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SAT SATURDAY 13 DECEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04tcghk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04tv0pj (Listen) SAT Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography, Episode 5 SAT SAT During the glittering 1920s and 30s, Elsa Schiaparelli was SAT the undisputed Queen of Fashion. Everyone who was anyone, SAT from Vivien Leigh to the Duchess of Windsor, entered her SAT doors on the Place Vendôme and obediently wore whatever she SAT instructed. SAT SAT Her clothes were beautifully made, but they were also SAT designed in a manner no one had seen before - buttons that SAT looked like butterflies, mermaids or carrots, trompe l'oeil SAT pockets that looked like lips, gloves with red nails SAT appliquéd on them. She was unique. SAT SAT Born into a prominent Italian family, she moved to London SAT and married a supposed Polish count who, it transpired, was SAT really a French con-man. His deportation during the First SAT World War saw them move to New York, where he abandoned SAT Schiaparelli and their baby daughter. Undaunted, she picked SAT herself up, moved to Paris and launched her meteoric career, SAT surviving the Second World War despite being under suspicion SAT of spying from both sides. SAT SAT Her story is one of pluck and determination, talent and SAT great imagination. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest SAT rival, she was one of the few female figures in the field at SAT the time. And her collaborations with artists such as Man SAT Ray, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacometti, SAT elevated the field of women's clothing design into the realm SAT of art. SAT SAT Reader: Abigail Thaw SAT SAT Written by Meryle Secrest SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT SAT Produced by Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Abigail Thaw SAT Author: Meryle Secrest SAT Abridger: Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04tcghm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04tcghp (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04tcghr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04tcght (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04tlrjj (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Judy SAT Merry. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04tlrjl (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04tcghw (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04tcghy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04tljkj (Listen) SAT Nature Reserves in Cumbria SAT SAT Caz Graham visits two Nature Reserves in Cumbria to find out SAT what happens on wildlife reserves in winter and meets the SAT people working away to maintain these conservation areas. SAT SAT It's cold outside: many birds have flown south for the SAT winter and the smaller mammals have gone into hibernation, SAT but there is still life to be found on nature reserves, if SAT only in the form of teams of conservationists maintaining SAT the area for next year's visitors. SAT SAT Caz heads first to Foulshaw Moss, an expanse of peat bog SAT that has been restored over the past decades to ensure the SAT peat continues to grow and squelches her way around the wet SAT habitat. SAT SAT She then heads to Roudsea Nature Reserve to find a team at SAT work preparing the woodland for the tiny, hibernating SAT dormice that make the area their home. SAT SAT Presenter: Caz Graham SAT Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04v29gs (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Brassicas SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Sally SAT Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04tcgj0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04v29gv (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 b04v29gx (Listen) SAT Suzi Perry SAT SAT The BBC's Formula 1 presenter, Suzy Perry, joins Richard SAT Coles and Aasmah Mir to discuss life on the road, her SAT passion for speed, her rock and roll childhood and time SAT spent working backstage at her local theatre. SAT SAT Ben Collins, ex-"The Stig" from the BBC's Top Gear, takes SAT Richard on a circuit of Rockingham Racetrack. SAT SAT With more than 30 years' experience Mark Thompson shares his SAT passion for "amateur astronomy", gives simple steps on how SAT you can get started without spending a fortune and explains SAT what is happening with The Geminid meteor shower this SAT weekend. SAT SAT Hermen, an outreach worker for The Connection at St. SAT Martins, supported by the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal, recalls SAT his time living on the street. SAT SAT Robin Ollington describes how his suggestion led to SAT Buckingham Palace displaying a welcoming Christmas Tree. SAT SAT Katie Rogers shares her story of how, as a city executive, SAT she followed her childhood passion to run away to become a SAT circus ringmaster. SAT SAT And actress Wendi Peters chooses her Inheritance Tracks - I SAT Won't Last A Day Without You by Carpenters, and Hello Dolly SAT by Barbra Streisand. SAT SAT Produced by Louise Corley. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Suzi Perry SAT Interviewed Guest: Ben Collins SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark Thompson SAT Interviewed Guest: Wendi Peters SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b04v29gz (Listen) SAT Series 9, Greenwich SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the programme in Greenwich. SAT SAT Taking questions from a local audience are food historian SAT Annie Gray, Masterchef winner Tim Anderson, and former Head SAT of Creative Development for Heston Blumenthal James "Jocky" SAT Petrie. SAT SAT The team talk cocktails to keep scurvy at bay, political SAT pallets, jellied eels and timing in the Kitchen. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT Produced by Victoria Shepherd SAT Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b04v29h1 (Listen) SAT Tom Newton Dunn of The Sun looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04tcgj2 (Listen) SAT A New Empire SAT SAT 'For God, Tsar and Nation.' That's the motto of some of SAT those fighting with the pro-Russia separatists in eastern SAT Ukraine. Tim Whewell's been to talk to them about their SAT dreams of a new Orthodox autocratic state; Mary Harper, in SAT Mogadishu, has been finding out why there's a love affair SAT going on between Somalia and Turkey; South Koreans are big SAT believers in plastic surgery but Steve Evans, in Seoul, says SAT there are now negative headlines after a string of news SAT reports about botched operations; Bangladesh is known as a SAT prolific producer of clothes for the mass market but SAT Caroline Eden's been discovering it also makes saris so fine SAT they're highly coveted and hugely expensive. And after more SAT than a quarter of a century Justin Marozzi has mixed SAT feelings as he bids farewell to the Moroccan town regarded SAT as being the hashish capital of the world. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04tcgj4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04v29h3 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b04tlr06 (Listen) SAT Series 85, Episode 8 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, who is joined by Camilla Long, Romesh Ranganathan SAT and John Robins, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Camilla Long SAT Panellist: Romesh Ranganathan SAT Panellist: John Robins SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04tcgj6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04tcgj8 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04tlr0d (Listen) SAT Jeremy Browne MP, Ken Livingstone, Jacob Rees Mogg MP, Polly SAT Toynbee SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Gordano School in Portishead near Bristol with former SAT Home Office Minister Jeremy Browne MP, Former Mayor of SAT London and now Labour NEC member Ken Livingstone, SAT Conservative back bench MP Jacob Rees Mogg and Guardian SAT columnist Polly Toynbee. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04tcgjb (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 b04v29h5 (Listen) SAT The Penny Dreadfuls: Macbeth Rebothered SAT SAT A brand new comedy play by The Penny Dreadfuls that tells an SAT alternative tale of this noble King. Greg McHugh stars as SAT Macbeth with Susan Calman as the narrator. Other roles SAT played by Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Humphrey Ker, David Reed SAT and Thom Tuck. SAT SAT Written by David Reed with additional material by Humphrey SAT Ker SAT Produced by Julia McKenzie. SAT SAT Credits SAT Macbeth: Greg McHugh SAT Narrator: Susan Calman SAT Actor: Margaret Cabourn-Smith SAT Actor: Humphrey Ker SAT Actor: David Reed SAT Actor: Thom Tuck SAT Writer: David Reed SAT Writer: Humphrey Ker SAT Producer: Julia McKenzie SAT Photographer: Idil Sukan SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b04tjdls (Listen) SAT Series 19, La Boheme SAT SAT "La Boheme is a work of genius, for me it's the perfect SAT opera. There's not a bar or a word or anything you'd want to SAT alter. It just gets to you" - Opera Director John Copley SAT CBE. SAT SAT For the final programme in this series of Soul Music, we SAT venture back into the Parisian winter of Puccini's beloved SAT 'La Boheme' where legendary Opera Director John Copley CBE SAT reflects on his 40 years of bringing this tale of SAT friendship, love and loss to the stage of the Royal Opera SAT House. Alongside his memories of sharing pasta with a young SAT Pavarotti we hear the stories from those whose lives have SAT been touched by - and often reflect - the essence of this SAT most popular of operas. SAT SAT From the romantic gesture of a probationary constable SAT serenading his soon to be bus conductress wife in 1950's SAT Torquay to the moment that a devoted husband passed away - SAT La Boheme has touched the lives of opera lovers around the SAT world. SAT SAT Featuring interviews with author Mavis Cheek and opera SAT devotees Ray Tabb and Nancy Rossi. SAT SAT Produced by Nicola Humphries. SAT SAT Charles Castronovo as Rodolfo, Ermonela Jaho as Mimi SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04v2b31 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT The Canadian singer songwriter Kiesza talks about writing SAT her smash hit record 'Hideaway' in 90 minutes and how the SAT Canadian army wanted to train her as their first female SAT sniper. SAT SAT Harriet Harman on why Prime Ministers Questions is such a SAT turn off for most men and women. SAT SAT Zoe Williams discusses the madness of modern parenting SAT SAT We hear how two charities are supporting young people in the SAT business world from Neeta Patel of the New Entrepreneurs SAT Foundation. SAT SAT We cook the perfect Christmas dinner with Yottam Ottolenghi, SAT Allegra McEvedy and Trine Hahnemann. SAT SAT Why if you're a woman in part time work you're more than SAT likely to become 'stuck' in a low paid job? SAT SAT We hear from Ginette Leach whose life changed when she SAT joined the peace camps at Greenham Commmon. SAT SAT We run through the four women shortlisted for the BBC Sports SAT Personality of the Year award. SAT SAT And the writer and former chief Woman reporter at the Daily SAT Express M.C. Beaton talks about her vices and how she feels SAT about being the most borrowed UK adult fiction author from SAT our Libraries. SAT SAT Kiesza SAT Kiesza’s SAT debut single 'Hideaway' went straight to number one and SAT she’s just released the album 'Sound Of A Woman'. The SAT Canadian singer-songwriter talks to Jane about writing and SAT recording her smash hit in 90 minutes, the treatment of SAT women in the music industry; turning to the Navy to get over SAT a failed ballet career, and how the Canadian Army wanted to SAT train her as their first female sniper. SAT SAT Harriet Harman SAT Harriet Harman, says that winning over women voters is an SAT essential part of the Labour Party’s General Election SAT strategy. She argues that women would be better off with SAT their policies and that they’ll be fielding more women SAT candidates to stand for parliament next May. Jane talks to SAT the Rt Hon Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party SAT about her party’s record and its plans. SAT SAT Modern Parenting SAT Zoe Williams has just brought out a polemic entitled, The SAT Madness of Modern Parenting. Parents, she argues have SAT managed perfectly well for centuries, so why do today’s SAT mothers and fathers make such an almighty fuss about SAT everything? Zoe touches on all the controversial parenting SAT hotspots from advice in pregnancy about SAT diet SAT and SAT alcohol SAT breastfeeding, staying at home or working, and how to school SAT your offspring. She joins Jane in the studio. SAT SAT Neeta Patel SAT Neeta Patel is the CEO of the SAT New Entrepreneurs Foundation SAT and a trustee of the SAT Young Women’s Trust SAT She joins Jane, to talk about the work both charities do in SAT supporting young people in the business world. SAT SAT Three Wise Chefs Cook the Perfect Christmas Dinner SAT SAT Woman’s Hour will be bringing you three top chefs who will SAT each cook part of the festive meal. Allegra McEvedy, will SAT show us how to cook the SAT perfect roast goose SAT with herb stuffing. The internationally renowned Israeli SAT born chef and restaurant owner Yotam Ottolenghi, will SAT prepare two vegetable side dishes of SAT root mash, and a special Brussels sprouts SAT recipe that he claims will even convert sprout haters. And SAT the Danish chef Trine Hahnemann, will prepare a classic SAT Scandinavian SAT rice pudding with hot cherry sauce SAT which she says ‘...is the best pudding in the world’! Join SAT our three wise chefs as they cook up a feast for Emma SAT Barnett live in the studio, and give their top tips for a SAT stress free Christmas. SAT Roast Goose with Golden Breadcrumb and Herb Stuffing SAT SAT Brussels Sprouts with Caramelised Garlic and Lemon Peel and SAT Root Mash SAT SAT Scandinavian Rice Pudding with Hot Cherry Sauce SAT SAT SAT The Reality of Life as a Low Paid, Part-Time Worker SAT We look at the realities of working part-time work on low SAT pay: can you still get promoted when you’re part time? How SAT do you remain productive without ending up working more than SAT your contracted hours? Jane Garvey is joined by Senior SAT Equality Policy Officer with the SAT TUC SAT Sally Brett and the Executive Director of SAT Adnams SAT Karen Hester to find out what is it really like to be a SAT part-time, low paid worker. SAT SAT Ginette Leach SAT Ginette Leach, was a married housewife from Kent who's life SAT changed when she joined the peace camps at Greenham Common. SAT She left her husband, went to university and came out as a SAT lesbian. Now her diaries, written during the protests, have SAT been dramatized for our SAT Writing the Century SAT series. Ginette speaks to Jane Garvey. SAT SAT BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014 SAT This Sunday it is the SAT BBC Sports Personality of the Year SAT There are four sportswomen on the shortlist of 12. Caroline SAT Barker, presenter of SAT Sportsworld SAT on the BBC World Service, joins Sheila to gauge their chance SAT of success. SAT SAT M.C. Beaton SAT SAT The author and former chief woman reporter at the Daily SAT Express, SAT M.C. Beaton SAT has penned well over 100 novels, from regency romances, to SAT murder mysteries. She joins Jane in studio. SAT Agatha Raisin: The Quiche of Death is broadcast on Sky 1 on SAT Boxing Day at 8.30pm SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT Interviewed Guest: Kiesza SAT Interviewed Guest: Harriet Harman SAT Interviewed Guest: Zoe Williams SAT Interviewed Guest: Yotam Ottolenghi SAT Interviewed Guest: Allegra McEvedy SAT Interviewed Guest: Trine Hahnemann SAT Interviewed Guest: Ginette Leach SAT Interviewed Guest: MC Beaton SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04tcgjd (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04tlrjl (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04tcgjg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04tcgjj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04tcgjl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04v2b33 (Listen) SAT Scottee, Stephen Fry, Jon Hamm, Chris Hadfield, Agyness SAT Deyn, Bollywood Brass Band SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Stephen Fry, Jon Hamm, Chris SAT Hadfield, Agyness Deyn and Scottee for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. With music from Bollywood SAT Brass Band. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Stephen Fry SAT More Fool Me is published by Michael Joseph and is out now SAT SAT Jon Hamm SAT ‘Black Mirror White Christmas Special’ is on Tuesday 16th SAT December at 21.00 on Channel 4. SAT SAT Chris Hadfield SAT ‘YOU ARE HERE: Around the World in 92 Minutes’ is published SAT by Macmillan and available now. SAT SAT Agyness Deyn SAT ‘Electricity’ is in cinemas now. SAT SAT Bollywood Brass Band SAT SAT Bollywood Brass Band play Rich Mix, London on Wednesday 17th SAT December and Wiltshire Music Centre on Sunday 22nd February SAT 2015 SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04v2b35 (Listen) SAT Frank Field SAT SAT Chris Bowlby profiles the veteran Labour MP and co-author of SAT this week's report on hunger, Frank Field, who is one of the SAT most unusual politicians in Britain. SAT SAT Variously described as "independent-minded" and a "free SAT thinker" Field has been in Parliament for more than 30 SAT years, representing Birkenhead, which contains some of the SAT most deprived wards in the country. SAT SAT He had to fight off a hard left challenge from Militant at SAT the beginning of his career and he has long been a SAT campaigner against poverty. His radical views on welfare SAT haven't always endeared him to his Labour colleagues but he SAT is famous for the friends he has made across the political SAT divide. SAT SAT Most remarkably, perhaps, he was one of those who told SAT Margaret Thatcher, shortly before she resigned, that it was SAT time for her to go. We'll hear from friends, both Labour and SAT Conservative, who speak warmly of a man of dogged SAT determination and great personal integrity. But we'll also SAT hear from critics who say he's not a natural team player who SAT was failed in his brief period as a member of Toby Blair's SAT first government. SAT SAT Producer: Tim Mansel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04tcgjn (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs sharp, critical discussion of the SAT week's cultural events. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04v2b83 (Listen) SAT Gone with the Wind: A Legacy SAT SAT Author, journalist and academic Diane Roberts examines the SAT impact of one of the most successful Hollywood movies of all SAT time, 75 years after its release. SAT Using previously un-broadcast extracts from archive SAT interviews with cast and crew, conducted by the veteran SAT Hollywood correspondent Barbra Paskin, Diane looks at how SAT the book and film came about, the reaction it received SAT across America, and its lasting legacy. SAT SAT It's been called racist, discriminatory, retrograde, and SAT offensive - but, as we discover, the importance of Gone With SAT The Wind lies in part in the conversation it provokes about SAT an ugly and often overlooked chapter in American history. SAT SAT We hear how issues around race dominated the film's premiere SAT in Atlanta and even spilled over on Oscar night. Hattie SAT McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Academy SAT Award but she was racially segregated from her co-stars at SAT the ceremony - made to sit at a separate table at the back SAT of the room. SAT SAT Gone with the Wind had a $3.7m budget - unheard of at the SAT time. It grossed over $390m globally at the box office and SAT it was filmed and presented on a scale not seen in modern SAT productions. There were a massive 554 speaking roles and a SAT supporting cast of 2,400 people. SAT SAT This programme includes archive of Evelyn Keyes who played SAT Scarlett's sister Suellen, Ann Rutherford who played Careen, SAT the film's make up artist Frank Westmore, script clerk Lydia SAT Schiller and Editor Hal Kern. We also hear from Barbra SAT Paskin who conducted the original interviews, and from SAT Professor Helen Taylor, author of the book Scarlett's Women: SAT Gone with the Wind and Its Female Fans. SAT SAT Produced by Ashley Byrne SAT A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 The Once and Future King b04tclg7 (Listen) SAT The Lengthening Shadow SAT SAT Brian Sibley's dramatisation of T. H. White's classic SAT retelling of the King Arthur story continues. Murder and SAT betrayal threaten to undermine all that Arthur holds dear. 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 Mordred: Joel MacCormack SAT Elaine: Hannah Genesius SAT Gawaine: Shaun Mason SAT Kay: Paul Heath SAT Gareth: Monty d'Inverno SAT Agravaine: Ian Conningham SAT Dame Brisen: Elaine Claxton SAT Uncle Dap: Sam Dale SAT Holy Woman: Roslyn Hill 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 b04tcgjq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b04tjdlj (Listen) SAT Dr Atul Gawande: The Future of Medicine, The Problem of SAT Hubris SAT SAT Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande calls for a new approach to SAT the two great unfixable problems in life and healthcare - SAT ageing and death. He tells the story of how his daughter's SAT piano teacher faced up to terminal cancer and the crucial SAT choices she made about how to spend her final days. He says SAT the teacher was only able to do this because of an essential SAT honesty from her physicians and the people around her. Dr. SAT Gawande argues that the common reluctance of society and SAT medical institutions to recognise the limits of what SAT professionals can do can end up increasing the suffering of SAT patients towards the end of life. He proposes that both SAT doctors and individuals ask a series of simple but SAT penetrating questions to decide what kind of treatment is SAT appropriate - or whether treatment is appropriate at all. SAT And he praises the values of the hospice movement, in SAT putting quality of life before prolonging life. SAT SAT The programme was recorded at The Royal Society in Edinburgh SAT in front of an audience. SAT SAT The Reith Lectures are introduced and chaired by Sue Lawley SAT and produced by Jim Frank. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b04thfrp (Listen) SAT Series 28, Semi-Final 3, 2014 SAT SAT Which jazz musician's work is celebrated in the stage SAT musical Five Guys Named Moe? And who was the architect of SAT the grand opera house in Paris completed in 1875, which is SAT sometimes known by his name? SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini asks the questions in the eclectic music SAT quiz. The one remaining place in the grand Final will be SAT decided between semi-finalists from Staffordshire, London SAT and West Yorkshire. All three scored impressive victories in SAT the series heats, and the competition will be intense. SAT SAT As well as answering general knowledge music questions, the SAT competitors have to choose a special musical subject on SAT which to answer their own questions - the choice of topics, SAT as always, coming as a complete surprise. SAT SAT The winner returns in the 28th annual Counterpoint Final SAT next week. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT BILL CAWLEY, a supermarket worker and author from Leek in SAT Staffordshire; SAT SAT STEPHEN MURRAY, a shop worker from London SAT SAT JOHN TATTERSALL, a retired nurse from Todmorden in West SAT Yorkshire. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b04tcxm6 (Listen) SAT Series 4, The Knowledge SAT SAT Paul Farley does the Knowledge, collecting taxi poems and SAT sounds from all over London. Including poems by John SAT Challis, Sean O'Brien and David Harsent and songs, prose SAT texts and other performances from a recent series of art SAT events held in the capital's surviving cabbies shelters. SAT Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 14 DECEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04v2jjm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Border Crossings b03w39ww (Listen) SUN Letting Go SUN SUN Set at Neidpath Castle on the banks of the River Tweed, Lily SUN reflects on her English roots and her Scottish home. Gerda SUN Stevenson reads her new story about conflict and liberty, SUN the personal and the political. SUN SUN Letting Go concludes Border Crossings, a pair of specially SUN commissioned pieces by writers living on either side of the SUN Border. Each explores the unique qualities of the debatable SUN lands and the centuries of interlinked history between SUN England and Scotland, the amity and the animosity. SUN SUN Gerda Stevenson is an award-winning actor, writer and SUN director. Radio 4 listeners will probably know her best as SUN Steve, Paul's wife in The Paul Temple Mysteries. Her stage SUN play Federer versus Murray was shortlisted for London Fringe SUN Theatre Writing Award, 2010, and was runner-up for the Best SUN Scottish Contribution to Drama on Edinburgh Fringe, 2011. In SUN 2013, her poetry collection If This Were Real was published SUN by Smokestack Books, and she won the YES Arts Festival SUN Poetry Challenge. SUN SUN Produced by Elizabeth Allard and Di Speirs. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Gerda Stevenson SUN Producer: Elizabeth Allard SUN Producer: Di Speirs SUN Writer: Gerda Stevenson SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04v2jjp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04v2jjv (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04v2jjz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04v2jk2 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04v2ltq (Listen) SUN The bells of St Michael's Church in Kingsteignton, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b04v2b35 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04v2jk8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04v2lts (Listen) SUN Weltschmerz SUN SUN Is there too much bad news? As a journalist, Mark Tully SUN worries that his profession sometimes exacerbates a growing SUN sense of world weariness. SUN SUN At times, the sheer volume of awful stories in the news can SUN be utterly overwhelming - that there's a temptation to SUN despair completely, is hardly surprising. How should we SUN overcome world weariness, improve our lot and maintain a SUN zest for life? SUN SUN In many faiths despair is a sin, and it is commonly seen as SUN a social ill. Yet in the nineteenth century, the Romantic SUN movement coined the word 'Weltschmerz', which was seen as a SUN spur to achievement and the natural ally of idealism. So is SUN weariness with the world something we can harness and use to SUN improve life? SUN SUN Mark talks to the journalist and writer on ethics and SUN international development, Paul Vallely, and presents SUN readings by the poet Paul Birtill and the Vietnamese SUN Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. SUN SUN There is music from Mahalia Jackson, Tracy Chapman and John SUN Corigliano. SUN SUN The readers are David Holt and Francis Cadder SUN SUN Produced by Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: Futility SUN SUN Author: Wilfred Owen SUN SUN Published by Chatto Poetry in ‘The Poems of Wilfred Owen’ SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: God Works in Mysterious Ways SUN SUN Author: Paul Birtill SUN SUN Published by Hearing Eye in ‘Collected Poems 1987-2010’. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The Good News SUN SUN Author: Translated by Thich Nhat Hanh SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe in ‘Soul Food’. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: From Goethe to Byron: The Development Of Weltschmerz SUN In Germany SUN SUN Author: William Rose SUN SUN Published by Routledge (1924) SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Ode On Melancholy SUN SUN Author: John Keats SUN SUN Published by Wordsworth in ‘The Words of John Keats’. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The World Is Too Much With Us SUN SUN Author: William Wordsworth SUN SUN Published by The Bodley Head in ‘The Solitary Song’ SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b04v2ltv (Listen) SUN FarmAbility SUN SUN FarmAbility is a project in Oxfordshire which gives adults SUN with learning disabilities such as autism the chance to try SUN their hand at agriculture. It offers them work experience SUN and new training opportunities, on what is very much a SUN working farm. Emma Campbell visits the farm and meets some SUN of the "co-farmers", as they're called, as they learn to SUN pack eggs, grow vegetables, and care for livestock. She SUN finds out what they get out of the time they spend on the SUN farm, and how they interact with the rest of the commercial SUN farm business. She also hears from the man behind the idea, SUN Mike Gooding, whose farm at Wytham near Oxford is home to SUN the FarmAbility scheme. SUN SUN Produced and presented by Emma Campbell. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04v2jkh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04v2jkp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04v2ltx (Listen) SUN French Nativity Row, Ethical Investment, Brighton Pavilion SUN 100 years ago SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04v2ltz (Listen) SUN Hearing Link SUN SUN Sian Williams presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Hearing Link, SUN a UK charity for people with hearing loss and their family SUN and friends. It helps people to find information and SUN support, and to connect with others who have similar SUN experiences. SUN Registered Charity No 264809 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Hearing Link '. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to Hearing Link. SUN SUN About Hearing Link SUN SUN Most people take listening, hearing and understanding for SUN granted and do it without much thought or effort. For SUN people who develop hearing loss, day-to-day communication SUN can be far less easy. SUN Hearing Link is a UK charity for people with any level of SUN hearing loss and their family and friends. We understand SUN what it means to have hearing loss, and understand the SUN practical, emotional and social challenges it can bring. SUN Hearing Link offers a helpdesk, useful website and magazine, SUN group rehabilitation programmes, one-to-one support and SUN more. SUN For more information visit SUN www.hearinglink.org SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Case study: Wynne SUN SUN Wynne is quietly successful, hard-working, proud of his SUN family and active in the community. But one day his life was SUN turned completely upside down. SUN He lost his hearing very suddenly. It came as a terrible SUN shock and affected his work, his family and his social life. SUN Daily activities became complex chores such as answering the SUN telephone or joining in with family conversations. SUN Then he received a leaflet about Hearing Link. Initially SUN sceptical, as well as extremely nervous, Wynne and his wife SUN signed up for a ‘Self-Management Programme’, a highly SUN personalised course offering one-to-one support, run by SUN trained volunteers who are themselves living with hearing SUN loss. SUN Our programme has helped Wynne’s life enormously and to get SUN him back on track. SUN Wynne says, “Hearing Link gave me back my me”. SUN SUN Case study: David SUN SUN David Walters’ hearing began to deteriorate after a firearms SUN incident at work triggered tinnitus in his left ear. Over SUN eight years, his hearing worsened and resulted in him being SUN medically discharged from his job in the Police. SUN However, the major turning point came in 2008 when without SUN warning he lost all hearing in his left ear and six weeks SUN later lost all the hearing in his right ear leaving him SUN completely deaf. SUN This has had a devastating impact on his life. But since SUN signing up to a Hearing Link programme, Dave says he has his SUN life back. “Hearing Link proved to be my lifeline’. SUN SUN Case study: Shona SUN SUN On the face of it Shona Hudson has lived a full life. She SUN attended mainstream school, got married and attended SUN university, and now works as a manager for a water utility SUN company. SUN However, since birth, Shona has struggled with hearing loss. SUN Realising that her deteriorating hearing was affecting her SUN work Shona sought help and advice through Hearing Link. SUN She contacted our helpdesk team, which is run by volunteers SUN who have experience of hearing loss themselves, and SUN suggested that Shona would benefit from attending our highly SUN regarded Self-Management Programme. SUN Since then Shona has regained her confidence at work. She SUN says “I see a world of opportunity to work with my hearing SUN loss rather than denying it.” SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04v2jkw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04v2jl0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04v2lv1 (Listen) SUN The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me SUN SUN The third in our Advent series live from St SUN Martin-in-the-Fields, London, exploring the nature of SUN Jesus's ministry and the social and economic climate in SUN which he preached. Led by the Revd Dr Sam Wells and the SUN Bishop of Stepney, the Rt Revd Adrian Newman, and the choir SUN of St Martin's directed by Andrew Earis. Producer: Stephen SUN Shipley. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04tlr0g (Listen) SUN Kitsch SUN SUN Philosopher Roger Scruton looks at kitsch in the second of SUN his three talks on art. SUN SUN Kitsch, he says, creates the fantasy of an emotion without SUN the real cost of feeling it. He argues that in the twentieth SUN century artists became preoccupied by what they perceived as SUN the need to avoid kitsch and sentimentality. SUN SUN But it's not so easy. Some try being outrageously SUN avant-garde, which can lead to a different kind of fake: SUN cliche. So a new genre emerged: pre-emptive kitsch. Artists SUN embraced kitsch and produce it deliberately to present it as SUN a sophisticated parody. But is it art? SUN SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger Scruton SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04symph (Listen) SUN Northern Jacana SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Liz Bonnin presents the northern jacana at home in Central SUN American wetlands. A cross between a coot and a plover, SUN northern Jacanas are found in swamps in Central America and SUN Mexico. They're long legged birds with a black head and SUN neck, and a chestnut body with yellow highlights. And, SUN northern jacanas are polyandrous; the females have more than SUN one partner. Males build platforms of floating vegetation SUN and attract females by calling or posturing. If a female SUN mates with a male, he may use his platform as a nest for her SUN eggs. The female doesn't care for the eggs, but goes in SUN search of up to three other mates. The result is that a SUN single female may have several males raising different SUN clutches of eggs for her and each clutch may contain the SUN eggs of more than one male! SUN SUN Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Claudio Contreras / naturepl.com. SUN NPL Ref 01258258 SUN © Claudio Contreras / naturepl.com SUN SUN Recording of Northern Jacana by Gerrit Vyn / Ref: ML140224 SUN SUN This programme contains a SUN wildtrack recording of the northern jacana SUN kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab SUN of Ornithology; recorded by Gerrit Vyn on 2 Oct 2006, in SUN Veracruz, Mexico. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04v2lv3 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b04v2lv5 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Caroline Harrington SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell SUN Will Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Carol Tregorran ..... Eleanor Bron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Caroline Harrington SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Will Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04v2lv7 (Listen) SUN Sarah Millican SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the comedian, Sarah SUN Millican. SUN SUN Her every woman yet no-holds-barred style of comedy has SUN brought her sell-out tours and several of her own highly SUN successful TV series. Revelling in normality and drawing on SUN the difficult, intimate and often excruciating moments of SUN being human, she dares to say what most of us are thinking, SUN only she's much funnier. SUN SUN A Geordie, born in South Shields, her dad was an engineer SUN down the mines and her mum was a hairdresser. They SUN encouraged their daughter in her storytelling and performing SUN even though her childhood shyness meant she'd recite her SUN poetry from behind the living room curtains. Later it was SUN pain that first propelled her onto the stage when a broken SUN early marriage provided the catalyst she needed to find the SUN courage to confront the glaring judgement of the audience's SUN gaze. Her rise was then rapid. Within four years she was SUN awarded the Best Newcomer prize at the Edinburgh Fringe. SUN SUN She says, "People come along and think, 'oh she's being too SUN rude'. They don't realise I'm just like this at home. People SUN think I'm prim and proper at home but I'm not - I'm just me SUN transplanted onto the stage". SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Sarah Millican SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04v2jl7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04tj37y (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 4 SUN SUN The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the SUN Victoria Hall in Stoke-on-Trent. Regulars Barry Cryer, SUN Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel SUN by Omid Djalili with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell SUN attempts 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 b04v2lv9 (Listen) SUN Feeding Britain SUN SUN Feeding Britain - The story of one shop in South Yorkshire SUN which is changing the way we think about food waste and food SUN poverty. A year ago the Community Shop opened in Goldthorpe. SUN It takes food which would otherwise have gone to landfill SUN and sells it at a heavily discounted price. SUN SUN Now the model is expanding. This Monday, 15th December, a SUN new community shop is opening in Lambeth, South London. The SUN aim is for dozens of these stores to be across the country. SUN SUN This week's Food Poverty Inquiry 'Feeding Britain' SUN recommended more of these social supermarkets. But some SUN people do not believe that the problem of food waste should SUN solve the problem of food poverty. SUN SUN Presented by Dan Saladino and produced in Bristol by Emma SUN Weatherill. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04v2jl9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04v2lyh (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 The Lipinski b04v2lyk (Listen) SUN The startling 300-year journey of a 'golden period' SUN Stradivarius violin - through the lives of geniuses, SUN dictators, refugees, ordinary people and the thieves who SUN stole it violently in 2014. SUN SUN An art crime story is the beginning of a journey around the SUN world - and through varied lives and cultures - tracing the SUN history of the Lipinski Stradivarius violin which left the SUN hands of the master Antonio Stradivari in 1715. SUN SUN In Feb 2014, Milwaukee Symphony leader Frank Almond was SUN beaten and tasered after a sell-out performance - and the $6 SUN million violin was snatched from his hands. National US SUN media overload followed, as the instrument had become the SUN blue-collar city's emblem of accessible high culture. The SUN programme explores its impact not on the musical elite, but SUN on the life of the city and its regular people. SUN SUN And from the crime scene, we get into the rich international SUN cast and stories. SUN We hear the memories of Evi Liivak, an Estonian violinist SUN whose father was murdered by the Gestapo and who played in SUN Second World War refugee camps before marrying one of the SUN main translators at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials and SUN coming to America. SUN SUN And there's Peter Voight the Sussex luthier whose family SUN have been making and repairing violins across Europe since SUN the 17th century, the lawyer of Universal Allah, the SUN Milwaukee barber imprisoned for the 2014 theft, and the SUN local Police Chief who led the investigation. SUN SUN Produced by Peter Curran SUN A Foghorn Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04tlr02 (Listen) SUN Glasgow SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from SUN Glasgow. Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson SUN join him to answer audience questions. 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. Next year we are keen to plant Brussels Sprouts in our SUN community garden but are not sure which variety to plant, SUN any ideas? SUN SUN A. Traditionalists like varieties such as the 'Bedford', SUN which are large and strong. 'Noisettes' are small and hard, SUN 'Rubine' are red but don't keep their colour when cooked. SUN 'Maximus' is an F1 variety that is sweet and easy to grow. SUN If you grow in raised beds, they're especially easy. SUN SUN Q. I want to prune back my six-foot (1.8 meters) Arbutus SUN Menziesii (Madrone) to form a small multi-stem tree to show SUN off its red bark. Could the panel advise when would be the SUN best time to do this and how? SUN SUN A. This is a beautiful tree with red bark and distinctive SUN ericaceous bell shaped flowers. In the wild it naturally SUN sheds its lower branches. It's sometimes known as a SUN 'Strawberry Tree'. It does take pruning well when it's a SUN young plant. Prune it over the course of a few years. Work SUN your way up from the bottom. SUN SUN Q. Many years ago I planted some seed that turned into a SUN beautiful Thistle like plants with silvery leaves. I'd like SUN to grow them again, could you tell me what I might have been SUN growing? SUN SUN A. It sounds like Eryngium Giganteum or an Onopordum. SUN SUN Q. I'll be taking some cuttings from a Holly bush for SUN Christmas, can I propagate from these? SUN SUN A. No, you need to take cuttings in the spring; seeds from SUN the berries are a better bet. Put the berries in a bucket, SUN give it a good slosh about and the seeds will sink while the SUN pulp rises to the top. Take the seeds and sow them in trays SUN with vermiculite over the top and put them outside. SUN SUN Q. What would the panel suggest I start growing in my SUN greenhouse over the winter? SUN SUN A. Put Garlic sets in pots and grow winter salad plants such SUN as Pac Choi, Mustards, Spring Onions, Radishes and leaf SUN salads such as Claytonia that you can sow thickly and cut SUN them when they are a couple of inches (five centimetres) SUN tall. You could also use the greenhouse to over winter SUN tender plants such as Pelargoniums or tomatoes. SUN SUN Q. We are always being offered car tyres to grow edibles in, SUN should we be worried about the chemicals leaching into the SUN plants? SUN SUN A. Bob says that he's been doing it for years and he's fine SUN but you should cut out the middle of the tyre (so that it SUN makes a cylinder shape) and line with polythene to prevent SUN any possible leaching. Alternatively try growing in SUN builder's bags. SUN SUN Q. All our allotment neighbours grow amazing Brassicas but SUN all of ours develop club root and die. Any suggestions? SUN SUN A. Liming could rid the soil of Club root. Try planting them SUN out in clean compost in containers or raised beds and lime SUN well. Try disease resistant varieties such as the 'Kilaton' SUN Cabbage. SUN SUN Q. My Clematis Montana has run riot up a slender tree and SUN I'm afraid it might cause some damage. Should I trim the SUN ends, or try something more drastic? SUN SUN A. You could cut it off at the ground. These are so SUN resilient they will recover. SUN SUN Q. On our allotments, there is great debate about whether to SUN winter dig or spring dig. What do the panel reckon? SUN SUN A. The panel say don't dig unless it's clay that has been SUN trampled. If you want to put organic matter into the soil, SUN lay it on the top and let the worms bring it down. Digging SUN can harm the worms and micro-organisms in the soil. SUN SUN Q. Can the panel recommend some colourful, low maintenance SUN plants to be planted in railway stations? SUN SUN A. Bob recommends a bed full of Mints, a bed full of Thymes, SUN Rosemary, Lavender and Sages. Label them all and invite SUN people to touch and smell the herbs. Bunny recommends SUN putting edibles in there like the Ida Red Apples or fruit SUN vines. Matt suggests Lambs Ear, Pennisetum 'Tall Tales' or SUN Hair Grass for tactile planting. He also recommends lots of SUN blubs as they're cheap and don't require looking after. SUN Narcissus, Tulips and Alliums would all work. SUN SUN The filmy fern house in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04v2s0x (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with a moving, one-sided conversation between a SUN mother and her stillborn son. Then a couple consider the SUN finiteness of life, while friends debate disability from SUN polio or sport, all in the Omnibus edition of the series SUN that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 The Once and Future King b04v2s0z (Listen) SUN The Candle in the Wind SUN SUN Brian Sibley's dramatisation of T. H. White's classic SUN retelling of the King Arthur story continues. Mordred uses SUN Arthur's new laws against him and long-held secrets are SUN forced out into the open. SUN SUN Other parts are played by members of the cast. SUN SUN Original music by Elizabeth Purnell SUN Directors: Gemma Jenkins, Marc Beeby and David Hunter. SUN SUN Credits SUN Arthur: Paul Ready SUN Merlyn: David Warner SUN Guenever: Lyndsey Marshal SUN Lancelot: Alex Waldmann SUN Mordred: Joel MacCormack SUN Elaine: Hannah Genesius SUN Gawaine: Shaun Mason SUN Gareth: Monty d'Inverno SUN Agravaine: Ian Conningham SUN Author: TH White SUN Adaptor: Brian Sibley SUN Director: Gemma Jenkins SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Director: David Hunter SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04v2s11 (Listen) SUN Evie Wyld and Peter Walker discuss writing about the Vietnam SUN War SUN SUN The actor and comedian BJ Novak has written his first SUN children's book. The Book With No Pictures is, as its title SUN suggests, text-only. Despite this it must be doing something SUN right because it's topped the New York Times bestseller SUN list. BJ Novak talks to Mariella about why he chose to omit SUN the illustrations - even on the cover. SUN SUN Peter Walker from New Zealand and Australian writer Evie SUN Wyld have each written about the legacy of the Vietnam war SUN in their fiction. They talk to Mariella about the impact of SUN that war on Antipodean fiction, a war some feel has been SUN partly written out of their countries' history. SUN SUN Ben Elton, novelist, stand-up, writer of musicals, SUN co-creator of Blackadder, shares the Book He'd Never Lend, a SUN comic masterpiece which he loves for its refreshing lack of SUN cynicism. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The Book with No Pictures by BJ Novak SUN SUN After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld SUN SUN Some Here Among Us by Peter Walker SUN SUN Code of the Woosters by P G Wodehouse SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Evie Wyld SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Walker SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b04v2s13 (Listen) SUN Series 4, Michael Donaghy SUN SUN Paul Farley remembers the poet Michael Donaghy with other SUN poets ten years after his death. Greta Stoddart, Sean SUN O'Brien and Don Paterson read his poems and read poems of SUN their own that speak to their memory of the poet and SUN teacher. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 23 Amazing Reasons This Radio Programme Will Change SUN Your Life b04tjfvy (Listen) SUN A new wave of digital upstarts is transforming the business SUN of journalism in weird and unusual ways. Maybe you've seen SUN headlines like '19 Things You Didn't Know Cats Could Do' and SUN 'Which Fictional Company Should You Actually Work At?' on SUN top of highly sharable stories, often in the form of lists, SUN designed to be shared on Facebook, Twitter and other social SUN networks. SUN Of all the news start-ups in recent years BuzzFeed has SUN arguably received the most, well, buzz - but it's a crowded SUN field with competitors including Vice, Mashable, Taboola and SUN others. SUN As these outlets mature, grabby 'listacles' such as '32 SUN Pictures You Need To See Before The World Ends' are SUN increasingly being joined by hard news from the world's war SUN zones and in-depth investigations and political features. SUN The trend towards sharing isn't just the domain of a few SUN high-tech start-ups - as newspapers and the BBC get to grips SUN with the digital era, they're increasingly looking at ways SUN to get their stories to people through social media. SUN Mukul Devichand, presenter of BBC Trending, has been talking SUN to some of the top names in the new news business, to find SUN out what makes a story spread online, whether pictures of SUN cats will always triumph over hard news, and what this all SUN means for the future of journalism - established players and SUN upstarts alike. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04v2b35 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04v2jlc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04v2jlf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04v2jlh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04v2s5b (Listen) SUN From 14 century Italy to the modern day classrooms of Kabul; SUN from the cotton mills of Manchester to the olive groves of SUN the occupied territories - we certainly get around a bit SUN this week. SUN There's the uplifting voice of Sam Cooke, and a different SUN kind of soul music Puccini's La Boheme. SUN Arthur Smith tells us about his hero Emile Zatopek. And SUN actor Richard Wilson on sharing the limelight - with a dog SUN Join Adrian Goldberg for Pick of the Week. SUN SUN Adrian Goldberg SUN SUN Adrian Goldberg hosts the BBC’s weekly 5 Live Investigates SUN and is a regular presenter on Radio 4’s The Report. He SUN spent four years on BBC1’s Watchdog programme and as an SUN independent film-maker has made several sports-related SUN documentaries. He has two children, lives in Birmingham SUN and is a West Bromwich Albion season-ticket holder. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04v2s5d (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 The Rest Is History b04v2ssq (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of SUN it. SUN SUN The Rest Is History is a new comedy discussion show which SUN promises to help him find out more about it. SUN SUN Along with his historian in residence Dr Kate Williams, each SUN episode sees Frank joined by a selection of celebrity SUN guests, who will help him navigate his way through the SUN annals of time, picking out and chewing over the funniest, SUN oddest, and most interesting moments in history. SUN SUN Frank's guests in this edition of the programme are Dave SUN Gorman and Sara Pascoe SUN SUN Produced by Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard SUN An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Frank Skinner SUN Panellist: Dave Gorman SUN Panellist: Sara Pascoe SUN Panellist: Kate Williams SUN Producer: Dan Schreiber SUN Producer: Justin Pollard SUN SUN 19:45 Shorts: Writing West b04v2sss (Listen) SUN Underworld SUN SUN SHORTS: New writing. New writers. SUN SUN The third and final of our Midlands Odysseys series: short SUN stories written by writers new to radio in response to The SUN Odyssey - transplanting episodes from Homer's epic to SUN contemporary West Midlands settings. SUN SUN Buzz returns home to Birmingham, haunted by images of his SUN time volunteering in a Laos hospital and by older, deeper SUN loss. SUN SUN By Richard House. SUN SUN Producer: Mair Bosworth. SUN SUN About the Author SUN Richard House is a writer, artist, and senior lecturer at SUN the University of Birmingham. He is a member of the SUN Chicago-based collaborative, Haha, whose work has appeared SUN at the New Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, SUN Chicago; and the Venice Biennale. His recent novel, 'The SUN Kills', was longlisted for the Man Booker, and shortlisted SUN for the Sky Arts South Bank Award, the GC Prize, and the SUN Gordon Burn Prize. SUN SUN Richard House on writing 'Underworld' SUN SUN I read the Odyssey as a boy, a version which omitted the SUN Underworld section in which Odysseus summons the dead SUN through blood rites and sacrifice. In this section he seeks SUN advice on why he has not been able to return home, and what SUN he needs to do to achieve this. More significantly, he SUN learns of the death of his mother, and has difficult SUN encounters with the dead from Troy - most notably Achilles. SUN It is the most remarkable episode in the entire narrative, SUN not only is it spectacular (the way in which the ghosts must SUN be summoned to a trench of blood), but it threatens to SUN undermine not only the Odyssey, but the Iliad. Achilles is SUN clear - all of this slaughter, all of this war, and what was SUN it for? In my version I have a character called Buzz SUN returning home to Birmingham from Laos, which, like Troy, SUN has suffered sustained assault. From 1964 through till 1973 SUN over 270 million cluster bombs were dropped on the Plain of SUN Jars. That's the equivalent of one B-52 bomb-load every 8 SUN minutes for 9 years. Over one third of these bombs did not SUN detonate, and are still, even now, causing injury and SUN retarding economic development. Buzz has his own history, we SUN meet him on his last night in Laos. He's burdened by events SUN that have occurred during his time as a volunteer, and SUN troubled by his earlier volunteering for people with SUN HIV/AIDS. Much of this will be developed in a longer SUN narrative. It has been useful to look for commonalities: an SUN absence, an isolated man, a return home, blood, a trench, SUN the presence of the dead, the need to confront a past in SUN order to move forward. Like Odysseus, Buzz has questions. SUN Unlike Odysseus, he does not want to return home, and his SUN dead refuse to speak - but they need to be challenged. SUN SUN A Midlands Odyssey SUN Richard House's *Underworld* is one of three stories adapted SUN 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: Richard House SUN Producer: Mair Bosworth SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b04tlys1 (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton talks to investigative journalist Tom Mangold SUN about The Silent Conspiracy, a programme he first began SUN working on 35 years ago. The programme concerned Jeremy SUN Thorpe, the charismatic leader of the Liberal Party between SUN 1967 and 1976. Thorpe's political career was overshadowed by SUN scandal when he was accused of conspiring to murder Norman SUN Scott - a man who claimed to have been his lover at a time SUN when homosexuality was illegal. He was acquitted of SUN conspiracy to murder but soon withdrew from public life. SUN SUN The day after he died last week, Radio 4 broadcast The SUN Silent Conspiracy, in which veteran BBC journalist Tom SUN Mangold uncovered an alleged establishment conspiracy to SUN protect Jeremy Thorpe's career and reputation. Many SUN listeners questioned the tone and timing of the programme. SUN Roger talks to Tom about the making of the programme and why SUN he felt it was in the public interest. SUN SUN Michael Buerk has survived life in the Australian outback SUN and returned as chair of Radio 4's Moral Maze. To welcome SUN him back, his programme team chose reality TV as the subject SUN for the last episode in the series. Not letting him escape SUN the spotlight, Buerk was declared a star witness. But after SUN frequent updates of his jungle antics on the PM programme - SUN was this an in-joke too far? SUN SUN What does it take to find "extraordinary stories and SUN remarkable guests"? Roger goes behind-the-scenes at Saturday SUN Live to discover how they blend celebrity interviews and SUN inheritance tracks with tales straight from listeners' SUN mouths. SUN SUN And more musical archives are restored following last week's SUN revival of Radio 4's Singing Together. SUN SUN Produced by Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04tlyrz (Listen) SUN Queen Fabiola, Stella Young, Bernard Stonehouse, Kent Haruf, SUN Ralph Baer SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Australian disability campaigner and comedian Stella SUN Young. She spoke out against what she called "inspiration SUN porn." SUN SUN Queen Fabiola of Belgium - the Spanish aristocrat who was SUN picked out as a suitable bride for the King by an Irish nun. SUN SUN Bernard Stonehouse, the polar scientist who spent three SUN consecutive winters in the Antarctic and studied king SUN penguins on South Georgia. SUN SUN Kent Haruf whose novels of American life are all set in the SUN fictional town of Holt, Colorado. SUN SUN And Ralph Baer, the electronic engineer who pioneered SUN computer games played through a console plugged into TVs. SUN SUN Stella Young SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her friend, the actress and comedian Liz SUN Carr. SUN SUN Born 24 February 1982; died 6 December 2014 aged 32. SUN SUN Queen Fabiola (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Reinout Goddyn, Royal correspondent for SUN Belgian TV station VTM. SUN SUN Born 11 June 1928; died 5 December 2014 aged 86. SUN SUN Bernard Stonehouse SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his former colleague, Peter Fretwell who SUN works at the British Antarctic Survey. SUN SUN Born 1 May 1926; died 12 November 2014, aged 88. SUN SUN Kent Haruf SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend Mike Rosenwald, a journalist at SUN Washington Post, who studied with Haruf as an SUN undergraduate. SUN SUN Born 24 February 1943; died 30 November 2014 aged 71. SUN SUN Ralph Baer SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the British technology journalist and SUN former computer editor, Jack Schofield. SUN SUN Born 8 March 1922; died 6 December 2014 aged 92. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04v29h3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04v2ltz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04tlk9z (Listen) SUN Cabin Fever SUN SUN Cabin Fever SUN Finding your comfort zone can be difficult at 35,000 feet. SUN As cash strapped carriers try to put more passengers on each SUN plane, flyers are feeling the squeeze. But there are SUN innovations and advancements being made in aircraft design SUN and London is leading the way with a cluster of firms in SUN this specialist market. Peter Day asks about the width and SUN breadth of these changes and when they will start to make SUN some difference to air travellers everywhere. SUN SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Chris Brady, Managing Director, Acro Aircraft Seating SUN SUN SUN SUN Adrian Berry, co -Founder, Factory Design SUN SUN SUN SUN Paul Priestman Director, Priestman Goode SUN SUN SUN SUN Nik Lusardi, SUN Design Manager, Customer Experience, Virgin Atlantic SUN SUN SUN SUN John Heath, Group Design and Technical Director, Aim SUN Aviation SUN SUN SUN SUN James Park , Founder JPA Design SUN SUN SUN SUN John Tighe, Design Director JPA Design SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04v2jlk (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04v2ssv (Listen) SUN Dan Hodges of The Telegraph analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04tljkl (Listen) SUN Best Films of the Year, Danny Elfman on Tim Burton, ET, Nick SUN Hornby, The Curse of the British Museum SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN Composer Danny Elfman talks about his long collaboration SUN with director Tim Burton that's included Batman and Alice In SUN Wonderland. SUN SUN Nick Hornby recites all of the lyrics to the ABC's Minors SUN Song, the theme tune to a kids club that showed cartoons and SUN the work of the Children's Film Foundation. SUN SUN Sound designer Ben Burtt reveals just how many elements went SUN into the making of E.T.'s voice, including a few animals, a SUN professor, and his wife snoring in bed. SUN SUN Three Film Programme experts buy each other the perfect SUN Christmas present - a DVD of what they consider the best SUN film of the year: Under The Skin, The Grand Budapest Hotel SUN and 20,000 Days On Earth SUN SUN The Night At The Museum trilogy, about an Egyptian curse SUN that brings relics to life, concludes in the British museum. SUN It's an appropriate location, because the British Museum is SUN itself the subject of an ancient Egyptian curse, as SUN Professor Roger Luckhurst explains. SUN SUN Danny Elfman At The Royal Albert Hall SUN https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/alice-in-wonderland/ SUN efault.aspx SUN http://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/danny-elfman/default. SUN spx SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Danny Elfman SUN Interviewed Guest: Nick Hornby SUN Interviewed Guest: Ben Burtt SUN Interviewed Guest: Roger Luckhurst SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04v2lts (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 15 DECEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04v2jmq (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04tlfsk (Listen) MON After Redundancy - Global Payday Lending MON MON Global payday loans: Laurie Taylor talks to Carl Packman, a MON researcher and writer, who has analysed the growth of a MON worldwide industry. Today there are more payday lender shops MON in the US than McDonald's restaurants. They cater mainly to MON those without access to mainstream credit and with no other MON option. But how did they evolve and proliferate? And what is MON their impact on the most financially vulnerable consumers? MON He's joined by Johnna Montogomery, an economist from MON Goldsmiths, London. MON MON Also, redundancy at a Welsh aluminium plant. Tony Dobbins, MON Reader in Employment Studies at Bangor Business School, asks MON why re-training has failed to provide jobless workers with a MON fresh future. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Tony Dobbins MON MON Reader in Employment Studies, Bangor University MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Tony Dobbins MON MON Abstract: * MON 'Make do and mend’ after redundancy at Anglesey Aluminium: MON critiquing human capital approaches to unemployment MON *Dobbins, T., Plows, A. and Lloyd-Williams, H. (2014) MON Work Employment and Society MON DOI: 10.1177/0950017013491454 MON MON Carl Packman MON MON writer, researcher and broadcaster MON MON Find out more about MON Carl Packman MON MON *Payday Lending – Global Growth of the High-Cost Credit MON Market MON *Publisher: Palgrave Pivot US MON ISBN-10: 113737280X MON ISBN-13: 978-1137372802 MON MON Johnna Montgomerie MON MON Lecturer in Economics, Department of Politics, Goldsmith’s MON University MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Johnna Montgomerie MON MON *Article: MON Our debt addiction goes far beyond payday loans MON * MON By Johnna Montgomerie MON Published in The Conversation on 12 November 2014 MON MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography MON Thinking Allowed in association with the British MON Sociological Association announces the annual award for a MON study that has made a significant contribution to MON ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a MON culture or sub-culture. MON MON Are you involved in social science research and completing MON or will have completed ethnography this year? The Award is MON open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or MON researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution MON of higher education. MON MON An entry should be a MON completed ethnography MON a qualitative research project which provides a detailed MON description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole MON authored book or peer reviewed research article published MON during the calendar year of the award will be eligible. MON MON The judges for the Award are yet to be announced. MON MON The judges will be looking for work which displays MON flair MON originality MON and MON clarity MON alongside sound methodology. The work should make a MON significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in MON the relevant area of research. MON MON The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that MON shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will MON be awarded a prize of £1000. MON MON The winner of the Award will be announced at the MON BSA Annual Conference MON in April 2015. MON MON Read on for essential information and details on how to MON enter. MON HOW TO ENTER: MON MON You may submit one entry only, which must be sole authored. MON MON All entries must include the summary and contact details and MON a hard copy or electronic copy (attachments must be under MON the filesize of 10MB) of the ethnography. MON MON Email a summary of your work to MON ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk MON (no more than 250 words) along with your name and phone MON number. MON Please include the name of your paper in the 'Subject' MON category of your email. MON If you are submitting a paper MON it can be attached to your email, provided it is no more MON than 10MB. If you receive no automatic email confirmation MON your paper is too large and you will need to send it by MON post. MON If you are submitting a book MON (which must be published during this year) it should be MON posted to: MON Thinking Allowed MON Ethnography Award MON Room 6045 MON Broadcasting House MON London MON W1A 1AA MON Entries must be submitted by the closing date of 31st MON December 2014 MON TERMS & CONDITIONS: MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography Terms and MON Conditions MON MON MON 1. To be eligible to enter you must meet the following MON criteria: MON MON 2. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested. MON The BBC’s decision as to the eligibility of individual MON entrants will be final and no correspondence will be entered MON into. MON MON 3. Entrants must submit by way of email to MON ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk MON a summary outlining the nature of an ethnography undertaken MON and published by the entrant. Please include the name of MON your paper in the 'Subject' category of your email. The MON summary should not be longer than 250 words. The ethnography MON must consist of a qualitative research project which MON provides a detailed, in-depth description of the everyday MON life and practice of a group, people or culture and been MON included in a peer-reviewed paper or in a book published in MON 2014. All entries and research must be in English. MON MON 4. The email entry must include the following information MON and contact detail for the entrant: full name, postal MON address, institution of higher education, email address and MON contact telephone number. MON MON 5. If you are submitting a book (which must be published MON during this year) it should be posted to: Thinking Allowed MON Ethnography Award, room 6045 Broadcasting House, London W1A MON 1AA. If it is a paper, it can be attached to your email, MON provided it is no more than 10MB. If you receive no MON automatic email confirmation your paper is too large and you MON will need to send it by post. MON MON 6. All entries must include the: (i) summary (by email); MON (ii) the contact details (by email) and (ii) hard MON copy/electronic copy (if under 10MB) of the ethnography. MON MON 7. Only one entry will be allowed per person. MON MON 8. Entries cannot be submitted by any other method or they MON will not be considered. MON MON 9. All entries must be sole authored. MON MON 10. A panel of 5 highly experienced academics will select MON six finalists. These may be contacted by the Production Team MON for an interview. From the finalists, the panel will select MON an overall winner. The selection criteria will be based on MON the work which displays flair and originality, and which MON makes a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. Each entry MON will be a completed ethnography, a qualitative research MON project which provides a detailed, in-depth, description of MON the everyday life and practice of a group, people, or MON culture. Judges will be looking for work which displays MON flair, originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. MON It should make a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. MON MON 11. The prize will consist of: £1,000. The judges' decision MON will be final and the BBC will not enter into correspondence MON with the applicants. In the event of two outstanding MON entries, the prize of £1000 will be shared. MON MON 12. The finalists will be contacted by telephone in spring MON of 2015 and the winner announced in April 2015. If a MON selected entrant cannot be contacted after reasonable MON attempts have been made to do so, the BBC reserves the right MON to offer the prize to the next best entry. MON MON 13. The winner should refrain from referring to the award in MON order to promote commercial ventures. All references must be MON compliant with BBC branding policies. MON MON 14. The BBC will only ever use personal details for the MON purposes of administering the scheme. Please see the MON BBC’s Privacy Policy MON . MON MON 15. Closing date for entries is 23:59 on 31st December 2014. MON All entries which are received after that will not be MON considered. MON MON 16. The BBC cannot accept any responsibility for any problem MON with the internet or electronic mail system. MON MON 17. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and MON must not infringe the rights of any other party. The BBC MON accepts no liability if entrants ignore these rules and MON entrants agree to fully indemnify the BBC against any claims MON by any third party arising from any breach of these rules. MON MON 18. Entrants retain the copyright in their original ideas MON but on being selected will grant to the BBC a licence to MON broadcast their entry (or parts thereof) across all media, MON as well as use it on any online platforms on standard MON prevailing BBC terms (as agreed with the Writer’s Guild, MON Society of Authors and Personal Managers Association). MON MON 19. By applying for the award, entrants warrant that they MON have legal capacity to enter the scheme and agree to be MON bound by these terms and conditions. MON MON 20. The names of the all selected entrants and any entrant MON whose entry is broadcast or used on-line will be made MON public. Entrants must agree to take part in any post-event MON publicity if required. MON MON 21. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify any entry which MON breaches any of these terms and conditions. MON MON 22. 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 b04v2ltq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04v2jms (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04v2jmv (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04v2jmx (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04v2jmz (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04v2ynj (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Judy MON Merry. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04v2ynl (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Lucy Bickerton. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04v2jn1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04syygh (Listen) MON Hawaiian Goose (Nene) 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 Nene, or the endemic and rare MON Hawaiian goose. Visit a Wildfowl and Wetland Trust centre in MON the UK and it is likely you'll be mobbed by the nasal calls MON of one of the world's rarest birds, the Hawaiian Goose or MON "Ne-Ne". In the late 18th century there were around 25,000 MON of these neat attractive geese, with ochre cheeks and MON black-heads, on the Hawaiian Islands. But by the early MON 1950s, due to development and introduced predators, a mere MON 30 or so remained. A few of these remaining Nene's were MON taken to Slimbridge, home of Peter Scott's Wildfowl Trust as MON part of a captive breeding programme. They bred successfully MON and now many generations of geese produced there have been MON returned to their native islands. Their future is still MON precarious in the wild, but as the state bird of Hawaii the MON Nene's outlook is more secure today than for the last MON seventy years. MON MON Hawaiian goose (Branta sandvicensis) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Andrew Harrington / naturepl.com. MON NPL Ref 01049744 MON © Andrew Harrington / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b04v2ynn (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b04v2ynq (Listen) MON Reinventing Inventions MON MON Tom Sutcliffe discusses invention and reinvention in MON science. He is joined in the studio by Danielle George of MON the University of Manchester, where she is Professor in the MON Microwave and Communications Systems research group; by John MON Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge;by MON Professor Armand Marie Leroi of Imperial College, London; MON and by Misbah Arif from UCL Institute of Education. Prof MON George is giving this year's Christmas Lectures at the Royal MON Institution, Prof Barrow's been looking at the link between MON maths and creativity; Prof Leroi has been reassessing MON Aristotle's role as inventor of science; and Misbah Arif's MON been inspiring children in the science classroom. MON MON Producer: Simon Tillotson. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Danielle George MON Interviewed Guest: Armand Marie Leroi MON Interviewed Guest: John Barrow MON Producer: Simon Tillotson MON MON 09:45 The Kingdom to Come b04v2yns (Listen) MON Robin Butler MON MON In the first of a series of one-to-one conversations with MON senior figures in public life, Peter Hennessy, the MON historian, asks Robin Butler (Lord Butler of Brockwell), the MON former Cabinet Secretary, how the United Kingdom's MON constitution will change as a result of further devolution. MON MON The hurried promises of further devolution made by political MON leaders during and immediately after the Scottish Referendum MON will fundamentally change how the United Kingdom is MON governed, with little opportunity for people to consider MON what this radical reform might mean or to discuss the MON constitutional implications. MON MON This series explores the possible impact of further MON devolution on the United Kingdom's constitution. In each MON programme, Peter Hennessy invites his guests to draw on MON their different expertise in government, politics, the law MON and public ethics in considering questions of MON accountability, coherence and practicality. For example, MON would further devolution improve trust in politics? Is MON devolution practical unless it is accompanied by tax-raising MON powers? Is there a risk that varying degrees of devolution MON across the country could create an incoherent system? Would MON all citizens of the United Kingdom continue to enjoy equal MON rights? Would a federal constitution be viable? Are we MON heading towards the end of the United Kingdom? MON MON Peter Hennessy's other guests in the series are William MON Hague MP, First Secretary of State and Leader of the House MON of Commons; Alistair Darling MP, former Chancellor of the MON Exchequer; Onora O'Neill (Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve), MON philosopher, chair of the Equality and Human Rights MON Commission and former BBC Reith lecturer; and David Hope MON (Lord Hope of Craighead), former Deputy President of the MON United Kingdom's Supreme Court. MON MON Producer: Rob Shepherd. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04v2ynv (Listen) MON Families with transgender children. Why The Law Society has MON withdrawn guidelines on compiling Sharia-compliant wills. MON Anna Krien on her award-winning book Night Games, which MON explores the darker side of sporting culture. Just over a MON fifth of MPs are women - will it go up in 2015? MON MON Transgender Children MON MON How would you react if your 4 year old son told you he MON should be a girl? This week’s drama of the week tells the MON story of 11 year old Amy, born Ben, and her parents as they MON make the decision whether to give her the hormone blocking MON treatment that will stop puberty kicking in. And next month MON Lisa Williamson’s first novel – the Art of Being Normal, MON will focus on a teenage boy that’s wants to come out as MON trans. Susie Green, who had to take her daughter Jackie to MON America to get hormone treatment, and Lisa Williamson join MON us now. MON MON Sharia Wills MON The Law Society has withdrawn controversial guidelines for MON solicitors on how to compile sharia-complaint wills after MON criticism that they encouraged discrimination against women. MON The guidelines set out principles which meant that women MON could be denied an equal share of inheritances and that MON children born out of wedlock might not be counted as MON legitimate heirs. MON MON Anna Krien MON Anna Krien, winner William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2014 MON – Night Games: Sex, Power and a Journey into the Dark Heart MON of Sport – a book about professional footballers and a MON culture of adulation and entitlement that can impact some MON players’ treatment of women off the field of play. MON MON Just Over A Fifth of MPs Are Women – Will It Go Up In 2015? MON MON Before the 2010 general election just under a fifth of MPs MON were women, after the votes had been counted it went up to MON just over a fifth. As the political parties finish selecting MON the candidates who will stand for them in every seat across MON the country we look at how many women have been selected so MON far, how many could still be selected and how many more MON women we might realistically expect to see elected to MON parliament in May next year. Jane talks to Rosie Campbell, MON Reader in Politics at Birkbeck, University of London and to MON Sarah Childs, Professor of *Politics* and Gender at the MON University of *Bristol.* MON MON Liberal Democrats MON MON As we head into the 2015 General Election just under 23% of MON MPs are women. And the United Nations puts the UK in MON sixty-fourth place for gender equality in its index of MON national parliaments. We examine the challenges of getting MON more women elected, beginning, this week, with a look at the MON deliberate efforts of the main political parties represented MON at Westminster to tackle their own levels of representation. MON What are the experiences of the women who become prospective MON parliamentary candidates and what help and advice do they MON get? Today we hear about the efforts of the Liberal MON Democrats to get more women into parliament and hear the MON stories of two women who have been selected to fight for MON seats in May 2015. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Anna Krien MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04v2ynx (Listen) MON Just a Girl, Episode 1 MON MON How would you cope if your child was born into the wrong MON body? Powerful new drama by Mark Davies Markham. MON MON Amy and her parents meet the doctor who will help them work MON out if hormone blockers are the right choice. MON MON A very ordinary family has come to terms with the less MON ordinary experience of Amy who was born as Ben. Adamant that MON she is a girl from an early age, Amy is growing up fast and MON nervous about starting senior school, with a boy's body. Her MON parents, Gary and Charlotte, have to help decide whether she MON should take significant steps to delay puberty until she can MON be fully assessed for transgender treatment. The right thing MON to do is not clear, and their different views on what is MON best for their child present some very difficult choices. MON Grandad Ted loves them all but struggles to grasp how MON serious the situation is. At the same time, everyday family MON life goes on, and re-decorating Amy's bedroom brings her and MON her Grandad closer. This honest, compassionate new drama was MON inspired by real life experiences. MON MON Thanks to Susie Green and the parents at Mermaids, a charity MON offering support to gender variant children, teenagers and MON their families, and the Tavistock Clinic. MON MON Studio Pianist ..... Alfie Davies MON Director ..... Polly Thomas MON Writer ..... Mark Davies Markham. MON MON Credits MON Amy: Louie Cordara MON Gary: Shaun Parkes MON Charlotte: Bettrys Jones MON Ted: Michael Garner MON Dr ONeill: Elaine Claxton MON Director: Polly Thomas MON Writer: Mark Davies Markham MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b04v2ynz (Listen) MON Series 18, Sails and Oars Only - Oyster Fishing on the Fal MON MON In 1602 Sir Richard Carew saw fishermen catching oysters MON with 'a thick strong net fastened to three spills of iron, MON and drawn to the boat's stern, gathering whatsoever it MON meeteth lying in the bottom of the water, out of which... MON they cull the oyster'. When Les Angel and Timmy Heard show MON Alan Dein how they catch oysters in the Fal today he finds MON that, in four centuries, nothing's changed. MON MON The last wild native oyster beds lie in this beautiful MON Cornish estuary. In 1876, in an early example of MON conservation legislation, Truro Corporation passed byelaws MON forbidding the mechanised harvesting of oysters. The Fal MON oystermen use gaff-rigged cutters, some over a century old, MON the last in Europe to fish commercially under sail. Upstream MON they dredge with punts; not what see boys in blazers and MON girls in muslin poling along the Cam in, but hefty rowing MON boats. MON MON Twenty years ago mussel farming was introduced. Ropes are MON suspended from rafts, obliging molluscs attach themselves MON and grow, and grow. MON MON The methods are simple, the times, complicated. Carol MON Thorogood and David Robertson of Cornwall Port Health MON Authority take Alan up the Fal, explaining how they have to MON test shellfish. This summer some readings showed E coli MON present in concentrations above the limit; sections of the MON fishery were closed for a time, threatening fishermen's MON livelihoods. MON MON Out on the water Alan Dein meets Les Angel and Timmy Heard. MON The oysters have grown well; they're optimistic. But MON mussel-farmer Gary Rawle has abandoned the Fal, moving his MON rafts out to sea. MON MON The Fal has always flowed through farmland and towns. Is the MON water quality deteriorating, or being tested more MON rigorously? Alan ponders the future of the oystermen's MON precarious, wonderful way of life. MON MON Producer: Julian May. MON MON 11:30 Start/Stop b04v2z6p (Listen) MON Series 2, Date Night 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 end up on a 'date night' MON together and Evan is a surprise convert to French cinema. MON Meanwhile Barney tries to get his smartphone to answer some MON of life's big questions. 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 Voice of Barney's Smartphone: Jon Briggs MON Producer: Claire Jones MON Writer: Jack Docherty MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04v2jn3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04v2z6r (Listen) MON 15 December 1914 - Hilary Pearce MON MON A surprise visitor at Folkestone Town Hall shakes Hilary MON Pearce's easy confidence. MON MON Written by Shaun McKenna MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Hilary: Craige Els MON Laurie: Will Howard MON Isabel: Keely Beresford MON Mr Tench: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Mr Hawkes: Gerry Hinks MON Trumpeter: Felix Lailey MON Writer: Shaun McKenna MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04v30zl (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04v2jn5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04v30zn (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 The Ideas That Make Us b04v30zq (Listen) MON Series 3, Psyche MON MON Bettany Hughes examines her psyche in her archaeology of MON philosophy. MON MON The surprising and invigorating history of the most MON influential ideas in the story of civilisation, described as MON 'a double espresso shot of philosophy, history, science and MON the arts'. Award--winning historian and broadcaster Bettany MON Hughes begins each programme with the first, extant evidence MON of a single word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels MON both forwards and backwards in time, investigating how these MON ideas have been moulded by history, and how they've shaped MON us. MON MON In this programme Bettany investigates her psyche and those MON of philosopher Angie Hobbs, Byzantinist MON Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos, writer and broadcaster Lisa MON Appignanesi and neuroscientist Patrick Haggard. Bettany MON travels to Athens to see where these ideas were born and MON then explores the street markets, churches, offices and MON homes where they continue to morph and influence our daily MON lives. MON MON Other ideas examined in series include idea, desire, agony, MON fame, justice, wisdom, comedy, liberty, peace, hospitality, MON charisma, irony, nemesis and virtue. MON MON Series Producer: Dixi Stewart. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04v2s5d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04v30zs (Listen) MON Atlas MON MON By Bethan Roberts. MON MON Charlie's got a secret. He longs to look like Elizabeth MON Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Sometimes he dresses up MON like her, pretends to be her. But that's until his Dad MON catches him in the act. Determined to get more manly, and MON inspired by the perfect specimen Charles Atlas, Charlie MON begins bodybuilding and undergoes a glorious transformation. MON MON A unique, feel-good story about acceptance and pumping iron. MON MON Directed by Helen Perry MON A BBC Cymru Wales Production. MON MON Credits MON Charlie: Garnon Davies MON Daphne: Kimberley Nixon MON Tim: Christian Patterson MON Sheena: Melanie Walters MON George: Kyle Rees MON Writer: Bethan Roberts MON Director: Helen Perry MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b04v30zv (Listen) MON Series 28, The Final 2014 MON MON (13/13) MON MON Many of us are familiar with the song 'Istanbul, not MON Constantinople' - but who recorded the original version? And MON which European city (definitely not Istanbul) is the home of MON the Gulbenkian orchestra? MON MON The 2014 season of the wide-ranging music quiz comes to its MON climax, with Paul Gambaccini hosting the Final from BBC MON Maida Vale. MON MON The three Finalists are from Derbyshire, London and MON Cheshire. Only one of them can take the 2014 Counterpoint MON champion's trophy, but with formidable performances in their MON respective heats and semi-finals it would be a bold MON prediction as to which of the three will triumph. MON MON As well as answering general knowledge questions on music, MON the Finalists will also have to choose a special musical MON subject on which to answer individual questions, with no MON prior hint of what the available topics are going to be. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04v2lv9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Beckett in Brooklyn b04v30zx (Listen) MON A disembodied mouth hovers 8 feet above the stage and MON appears to oscillate wildly around the pitch-black MON auditorium. MON MON Blindfolded, her head strapped into a harness, Irish actor MON Lisa Dwan delivers the frenetic, roller-coaster stream of MON consciousness that is Samuel Beckett's 'Not I'. Alongside MON 'Footfalls' and 'Rockaby', the play forms one part of a MON trilogy of intensely demanding one-woman Beckett works which MON Lisa has been performing to packed houses across the UK & MON Ireland. MON MON Now, as Lisa takes her Beckett trilogy across the Atlantic MON to the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre, we find MON her immersed in a whirlwind of rave reviews, TV appearances MON and a US theatre-going public heavily preoccupied with MON Ebola, Isis and the uncertainty of our times. MON MON As the curtain prepares to fall for the last time, we MON discover the true extent of Lisa's commitment to these dark MON and challenging roles, what the impact of performing them MON has been on her and if, 25 years after the Irish MON playwright's death, she may have shown us that Samuel MON Beckett's work matters more than ever. MON MON Producer: Conor Garrett. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04v30zz (Listen) MON Race Relations in the USA MON MON In recent months some major American cities have experienced MON racial tension which has erupted into violence. In August MON Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed MON by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Sections of MON the community reacted with violence, looting and protest and MON when, at the end of November, a Grand Jury decided not to MON indict the policeman there was further violence. Then in New MON York another Grand Jury decided against indicting a MON policeman who was caught on video in Staten Island putting a MON choke hold on a black man. Eric Garner was heard screaming MON "I can't breathe" and he subsequently died. The cases have MON raised questions about how much progress has been made in MON America towards creating a truly equal society. Joining MON Ernie Rea to discuss church and race relations in the United MON States of America is the Rev Cheryl Sanders, Professor of MON Christian Ethics at the Howard University School of Divinity MON and Pastor at the Third Street Church of God in Washington MON DC; Bishop Larry Jones, Founder and Pastor of Greater Grace MON Church in St Louis Missouri; and Alexander Smith, Assistant MON Professor of Sociology at Warwick University and at Kansas MON University. MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b04v3101 (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04v2jn7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04v3103 (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 5 MON MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to The Marlowe MON Theatre in Canterbury. Old-timers Barry Cryer and Graeme MON Garden are joined on the panel by Susan Calman and Tony MON Hawks, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on MON the piano. 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 b04v3287 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04v3289 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04v2ynx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Invisible Age b04v328c (Listen) MON The Age Bomb MON MON Old age is an increasingly long stage of life. There are MON nearly 1.5 million people in the UK aged 85 and over. By MON 2050 there will be 5 million in the UK alone. MON MON Matthew Sweet tries to understand why society is still so MON reluctant to talk about ageing when - for many - the MON experience is a good one. He asks whether historical MON anxieties about population growth still overshadow MON contemporary discussions about the so called 'fourth-age' MON and if ageism will soon be regarded in the same way as MON discrimination on the basis of race or colour. MON MON Matthew's many friendships with people in their 80s and 90s MON have hugely enriched his social life and, in this programme, MON he considers why such cross-generational relationships are MON so rare. He also asks what those over the age of 85 think MON about his generation's denial of the ageing process. MON MON We explore the new territory that the 'oldest-old' inhabit - MON to ask about the perspective that age brings, to reflect on MON experiences and memories of a long life, and to discover MON what the 'oldest-old' would like to report back to those who MON are following behind. MON MON Produced by Catherine Carr MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04tljk6 (Listen) MON Washington Redskins MON MON Fans of the Washington Redskins, one of the most popular MON American football teams in the country, are fiercely proud MON of their dark crimson Indian head logo. They say it is a MON sign of respect and that the name 'Redskins' goes back 80 MON years. But to many Native Americans, the indigenous people MON who lived in the United States before the arrival of MON European settlers, the word Redskins is hateful. For them MON it's a painful reminder of how their people have been MON oppressed and neglected even to this very day. MON MON Mike Wendling travels from North Dakota, to Minneapolis to MON Washington DC to explore the controversy which, thanks to MON social media and a growing number of Native American MON campaigners, has now become a burning national issue. MON MON On the Turtle Mountain reservation, Mike meets Jordan Brien, MON a young hip-hop artist with a troubled past who is MON determined to get the name of the team changed. He says his MON people shouldn't be reduced to mascots, and he urges young MON Native Americans to take a stand against racism. His cause MON has got the support of some in the US Congress and even MON President Obama has said that if the name is offensive to a MON sizeable group of people, the owners should "think about MON changing it". But for diehard fans like Chap Petersen, who MON has been going to Redskins games for four decades, such a MON change is unthinkable. And the club's owner Daniel Snyder MON has vowed never to discard the name whatever the press, MON pollsters and politicians say. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04tjdlq (Listen) MON Orangutans and Drones MON MON Orang-utans live in the peat rainforests of Malaysia and MON Indonesia. It can be tough terrain to travel through on foot MON so studying and surveying wild orang-utans is difficult and MON dangerous. Can drones help to answer questions about the MON number and distribution of the 'people of the forest' and MON monitor illegal logging of this endangered ape's habitat? MON This week Shared Planet explores the potential of drones to MON help us share the planet with orang-utans - but also MON explores the possible pitfalls of using this controversial MON technology. MON MON Dr Helen Morrogh-Bernard MON Helen Morrogh-Bernard is the Founder and Director of MON Orangutan Research at the MON Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project MON Helen has worked in the Sabangau peat-swamp forest since MON 1995 where she identified the world’s largest population of MON orangutans and then helped to stop illegal-logging and MON secure their protection. With a small and dedicated research MON team, she habituated 25 individuals and collected data on MON orangutan activity, ranging, social and feeding behaviour, MON identifying how orangutans were surviving in and utilising a MON logged forest. MON She now collaborates with a wide-range of scientists and MON research projects, comparing orangutan behaviour between MON geographical locations, habitats and islands, helping to MON build up a complete picture of the ecology of this cryptic MON ape. Her personal research interests focus on female range MON development, dispersal, male-male interactions, MON self-medication and the unique cultural traits of the MON Sabangau orangutan population. MON Helen completed a PhD at the MON Wildlife Research Group MON University of Cambridge in 2009, and continues to oversee MON the orangutan behaviour research in Sabangau, whilst also MON remaining committed to conservation and protection of this MON critical habitat. MON MON Professor Serge Wich MON Professor Serge Wich’s research focuses on primate MON behavioral ecology, tropical rain forest ecology and MON conservation of primates and their habitats. It is strongly MON focused on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, but also on the MON island of Borneo where he and his collaborators study the MON Sumatran and Bornean orangutan. MON He also studies primate communication and analyses the MON meaning and function of calls to understand whether they are MON learned and what the geographic variation of calls is. This MON has the ultimate aim of informing theories on how human MON speech evolved. MON In addition, he am collaborating with MON Professor Lian Pin Koh MON to develop and use 'unmanned aerial vehicles' or 'drones' MON for conservation and ecological research. This project has MON put in place drones that fly at locations Africa, Asia, and MON Europe. MON MON Dr Chris Sandbrook MON Dr Chris Sandbrook is a political ecologist with diverse MON research interests around a central theme of biodiversity MON conservation and its relationship with society. MON His current research activities includes investigating MON trade-offs between ecosystem services at the landscape scale MON in developing countries as a co-investigator in MON Sustainable Poverty Alleviation from Coastal Ecosystem MON Services (SPACES) MON He also investigates the role of values and evidence in MON shaping the decisions of conservationists and their MON organisations with particular respect to the use of MON market-based mechanisms in conservation, and the role of MON evidence in conservation, including evidence for MON biodiversity-poverty linkages. MON He also analyses the social and political implications of MON new technologies for conservation and has co-founded the MON Games for Nature MON platform, building on a Cambridge Conservation Initiative MON (CCI) small grant. With Bill Adams, Chris is working to MON develop 'Race the Wild' - a mobile phone app that will allow MON the user to virtually 'race' against wild animals that are MON tagged with GPS tracking devices. MON He is also interested in the potential social and political MON implications of the increasing use of 'Unmanned Aerial MON Vehicles', or 'drones', in conservation, particularly in the MON global south. MON Twitter: MON @csandbrook MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b04v2ynq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04v2jn9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04v328f (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04v328h (Listen) MON Academy Street, Episode 6 MON MON Mary Costello's acclaimed debut - shortlisted for the Costa MON First Novel Award - traces the arc of a quiet woman's life: MON from Tess Lohan's childhood in 1940s rural Ireland through MON to her emigration to America and a career as a nurse in New MON York. MON MON Flooded with feelings of confusion and shame, Tess is left MON reeling in the aftermath of her brief affair with David. 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 b04v328k (Listen) MON Series 4, Sinead O'Connor (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 10: A-side 'Theology' by Sinéad O'Connor MON MON Sinéad O'Connor became a household name after her 1990 hit MON 'Nothing Compares 2U', penned by Prince. Since then she has MON released 9 solo albums including this year's 'I'm Not Bossy, MON I'm the Boss'. No stranger to controversy and with an MON ambivalent relationship towards the Roman Catholicism of her MON upbringing, Sinéad is an artist who has always followed her MON own vision. She found notoriety when she tore up a picture MON of the Pope live on American television and later or was MON ordained as a priest. MON MON Her interest in all faiths finds expression in her eighth MON record Theology, her most personal body of work to date and MON the one album she says she wants to take with her to the MON grave. MON MON Sinéad had been studying Judaic Theology in Dublin before MON she wrote the album, drawing mainly on psalms and scriptures MON of the prophets for inspiration. It also includes a tense, MON intimate version of "I Don't Know How To Love Him" from MON Jesus Christ Superstar. As one critic wrote, Sinéad MON "re-invigorates the ancient genre of the hymn in her own MON inimitable way". MON MON In the A-side of Mastertapes Sinéad talks about 'Theology' MON and her inspiration for writing it and also plays key tracks MON from the 2007 album in an exclusive acoustic set. MON MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b04v328m (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 16 DECEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04v2jp7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 The Kingdom to Come b04v2yns (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04v2jp9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04v2jpc (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04v2jpf (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04v2jph (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04v380h (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Judy TUE Merry. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04v380n (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and Produced by Sally Challoner. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04syywl (Listen) TUE Blue Manakin 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 advancing, leaping and queuing male TUE blue manakin of Brazil. Male blue manakins are small, blue TUE and black birds with scarlet caps. They live in the forests TUE of south-east Brazil and neighbouring areas of Argentina and TUE Paraguay. Whilst their plumage is eye-catching, their mating TUE display is one of the strangest of any bird. A dominant male TUE Blue Manakin enlists the support of one or more subordinate TUE males. Calling loudly, all the males sidle along a branch TUE towards the female, taking turns to leap into the air and TUE then fly back down and take their place at the back of the TUE queue. This sequence of advancing, leaping and queuing TUE occurs at a frenetic pace, until, without warning, the TUE dominant male calls time on this avian dance-off, with a TUE piercing screech. TUE TUE Blue Manakin [aka Swallow-tailed manakin] (Chiroxiphia TUE caudata) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Luiz Claudio Marigo / TUE naturepl.com. TUE NPL Ref 01317997 TUE © Luiz Claudio Marigo / naturepl.com TUE TUE Recording of swallow-tailed manakin (blue manakin) by Paul A TUE Schwartz / Ref: ML 71592 TUE TUE This programme contains a TUE wildtrack recording of the swallow-tailed manakin TUE kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab TUE of Ornithology; recorded by Paul A Schwartz on 11 Nov 1971, TUE in Estacao Biologica de Boraceia, Sao Paulo, Brazil. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04v380w (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 b04v380z (Listen) TUE Dr Atul Gawande: The Future of Medicine, The Idea of TUE Wellbeing TUE TUE The surgeon and writer Atul Gawande argues that medicine TUE must shift from a focus on health and survival to a focus on TUE wellbeing. TUE TUE Speaking to an audience at the India International Centre in TUE Delhi, he says that insofar as possible, doctors should TUE strive to protect people's abilities to pursue their highest TUE priorities in life. And, as he will suggest from the story TUE of his father's final months before his death from cancer, TUE those priorities are very often more complex than simply the TUE wish to live longer. TUE TUE Dr Gawande's Reith Lecture series, "The Future of Medicine," TUE examine the nature of progress and failure in medicine, a TUE field defined by what he calls "the messy intersection of TUE science and human fallibility". TUE TUE The Reith Lectures are introduced and chaired by Sue Lawley TUE and produced by Jim Frank. TUE TUE 09:45 The Kingdom to Come b04v3813 (Listen) TUE David Hope TUE TUE Peter Hennessy, the historian, continues his series of TUE conversations on the future of the United Kingdom's TUE constitution. His guest today is David Hope (Lord Hope of TUE Craighead), former Scottish judge and former Deputy TUE President of the United Kingdom's Supreme Court. TUE The hurried promises of further devolution made by political TUE leaders during and immediately after the Scottish Referendum TUE will fundamentally change how the United Kingdom is TUE governed, with little opportunity for people to consider TUE what this radical reform might mean or to discuss the TUE constitutional implications. TUE This series explores the possible impact of further TUE devolution on the United Kingdom's constitution. In each TUE programme, Peter Hennessy invites his guests to draw on TUE their different expertise in government, politics, the law TUE and public ethics in considering questions of TUE accountability, coherence and practicality. For example, TUE would further devolution improve trust in politics? Is TUE devolution practical unless it is accompanied by tax-raising TUE powers? Is there a risk that varying degrees of devolution TUE across the country could create an incoherent system? Would TUE all citizens of the United Kingdom continue to enjoy equal TUE rights? Would a federal constitution be viable? Are we TUE heading towards the end of the United Kingdom? TUE Peter Hennessy's other guests during the series are William TUE Hague MP, First Secretary of State and Leader of the House TUE of Commons; Alistair Darling MP, former Chancellor of the TUE Exchequer; Onora O'Neill (Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve), TUE philosopher, chair of the Equality and Human Rights TUE Commission and former BBC Reith lecturer; and Robin Butler TUE (Lord Butler of Brockwell), former Cabinet Secretary. TUE Producer: Rob Shepherd. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04v3817 (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 b04v381f (Listen) TUE Just a Girl, Episode 2 TUE TUE Gary and Charlotte struggle with very different approaches TUE to hormone blockers, whilst Amy embarks on some dramatic TUE interior decoration. TUE TUE How would you cope if your child was born into the wrong TUE body? Powerful new drama by Mark Davies Markham. TUE TUE A very ordinary family has come to terms with the less TUE ordinary experience of Amy who was born as Ben. Adamant that TUE she is a girl from an early age, Amy is growing up fast and TUE nervous about starting senior school, with a boy's body. Her TUE parents, Gary and Charlotte, have to help decide whether she TUE should take significant steps to delay puberty until she can TUE be fully assessed for transgender treatment. The right thing TUE to do is not clear, and their different views on what is TUE best for their child present some very difficult choices. TUE Grandad Ted loves them all but struggles to grasp how TUE serious the situation is. At the same time, everyday family TUE life goes on, and re-decorating Amy's bedroom brings her and TUE her Grandad closer. This honest, compassionate new drama was TUE inspired by real life experiences. TUE TUE Thanks to Susie Green and the parents at Mermaids, a charity TUE offering support to gender variant children, teenagers and TUE their families, and the Tavistock Clinic. TUE TUE Studio Pianist ..... Alfie Davies TUE Director ..... Polly Thomas TUE Writer ..... Mark Davies Markham. TUE TUE Credits TUE Amy: Louie Cordara TUE Gary: Shaun Parkes TUE Charlotte: Bettrys Jones TUE Ted: Michael Garner TUE Dr ONeill: Elaine Claxton TUE Lisa: Hannah Genesius TUE Director: Polly Thomas TUE Writer: Mark Davies Markham TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04v381l (Listen) TUE Sharing Our Lives with Wolves TUE TUE Few creatures have infiltrated our psyche as much as wolves. TUE They haunt our imagination and appear in our stories, myths TUE and legends. They are at once the embodiment of the devil TUE and of the wild, enough dog that we relate to them, but also TUE rugged, unpredictable and wild. They roam vast, untamed TUE landscapes and then appear in our midst, hunting sheep and TUE spreading fear. Our relationship has been so conflicting TUE that they were almost eradicated from the earth by the end TUE of the 19th Century. But since being protected they are TUE slowly coming back in both Europe and America. Are we now TUE able to live with them? Do we want to? Monty Don explores TUE the enigma that is the wolf and looks at how our attitudes TUE have shaped their destiny. TUE TUE Tom Arnbom TUE TUE Tom Arnbom is a senior conservation officer at TUE WWF Sweden TUE He has studied both sperm whales (M.Sc.) and elephant seals TUE (Ph.D.) and has worked for both the TUE Ministry of Enviroment TUE and natural film industry. TUE TUE For almost 20 years, he has been working in relation to TUE large carnivores in Sweden and seeking solutions for TUE carnivore conflicts on a European level with the European TUE Commission. TUE TUE He has vast experiences in human wildlife conflicts and has TUE worked with the TUE International Whaling Commission TUE sealing and Swedish National Carnivore Board. TUE TUE Darlene Kobobel TUE Darlene Kobobel rescued a wolf-dog by the name of Chinook in TUE 1993. The two-year-old female was going to be put down TUE because she was a ‘wolf-hybrid’ but Darlene took her home TUE and learned of the issues and controversies regarding TUE wolf-dogs and wolf-dog breeders in Colorado county. TUE Wanting to provide a safe haven for unwanted wolf-dogs, TUE Darlene launched the Wolf Hybrid Rescue Center. She and her TUE team were inundated with calls from people who felt they can TUE no longer keep them as pets. TUE Through this work, Darlene discovered that of the around TUE 250,000 wolf-dogs born in the US every year, 80 per cent are TUE likely to die before the age of three because they commonly TUE have to be put down after being donated to shelters. Kobobel TUE decided the answer was more education and began work to turn TUE the Wolf Hybrid Rescue Centre into an educational facility TUE now known as the TUE Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center TUE TUE Dr Thomas Heberlein TUE Dr Thomas A Heberlein began his career as an environmental TUE sociologist in 1971, earning a Ph. D. in Sociology at the TUE University of Wisconsin-Madison. He spent a year at the TUE University of Colorado before joining the TUE Department of Rural Sociology at Madison TUE He served as Department Chair, Director of the Center for TUE Resource Policy Studies and Programs and in the Gaylord TUE Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at UW-Madison TUE before retiring in 2001. TUE Heberlein was a visiting professor in the Department of TUE Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies at the Swedish TUE University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå Sweden from TUE 2004-2012. TUE He currently divides his time between Sweden and the United TUE States. His capstone book, Navigating Environmental TUE Attitudes, Oxford University Press (2012), deals in part TUE with his research on attitudes toward wolves. TUE TUE 11:30 Death of an Orchestra b04v381r (Listen) TUE Alan Bennett recalls his regular boyhood visits to hear the TUE Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra. With other keen supporters and TUE former members, he tells the Orchestra's history from 1947 TUE to its demise in 1955. TUE TUE Amid the austerity of the post-war years, the YSO was TUE founded in a spirit of great optimism to provide first class TUE orchestral music for the citizens of Yorkshire. It was based TUE in Leeds Town Hall, and funded entirely out of the Rates. TUE The inaugural concert book expressed the hope that it would TUE "find a permanent place in the musical life of Yorkshire and TUE rank with the finest orchestras of this country". TUE The founder conductor was Maurice Miles, who appears in the TUE only recording of the YSO to survive in the BBC Archive. TUE TUE There were guest appearances by Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir TUE Thomas Beecham and Sir Adrian Boult, and visits from TUE glittering soloists such as Joan Hammond and Tito Gobbi. TUE TUE As a Leeds schoolboy, Alan Bennett found these figures from TUE the outside world "tinged with great glamour". Violinist TUE Rodney Friend, another supporter, was a winner of the YSO's TUE competition for young soloists before becoming leader of the TUE LPO, the New York Philharmonic and the BBC SO. TUE TUE Eight former members of the orchestra, now scattered around TUE the country, describe life in the YSO: cold rickety buses, TUE romance, and the thrill of the great conductor Nikolai Malko TUE arriving for the final season. They recall their shock on TUE discovering that the Orchestra was to be disbanded and the TUE sadness of the final concert. TUE TUE Produced by Susan Kenyon TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04v2jpk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04v381z (Listen) TUE 16 December 1914 - Ralph Winwood TUE TUE The day's events make Reverend Ralph Winwood question his TUE own authority. TUE TUE Written by Shaun McKenna TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ralph: Nicholas Murchie TUE Dorothea: Rachel Shelley TUE George: Ronan Raftery TUE Barry: Kris Deedigan TUE Isabel: Keely Beresford TUE Marieke: Olivia Ross TUE Nurse Betts: Jane Slavin TUE Douglas Conroy: Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Writer: Shaun McKenna TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04v3824 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04v2jpm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04v3828 (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 The Ideas That Make Us b04v382b (Listen) TUE Series 3, Charisma TUE TUE Bettany Hughes investigates charisma in her archaeology of TUE philosophy at The Acropolis, in a charitable bequest and on TUE the pages of a best-selling novel. TUE TUE The surprising and invigorating history of the most TUE influential ideas in the story of civilisation, described as TUE 'a double espresso shot of philosophy, history, science and TUE the arts'. Award--winning historian and broadcaster Bettany TUE Hughes begins each programme with the first, extant evidence TUE of a single word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels TUE both forwards and backwards in time, investigating how these TUE ideas have been moulded by history, and how they've shaped TUE us. TUE TUE In this programme Bettany investigates charisma with TUE classicist Professor Paul Cartledge, Byzantinist Dr TUE Dionysios Stathakopoulos, and writer Ben Okri. TUE TUE Bettany travels to Athens to see where these ideas were born TUE and then explores the street markets, churches, offices and TUE homes where they continue to morph and influence our daily TUE lives. TUE TUE Ideas examined in the first series, in September 2013, were TUE idea, desire, agony, fame and justice. The second series, in TUE January 2014, considered wisdom, comedy, liberty, peace and TUE hospitality. Other ideas in this series are psyche, irony, TUE nemesis and virtue. TUE TUE Series Producer: Dixi Stewart. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04v3287 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04v382d (Listen) TUE The Giffnock Girls TUE TUE Marcella Evaristi's play - both moving and comic - features TUE three childhood friends who re-unite at a key moment in TUE their lives. PJ returns to the family home in Giffnock TUE outside Glasgow after many years in New York to find Gail TUE and Bianca in mid-life turmoil. PJ would love to help but he TUE has personal issues of his own. He left Giffnock as a man TUE but has now returned as a woman. His initials - PJ - stand TUE for Previously John. TUE TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young TUE BBC Scotland. TUE TUE Credits TUE PJ: Matthew Pidgeon TUE Gail: Maureen Beattie TUE Bianca: Julie Austin TUE Barbara: Ann Scott Jones TUE Issy: Finlay Welsh TUE Colin: Steven McNicoll TUE Writer: Marcella Evaristi TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b04v29gz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b04v382g (Listen) TUE Series 4, Sinead O'Connor (the B-Side) TUE TUE Programme 10: B-side 'Theology' by Sinéad O'Connor 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 "Theology", her 2007 album (in the A-side of the programme, TUE broadcast on Monday 15th December and available online), TUE Sinéad O'Connor responds to questions from the audience and TUE performs acoustic live versions of some of the tracks from TUE the album which she considers her most personal body of TUE work. TUE TUE Producer Neil McCarthy. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b04v382j (Listen) TUE First Words: How do children develop language? TUE TUE Michael Rosen finds out about the first sounds, words and TUE phrases that babies recognise and learn to say. He talks to TUE author Tom Chatfield and his 15-month-old son, and to TUE linguists Laura Wright and Kriszta Szendroi. TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04v382p (Listen) TUE Series 35, Laura Bates on Louisa M Alcott TUE TUE Laura Bates, journalist and curator of the Everyday Sexism TUE Project, explains to Matthew Parris why the 19th century TUE children's author Louisa M. Alcott has her vote for a Great TUE Life. They are joined by Sarah Churchwell, Professor of TUE American Literature at the University of East Anglia. TUE TUE Louisa May Alcott is best known as the writer of Little TUE Women, the story of four sisters growing up during the Civil TUE War in America. Generations of girls have read the book, TUE which at first sight seems to be an improving tract on TUE growing up and becoming good Christian wives. TUE TUE Both Laura and Sarah have a very different reading of the TUE book and believe Louisa M. Alcott to have been a remarkable TUE woman and a dedicated feminist. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Laura Bates TUE Interviewed Guest: Sarah Churchwell TUE Producer: Christine Hall TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04v382z (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04v2jpp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b04v3838 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Well of Loneliness TUE TUE When Tom's father uncovers some potentially life-changing TUE news through his research into the family tree, Tom is TUE pressganged into helping him find a church which could be TUE devastating for the Wrigglesworth name. TUE TUE Meanwhile, Tom's mum and gran enter the cut-throat world of TUE competitive well-dressing. 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: Sam Michell TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04v383k (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04v383q (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04v381f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Suppose I Lose It b04v383w (Listen) TUE Now in her 80s, one issue looms ahead for Joan Bakewell and TUE others from her generation - the fear of dementia. She TUE admits that she's becoming increasingly forgetful. Her home TUE is decked with post-it note reminders to help her remember. TUE But are the annoying lapses in memory, that characterise her TUE daily life, just a normal part of ageing, or could they TUE signal something more serious like dementia? As she herself TUE says - 'suppose I lose it?'. TUE TUE In this programme, Joan asks what might she expect, and how TUE should she prepare, if she were to receive the diagnosis. TUE TUE Joan's search is spurred on by the news that her friend of TUE many years, the actress Prunella Scales, has dementia. Over TUE cups of tea at their home, Joan talks to Prunella and her TUE husband, the actor Timothy West, about how her memory loss TUE is affecting their lives. TUE TUE Dementia is a growing problem for the nation. Over 800,000 TUE now suffer from it and, as we all live longer, that figure TUE is set to double in the next thirty to forty years. It's a TUE problem that the government has been prioritising through TUE the National Challenge on Dementia, but as Professor Sube TUE Banerjee, a lead author on the National Dementia Strategy, TUE says there's still an immense amount that needs to be done. TUE TUE Even hospitals struggle to cope with people with dementia. TUE Being mostly old and frail, they make up a quarter of TUE inpatients, yet the experience can be traumatising. They TUE tend to leave hospital less capable than when they went it, TUE and are often more confused and anxious. TUE TUE So how will hospitals cope as the numbers with dementia TUE spiral? Professor Harwood is one of those making a start, TUE adapting Ward B47 at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham and TUE training staff to meet the complex needs of patients with TUE dementia, which are only now starting to be understood. TUE TUE One of the challenges of caring for dementia patients is TUE that often their disease is so advanced that they can no TUE longer make decisions about their medical treatment. What's TUE more, few make their wishes known in advance. So TUE geriatrician Professor Rowan Harwood often has to make a TUE best guess, which can mean keeping patients alive longer TUE than they might have wanted. Joan asks what she should do to TUE prepare should she be diagnosed with dementia. TUE TUE And what's more terrifying - living with dementia, or living TUE in a society that fails to support those suffering with it. TUE Several towns around the country are now addressing the TUE ignorance and fear that can leave sufferers and their carers TUE feeling isolated. The Crawley Dementia Alliance is bringing TUE together schools, GPs, local businesses and transport TUE services to make Crawley more 'dementia friendly'. And it is TUE dementia suffers themselves whose opinions lie at the heart TUE of what happens here. TUE TUE Producer: Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04v3840 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b04v3844 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond investigate the mind, the brain and why we TUE behave the way that we do. TUE TUE 21:30 Document b01r9c9r (Listen) TUE Votes for Victorian Women TUE TUE Popular history tells us that women did not get the vote TUE until 1918. TUE TUE Though they could technically vote in local elections before TUE that, many historians have argued that in practice they had TUE no vote until the 1860s at the earliest. And evidence that TUE they ever did vote has proved almost impossible to find. TUE TUE But now a poll book, discovered in a box of papers in a TUE local record office, clearly shows 25 women voting in TUE elections for important local posts in Lichfield in 1843. TUE TUE In this week's Document, the historian Sarah Richardson TUE follows the trail of these women, to reveal a picture of TUE Victorian women's involvement in politics which challenges TUE many of our assumptions. TUE TUE She discovers that they represented a surprising TUE cross-section of society - old and young, poor and TUE prosperous - and attempts to trace their descendants today. TUE TUE She finds out how, when even universal manhood suffrage was TUE seen as a radical, dangerous idea, these women may have been TUE just a few of many more who could vote at a local level. TUE TUE And she explores how, decades later, campaigners for Votes TUE for Women at the Westminster level had to contend with this TUE complex legacy. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04v2jpr (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04v38s4 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04v38s6 (Listen) TUE Academy Street, Episode 7 TUE TUE Mary Costello's acclaimed debut - shortlisted for the Costa TUE First Novel Award - traces the arc of a quiet woman's life: TUE from Tess Lohan's childhood in 1940s rural Ireland through TUE to her emigration to America and a career as a nurse in New TUE York. TUE TUE Resolute in her decision to raise her son alone, Tess vows TUE never to explain herself to anyone again. 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 Andrew O'Neill Pharmacist Baffler b04v3950 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Comedian Andrew O'Neil is a transvestite or as he prefers to TUE call himself, a "pharmacist baffler", or "correct toilet TUE double-check instigator" or "patriarchal birthright TUE rejecter". Andrew is also heterosexual, married and in a TUE steam punk band. He confounds expectations and TUE preconceptions. TUE TUE In this two-part series of audience, stand-up shows using TUE his own personal experience he examines sexual and gender TUE identity, what they are and how we get them. TUE Andrew is one of the most interesting and articulate voices TUE on the circuit. He came out as a transvestite when he was TUE 19, and now cross-dresses about half the time (the British TUE Union Of Transvestites requires you to cross-dress at least TUE 3 days out of the 7). He wears make-up and jewellery and has TUE long hair. He's usually dressed in black, has lots of TUE tattoos, plays in a steam punk band and has always been TUE heterosexual. He's married and only ever fancies women. This TUE makes him and Eddie Izzard the only out cross-dressing TUE comics in the country. This series would brings his (almost) TUE unique perspective to ideas about gender and sexual TUE identity, He looks at where you get your ideas about what TUE your gender is, and what it should look like, how your TUE sexuality is defined and how other people's sexuality TUE continues to fascinate us and not necessarily in a good way. TUE TUE In the first show he discusses gender identity from a TUE transvestite's point of view and talks about his own TUE experiences growing up. His humorous take on these difficult TUE and thought provoking issues delights the audience whilst TUE occasionally shocking them. TUE TUE Written and performed by Andrew O Neill with on-stage help TUE from Stephen Carlin. Produced by Alison Vernon-Smith. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Isy Suttie TUE Producer: Lianne Coop TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b04v3952 (Listen) TUE Joanna Shinn reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 17 DECEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04v2jqp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 The Kingdom to Come b04v3813 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04v2jqr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04v2jqt (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04v2jqw (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04v2jqy (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04v3b97 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Judy WED Merry. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04v3b99 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and Produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0gsc (Listen) WED Saddleback 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 formerly widespread saddleback of WED New Zealand. It's loud, piping and whistling calls once WED resounded throughout New Zealand's forests, but now the WED saddleback is heard only on smaller offshore islands. This WED is a bird in exile. About the size of a European blackbird, WED saddlebacks are predominantly black with a rust-coloured WED saddle-shaped patch on their backs. In Maori culture this WED mark came from the demi-God Maui who, after trying to catch WED the sun, asked the saddleback to fetch water. The bird WED refused, so hot-handed Maui grabbed it and left a scorch WED mark on the bird's back. As well as this chestnut saddle, WED the bird has two bright red wattles at the base of its beak WED which it can dilate when it displays. It also has an WED extensive vocabulary and one of its calls has earned it the WED Maori name -"Ti-e-ke". WED WED Saddleback (Philesturnus carunculatus) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com. WED NPL Ref 01454636 WED © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com WED WED 06:00 Today b04v3b9c (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 b04v3b9f (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 The Kingdom to Come b04v3b9h (Listen) WED Onora O'Neill WED WED Peter Hennessy, the historian, continues his series of WED conversations on the future of the United Kingdom's WED constitution. His guest today is Onora O'Neill (Baroness WED O'Neill of Bengarve), philosopher, chair of the Equality and WED Human Rights Commission and former BBC Reith lecturer. WED The hurried promises of further devolution made by political WED leaders during and immediately after the Scottish Referendum WED will fundamentally change how the United Kingdom is WED governed, with little opportunity for people to consider WED what this radical reform might mean or to discuss the WED constitutional implications. WED This series explores the possible impact of further WED devolution on the United Kingdom's constitution. In each WED programme, Peter Hennessy invites his guests to draw on WED their different expertise in government, politics, the law WED and public ethics in considering questions of WED accountability, coherence and practicality. For example, WED would further devolution improve trust in politics? Is WED devolution practical unless it is accompanied by tax-raising WED powers? Is there a risk that varying degrees of devolution WED across the country could create an incoherent system? Would WED all citizens of the United Kingdom continue to enjoy equal WED rights? Would a federal constitution be viable? Are we WED heading towards the end of the United Kingdom? WED Peter Hennessy's other guests during the series are William WED Hague MP, First Secretary of State and Leader of the House WED of Commons; Alistair Darling MP, former Chancellor of the WED Exchequer; David Hope (Lord Hope of Craighead), former WED Deputy President of the United Kingdom's Supreme Court; and WED Robin Butler (Lord Butler of Brockwell), former Cabinet WED Secretary. WED Producer: Rob Shepherd. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04v3b9k (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 b04v3b9m (Listen) WED Just a Girl, Episode 3 WED WED Amy's desperation to get on the hormone blockers begins to WED worry her family, and her granddad Ted finally understands WED her predicament. WED WED How would you cope if your child was born into the wrong WED body? Powerful new drama by Mark Davies Markham. WED WED A very ordinary family has come to terms with the less WED ordinary experience of Amy who was born as Ben. Adamant that WED she is a girl from an early age, Amy is growing up fast and WED nervous about starting senior school, with a boy's body. Her WED parents, Gary and Charlotte, have to help decide whether she WED should take significant steps to delay puberty until she can WED be fully assessed for transgender treatment. The right thing WED to do is not clear, and their different views on what is WED best for their child present some very difficult choices. WED Grandad Ted loves them all but struggles to grasp how WED serious the situation is. At the same time, everyday family WED life goes on, and re-decorating Amy's bedroom brings her and WED her Grandad closer. This honest, compassionate new drama was WED inspired by real life experiences. WED WED Thanks to Susie Green and the parents at Mermaids, a charity WED offering support to gender variant children, teenagers and WED their families and the Tavistock Clinic. WED WED Studio Pianist ..... Alfie Davies WED Director ..... Polly Thomas WED Writer ..... Mark Davies Markham. WED WED Credits WED Amy: Louie Cordara WED Gary: Shaun Parkes WED Charlotte: Bettrys Jones WED Ted: Michael Garner WED Dr ONeill: Elaine Claxton WED Director: Polly Thomas WED Writer: Mark Davies Markham WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04v3b9p (Listen) WED Marvina and Renee - Being Gay in Nigeria WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation between friends of Nigerian WED origin, reflecting on their culture's intolerance of WED homosexuality and its effect on their lives and their WED friendship. 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 What's Funny about Money? b04vxv1c (Listen) WED The Kilkenomics Festival of economics and comedy was WED launched in the depths of Ireland's financial crisis in WED 2010. Five years on it has earned a reputation for being WED 'Davos with laughs'. Economists and comedians share WED platforms over a weekend in the Irish city of Kilkenny, WED demystifying the language and theories of economics. WED Comedian Colm O'Regan has been performing at Kilkenomics WED since it was launched and explores how the festival works. WED WED Speaking to the co-founders of the festival, economist David WED McWilliams and festival organiser Richard Cook, Colm WED discovers what motivated them to start a comedy festival at WED such a difficult time for the Irish economy, and how the WED mood is different today. WED WED He meets John Lanchester, author of How to Speak Money, who WED explains how those appearing at Kilkenomics are able to find WED ways to explain difficult economic concepts. He finds out WED what comedians appearing for the first time, like Ardal WED O'Hanlon, make of the event. He also hears from Irish WED economists and asks whether there is a 'Kilkenomics' school WED of economic thought. Finally, Colm meets a group of WED protestors against Ireland's debt who are marching at WED Kilkenomics to make their point. WED WED Colm considers whether it is the Irish experience that makes WED Kilkenomics so appealing, or if the festival could also work WED in other countries. WED WED Produced by Philip Reevell WED A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Hobby Bobbies b04v3cx5 (Listen) WED Series 2, Burglaries 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, Nigel has taken up free running in the hope that WED physical fitness can improve his performance at work. But WED what, if anything, will identify the mysterious hand cream WED thief? WED WED Cast: WED Geoff...............Richie Webb WED Nigel...............Nick Walker WED The Guv..........Sinead Keenan WED Nina................Pooja Shah WED Bernie.............Chris Emmett WED Geoff's Dad.....Noddy Holder WED WED Written by Dave Lamb WED WED Produced by Steve Doherty WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Geoff: Richie Webb WED Nigel: Nick Walker WED The Guv: Sinead Keenan WED Jermain: Leon Herbert WED Bernie: Chris Emmett WED Geoff's Dad: Noddy Holder WED Producer: Steve Doherty WED Writer: Dave Lamb WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04v2jr0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04v3cx7 (Listen) WED 17 December 1914 - Archie Tulliver WED WED The recruitment drive takes a new and charming turn on the WED streets of Folkestone. WED WED Written by Shaun McKenna WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Archie: Arthur Hughes WED Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson WED Ivy: Lizzy Watts WED Maisie: Cassie Layton WED Bill: Ben Crowe WED Hilda: Bella Hamblin WED Hilary: Craige Els WED Ivor: Alun Raglan WED Joe: Lloyd Thomas WED Writer: Shaun McKenna WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04v3cx9 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04v2jr4 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04v3cxc (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 The Ideas That Make Us b04v3cxf (Listen) WED Series 3, Irony WED WED Bettany examines irony in her archaeology of philosophy in a WED club where it's banned and in the studios of Radio 4's Today WED programme. WED WED The surprising and invigorating history of the most WED influential ideas in the story of civilisation, described as WED 'a double espresso shot of philosophy, history, science and WED the arts'. Award--winning historian and broadcaster Bettany WED Hughes begins each programme with the first, extant evidence WED of a single word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels WED both forwards and backwards in time, investigating how these WED ideas have been moulded by history, and how they've shaped WED us. WED WED In this programme Bettany examines irony with philosopher WED Angie Hobbs, comedian Robert Newman, and grand inquisitor WED John Humphrys. Bettany travels to Athens to see where these WED ideas were born and then explores the street markets, WED churches, offices and homes where they continue to morph and WED influence our daily lives. WED WED Ideas examined in the first series, in September 2013, were WED idea, desire, agony, fame and justice. The second series, in WED January 2014, considered wisdom, comedy, liberty, peace and WED hospitality. Other ideas in this series are psyche, WED charisma, nemesis and virtue. WED WED Series Producer: Dixi Stewart. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04v383k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b013gd2b (Listen) WED Pink Boy Blue Girl WED WED by Mateusz Dymek WED WED When a Swedish PHD student interviews a couple WED about raising their child gender neutrally she WED begins to wonder if their choices are as WED politically correct as they first seem. WED WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED Credits WED Malin: Morven Christie WED Hakan: Joseph Millson WED Catalina: Leah Brotherhead WED Receptionist: Jonathan Forbes WED Policewoman: Susie Riddell WED Old Man: Karzan Sherabayani WED Petrol Station Man: Simon Bubb WED Director: Sally Avens WED Writer: Mateusz Dymek WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b04v3cxh (Listen) WED Fraud WED WED Have you been a victim of fraud? How do you report the WED crime, get your money back and stop it happening again? Call WED 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk . WED WED Around £450 million was lost to debit and credit card fraud WED in 2013 say Financial Fraud Action and the City of London WED Police have just launched 'The 12 online frauds of WED Christmas' campaign to warn consumers about the latest WED dangers. WED WED If you've got a question about dealing with or preventing WED fraud, Paul Lewis and guests will be ready to help on WED Wednesday. WED WED Who is liable if you are the victim of fraud or identity WED theft? WED WED What happens if your credit or debit card is lost or stolen WED and then used to buy something? WED WED Where do you report fraud and how is it investigated? WED WED How can you stay safe when shopping online? WED WED Do you really need to pay for an Identity Protection WED Service? WED WED Whatever you need help with, you can speak directly to: WED WED DCI Perry Stokes, Head of the Dedicated Cheque and Plastic WED Crime Unit. WED DCI Matt Bradford, National Fraud Investigation Bureau. WED James Daley, Managing Director, Fairer Finance 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 b04v3844 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b04v3cxk (Listen) WED Fat Gay Men; Butchers WED WED Fat gay men: Laurie Taylor examines a world in which men are WED doubly stigmatised - for their weight as well as their WED sexuality. Jason Whitesel, an Assistant Professor in Women's WED and Gender Studies at Pace University in the US, discusses a WED study which illuminates how such men negotiate and fight WED back against a gay culture which places them in an inferior WED and stigmatised position in the 'attractiveness' WED hierarchy.They're joined by Paul Simpson, a Lecturer in WED Sociology at the University of Manchester, who has WED researched the marginality of older gay men on the gay WED 'scene'. WED WED Also, the masculine world of the butchers. Dr Natasha WED Slutskaya, lecturer of Organization Studies at Brunel WED Business School, discusses a study into the values and WED meanings butchers ascribe to the 'dirty work' of meat WED production and sale. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Jason Whitesel WED WED Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Pace WED University, New York WED Find out more about WED Jason Whitesel WED *Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma WED *Publisher: New York University Press WED ISBN-10: 0814724124 WED ISBN-13: 978-0814724125 WED WED Paul Simpson WED WED Lecturer, University of Manchester WED Find out more about Dr WED Paul Simpson WED Abstract: * WED Alienation, Ambivalence and Agency: Middle-aged Gay Men and WED Ageism in Manchester's Gay Village WED *Sexualities June 2013 vol. 16 no. 3-4 283-299 WED doi: 10.1177/1363460713481734 WED WED Natasha Slutskaya WED WED Lecturer of Organization Studies at Brunel Business School, WED Brunel University WED Find out more about Dr WED Natasha Slutskaya WED Abstract: * WED Sacrifice and distinction in dirty work: men’s construction WED of meaning in the butcher trade WED *Ruth Simpson, Jason Hughes, Natasha Slutskaya, Maria Balta WED Work Employment & Society March 7, 2014 WED doi: 10.1177/0950017013510759 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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WED WED 18:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b04v3cxr (Listen) WED Communication 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 looks at the modern's youth's WED obsession with a device that can be used to email, text, WED surf the web, play games and, very occasionally, make WED telephone calls - the telephone. The story of how it came, WED legally, into being obviously involves electro-shock therapy WED and an exploding boat. Paul also looks at a more positive WED aspect of young people, and tells a story of how the WED introduction of gin to the United Kingdom inspired the WED seventeenth century equivalent of the Ice Bucket Challenge. 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 b04v3cxt (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04v4sx6 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04v3b9m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 At Home Abroad b04v4sx8 (Listen) WED The world is on the move. More than 200 million people live WED today in a different country to their birthplace. WED WED Britain is a major crossroads of this seething human WED migration. Among developed nations, there are more Britons WED living abroad than from any other country. Inward migration WED to Britain has also been massive - more than 13 percent of WED the UK population is foreign born. WED WED A panel of New Britons, immigrants from all points of the WED compass, debate questions raised by making a new home WED abroad. How far do you assimilate? What is the process of WED leaving one culture behind when the new one doesn't always WED accept you with open arms? How do you raise your children, WED born in Britain, if you do not fully feel a member of WED British society yourself? Can an immigrant believe there too WED many immigrants coming to this country now? WED WED Presented by Michael Goldfarb WED WED Produced by Anthony Denselow WED A Certain Height production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04v4sxb (Listen) WED Series 4, The Shadow of the Cold War WED WED Jeffrey Sachs argues that many of today's global problems WED are hangovers from bad, ungenerous decisions at the end of WED previous conflicts. WED WED Professor Sachs is one of the world's leading economists, WED and amongst the many governments he has advised over 30 WED years were Poland and Russia at the end of the Cold War. WED WED In this very personal talk, recorded at McNally Jackson WED books in New York City, Professor Sachs describes how a WED stunned Russian Prime Minister, facing economic calamity and WED desperate for western support, was told instead by western WED governments that there would be no help forthcoming. And he WED argues that decisions like this - similar to those taken by WED the Entente powers at the end of the First World War which WED sowed the seeds of today's conflicts in the Middle East - WED are a large part of the explanation of Russian attitudes WED today, including in Ukraine. WED WED The presenter is Amanda Stern. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b04v4sxd (Listen) WED Can Maths Combat Terrorism? WED WED Dr Hannah Fry investigates the hidden patterns behind WED terrorism and asks whether mathematics could be used to WED predict the next 9/11. WED WED When computer scientists decided to study the severity and WED frequency of 30,000 terrorist attacks worldwide, they found WED an distinctive pattern hiding in the data. WED WED Even though the events spanned 5,000 cities in 187 countries WED over 40 years, every single attack fitted neatly onto a WED curve, described by an equation known as a 'power law'. WED WED Now this pattern is helping mathematicians and social WED scientists understand the mechanisms underlying global WED terrorism. WED WED Could these modelling techniques be used to predict if, and WED when, another attack the size of 9/11 will occur? WED WED Producer: Michelle Martin. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b04v3b9f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04v2jr8 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04v4sxg (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04v4sxj (Listen) WED Academy Street, Episode 8 WED WED Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, Mary Costello's WED acclaimed debut traces the arc of a quiet woman's life: from WED Tess Lohan's childhood in 1940s rural Ireland through to her WED emigration to America and a career as a nurse in New York. WED WED Tess has never again heard from David and has raised their WED son, Theo, alone. Now aged fourteen, Theo is old enough to WED ask some tough questions. 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 b04v4sxl (Listen) WED Series 2, Teenage Alcoholic 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 acclaimed night, held in various venues around New York, WED was called the Antihoot. Never quite fitting in and lost WED somewhere lonely between folk and punk music, Lach started WED the Antifolk movement. He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff WED Buckley and many others. He discovered and nurtured lots of WED talent including Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches WED - but nobody discovered him. WED WED In 1982, the "Village" was the centre of all worldly WED excitement. Iggy Pop played small venues to those in the WED know, style was everybody's own, your heroes drank in the WED local bars, and anointment was just a few chords away. WED WED Produced by Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Mission Improbable b01p0s15 (Listen) WED Series 1, Jungle! WED WED A brand new series of fast-paced mini-adventures written by WED and starring Anna Emerson, Lizzie Bates and Catriona Knox, WED known collectively as The Boom Jennies. WED WED Prompted by the pine-fresh fragrance of zoo keeper Amelia's WED new perfume, adventure journalist Jane is reminded of a WED story her uncle Norman once told her about a rare midnight WED orchid found only in the Guatemalan jungle. This is no WED ordinary flower, but one that gives off a scent with such WED aphrodisiac properties it makes the person wielding it WED utterly irresistible. WED WED That's more than enough to convince perennial singleton Lucy WED that it is high time they all headed to South America. There WED follows a roller coaster ride of an adventure taking in WED waterfalls, crocodiles and a gang of ruthless drug WED smugglers. But our heroes remain unbowed. Each and every WED challenge thrown at them is met head-on with courage, WED determination and deeply inappropriate footwear. WED WED Jane.................Catriona Knox WED Lucy.................Lizzie Bates WED Amelia..............Anna Emerson WED Norman.............Paul Ryan WED WED Written by Anna Emerson, Lizzie Bates and Catriona Knox WED WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED WED Produced by Dave Lamb and Richie Webb WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b04v4sxn (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 18 DECEMBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04v2jsc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 The Kingdom to Come b04v3b9h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04v2jsf (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04v2jsh (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04v2jsk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04v2jsm (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04v59gb (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Judy THU Merry. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04v59gk (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Lucy Bickerton. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0gzx (Listen) THU Greater Racket-tailed Drongo 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 greater racket-tailed drongo of THU South-East Asia. Across a clearing in a Malaysian forest THU flies a dark bird, seemingly chased by two equally dark THU butterflies. Those butterflies in hot pursuit aren't insects THU at all; they are the webbed tips of the greater THU racket-tailed drongo's excessively long wiry outer-tail THU feathers, which from a distance look like separate creatures THU as it flies. Glossy blue-black birds which live in wooded THU country and are great insect catchers, hawking after them in THU mid-air before returning to a perch. They're bold too and THU won't hesitate to harry and chase much larger birds than THU themselves, including, birds of prey. Like other drongos the THU greater racquet-tailed drongo has an extensive but not very THU musical repertoire which includes the sounds of other birds THU it meets, when it joins mixed feeding flocks, and can THU imitate the call of a hawk to alarm the hawk's victims and THU so steal food from them while they are distracted by the THU call: an ingenious tactic, which few other birds have THU learned. THU THU Greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) THU THU "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Bernard Castelein / naturepl.com. THU NPL Ref 01397043 THU © Bernard Castelein / naturepl.com THU THU Recording of greater racket-tailed drongo by Eric R Gulson THU / Ref: ML 181758 THU THU This programme contains a THU wildtrack recording of the greater racket-tailed drongo THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Eric R Gulson on 21 Apr 2013, at THU Tawau Hills Park, Tawau District, Sabah, Malaysia. THU THU 06:00 Today b04v59gv (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 b04v59gz (Listen) THU Truth THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of truth. THU Pontius Pilate famously asked: what is truth? In the THU twentieth century, the nature of truth became a subject of THU particular interest to philosophers, but they preferred to THU ask a slightly different question: what does it mean to say THU of any particular statement that it is true? What is the THU difference between these two questions, and how useful is THU the second of them? THU THU With: THU THU Simon Blackburn THU Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and THU Professor of Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities THU THU Jennifer Hornsby THU Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London THU THU Crispin Wright THU Regius Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen, and THU Professor of Philosophy at New York University THU THU Producer: Victoria Brignell and Luke Mulhall. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Victoria Brignell THU Producer: Luke Mulhall THU Interviewed Guest: Simon Blackburn THU Interviewed Guest: Jennifer Hornsby THU Interviewed Guest: Crispin Wright THU THU 09:45 The Kingdom to Come b04v59h1 (Listen) THU Alistair Darling MP THU THU Peter Hennessy, the historian, continues his series of THU conversations on the future of the United Kingdom's THU constitution. His guest today is Alistair Darling MP, the THU former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State THU for Scotland, Trade and Industry, Transport and Work and THU Pensions. THU The hurried promises of further devolution made by political THU leaders during and immediately after the Scottish Referendum THU will fundamentally change how the United Kingdom is THU governed, with little opportunity for people to consider THU what this radical reform might mean or to discuss the THU constitutional implications. THU This series explores the possible impact of further THU devolution on the United Kingdom's constitution. In each THU programme, Peter Hennessy invites his guests to draw on THU their different expertise in government, politics, the law THU and public ethics in considering questions of THU accountability, coherence and practicality. For example, THU would further devolution improve trust in politics? Is THU devolution practical unless it is accompanied by tax-raising THU powers? Is there a risk that varying degrees of devolution THU across the country could create an incoherent system? Would THU all citizens of the United Kingdom continue to enjoy equal THU rights? Would a federal constitution be viable? Are we THU heading towards the end of the United Kingdom? THU Peter Hennessy's other guests in the series are William THU Hague MP, First Secretary of State and Leader of the House THU of Commons; Onora O'Neill (Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve), THU philosopher, chair of the Equality and Human Rights THU Commission and former BBC Reith lecturer; David Hope (Lord THU Hope of Craighead), former Deputy President of the United THU Kingdom's Supreme Court; and Robin Butler (Lord Butler of THU Brockwell), former Cabinet Secretary. THU Producer: Rob Shepherd. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04v59h3 (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 b04v59h5 (Listen) THU Just a Girl, Episode 4 THU THU A sleep over for Amy with new friends brings things to a THU head between her parents. THU THU How would you cope if your child was born into the wrong THU body? Powerful new drama by Mark Davies Markham. THU THU A very ordinary family has come to terms with the less THU ordinary experience of Amy who was born as Ben. Adamant that THU she is a girl from an early age, Amy is growing up fast and THU nervous about starting senior school, with a boy's body. Her THU parents, Gary and Charlotte, have to help decide whether she THU should take significant steps to delay puberty until she can THU be fully assessed for transgender treatment. The right thing THU to do is not clear, and their different views on what is THU best for their child present some very difficult choices. THU Grandad Ted loves them all but struggles to grasp how THU serious the situation is. At the same time, everyday family THU life goes on, and re-decorating Amy's bedroom brings her and THU her Grandad closer. This honest, compassionate new drama was THU inspired by real life experiences. THU THU Thanks to Susie Green and the parents at Mermaids, a charity THU offering support to gender variant children, teenagers and THU their families and the Tavistock Clinic. THU THU Studio Pianist ..... Alfie Davies THU Director ..... Polly Thomas THU Writer ..... Mark Davies Markham. THU THU Credits THU Amy: Louie Cordara THU Gary: Shaun Parkes THU Charlotte: Bettrys Jones THU Ted: Michael Garner THU Dr ONeill: Elaine Claxton THU Director: Polly Thomas THU Writer: Mark Davies Markham THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04v59h7 (Listen) THU The Knights of New Russia THU THU Russian support for the separatists in eastern Ukraine THU doesn't all come directly from the Kremlin. The rebellion THU there may be stoked, and armed, by Vladimir Putin - but it's THU also become a personal cause for young Russian volunteers THU recruited by a variety of nationalist and far-right groups. THU Many say they're motivated by their Orthodox faith - and THU their dream to restore Novorossiya, or New Russia, the THU territory which encompassed eastern Ukraine under the THU Tsarist Empire. Passionate members of re-enactment THU societies, they've spent their weekends reliving Russia's THU historic battles. But now they're fighting - and sometimes THU dying - for real, in what they see as a test of their own, THU and Russia's, "manhood". Tim Whewell has gained rare access THU to the weird, shadowy world of Russia's radical THU nationalists. He travels with volunteers from the grand old THU imperial capital, St Petersburg, to the chaotic, muddy THU battlefields of eastern Ukraine - and reveals a movement THU whose leaders have become increasingly influential in THU Putin's Russia - but is now in danger of becoming an THU embarrassment to the Kremlin. THU Producer: Dina Newman. THU THU 11:30 The Soviet James Bond b04v59h9 (Listen) THU In the depths of the Cold War, the Soviets had their own THU version of James Bond, a superspy whose adventures thrilled THU readers from Minsk to the Urals. But whereas Bond enjoyed THU champagne, gambling and beautiful women, the spy codenamed THU Stierlitz was a Russian patriot of austere tastes (though he THU does enjoy vodka and singing Russian songs). In novels like THU "Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat," THU Stierlitz carved a parallel path to that being followed by THU the great 007. Spy fan Miles Jupp explores the extraordinary THU legacy of the Soviet James Bond and his creator Julian THU Semyonov. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04v2jsp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b04v5fjh (Listen) THU 18 December 1914 - Mervyn Harris THU THU Maisie Plackett takes very seriously the question 'Is Your THU Best Boy in Khaki?' THU THU Written by Shaun McKenna THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Mervyn: Tom Whitelock THU Maisie: Cassie Layton THU Admiral Fitzgerald: John Woodvine THU Arthur: Jacob Beswick THU Cyril: Perry Moore THU Jerry: Kieran Hardcastle THU Ivor: Alun Raglan THU Ivy: Lizzy Watts THU Bernard: Ian Brooker THU Writer: Shaun McKenna THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04v5fjk (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04v2jsr (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04v5fjm (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 The Ideas That Make Us b04v5fjp (Listen) THU Series 3, Nemesis THU THU Bettany pursues nemesis in her archaeology of philosophy on THU the streets of ancient Athens and in the weather centres of THU the world. THU THU The surprising and invigorating history of the most THU influential ideas in the story of civilisation, described as THU 'a double espresso shot of philosophy, history, science and THU the arts'. Award--winning historian and broadcaster Bettany THU Hughes begins each programme with the first, extant evidence THU of a single word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels THU both forwards and backwards in time, investigating how these THU ideas have been moulded by history, and how they've shaped THU us. THU THU In this programmes Bettany pursues nemesis with experts from THU the humanities and sciences, people who see these big THU philosophical ideas playing out in their own lives including THU classicist Professor Paul Cartledge. Bettany travels to THU Athens to see where these ideas were born and then explores THU the street markets, churches, offices and homes where they THU continue to morph and influence our daily lives. THU THU Ideas examined in the first series, in September 2013, were THU idea, desire, agony, fame and justice. The second series, in THU January 2014, considered wisdom, comedy, liberty, peace and THU hospitality. Other ideas in this series are psyche, THU charisma, irony and virtue. THU THU Series Producer: Dixi Stewart. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04v3cxt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04v5fjr (Listen) THU Ebola THU THU The true story of the 1976 discovery of the deadly Ebola THU virus, in the jungle of Zaire. The arrival in Antwerp of a THU thermos flask containing the blood of a dead Belgian nun was THU the first step on a path that led a small group of THU virologists to discover the deadly disease Ebola. THU THU This drama tells the story of the risks taken by a young THU team of people, flown deep into the rainforest of Zaire, to THU study and fight the virus with only the most rudimentary of THU equipment. THU THU Narrated by one of that 1976 team, Professor Peter Piot was THU a young trainee virologist based in Antwerp. He went on to THU run the UN AIDS programme and is now the head of the London THU School of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine. THU THU Written by Mike Walker THU Directed by Dirk Maggs THU THU Produced by David Morley THU A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Peter Piot THU Writer: Mike Walker THU Director: Dirk Maggs THU Producer: David Morley THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04v5fjt (Listen) THU Christmas Trees at Castle Howard THU THU This week Caz Graham visits Castle Howard in Yorkshire. THU THU Famous as the setting for 'Brideshead Revisited' the country THU estate has been gearing up for the festive period for THU months. THU THU In the heart of the Howardian Hills, the estate has around THU 6,100 acres of farmland. THU THU Much of the produce ends up in the farm shop on the estate. THU THU There is also 2000 acres of woodland and at this time of THU year there is only one tree that people are after: Christmas THU Trees. Caz meets Nick Cooke, the man in charge of making THU sure that the trees reach the customers in good condition THU and also responsible for supplying some of Yorkshire's THU largest towns with their towering Christmas trees. Caz THU discovers why the Howardian Hills are perfect from growing THU Christmas trees and gets an insight into what happens in the THU winter on a large country estate. THU THU Presenter: Caz Graham THU Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04v2ltz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b04v2s11 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04v5fjw (Listen) THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Angelina Jolie reveals why she's planning to give up acting THU to concentrate on writing and directing. And why her latest THU film Unbroken is based on the life of her neighbour, an THU Olympic athlete who was taken prisoner by the Japanese army THU during World War II. