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SAT SATURDAY 20 DECEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04v5r94 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 The Kingdom to Come b04v5pg2 (Listen) SAT William Hague MP SAT SAT In the last programme in this series of one-to-one SAT conversations, Peter Hennessy, the historian, asks William SAT Hague MP, First Secretary of State and Leader of the House SAT of Commons, how the United Kingdom's constitution will SAT change as a result of further devolution. SAT The hurried promises of further devolution made by political SAT leaders during and immediately after the Scottish Referendum SAT will fundamentally change how the United Kingdom is SAT governed, with little opportunity for people to consider SAT what this radical reform might mean or to discuss the SAT constitutional implications. SAT This series explores the possible impact of further SAT devolution on the United Kingdom's constitution. In each SAT programme, Peter Hennessy invites his guests to draw on SAT their different expertise in government, politics, the law SAT and public ethics in considering questions of SAT accountability, coherence and practicality. For example, SAT would further devolution improve trust in politics? Is SAT devolution practical unless it is accompanied by tax-raising SAT powers? Is there a risk that varying degrees of devolution SAT across the country could create an incoherent system? Would SAT all citizens of the United Kingdom continue to enjoy equal SAT rights? Would a federal constitution be viable? Are we SAT heading towards the end of the United Kingdom? SAT Peter Hennessy's other guests in this series are Alistair SAT Darling MP, former Chancellor of the Exchequer; Onora SAT O'Neill (Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve), philosopher, chair SAT of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and former BBC SAT Reith lecturer; David Hope (Lord Hope of Craighead), former SAT Deputy President of the United Kingdom's Supreme Court; and SAT Robin Butler (Lord Butler of Brockwell), former Cabinet SAT Secretary. SAT Producer: Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04v5r96 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04v5r98 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04v5r9b (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04v5r9d (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04v5rbx (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the SAT Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04v9n5v (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04v5r9g (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04v5r9j (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04v5fjt (Listen) SAT Christmas Trees at Castle Howard SAT SAT This week Caz Graham visits Castle Howard in Yorkshire. SAT SAT Famous as the setting for 'Brideshead Revisited' the country SAT estate has been gearing up for the festive period for SAT months. SAT SAT In the heart of the Howardian Hills, the estate has around SAT 6,100 acres of farmland. SAT SAT Much of the produce ends up in the farm shop on the estate. SAT SAT There is also 2000 acres of woodland and at this time of SAT year there is only one tree that people are after: Christmas SAT Trees. Caz meets Nick Cooke, the man in charge of making SAT sure that the trees reach the customers in good condition SAT and also responsible for supplying some of Yorkshire's SAT largest towns with their towering Christmas trees. Caz SAT discovers why the Howardian Hills are perfect from growing SAT Christmas trees and gets an insight into what happens in the SAT winter on a large country estate. SAT SAT Presenter: Caz Graham SAT Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04v95sq (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Lucy Bickerton. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04v5r9l (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04v95sw (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 b04v95sz (Listen) SAT Jon Snow SAT SAT Journalist Jon Snow joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles to SAT discuss 25 years of being the face of Channel 4 News. SAT SAT Also on the programme, Luke Simon was living in Thailand SAT when the 2004 Tsunami struck. He lost his brother when the SAT low lying island of Ko Phi Phi was subsumed by sea water. He SAT tells us how life has moved on, about the power of sibling SAT relationships and the charity he set up in his brother's SAT name. The Oscar-winning song Let It Go (from the animated SAT film Frozen) has captivated millions worldwide. It has SAT already been translated into 41 foreign-language versions SAT but not Welsh. 14 yr old Rebekah West set about righting SAT that wrong. And in this season of goodwill we meet a man who SAT was inspired to carry out one good deed a day for 2014. SAT After losing a close family friend, Luke Cameron has spent SAT the last year helping others which has inspired him to move SAT away from a career in fashion to working for a charity. SAT SAT We also hear from some of the cast of RSC's 'The Christmas SAT Truce' on the football coaching they received from Aston SAT Villa's Sean Verity as they re-enact the infamous Christmas SAT Day football match between the Allies and the Germans. Plus SAT the inheritance tracks of Alan Johnson MP, a Christmas SAT Cracker from Miranda Hart and Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy SAT gives us taster of her Christmas Poem. SAT SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Jon Snow SAT Interviewed Guest: Luke Simon SAT Interviewed Guest: Rebekah West SAT Interviewed Guest: Luke Cameron SAT Interviewed Guest: Alan Johnson SAT Interviewed Guest: Miranda Hart SAT Interviewed Guest: Carol Ann Duffy SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b04v95t3 (Listen) SAT Series 9, Salisbury SAT SAT Jay Rayner and the team are in Salisbury. SAT SAT Answering questions on cooking and eating from our audience SAT are food scientist Professor Peter Barham, restaurateur SAT Henry Dimbleby, DIY food expert Tim Hayward, and Catalan SAT inspired Scottish cook Rachel McCormack. SAT SAT In the run up to Christmas Day, the panel discuss the SAT tradition of curing hams, the indulgence of a midnight SAT feast, prepping the Christmas dinner, and the long history SAT of food preservation. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Shepherd SAT Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b04v95t6 (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne of The Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT This week he examines our representative democracy what SAT elected politicians do behind the scenes on our behalf, and SAT what e-democracy can achieve. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04v5r9n (Listen) SAT The Heaviest Coffin SAT SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04v5r9q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04v9653 (Listen) SAT Hotel booking fraud - how it was done, More bad news for SAT pension savers, and the HMV gift card that isn't SAT SAT Link in a chain SAT We speak to a whistleblower who reveals how he unwittingly SAT became a cog in the wheel of a fraud perpetrated on people SAT who booked a hotel online. SAT SAT When is HMV not HMV? SAT When it's the HMV that sells you a gift card in Northern SAT Ireland and you try to use it in an HMV shop in England, SAT which says 'that's not us'. SAT SAT Sergeant's Parade SAT The IPB has looked at the AMCs on AUMs of DC pensions and SAT said they some are not VfM (Value for Money). The report of SAT the IPB's chair Carol Sergeant - ex BoE, ex FSA, ex LBG and SAT chair of HMT's ISG on SFPs - audited the charges of SAT workplace pension schemes and hopes those that charge more SAT than 1% will consider whether their 407,000 members are SAT receiving value for money. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b04v5r6r (Listen) SAT Series 85, Episode 9 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, who is joined by Rebecca Front, Bob Mills and Mark SAT Steel, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Bob Mills SAT Panellist: Mark Steel SAT Panellist: Rebecca Front SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04v5r9s (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04v5r9v (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04v5r6w (Listen) SAT Giles Fraser, Tessa Jowell MP, Norman Lamb MP, John Redwood SAT MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Hampton on Thames Community Centre in Middlesex SAT with Dr Giles Fraser priest-in-charge at St Mary's Newington SAT in South London, former Secretary of State for Culture Media SAT and Sport, Tessa Jowell MP, the Liberal Democrat MP Norman SAT Lamb who serves as Minister for Care and Support in the SAT coalition government and the back bench Conservative MP John SAT Redwood. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04v5r9x (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 b04v9n00 (Listen) SAT A Christmas Carol SAT SAT By Charles Dickens. SAT SAT A new version of the seasonal classic adapted for actors, SAT the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra by Neil Brand SAT and recorded before an audience in the BBC Maida Vale SAT Studios. SAT SAT Ebenezer Scrooge questions his ghostly guides and demands SAT answers to the great questions we all face. SAT SAT Director: David Hunter SAT SAT Adapted for actors and orchestra by Neil Brand. SAT SAT Music: The BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers. Martin SAT Andre. Producer: Ann McKay. SAT SAT Credits SAT Ebenezer Scrooge: Robert Powell SAT Ghost of Christmas Past: Sophie Thompson SAT Jacob Marley: Ron Cook SAT Mrs Fezziwig: Tracy-Ann Oberman SAT Mr Fezziwig: Patrick Brennan SAT Fred: Shaun Mason SAT Bob Cratchit: Paul Heath SAT Mrs Cratchit: Hannah Genesius SAT Tiny Tim: Bettrys Jones SAT Author: Charles Dickens SAT Director: David Hunter SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04v9n4t (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Bette Midler SAT Bette Midler SAT first came to prominence as The Divine Miss M. And, in a SAT career spanning over four decades, she’s received multiple SAT awards including a Grammy for Wind Beneath My Wings – a song SAT featured in Beaches, a film in which she starred and SAT produced. Bette talks to Jane about her latest release It’s SAT the Girls – a tribute to girl groups. SAT SAT Bette’s 2015 UK tour starts on the 9th July in Birmingham SAT and then travels to Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds and finishes SAT in London on the 19th July. SAT SAT Just Over A Fifth of MPs Are Women – Will It Go Up In 2015? SAT Before the 2010 general election just under a fifth of MPs SAT were women, after the votes had been counted it went up to SAT just over a fifth. As the political parties finish selecting SAT the candidates who will stand for them in every seat across SAT the country we look at how many women have been selected so SAT far, how many could still be selected and how many more SAT women we might realistically expect to see elected to SAT parliament in May next year. Andrea talks to Rosie Campbell, SAT Reader in Politics at Birkbeck, University of London and to SAT Sarah Childs, Professor of *Politics* and Gender at the SAT University of *Bristol.* SAT SAT Transgender Children SAT SAT How would you react if your 4 year old son told you he SAT should be a girl? This week’s drama of the week tells the SAT story of 11 year old Amy and her parents as they make the SAT decision about whether to give her the hormone blocking SAT treatment that will stop puberty kicking in. And next month SAT Lisa Williamson’s first novel – the Art of Being Normal, SAT will focus on a transgender teenager. SAT SAT Susie Green, who had to take her daughter Jackie to America SAT to get hormone treatment, and Lisa Williamson join Andrea SAT Catherwood. SAT SAT For more information on this subject please click SAT here SAT . SAT SAT Maddy Prior SAT Maddy Prior has been part of the British folk music scene SAT since 1969. She joins Emma to discuss her career and SAT current tour SAT with SAT The Carnival Band SAT and her upcoming tour with the reformed SAT Steeleye Span SAT SAT Anna Krien SAT Anna Krien, winner William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2014 SAT – Night Games: Sex, Power and a Journey into the Dark Heart SAT of Sport – a book about professional footballers and a SAT culture of adulation and entitlement that can impact some SAT players’ treatment of women off the field of play. SAT SAT Our Zoo: June Mottershead and her Family’s Legacy SAT SAT June Mottershead, whose SAT father SAT founded SAT Chester Zoo SAT joins Emma to talk about her extraordinary SAT childhood and her many companions over the years SAT from a chimpanzee called Mary, to an orphaned lion cub SAT called Christy whom she hand reared from birth. SAT SAT Our Zoo by June Mottershead is published by Headline SAT SAT Losing Contact with Grandchildren SAT SAT We often hear about that special relationship between SAT grandparents and grandchildren – grandparents, often with SAT more time on their hands, relishing doing things with their SAT grandchildren. But it is estimated that there are about a SAT million children in the UK who no longer have any contact SAT with their grandparents. Helen Harris has written a novel, SAT Sylvia Garland’s Broken Heart, with a grandmother and SAT grandson at the heart of the novel. Jane Jackson set up SAT the SAT Bristol Grandparents Support Group SAT soon after she lost contact with her first grandchild. The SAT group now supports grandparents all over the UK and beyond. SAT SAT Helen Harris Sylvia Garland’s Broken Heart (Halban SAT Publishers) SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04v9n4w (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04v9n5v (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04v5r9z (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04v5rb1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04v5rb3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04v9r5c (Listen) SAT Nikki Bedi, David Jason, Jennifer Saunders, Joan Bakewell, SAT Clive Rowe, Annie Eve, Johnny Sly SAT SAT Clive catches up with Derek "Del Boy" Trotter, Detective SAT Inspector Jack Frost, Granville and Pop Larkin... in fact, SAT just with Sir David Jason.... a bona fide national treasure, SAT about his new series 'Still Open All Hours'. Joan Bakewell SAT DBE tells Clive of the pleasures of working for the second SAT year in a row, with entertainer Frank Skinner, on Sky Arts SAT 'Portrait of the Year'. Clive's co-host Nikki Bedi's guest SAT is 'bloke in a frock', celebrated grande dame of pantomime SAT Clive Rowe who makes his much-anticipated return to Hackney SAT Empire this Christmas in Mother Goose. And in a similar SAT vein, we feature a 'boy in a dress' - the Christmas TV SAT adaptation of David Walliams' children's novel stars Clive's SAT guest Jennifer Saunders. SAT With music from Johnny Sly who perform 'Peace of Mine from SAT their 'Lost Thoughts' EP, and from Annie Eve who performs SAT 'Basement' from her album 'Sunday 91'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Sir David Jason SAT ‘Still Open All Hours’ starts on Friday 26th December at SAT 19.30 on BBC One. SAT SAT Dame Joan Bakewell SAT The final of ‘Portrait Artist of the Year’ is on Tuesday SAT 23rd December at 20.00 on Sky Arts. SAT SAT Clive Rowe SAT ‘Mother Goose’ is at London’s Hackney Empire until Sunday SAT 4th January. SAT SAT Jennifer Saunders SAT ‘The Boy in A Dress’ is on Friday 26th December at 18.55 on SAT BBC One. SAT SAT Annie Eve SAT ‘Sunday ‘91’ is available now on Red UK. SAT SAT Johnny Sly SAT ‘Lost Thoughts EP' is available on Bandcamp. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b04w1b1r (Listen) SAT Series 17, The Heebie Jeebies SAT SAT A fictional response to a story in the week's news. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04v5rb5 (Listen) SAT V&A Cast Court, City of Angels, Big Eyes, SAT Kureishi/Murakami/AN Wilson, Mapp and Lucia SAT SAT London's V+A Museum has just reopened the Weston Cast Court, SAT which houses life-size plaster casts of statuary and SAT artefacts from around Europe. It includes the museum's SAT largest items, can it draw their largest crowds? SAT Larry Gelbart's City of Angels is revived at London's Donmar SAT Warehouse. A musical about the golden age of Hollywood, it SAT garnered awards galore 25 years ago in its original run, SAT will this production be a winner? SAT Tim Burton's new film Big Eyes is about 1960s housewife SAT Margaret Keane whose paintings of waifs with enormous dark SAT eyes were wildly commercially successful, but her husband SAT claimed all the glory until she decided to make a break for SAT fame in her own right. SAT Small Books: We look at 3 works of extremely short fiction. SAT Hanif Kureishi, Haruki Murakami and AN Wilson all have SAT stories to tell, that they feel are best-suited to new SAT diminutive formats. SAT The BBC has remade EF Benson's Mapp and Lucia in sumptuous SAT style; is it a new classic? SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04v9r5f (Listen) SAT Peter and the Wolf SAT SAT Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf has been recorded more SAT often than any other piece of classical music - over 400 SAT times in more than a dozen languages. SAT SAT The narration has been spoken by everyone from David Bowie SAT to Eleanor Roosevelt, Boris Karloff to Christopher Lee, Bill SAT Clinton to Sting. The orchestras have been conducted by SAT Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski, André Previn and SAT countless others. It has helped introduce generations of SAT children to the instruments of the orchestra and the concept SAT of telling a story through music. But there have only been SAT four recordings ever issued in the Russian language and none SAT in any of the other Soviet languages. SAT SAT In Russia, Peter has a completely different reputation. SAT SAT Peter and the Wolf had its public premiere on 5th May 1936 SAT at the Central Children's Theatre in Moscow, in front of an SAT audience of 'Young Pioneers' dressed in their red ties. SAT Performances were preceded by talks on topics such as civil SAT defence, national unity and the responsibilities of children SAT to the Soviet State. Peter and the Wolf has radically SAT changed its meaning since 1936. It's a musical work which SAT everyone has heard of and most people know, but which has SAT never been closely examined with the seriousness it SAT deserves. SAT SAT Christopher Frayling assesses the enduring appeal of this SAT tale. Has it been ghettoised as 'children's music'? Why are SAT celebrities queuing up to narrate it? Why does it have such SAT a low reputation in Russia-and why does it have such a high SAT reputation everywhere else? SAT SAT Produced by Barney Rowntree and Nick Jones SAT A Hidden Flack production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 The Once and Future King b04v2s0z (Listen) SAT The Candle in the Wind SAT SAT Brian Sibley's dramatisation of T. H. White's classic SAT retelling of the King Arthur story continues. Mordred uses SAT Arthur's new laws against him and long-held secrets are SAT forced out into the open. SAT SAT Other parts are played by members of the cast. SAT SAT Original music by Elizabeth Purnell SAT Directors: Gemma Jenkins, Marc Beeby and David Hunter. SAT SAT Credits SAT Arthur: Paul Ready SAT Merlyn: David Warner SAT Guenever: Lyndsey Marshal SAT Lancelot: Alex Waldmann SAT Mordred: Joel MacCormack SAT Elaine: Hannah Genesius SAT Gawaine: Shaun Mason SAT Gareth: Monty d'Inverno SAT Agravaine: Ian Conningham SAT Author: TH White SAT Adaptor: Brian Sibley SAT Director: Gemma Jenkins SAT Director: Marc Beeby SAT Director: David Hunter SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04v5rb7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b04v380z (Listen) SAT Dr Atul Gawande: The Future of Medicine, The Idea of SAT Wellbeing SAT SAT The surgeon and writer Atul Gawande calls for a new focus on SAT medical systems to ensure doctors work more effectively, SAT alongside far greater transparency about their performance. SAT SAT Speaking to an audience at the India International Centre in SAT Delhi, he describes the story of medicine over the last SAT century through the prism of his own family. From a SAT grandmother who died in rural India from malaria - a SAT preventable disease - to the high-tech medicine of today. He SAT argues that despite its scientific advances, medicine has SAT failed to exploit its knowledge successfully. In both the SAT developed and developing world doctors do not carry out SAT basic procedures effectively and often do not act in the SAT best interests of their patients. He calls for wide-ranging SAT research into the systems by which medical care is SAT delivered, alongside far greater transparency about SAT performance. SAT SAT The Reith Lectures are introduced and chaired by Sue Lawley SAT and produced by Jim Frank. