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SAT SATURDAY 06 DECEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04stf7t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04t6yln (Listen) SAT Discontent and Its Civilizations, Episode 5 SAT SAT These timely 'dispatches from Lahore, New York and London' SAT encompassing memoir, art and politics, collect the best SAT essays of the award-winning author of The Reluctant SAT Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid. SAT SAT Hamid makes a compelling case for recognising our common SAT humanity while relishing our diversity, for resisting the SAT artificial mono-identities of religion or nationality or SAT race, and for always judging a country or nation by how it SAT treats its minorities as 'Each individual human being is, SAT after all, a minority of one'. SAT SAT In two essays, author and journalist Mohsin Hamid considers SAT his country's - and its Asian neighbours' - history and SAT progress, on the occasions of Pakistan's 60th and 65th SAT birthdays. SAT SAT Read by Sanjeev Bhaskar SAT SAT Abridged by Eileen Horne SAT SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Author: Mohsin Hamid SAT Abridger: Eileen Horne SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Reader: Sanjeev Bhaskar SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04stf7w (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04stf7y (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04stf80 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04stf82 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04sy7kg (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Dr Calvin Samuel. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04t9j5x (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04stf84 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04stf86 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04sxzqn (Listen) SAT Belfast Hills SAT SAT Helen Mark makes a trip to the Belfast Hills and hears from SAT the people who live and work in the landscape to discover SAT how their lives have been shaped by the tough environment. SAT SAT The Belfast Hills form an arc around the edge of the city, SAT visible from virtually anywhere in Northern Ireland's SAT capital. SAT SAT Largely ignored by many of those living just a few miles in SAT the city, the hills have always been a bustling centre of SAT life. In fact without the linen industry that thrived in the SAT Belfast Hills, the city would not have prospered. SAT SAT Farming was common, mainly dairy and beef cattle, along with SAT pigs and sheep, and the flax that grew in the hills fed the SAT linen industry. Mills sprung up along with vast 'bleaching SAT greens' to weave and finish the linen before it was taken SAT down to the city to be sold. SAT SAT Helen Mark meets with several local voices that have SAT contributed to the Belfast Hills Spoken History Project: Roy SAT Thompson has farmed in the area all his life; Joan Cosgrove SAT and Rosalind Shaw provide memories of their childhood SAT growing up and running riot in the Belfast Hills. SAT SAT And how has the area changed? Helen finds out how the SAT Belfast Hills are now a destination for those hoping to SAT enjoy walking and the views across the whole of the city. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04t9j5z (Listen) SAT Christmas Dinner Farming SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04stf88 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04t9j61 (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 b04t9j63 (Listen) SAT Matthew Bourne and Sam Bailey SAT SAT Morning magazine show. SAT SAT 10:30 The Frequency of Laughter: A History of Radio Comedy SAT b04t9j65 (Listen) SAT 2000-2005 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 radio comedy at the SAT same time, and asks them about their experiences. This is a SAT conversational history that focuses on the people who were SAT there and the atmosphere within the BBC and the wider comedy SAT world that allowed them to make great radio - or not. SAT SAT This final edition features Justin Edwards and Jan Ravens SAT looking at radio comedy in the early 2000s. Justin is now SAT known for his work on In And Out Of The Kitchen and Radio 4 SAT Extra's Newsjack, but got his first series in 2003 as part SAT of the sketch team The Consultants. Jan's association with SAT radio comedy dates back to the early 1980s when she became SAT the first-ever female radio comedy producer, but became SAT beloved of the Radio 4 audience for her work on Dead SAT Ringers, which started in 2000. Grace asks them about the SAT atmosphere within the Radio Comedy department and within the SAT BBC; they discuss the difference between topical comedy and SAT satire, and whether the Radio 4 audience necessarily wants SAT either; and they discuss the contribution a good sound SAT engineer can make to a programme. 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 ... Justin Edwards SAT Guest ... Jan Ravens SAT Interviewee ... Jerry Peal SAT SAT Producers ... Ed Morrish & Alexandra Smith. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b04t9jdj (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT This week's autumn statement has drawn the battle lines on SAT the economy for the approaching general election. Will it be SAT the economy that determines the outcome as in past SAT elections? and how do George Osborne and Ed Balls link their SAT economic judgment to their politics? SAT What tactics will Liberal Democrats and Conservatives employ SAT as they campaign in marginal seats? and as Gordon Brown SAT retires from politics, two former colleagues remember him. SAT SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04stf8b (Listen) SAT Spies are Everywhere SAT SAT Reporters tell their stories: in this edition, Carrie Gracie SAT travels to China's most troubled region Xinjiang - it's in SAT the midst of a crackdown on what the authorities describe as SAT 'terrorism driven by religious extremism'. Fergal Keane, SAT just back from Ukraine, examines the circumstances which led SAT to one of Europe's bloodiest conflicts in decades. Mike SAT Wendling's in the United States where a campaign to persuade SAT the Washington Redskins football team to change its name is SAT gathering pace. Will Ross is in north eastern Nigeria where SAT bows and arrows, magic and ancient hunting rifles are now SAT being used in the battle against the Boko Haram jihadists. SAT And David Mazower's at a festival in Poland where it's clear SAT a growing number of Poles feel profound loss about the SAT Jewish nation in their midst which was ripped apart in the SAT Second World War. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04stf8d (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04tc9n9 (Listen) SAT HSBC credit card glitch; Stamp duty changes; Air Passenger SAT Duty for kids; State pension rises SAT SAT HSBC glitch SAT We are charging you £12 for not paying what you owed us on SAT time even though we did not send you a statement to tell us SAT what you owed. That seems to be what has happened to xxxx SAT HSBC customers. I say xxxx because when we asked the bank SAT for the number affected it wouldn't go beyond 'some'. Which SAT isn't a number. Hmmm. SAT SAT Tory Chancellor taxes the rich! SAT The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the average cut in SAT Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) will be £1500 on 700,000 sales a SAT year and cost £1.1bn. The average increase in SDLT for homes SAT around £1 million and more will be £27,000 on 18,000 sales SAT which brings in an extra £0.5bn. So the net cost - borne by SAT all taxpayers including those who do not own their own home SAT - is £600m. But that will probably rise to £800m after SAT behavioural changes. Who are the winners and losers? And how SAT will it affect the market? SAT SAT Pensioners' benefits SAT How much will state pensions rise in April? And why? SAT SAT Fall of Duty SAT Children under 12 fly free! Well not quite. But from 1 May SAT they will fly free of Air Passenger Duty in economy which SAT will by then be £13 for short flights and £71 for long haul. SAT If you've already booked that summer 2015 trip with the kids SAT can you get the tax back? SAT SAT Autumn Statement news in brief SAT A few miscellaneous tax cuts and changes. SAT SAT Gas wars SAT She's my customer. No she's mine! Well I'm sending her a SAT bill for the gas she's used! Well. So am I! Aaarrgghhhh! Who SAT should our listener pay for her gas? Or must she pay them SAT both? SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b04sy3r2 (Listen) SAT Series 85, Episode 7 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, who is joined by Fred MacAulay, Holly Walsh and Bob SAT Mills, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Fred MacAulay SAT Panellist: Holly Walsh SAT Panellist: Bob Mills SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04stf8g (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04stf8j (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04sy4ts (Listen) SAT Mark Littlewood, Eric Pickles MP, Rachel Reeves MP, Mark SAT Serwotka SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Felsted School in Essex with Mark Littlewood the SAT Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, SAT Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, SAT Eric Pickles MP, Rachel Reeves MP the Shadow Secretary of SAT State for Work and Pension and Mark Serwotka the General SAT Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04stf8l (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 b04tc9nc (Listen) SAT The Havana Quartet, Havana Black SAT SAT by Leonardo Padura SAT dramatised by Joy Wilkinson SAT SAT Lieutenant Mario Conde has been suspended for taking a SAT well-deserved pop at a fellow officer. But Major Rangel is SAT short of staff and has to call Conde in for a case involving SAT the disappearance of a Cuban with U.S. citizenship who has SAT come home to visit his family. The final story in the Havana SAT 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 Josefina: Lorna Gayle SAT Skinny: Ben Crowe SAT Tamara: Adjoa Andoh SAT Tamara: Ian Conningham SAT Rabbit: Monty d'Inverno SAT Fermin: Shaun Mason SAT Friguens: John Rowe SAT Alfonso Forcade: John Rowe SAT Gomez: Cyril Nri SAT Miriam: Anna Madeley SAT Adrian: Nicholas Pinnock SAT Adrian: Sam Dale SAT Author: Leonardo Padura SAT Adaptor: Jennifer Howarth SAT Director: Mary Peate SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b04sv2gz (Listen) SAT Series 19, There Is a Light That Never Goes Out SAT SAT The Smiths' 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' is SAT explored through personal stories. Released in 1986 on 'The SAT Queen Is Dead' album, it has become an anthem of hope, loss SAT and love. As a teenager, Andy listened to it with his SAT father, as he drove him to work. They had a moment of SAT connection, and when his father died suddenly a few weeks SAT later, the song took on huge significance. When her young SAT son was ill, Sharon Woolley drew strength from this music as SAT she sat by his bedside in the small hours of the morning. SAT For comic artist Lucy Knisley, the song got her through a SAT bad break-up with her long-term boyfriend - and it's meaning SAT changed for her when unexpected events unfolded. SAT SAT Lucy Knisley and her husband John SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04tcbcw (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT The celebrated civil rights activist Professor Angela Davis SAT on what it's like to go from being on the FBI's ten most SAT wanted list to a place in the 100 'cool' American's SAT exhibition in Washington earlier this year. SAT SAT We discuss the link between hormones and mental health and SAT what it's really like to be a teen with PMT. SAT SAT The TV series Little House on the Prairie was based on the SAT books of Laura Ingalls Wilder. We look at the continuing SAT enduring appeal of her original books and the latest SAT annotated autobiography Pioneer Girl. SAT SAT We hear about the campaign to stop parents who have abused SAT their children from continuing to disrupt their lives and SAT from a woman whose daughters were abused by their father and SAT despite being convicted of the offence still fought for SAT access to them. SAT SAT Plus you may not know the name Bevis Shergold but she made a SAT huge contribution to the war effort interrogating POW's in SAT Egypt and Algeria as well as representing Britain in the SAT 1948 London Olympics. SAT SAT A debate on whether there is a place for men in the feminist SAT movement? And can the struggle for equality for women around SAT the world also improve the lives of men as well? SAT SAT And we hear from the Scottish/Zambian singer songwriter SAT Namvula. SAT SAT Professor Angela Davis SAT Professor Angela Davis was known as a radical activist and SAT member of the Black Panthers in the 1960s-1970s. Still a SAT celebrated civil rights activist and respected academic she SAT speaks frankly about the actions that branded her a SAT terrorist and simultaneously spurred a worldwide political SAT movement for her freedom. Forty years on she's moved from SAT having a place on the FBI’s ten most wanted list to having a SAT place on the 100 ‘cool’ Americans exhibition displayed SAT earlier this year in Washington’s National Portrait Gallery. SAT Angela Davis talks to Jenni on Woman’s Hour about that SAT journey. SAT SAT Hormones SAT Reporter Anna Bailey speaks to secondary school teenagers in SAT Birmingham, to see if they are affected by their hormones. SAT We then look at how hormones affect older women as a small SAT percentage of women have hormonal fluctuations SAT pre-menstrually, SAT post-natally SAT and around the time of the SAT menopause SAT that can be severe enough to stop them living normal lives. SAT We’ve all heard of post-natal depression. SAT PMS (premenstrual syndrome) SAT is perhaps less well known and GPs and psychiatrists have SAT been known to misdiagnose severe premenstrual syndrome as SAT bipolar disorder. Jane speaks to a listener who was SAT misdiagnosed in this way. She is also joined by SAT psychiatrist SAT Dr Michael Craig SAT who works at the Female Hormone Clinic at the South London SAT and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. SAT SAT Pioneer Girl SAT Those of a certain age will be familiar with the TV series a SAT Little House on the Prairie. It was based on a series of SAT children's books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The Annotated SAT Autobiography SAT Pioneer Girl SAT has just been published, and goes back to her original SAT manuscripts . Jane talks to Nancy Tystad Koupal, the SAT editor-in-chief and director of the Pioneer Girl Project and SAT to author SAT Tracy Chevalier SAT who’s a huge fan about the enduring appeal of the original SAT books. SAT SAT The sexual abuse of children by their father SAT Mosac SAT are an organisation which tries to offer support to the SAT non-abusing parents of children who’ve been sexually abused. SAT Following Jane’s interview yesterday with Luci Coffey, an SAT advocacy manager from Mosac, Jane speaks to Jackie, not her SAT real name, who has two daughters, both who were abused by SAT their father. Her testimony is spoken by an actor. SAT SAT Bevis Shergold SAT Bevis Shergold, was a British Intelligence servicewoman in SAT WWII, and represented Britain in the 1948 London Olympics. SAT She was one of the first women to be posted abroad to the SAT intelligence services, and worked as a translator during the SAT interrogation of POW’s in both Egypt and Algeria. Dr. Peter SAT Johnston from the SAT National Army Museum SAT and Dorothy Elliott, Bevis’ friend, speak about her military SAT and athletic achievements, and the contribution she and SAT other women made to the war effort SAT SAT Men and Feminism SAT Is there a place for men in the feminist movement? And can SAT the struggle for equality for women around the world also SAT improve the lives of men? Those are the questions raised in SAT a new book called ‘Feminism and Men.’ Its author Nikki Van SAT Der Gaag, says unless men are involved in the debate on how SAT best to tackle discrimination against women, then they will SAT continue to block women’s advancement. Nikki Van Der Gaag SAT and feminist and activist Karen Ingala Smith debate the SAT issues. SAT SAT Namvula SAT The Scottish/Zambian singer songwriter SAT Namvula SAT joins Jane to talk about her new album, Shiwezwa, and the SAT women who inspired it. She’ll also perform live in the SAT studio. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT Interviewed Guest: Angela Davis SAT Interviewed Guest: Namvula SAT Interviewed Guest: Luci Coffey SAT Interviewed Guest: Nancy Tystad Koupal SAT Interviewed Guest: Tracy Chevalier SAT Interviewed Guest: Peter Johnson SAT Interviewed Guest: Dorothy Elliott SAT Interviewed Guest: Nikki van der Gaag SAT Interviewed Guest: Karen Ingala Smith SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04stf8q (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04t9j5x (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04stf8t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04stf8x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04stf90 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04tcbcy (Listen) SAT Sara Cox, Richard Curtis, Lee Mack, Josie Lawrence, Andrew SAT O'Neill, Hiss Golden Messenger, Francesca Belmonte SAT SAT Clive talks to Richard Curtis, award-winning, international SAT film-director and script writer, and the creator of 'Four SAT Weddings and a Funeral', 'Love Actually', 'Notting Hill' and SAT 'Mr Bean', about his new children's book 'Snow Day' and his SAT adaptation with Paul Mayhew Archer of Roald Dahl's 'Esio SAT Trot', as part of the BBC's Xmas programming. SAT In new film 'Bonobo' comedienne and actress Josie Lawrence SAT leads a commune whose social structure, like that of the SAT Bonobo ape, centres around recreational sex. Hilarity SAT ensues. SAT Clive's co-host Sara Cox meets comic Andrew O'Neill; SAT transvestite, and 'pharmacist baffler'. He is also married SAT and in a steam-punk band, and his current Radio 4 show SAT examines gender identity, using his own experiences. SAT And mid sell-out tour, multi-award winning star of 'Not SAT Going Out' and 'Would I Lie To You'? Lee Mack talks sitcoms, SAT well-crafted gags and sharp one-liners. SAT With music from Hiss Golden Messenger who performs SAT 'Saturday's Song' from his album 'Lateness of Dancers', SAT available now on Merge Records. And more music from SAT Francesca Belmonte who performs her new single 'Stole', SAT available on Monday 29th December on False Idols. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Josie Lawrence SAT ‘Bonobo’ is in cinemas now. SAT SAT Richard Curtis SAT SAT ‘Snow Day’, written by Richard Curtis, illustrated by SAT Rebecca Cobb, is out now in Puffin Hardback. SAT SAT Roald Dahl's Esio Trot is on Thursday 1st January at 18.30 SAT on BBC One. SAT SAT SAT Andrew O'Neill SAT SAT ‘Andrew O'Neill: ‘Pharmacist Baffler’ is on Tuesday 16th SAT December at 23.00 on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 'History of Heavy Metal' is at Thekla, Bristol on Wednesday SAT 10th and 'Mindspiders' is at NN Cafe, Northampton on SAT Thursday 11th December. SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Lee Mack SAT SAT Series six of ‘Not Going Out’ and the Christmas specials are SAT available now on DVD. SAT SAT Lee is touring ‘Hit The Road Mack’ until Monday 22nd SAT December. He’s at Apollo Manchester from Tuesday 9th to SAT Sunday 14th November. Check Lee’s website for further dates. SAT SAT SAT Hiss Golden Messenger SAT SAT ‘Lateness of Dancers’ is available now on Merge Records. SAT SAT Hiss Golden Messenger are playing Bleach, Brighton on Friday SAT 6th, Independent, Sunderland on Saturday 7th and Leeds, SAT Brudenell Social Club on Sunday 8th February. Check their SAT website for further dates. SAT SAT Francesca Belmonte SAT ‘Stole’ is available on Monday 29th December on False Idols. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04tcbd0 (Listen) SAT Ashraf Ghani SAT SAT The presidential election in Afghanistan was drawn-out and SAT controversial. The man who emerged as the winner is a United SAT States-trained anthropologist who is described by friends as SAT one of the world's leading intellectuals. Ashraf Ghani was SAT born in Afghanistan, studied in Lebanon and the United SAT States, and worked for years for the World Bank. As finance SAT minister of Afghanistan he fell out with President Karzai SAT and most of his colleagues - the same friends who point to SAT his intellectual capacity and moral integrity also SAT acknowledge his ferocious temper. Humility is another word SAT that's often mentioned - it is said that he is never happier SAT than when sitting cross-legged drinking tea with tribal SAT elders in the Afghan provinces. But can he turn his SAT intellectual vision into political reality at this vital SAT moment of transition in Afghanistan? SAT SAT Presenter: Becky Milligan SAT Producer: Tim Mansel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04stf92 (Listen) SAT Men Women and Children, Hope, William Blake, Olive SAT Kitteridge, End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck SAT SAT Jason Reitman's latest film Men Women and Children is a SAT lighthearted look at the way the internet has become woven SAT into everyone's existence for good or bad; the pitfalls, the SAT temptations and the endless possibilities. SAT Hope is a new play by Jack Thorne at London's Royal Court SAT Theatre. It's a dark comedy about a cash-strapped Labour SAT council trying to balance its books and do the least harm in SAT the face of cuts. SAT William Blake is the subject of a major exhibition at the SAT Ashmolean in Oxford. He was a printmaker, painter and SAT revolutionary poet of the prophetic books, and this show SAT attempts to reveal how he acquired and developed his skills SAT and also to show his legacy. SAT HBO's new series 4 part mini series , Olive Kitteridge is SAT based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and stars Frances SAT McDormand in a tale of marital affairs, mental illness, SAT intrigue, crime and tragedy in a small New England town. SAT Acclaimed novel End of Days by German author Jenny Erpenbeck SAT explores a multi-narrative story of a family whose destiny SAT could spiral in many directions. SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Charlotte Mendelson, Kate Mossman SAT and Michael Arditti. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Charlotte Mendelson SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Mossman SAT Interviewed Guest: Michael Arditti SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04tcbd2 (Listen) SAT Malcolm X in Oxford SAT SAT Stephen Tuck discovers what brought Malcolm X to Oxford in SAT 1964 just weeks before his assassination, and how the speech SAT he made there was one of the most important of his life. SAT SAT For Malcolm X, Oxford was 'hot' - but why? What was it that SAT attracted him there when he was turning down so many other SAT invitations to speak abroad and when he was preparing to SAT step up the struggle against racial inequality at home in SAT the United States? SAT SAT These questions lead Stephen Tuck into the remarkable story SAT of Malcolm X's last year of life when he travelled in SAT Africa, the Middle East and Europe - a year during which SAT this black nationalist American Nation of Islam advocate SAT began evolving into a campaigner for international civil SAT liberties. SAT SAT But what also emerges is an untold story of racial SAT discrimination and protest in Oxford, and how we choose to SAT remember the struggle for racial equality as happening SAT elsewhere - in the Southern States of America, or South SAT Africa - rather than in the Britain of the late 1950s and SAT early 1960s. SAT SAT Tuck uses archive from the original debate and the personal SAT testimonies of those who knew Malcolm X, as well as some of SAT the people who were there at the Oxford Union or at the edge SAT of Britain's own racial fault line fifty years ago, to SAT reveal how Oxford affected Malcolm X and how Malcolm X SAT changed Oxford. SAT SAT Produced by Adam Fowler SAT An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 The Once and Future King b04stlcj (Listen) SAT The Ill-Made Knight SAT SAT Brian Sibley's dramatisation of T. H. White's classic SAT retelling of the King Arthur story continues. Full of zeal SAT for Arthur's new chivalric order, Lancelot rides into SAT Camelot. 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 Guenever: Lyndsey Marshal SAT Lancelot: Alex Waldmann SAT Uncle Dap: Sam Dale SAT Elaine: Hannah Genesius SAT Agnes: Roslyn Hill SAT Nimue: Bettrys Jones SAT Old Man: David Acton SAT Old Woman: Elaine Claxton SAT Morgana Le Fay: Jane Slavin SAT Knight: David Acton SAT Knight: Shaun Mason SAT Knight: Ian Conningham SAT Author: TH White SAT Adaptor: Brian Sibley SAT Director: Gemma Jenkins SAT Director: Marc Beeby SAT Director: David Hunter SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04stf94 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b04sv1s5 (Listen) SAT Reith Lectures: 2014, The Century of the System SAT SAT The surgeon and writer Atul Gawande argues that better SAT systems can transform global healthcare by radically SAT reducing the chance of mistakes and increasing the chance of SAT successful outcomes. SAT SAT He tells the story of how a little-known hospital in Austria SAT managed to develop a complex yet highly effective system for SAT dealing with victims of drowning. He says that the lesson SAT from this dramatic narrative is that effective systems can SAT provide major improvements in success rates for surgery and SAT other medical procedures. Even a simple checklist - of the SAT kind routinely used in the aviation industry - can be SAT remarkably effective. And he argues that these systems have SAT the power to transform care from the richest parts of the SAT world to the poorest. SAT SAT The programme was recorded at The Wellcome Collection in SAT London before an audience. SAT SAT The Reith Lectures are chaired and introduced by Sue Lawley SAT and produced by Jim Frank. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b04sty1v (Listen) SAT Series 28, Semi-Final 2, 2014 SAT SAT (11/13) SAT Who wrote the original James Bond theme as first heard in SAT the film Dr No? And which Renaissance artist wrote poems SAT which have been set to music by both Benjamin Britten and SAT Shostakovich? SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini asks the questions in the second semi-final SAT of the general knowledge music quiz, with another place in SAT the 28th Counterpoint Final up for grabs. SAT SAT This week's semi-finalists, from the Vale of Glamorgan, SAT Wiltshire and Cheshire, have all won their heats with SAT impressive scores, and the competition is sure to be tough. SAT As always, they will each have to choose a special musical SAT topic on which to answer individual questions, with no prior SAT warning of the categories offered. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT JOHN DURBIN, a humanist celebrant from the Vale of SAT Glamorgan; SAT SAT MICHAEL KEMP, from Trowbridge in Wiltshire, who's retired; SAT SAT STEPHEN WHITAKER, a second hand book dealer from Neston in SAT Cheshire. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b04stlcn (Listen) SAT Series 4, Extinctions SAT SAT Paul Farley listens to old and new poetry of extinction one SAT hundred years after the death of Martha, the last ever SAT passenger pigeon. With poems from Fleur Adcock, Sean SAT O'Brien, W.S. Merwin and David Harsent and the sounds of SAT X-ray audio, the samizdat music of the Soviet Union that SAT used black-market plates of skulls and ribcages to capture SAT the beginnings of rock and roll. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 07 DECEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04tcg4g (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Border Crossings b03vh0cl (Listen) SUN Wheer d'ye Belang? SUN SUN Katrina Porteous, the poet, explores the wild places and SUN ancient histories of the Northumbrian hills in her poem and SUN personal essay about the Borderlands. SUN SUN Border Crossings is a pair of specially commissioned pieces SUN from either side of the Border. Each explores the unique SUN qualities of the debatable lands and the centuries of SUN interlinked history between England and Scotland, the amity SUN and the animosity. The first of our commissions is by the SUN poet Katrina Porteous who was born in Scotland and now lives SUN in Northumbria. In her personal essay, Wheer d' ye Belang? SUN she vividly captures the formidable landscape of the SUN Northumbrian hills and their ancient history and culture. SUN SUN Poet Katrina Porteous was born in Aberdeen and has lived on SUN the Northumberland coast since 1987. Much of her poetry SUN explores the Northumbrian landscape and its communities, SUN especially the fishing community. Her latest collection, Two SUN Countries, is published by Bloodaxe. SUN SUN Produced by Elizabeth Allard and Di Speirs. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Katrina Porteous SUN Producer: Elizabeth Allard SUN Producer: Di Speirs SUN Writer: Katrina Porteous SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04tcg4j (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04tcg4l (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04tcg4n (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04tcg4q (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04tchvs (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary and St Chad, Brewood in Staffordshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b04tcbd0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04tcg4s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04tchvv (Listen) SUN Gossip and Whispers SUN SUN Psssst ...listen ... John McCarthy considers the pleasures SUN and perils of loose tongued talk. SUN SUN Gossip is one of the ways we make connections within our SUN social groups but it can be hurtful and isolating for those SUN being gossiped about. The sharing of secrets can reinforce SUN the intimate bonds of friendship - or break them. And SUN rumours, as they fly from ear to mouth to ear, can shift SUN shape to become monstrous or hilarious. SUN SUN The programme includes readings from works by Ted Hughes, SUN Jen Hadfield and Elias Canetti and music by Tracey Thorn and SUN The Inkspots. SUN SUN Readings by Peter Marinker, Stella Gonet, Ted Hughes and Jen SUN Hadfield. SUN SUN Produced by Natalie Steed SUN SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: Siren Song SUN SUN Author: Margaret Atwood SUN SUN Publisher: Oxford University Press SUN SUN Author: Frank O’Hara SUN SUN Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 2nd edition edition SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: extract from The Tongue Set Free SUN SUN Author: Elias Canetti SUN SUN Publisher: Granta Books SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: extract from Midas, from Tales from Ovid SUN SUN Author: Ted Hughes SUN SUN Publisher: Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Lichen SUN SUN Author: Jen Hadfield SUN SUN Publisher: Picador SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b04tchvx (Listen) SUN Arty Farming SUN SUN Nearly 40 years ago, the artist Victoria Crowe painted a SUN shepherdess called Jenny Armstrong trudging through the snow SUN on the wind-whipped Scottish Borders. That celebrated SUN painting, Large Tree Group, has now been translated into a SUN handwoven tapestry by master weavers at Dovecot Studios in SUN Edinburgh. Made from undyed sheep wool donated by some 70 SUN producers - from small-scale crofters to large estates - the SUN tapestry will form part of the National Museums Scotland's SUN collection. That is, after its exhibition in London where SUN this programme begins. SUN It's both the story of an unlikely friendship between a SUN young artist and an elderly farmer and the tale of a SUN precious tapestry, tracing it back from the gallery to the SUN farm gate. SUN Featuring interviews recorded in London and Scotland with SUN the curator, spinners, weavers, a farmer and the artist SUN herself - Vicky Crowe. SUN Produced and presented by Anna Jones. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04tcg4v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04tcg4x (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04tchvz (Listen) SUN Human trafficking; Christian refugees; Biblical movie SUN blockbusters SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b04tchw1 (Listen) SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal 2014 SUN SUN The Rev Dr Sam Wells makes the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal for SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields. SUN Reg Charity:261359 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 082 82 84. SUN - Make a cheque to St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal, SUN and send it to FREEPOST St Martin's Christmas Appeal. SUN - Or donate online via the Radio 4 website. SUN SUN The BBC Radio 4 St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal is SUN now in its 88th year. The money raised from this annual SUN appeal supports work with homeless and vulnerable people SUN across the UK, through the work of The Connection at St SUN Martin's and the Vicar's Relief Fund. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04tcg4z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04tcg51 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04tchw3 (Listen) SUN A shoot shall come out from the stock of Jesse SUN SUN The second in our Advent series live from St Joseph's Church SUN Bradford. This week's theme takes a promise of Isaiah: 'A SUN shoot shall come out from the stock of Jesse' SUN Bradford Catholic Youth Choir is directed by Thomas Leech SUN and the service is led by the priest of St Joseph's Fr John SUN Newman. SUN Readings: Isaiah 11:1-10, Romans 5: 1-11; Colossians SUN 1:15-23; SUN The Voice of God (Woodlands); Rorate Caeli (chant); A tender SUN shoot (Goldschmidt); Kyrie (Missa Piccola - Milliken); SUN Cuncti simus concanentes (Anon); O Mary of promise (Gaelic SUN folk hymn); Hail to the Lord's anointed (Cruger). Organist: SUN Daniel Justin; Producer: Katharine Longworth. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04sy4tv (Listen) SUN Faking It SUN SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04svjxg (Listen) SUN Atlantic (Island) Canary 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 Atlantic canary singing in the SUN Tenerife treetops. The ancestor of our cage-bird canaries is SUN the Island or Atlantic Canary, a finch which is native to SUN the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands which include SUN Tenerife. The Canary Islands were named by early travellers SUN "the islands of dogs from 'canis', the Latin for dogs, SUN because of the many large dogs reputedly found there. And so SUN the common and popular song-bird which is now a symbol of SUN the islands became known as the canary. Unlike their SUN domestic siblings, wild Island canaries are streaky, SUN greenish yellow finches: males have golden- yellow SUN foreheads, females a head of more subtle ash-grey tone. But SUN it's the song, a pulsating series of vibrant whistles, SUN trills and tinkling sounds; that has made the canary so SUN popular. They were almost compulsory in Victorian and SUN Edwardian parlours; a far cry from the sunny palm -fringed SUN beaches of the Atlantic islands. SUN SUN Atlantic (or Island) Canary (Serinus canaria) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Wild Wonders of Europe Relanzon / SUN naturepl.com. SUN NPL Ref 01257843 SUN © Wild Wonders of Europe Relanzon / naturepl.com SUN SUN Recording of island canary by Andrea L Priori / Ref: ML SUN 79093 SUN SUN This programme contains a SUN wildtrack recording of the island canary SUN kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab SUN of Ornithology; recorded by Andrea L Priori on 2 Jul 1992 , SUN in Tompkins County, New York, USA. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04tckj9 (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 09:45 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b04tcytb (Listen) SUN Making a Difference SUN SUN Aasmah Mir reports on how the money from last year's Radio 4 SUN Christmas Appeal with St Martin in-the-Fields has been spent SUN on changing the lives of homeless people through the work of SUN The Connection at St Martin's, and how instances of SUN homelessness around the country have been averted through SUN grants from the Vicars Relief Fund. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b04tckjc (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Mary Cutler SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer ..... Buffy Davis SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Alice Carter .....Hollie Chapman SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell SUN Will Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Ed Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Joanna Toye SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Justin Elliot: Simon Williams SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04tckjf (Listen) SUN Julie Bentley SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Chief Executive of SUN the Guide Association, Julie Bentley - or, more accurately, SUN Girlguiding. SUN SUN The name change is surely a clue to the evolving nature of SUN an organisation determined to be relevant and useful to SUN girls in the 21st century. Indeed being relevant and useful SUN is how Julie Bentley has spent her entire working life. From SUN her early efforts at an HIV charity to running the Family SUN Planning Association she says her passion lies with helping SUN young people develop confidence and direction. SUN SUN Never a Brownie or Girl Guide herself, she was brought up in SUN what she describes as "a happy working class family in SUN Essex" and it took her a little while to find her own self SUN assurance and sense of purpose. A painfully shy child, who SUN was bullied at primary school, she later went on to become SUN Head Girl, but left school with very few qualifications. In SUN her 30s she used a bequest from her mother to fund her SUN Master's degree. SUN SUN She says of the Girl Guides, "It is not about itchy brown SUN uniforms and sewing and baking. It is a modern, SUN contemporary, vibrant organisation." SUN SUN Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Julie Bentley SUN Producer: Christine Pawlowsky SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04tcg53 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04stzf5 (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 3 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit SUN to the Victoria Hall in Stoke-on-Trent. Regulars Barry SUN Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the SUN panel by Omid Djalili, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin SUN Sell provides piano accompaniment. 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: Andy Hamilton SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04tckjh (Listen) SUN Cookbooks of 2014 SUN SUN A review of cookbooks and food writing of 2014. Sheila SUN Dillon is joined to discuss the year in books by Allan SUN Jenkins, editor of Observer Food Monthly, investigative SUN journalist Joanna Blythman and blogger Alex Ryder aka Gingey SUN Bites. SUN SUN Sheila also hears from publisher Sarah Lavelle about this SUN year's sales. And cookery writer Diana Henry talks about her SUN addiction to cookbooks. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma SUN Weatherill. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill SUN Interviewed Guest: Allan Jenkins SUN Interviewed Guest: Joanna Blythman SUN Interviewed Guest: Alex Ryder SUN Interviewed Guest: Sarah Lavelle SUN Interviewed Guest: Diana Henry SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04tcg55 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04tckjk (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Olive Wars b04tcl5w (Listen) SUN The olive harvest in the West Bank is all about tradition. SUN The first rains of the winter signal the start of gathering SUN the olives on which so many Palestinian farmers depend. SUN SUN The BBC's Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, has been SUN travelling during the harvest through the West Bank, SUN occupied by Israel since 1967, and wanted by the SUN Palestinians for a state. He spoke to Palestinian farmers, SUN Jewish settlers, oil exporters, and Israeli soldiers, and SUN found that the harvest is about a lot more than olives, or SUN oil, or the soap they make from it. SUN SUN In a land where everything is politicised, so is the olive SUN harvest. It's the politics of the struggle for land between SUN the Palestinians and the Israelis who want it, and in that SUN struggle the olive tree has become a potent symbol. And the SUN olive harvest has at times become a serious flashpoint. SUN SUN 'Olive Wars' shows how every year the harvest is at the SUN heart of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis for SUN control of the land. SUN SUN Jeremy Bowen, who has been reporting on the SUN Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1991, finds that the SUN status quo in the West Bank guarantees more bloodshed. He SUN concludes that is not just disastrous for Palestinians and SUN Israelis. At a time when the whole world can feel the impact SUN of the tumult in the Middle East, it's not good for the rest SUN of us either. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04sy3qw (Listen) SUN Bournemouth SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Bournemouth. Chris Beardshaw, Matt Biggs and Christine SUN Walkden answer questions from an audience of local SUN gardeners. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN SUN Q. I can't work out why I can't get my Pansies to continue SUN flowering through the seasons, please help! SUN SUN A. They flower better in warmer temperatures so after the SUN autumnal equinox even deadheading won't be able to keep the SUN plants flowering through the colder months. Stick with SUN Violas if you want flowers in poorer conditions. SUN SUN Q. Some of our neighbour's trees have been removed and this SUN has exposed our garden. Could the panel recommend some tall, SUN evergreen, colourful and quick-growing varieties that will SUN restore our privacy? SUN SUN A. Elaeagnuses are all good, things like the 'Quick Silver' SUN could work, especially if some of the sprawling branches SUN were removed and the others taken up. The variegated SUN Eleagnuses have good evergreen foliage and small scented SUN flowers. The Photinia 'Red Robin' would provide colour. SUN Stransvesia would also work. It's also worth considering SUN growing climbers up through those plants. SUN SUN Q. My young Spring Cabbages have been chewed, what is it? SUN SUN A. This looks like a caterpillar has nibbled the edges - you SUN can tell by the crisp nature of the damage. The holes in the SUN middle look like slugs have been at it but the majority of SUN the damage is due to cabbage white caterpillars. SUN SUN Q. What else could be grown in a prairie garden with very SUN sandy soil that would add colour? SUN SUN A. Digitalis Lutea would work and the Lisa Macchias are well SUN worth a try, but avoid Nummularia and go for Atrapo Perera. SUN Eupatoriums 'purple bush' would work well. Don't be afraid SUN to throw in a few annuals like Leucanthemums. SUN SUN Q. Is there any way I can restrict the growth of a SUN Koelreuteria Paniculata 'Golden Tree' to 15 feet (4.57 SUN metres)? SUN SUN A. They don't take pruning very well, so just 'tip-prune'. SUN Just as the buds are swelling but before they have burst SUN prune back the principal boughs by a couple of inches (5cm). SUN Enjoy it while it lasts, but remove it when it is really SUN getting too big. Get something smaller that will do well in SUN that space. SUN SUN Q. I'm confused - should we be digging in egg shells and SUN grit to encourage drainage or digging in compost to retain SUN moisture? SUN SUN A. Both are correct depending on the situation. Gardeners SUN want good structure, good air concentration and good SUN drainage. Those qualities are largely aided by the addition SUN of organic matter. However, if the basic structure of the SUN soil is heavy use coarse materials to open up the soil. SUN SUN Q. I have a Magnolia Grandiflora in my garden. It's in SUN magnificent health but doesn't flower - can you SUN help me? SUN SUN A. They can take a while to get flowering but they sometimes SUN need the extra shelter and warmth of a south-facing wall to SUN get flowering. SUN SUN 8.Q. Do members of the team have a favourite orchid, and if SUN so, why? SUN SUN A. Christine adores the Cypripedium Calceolus 'Lady's SUN Slipper Orchid' and the orchids of Patagonia. Matt loves the SUN tiny Neo Falcata Orchid, known as the 'Japanese Wind SUN Orchid'. Chris loves the Pyramidal Orchid and the Common SUN Spotted Orchid as well as Cymbidiums. SUN SUN Chris Beardshaw and Stewart Milburn coppicing trees in the SUN RSPB’s Garston Wood SUN SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04tcldm (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations between men who have had help SUN to get off the streets from The Connection at St Martin in SUN the Fields, for which the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal raises SUN money, a couple planning a collaborative writing project, SUN and a mother and son who were both sent to boarding school. 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 b04tclg7 (Listen) SUN The Lengthening Shadow SUN SUN Brian Sibley's dramatisation of T. H. White's classic SUN retelling of the King Arthur story continues. Murder and SUN betrayal threaten to undermine all that Arthur holds dear. 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 Mordred: Joel MacCormack SUN Elaine: Hannah Genesius SUN Gawaine: Shaun Mason SUN Kay: Paul Heath SUN Gareth: Monty d'Inverno SUN Agravaine: Ian Conningham SUN Dame Brisen: Elaine Claxton SUN Uncle Dap: Sam Dale SUN Holy Woman: Roslyn Hill SUN Author: TH White SUN Adaptor: Brian Sibley SUN Director: Gemma Jenkins SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Director: David Hunter SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b04tcxm4 (Listen) SUN Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander SUN SUN With James Naughtie. In a special 200th edition of the SUN programme we celebrate the centenary of author Patrick SUN O'Brian and Allan Mallinson is our guide to the first in his SUN hugely popular series of Napoleonic naval stories, Master SUN and Commander. SUN SUN Known as the Aubrey/Maturin novels, the twenty books are SUN regarded by many as the most engaging historical novels ever SUN written. Master and Commander establishes the friendship SUN between Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, who becomes SUN his ship's surgeon and an intelligence agent. SUN SUN O'Brian won fans not just because of the story-telling and SUN his power of characterisation but also his detailed SUN depiction of life aboard a Nelsonic man-of-war : the SUN weapons, food, conversation and ambience, the landscape and SUN the sea. SUN SUN Master and Commander was first published in 1969 and the SUN twentieth novel in the series Blue at the Mizzen, in 1999, a SUN year before O'Brian died. SUN SUN Allan Mallinson also writes novels about the Napoleonic wars SUN and knew O'Brian. And as always on Bookclub a group of SUN invited readers join in the discussion. SUN SUN December's programme marks the 200th edition of Bookclub SUN which began in 1998 and has featured the world's leading SUN authors from the late 20th/early 21st century like Toni SUN Morrison, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel, Salman Rushdie, Martin SUN Amis, Paul Auster, Alan Bennett. James Naughtie's impressive SUN list of guests also includes writers who are no longer with SUN us like Muriel Spark, Gore Vidal, Douglas Adams, Carol SUN Shields, and Sue Townsend. All are available online to SUN download and keep forever, via the programme's website SUN bbc.in/r4bookclub . SUN SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Interviewed guest : Allan Mallinson SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn SUN January's Bookclub choice : A Short History of Tractors in SUN Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka. SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b04tcxm6 (Listen) SUN Series 4, The Knowledge SUN SUN Paul Farley does the Knowledge, collecting taxi poems and SUN sounds from all over London. Including poems by John SUN Challis, Sean O'Brien and David Harsent and songs, prose SUN texts and other performances from a recent series of art SUN events held in the capital's surviving cabbies shelters. SUN Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 Jeremy Thorpe: The Silent Conspiracy b04wz633 (Listen) SUN Jeremy Thorpe, the former Liberal leader, led a life which SUN combined major political achievements with persistent SUN rumours of scandal, culminating in a trial for conspiracy to SUN murder and his acquittal. But was there an establishment SUN cover-up to protect him during his political career? Tom SUN Mangold has been investigating, in a programme containing SUN both new evidence and material from the 1970s that has never SUN previously been broadcast. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. SUN SUN 17:40 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b04tcytb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04tcg57 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04tcg59 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04tcg5c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04td783 (Listen) SUN Antonia Quirke chooses her BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04td785 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Hal b04tdqwq (Listen) SUN Fidelity 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 more and more. His children, SUN Lilly and Molly, are growing up fast, and his role as their SUN father and mentor is diminishing by the day. SUN SUN So what can Hal do as he reaches a crossroads in his life? SUN Help is (sort of) at hand in the form of his eager mates - SUN Doug, Fergus and Barry - who regularly meet at their local SUN curry house for mind expanding conversations that sadly SUN never give Hal the core advice he so desperately needs. SUN SUN Hal is confused even further as he regularly has visions of SUN his long dead and highly macho father, who he's forced to SUN engage in increasingly frustrating conversations. SUN SUN In this last episode of the series, Hal faces a new SUN challenge - unwanted romantic attention. Happily married to SUN Sam and with two adoring daughters, life is a picture of SUN roses at home. But how will Hal cope with the romantic SUN attention of a new, attractive neighbour Angie? 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 19:45 Shorts: Writing West b04tdqws (Listen) SUN The Two Penelopes SUN SUN SHORTS: New writing. New writers. SUN SUN The second of three Midlands Odysseys: short stories written SUN by writers new to radio in response to The Odyssey - SUN transplanting episodes from Homer's epic to contemporary SUN West Midlands settings. SUN SUN Penny volunteers at a Birmingham care home for the elderly SUN to distract herself from the disappointments of her own SUN life. She helps one of the residents to wind wool for an SUN unusual knitting project... SUN SUN By Natalie Haynes. SUN SUN Producer: Mair Bosworth. SUN SUN Natalie Haynes on writing The Two Penelopes SUN SUN The Two Penelopes is a modern-day reworking of the story of SUN Penelope in the Odyssey: she waits at home, in Ithaca, SUN trying to avoid the attentions of the suitors (who believe, SUN after 20 years, that Odysseus is dead and are vying to marry SUN the woman they believe to be his widow). She tells them that SUN she won’t marry until she’s woven a shroud for her dead SUN father. She weaves all day, and then secretly unravels the SUN work by night, to delay the inevitable. I swapped this for SUN knitting, as it seems like a more realistic hobby for SUN someone to have today. Also, as knitters will understand, it SUN has always bothered me that poor Penelope would have spent SUN as long unweaving as weaving - when did she sleep? But SUN knitting can be unravelled very quickly indeed, which must SUN come as a relief to my Penelope. The story is full of sneaky SUN references to the Odyssey: for example, Penelope’s room SUN number is 23 (the number of the book in which Odysseus SUN finally returns home). So enjoy finding them... SUN SUN A Midlands Odyssey SUN Natalie Hayne's *The Two Penelopes* is one of three stories SUN adapted for BBC Radio 4's SUN Shorts: Writing West SUN from the short story collection *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: Natalie Haynes SUN Producer: Mair Bosworth SUN Reader: Lolita Chakrabarti SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b04t6t62 (Listen) SUN What do you really think of Radios 4 and 5 and their extra SUN bits? The BBC Trust wants listeners' input for a major SUN review it's conducting. But will your views change anything? SUN Trustee Elan Closs Stephens tells Roger Bolton why reviews SUN like this matter. SUN SUN Radio 4's World War 1 drama Home Front is set to run for SUN four years and a total of approximately 600 episodes. Roger SUN goes on a behind-the-scenes tour of the epic production and SUN puts listeners' questions talks to the series editor Jessica SUN Droomgoole and producer Lucy Collingwood. SUN SUN Jarvis Cocker took the Radio 4 audience back to primary SUN school with his Archive on 4 on the well-loved programme SUN "Singing Together". It was a weekly broadcast that started SUN in 1939 and quickly became a treasured musical memory. But SUN most of the broadcasts have been lost. We hear from Feedback SUN listener Christopher Goodman who has succeeded where the BBC SUN failed - in saving a little bit of our musical heritage for SUN posterity. SUN SUN And Archers Addicts question the point of a radio drama SUN where the actors' voices are far too similar. SUN SUN Produced by Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04t6t60 (Listen) SUN Jeremy Thorpe, Ian McLagan, Viktor Tikhonov, Trevor Pharo SUN and Sabah SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Jeremy Thorpe who was a charismatic leader of the Liberal SUN Party, but fell from grace after facing trial on charges of SUN conspiring to murder a former male model who claimed to have SUN had a sexual relationship with him. Although he was SUN acquitted, Jeremy Thorpe's political career was over. SUN SUN Also Ian McLagan, the keyboard player with the Small Faces SUN and the Faces. Billy Bragg pays tribute. SUN SUN Viktor Tikhonov the ruthless coach of the Soviet Ice Hockey SUN Team, SUN SUN Trevor Pharo - the South Coast sales executive otherwise SUN known as Bingo the Clown, SUN SUN And the celebrated Lebanese singer Sabah. SUN SUN Jeremy Thorpe SUN SUN Matthew spoke to political blogger and radio presenter Iain SUN Dale who helped Jeremy Thorpe to write his memoirs. SUN SUN Born 29 April 1929; died 4 December 2014 aged 85. SUN SUN Ian McLagan SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his former bandmate Billy Bragg. SUN SUN Born 12 May 1945; died 3 December 2014 aged 69. SUN SUN Viktor Tikhonov (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Rafael Saakov, BBC journalist at the SUN Russian Service in Moscow and to the American film maker SUN Gabe Polsky who made a documentary about the Soviet SUN Union and its hockey team. SUN SUN Born 4 June 1930; died 24 November 2014 aged 84. SUN SUN Trevor Pharo SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his booking agent Don Stacey and to fellow SUN clown Martin Burton of Zippo’s Circus. SUN SUN SUN Born 6 April 1954; died 8 November 2014 aged 60. SUN SUN Sabah SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Carine Torbey, BBC World Service reporter SUN in Beirut. SUN SUN Born 10 November 1927; died 26 November 2014 aged 87. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Iain Dale SUN Interviewed Guest: Billy Bragg SUN Interviewed Guest: Rafael Saakov SUN Interviewed Guest: Gabe Polsky SUN Interviewed Guest: Don Stacey SUN Interviewed Guest: Martin Burton SUN Interviewed Guest: Carine Torbey SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04tc9n9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b04tchw1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04sy0hw (Listen) SUN Sovereign Wealth Funds SUN SUN Government owned Sovereign wealth funds are treasure troves SUN of money earned by oil resources and mighty export earnings, SUN vast nest-eggs for the future when overseas earnings dry up. SUN Obscure though they may be, SWFs have extraordinary flows of SUN cash to invest and potentially enormous international clout. SUN This programme investigates SWFs: who they are and what SUN they're doing. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN SUN SUN Kathryn Saklatvala: Sovereign Investor Institute SUN SUN SUN SUN Patrick Thomson: J.P. Morgan Asset Management SUN SUN SUN SUN Jin Liqun ex China International Capital Corporation SUN SUN SUN SUN Eric J Wiener, author of the book The Shadow Market SUN SUN SUN SUN Uche Orje, Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority SUN SUN SUN SUN James Gray, Shetland Islands Council’s Executive Manager, SUN Finance SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04tcg5f (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04tds7y (Listen) SUN Miranda Green of Newsweek analyses how the papers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04sxzqq (Listen) SUN Kevin Macdonald on Jude Law, Jason Reitman, Ewoks SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Director Kevin Macdonald on Jude Law's Scottish accent in SUN his submarine drama Black Sea. And how geo-politics caught SUN up with a film that's partly set in Crimea. SUN SUN Jason Reitman discusses the moral panic about social media SUN in his ensemble piece Men, Women And Children. And reveals SUN his 70 year old mother's texting habits. SUN SUN FX maestro Ben Burtt reveals the identity of the language SUN that the Ewoks speak in the Star Wars saga. SUN SUN Neil Brand shows us the part that music played in SUN dramatising the final showdown between Darth Vader and Luke SUN Skywalker in Return Of The Jedi. SUN SUN Credits SUN Interviewed Guest: Kevin Macdonald SUN Interviewed Guest: Ben Burtt SUN Interviewed Guest: Jason Reitman SUN Interviewed Guest: Neil Brand SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04tchvv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 08 DECEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04tcg6m (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04svk2y (Listen) MON Port Cities; Middle Class Alcohol Use MON MON Port cities in the global age; from Marseilles to Liverpool MON and New Orleans. Laurie Taylor talks to Alice Mah, a MON sociologist at the University of Warwick, about her study of MON transformation along city waterfronts. What happens when MON world harbours are relegated to minor seaports? Can they MON ever return to their former greatness? Also, middle class MON alcohol use often exceeds safe levels but little research MON explains why. Lyn Brierley-Jones, a Research Fellow at the MON University of Sunderland, explores the meaning of drinking MON amongst professional workers. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Alice Mah MON MON Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, MON University of Warwick MON MON Find out more about MON Alice Mah MON MON *Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront MON Work, and Radicalism MON *Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan MON ISBN-10: 1137283130 MON ISBN-13: 978-1137283139 MON MON Lyn Brierley-Jones MON MON Research Fellow in the Department of Pharmacy, Health and MON Well-being, University of Sunderland MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Lyn Brierley-Jones MON MON Abstract: * MON Habitus of ‘home’ and ‘traditional’ drinking: a qualitative MON analysis of reported middle class alcohol use MON *Brierley-Jones, L., Ling, J., McCabe, K. E., Wilson, G. B., MON Crosland, A., Kaner, E. F. and Haighton, C. A. (2014) MON Sociology of Health & Illness, 36: 1054–1076 MON doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12145 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. 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The BBC reserves the right to disqualify any entry which MON breaches any of these terms and conditions. MON MON 22. The BBC reserves the right to cancel or alter the award MON (including amending these terms and conditions) at any MON stage, including members of the judging panel if deemed MON necessary in its opinion, and if circumstances arise outside MON its control. In this event, a notice will be posted on the MON following website: MON http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thinkingallowed MON MON MON 23. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of MON England and Wales. MON MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b04tchvs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04tcg6p (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04tcg6r (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04tcg6t (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04tcg6w (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04v1vdv (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Dr Calvin Samuel. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04tgrjd (Listen) MON Coastal Path and Rental Christmas Trees MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04tcg6y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04sylr1 (Listen) MON Red-Crowned Crane MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Liz Bonnin presents the red-crowned crane from Japan and MON Asia. Backlit by a Japanese winter sun, huge black and white MON birds dance for an audience. Their plumage mirrors the MON dazzling snow and dark tree-trunks. The only spots of colour MON are crimson - the caps of these Red-crowned Cranes. MON Red-crowned Cranes breed only in far-eastern Russia. Tall, MON majestic and very vocal, red-crowned cranes gather in groups MON to reinforce pair-bonds, by leaping into the air and MON fluttering their 2.5 metre wings, sometimes holding sticks MON or twigs in their long bills. During winter months, the MON cranes are fed with grain, and receive a stream of MON captivated visitors. In front of a wall of clicking camera MON shutters, the cranes perform their elaborate dance, to MON delight their captivated audience. MON MON Red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of David Pike / naturepl.com. MON NPL Ref 01091454 MON © David Pike / naturepl.com MON MON Recording of red-crowned crane by George W Archibald / Ref: MON ML 2776 MON MON This programme contains a MON wildtrack recording of the red-crowned crane MON kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab MON of Ornithology; recorded by George W Archibald in March MON 1971, at Bronx Zoo, New York, USA. MON MON 06:00 Today b04tgrjg (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b04th9f4 (Listen) MON Arabian Nights MON MON Anne McElvoy's joined by Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany, MON author of The Yacoubian Building, to discuss writing in the MON contemporary Arabic world and the continuing influence of MON stories from 1000 years ago. Joining him are Rose Issa, a MON Lebanese/Iranian curator of Arabic art and film and two MON British experts on The Arabian Nights: Robert Irwin, who MON introduces a new, English translation of a medieval fantasy MON collection and Marina Warner, whose interests stretch from MON Scheherazade to a new collection of Scottish fantasies. MON MON Producer: Simon Tillotson. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: James Hall MON Interviewed Guest: Betsy Wieseman MON Interviewed Guest: John Burnside MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b04th9f6 (Listen) MON Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography, Episode 1 MON MON During the glittering 1920s and 30s, Elsa Schiaparelli was MON the undisputed Queen of Fashion. Everyone who was anyone, MON from Vivien Leigh to the Duchess of Windsor, entered her MON doors on the Place Vendôme and obediently wore whatever she MON instructed. MON MON Her clothes were beautifully made, but they were also MON designed in a manner no one had seen before - buttons that MON looked like butterflies, mermaids or carrots, trompe l'oeil MON pockets that looked like lips, gloves with red nails MON appliquéd on them. She was unique. MON MON Born into a prominent Italian family, she moved to London MON and married a supposed Polish count who, it transpired, was MON really a French con-man. His deportation during the First MON World War saw them move to New York, where he abandoned MON Schiaparelli and their baby daughter. Undaunted, she picked MON herself up, moved to Paris and launched her meteoric career, MON surviving the Second World War despite being under suspicion MON of spying from both sides. MON MON Her story is one of pluck and determination, talent and MON great imagination. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest MON rival, she was one of the few female figures in the field at MON the time. And her collaborations with artists such as Man MON Ray, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacometti, MON elevated the field of women's clothing design into the realm MON of art. MON MON Reader: Abigail Thaw MON MON Written by Meryle Secrest MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON MON Produced by Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Abigail Thaw MON Author: Meryle Secrest MON Abridger: Libby Spurrier MON Producer: Joanna Green MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04th9f8 (Listen) MON Kiesza; Domestic Violence and Keeping Children Safe; MON Technology Advice MON MON Kiesza's debut single Hideaway went straight to number one MON and she's just released the album Sound Of A Woman. The MON Canadian singer-songwriter talks to Jane about writing and MON recording her smash hit in 90 minutes, the treatment of MON woman in the music industry; turning to the Navy to get over MON a failed ballet career, and how the Canadian Army wanted to MON train her as their first female sniper. MON In February 2013 a listener heard June Venters QC on Woman's MON Hour discussing the issue of parental contact after MON separation or divorce when there has been domestic violence MON in a relationship. They both join Jane to explain what MON happened next. MON Smartphones and tablets are high up on the Christmas list of MON many people this year. Whether you're thinking of buying MON your mum and dad something or giving your children their own MON gadget technology expert LJ Rich can help. She'll be talking MON to Jane about the advantages they can bring as well as MON telling you everything you need to know about social MON networking sites to keep up with the kids. MON Neeta Patel is the CEO of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation MON and a trustee of the Young Women's Trust. She joins Jane, to MON talk about the work both charities do in supporting young MON people in the business world. MON Ginette Leach, was a married housewife from Kent whose life MON changed when she joined the peace camps at Greenham Common. MON She left her husband, went to university and came out as a MON lesbian. Now her diaries, written during protests have been MON dramatized for our Writing the Century series. Ginette joins MON Jane in the studio. MON MON Kiesza MON Kiesza’s MON debut single 'Hideaway' went straight to number one and MON she’s just released the album 'Sound Of A Woman'. The MON Canadian singer-songwriter talks to Jane about writing and MON recording her smash hit in 90 minutes, the treatment of MON women in the music industry; turning to the Navy to get over MON a failed ballet career, and how the Canadian Army wanted to MON train her as their first female sniper. MON MON Your guide to social media MON MON Smartphones and tablets are high up on the Christmas list MON for lots of people this year. Whether you’re thinking of MON buying your mum and dad something or giving your children MON their own gadget, the technology expert LJ Rich can help. MON She’ll be talking to Jane about the advantages they can MON bring, as well as telling you everything you need to know MON about social networking sites to keep up with the kids. MON MON Domestic Abuse, the Family Justice System and Parental MON Contact MON MON In February 2013 a listener heard June Venters QC, on MON Woman’s Hour discussing the issue of parental contact after MON separation or divorce when there has been domestic violence MON in a relationship. Having finally escaped her ex-husband MON after years of physical and mental abuse the listener’s MON stress continued with what she felt was the failure of the MON family justice system to help keep her children safe. In MON desperation she contacted June as soon as the programme MON finished. They both join Jane to explain what happened MON next. MON MON Neeta Patel MON Neeta Patel is the CEO of the MON New Entrepreneurs Foundation MON and a trustee of the MON Young Women’s Trust MON She joins Jane, to talk about the work both charities do in MON supporting young people in the business world. MON MON Ginette Leach MON MON Ginette Leach, was a married housewife from Kent who's life MON changed when she joined the peace camps at Greenham Common. MON She left her husband, went to university and came out as a MON lesbian. Now her diaries, written during the protests, have MON been dramatized for our MON Writing the Century MON series. Ginette speaks to Jane Garvey. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Kiesza MON Interviewed Guest: June Venters MON Interviewed Guest: LJ Rich MON Interviewed Guest: Neeta Patel MON Interviewed Guest: Ginette Leach MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04th9fb (Listen) MON Writing the Century: My Greenham, Episode 1 MON MON Writing the Century - My Greenham MON By Fiona Evans MON MON The series which explores the 20th century through the MON diaries and correspondence of real people. Using the diaries MON of Ginette Leach this is a funny and moving coming of age MON story of a 50-year-old suburban housewife. MON MON Deal, Kent 1982. Ginette, a middle-class housewife, visits MON Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp and for the first time in MON her life feels at home. What she doesn't realise is that MON this impromptu daytrip will change her life forever. MON MON With her only son having flown the nest, Ginette has come to MON accept that her marriage is fake. To the outside world MON things are perfect. The couple are regulars at golf and MON sailing club, but behind the public façade John is having an MON affair with a work colleague and Ginette has been has been MON sleeping with a friend of hers - another married woman - for MON over 16 years. MON MON Over the next two years Ginette visits Greenham and comes of MON age at 50: 'what the hell am I doing with my life, I need to MON do something for me.' Watching her mother die of cancer MON makes life and time seem all the more precious. So, inspired MON by the women of Greenham Ginette goes to university, comes MON out as a lesbian and is imprisoned for what she believes in. MON MON Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. MON MON Credits MON Ginette: Pippa Haywood MON Older Ginette: Pauline Jefferson MON Writer: Fiona Evans MON Director: Pauline Harris MON Producer: Pauline Harris MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b04th9fd (Listen) MON Series 18, Jam, Jerusalem and an Awful Lot of Glitter MON MON Jam, Jerusalem and an Awful Lot of Glitter MON MON When Jeannie joined her local branch of the Women's MON Institute in Liverpool, she hoped for a bit of distraction MON from an ongoing, long term illness. But what she found there MON was a whole lot more than jam and Jerusalem. Before you MON could say Victoria sponge cake, she was sashaying down a MON catwalk dressed as a space alien, complete with ray gun, 8 MON inch heels and 3 inch red eyelashes, in front of a screaming MON audience. MON MON Welcome to the Vogue Ball - Liverpool's 21st century version MON of a phenomenon that swept the streets, and then the MON underground clubs of New York back in the 1980's. MON MON You might remember the Madonna song "Vogue" which spread the MON word - but this dance movement originated in the world of MON excluded black, gay street kids. Vogueing was an escape from MON a world which was set up to exclude them. It was all about MON fantasy, taking on a role for one night only of your dream MON persona; a Wall Street Banker; a glamorous diva; a film MON star, or even a creature from another galaxy. MON MON In "Lives In A Landscape", Julie Gatenby follows two teams MON competing in the Vogue Ball - the House of Lisbon, MON represented by Stephen the bartender, and The House of MON Twisted Stiches - made up of the entrire committee of the MON the Iron Maidens WI, while compere of the ball, Rikki MON Beadle-Blair fills in the history. MON MON Producer MON Sara Jane Hall. MON MON Stephen Lancaster-Frankland goes into cyborg mode for the MON Vogue Ball in Liverpool MON MON *Photographer: Karyn Dickinson* MON MON 11:30 Start/Stop b04th9fg (Listen) MON Series 2, Glastonbury 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 have tickets for Glastonbury. MON But the festival dates clash with Cathy's dad's birthday. MON Barney fears he will be marooned in a care home while his MON friends have the time of their lives at the music festival. MON At the festival Alice tries to lose David, Evan tries to get MON David to loosen his tie, and Fiona tries to get Alice to MON lose her inhibitions and talk about Barney. MON Meanwhile in the care home Barney is losing the will to live MON while being made to sing 'If You're Happy And You Know It MON Clap Your Hands'. MON MON Producer ..... Claire Jones. MON MON Credits MON Barney: Jack Docherty MON Cathy: Kerry Godliman MON Fiona: Fiona Allen MON Evan: John Thomson MON David: Charlie Higson MON Alice: Sally Bretton MON Producer: Claire Jones MON Writer: Jack Docherty MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04tcg70 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04th9fj (Listen) MON 8 December 1914 - Ralph Winwood MON MON A newcomer spells trouble for the inhabitants of St. MON Jude's... MON MON Written by: Sarah Daniels MON Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Ralph: Nicholas Murchie MON Barry: Kris Deedigan MON Mademoiselle De Lisle: Annabelle Dowler MON Dorothea: Rachel Shelley MON George: Ronan Raftery MON Isabel: Keely Beresford MON Ivor: Alun Raglan MON Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson MON Marieke: Olivia Ross MON PC Monk: Sam Swann MON Ramesh: Navin Chowdhry MON Hilary: Damian Lynch MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Lucy Collingwood MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04th9fl (Listen) MON Battle for the Countryside; Green Deal; School Publishing MON MON In England and Wales, the government's making more money MON available to help towards the cost of home improvements that MON save energy. Energy Minister Ed Davey explains how his MON department is learning from the failures of past schemes. MON MON An anthology of school verse that has left some parents MON angry - does the Young Writers scheme need to be more MON upfront about what they do? MON MON And as a new report with support from all political parties MON analyses food poverty in the UK, we'll be asking if better MON management of food waste really is the answer. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04tcg72 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04th9fq (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Manchester: Alchemical City b04tmlhh (Listen) MON Beginnings MON MON Jeanette Winterson presents her personal exploration of the MON city of Manchester, from its Celtic roots to the present day MON and beyond. She takes to the streets of the city to tell the MON stories of the disparate groups and events which formed this MON combative and insubordinate urban centre. MON MON Jeanette was born and works in Manchester and regards the MON city as always influencing, always transforming - an MON alchemical place. MON MON The sounds of Manchester, past and present, are woven MON between her words and thoughts. MON MON Episode 1: Beginnings MON From the Brigantes, the native inhabitants of the Pennines, MON and Queen Cartimandua and her arrangements with the Roman MON occupiers, to the birth of 38 Manchesters around the World. MON Underground Manchester, wild Manchester, watery Manchester. MON Damp, good for cotton, an underground rich with coal. Early MON education, the alchemy of John Dee and Puritanism. MON MON Written and Presented by Jeanette Winterson MON MON Produced by Kevin Dawson MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04td785 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04th9fv (Listen) MON Quicksands MON MON A young married couple, Tessa and James, hire a caravan for MON a week's holiday on the wind-swept Northern Irish coast with MON their two young children. It's make-or-break for their MON relationship: James is in love with someone else and wants a MON separation. Clambering over the sand dunes on the beach MON Tessa and the children get into difficulties and find MON themselves trapped in quicksand. When James realises what is MON happening to his family he turns and leaves them, running MON away. James insists he was running for help, but Tessa MON believes, has always believed, that James turned his back on MON his family and intended to leave them for dead. But just who MON is telling the truth? MON MON A drama about the slippery and shifting notions of truth and MON memory from acclaimed dramatist Lucy Caldwell. Lucy's MON previous dramas for Radio 4 include the Imison Award-winning MON 'Girl From Mars', 'Avenues of Eternal Peace', and 'Notes to MON Future Self.'. MON MON Credits MON Tessa: Barbara Adair MON James: James Greene MON Young Tessa: Laura Pyper MON Young James: Gerard McCarthy MON Louise: Amybeth McNulty MON Caroline: Clodagh Casey MON Angel Clare: Kieran Lagan MON Angel Clare: Mary Lindsay MON Writer: Lucy Caldwell MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b04thfrp (Listen) MON Series 28, Semi-Final 3, 2014 MON MON Which jazz musician's work is celebrated in the stage MON musical Five Guys Named Moe? And who was the architect of MON the grand opera house in Paris completed in 1875, which is MON sometimes known by his name? MON MON Paul Gambaccini asks the questions in the eclectic music MON quiz. The one remaining place in the grand Final will be MON decided between semi-finalists from Staffordshire, London MON and West Yorkshire. All three scored impressive victories in MON the series heats, and the competition will be intense. MON MON As well as answering general knowledge music questions, the MON competitors have to choose a special musical subject on MON which to answer their own questions - the choice of topics, MON as always, coming as a complete surprise. MON MON The winner returns in the 28th annual Counterpoint Final MON next week. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04tckjh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Frinton Forever b04thhpd (Listen) MON Frinton Summer Theatre has been staging weekly rep during MON the Summer season for 75 years. Every year, seven plays are MON performed back to back from mid July to the end of August. MON MON This Summer, to celebrate the anniversary, Richard Wilson MON agreed to go to Frinton for two weeks to rehearse and MON perform in a new play by Jon Canter - The Dog. MON MON We follow his progress from first day of rehearsal through MON to the last night - from rehearsing in the local scout hut MON and line runs in a beach hut, to the Friends of Frinton MON Summer garden party and the ever popular performance raffle. MON MON We hear from some of the key people who make Frinton's rep MON season happen every year, as well as from Sir Antony Sher MON who owes his Equity card and first ever professional job to MON Frinton. MON MON With many thanks to The Friends of Frinton Theatre. MON MON The radio version of The Dog can be heard on 9th December MON 2014 at 2.15pm on BBC Radio 4. MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04tj37t (Listen) MON Spiritualism MON MON The sale of Ouija Boards has soared recently due to a new MON horror film Ouija. The desire to make or maintain contact MON with the dead has been a feature of societies down the ages, MON but for one modern religion, Spiritualism, it continues to MON play a central role. Spiritualism is on the rise in Britain, MON increasing by 17 per cent between the 2001 and 2011 MON censuses. Ernie Rea discusses the appeal of Spiritualism MON with David Bruton, President of the Spiritualists' National MON Union, the Rev Dr Steve Jeffrey, and Dr Nadia Bartolini from MON the Open University. MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b04tj37w (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04tcg74 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04tj37y (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 4 MON MON The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the MON Victoria Hall in Stoke-on-Trent. Regulars Barry Cryer, MON Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel MON by Omid Djalili with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell MON attempts 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 b04tj380 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04tj382 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04th9fb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Afghan Women: Speaking Out, Losing Lives b04tj384 (Listen) MON Afghan Women: Speaking Out, Losing Lives paints a vivid MON portrait of the everyday lives of girls and women at a MON turning point in Afghan history. MON MON Lyse Doucet visits Kabul to see how the lives of Afghan MON girls and women have changed since the fall of the Taliban MON 13 years ago, and to hear concerns that these hard-won gains MON are already being threatened as the troops depart. MON MON From female illiteracy to maternal mortality and sexual MON violence, Afghanistan is still one of the worst places on MON earth for women's rights. MON MON Considerable advances have been made since the fall of the MON Taliban, as Lyse hears. MON MON She speaks with Rula Ghani, whose very public profile as the MON new First Lady - the first First Lady in a generation - MON gives a sense of how women's opportunities are improving, at MON least in cities such as Kabul. MON MON She visits the Rabia Balkhi Women's Hospital and the MON Zarghuna High School for Girls - the largest girls' school MON in the country. As doctors, midwives, new mothers, teachers, MON schoolgirls and one of the country's very few female rappers MON share their personal stories, she hears optimism about life MON in cities. MON MON But these women also share their grave concerns. MON MON Lyse hears shocking accounts of domestic violence and rape; MON the rapper, Paradise, shares the heart-breaking true story MON behind one of her songs; and Lyse chances upon an all too MON common instance of still-birth. MON MON Additionally, the testimonies of three women who had shared MON their stories for a play specially commissioned by Amnesty MON International, and whom Lyse had hoped to meet, are read by MON the actor Olivia Coleman, giving voice to the women who fear MON even today to speak out. MON MON A timely portrait of Afghanistan from Lyse Doucet, the BBC's MON Chief International Correspondent MON MON Producer : Beaty Rubens. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04sxv2h (Listen) MON Yemen's Swap Marriages MON MON 'I'll marry your sister if you marry mine. And if you MON divorce my sister, I'll divorce yours.' That is Yemen's MON 'Shegar', or swap marriage, an agreement between two men to MON marry each other's sisters, thereby removing the need for MON expensive dowry payments. But the agreement also states that MON if one marriage fails, the other couple must separate, too, MON even if they are happy. MON BBC Arabic's Mai Noman returns to her native Yemen and hears MON the stories of two women who have loved and lost because of MON Shegar. MON Nadia lives in the village of Sawan on the outskirts of the MON capital Sana'a with her family. She was married off at the MON age of twenty two and has three children. But because of her MON family's decision to marry her in the Shegar tradition she MON was forced to divorce when the other couple's marriage MON failed. Now she and her mother have to live with the stigma MON attached to divorce, and she only has limited access to her MON children, who remain with her ex-husband's family. MON Nora and her brother Waleed had little say in marrying their MON cousins through Shegar. But when one marriage failed, hard MON choices had to be made by everyone. Mai asks why an old MON tradition that forces you to love only to force you to part, MON is still practised in Yemen. MON MON Producer: Arlene Gregorius. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04sv2gx (Listen) MON Wildlife and Drought in East Africa MON MON As East Africa gets hotter and drier livestock are MON increasingly being grazed inside wildlife reserves. MON Inevitably this leads to predation by big cats. What does MON the future hold for the pastoralists, wildlife and the way MON of life of the Samburu? Monty Don explores this increasingly MON difficult issue with a field report from Samburu where a MON severe drought is taking its toll. Climate change MON predictions show that conditions will get worse and wildlife MON experts discuss the challenges ahead for nature and people. MON MON Professor Scott Creel MON Scott Creel is MON Professor of Ecology at Montana State University MON His current research mainly examines risk effects, or the MON costs of anti-predator responses by prey species. Recent MON research with many species has shown that MON direct killing constitutes only a fraction of the total MON limiting effect of predators on their prey. MON He and his students recently examined the responses of elk MON to variation in the risk of predation by wolves, including MON changes in behavior, group size, habitat selection, feeding MON ecology, and spatial distributions. They related these MON responses to changes in nutrition, physiology, demography MON and population dynamics. This work won the 2010 Carl Gustav MON Bernhard Medal from the MON Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences MON His primary field research is now with the MON Zambian Carnivore Programme MON headed by Dr Matt Becker, to examine risk effects and MON carnivore conservation in three ecosystems (Liuwa, South MON Luangwa and Kafue National Parks), with several species of MON predators and prey. This work aims to measure variation in MON direct predation rates and risk effects, to identify the MON ecological factors that drive this variation, and provide MON data for the conservation and management of predators and MON prey. In this work, the team studies African wild dogs, MON lions, spotted hyenas, cheetahs and leopards, together with MON their primary prey, which varies among species and MON ecosystems, but notably includes African buffalo, giraffe, MON wildebeest, zebra, impala, puku, lechwe and oribi. MON MON MON Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton MON Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton, pictured here in 1999, is one of MON world’s leading authorities on elephant conservation. His MON work focuses on understanding elephant choices by studying MON their movements and integrating findings into conservation MON and management strategies. He is the founder and CEO of MON Save the Elephants MON a British trust with a mission is to secure a future for MON elephants in Africa. MON During the 1960s, Douglas-Hamilton carried out the first MON in-depth scientific study of wildelephant social behavior in MON Tanzania, which paved the way for much of elephant research MON andconservation today. He introduced behavioral ecology to MON elephant conservation through detailed monitoring and MON recording of births, deaths and migrations. MON In 1979, Douglas-Hamilton led a comprehensive ivory trade MON study for USFWS that provided a foundation for subsequent MON ivory trade monitoring. He chronicled how Africa’s elephant MON population was halved between 1979 and 1989, and he was the MON first to alert the worldto the poaching crisis and was MON instrumental in bringing about the world ivory trade ban. MON From 1980 to 1982 he developed and led a successful MON emergency anti-poaching program inUganda’s national parks, MON where elephants were on the brink of extinction. His work MON has leddirectly to the halt in the species’ precipitous MON decline and to the subsequent stabilization of many elephant MON populations. MON Douglas-Hamilton was elected regional advisor for the MON International Union for Conservation of MON Nature (East Africa Region) MON and served this role until 1988. Through the mid-1990s, MON hecoordinated a number of elephant studies and projects MON including the Tsavo Elephant Count onbehalf of Government of MON Kenya and the East African Wildlife Society, European MON Economic Community / World Wildlife Fund African Elephant MON Programme, EC African Elephant Surveyand Conservation MON Project, Lake Manyara National Park Aerial Survey and the MON United NationsEnvironment Programme/World Wildlife Fund MON African Elephant Database Project. MON MON Dr Bilal Butt MON Bilal Butt is an Assistant Professor at the MON School of Natural Resources and Environment MON and a faculty affiliate of the MON African Studies Center MON at the University of Michigan. He is a people-environment MON geographer with regional specialisations in sub-Saharan MON Africa and technical expertise in geospatial technologies, MON ecological monitoring and social-scientific appraisals. MON His general research interests lie at the intersection of MON the natural and social sciences to answer questions of how MON people and wildlife are coping with, and adapting to MON changing climates, livelihoods and ecologies in semi-arid MON regions of sub-Saharan Africa. MON Currently, he is investigating the spatiality of livelihood MON strategies (resource access and utilization) among pastoral MON peoples under regimes of increasing climatic variability and MON uncertainty, and the nature of the relationships between MON wildlife and livestock in East Africa. MON MON Dr Jeff Price MON As one of the lead authors of the MON Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change MON (IPCC) Third and Fourth Assessment Reports, Dr Price shares MON in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC. MON He also served on the Convention on Biological Diversity MON Ad-hoc Technical Expert Group on Climate Change and MON Biodiversity and contributed to the UK Government’s Stern MON Review of the Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the US MON National Assessment on Climate Change Impacts on the United MON States. MON Dr Price is currently a Senior Researcher in the School of MON Environmental Sciences and Tyndall Climate Change Centre at MON the University of East Anglia. MON He recently completed a project investigating new ways of MON expressing uncertainty in communicating climate change and MON he is currently looking at the impacts of higher levels of MON climate change. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b04th9f4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04tcg76 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04tj386 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04tj8ny (Listen) MON Academy Street, Episode 1 MON MON A finely wrought and lyrical novel that recounts the MON life-span of a quiet and shy woman, Tess Lohan; from her MON childhood in 1940s rural Ireland, her emigration to New York MON in the early 1960s, becoming a single mother and raising her MON son in the 1970s and 1980s, right through to the present MON day. MON MON Short-listed on publication for the Irish Book Awards, this MON beautifully evoked novel opens with Tess aged seven, trying MON to understand and come to terms with her mother's death. MON MON Mary Costello grew up in County Galway. Her collection of MON short stories, The China Factory, was nominated for the MON Guardian First Book Award. Academy Street is her debut MON novel, about which J M Coetzee wrote: "With extraordinary MON devotion, Costello brings to life a woman who would MON otherwise have faded into oblivion." MON MON Read by Niamh Cusack MON MON Written by Mary Costello MON MON Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron MON MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Niamh Cusack MON Author: Mary Costello MON Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b04tj8nt (Listen) MON Series 4, Noel Gallagher (the A-Side) MON MON John Wilson continues with the latest series of Mastertapes, MON in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters MON about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in MON front of a live audience 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 9, A-side. 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' MON with Noel Gallagher MON MON In 2009 Noel Gallagher left Oasis - one of the seminal bands MON of the Britpop era with seven multi-platinum albums MON including: 'Definitely Maybe', '(What's The Story) Morning MON Glory?' and 'Be Here Now' - which became the fastest selling MON album in UK chart history. Two years later Noel Gallagher's MON High Flying Birds also went to Number 1 in the UK with MON tracks like "Everybody's On the Run", "AKA... What A Life!" MON and "The Death of You and Me". Praised for its psychedelic MON tinges and eternal themes of love, loss and hope, it's been MON described as the best collection of songs "since his Morning MON Glory days". MON MON With tracks inspired by New Orleans ragtime rhythms and MON Ennio Morricone-like strings, it put paid to rumours that MON its creator entered into a state of inertia after the end of MON Oasis. Noel Gallagher said of the album: "I won't criticize MON anything about Oasis because I loved being in that band and MON I was in charge of it, but there was always the feeling: how MON will this go down in Wembley, with 70,000 people braying for MON good times? This time I didn't have to think about that. MON I've got a guy playing wine glasses on one song, a saw on MON another. This is not Oasis." MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b04tj8p0 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 09 DECEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04tcg87 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04th9f6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04tcg89 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04tcg8c (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04tcg8f (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04tcg8h (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04v1vs7 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Dr Calvin Samuel. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04tjdld (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04sym21 (Listen) TUE Black-Chinned Hummingbird TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Liz Bonnin presents the North American black chinned TUE hummingbird. What seems to be a large green beetle is flying TUE erratically across a Los Angeles garden: suddenly, it hovers TUE in mid-air to probe a flower bloom; this is a black-chinned TUE hummingbird. Although often thought of as exclusively TUE tropical, a few species of hummingbirds occur widely in TUE North America and in the west; the Black-chinned hummingbird TUE is the most widespread of all. Both sexes are glittering TUE emerald above: the male's black throat is bordered with a TUE flash of metallic purple, which catches the sun. TUE Black-chinned "hummers" are minute, weighing in at just over TUE 3 grams. But they are pugnacious featherweights seeing off TUE rival males during intimidation flights with shrill squeals, TUE whilst remarkably beating their wings around 80 times a TUE second. They'll also readily come to artificial TUE sugar-feeders put out by householders to attract these TUE flying jewels to their gardens. TUE TUE Black-chinned hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) TUE TUE "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Dave Watts / naturepl.com. TUE NPL Ref 01137583 TUE © Dave Watts / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04tjdlg (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 b04tjdlj (Listen) TUE Reith Lectures: 2014, The Problem of Hubris TUE TUE Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande calls for a new approach to TUE the two great unfixable problems in life and healthcare - TUE ageing and death. He tells the story of how his daughter's TUE piano teacher faced up to terminal cancer and the crucial TUE choices she made about how to spend her final days. He says TUE the teacher was only able to do this because of an essential TUE honesty from her physicians and the people around her. Dr. TUE Gawande argues that the common reluctance of society and TUE medical institutions to recognise the limits of what TUE professionals can do can end up increasing the suffering of TUE patients towards the end of life. He proposes that both TUE doctors and individuals ask a series of simple but TUE penetrating questions to decide what kind of treatment is TUE appropriate - or whether treatment is appropriate at all. TUE And he praises the values of the hospice movement, in TUE putting quality of life before prolonging life. TUE TUE The programme was recorded at The Royal Society in Edinburgh TUE in front of an audience. TUE TUE The Reith Lectures are introduced and chaired by Sue Lawley TUE and produced by Jim Frank. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04ttzpx (Listen) TUE Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography, Episode 2 TUE TUE During the glittering 1920s and 30s, Elsa Schiaparelli was TUE the undisputed Queen of Fashion. Everyone who was anyone, TUE from Vivien Leigh to the Duchess of Windsor, entered her TUE doors on the Place Vendôme and obediently wore whatever she TUE instructed. TUE TUE Her clothes were beautifully made, but they were also TUE designed in a manner no one had seen before - buttons that TUE looked like butterflies, mermaids or carrots, trompe l'oeil TUE pockets that looked like lips, gloves with red nails TUE appliquéd on them. She was unique. TUE TUE Born into a prominent Italian family, she moved to London TUE and married a supposed Polish count who, it transpired, was TUE really a French con-man. His deportation during the First TUE World War saw them move to New York, where he abandoned TUE Schiaparelli and their baby daughter. Undaunted, she picked TUE herself up, moved to Paris and launched her meteoric career, TUE surviving the Second World War despite being under suspicion TUE of spying from both sides. TUE TUE Her story is one of pluck and determination, talent and TUE great imagination. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest TUE rival, she was one of the few female figures in the field at TUE the time. And her collaborations with artists such as Man TUE Ray, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacometti, TUE elevated the field of women's clothing design into the realm TUE of art. TUE TUE Reader: Abigail Thaw TUE TUE Written by Meryle Secrest TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE TUE Produced by Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Abigail Thaw TUE Author: Meryle Secrest TUE Abridger: Libby Spurrier TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04tjdll (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 b04tjdln (Listen) TUE Writing the Century: My Greenham, Episode 2 TUE TUE Writing the Century - My Greenham TUE By Fiona Evans TUE The series which explores the 20th century through the TUE diaries and correspondence of real people. Using the 1980's TUE Greenham Common diaries of Ginette Leach this is a funny and TUE moving coming of age story of a 50-year-old suburban TUE housewife. Ginette discovers her husband John is having an TUE affair, and she begins one herself, with a woman at Greenham TUE Common. She also experiences cutting the perimeter fence at TUE Greenham for the first time: An exhilarating and terrifying TUE experience. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ginette: Pippa Haywood TUE Older Ginette: Pauline Jefferson TUE Millie: Judith Barker TUE Ginette's Mum: Christine Cox TUE John: Jonathan Keeble TUE Writer: Fiona Evans TUE Director: Pauline Harris TUE Producer: Pauline Harris TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04tjdlq (Listen) TUE Orangutans and Drones TUE TUE Orang-utans live in the peat rainforests of Malaysia and TUE Indonesia. It can be tough terrain to travel through on foot TUE so studying and surveying wild orang-utans is difficult and TUE dangerous. Can drones help to answer questions about the TUE number and distribution of the 'people of the forest' and TUE monitor illegal logging of this endangered ape's habitat? TUE This week Shared Planet explores the potential of drones to TUE help us share the planet with orang-utans - but also TUE explores the possible pitfalls of using this controversial TUE technology. TUE TUE Dr Helen Morrogh-Bernard TUE Helen Morrogh-Bernard is the Founder and Director of TUE Orangutan Research at the TUE Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project TUE Helen has worked in the Sabangau peat-swamp forest since TUE 1995 where she identified the world’s largest population of TUE orangutans and then helped to stop illegal-logging and TUE secure their protection. With a small and dedicated research TUE team, she habituated 25 individuals and collected data on TUE orangutan activity, ranging, social and feeding behaviour, TUE identifying how orangutans were surviving in and utilising a TUE logged forest. TUE She now collaborates with a wide-range of scientists and TUE research projects, comparing orangutan behaviour between TUE geographical locations, habitats and islands, helping to TUE build up a complete picture of the ecology of this cryptic TUE ape. Her personal research interests focus on female range TUE development, dispersal, male-male interactions, TUE self-medication and the unique cultural traits of the TUE Sabangau orangutan population. TUE Helen completed a PhD at the TUE Wildlife Research Group TUE University of Cambridge in 2009, and continues to oversee TUE the orangutan behaviour research in Sabangau, whilst also TUE remaining committed to conservation and protection of this TUE critical habitat. TUE TUE Professor Serge Wich TUE Professor Serge Wich’s research focuses on primate TUE behavioral ecology, tropical rain forest ecology and TUE conservation of primates and their habitats. It is strongly TUE focused on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, but also on the TUE island of Borneo where he and his collaborators study the TUE Sumatran and Bornean orangutan. TUE He also studies primate communication and analyses the TUE meaning and function of calls to understand whether they are TUE learned and what the geographic variation of calls is. This TUE has the ultimate aim of informing theories on how human TUE speech evolved. TUE In addition, he am collaborating with TUE Professor Lian Pin Koh TUE to develop and use 'unmanned aerial vehicles' or 'drones' TUE for conservation and ecological research. This project has TUE put in place drones that fly at locations Africa, Asia, and TUE Europe. TUE TUE Dr Chris Sandbrook TUE Dr Chris Sandbrook is a political ecologist with diverse TUE research interests around a central theme of biodiversity TUE conservation and its relationship with society. TUE His current research activities includes investigating TUE trade-offs between ecosystem services at the landscape scale TUE in developing countries as a co-investigator in TUE Sustainable Poverty Alleviation from Coastal Ecosystem TUE Services (SPACES) TUE He also investigates the role of values and evidence in TUE shaping the decisions of conservationists and their TUE organisations with particular respect to the use of TUE market-based mechanisms in conservation, and the role of TUE evidence in conservation, including evidence for TUE biodiversity-poverty linkages. TUE He also analyses the social and political implications of TUE new technologies for conservation and has co-founded the TUE Games for Nature TUE platform, building on a Cambridge Conservation Initiative TUE (CCI) small grant. With Bill Adams, Chris is working to TUE develop 'Race the Wild' - a mobile phone app that will allow TUE the user to virtually 'race' against wild animals that are TUE tagged with GPS tracking devices. TUE He is also interested in the potential social and political TUE implications of the increasing use of 'Unmanned Aerial TUE Vehicles', or 'drones', in conservation, particularly in the TUE global south. TUE Twitter: TUE @csandbrook TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b04tjdls (Listen) TUE Series 19, La Boheme TUE TUE "La Boheme is a work of genius, for me it's the perfect TUE opera. There's not a bar or a word or anything you'd want to TUE alter. It just gets to you" - Opera Director John Copley TUE CBE. TUE TUE For the final programme in this series of Soul Music, we TUE venture back into the Parisian winter of Puccini's beloved TUE 'La Boheme' where legendary Opera Director John Copley CBE TUE reflects on his 40 years of bringing this tale of TUE friendship, love and loss to the stage of the Royal Opera TUE House. Alongside his memories of sharing pasta with a young TUE Pavarotti we hear the stories from those whose lives have TUE been touched by - and often reflect - the essence of this TUE most popular of operas. TUE TUE From the romantic gesture of a probationary constable TUE serenading his soon to be bus conductress wife in 1950's TUE Torquay to the moment that a devoted husband passed away - TUE La Boheme has touched the lives of opera lovers around the TUE world. TUE TUE Featuring interviews with author Mavis Cheek and opera TUE devotees Ray Tabb and Nancy Rossi. TUE TUE Produced by Nicola Humphries. TUE TUE Charles Castronovo as Rodolfo, Ermonela Jaho as Mimi TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04tcg8k (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04tjdlv (Listen) TUE 9 December 1914 - Ivy Layton TUE TUE The Pleasure Gardens Theatre in Folkestone prepares for its TUE variety show... TUE TUE Written by: Sarah Daniels TUE Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ivy: Lizzy Watts TUE Archie: Arthur Hughes TUE Ivor: Alun Raglan TUE Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson TUE PC Monk: Sam Swann TUE Syd: Gerry Hinks TUE Dolly Clout: Elaine Claxton TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04tjdlx (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04tcg8m (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04tjdlz (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Manchester: Alchemical City b04tlzh4 (Listen) TUE The Golden Sewer TUE TUE Jeanette Winterson presents her personal exploration of the TUE city of Manchester, from its Celtic roots to the present day TUE and beyond. She takes to the streets of the city to tell the TUE stories of the disparate groups and events which formed this TUE combative and insubordinate urban centre. TUE TUE Jeanette grew up in Accrington in Lancashire and regards the TUE city of Manchester as always influencing, always TUE transforming - an alchemical place. TUE TUE The sounds of Manchester, past and present, are woven TUE between her words and thoughts. TUE TUE Episode 2: The Golden Sewer. TUE From the site of the world's first passenger railway TUE station, we journey by rail and canal into the land of TUE Cottonopolis. TUE TUE Written and Presented by Jeanette Winterson TUE TUE Produced by Kevin Dawson TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04tj380 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04tjdxx (Listen) TUE The Dog TUE TUE Richard Wilson stars as Fraser McDonald, a counsellor trying TUE to save a marriage on its last legs. TUE TUE Jon Canter's hilarious new comedy features Charlie and TUE Apples - two people who started off as boss and secretary TUE and have ended up as adversaries on the cusp of murder. With TUE over thirty years of experience, has Fraser finally come up TUE against the one couple in a million who couldn't be helped? TUE TUE When he's not trying to help people, Fraser likes to spend TUE time with the love of his life - Grace, a golden retriever. TUE Their relationship is as simple as it is loving, with a deep TUE understanding that seems to evade most humans. Fraser would TUE be lost without her. TUE TUE The theatre version was first performed at Frinton Summer TUE Theatre 2014. Richard Wilson talks about his appearance in TUE the play and 75 years of the Frinton Summer weekly rep TUE season in Frinton Forever, broadcast on 8th December 2014 at TUE 4pm on Radio 4. TUE TUE Directed by Edward Max TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE TUE A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Fraser: Richard Wilson TUE Apples: Jasmine Hyde TUE Charlie: Patrick Marlowe TUE Director: Edward Max TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE Writer: Jon Canter TUE TUE 15:00 The Design Dimension b04tjdxz (Listen) TUE Series 2, For Better or Worse TUE TUE Tom Dyckhoff considers the digital future of design. He TUE examines an initiative to reduce response times in emergency TUE situations by the use of 'drone ambulances', looks at a TUE smart phone-based diagnostic eye examination for use in TUE remote locations, and talks to Dominic Wilcox about the pros TUE and cons of the driverless car. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall and Hana Walker-Brown TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b04tjf5g (Listen) TUE Series 4, Noel Gallagher (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 Vale Studios. Each TUE edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing TUE the artist about the album in question, and then, in the TUE B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions TUE feature exclusive live performances. TUE TUE Programme 10, the B-side. Having discussed the making of TUE 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds', his first studio album TUE since leaving Oasis (in the A-side of the programme, TUE broadcast on Monday 8th December and available online), Noel TUE Gallagher responds to questions from the audience, performs TUE acoustic live versions of some of the tracks from the album TUE and looks forward to his next musical project "Chasing TUE Yesterday" due out in 2015. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 Trauma Medicine b04tjfsy (Listen) TUE Trauma at War TUE TUE In the second of two programmes exploring the evolution of TUE trauma medicine, Dr Kevin Fong travels to Afghanistan to TUE meet the medical teams in Camp Bastion and discovers how the TUE hospital there has become the most successful trauma centre TUE in the world - saving the lives of servicemen and women who, TUE in the past, would never have survived their horrific TUE injuries. TUE TUE They call them "The Unexpected Survivors". The casualties TUE from the war in Afghanistan whose injuries were so severe TUE that they weren't expected to survive, but who survived TUE nevertheless. And since 2009, the number of those survivors TUE has increased to such a level that the standard tools for TUE measuring or scoring trauma injuries as a means of TUE predicting survival, no longer apply. This is part of the TUE medical legacy of ten years in Afghanistan. But how did that TUE come about? And what lessons can be passed on to help TUE casualties in civilian hospitals in the UK and around the TUE world? TUE TUE Kevin Fong begins at RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, TUE where, with unique access, he joins medical teams on a TUE week-long training course for MERT - the Medical Emergency TUE Response Team service that operates from a Chinook TUE helicopter in Camp Bastion. More than just an air ambulance, TUE the MERT is a mobile resuscitation unit, flying nurses, TUE paramedics and for the first time in modern warfare, doctors TUE right into the heart of battle to rescue and treat TUE casualties soon after injury. TUE TUE One of those is doctors is Surgeon Commander Dr Kate Prior TUE who first trained to go ou to Afghanistan in 2009 when the TUE fighting was at its fiercest: "it was busy, we knew it was TUE busy and the MERT was going out several times a day. We we TUE were seeing an awful lot of amputations, patients who'd lost TUE one leg, two legs, sometimes two legs and an arm. And so I TUE knew what to expect. But nothing prepares you for the first TUE real casualty that you see". TUE TUE MERT is impressive but it is only one link in the chain of TUE care so to discover how the system operates as a whole, TUE earlier this year Kevin travelled to Camp Bastion in TUE Afghanistan with one of the last medical teams to deploy out TUE there on Operation Herrick 19. Now as military medics return TUE to the UK, can success on the front line translate to the TUE emergency departments on the home front? TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04tjft0 (Listen) TUE Series 35, Arthur Smith on Emil Zatopek TUE TUE Matthew Parris - himself current holder of the House of TUE Commons marathon record time - meets comedian Arthur Smith, TUE who also turns out to have been a runner when he was TUE younger, and whose choice for a Great Life is an athlete TUE whom he has admired since his childhood. TUE TUE Emil Zátopek emerged onto the international stage in 1948 TUE when he became a sensation at the Olympics in London, but it TUE was his performance in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics which put TUE him in the record books. Already an established distance TUE runner, he bagged gold in the 5000 and 10000 metres and TUE then, having previously given no hint that he would be a TUE champion marathon runner, he also won that race. TUE TUE The expert witness is Pat Butcher, writer and ex-runner, who TUE is working on a biography of Zátopek, and he argues that TUE no-one is likely ever to equal Zátopek's achievement in TUE winning gold in three different distance events. TUE TUE Zátopek retired from competitive running in 1957 and later TUE fell heavily out of favour with the post- Dubcek regime in TUE Czechoslovakia but was rehabilitated after 1989 and remains TUE a much-cherished hero in Czech Republic and among the TUE running community. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Arthur Smith TUE Interviewed Guest: Pat Butcher TUE Producer: Christine Hall TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04tjft2 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04tcg8p (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b04tjft4 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Earning Your Corn TUE TUE Tom's mum is not best pleased when Tom's dad pressgangs her TUE into helping out at a celebration he's planning to celebrate TUE 168 years since the repeal of the Corn Laws ("Well, it'd be TUE tempting fate to hold on for the bicentennary") and they've TUE chosen the Toby Carvery as a suitable dining venue. TUE TUE Meanwhile, Tom has decided to buy a flat in London, much to TUE his gran's chagrin. 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 b04tjftl (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04tjftn (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04tjdln (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 23 Amazing Reasons This Radio Programme Will Change TUE Your Life b04tjfvy (Listen) TUE A new wave of digital upstarts is transforming the business TUE of journalism in weird and unusual ways. Maybe you've seen TUE headlines like '19 Things You Didn't Know Cats Could Do' and TUE 'Which Fictional Company Should You Actually Work At?' on TUE top of highly sharable stories, often in the form of lists, TUE designed to be shared on Facebook, Twitter and other social TUE networks. TUE Of all the news start-ups in recent years BuzzFeed has TUE arguably received the most, well, buzz - but it's a crowded TUE field with competitors including Vice, Mashable, Taboola and TUE others. TUE As these outlets mature, grabby 'listacles' such as '32 TUE Pictures You Need To See Before The World Ends' are TUE increasingly being joined by hard news from the world's war TUE zones and in-depth investigations and political features. TUE The trend towards sharing isn't just the domain of a few TUE high-tech start-ups - as newspapers and the BBC get to grips TUE with the digital era, they're increasingly looking at ways TUE to get their stories to people through social media. TUE Mukul Devichand, presenter of BBC Trending, has been talking TUE to some of the top names in the new news business, to find TUE out what makes a story spread online, whether pictures of TUE cats will always triumph over hard news, and what this all TUE means for the future of journalism - established players and TUE upstarts alike. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04tjfx9 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b04tjfxc (Listen) TUE Stockpiling possessions and collecting obsessively can tip TUE into Hoarding Disorder, a condition recently recognised as a TUE mental health problem. TUE Martin tells Claudia Hammond how his growing collection of TUE cars, trucks and bikes awaiting "renovation" was growing out TUE of control, and how a self help group for hoarders helped TUE him to come to face up to his problem. NHS Clinical TUE Psychologist Sophie Holmes describes the need for services TUE to provide help and support for this often hidden group of TUE people. TUE TUE 21:30 Document b04d1mrm (Listen) TUE The Hague Warning TUE TUE When Rodney Dennys, a counter-intelligence officer working TUE in the feverish atmosphere of The Hague in July 1939 TUE received a phone call from a German agent working for the TUE British and warning that Germany would invade Poland in just TUE over seven weeks time, he insured the message was cyphered TUE back to Britain immediately. In the event the warning was TUE accurate to within days, in spite of a sustained belief that TUE Hitler might still be placated. TUE TUE Historian Heather Jones explores the document in which TUE Rodney Dennys recalls his intelligence coup and the TUE subsequent inaction of the British authorities. She asks why TUE it was that the Foreign office and leading figures in the TUE Joint Intelligence Committee failed to act on such a TUE detailed warning and she finds out about the German agent, TUE Wolfgang Zu Putlitz who gave it. It was the last in a long TUE series of accurate intelligence reports he'd supplied by way TUE of his link on the British side, a certain Klop Ustinov, TUE father of the famous actor and playwright, Peter. TUE TUE The programme examines the state of the British intelligence TUE community at the time, the split between appeasers and those TUE who distrusted every German move and why this Document and TUE the later Venlo incident in which two British intelligence TUE officers walked into a trap laid by the Germans, was a TUE Secret Intelligence Crisis. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04tcg8r (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04tjg2l (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04tjg2n (Listen) TUE Academy Street, Episode 2 TUE TUE Mary Costello's finely wrought debut novel tracing the arc TUE of a quiet and sensitive woman's life - from Tess Lohan's TUE childhood in 1940s rural Ireland through to her emigration TUE to America and a career as a nurse in New York. TUE TUE "The house is too quiet now." Seven-year-old Tess flounders TUE in the aftermath of her mother's death. TUE TUE Read by Niamh Cusack TUE TUE Written by Mary Costello TUE TUE Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Niamh Cusack TUE Author: Mary Costello TUE Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 23:00 Yes, Nina Conti Really Is on the Radio b01sm78h (Listen) TUE Not since Educating Archie, more than 50 years ago, has a TUE ventriloquist had a show on the radio. Nina Conti is TUE Britain's leading vent and has been all round the world with TUE her puppet Monkey, Gran, Dog and others. Not only is Nina an TUE expert at her craft, she demonstrates that she can think on TUE her feet, chatting to the audience and her two guests: TUE physicist Jim Al-Khalili and Wagner from X Factor. She also TUE invites her audience to bring puppets of their own, which TUE she brings magically to life. This is a celebration of the TUE ancient craft, and a chance to hear one of Britain's TUE funniest women at the top of her game. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Nina Conti TUE Interviewed Guest: Jim Al-Khalili TUE Interviewed Guest: Wagner TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b04tjg6z (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 10 DECEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04tcg9r (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04ttzpx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04tcg9t (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04tcg9w (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04tcg9z (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04tcgb1 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04v1w0w (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Dr Calvin Samuel. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04tlfrm (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04symph (Listen) WED Northern Jacana WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Liz Bonnin presents the northern jacana at home in Central WED American wetlands. A cross between a coot and a plover, WED northern Jacanas are found in swamps in Central America and WED Mexico. They're long legged birds with a black head and WED neck, and a chestnut body with yellow highlights. And, WED northern jacanas are polyandrous; the females have more than WED one partner. Males build platforms of floating vegetation WED and attract females by calling or posturing. If a female WED mates with a male, he may use his platform as a nest for her WED eggs. The female doesn't care for the eggs, but goes in WED search of up to three other mates. The result is that a WED single female may have several males raising different WED clutches of eggs for her and each clutch may contain the WED eggs of more than one male! WED WED Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Claudio Contreras / naturepl.com. WED NPL Ref 01258258 WED © Claudio Contreras / naturepl.com WED WED Recording of Northern Jacana by Gerrit Vyn / Ref: ML140224 WED WED This programme contains a WED wildtrack recording of the northern jacana WED kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab WED of Ornithology; recorded by Gerrit Vyn on 2 Oct 2006, in WED Veracruz, Mexico. WED WED 06:00 Today b04tlfrq (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 b04tlfrs (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04tv039 (Listen) WED Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography, Episode 3 WED WED During the glittering 1920s and 30s, Elsa Schiaparelli was WED the undisputed Queen of Fashion. Everyone who was anyone, WED from Vivien Leigh to the Duchess of Windsor, entered her WED doors on the Place Vendôme and obediently wore whatever she WED instructed. WED WED Her clothes were beautifully made, but they were also WED designed in a manner no one had seen before - buttons that WED looked like butterflies, mermaids or carrots, trompe l'oeil WED pockets that looked like lips, gloves with red nails WED appliquéd on them. She was unique. WED WED Born into a prominent Italian family, she moved to London WED and married a supposed Polish count who, it transpired, was WED really a French con-man. His deportation during the First WED World War saw them move to New York, where he abandoned WED Schiaparelli and their baby daughter. Undaunted, she picked WED herself up, moved to Paris and launched her meteoric career, WED surviving the Second World War despite being under suspicion WED of spying from both sides. WED WED Her story is one of pluck and determination, talent and WED great imagination. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest WED rival, she was one of the few female figures in the field at WED the time. And her collaborations with artists such as Man WED Ray, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacometti, WED elevated the field of women's clothing design into the realm WED of art. WED WED Reader: Abigail Thaw WED WED Written by Meryle Secrest WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED WED Produced by Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Abigail Thaw WED Author: Meryle Secrest WED Abridger: Libby Spurrier WED Producer: Joanna Green WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04tlfrv (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 b04tlfrx (Listen) WED Writing the Century: My Greenham, Episode 3 WED WED Writing the Century - My Greenham WED By Fiona Evans WED The series which explores the 20th century through the WED diaries and correspondence of real people. Using the 1980's WED Greenham Common diaries of Ginette Leach this is a funny and WED moving coming of age story of a 50-year-old suburban WED housewife. Change is afoot: Ginette comes out to her son, WED helps to pull down whole swathes of fencing at Greenham WED Common, and applies to university. WED WED Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. WED WED Credits WED Ginette: Pippa Haywood WED Older Ginette: Pauline Jefferson WED Millie: Judith Barker WED Ginette's Mum: Christine Cox WED John: Jonathan Keeble WED Writer: Fiona Evans WED Director: Pauline Harris WED Producer: Pauline Harris WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04tlfrz (Listen) WED Carly - Talking to My Stillborn Son WED WED Fi Glover introduces a mother who gave birth a year ago, WED knowing that her child had died, and who now talks to him WED about how much he continues to be present in her life. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 How to Hire a Master b04tlfs1 (Listen) WED Jolyon Jenkins looks into the mysterious world of the WED head-hunter. WED WED Head-hunters deal in high-value, high-profile appointments, WED charging an equally high fee. But few companies or WED individuals like to openly acknowledge their work. WED WED Why would a company need outside consultants to search its WED own backyard, as some do? These companies are often accused WED of such exclusivity that they neglect talented potential WED candidates - many of whom lie outside the so called inner WED circle, who may be female or from non-traditional WED backgrounds. What do they really do for the money aside from WED calling round a small group of the usual suspects? WED WED Headhunting is often seen as expensive, manipulative and WED secretive 'an unscrupulous business of networks and address WED books, lunches and cajolery'. This, in part, because the WED hunting has to be imperceptible except to the hunted. WED WED But this is not the whole picture. Are there wider benefits WED to be gained from a head-hunter's research? WED WED Jolyon Jenkins follows academic head-hunter Helen Yallop as WED she searches for a Master for an Oxbridge college, and gains WED a a fascinating insight into a hidden world. WED WED Presenter...Jolyon Jenkins WED Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED 11:30 Hobby Bobbies b04tlfs3 (Listen) WED Series 2, Blackmail WED WED Sitcom where Britain's longest serving PCSO -and Britain's WED laziest - make quite a pairing. WED WED Written by Dave Lamb (the voice of Come Dine With Me) and WED starring Richie Webb (Horrible Histories), Nick Walker, WED Chris Emmett and Noddy Holder. WED WED This week, a little bit of murky police history comes back WED to haunt the Haling squad. Will the stench of corruption WED overpower the whiff of lager at the inter-force darts WED tournament? WED WED Written by Dave Lamb WED WED Produced by Steve Doherty WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Geoff: Richie Webb WED Nigel: Nick Walker WED The Guv: Sinead Keenan WED Nina: Pooja Shah WED Bernie: Chris Emmett WED Geoff's Dad: Noddy Holder WED Producer: Steve Doherty WED Writer: Dave Lamb WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04tcgb3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04tlfs5 (Listen) WED 10 December 1914 - Victor Lumley WED WED The Graham family welcome a charming visitor. WED WED Written by: Sarah Daniels WED Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Victor: Joel MacCormack WED Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies WED Esme: Katie Angelou WED Florrie: Claire Rushbrook WED Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw WED Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown WED Isabel: Keely Beresford WED Kitty: Ami Metcalf WED Sylvia: Deborah Findlay WED Toby: Joe Bannister WED Writer: Sarah Daniels WED Director: Lucy Collingwood WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04tlfs7 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04tcgb5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04tlfs9 (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Manchester: Alchemical City b04tlz05 (Listen) WED Politics WED WED Jeanette Winterson presents her personal exploration of the WED city of Manchester, from its Celtic roots to the present day WED and beyond. She takes to the streets of the city to tell the WED stories of the disparate groups and events which formed this WED combative and insubordinate urban centre. WED WED Jeanette grew up in Accrington in Lancashire and regards the WED city of Manchester as always influencing, always WED transforming - an alchemical place. WED WED The sounds of Manchester, past and present, are woven WED between her words and thoughts. WED WED Episode 3. Politics WED Anti-slavery protests, Peterloo, the Manchester Guardian, WED and mill workers 'pulling the plug out'. An exploration of WED radical Manchester - the city where Marx and Engels sat WED together and where Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney WED challenged with questions on Votes for Women. WED WED Written and Presented by Jeanette Winterson WED WED Produced by Kevin Dawson WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04tjftl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04tlfsf (Listen) WED The Sound of Roses WED WED by Adrian Penketh. WED WED A dark thriller set in France, written in French and WED English. WED WED Alice teaches business English near Grenoble. When Serge WED asks her for a late night English lesson, there's no way she WED could have guessed what he was planning... WED WED A tense, fast-moving story about two people who've come WED adrift from their lives in a sea of globalisation. WED WED Directed by Abigail le Fleming WED WED The Writer WED Adrian Penketh is an actor turned writer. His debut play for WED radio, The Waterbucks, was nominated for the Richard Imison WED Award. His other plays include: Onysos the Wild; The Road to WED Calvary; A Man Cut in Slices; A Special Kind of Dark; The WED Mouse House, an adaptation of Maupassant's Une Vie and a WED modern adaptation of Balzac's The Wild Ass's Skin, which was WED runner-up for the Prix Italia in 2011. He lives in France. WED WED Credits WED Alice: Bethan Walker WED Serge: Stephane Cornicard WED Michael: Shaun Mason WED Ethan: Bettrys Jones WED Director: Abigail le Fleming WED Writer: Adrian Penketh WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b04tlfsh (Listen) WED Tracing Lost Assets WED WED Have you lost track of an old pension fund, insurance WED policy, current or savings account? Call 03700 100 444 WED between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED Around £20bn worth of unclaimed assets are held by UK WED financial institutions, including millions of pounds in WED forgotten bank and building society accounts, unpaid WED insurance policies, lost pensions and premium bonds. WED WED So how do you find out if any of this money is yours? WED WED Who do you approach and what happens if the company which WED looked after your money no longer exists? WED WED Are there time limits for making a claim and how long will WED it take to get a result? WED WED Will you have to pay or can you search free of charge? WED WED Perhaps you've tried to trace a lost account without success WED and need some help to solve the problem? WED WED Whatever your question or experience let us know. Paul Lewis WED and guests will be here on Wednesday to help reunite you WED with your lost assets. WED WED Joining Paul will be: WED WED James Jones, Unclaimed Assets Register. WED Fiona McEvoy, My Lost Accounts. WED Michelle Cracknell, The Pensions Advisory Service. 