their mother tongue, must change the tenor of their THU writing. THU THU Putting these elements together, Pownall has come up with a THU 'what if' comedy : what fireworks would have occurred if all THU three writer had indeed collided... THU THU This is the third recent BBC Radio Drama play featuring, or THU written by Sean O'Casey, on the 50th anniversary of his THU death. On 17th Nov Radio 3's DRAMA NOW broadcast a new THU production of Juno and the Paycock by the same director THU (Peter Kavanagh) with Sorcha Cusack, Stanley Townsend and THU John Kavanagh. And on the 23rd the same slot broadcast 'The THU Plough and the Stars'. THU THU Credits THU Yeats: Dermot Crowley THU Tagore: Sam Dastor THU O'Casey: Stephen Hogan THU Lady Gregory: Jane Slavin THU Mother: Elaine Claxton THU Lord Lieutenant: Sam Dale THU Priest: David Acton THU Director: Peter Kavanagh THU Writer: David Pownall THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04sxzqn (Listen) THU Belfast Hills THU THU Helen Mark makes a trip to the Belfast Hills and hears from THU the people who live and work in the landscape to discover THU how their lives have been shaped by the tough environment. THU THU Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04stgyr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b04stlcl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04sxzqq (Listen) THU Francine Stock presents a new series running throughout The THU Film Programme for the next two months- The Story Of The THU Sound Effect. To mark the BFI's season Days Of Fear And THU Wonder, the programme will hear from THU the people who created some of the most famous sound effects THU in the history of science fiction cinema. This week, Ben THU Burtt on the Ewoks. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Ben Burtt THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04sxzqs (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04sxzqv (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04stf3h (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 My Teenage Diary b04sxzqx (Listen) THU Series 6, Chris Difford THU THU Rufus Hound is joined by the musician and Squeeze founder THU member Chris Difford. His 1974 diary talks about the very THU early days of the band and describes life behind the scenes THU - including a wild ride down the THU A20 on the back of a motorbike. THU THU Produced by Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback production for BBC Radio. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Rufus Hound THU Interviewed Guest: Chris Difford THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04sxzqz (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04sxzr1 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04sxv2f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04sy0ht (Listen) THU Derby Jihadist THU THU Suspected suicide bomber Kabir Ahmed left Derby to fight for THU IS. He is the second Islamist extremist in a decade to THU travel from the small suburb of Normanton to die abroad. THU Simon Cox looks at the sinister THU networks connecting the two men and investigates whether THU their leaders are still active in Derby. THU THU Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane THU Researcher: James Melley. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04sy0hw (Listen) THU Sovereign Wealth Funds THU THU Government owned Sovereign wealth funds are treasure troves THU of money earned by oil resources and mighty export earnings, THU vast nest-eggs for the future when overseas earnings dry up. THU Obscure though they may be, THU SWFs have extraordinary flows of cash to invest and THU potentially enormous international clout. This programme THU investigates SWFs: who they are and what they're doing. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04sxzqs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b04sxv29 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b04stf3k (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04sy0hy (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04sy0j0 (Listen) THU In Love and War, Episode 9 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 9 (of 10) THU As the struggle for Florence becomes bloodier by the day, so THU does Esmond and Ada's work for the Resistance. 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 b0132p8h (Listen) THU Series 5, Royal Speech Therapist THU THU As the royal Speech Therapist, Milton Jones helps a Prince THU find his voice and a king find his pomegranates. He also THU starts three wars in one afternoon, and another three a THU little later on. THU THU He's joined in his THU endeavours by his co-stars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), THU Dave Lamb ("Come Dine With Me") and Lucy Montgomery ("Down THU The Line"). 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. The cast includes regulars Tom THU Goodman-Hill ( "Spamalot"), Lucy Montgomery ("Down The THU Line"), Dave Lamb ("Come Dine With Me") and Ben Willbond THU ("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 b04sy0j2 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 05 DECEMBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04stf56 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04t6xtm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04stf58 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04stf5b (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04stf5d (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04stf5g (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04vws6l (Listen) FRI Spiritual reflection to start the day with The Revd Alison FRI Jack. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04sy3qf (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally FRI Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04sy3qh (Listen) FRI Brown Thrasher 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 brown thrasher, usually seen in FRI North America. Brown thrashers are related to mockingbirds FRI which breed across most of eastern and central North FRI America. They're famous for their vast repertoire which can FRI include over 1000 song types. They spend much of their time FRI skulking in dense shrubs at woodland edges and in parks and FRI gardens. They're russet on top, white below and heavily FRI streaked like a large thrush but with much longer tails and FRI stout curved bills. Their name comes from the noisy FRI thrashing sound they make as they search the leaf litter for FRI food. Normally, brown thrashers are short distance migrants FRI within North America but in 1966, in November of that year, FRI in Dorset, birdwatchers almost dropped their binoculars in FRI disbelief when they heard the call of a brown thrasher FRI coming from a coastal thicket. It remained here until FRI February 1967 and is the only British record. FRI FRI Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Larry Michael / naturepl.com. FRI NPL Ref 01041284 FRI © Larry Michael / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04t6t5t (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 b04stgz0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04t6yln (Listen) FRI Discontent and Its Civilizations, Episode 5 FRI FRI These timely 'dispatches from Lahore, New York and London' FRI encompassing memoir, art and politics, collect the best FRI essays of the award-winning author of The Reluctant FRI Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid. FRI FRI Hamid makes a FRI compelling case for recognising our common humanity while FRI relishing our diversity, for resisting the artificial FRI mono-identities of religion or nationality or race, and for FRI always judging a country or nation by how it treats its FRI minorities as 'Each individual human being is, after all, a FRI minority of one'. FRI FRI In two essays, author and journalist Mohsin Hamid considers FRI his country's - and its Asian neighbours' - history and FRI progress, on the occasions of Pakistan's 60th and 65th FRI birthdays. FRI FRI Read by Sanjeev Bhaskar FRI FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Author: Mohsin Hamid FRI Abridger: Eileen Horne FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI Reader: Sanjeev Bhaskar FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04t6t5w (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04sy3qm (Listen) FRI Carol, Episode 5 FRI FRI A tender and unsettling love story about two women - one of FRI them married, and the other nineteen - who risk everything FRI to be together. FRI FRI Written by Patricia Highsmith, who is best-known as one of FRI the twentieth FRI century's most accomplished thriller-writers - a role she FRI assumed overnight when Alfred Hitchcock turned her sublimely FRI disturbing first novel, Strangers On A Train, into a hit FRI movie in 1951. FRI FRI Written a year later, Carol broke all the rules for the FRI portrayal of lesbians in American fiction. Despite warnings FRI from her publisher and her agent that a lesbian novel would FRI ruin her new-found reputation, the book became a major FRI best-seller, with over a million sales when it was released FRI in paperback - and Highsmith went on to write thirty more FRI books before her death in 1995. FRI FRI Carol is a genuinely groundbreaking classic - and a truly FRI modern love story. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI In an attempt to retain custody of her daughter, Carol has FRI abandoned her 19 year-old lover, Therese, after her husband FRI obtained evidence of their affair. Therese has returned to FRI New York to try and pick up her career as a theatre designer FRI - and to forget the woman who has torn her life apart. FRI FRI Written by Patricia Highsmith FRI Adapted and directed by Neil Bartlett FRI FRI Producer David Blount FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Carol: Miranda Richardson FRI Therese: Andrea Deck FRI Abby: Lorelei King FRI Genevieve Cranell: Felicity Dean FRI Mr Bernstein: Colin Stinton FRI Actor: David Jarvis FRI Actor: Barbara Barnes FRI Actor: Gunnar Cauthery FRI Author: Patricia Highsmith FRI Adaptor: Neil Bartlett FRI Director: Neil Bartlett FRI FRI 11:00 Hot Gossip! b04sy3qp (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI In the second of two programmes, Geoff Watts continues to FRI explore the science, history and cultural implications of FRI gossip. FRI FRI Gossip has a bad reputation and for the most part, FRI deservedly so. Yet, on-going FRI research appears to suggest that gossip does serve a useful FRI purpose. Not least because our brains may be hard wired for FRI it. Researchers in Boston have used a technique known as FRI binocular rivalry (showing different images to left and FRI right eye at the same time) to suggest that gossip acts as FRI an early warning system, that the brain automatically FRI redirects your attention onto people you've heard negative FRI remarks about. Even though this process happens at a FRI sub-conscious level, your brain is sifting through and FRI weeding out anyone in your surroundings that you may be have FRI good reason to distrust. Elsewhere, researchers in FRI Manchester have been analysing what makes gossip memorable FRI and are now scanning subjects brains to see