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b04v30zv (Listen) SAT Series 28, The Final 2014 SAT SAT (13/13) SAT SAT Many of us are familiar with the song 'Istanbul, not SAT Constantinople' - but who recorded the original version? And SAT which European city (definitely not Istanbul) is the home of SAT the Gulbenkian orchestra? SAT SAT The 2014 season of the wide-ranging music quiz comes to its SAT climax, with Paul Gambaccini hosting the Final from BBC SAT Maida Vale. SAT SAT The three Finalists are from Derbyshire, London and SAT Cheshire. Only one of them can take the 2014 Counterpoint SAT champion's trophy, but with formidable performances in their SAT respective heats and semi-finals it would be a bold SAT prediction as to which of the three will triumph. SAT SAT As well as answering general knowledge questions on music, SAT the Finalists will also have to choose a special musical SAT subject on which to answer individual questions, with no SAT prior hint of what the available topics are going to be. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT The 2014 Finalists are SAT SAT RICHARD ELY, a trainer from Alfreton in Derbyshire; SAT SAT STEPHEN MURRAY, a shop worker from London; SAT SAT STEPHEN WHITAKER, a second hand book dealer from Neston in SAT Cheshire. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b04v2s13 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Michael Donaghy SAT SAT Paul Farley remembers the poet Michael Donaghy with other SAT poets ten years after his death. Greta Stoddart, Sean SAT O'Brien and Don Paterson read his poems and read poems of SAT their own that speak to their memory of the poet and SAT teacher. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 21 DECEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04vd4h1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Comic Fringes b04dh3xk (Listen) SUN Series 10, Love and Orangutans SUN SUN Short story series featuring new writing by leading SUN comedians, recorded live in front of an audience at this SUN year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. SUN SUN The series gets underway with a comic tale from Romesh SUN Ranganathan, Best Newcomer nominee at last year's Edinburgh SUN Comedy Awards. Completing the line up, and coming up next SUN week, will be witty tales by award-winning Irish comedian SUN Grainne Maguire and satirist John O'Farrell. SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Romesh Ranganathan SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vd4h3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vd4h5 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vd4h7 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04vd4h9 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04vd68x (Listen) SUN The bells of St Peter's Church, Congleton. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b04v4sxb (Listen) SUN Series 4, The Shadow of the Cold War SUN SUN Jeffrey Sachs argues that many of today's global problems SUN are hangovers from bad, ungenerous decisions at the end of SUN previous conflicts. SUN SUN Professor Sachs is one of the world's leading economists, SUN and amongst the many governments he has advised over 30 SUN years were Poland and Russia at the end of the Cold War. SUN SUN In this very personal talk, recorded at McNally Jackson SUN books in New York City, Professor Sachs describes how a SUN stunned Russian Prime Minister, facing economic calamity and SUN desperate for western support, was told instead by western SUN governments that there would be no help forthcoming. And he SUN argues that decisions like this - similar to those taken by SUN the Entente powers at the end of the First World War which SUN sowed the seeds of today's conflicts in the Middle East - SUN are a large part of the explanation of Russian attitudes SUN today, including in Ukraine. SUN SUN The presenter is Amanda Stern. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04vd4hc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04vd68z (Listen) SUN A Winter Solstice SUN SUN This Sunday before Christmas falls on the Winter Solstice. SUN The shortest day of the year is a turning point in the SUN calendar that has been celebrated throughout history. There SUN are examples of Winter Solstice Festivals to be found in SUN most cultures and the need to celebrate on the darkest day SUN seems universal. SUN SUN Mark Tully examines the antecedents of the midwinter SUN festival and explores the human need to celebrate the cold SUN and dark with warmth and light. From Ancient Rome to SUN downtown LA and from pagan Scandinavia to modern China, he SUN presents a celebration of a Winter Solstice - with readings SUN from the work of John Keats, Ruth Fainlight and Craig Childs SUN and music by Monteverdi, Franz Schubert and the Vienna SUN Klezmer Band. SUN SUN The readers are David Holt, Francis Cadder and Lucy Briers. SUN SUN Produced by Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: Solstice SUN SUN Author: Ruth Fainlight SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe Books in ‘Ruth Fainlight – New & SUN Collected Poems’. SUN SUN SUN Title: Solstice SUN SUN Author: Anna Wigley SUN SUN Published by Gomer Press in ‘Waking In Winter’ SUN SUN Title: Winter Solstice SUN SUN Author: Harold Monro SUN SUN Published by Laurel Books in ‘Strange Meetings’. SUN SUN SUN Title: Towards The Winter Solstice SUN SUN Author: Timothy Steele SUN SUN Published by Swallow Press/Ohio University Press SUN SUN SUN Title: Happy Insensibility SUN SUN Author: John Keats SUN SUN Published by Oxford Paperbacks in ‘Palgrave's Golden SUN Treasury’ SUN SUN SUN Title: The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild SUN SUN Author: Craig Childs SUN SUN Published by Back Bay Books SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b04vd691 (Listen) SUN Comedy Farmer SUN SUN Freda Bracecock is the Dame Edna of the farmyard and a SUN much-loved legend in Shropshire farming. Despite years of SUN hardship on her isolated farm, she's managed to keep going. SUN She's lost her husband, her dairy herd and sometimes her SUN marbles but she's always picked herself up and pressed on. SUN Freda is an inspiration to the agricultural community. She's SUN a respected stock woman; and sells produce and handicrafts SUN at farmers' markets across the county. Now late in life, SUN she's taken to the stage, touring the country to cheer up SUN Britain's hard-pressed farmers. Sybil Ruscoe joins Freda as SUN she entertains dairy farmers at Shrewsbury Cattle market. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04vd4hf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04vd4hh (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04vd693 (Listen) SUN First woman bishop, the Pope and Cuba, 60 years of Carols SUN from Kings SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04vd695 (Listen) SUN Opportunity International SUN SUN Adjoa Andoh presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Opportunity SUN International, a charity providing loans, savings and SUN business training to nearly 5 million people - 84% of whom SUN are women - in 24 developing countries. Registered Charity SUN No 1107713 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Opportunity International '. SUN SUN Opportunity International SUN SUN Across the world there are millions of people living in SUN poverty who want to grow their business, send their children SUN to school and feed their families. All they need is an SUN opportunity and this is where Opportunity International SUN comes in. SUN SUN Opportunity International believes the best way to help SUN people living in poverty is to give them an opportunity to SUN build their own business and support themselves and their SUN communities. By tapping into people’s energy and SUN entrepreneurial spirit, Opportunity International help SUN people reach their full potential. SUN Photo: Students at Richmercy School in Ghana (Credit: Sara SUN Joe Wolansky) SUN SUN Working their way out of poverty SUN SUN Globally, Opportunity International supports nearly 5 SUN million people in over 20 countries with financial services SUN and training. Through innovative technology and tailored SUN financial products – for individuals, schools and farming SUN communities – Opportunity International provide people with SUN the tools and knowledge to work their way out of poverty. SUN And with 98% of their micro-loans being repaid and recycled, SUN more people are able to work for a better future. SUN Photo: Employees at the Mama Esthetique Tailor Shop, Rwanda, SUN owned by Opportunity client Solange