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Angelina Jolie THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04v5fjy (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. With Adam Rutherford. THU THU 17:00 PM b04v5fk0 (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04v2jst (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 My Teenage Diary b04v5fk2 (Listen) THU Series 6, Robert Newman THU THU Rufus Hound is joined by the comedian and author Robert THU Newman, who reads from his 1981 teenage diaries. The young THU Newman goes on a CND rally, meets Tony Benn and Joe THU Strummer, and falls in love on the bus... twice. THU THU Produced by Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Rufus Hound THU Interviewed Guest: Robert Newman THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04v5fk4 (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04v5gh5 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04v59h5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04v5gh7 (Listen) THU Rape: Prosecuting Accusers THU THU The suicide of a woman being prosecuted for falsely crying THU rape has raised questions about the best way of dealing with THU these cases. THU THU In this week's edition we hear the story of Paul Fensome, THU who was investigated and jailed after a false rape claim. THU His accuser was convicted of perverting the course of THU justice. Some say her prison sentence was too harsh and she THU should have been dealt with far more sympathetically. Do THU cases like this deter women from reporting rape, or is it THU the best way to get justice for men who go through the THU ordeal of clearing their name? THU THU Producer: India Rakusen THU Researcher: Kirsteen Knight. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04v5gh9 (Listen) THU For Ever and Ever THU THU FOR EVER AND EVER THU Britain's cathedrals have defined the landscape for more THU than 1000 years THU as places of worship, tourist attractions, and unrivalled THU architectural THU achievements. But what's their role in the 21st century? THU Peter Day hears THU about the business of running some of the country's most THU famous places. THU Producer : Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04v5fjy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b04v59gz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b04v2jsw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04v5ghc (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04v5ghf (Listen) THU Academy Street, Episode 9 THU THU Mary Costello's acclaimed debut - which has been shortlisted THU for the Costa First Novel Award - traces the arc of a quiet THU woman's life: from Tess Lohan's childhood in 1940s rural THU Ireland through to her emigration to America and a career as THU a nurse in New York. THU THU Close to retirement, Tess's life has settled into a THU contented rhythm; enjoying her family and taking great THU pleasure in reading. But fate intervenes and she must cope THU with a terrible loss. 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 b013fm6m (Listen) THU Series 5, Undercover Journalist THU THU Milton Jones becomes Britain's best-known undercover THU journalist. Which means that Milton Jones also becomes THU Britain's most least-effective undercover journalist... 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 Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda"). THU THU Milton Jones returns to BBC Radio Four for an amazing 9th THU series - which means he's been running for longer than THU Gardeners' Question Time and answered more questions on THU gardening as well. THU THU Britain's funniest Milton and the king of the one-liner THU returns with a fully-working cast and a shipload of new THU jokes for a series of daffy comedy adventures THU THU Each week, Milton is a complete and utter expert at THU something - brilliant Mathematician, World-Class Cyclist, THU Aviator, Championship Jockey... THU THU ... and each week, with absolutely no ability or competence, THU he plunges into a big adventure with utterly funny THU results... THU THU "Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a THU flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners" - The THU Guardian. THU THU "King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times THU THU "If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The THU Daily Mail THU THU Written by Milton with James Cary ("Think The Unthinkable", THU "Miranda"), the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton," THU returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a THU shipload of new jokes. THU 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 b04v5ghh (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster. THU THU 23:55 The Listening Project b04sy4v3 (Listen) THU Nancie and Neil - Tears Not Allowed THU THU Fi Glover introduces a 90 year old and her son, who were THU both sent to boarding school and who now reflect on the pain THU of being separated from your parents at the age of six. THU THU The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a THU snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the THU UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to THU them about a subject they've never discussed intimately THU before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK THU by teams of producers from local and national radio stations THU who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're THU not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - THU lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key THU moment of connection between the participants. Most of the THU unedited conversations are being archived by the British THU Library and used to build up a collection of voices THU capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade THU of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening THU Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject THU THU Producer: Marya Burgess. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 19 DECEMBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04v2jv8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 The Kingdom to Come b04v59h1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04v2jvb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04v2jvd (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04v2jvg (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04v2jvj (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04v66n6 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Judy FRI Merry. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04v5pfy (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0hgk (Listen) FRI Eastern Orphean Warbler 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 eastern orphean warbler in an olive FRI grove near Athens. Until recently there used to be just a FRI single species of Orphean Warbler; a summer visitor to FRI southern Europe, North Africa and western Asia: a handsome FRI bird much like a large blackcap with a white throat and FRI greyish-brown back. But across the wide breeding range which FRI stretches from Portugal to Pakistan some orphean warblers FRI look and sound different. Those east of Italy tend to be FRI subtly greyer above and paler beneath. And the songs of FRI birds from Greece eastwards are longer and richer, often FRI including the richness of nightingale like notes. These FRI slight differences have persuaded many ornithologists that FRI the Eastern Orphean warbler is a different species to the FRI Western Orphean Warbler. Biologists call this "splitting FRI "although exactly where these new species boundaries lie is FRI a moot point. FRI FRI Eastern orphean warbler (Sylvia crassirostris) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Wild Wonders of Europe Widstr / FRI naturepl.com. FRI NPL Ref 01443640 FRI © Wild Wonders of Europe Widstr / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04v5pg0 (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 b04v2lv7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 The Kingdom to Come b04v5pg2 (Listen) FRI William Hague MP FRI FRI In the last programme in this series of one-to-one FRI conversations, Peter Hennessy, the historian, asks William FRI Hague MP, First Secretary of State and Leader of the House FRI of Commons, how the United Kingdom's constitution will FRI change as a result of further devolution. FRI The hurried promises of further devolution made by political FRI leaders during and immediately after the Scottish Referendum FRI will fundamentally change how the United Kingdom is FRI governed, with little opportunity for people to consider FRI what this radical reform might mean or to discuss the FRI constitutional implications. FRI This series explores the possible impact of further FRI devolution on the United Kingdom's constitution. In each FRI programme, Peter Hennessy invites his guests to draw on FRI their different expertise in government, politics, the law FRI and public ethics in considering questions of FRI accountability, coherence and practicality. For example, FRI would further devolution improve trust in politics? Is FRI devolution practical unless it is accompanied by tax-raising FRI powers? Is there a risk that varying degrees of devolution FRI across the country could create an incoherent system? Would FRI all citizens of the United Kingdom continue to enjoy equal FRI rights? Would a federal constitution be viable? Are we FRI heading towards the end of the United Kingdom? FRI Peter Hennessy's other guests in this series are Alistair FRI Darling MP, former Chancellor of the Exchequer; Onora FRI O'Neill (Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve), philosopher, chair FRI of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and former BBC FRI Reith lecturer; David Hope (Lord Hope of Craighead), former FRI Deputy President of the United Kingdom's Supreme Court; and FRI Robin Butler (Lord Butler of Brockwell), former Cabinet FRI Secretary. FRI Producer: Rob Shepherd. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04v66n8 (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 b04v5pg4 (Listen) FRI Just a Girl, Episode 5 FRI FRI Gary finally comes to terms with the hormone blockers, but FRI Charlotte has shocking news for him. FRI FRI How would you cope if your child was born into the wrong FRI body? Powerful new drama by Mark Davies Markham. FRI FRI A very ordinary family has come to terms with the less FRI ordinary experience of Amy who was born as Ben. Adamant that FRI she is a girl from an early age, Amy is growing up fast and FRI nervous about starting senior school, with a boy's body. Her FRI parents, Gary and Charlotte, have to help decide whether she FRI should take significant steps to delay puberty until she can FRI be fully assessed for transgender treatment. The right thing FRI to do is not clear, and their different views on what is FRI best for their child present some very difficult choices. FRI Grandad Ted loves them all but struggles to grasp how FRI serious the situation is. At the same time, everyday family FRI life goes on, and re-decorating Amy's bedroom brings her and FRI her Grandad closer. This honest, compassionate new drama was FRI inspired by real life experiences. FRI FRI Thanks to Susie Green and the parents at Mermaids, a charity FRI offering support to gender variant children, teenagers and FRI their families, and the Tavistock Clinic. FRI FRI Studio Pianist ..... Alfie Davies FRI Director ..... Polly Thomas FRI Writer ..... Mark Davies Markham. FRI FRI Credits FRI Amy: Louie Cordara FRI Gary: Shaun Parkes FRI Charlotte: Bettrys Jones FRI Ted: Michael Garner FRI Dr ONeill: Elaine Claxton FRI Director: Polly Thomas FRI Writer: Mark Davies Markham FRI FRI 11:00 Becoming Myself: Gender Identity b04v5pg6 (Listen) FRI Trans Women 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 raised female and are seeking FRI treatment as trans men. The second programme centres on FRI trans women Bethany, Emma and Tanya, who are making the FRI 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! b03z3lhv (Listen) FRI Series 4, The New Neighbour FRI FRI As a highlight of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in FRI October, Martin Jarvis performed the second of two of FRI Richmal Crompton's comic classics, live on-stage. FRI FRI In The New Neighbour, William Brown is at his FRI lateral-thinking best. How to rid the village of a horrific FRI newcomer who torments his neighbours? William, master of FRI human psychology, devises a brilliant plan. But, when the FRI local policeman intervenes, will it work? FRI FRI Dazzling stand-up from Jarvis - as William, and every other FRI character. A comic tour de force. FRI FRI Performed by Martin Jarvis FRI Director: Rosalind Ayres. FRI 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 b04v2jvl (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04v5pg8 (Listen) FRI 19 December 1914 - Alice Macknade FRI FRI A surprise turn of events in the Macknade household heralds FRI a change in their fortunes. FRI FRI Written by Shaun McKenna FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Ivor: Alun Raglan FRI Ivy: Lizzy Watts FRI Joe: Lloyd Thomas FRI Maggie: Hollie Thoupos FRI Mickey: Ben Pettengell FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04v66nb (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04v2jvn (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04v5pgc (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha FRI Kearney. FRI FRI 13:45 The Ideas That Make Us b04v5pgf (Listen) FRI Series 3, Virtue FRI FRI Bettany considers virtue in her archaeology of philosophy FRI with the 18th Century English aristocracy and a former Greek FRI Minister of Finance. FRI FRI The surprising and invigorating history of the most FRI influential ideas in the story of civilisation, described as FRI 'a double espresso shot of philosophy, history, science and FRI the arts'. Award--winning historian and broadcaster Bettany FRI Hughes begins each programme with the first, extant evidence FRI of a single word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels FRI both forwards and backwards in time, investigating how these FRI ideas have been moulded by history, and how they've shaped FRI us. FRI FRI In this programme Bettany explores virtue with experts from FRI the humanities and sciences, people who see these big FRI philosophical ideas playing out in their own lives including FRI philosopher Angie Hobbs, and former Greek Finance Minister FRI Petros Doukas. Bettany travels to Athens to see where these FRI ideas were born and then explores the street markets, FRI churches, offices and homes where they continue to morph and FRI influence our daily lives. FRI FRI Ideas examined in the first series, in September 2013, were FRI idea, desire, agony, fame and justice. The second series, in FRI January 2014, considered wisdom, comedy, liberty, peace and FRI hospitality. Other ideas in this series are psyche, FRI charisma, irony and nemesis. FRI FRI Series Producer: Dixi Stewart. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04v5fk4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04v5pgh (Listen) FRI Dogfood Diary FRI FRI by Laura Bridgeman and Charles Lambert. FRI FRI A heartbreaking and heartwarming seasonal drama. FRI Twelve year old Dean has been left home alone. It seems FRI great at first but Christmas is coming and there's no sign FRI of Mum. Where is she? FRI FRI Choir ..... Jordanhill School Senior Choir FRI FRI Producer/director ..... Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dean: Daniel Kerr FRI Shauna: Millie Innes FRI Tommy: Kieran Lynch FRI Peg: Wendy Seager FRI Fiona: Wendy Seager FRI Mum: Julie Austin FRI Mrs Burgess: Julie Austin FRI Craig: Kenny Blyth FRI Kyle: Kenny Blyth FRI Headmaster: Kenny Blyth FRI Bruce: Sean Graham FRI Curtis: Leo Graham FRI Writer: Laura Bridgeman FRI Writer: Charles Lambert FRI Director: Gaynor Macfarlane FRI Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04v5pgk (Listen) FRI Dalston FRI FRI Eric Robson is in the chair for this week's programme from FRI Dalston. Pippa Greenwood, Christine Walkden and Matthew FRI Wilson join him to answer questions from an audience of FRI local gardeners. FRI FRI Produced by Darby Dorras FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 King Albert's Book b04v5r6m (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI King Albert's Book was a tribute to the Belgian King and FRI people, published by subscription in December 1914. FRI FRI The book was the idea of Hall Caine, a novelist and FRI playwright of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, to FRI raise money for the Daily Telegraph Belgium fund. He invited FRI princes, statesman, churchmen, authors, political activists, FRI artists and composers to present their view of the tragedy FRI that had befallen Belgium in the preceding months of war. FRI FRI Contributors include Winston Churchill, Thomas Hardy, the FRI Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Bernhardt, Emmeline FRI Pankhurst and Rudyard Kipling. The result is an FRI extraordinary snapshot of a moment in time and the passions FRI aroused by the conquest of Belgium and the resistance led by FRI King Albert. FRI FRI As the book was being prepared in the Autumn of 1914, no one FRI knew how the tragedy of the First World War would unfold - FRI there was still hope that it would all be over fairly FRI swiftly. What seemed to be a heroic defence of a sovereign FRI state was the primary concern of the book's contributors, FRI little knowing how long the conflict would continue and how FRI the greater tragedy of the war would supersede this event. FRI FRI In this first episode, narrated by the writer and producer FRI Paul Dodgson, there are little known poems by Rudyard FRI Kipling and Edith Wharton, and spirited rhetoric in praise FRI of King Albert from the pen of former Prime Minister, The FRI Earl of Rosebury. FRI FRI Readers: Kenneth Cranham, Tim McMullan and Harriet Walter. FRI Pianist: Kevin Matthews FRI FRI Narrated and Produced by Paul Dodgson FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Paul Dodgson FRI Reader: Kenneth Cranham FRI Reader: Tim McMullan FRI Reader: Harriet Walter FRI Producer: Paul Dodgson FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04v66nd (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b04v66ng (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04v5r6p (Listen) FRI Claire and Monica - Taking Things at Face Value FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a mother who remembers how her FRI daughter's birthmark affected her early life, and her FRI daughter who confirms that her parents were right not to FRI have it removed. 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 b04v5xys (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04v2jvq (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b04v5r6r (Listen) FRI Series 85, Episode 9 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, who is joined by Rebecca Front, Bob Mills and Mark FRI Steel, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Bob Mills FRI Panellist: Mark Steel FRI Panellist: Rebecca Front FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04v5r6t (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Paul Brodrick FRI Director ..... Marina Caldarone FRI Editor .... Sean O'Connor. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Paul Brodrick FRI Director: Marina Caldarone FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Justin Elliot: Simon Williams FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04v66nj (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04v5pg4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04v5r6w (Listen) FRI Giles Fraser, Tessa Jowell MP, Norman Lamb MP, John Redwood FRI MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Hampton on Thames Community Centre in Middlesex FRI with Dr Giles Fraser priest-in-charge at St Mary's Newington FRI in South London, former Secretary of State for Culture Media FRI and Sport, Tessa Jowell MP, the Liberal Democrat MP Norman FRI Lamb who serves as Minister for Care and Support in the FRI coalition government and the back bench Conservative MP John FRI Redwood. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04v66nl (Listen) FRI Art: The Real Thing FRI FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04v5r6y (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 15-19 December 1914 FRI FRI As Christmas approaches, a spirit of generosity and FRI recklessness fills the air, as all Folkestone is encouraged FRI to give themselves to the war. FRI FRI Written by: Shaun McKenna FRI Story led by: Katie Hims FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Laurie: Will Howard FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Mr Tench: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Mr Hawkes: Gerry Hinks FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI George: Ronan Raftery FRI Barry: Kris Deedigan FRI Marieke: Olivia Ross FRI Nurse Betts: Jane Slavin FRI Douglas Conroy: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Archie: Arthur Hughes FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Ivy: Lizzy Watts FRI Maisie: Cassie Layton FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Hilda: Bella Hamblin FRI Ivor: Alun Raglan FRI Joe: Lloyd Thomas FRI Mervyn: Tom Whitelock FRI Admiral Fitzgerald: John Woodvine FRI Arthur: Jacob Beswick FRI Cyril: Perry Moore FRI Jerry: Kieran Hardcastle FRI Bernard: Ian Brooker FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Maggie: Hollie Thoupos FRI Mickey: Ben Pettengell FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04v2jvs (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04v66nn (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04v5r70 (Listen) FRI Academy Street, Episode 10 FRI FRI Mary Costello's acclaimed debut - which has been shortlisted FRI for the Costa First Novel Award - traces the arc of a quiet FRI woman's life: from Tess Lohan's childhood in 1940s rural FRI Ireland through to her emigration to America and a career as FRI a nurse in New York. FRI FRI Carrying the sorrow for her loss deep within her, Tess FRI returns to visit her family in Ireland - her first trip back FRI since she left in 1962. 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 b04v382p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b04v66nq (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04v5r72 (Listen) FRI Rhian and Meirion - A Farming Family FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a couple who have been married for half FRI a century and have passed their love of their mountainous FRI land on to their children. 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
12 December, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 13/12/2014 - 19/12/2014
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