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 b04tjfxc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b04tlfsk (Listen) WED Global Payday Lending - After Redundancy WED WED Global payday loans: Laurie Taylor talks to Carl Packman, a WED researcher and writer, who has analysed the growth of a WED worldwide industry. Today there are more payday lender shops WED in the US than McDonald's restaurants. They cater mainly to WED those without access to mainstream credit and with no other WED option. But how did they evolve and proliferate? And what is WED their impact on the most financially vulnerable consumers? WED Also, redundancy at a Welsh aluminium plant. Tony Dobbins, WED Reader in Employment Studies at Bangor Business School, asks WED why re-training has failed to provide jobless workers with a WED fresh future. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Carl Packman WED WED writer, researcher and broadcaster WED WED Find out more about WED Carl Packman WED WED *Payday Lending – Global Growth of the High-Cost Credit WED Market WED *Publisher: Palgrave Pivot US WED ISBN-10: 113737280X WED ISBN-13: 978-1137372802 WED WED Tony Dobbins WED WED Reader in Employment Studies, Bangor University WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Tony Dobbins WED WED Abstract: * WED 'Make do and mend’ after redundancy at Anglesey Aluminium: WED critiquing human capital approaches WED *Dobbins, T., Plows, A. and Lloyd-Williams, H. (2014) WED Work Employment and Society WED DOI: 10.1177/0950017013491454 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. 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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 b04tlfsm (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04tlfsp (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04tcgb7 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b04tlfsr (Listen) WED Music 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, something we all know to WED be true; he then reveals the quirks of history and the WED fascinating stories that led up to this point. WED WED In this first edition, Paul takes as his starting point WED Dolly Parton's standout performance at the 2014 Glastonbury WED Festival. How did 120,000 people in a Somerset field, plus WED many millions more at home, come to be watching a WED 68-year-old woman from Tennessee on a Sunday afternoon? The WED story inevitable takes in a Haitian rebellion, Slovenian WED hunting, Scottish whisky, Italian electronics and the WED American son of a Russian farmer who didn't like music. WED Because nothing and no-one exist in a vacuum. WED WED Paul Sinha is an acclaimed stand-up who was nominated for WED the Edinburgh Comedy award for his show Saint or Sinha?. He WED frequently appears on The News Quiz, The Now Show, and WED Fighting Talk. He is a resident 'chaser' on the ITV quiz WED show The Chase. He wrote and starred in one-offs The Sinha WED Test (2011) and The Sinha Games (2012) on Radio 4 and in WED 2013 had his own four-part series, Paul Sinha's Citizenship WED Test. WED WED Written and performed by Paul Sinha. WED Produced by Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Paul Sinha WED Performer: Paul Sinha WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04tlfst (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04tlfsw (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04tlfrx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b04tlfsy (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04tlft0 (Listen) WED Series 4, Black in America WED WED Professor Christina Greer asks what it means to be black in WED America today. WED WED Speaking at McNally Jackson Books in New York City, WED Professor Greer describes herself as a 'JB' - 'just black' - WED a black American without a hyphenation. She argues that many WED new black immigrants into the United States are increasingly WED keen to avoid that designation, choosing instead to retain WED their accents, their citizenship or their separate identity. WED WED She argues that this is caused by the poor status of black WED people in the United States, and asks whether it presages an WED historic change in what American immigration has meant: a WED nation where new immigrants do all they can to integrate, WED not to remain separate. WED WED The presenter is Amanda Stern. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b04tlft2 (Listen) WED Animal Personality WED WED Professor Adam Hart explores the newest area in the science WED of animal behaviour - the study of personality variation WED within species as diverse as chimpanzees, wandering WED albatrosses, sharks and sea anemones. What can this fresh WED field of zoology tells us about the variety of personality WED among humans? WED WED We are all familiar with the variety of temperament and WED character in the dog, Canis lupus familiaris, but this is WED the product of selective breeding by humans over WED generations. WED WED A more surprising revelation is that up and down the animal WED kingdom, Nature favours a mix of personality types within a WED species. Oxford ornithologists working in nearby Wytham WED Woods have discovered that in a small bird species such as WED the Great tit, both bold and shy individuals prosper in WED different ways. The same applies to hermit crabs and sea WED anemones in the rock pools along the South Devon coast. In WED these creatures, scientists see a stripped down equivalent WED of the Extraversion-Introversion dimension of human WED personality. In sharks, researchers have discovered that WED there are sociable individuals and others who prefer their WED own company. WED WED Human personality is generally tested with questionnaires. WED Animals have to be assessed by more indirect, arguably more WED objective methods. Techniques range from squirting rock pool WED creatures with syringes of water to pushing a blue WED spacehopper with a stick towards a nesting Wandering WED Albatross. WED WED The commonest personality trait identified so far in WED non-human animals is Extraversion-Introversion. In primates, WED personality variation is more multidimensional. WED Psychologists have agreed on five fundamental dimensions of WED human personality - Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, WED Neuroticism and Conscientiousness. Among different monkey WED and ape species, primatologists have documented variation in WED 3 or more of these traits. In fact, in chimpanzees, they WED have discovered the Big Five plus an additional personality WED dimension which we humans lack, fortunately. WED WED Adam Hart asks if how relevant the recent discoveries in WED animal personality research are to understanding the nature WED of personality in people, and whether this is an aspect of WED human nature which is still undergoing evolution. WED WED Adam Hart is an evolutionary ecologist and Professor of WED science communication at the University of Gloucestershire. WED WED Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b04tlfrs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04tcgbg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04tlft4 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04tlft6 (Listen) WED Academy Street, Episode 3 WED WED Mary Costello's acclaimed debut novel - nominated for the WED Irish Book Awards - traces the arc of a quiet woman's life: WED from Tess Lohan's childhood in 1940s rural Ireland through WED to her emigration to America and a career as a nurse in New WED York. WED WED Life continues for the Lohan family, baby Oliver returns WED home and Tess is sent away to boarding school. Years pass WED and then Tess's beloved sister Claire is invited to go out WED to America and it seems that things will never be the same WED again. WED WED Read by Niamh Cusack WED WED Written by Mary Costello WED WED Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Niamh Cusack WED Author: Mary Costello WED Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 23:00 The Lach Chronicles b04tlft8 (Listen) WED Series 2, Drinking Beers with Mom 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 of Edinburgh. WED WED His notorious 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 The road to success has many distractions, particularly on WED the journey through rock and roll. As an outsider, Lach WED didn't know what he was missing until a fateful night on the WED New Jersey border opened his eyes to the possibilities of WED the universe, the appeal of the Dark Side of the Moon and WED the high school house party. WED WED Produced by Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01dtxh1 (Listen) WED Series 1, Work WED WED In the last of the series, Tim has laid on a final episode WED treat: A professional musician will accompany him as he WED tackles the thorny issue of 'work'. Tom Basden is also WED present. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden & Isy Suttie WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b04tlftb (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 11 DECEMBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04tcgcm (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04tv039 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04tcgcp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04tcgcr (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04tcgct (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04tcgcw (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04v1xk7 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Dr Calvin Samuel. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04tlggt (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04symwf (Listen) THU Marabou Stork THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Liz Bonnin presents the gaunt undertaker looking marabou THU stalk in Africa. It is not very scientific to describe a THU bird as ugly, but the marabou stalk would not win any prizes THU for beauty or elegance. This bulky stork, with a funereal THU air, has a fleshy inflatable sac under its throat which THU conspicuously wobbles as it probes African rubbish dumps for THU carrion. Seemingly more at home amongst the melee of THU vultures and jackals squabbling over a carcass, it is known THU in some areas as the undertaker bird. But, in the air the THU marabou stork is an elegant sight. It has one of the largest THU wingspans of any bird, up to 3 metres across. Soaring THU effortlessly on these broad wings the storks scan the THU sub-Saharan landscape for food. Marabou storks are doing THU well, thanks to our throwaway society and they've learned to THU connect people with rubbish - a salutary association one THU might say. THU THU Marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of David Tipling / naturepl.com. THU NPL Ref 01272479 THU © David Tipling / naturepl.com THU THU 06:00 Today b04tljjy (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 b04tljk0 (Listen) THU Behavioural Ecology THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Behavioural Ecology, the THU scientific study of animal behaviour in light of Darwin's THU theory of evolution. Behavioural ecology developed as part THU of zoology in the second half of the 20th century and led THU researchers to ask what adaptive advantages do animals gain THU from behaving in the ways they do. THU THU Producer: Luke Mulhall. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Luke Mulhall THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04tv04x (Listen) THU Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography, Episode 4 THU THU During the glittering 1920s and 30s, Elsa Schiaparelli was THU the undisputed Queen of Fashion. Everyone who was anyone, THU from Vivien Leigh to the Duchess of Windsor, entered her THU doors on the Place Vendôme and obediently wore whatever she THU instructed. THU THU Her clothes were beautifully made, but they were also THU designed in a manner no one had seen before - buttons that THU looked like butterflies, mermaids or carrots, trompe l'oeil THU pockets that looked like lips, gloves with red nails THU appliquéd on them. She was unique. THU THU Born into a prominent Italian family, she moved to London THU and married a supposed Polish count who, it transpired, was THU really a French con-man. His deportation during the First THU World War saw them move to New York, where he abandoned THU Schiaparelli and their baby daughter. Undaunted, she picked THU herself up, moved to Paris and launched her meteoric career, THU surviving the Second World War despite being under suspicion THU of spying from both sides. THU THU Her story is one of pluck and determination, talent and THU great imagination. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest THU rival, she was one of the few female figures in the field at THU the time. And her collaborations with artists such as Man THU Ray, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacometti, THU elevated the field of women's clothing design into the realm THU of art. THU THU Reader: Abigail Thaw THU THU Written by Meryle Secrest THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU THU Produced by Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Abigail Thaw THU Author: Meryle Secrest THU Abridger: Libby Spurrier THU Producer: Joanna Green THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04tljk2 (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 b04tljk4 (Listen) THU Writing the Century: My Greenham, Episode 4 THU THU Writing the Century - My Greenham THU By Fiona Evans THU The series which explores the 20th century through the THU diaries and correspondence of real people. Using the 1980's THU Greenham Common diaries of Ginette Leach this is a funny and THU moving coming of age story of a 50-year-old suburban THU housewife. Ginette's sister Gina arrives from Canada because THU their mother has Cancer. She's appalled at Ginette's THU studenty dress and overall behaviour and insists on coming THU to Greenham to see what it's like for herself. Later, THU Ginette is arrested. THU THU Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU Credits THU Ginette: Pippa Haywood THU Older Ginette: Pauline Jefferson THU Millie: Judith Barker THU Ginette's Mum: Christine Cox THU John: Jonathan Keeble THU Writer: Fiona Evans THU Director: Pauline Harris THU Producer: Pauline Harris THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04tljk6 (Listen) THU Washington Red Skins THU THU Fans of the Washington Redskins, one of the most popular THU American football teams in the country, are fiercely proud THU of their dark crimson Indian head logo. They say it is a THU sign of respect and that the name 'Redskins' goes back 80 THU years. But to many Native Americans, the indigenous people THU who lived in the United States before the arrival of THU European settlers, the word Redskins is hateful. For them THU it's a painful reminder of how their people have been THU oppressed and neglected even to this very day. THU THU Mike Wendling travels from North Dakota , to Minneapolis to THU Washington DC to explore the controversy which, thanks to THU social media and a growing number of Native American THU campaigners, has now become a burning national issue. THU THU At Turtle Mountain reservation, Mike meets Jordan Brien, a THU young hip hop artist with a troubled past who is now THU determined to get the name of the team changed. He says his THU people shouldn't be reduced to mascots, and he urges young THU Native Americans to take a stand against racism. His cause THU has got the support of some in the US Congress and even THU President Obama has said if the name is offensive to a THU sizeable group of people, the owners should "think about THU changing it". But for diehard fans like Chap Petersen, who THU has been going to Redskins games for four decades, such a THU change is unthinkable. And the club's owner Daniel Snyder THU has vowed never to discard the name whatever the press, THU pollsters and politicians say. THU THU 11:30 Blood, Sage and Grace b04tljk8 (Listen) THU Lorna Sage's classic memoir, Bad Blood, is a story about how THU books can be passports out of the 'hell' of childhood. When THU Grace Dent first read it, it made a huge impact on her, THU forcing her to question her own childhood and her THU relationship with writing. THU THU Exiled in a remote parish on the Welsh borders, Bad Blood THU tells the tale of a strange upbringing in a haunted postwar THU Britain. 'I've never read anything which explores, with such THU biting humour and energy, the way rage and frustrated desire THU are passed down the family line. I've always felt I have a THU great memoir in me but I'd have to wait for a lot of people THU to die before I could write it,' says Grace. THU THU She visits the Shropshire vicarage where Bad Blood is set THU and talks to Lorna's daughter Sharon and to close friends THU and colleagues - including the writers Marina Warner and Ali THU Smith who describe what it was like to live with Lorna. THU Grace also meets Lorna's ex-husband Victor Sage, who THU describes how Lorna read constantly, 'She ate and read at THU the same time, without looking up, I had to get used to that THU when I married her.' THU THU In the 1960s, Lorna became a Professor of English Literature THU at the University of East Anglia and established an THU international reputation as a critic, scholar and teacher THU with a dedication to women's writing. But she also inspired THU generations of students who came to UEA to listen to hear THU her voice. THU THU Lorna was revered as a teacher - but her life story made her THU famous. Bad Blood won the Whitbread prize for biography in THU 2001, a triumph cruelly clouded by her death from emphysema THU a week later, aged 57. THU THU Produced by Sarah Cuddon THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04tcgcy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b04tljkb (Listen) THU 11 December 1914 - Isabel Graham THU THU Despite the best of intentions, things don't go to plan for THU Reverend Winwood... THU THU Written by: Sarah Daniels THU Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Isabel: Keely Beresford THU Esme: Katie Angelou THU Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw THU Kitty: Ami Metcalf THU Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw THU Ralph: Nicholas Murchie THU Sylvia: Deborah Findlay THU Toby: Joe Bannister THU Victor: Joel MacCormack THU Receptionist: Clive Hayward THU Soldier: Damian Lynch THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04tljkd (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04tcgd0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04tlyx3 (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Manchester: Alchemical City b04tlyx5 (Listen) THU Music THU THU Jeanette Winterson presents her personal exploration of the THU city of Manchester, from its Celtic roots to the present day THU and beyond. She takes to the streets of the city to tell the THU stories of the disparate groups and events which formed this THU combative and insubordinate urban centre. THU THU Jeanette grew up in Accrington in Lancashire and regards the THU city of Manchester as always influencing, always THU transforming - an alchemical place. THU THU The sounds of Manchester, past and present, are woven THU between her words and thoughts. THU THU Episode 4: Music THU The cotton had gone, the ship canal had gone, the money had THU gone. Then music arrived. From Herman's Hermits to Joy THU Division and The Smiths, making music that moved beyond the THU stereotype of the northern practical man. THU THU Written and Presented by Jeanette Winterson THU THU Produced by Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04tlfst (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p9l1s (Listen) THU Rumpole, Episode 1 THU THU By John Mortimer. THU Adapted for radio by Richard Stoneman. THU THU Benedict Cumberbatch and Timothy West star as the younger THU and elder Rumpole in this new story. THU THU In 1964, Rumpole returns to Oxford, where he studied law, to THU defend a young gardener, Peter Vernon, accused of THU blackmailing the Master of St Joseph's College, Sir Michael THU Tuffnell. THU THU Peter and Sir Michael had enjoyed a friendship that provoked THU rumours of homosexuality - still illegal in those days. Sir THU Michael has gone to the police alleging Peter was about to THU accuse him publicly of sodomy. Peter denies the charge and, THU indeed, is engaged to be married to his solicitor - a young THU woman by the name of Sue Galton. Rumpole sees through a plot THU to depose the Master and, sensing Peter's underlying THU honesty, he defends his client. But, in doing so, he's THU forced to re-assess the choices he's made in his career and THU his marriage to She Who Must Be Obeyed. THU THU Director: Marilyn Imrie THU A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Older Rumpole: Timothy West THU Younger Rumpole: Benedict Cumberbatch THU Hilda Rumpole: Jasmine Hyde THU Nicholas Rumpole: Louis Tafler-Hyde THU Humphrey Grice: Stephen Critchlow THU Judge Everglades: Stephen Critchlow THU Sue Galton: Faye Castelow THU Peter Vernon: Adam Gillen THU Sir Michael Tuffnell: Adrian Scarborough THU Claude Erskine-Brown: Nigel Anthony THU Porter: Nigel Anthony THU Writer: Richard Stoneman THU Director: Marilyn Imrie THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04tljkj (Listen) THU Nature Reserves in Cumbria THU THU Caz Graham visits two Nature Reserves in Cumbria to find out THU what happens on wildlife reserves in winter and meets the THU people working away to maintain these conservation areas. THU THU It's cold outside: many birds have flown south for the THU winter and the smaller mammals have gone into hibernation, THU but there is still life to be found on nature reserves, if THU only in the form of teams of conservationists maintaining THU the area for next year's visitors. THU THU Caz heads first to Foulshaw Moss, an expanse of peat bog THU that has been restored over the past decades to ensure the THU peat continues to grow and squelches her way around the wet THU habitat. THU THU She then heads to Roudsea Nature Reserve to find a team at THU work preparing the woodland for the tiny, hibernating THU dormice that make the area their home. THU THU Presenter: Caz Graham THU Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b04tchw1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b04tcxm4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04tljkl (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 the people who created THU some of the most famous sound effects in the history of THU science fiction cinema. This week, Ben Burtt on the voice of THU E.T. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Ben Burtt THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04tlk96 (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04tlk9b (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04tcgd2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 My Teenage Diary b04tlk9h (Listen) THU Series 6, Oona King THU THU Rufus Hound is joined by the Labour politician Baroness Oona THU King. Through her diaries we discover her growing up from a THU roller-skating 11 year-old who wants a new hamster to a 19 THU year-old politics student who wants to be Prime Minister. THU THU Produced by Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Rufus Hound THU Interviewed Guest: Oona King THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04tlk9p (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04tlk9s (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04tljk4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04tlk9v (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04tlk9z (Listen) THU Cabin Fever THU THU Cabin Fever THU Finding your comfort zone can be difficult at 35,000 feet. THU As cash strapped carriers try to put more passengers on each THU plane, flyers are feeling the squeeze. But there are THU innovations and advancements being made in aircraft design THU and London is leading the way with a cluster of firms in THU this specialist market. Peter Day asks about the width and THU breadth of these changes and when they will start to make THU some difference to air travellers everywhere. THU THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04tlk96 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b04tljk0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b04tcgd4 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04tlkb1 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04tlkp0 (Listen) THU Academy Street, Episode 4 THU THU In this fine debut, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel THU Award, Mary Costello recounts the life of Irish farmer's THU daughter, Tess, in a series of spare vignettes that are THU punctuated by beautifully evoked epiphanies. THU THU In tonight's episode, set in 1962, Tess leaves Ireland THU behind to make a new life for herself in America, joining THU her beloved sister Claire in New York. THU THU Read by Niamh Cusack THU THU Written by Mary Costello THU THU Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Niamh Cusack THU Author: Mary Costello THU Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 23:00 Another Case of Milton Jones b0138xmh (Listen) THU Series 5, Lorry Driver THU THU Milton Jones is the king of the world of refrigerated THU haulage with his very own fleet of iced lorries. But his THU 1000th lorry contains a secret more deadly than one of his THU mum's famous all-day breakfasts.. THU THU He's joined in his endeavours by his co-stars Tom THU Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Dave Lamb ("Come Dine With Me") THU and Lucy Montgomery ("Down 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. THU The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ( "Spamalot"), THU Lucy Montgomery ("Down The Line"), Dave Lamb ("Come Dine THU With Me") and Ben Willbond ("Horrible Histories") THU THU David Tyler's radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm THU Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, Another Case Of Milton THU Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley THU Hogg Goes Off, The 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree THU and even, going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits THU include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, THU Absolutely, The Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's THU Run, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria THU Wood's dinnerladies. THU THU Produced & directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b04tll4w (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 12 DECEMBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04tcgf2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04tv04x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04tcgf4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04tcgf6 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04tcgf8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04tcgfb (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04v1y64 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Dr Calvin Samuel. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04tlqzp (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04syy3w (Listen) FRI Morepork FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Liz Bonnin presents the morepork or Ru-Ru, New Zealand's FRI only surviving native owl. Strange double notes in the FRI forests of New Zealand were once thought to be cries from FRI the Underworld. But these calls are most likely to be that FRI of a morepork calling. Its familiar call earned it the FRI alternative Maori name of "ruru". Largely nocturnal, it has FRI brown, streaky feathers and large bright yellow eyes which FRI are well adapted for almost silent night hunting forays for FRI large insects, spiders, small birds and mammals. In Maori FRI mythology, moreporks, or "ruru" are spiritual birds, and can FRI represent the ancestral spirit of a family, taking the form FRI of a woman known as "Hine-Ruru" or "owl woman" who acts as a FRI guardian, protecting and advising the family members. FRI FRI Morepork [aka Southern boobook] (Ninox novaeseelandiae) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com. FRI NPL Ref 01369382 FRI © Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com FRI FRI Recording of southern boobook (morepork) by Matthew D Medler FRI / Ref: ML 136145 FRI FRI This programme contains a wildtrack recording of the FRI southern boobook (morepork) FRI kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab FRI of Ornithology; recorded by Matthew D Medler on 25 Apr 2004, FRI in Pongakawa Ecological Reserve, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04tlx6w (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 b04tckjf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04tv0pj (Listen) FRI Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography, Episode 5 FRI FRI During the glittering 1920s and 30s, Elsa Schiaparelli was FRI the undisputed Queen of Fashion. Everyone who was anyone, FRI from Vivien Leigh to the Duchess of Windsor, entered her FRI doors on the Place Vendôme and obediently wore whatever she FRI instructed. FRI FRI Her clothes were beautifully made, but they were also FRI designed in a manner no one had seen before - buttons that FRI looked like butterflies, mermaids or carrots, trompe l'oeil FRI pockets that looked like lips, gloves with red nails FRI appliquéd on them. She was unique. FRI FRI Born into a prominent Italian family, she moved to London FRI and married a supposed Polish count who, it transpired, was FRI really a French con-man. His deportation during the First FRI World War saw them move to New York, where he abandoned FRI Schiaparelli and their baby daughter. Undaunted, she picked FRI herself up, moved to Paris and launched her meteoric career, FRI surviving the Second World War despite being under suspicion FRI of spying from both sides. FRI FRI Her story is one of pluck and determination, talent and FRI great imagination. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest FRI rival, she was one of the few female figures in the field at FRI the time. And her collaborations with artists such as Man FRI Ray, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacometti, FRI elevated the field of women's clothing design into the realm FRI of art. FRI FRI Reader: Abigail Thaw FRI FRI Written by Meryle Secrest FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI FRI Produced by Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Abigail Thaw FRI Author: Meryle Secrest FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04tlxk5 (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 b04tlqzr (Listen) FRI Writing the Century: My Greenham, Episode 5 FRI FRI Writing the Century - My Greenham FRI By Fiona Evans FRI The series which explores the 20th century through the FRI diaries and correspondence of real people. Using the 1980's FRI Greenham Common diaries of Ginette Leach this is a funny and FRI moving coming of age story of a 50-year-old suburban FRI housewife. For her action at Greenham, Ginette's serving a FRI short sentence in Holloway Prison. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ginette: Pippa Haywood FRI Older Ginette: Pauline Jefferson FRI Millie: Judith Barker FRI Ginette's Mum: Christine Cox FRI John: Jonathan Keeble FRI Writer: Fiona Evans FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI FRI 11:00 Becoming Myself: Gender Identity b04tlqzt (Listen) FRI Trans Men FRI FRI A revealing series which goes inside the Charing Cross FRI Gender Identity Clinic in Hammersmith, London - the largest FRI and oldest in the world - to explore the condition of gender FRI dysphoria - a sense of distress caused by a disjunction FRI between biological sex and gender identity. FRI FRI With growing mainstream discussion prompted by high-profile FRI transgender people like boxing promoter Frank Maloney, FRI WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning and model Andrej Pejic, FRI gender dysphoria is fast becoming more visible. Indeed there FRI has been a steady rise in the numbers of referrals to Gender FRI Identity Clinics across the country and patient numbers at FRI Charing Cross have doubled in the last five years. FRI FRI This series follows a group of transgender patients pursuing FRI treatment for gender dysphoria in order to 'become FRI themselves'. In the first programme we meet Freddie, FRI Mitchell and Blade, who were born biologically female and FRI are seeking treatment as 'trans men'. The second programme FRI centres on 'trans women' Bethany, Emma and Tanya, who are FRI making the opposite journey. FRI FRI We also hear from the psychiatrists, endocrinologists and FRI surgeons as they meet and assess the patients on a FRI day-to-day basis. Their treatment decisions have the FRI potential to transform the lives of their patients, but FRI these irrevocable changes are not made lightly. FRI FRI Narrator: Adjoa Andoh FRI FRI Produced by Melissa FitzGerald FRI A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Just William - Live! b03ymzcl (Listen) FRI Series 4, The Outlaws and the Triplets FRI FRI As a highlight of last year's Cheltenham Festival of FRI Literature, Martin Jarvis performed the first of two Richmal FRI Crompton comic classics, live on-stage. FRI FRI In 'The Outlaws and The Triplets', Henry's mother demands he FRI takes his baby sister out in her pram. The Outlaws loyally FRI join him on this 'walk of shame'. The problem is that they FRI end up with three babies and three prams. Which one is FRI theirs? FRI FRI A packed house rocks with laughter as Jarvis, genius of the FRI spoken word, dazzles his audience with Just William as a FRI 'stand-up' classic. FRI FRI Performed by Martin Jarvis FRI FRI Director: Rosalind Ayres. FRI A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Martin Jarvis FRI Director: Rosalind Ayres FRI Author: Richmal Crompton FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04tcgfd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04tlqzw (Listen) FRI 12 December 1914 - Norman Harris FRI FRI Epic drama series set in Britain during the First World War. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04tlyrr (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04tcgfg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04tlyrt (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Manchester: Alchemical City b04tlyrx (Listen) FRI Vision of the Future FRI FRI Jeanette Winterson presents her personal exploration of the FRI city of Manchester, from its Celtic roots to the present day FRI and beyond. She takes to the streets of the city to tell the FRI stories of the disparate groups and events which formed this FRI combative and insubordinate urban centre. FRI FRI Jeanette grew up in Accrington in Lancashire and regards the FRI city of Manchester as always influencing, always FRI transforming - an alchemical place. FRI FRI The sounds of Manchester, past and present, are woven FRI between her words and thoughts. FRI FRI Episode 5: Vision of the Future. FRI A computer called BABY, Alan Turing, 25 Nobel prize winners FRI and the wonders of graphene. An ice age boulder connects FRI Manchester with its own long history back through time. FRI FRI Written and Presented by Jeanette Winterson FRI FRI Produced by Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04tlk9p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pfx04 (Listen) FRI Rumpole, Rumpole and the Expert Witness FRI FRI Written by by John Mortimer. Adapted for radio by Richard FRI Stoneman. FRI FRI Benedict Cumberbatch and Timothy West star in this new FRI Rumpole story. FRI FRI It's 1964. Rumpole is asked to defend a GP, Dr Ned Dacre, FRI who is accused of murdering his wife, Sally. Dr Ned Dacre's FRI father is also a GP, Dr Henry Dacre, and it is he who asks FRI Rumpole to take on the case. FRI FRI Dr Henry met Rumpole during the Penge Bungalow Murder trial FRI and believes Rumpole's the man to get his son off this FRI trumped-up charge. The plot thickens when the local FRI pathologist, Pamela Gall, turns out to be an old flame of Dr FRI Ned's. It seems that Pamela never forgave Dr Ned for dumping FRI her and marrying Sally instead. FRI FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Older Rumpole: Timothy West FRI Younger Rumpole: Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Hilda Rumpole: Jasmine Hyde FRI Nicholas Rumpole: Louis Tafler-Hyde FRI Erskine-Brown: Nigel Anthony FRI Owen Munroe QC: Nigel Anthony FRI Henry: Adrian Scarborough FRI Dr Ned Dacre: Daniel Weyman FRI Dr Harry Dacre: Ewan Bailey FRI Judge Carstairs: Ewan Bailey FRI Dr Pamela Gall: Claire Skinner FRI Author: John Mortimer FRI Adaptor: Richard Stoneman FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Catherine Bailey FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04tlr02 (Listen) FRI Glasgow FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from FRI Glasgow. Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson FRI join him to answer audience questions. 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 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b04tcytb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Sunday] FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04tlyrz (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b04tlys1 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04tlr04 (Listen) FRI Kate and Rachel - Not a Bad Thing, to Ask for Help FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a fell runner FRI who had a taste of what disability is like when she broke FRI her ankle, and her disabled friend who had polio as a child. 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 b04tlys3 (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04tcgfj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b04tlr06 (Listen) FRI Series 85, Episode 8 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, who is joined by Camilla Long, Romesh Ranganathan FRI and Rufus Hound, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Camilla Long FRI Panellist: Romesh Ranganathan FRI Panellist: Rufus Hound FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04tlr08 (Listen) FRI Elizabeth needs her mum. Meanwhile, Carol steps into the FRI breach. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Caroline Harrington FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04tlr0b (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04tlqzr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04tlr0d (Listen) FRI Natalie Bennett, Jeremy Browne MP, Ken Livingstone, Jacob FRI Rees Mogg MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Gordano School in Portishead near Bristol with leader FRI of the Green Party Natalie Bennett, former Home Office FRI Minister Jeremy Browne MP, Former Mayor of London and now FRI Labour NEC member Ken Livingstone, and Conservative back FRI bench MP Jacob Rees Mogg. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04tlr0g (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04tlr0j (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 8-12 December 1914 FRI FRI This week, newcomers spell trouble for St Jude's and the FRI police are unprepared for a crime wave... FRI FRI Story-led by: Katie Hims FRI Written by: Sarah Daniels FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Norman: Sean Baker FRI Toby: Joe Bannister FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown FRI Ramesh: Navin Chowdhry FRI Dolly Clout: Elaine Claxton FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies FRI Barry: Kris Deedigan FRI Mademoiselle De Lisle: Annabelle Dowler FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Wolfgang: Clive Hayward FRI Syd: Gerry Hinks FRI Laurie: Will Howard FRI Archie: Arthur Hughes FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Telegraph Messenger: Damian Lynch FRI Victor: Joel MacCormack FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Henrietta: Stephanie Racine FRI Ivor: Alun Raglan FRI George: Ronan Raftery FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Marieke: Olivia Ross FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI PC Monk: Sam Swann FRI Ivy: Lizzy Watts FRI Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI Producer: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04tcgfl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04tlys5 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04tlr0l (Listen) FRI Academy Street, Episode 5 FRI FRI Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, Mary Costello's FRI debut is a tender portrayal of a quiet woman's life. FRI FRI It's 1962, and Tess has left Ireland to make a new life for FRI herself in America, working as a nurse in New York. Shy and FRI reticent, she has been introduced to her flatmate's cousin, FRI David, and he has left a deep impression upon her. FRI FRI Read by Niamh Cusack FRI FRI Written by Mary Costello FRI FRI Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Niamh Cusack FRI Author: Mary Costello FRI Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b04tjft0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b04tlr6k (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04tlr6m (Listen) FRI Tom and Sandra - Life Goes On FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple who are FRI beginning to acknowledge the ageing process and that it FRI means their future is finite. 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
05 December, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 06/12/2014 - 12/12/2014
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