Branya Fitina (Credit: SUN Abby Ross) SUN SUN Elizabeth’s Story SUN SUN Elizabeth Afrakome owns a cocoa farm in Adagya, Ghana. Three SUN years ago, her husband suffered a stroke. As the family’s SUN sole provider, Elizabeth struggled to maintain the farm and SUN keep her family fed. SUN Opportunity International changed this. Elizabeth was SUN provided with agricultural loans, training and support. SUN Elizabeth’s farm is now making a good profit. The farm’s SUN success has enabled Elizabeth to pay for her children’s SUN school fees, employ seasonal help on her farm and save for a SUN rainy day. SUN Photo: Elizabeth Afrakome on her Cocoa farm. (Credit: Kate SUN Holt) SUN SUN Lucia’s Story SUN SUN Lucia owns a soya, maize and bean farm in Northern SUN Mozambique - “I would like to thank Opportunity for all the SUN help I have got. When I worked alone I didn’t have SUN anything…but when I joined the Opportunity group I got help SUN to be able to change my life for the better. Now my SUN children have a future” SUN Photo: Lucia Enacio with her family. (Credit: Kate Holt) SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04vd4hk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04vd4hm (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04vd697 (Listen) SUN Comfort My People, Says Your God SUN SUN The last in our Advent series from Methodist College Belfast SUN takes the promise of Isaiah 'A young woman shall bear a son SUN and shall name him Emmanuel'. As Mary anticipates the SUN fulfilment of that promise in the birth of Jesus, we reflect SUN on the theme of 'waiting'. A selection of popular carols is SUN sung by the award winning choir of Methodist College. SUN SUN Led by: Rev Donald Ker SUN Preacher: Canon Noel Battye SUN Readings: Isaiah 7:10-15, Matthew 1:18-25 SUN SUN Music: SUN 1. Mary's Magnificat (Carter) SUN 2. Once in Royal David's City (Gauntlett, arr Stopford) SUN 3. How Far is it to Bethlehem? (arr Mack Wilberg) SUN 4. All Bells in Paradise (Rutter) SUN 5. Silent Night (Gruber, arr Chilcott) SUN 6. Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn, arr Willcocks) SUN 7. Christmas Blessing (Stopford) SUN SUN Director of Music: Ruth McCartney SUN Organist: Donal McCann. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04v66nl (Listen) SUN Art: The Real Thing SUN SUN In the last of his three talks on art Roger Scruton asks SUN what constitutes real art, as opposed to cliche or kitsch. SUN SUN He says we must ignore the vast quantities of art produced SUN as commodities to be sold, in contrast to symphonies or SUN novels that cannot be owned in the same way as a painting or SUN a sculpture. SUN SUN Real art has to have lasting appeal, he argues, and for that SUN it needs three things: beauty, form and redemption. The SUN production of such art, he says, takes immense hard work and SUN attention to detail, but it can give meaning to our modern SUN lives and show love in the midst of doubt and desolation. SUN SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger Scruton SUN Production Assistant: Arlene Gregorius SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0gsc (Listen) SUN Saddleback 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 formerly widespread saddleback of SUN New Zealand. It's loud, piping and whistling calls once SUN resounded throughout New Zealand's forests, but now the SUN saddleback is heard only on smaller offshore islands. This SUN is a bird in exile. About the size of a European blackbird, SUN saddlebacks are predominantly black with a rust-coloured SUN saddle-shaped patch on their backs. In Maori culture this SUN mark came from the demi-God Maui who, after trying to catch SUN the sun, asked the saddleback to fetch water. The bird SUN refused, so hot-handed Maui grabbed it and left a scorch SUN mark on the bird's back. As well as this chestnut saddle, SUN the bird has two bright red wattles at the base of its beak SUN which it can dilate when it displays. It also has an SUN extensive vocabulary and one of its calls has earned it the SUN Maori name -"Ti-e-ke". SUN SUN Saddleback (Philesturnus carunculatus) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com. SUN NPL Ref 01454636 SUN © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04vd699 (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 b04vd69c (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Paul Brodrick SUN Director ..... Marina Caldarone SUN Editor .... Sean O'Connor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Paul Brodrick SUN Director: Marina Caldarone SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Justin Elliot: Simon Williams SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04vd69f (Listen) SUN The Most Reverend Justin Welby SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway for Christmas week is The Archbishop SUN of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby. SUN SUN Ordained as a priest in 1993, 19 years later he was SUN appointed to lead the Anglican communion of over 77 million SUN people spread across 167 countries. Hardly a front runner SUN when the job vacancy came up he said that it would be "a SUN joke" and "perfectly absurd" if he were appointed. SUN SUN His faith has brought him high office but when he 'found SUN God' at university, it gave him something a good deal more SUN significant: a sense of much needed comfort after an often SUN turbulent and uncertain childhood. Although his mother's SUN side of the family provided stability, his father was an SUN alcoholic and his childhood was punctuated by his parents' SUN early divorce and significant money worries - one particular SUN Christmas was spent hungrily staring out of the window as SUN his father lay in bed all day. SUN SUN He says, "When the church is working it is the most SUN mind-bogglingly, amazingly, extraordinarily beautiful SUN community on earth. It heals, it transforms, it loves, and SUN it changes society." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Justin Welby SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04vd4hp (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04v3103 (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 5 SUN SUN The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to The Marlowe SUN Theatre in Canterbury. Old-timers Barry Cryer and Graeme SUN Garden are joined on the panel by Susan Calman and Tony SUN Hawks, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on SUN the piano. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Jack Dee SUN Panellist: Barry Cryer SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN Panellist: Andy Hamilton SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04vd69h (Listen) SUN Christmas, food and being far from home SUN SUN Whether it is by choice or necessity, there are those who SUN won't be home for Christmas Day. Sheila Dillon discovers SUN with food writer Joe Warwick - who spent many childhood SUN Christmases in far flung places - what they will be eating SUN and the food they are missing from home. It is a time of SUN tradition and often excess - a Swedish chef in East Sheen SUN tempts customers with a 50 dish buffet including reindeer SUN delicacies whilst a refugee gay couple swap days of SUN Christmas feasting in their village for a turkey dinner SUN because they can't return to Uganda. There are those who SUN work on Christmas Day such as a ship's crew or hospital SUN staff, the Lithuanian care worker who misses the religious SUN elements of her traditional meal or the Zimbabwean student SUN who'd rather barbecue on the beach. And for those families SUN who choose to celebrate restaurant style, there are the chef SUN and staff at the Rib Room in Knightsbridge - where even SUN Santa has to be content with the tasty leftovers on SUN Christmas Day. SUN SUN Produced by Sara Parker. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Joe Warwick SUN Producer: Sara Parker SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04vd4hr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04vd69k (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 The Invisible Age b04v328c (Listen) SUN The Age Bomb SUN SUN Old age is an increasingly long stage of life. There are SUN nearly 1.5 million people in the UK aged 85 and over. By SUN 2050 there will be 5 million in the UK alone. SUN SUN Matthew Sweet tries to understand why society is still so SUN reluctant to talk about ageing when - for many - the SUN experience is a good one. He asks whether historical SUN anxieties about population growth still overshadow SUN contemporary discussions about the so called 'fourth-age' SUN and if ageism will soon be regarded in the same way as SUN discrimination on the basis of race or colour. SUN SUN Matthew's many friendships with people in their 80s and 90s SUN have hugely enriched his social life and, in this programme, SUN he considers why such cross-generational relationships are SUN so rare. He also asks what those over the age of 85 think SUN about his generation's denial of the ageing process. SUN SUN We explore the new territory that the 'oldest-old' inhabit - SUN to ask about the perspective that age brings, to reflect on SUN experiences and memories of a long life, and to discover SUN what the 'oldest-old' would like to report back to those who SUN are following behind. SUN SUN Produced by Catherine Carr SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04v5pgk (Listen) SUN Dalston SUN SUN Eric Robson is in the chair for this week's programme from SUN Dalston. Pippa Greenwood, Christine Walkden and Matthew SUN Wilson join him to answer the audience questions. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras. SUN Assistant Producer: Claire Crofton. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN SUN Q. I've got a five-year-old dwarf apple tree which is now SUN leaning over and I'm wondering what kind of strap I can use SUN to support it? We've tried rubber straps, but they've SUN snapped. SUN SUN A. Matthew suggests staking the tree quite low down so that SUN it can flex and strengthen. Try a dead-anchor - this is four SUN stakes driven into the ground around the root ball. Fix SUN stout timbre boards to the top of those stakes so that they SUN hold the root plate in the ground. Or you can use an SUN underground anchor system of wires and a ratchet. To start, SUN you could just use a couple of stakes and make sure they are SUN facing into the wind and then double up with a good quality SUN rubber tie. Christine suggests using tights. Pippa suggests SUN using really good quality rope threaded through a garden SUN hose. SUN SUN Q. How can you grow and keep Celeriac reliably. SUN SUN A. Start it off in January, under heat, in as long a SUN container as possible to minimise root disturbance, use a SUN soil based material - a John Innes number two with 15% grit SUN added. Make sure the plants are kept moist. Really good weed SUN control is also important. SUN SUN Q. Does the panel think it's an old gardeners' tale that SUN putting soot on onion beds makes them grow better? SUN SUN A. The panel think that it is a bit of a myth but if your SUN soil is light, it can be useful to help the soil absorb more SUN warmth. SUN SUN Q. I have a Hydrangea Petiolaris on an east-facing wall and SUN I'd like to grow something through it when it's passed its SUN best. What would the panel recommend? SUN SUN A. Matthew says make sure its well established before you SUN grow something up it as anything vigorous would strangle it. SUN Give it some love before planting through it. Annual SUN mulching in spring or even a slow releasing fertiliser would SUN help it. Pippa suggests foliar feeding as this stimulates SUN extra root growth. Christine suggests planting a Clematis SUN Alpina a couple of metres away and growing it horizontally SUN into the Hydrangea so that you're not disturbing the roots. SUN SUN Q. Last year I read about a Daphne that has a wonderful SUN smell and flowers all year long. I bought six, gave four to SUN friends and kept two for myself. The ones I gave away have SUN flourished, but mine have died. I planted them in clay pots SUN and watered well, but not too much. I put them against a SUN west-facing wall. The leaves yellowed and dropped off. They SUN died within a few weeks. What did I do wrong? SUN SUN A. Daphnes like a humus rich woodland soil, so if you had SUN light compost with high levels of coir they wouldn't have SUN been happy. Daphnes also like neutral to acidic soil. They SUN also like a degree of shade, so perhaps they got too warm. SUN Daphnes are also prone to attack by spider mite. SUN SUN Q. I've grown Aubergines in the greenhouse for many years SUN with success. This year the plants grew well in the house SUN before I put them in the greenhouse at the end of May. Then SUN they stopped growing despite no inclement weather or late SUN frosts. The Tomatoes, Peppers and Cucumbers just grew SUN normally but the Aubergine's roots just didn't develop SUN properly. I gave a friend some of the plants to put in his SUN greenhouse and he had the same problem. SUN SUN A. Perhaps they got too damp or they had root rot or some SUN kind of virus. Next year use a fresh packet of seeds and SUN watch out for aphids and whitefly. SUN SUN Q. How long does it take for grass turfs to break down? What SUN can they be used for once broken down? SUN SUN A. They take anything between six and twelve months to break SUN down depending on the soil type and composition of the turf. SUN Stack it turf to turf. If it's warm and moist break down SUN will be faster. It can be used as potting compost or seed SUN compost. SUN SUN Q. I planted a weeping ash about eight years ago. One SUN section is great and is six feet tall and weeping while the SUN other half has gone straight up and is fourteen foot high. SUN When can I cut the vertical part? SUN SUN A. The trick is to get it out as soon as possible but it's SUN never too late, it might just look a little odd and there SUN will be a sizable wound. Wait until it's in leaf in the SUN spring. SUN SUN A perfectly popped pinecone SUN Matthew Biggs admires a pinecone (Pinus sabiniana) with Dan SUN Luscombe at the National Pinetum at Bedgebury. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04vd69m (Listen) SUN Fi Glover hears about being stared at because you look SUN different, being persecuted because you behave differently, SUN and being in love with the land you farm, in conversations SUN from Scotland, Yorkshire and Wales, all in the Omnibus SUN edition of the series that proves it's surprising what you SUN 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 Barchester Chronicles b04vd69p (Listen) SUN Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington, Episode 1 SUN SUN Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington by Michael SUN Symmons Roberts SUN SUN The arrival of the handsome Adolphus Crosbie causes quite a SUN stir at Allington, especially with Lily Dale, who lives at SUN the Small House due to the benevolence of her rich uncle. SUN Crosbie's ambitions to marry into high society are in danger SUN of being dashed by the charming Lily, but can a SUN straight-talking country girl ever be enough for him? SUN SUN Music composed by David Robin, Jeff Meegan and Julian SUN Gallant. SUN SUN Written by Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Directed by Gary Brown SUN Produced by Charlotte Riches SUN SUN The Small House of Allington is the fifth instalment of The SUN Barchester Chronicles, Anthony Trollope's much-loved series SUN of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life set SUN within the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and the SUN surrounding county of Barsetshire. With a focus on the SUN lives, loves and tribulations of the local clergy and rural SUN gentry, the canvas is broad and colourful, with a wonderful SUN set of iconic characters whose lives we become intimately SUN involved in as they grow up, grow old and fall in or out of SUN love and friendship across the years. SUN SUN Credits SUN Mrs Baxter: Maggie Steed SUN Lily Dale: Scarlett Alice Johnson SUN Johnny Eames: Samuel Barnett SUN Crosbie: Blake Ritson SUN Bell Dale: Lisa Brookes SUN Squire Dale: Clive Mantle SUN Mrs Dale: Alexandra Mathie SUN Mrs Hearn: Alexandra Mathie SUN Cradell: Griffin Stevens SUN Bernard: Henry Devas SUN Amelia: Emily Pithon SUN Author: Anthony Trollope SUN Adaptor: Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Director: Gary Brown SUN Producer: Charlotte Riches SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04vd69r (Listen) SUN Christmas Writings SUN SUN Christmas, with all its tradition and rituals and emotion, SUN has always provided a rich source of material for writers. SUN In this programme Mariella Frostrup and her guests John SUN Mullan and Jessie Burton explore what it offers twentieth SUN century novelists; from James Joyce and his argumentative SUN Christmas lunch in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man SUN via Patrick Hamilton's bleak 1940's boarding house Christmas SUN Eve in The Slaves of Solitude, to Bridget Jones, in the SUN 1990s, having to return home to her family yet again - still SUN single. And Jonathan Franzen discusses his prize winning SUN book The Corrections which is all about a mother, Enid SUN Lambert, trying to persuade her grown up children to come SUN home for one last Christmas. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend SUN The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton SUN The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen SUN A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas SUN To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee SUN Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding SUN Capital by John Lanchester SUN Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo SUN A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce SUN American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis SUN Narnia Chronicles by CS Lewis SUN Emma by Jane Austen SUN Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel SUN Starter for Ten by David Nichols SUN SUN Close Reading - Aldous Huxley - Brave New World SUN SUN The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the SUN north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all SUN the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light SUN glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay SUN figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but SUN finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining SUN porcelain of a laboratory. Wintriness responded to SUN wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their SUN hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light SUN was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of SUN the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living SUN substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, SUN streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work SUN tables. SUN SUN ‘And this,’ said the Director opening the door, ‘is the SUN Fertilizing Room.’ SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: John Mullan SUN Interviewed Guest: Jessie Burton SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b04vd6mj (Listen) SUN Series 4, Solsticial SUN SUN Paul Farley introduces a new poem called Tithonus for the SUN year's midnight from Alice Oswald - a poem which lasts as SUN long as dawn - and with music from nykelharpist Griselda SUN Sanderson. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 Suppose I Lose It b04v383w (Listen) SUN Now in her 80s, one issue looms ahead for Joan Bakewell and SUN others from her generation - the fear of dementia. She SUN admits that she's becoming increasingly forgetful. Her home SUN is decked with post-it note reminders to help her remember. SUN But are the annoying lapses in memory, that characterise her SUN daily life, just a normal part of ageing, or could they SUN signal something more serious like dementia? As she herself SUN says - 'suppose I lose it?'