if there are FRI specific gossip networks which light up. From preliminary FRI results it appears gossip activates areas in the brain FRI similar to those that produce feelings of pleasure and FRI reward. Next they plan to scan their subjects' brains as FRI they tweet. FRI FRI Perhaps unsurprisingly, in many of these experiments, it is FRI celebrity gossip that tends to produce the largest response. FRI Thanks to what one commentator calls the perfect storm of FRI 24-hour news, reality TV and social media, the all-pervasive FRI celebrity gossip industry exploits our endless appetite for FRI information about people we will never meet. But could even FRI celebrity gossip serve a purpose? Or are we gorging FRI ourselves on trivia whilst ignoring the plight of those FRI closest to us? And can and should anything be done to stem FRI the negative impacts of gossip in a digital age? FRI FRI 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b01pz5jd (Listen) FRI Series 5, The Hat FRI FRI By Colin MacDonald. FRI FRI Sheriff Finlay travels from Scotland to York for the funeral FRI and cremation of his older brother William, with whom he FRI didn't get on. When he gets there he is greeted with barely FRI disguised FRI hostility by William's widow. FRI FRI She tells him arrangements for the funeral are all made: it FRI is going to be a Humanist service and the family heirloom FRI fireman's hat, which was worn with pride by the brothers' FRI grandfather, is in the coffin and is going to be incinerated FRI along with William. FRI FRI Alistair decides to get the hat before the coffin makes its FRI final journey into the flames. This will take him into FRI dangerous territory, breaking into a funeral parlour at FRI night and braving the criminal underworld to retrieve FRI Grandad's hat and make a final peace with his brother. FRI FRI Coronation Street veteran Thelma Barlow stars as his FRI sister-in-law Louise and Stanley Baxter is Sheriff Alistair FRI Finlay in this black comedy with a warm heart about death, FRI brotherly love and saying goodbye. FRI FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sheriff Alistair Finlay: Stanley Baxter FRI Louise: Thelma Barlow FRI Joe: David Holt FRI Darren: David Holt FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Writer: Colin MacDonald FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04stf5j (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04sy3qr (Listen) FRI 5 December 1914 - Joe Macknade FRI FRI Joe Macknade dearly wants to enlist, but is it for glory, or FRI to escape home? FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Joe: Lloyd Thomas FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Humphrey: Matthew Tennyson FRI Mervyn: Tom Whitelock FRI Mickey: Ben Pettengell FRI Solly: Stephen Critchlow FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04t6t5y (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04stf5l (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04vwtby (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Terror Through Time b04sy3qt (Listen) FRI The New Face of Terror FRI FRI Has the nature of terrorism and the way we respond to it FRI changed since 1800? To complete his journey through the FRI history of terrorism Fergal Keane is joined by Professor FRI Margaret Macmillan from Oxford FRI University and the academic advisor to the series, Professor FRI Richard English of St Andrews University. FRI FRI Together they consider the evolution in the response of FRI politicians and public to the bomb and the bullet and the FRI lessons those 200 years of history should have taught us. FRI FRI Producer: Alasdair Cros. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04sxzqz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01k9wfn (Listen) FRI The Beautiful Ugly FRI FRI The Beautiful Ugly FRI by Lavinia Murray FRI FRI This is an imagined day in the life of Hans Christian FRI Andersen as a child. Combining fact with fantasy we explore FRI the remarkable roots of Andresen's magical creativity and FRI enter an icy, snowy, surreal landscape. FRI Christian finds himself on a quest to save his father's life FRI from the chilling grip of the Ice Maiden. FRI FRI Christian ..... Ellis Hollins FRI Merman ..... Jonathan Keeble FRI Mother ...... Fiona Clarke FRI Ice Maiden ..... Kathryn Hunt FRI Father ...... Seamus O'Neil FRI Producer/Director - Pauline Harris FRI FRI Further info:- H.C.A. is an awkward, wonderful, off-kilter FRI child, preparing to reach out into the world - unable to FRI reconcile the poverty and dullness into which he was born. FRI And this is the day he becomes aware of his tremendous and FRI exquisite gift for storytelling. FRI FRI Hans Christian's father has just returned, tired and FRI debilitated, from a two year stint in the Napoleonic Army. FRI He points to the ice patterns on the window. 'See, the Ice FRI Maiden is coming for me!' he laughs. Hans Christian can FRI indeed see the faint silhouette of a woman draped in ice FRI flowers with an icicle crown with her hand held out towards FRI them. Hans Christian's mother, becomes fearful. When her FRI husband has dozed off she tells Hans Christian that the Ice FRI Maiden will surely visit, freeze his father's heart and FRI eyes, and take his soul. She sends Christian on a trip for a FRI talisman from the wise woman. Christian is on a quest - to FRI save his father's soul - from the chilling grip of the Ice FRI Maiden. FRI The writer - Lavinia Murray - very experienced radio writer, FRI wrote The Tyger Hunt - a drama about an imagined day in the FRI life of William Blake as a child. Other work for Radio 4 FRI includes The Opium Eater, Man of All Work. FRI FRI Credits FRI Christian: Ellis Hollins FRI Merman: Jonathan Keeble FRI Mother: Fiona Clarke FRI Ice Maiden: Kathryn Hunt FRI Father: Seamus O'Neil FRI Writer: Lavinia Murray FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04sy3qw (Listen) FRI Bournemouth FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Bournemouth. Chris Beardshaw, Matt Biggs and Christine FRI Walkden answer questions from an audience of local FRI gardeners. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Short Rides in Fast Machines b04sy3qy (Listen) FRI About Time 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 3: FRI "About Time" by Tania Hershman FRI A writer's research for a story about time machines takes FRI him in some unusual directions. FRI FRI Tania Hershman is the author of two story collections - 'My FRI Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions' and 'The White Road FRI and Other Stories'. Her award-winning short stories and FRI poetry have been widely published in print and online and FRI broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Tania is founder and curator FRI of ShortStops, celebrating short story activity across the FRI UK and Ireland. She is a Royal Literary Fund fellow at the FRI faculties of science at Bristol University and is studying FRI for a PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, FRI exploring the intersection between fiction and particle FRI physics. She is co-writer and editor of Writing Short FRI Stories: A Writers' and Artists' Companion which will be FRI published in December 2014. FRI FRI Produced by Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Stephen Hogan FRI Writer: Tania Hershman FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04t6t60 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b04t6t62 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04sy3r0 (Listen) FRI Richard and Chris - On the Street FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces friends who met via The Connection at FRI St Martin in the Fields and have both been helped to find a FRI means of breaking the cycle of homelessness. The Radio 4 FRI Christmas Appeal helps fund the FRI work of The Connection. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04t6t64 (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04stf5n (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b04sy3r2 (Listen) FRI Series 85, Episode 7 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, who is joined by Fred MacAulay, Holly Walsh and Bob FRI Mills, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Fred MacAulay FRI Panellist: Holly Walsh FRI Panellist: Bob Mills FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04sy3r4 (Listen) FRI The Ambridge Christmas lights go on, and Emma has a FRI question. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Mary Cutler FRI Director: Julie Beckett 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 Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04sy3r6 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04sy3qm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04sy4ts (Listen) FRI Rachel Reeves MP, Mark Serwotka, Eric Pickles MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Felsted School in Essex with Secretary of State for FRI Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles MP, Rachel FRI Reeves MP the Shadow Secretary of FRI State for Work and Pension and Mark Serwotka the General FRI Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04sy4tv (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04sy4tx (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 1-5 December 1914 FRI FRI Epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years FRI ago this week. The opening week of season two, and everyone FRI is looking to do their bit for the war effort. FRI FRI Written by: Sarah Daniels FRI Story-led by: FRI Katie Hims FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Pallbearer: Clive Haywood FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Lilian: Lisa Brookes FRI Tom: Clive Hayward FRI Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Ernie: Sean Connolly FRI Hilda: Bella Hamblin FRI Ivy: Lizzy Watts FRI Mickey: Ben Pettengell FRI Joe: Lloyd Thomas FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Humphrey: Matthew Tennyson FRI Mervyn: Tom Whitelock FRI Solly: Stephen Critchlow FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04stf5q (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04t6t96 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04sy4tz (Listen) FRI In Love and War, Episode 10 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 10 (of 10) FRI With the Allies getting ever closer to Florence, Esmond and FRI Bruno attempt a daring rescue mission at Blackshirt FRI headquarters. 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 b04svfs7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b04sy4v1 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04sy4v3 (Listen) FRI Nancie and Neil - Tears Not Allowed FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a 90 year old and her son, who were FRI both sent to boarding school and who now reflect on the pain FRI of being separated from your parents at the age of six. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 FRI initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national 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
28 November, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 29/11/2014 - 05/12/2014
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