. SUN SUN In this programme, Joan asks what might she expect, and how SUN should she prepare, if she were to receive the diagnosis. SUN SUN Joan's search is spurred on by the news that her friend of SUN many years, the actress Prunella Scales, has dementia. Over SUN cups of tea at their home, Joan talks to Prunella and her SUN husband, the actor Timothy West, about how her memory loss SUN is affecting their lives. SUN SUN Dementia is a growing problem for the nation. Over 800,000 SUN now suffer from it and, as we all live longer, that figure SUN is set to double in the next thirty to forty years. It's a SUN problem that the government has been prioritising through SUN the National Challenge on Dementia, but as Professor Sube SUN Banerjee, a lead author on the National Dementia Strategy, SUN says there's still an immense amount that needs to be done. SUN SUN Even hospitals struggle to cope with people with dementia. SUN Being mostly old and frail, they make up a quarter of SUN inpatients, yet the experience can be traumatising. They SUN tend to leave hospital less capable than when they went it, SUN and are often more confused and anxious. SUN SUN So how will hospitals cope as the numbers with dementia SUN spiral? Professor Harwood is one of those making a start, SUN adapting Ward B47 at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham and SUN training staff to meet the complex needs of patients with SUN dementia, which are only now starting to be understood. SUN SUN One of the challenges of caring for dementia patients is SUN that often their disease is so advanced that they can no SUN longer make decisions about their medical treatment. What's SUN more, few make their wishes known in advance. So SUN geriatrician Professor Rowan Harwood often has to make a SUN best guess, which can mean keeping patients alive longer SUN than they might have wanted. Joan asks what she should do to SUN prepare should she be diagnosed with dementia. SUN SUN And what's more terrifying - living with dementia, or living SUN in a society that fails to support those suffering with it. SUN Several towns around the country are now addressing the SUN ignorance and fear that can leave sufferers and their carers SUN feeling isolated. The Crawley Dementia Alliance is bringing SUN together schools, GPs, local businesses and transport SUN services to make Crawley more 'dementia friendly'. And it is SUN dementia suffers themselves whose opinions lie at the heart SUN of what happens here. SUN SUN Producer: Beth Eastwood. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b04w1b1r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04vd4ht (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04vd4hw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vd4hy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04vd88t (Listen) SUN Gary O'Donoghue chooses his BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04vd88w (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 The Rest Is History b04vd88y (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN A new, six-part comedy discussion show hosted by Frank SUN Skinner. SUN SUN Frank loves history, but just doesn't know much of it, so SUN he's devised The Rest Is History to find out more about it. SUN SUN Along with his historian in residence, Dr Kate Williams, SUN each 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 John SUN Lloyd and Katy Brand. 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: John Lloyd SUN Panellist: Katy Brand SUN Panellist: Kate Williams SUN Producer: Dan Schreiber SUN Producer: Justin Pollard SUN SUN 19:45 Goodnight, Vienna b04vd8gq (Listen) SUN The Last Train SUN SUN A multi-contributor series of specially-commissioned radio SUN stories about this most beguiling of cities. To the SUN outsider, Vienna can be a state of mind as much as an actual SUN place. SUN SUN Episode 1 (of 3): The Last Train by Jo Baker SUN Vienna 1939. Leah is hurried through the streets by her SUN mother to try and catch the last Kindertransport (the means SUN by which thousands of children were evacuated from mainland SUN Europe) out of the city. SUN SUN Jo Baker was educated at Oxford and Queen's University, SUN Belfast. She is the author of several novels, most recently SUN 'Longbourn' in 2013. Jo lives in Lancaster. SUN SUN Reader: Bryony Hannah SUN SUN Produced by Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Bryony Hannah SUN Writer: Jo Baker SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b04v66ng (Listen) SUN Gwyneth Williams is in her fifth year as the controller of SUN Radio 4 and has made her mark with various radical changes - SUN including bringing a former Eastenders' producer to The SUN Archers, cutting 12 minutes from You and Yours and bringing SUN visualisation to a variety of Radio 4 programming. SUN SUN For the final episode of this series, Feedback listeners SUN speak directly to the Controller and give their views on the SUN network. Loyal Archers Addicts ask how much free rein the SUN editor should have when many listeners are unhappy with the SUN programme's current direction. SUN SUN Gwyneth is also asked whether there is a theme to the daily SUN '12 o clock slot' that has divided listeners, and whether 15 SUN minute programmes are long enough to over complex topics. SUN SUN Radio 4's leap towards a dazzling digital future is also put SUN under scrutiny as a listener asks whether radio programmes SUN truly benefit from visual elements. SUN SUN And how tight is her Radio 4 budget for programmes, given SUN that even more cuts are coming soon? SUN SUN Producer Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04v66nd (Listen) SUN Mandy Rice-Davies, Dr Tim Black, Michel du Cille, Ian SUN Player, Christopher Morris SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Mandy Rice-Davies, the former showgirl who was involved in SUN the Profumo Affair. SUN SUN Dr Tim Black who built Marie Stopes International into one SUN of the world's largest family planning organisations. SUN SUN Michel du Cille - the award winning photographer who covered SUN conflicts in Africa and Afghanistan. SUN SUN Ian Player, the South African conservationist who built up SUN the population of the white rhino SUN SUN And Christopher Morris, the organist and publisher who SUN launched the book Carols For Choirs. SUN SUN Mandy Rice-Davies SUN SUN Matthew spoke to broadcaster Libby Purves and to Kate McAll SUN who made a radio drama with Mandy Rice-Davies about the SUN Profumo affair. SUN SUN Born 21 October 1944; died 18 December 2014 aged 70. SUN SUN Tim Black SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Samantha Guy, Associate Director of Marie SUN Stopes International. SUN SUN Born 7 January 1937; died 11 December 2014 aged 77. SUN SUN Ian Player SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his brother Gary Player, to his friend SUN Vance Martin who is President of The WILD Foundation and to SUN the CEO of the Wilderness Foundation UK, Jo Roberts. SUN SUN SUN Born 15 March 1927; died 30 November 2014 aged 87. SUN SUN Michel du Cille SUN SUN Born 24 January 1956; died 11 December 2014 aged 58. SUN SUN SUN Christopher Morris SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his son Paul Morris and to the composer SUN John Rutter. SUN SUN SUN Born 13 May 1922; died 23 November 2014 aged 92. SUN SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04v9653 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04vd695 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04v5gh9 (Listen) SUN For Ever and Ever SUN SUN FOR EVER AND EVER SUN Britain's cathedrals have defined the landscape for more SUN than 1000 years SUN as places of worship, tourist attractions, and unrivalled SUN architectural SUN achievements. But what's their role in the 21st century? SUN Peter Day hears SUN about the business of running some of the country's most SUN famous places. SUN Producer : Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Aric Prentice, Director of Music, Lincoln Cathedral SUN SUN SUN SUN John Patrick, Subdean, Lincoln Cathedral SUN SUN SUN SUN Jackie Croft, Chapter Clerk, Lincoln Cathedral SUN SUN SUN SUN Philip Buckler, Dean, Lincoln Cathedral SUN SUN SUN SUN Anthony O’Conner, Director of Fundraising and Development, SUN Manchester Cathedral SUN SUN SUN SUN Rogers Govender, Dean Manchester Cathedral SUN SUN SUN SUN Francis Davis, Founder Cathedral Innovation Centre, SUN Portsmouth Cathedral SUN SUN SUN SUN Canon Peter Leonard , Portsmouth Cathedral SUN SUN SUN SUN Stephen Bourne, Administrator, Ely Cathedral SUN SUN SUN SUN Mark Bonney, Dean, Ely Cathedral SUN SUN SUN SUN Lesley Ann Thompson, Ely Cathedral SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04vd4j0 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04vd8lb (Listen) SUN George Parker of the Financial Times analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04v5fjw (Listen) SUN Angelina Jolie, Danny Elfman, Kevin Macdonald, Kon-Tiki SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Angelina Jolie reveals why she's planning to give up acting SUN to concentrate on directing, and describes the moment she SUN discovered that her neighbour Louis Zamperini was an Olympic SUN athlete and ex-prisoner of war, and what it was like showing SUN him her film about his life, Unbroken, just before he died. SUN SUN Actor Pal Sverre Hagen, known as Norwegian's Ryan Gosling, SUN reveals what it was like to recreate Thor Heyerdahl's epic SUN voyage across the Pacific for the film Kon-Tiki, while Thor SUN Heyerdahl Jr reveals what he thinks is wrong with the SUN account of his father's famous adventure. SUN SUN Composer Danny Elfman and director Kevin Macdonald share SUN their memories of their first visit to the cinema. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Angelina Jolie SUN Interviewed Guest: Pal Sverre Hagen SUN Interviewed Guest: Thor Heyerdahl Jr SUN Interviewed Guest: Danny Elfman SUN Interviewed Guest: Kevin Macdonald SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04vd68z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 22 DECEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04vd4k2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04v3cxk (Listen) MON Butchers; Fat Gay Men MON MON Fat gay men: Laurie Taylor examines a world in which men are MON doubly stigmatised - for their weight as well as their MON sexuality. Jason Whitesel, an Assistant Professor in Women's MON and Gender Studies at Pace University in the US, discusses a MON study which illuminates how such men negotiate and fight MON back against a gay culture which places them in an inferior MON and stigmatised position in the 'attractiveness' MON hierarchy.They're joined by Paul Simpson, a Lecturer in MON Sociology at the University of Manchester, who has MON researched the marginality of older gay men on the gay MON 'scene'. MON MON Also, the masculine world of the butchers. Dr Natasha MON Slutskaya, lecturer of Organization Studies at Brunel MON Business School, discusses a study into the values and MON meanings butchers ascribe to the 'dirty work' of meat MON production and sale. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Jason Whitesel MON MON Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Pace MON University, New York MON Find out more about MON Jason Whitesel MON *Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma MON *Publisher: New York University Press MON ISBN-10: 0814724124 MON ISBN-13: 978-0814724125 MON MON Paul Simpson MON MON Lecturer, University of Manchester MON Find out more about Dr MON Paul Simpson MON MON Abstract: MON *Differentiating selves: middle-aged gay men in Manchester's MON less visible ‘homospaces MON * MON The British Journal of Sociology MON Volume 65, Issue 1, pages 150–169, March 2014 MON doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12056 MON Abstract: * MON Alienation, Ambivalence and Agency: Middle-aged Gay Men and MON Ageism in Manchester's Gay Village MON *Sexualities June 2013 vol. 16 no. 3-4 283-299 MON doi: 10.1177/1363460713481734 MON MON Natasha Slutskaya MON MON Lecturer of Organization Studies at Brunel Business School, MON Brunel University MON Find out more about Dr MON Natasha Slutskaya MON Abstract: * MON Sacrifice and distinction in dirty work: men’s construction MON of meaning in the butcher trade MON *Ruth Simpson, Jason Hughes, Natasha Slutskaya, Maria Balta MON Work Employment & Society March 7, 2014 MON doi: 10.1177/0950017013510759 MON MON Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography (new closing date for MON entries 31 January 2015) 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. 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MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04vddwl (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the MON Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04vddwn (Listen) MON Campylobacter Testing MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04vd4kd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0hjv (Listen) MON New Zealand Robin MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Sir David Attenborough begins Christmas week with the New MON Zealand robin. The toutouwai or New Zealand robin may share MON a name with the more familiar European robin, but it is a MON very different bird to the robin redbreast we know so well. MON Although about the same size with the same perky upright MON stance, the New Zealand robin, is appropriately enough MON nearly all-black, with a pale belly and a white splash just MON above the bill, but no trace of red. Three subspecies exist; MON one in north Island, one in South Island, and another in MON Stewart Island. And like their British counterparts, who MON they are not closely related to at all, can become quite MON tame and friendly to humans. The song is very varied and MON each male has a repertoire of around two dozen different MON notes. MON MON New Zealand robin (Petroica australis australis) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com. MON NPL Ref 01397402 MON © Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com MON MON Recording of New Zealand robin by William V Ward / Ref: ML MON 13916 MON MON This programme contains a MON wildtrack recording of the New Zealand robin MON kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab MON of Ornithology; recorded by William V Ward on 18 Dec 1968, MON at D'urville River, Nelson Lakes National Park, South MON Island, New Zealand. MON MON 06:00 Today b04vddwq (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b04vddws (Listen) MON Hedonism MON MON Tom Sutcliffe discusses hedonism, from the ultra-hedonists MON in ancient Greece to the seasonal impulse to indulge. Tom's MON joined by RSC artistic director Greg Doran who's looking at MON hedonism in Shakespeare, from Toby Belch to Falstaff; by MON Prof Julia Twigg who assesses hedonism and asceticism in the MON contemporary world; by writer Zoe Cormier who's explored the MON science of hedonism and the hedonism of science; and by Kurt MON Lampe from Bristol University on the philosophical hedonists MON of Cyrene, an ancient city in modern day Libya. MON MON Producer: Simon Tillotson. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Greg Doran MON Interviewed Guest: Zoe Cormier MON Interviewed Guest: Julia Twigg MON Interviewed Guest: Kurt Lampe MON Producer: Simon Tillotson MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b04vdgpw (Listen) MON Stories in the Stars, Episode 1 MON MON A seasonal reading for clear and frosty nights, when the MON skies sparkle with thousands of dots forming half MON remembered, almost traceable shapes. These are the stories MON behind the names and shapes of the constellations that MON pattern the night sky. MON MON Stories In The Stars by Susanna Hislop is read by a range of MON voices and accents from around the country and the globe. It MON might be one of the stories that the great Egyptian MON astronomer Ptolemy assigned to them in his masterwork that MON became known as the Almagest, or it might be a personified MON first person narration from the constellation Chameleon MON having a grumble about the number of different names and MON imagined shapes assigned to him over the millennia. MON MON From Greco-Roman mythology to the lives of the eighteenth MON century astronomers, this is a delightful miscellany which MON gives us a reason to step outside, look up and wonder at the MON magic lantern show above us. MON MON Readers: Susanna Hislop, Maggie Steed, Noma Dumezweni, MON Colman Domingo MON MON Episode One: MON Susanna Hislop introduces us to the cartographers who first MON mapped the night sky. Corvus, the Crow and Cancer, the Crab MON offer different perspectives. MON MON Abridged, directed and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Susanna Hislop MON Reader: Maggie Steed MON Reader: Noma Dumezweni MON Reader: Colman Domingo MON Author: Susanna Hislop MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Director: Jill Waters MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04vdgpy (Listen) MON Space Exploration, Cerys Mathews, Inequality in the MON Workplace MON MON We look at the case of a pregnant woman in Ireland who is MON clinically brain-dead but being kept on a life support MON machine to keep her baby alive. Songwriter and singer Cerys MON Matthews on her new song book, Hook Line and Singer. Space MON exploration with Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and MON Space Sciences. Dr Jude Browne from the University of MON Cambridge looks at quotas for women, why they are an MON effective but blunt tool and explores other ways to address MON inequality in the workplace. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore. MON MON Clinically Dead Pregnancy MON MON A pregnant woman who is clinically brain-dead is being kept MON on a life support machine in hospital to keep her baby MON alive, against the wishes of her parents.. The mother of MON two in her 20's is around 17 weeks pregnant and the baby is MON still alive. We look at the case and its possible impact on MON abortion laws in the Ireland which are among the strictest MON in the world and where the the rights of a foetus are given MON equal weight with the rights of the woman. MON MON Cerys Mathews – Hook Line and Singer MON MON The award winning MON 6 Music MON radio presenter, songwriter, MON columnist MON and former singer with Catatonia, MON Cerys Matthews MON believes everyone can enjoy making their own music MON regardless of how they sound, by singing along to familiar MON tunes. There is, she says, a song for every occasion and all MON ages. She joins Jane Garvey to talk about her book ‘Hook MON Line and Singer, 125 songs to song out loud’ which is the MON result of more than thirty years of singing, travelling and MON collecting song and their stories. She will be singing a MON couple of her favourite tunes and inviting us to rediscover MON the lost art of one of life’s great pleasures, a grand old MON sing-a-long. MON MON Hook Line and Singer, 125 songs to sing out loud by Cerys MON Mathews is published by Penguin MON MON Critical Mass Markers MON MON Dr Jude Browne says applying a blanket quota for getting MON more women on boards is an effective but blunt tool when it MON comes to dealing with inequality in the workplace. She joins MON Jane Garvey to explain why all organisations should have to MON analyse their staffing for gender segregation that create MON bottlenecks of women. Recognising these ‘critical mass MON markers’ would unblock the pipeline of talent to the more MON senior roles. MON MON Monica Grady: Exploring the Big Question MON Monica Grady MON Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, on an important MON year for space exploration and getting a step closer to MON answering the question she has spent much of her scientific MON career exploring: are we alone in the universe? Monica is a MON member of the MON Rosetta MON mission’s scientific team, which was responsible for landing MON a small probe on the comet 67P in November. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore MON Interviewed Guest: Cerys Matthews MON Interviewed Guest: Monica Grady MON Interviewed Guest: Jude Browne MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04vdgq0 (Listen) MON The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth, Hail St Custards MON MON Imelda Staunton stars as Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St MON Custards, in this brand new adaptation of the notorious MON Goriller of 3B's guide to skool life for tiny pupils and MON their parents. MON Aided by best friend Peason and thwarted by everyone from MON Grabber the skool bully to Wandsworth the skool dog, Nigel MON Molesworth teaches us the ins and outs of skool life - MON including how to avoid lessens and how to build your own MON H-bomb. MON MON Episode 1: Hail St Custards MON Nigel Molesworth gives a guided tour of the complete and MON utter shambles that is St Custards, the finest educational MON establishment this side of Dotheboys Hall. MON MON Adapted by Patrick Barlow and George Poles from the books by MON Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, with additional material MON by Abigail Wilson. MON MON Directed by Patrick Barlow MON MON Produced by Liz Anstee MON A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Molesworth: Imelda Staunton MON Peason: Sophie Thompson MON Grabber: Jack Farthing MON Prudence: Jessica Brown Findlay MON Headmaster: Patrick Barlow MON Radio Announcer: Lewis Macleod MON Adaptor: Patrick Barlow MON Adaptor: George Poles MON Author: Geoffrey Willans MON Author: Ronald Searle MON Director: Patrick Barlow MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON MON 11:00 Six Weeks to Save the World b04vdnbq (Listen) MON Dr Wright took the decision to volunteer in the fight MON against Ebola after the United Nations warned that the world MON has just 60 days to get the virus under control or face an MON "unprecedented situation for which we don't have a plan" The MON report, issued by the organisation's health arm, said the MON virus was "running faster than us and it is winning the MON race." MON MON The UN identified the opening of Ebola Treatment Centres and MON more effective community containment as key to success and MON in Bradford where Dr Wright is director of the Institute for MON Health Research, it was a rallying call that saw him MON immediately volunteer. He worked in southern Africa in the MON early 1990's, when HIV was endemic and has continued to MON visit. He has been asked to lead the new treatment centre MON being set up in Moyamba, Sierra Leone, by Doctors of the MON Word. MON MON His audio diary starts where he did: at the York army MON barracks where he and other NHS volunteers spent nine days MON last month (November) preparing for the task ahead. Much of MON the training was in a military hangar converted to an Ebola MON treatment centre and heated to African temperatures so they MON could get used to wearing the protective suits. It is once MON they reach Freetown that the reality really hits home: MON MON "It is our first full day here - the size of the task ahead MON of us is rapidly becoming clear and it all feels quite MON daunting. We've got three weeks to set up a fully MON functioning Ebola treatment centre, which is like a mini MON hospital," he says. Many decisions need to be made in a very MON short space of time: MON MON The Royal Engineers need input on building the facilities. A MON lab is needed because without being able to properly test MON people there is no way to separate Ebola cases from Malaria MON and TB patients. Six sea containers of medical equipment MON have to be ordered, including drugs and protective suits and MON additional staff must also be recruited to provide round the MON clock care. MON MON "One of the most unsettling aspects of Freetown is the lack MON of physical contact. No one touches each other. Instead we MON go through this virtual mime with our arms. We're pretending MON to hug each other and you realise how human contact is such MON a fundamental part of how we demonstrate our friendship: MON when its suddenly removed it creates a great sense of loss." MON MON At present the Moyamba treatment centre is little more than MON a patch of cleared ground, with a planned opening date in MON mid-December. It will start with just ten patients and MON gradually build up to full capacity at a 100. Key to Dr MON Wright's role will be introducing interventions necessary to MON get correct diagnosis in the community and safe transport to MON the centre, to limit the spread of the virus. All trade at MON the junction has been put on hold until the spread of Ebola MON can be brought under control. MON MON His recordings will include his dealings with local chiefs MON and managers from the radio station in Moyamba: health MON messages and greater awareness will be key areas he hopes to MON target. The official Ebola death toll has risen to 5,420 out MON of 15,145 cases according to the Word Health Organisation, MON although the true figures are thought to be higher. In MON Moyamba the present lack of a treatment centre has led local MON Chiefs to set up makeshift isolation facilities in schools. MON MON "This is a double edged sword," says Dr Wright: "potentially MON they're doing the right thing by isolating them, but they MON have to make sure they're looked after and I'm anxious about MON the care they're getting A lot of people are also getting MON misdiagnosed and we need to sort this out - lots of them MON will be presenting with malaria so we don't want them MON misdiagnosed when they could be saved with simple medicines. MON MON "One of the concerns with all of this is that we have this MON European army of clinicians going out all dressed up in MON scary protective equipment and it could be very alienating. MON So we have to do this in partnership and radio will be key MON out there. As will working with the chiefs on things like MON road checkpoints and house to house visits. There are a lot MON of unknowns." MON MON Professor Wright will be working alongside Chris Bulstrode, MON Emeritus Professor at Oxford University, who has also been MON recording his experiences. His decision to go was one that MON caused concern for his wife Dr Vickie Hunt: MON MON "I think its a very worthwhile thing to do, but I didn't MON expect you to be offered a nine month contract. I do worry MON about the quarantine when you come back. You are supposed to MON be solitary and my main concern is that, just say, you got MON Ebola and I was quarantined as well, I'd be horrified to MON think we'd passed anything to our grandchildren.". MON MON 11:30 Start/Stop b04vdlp8 (Listen) MON Series 2, Christmas MON MON Hit comedy about three marriages in various states of MON disrepair. Starring Jack Docherty, Kerry Godliman, John MON Thomson, Fiona Allen, Charlie Higson and Sally Bretton. MON This week the three couples are inevitably preparing for MON Christmas...With all the bitterness and twistedness this MON time of year brings. Offensive presents. Boastful Christmas MON cards. And sledging accidents. What more could you possibly MON ask for? MON Barney.... Jack Docherty MON Cathy ..... Kerry Godliman MON Fiona ..... Fiona Allen MON Evan ..... John Thomson MON David ..... Charlie Higson MON Alice ..... Sally Bretton MON Producer ..... Claire Jones. MON MON Credits MON Barney: Jack Docherty MON Cathy: Kerry Godliman MON Fiona: Fiona Allen MON Evan: John Thomson MON David: Charlie Higson MON Alice: Sally Bretton MON Producer: Claire Jones MON Writer: Jack Docherty MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04vd4kg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04vdnbs (Listen) MON 22 December 1914 - Phyllis Marshall MON MON Amidst a surge in drunken soldiers in town, a more refined MON visitor arrives at the Harbour station. MON MON Written by: Shaun McKenna MON Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Phyllis: Christine Absalom MON Albert: Harry Myers MON Hilary: Craige Els MON Isabel: Keely Beresford MON Juliet: Lizzie Bourne MON Kitty: Ami Metcalf MON Laurie: Will Howard MON Writer: Shaun McKenna MON Director: Lucy Collingwood MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04vdnbv (Listen) MON Pop Up Shops, Home Care Costs, Party Wall Disasters MON MON Pop up shops began as a fun way to add interest to the high MON street. While they may not compete with the big retail MON hitters for sales, they're now managing to generate real MON business clout and making shopping local and small MON increasingly attractive. MON MON The average cost of home care for elderly and disabled MON people is rising and set to rise even further as Councils MON countrywide are putting cutbacks in place. But one London MON Council says it's going to scrap charges altogether for home MON care next year. They say they will make the savings MON elsewhere. What does this mean for service users? And why MON can't every council follow suit? MON MON And we talk to the homeowner faced with a huge bill when a MON neighbour chose a surveyor to examine their party wall. What MON are the pitfalls in building an extension when you share a MON wall and how can they be avoided? MON MON 12:57 Weather b04vd4kj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04vdnbx (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Edward MON Stourton. MON MON 13:45 Food for Thought b018g6wz (Listen) MON Series 2, Yoko Ono MON MON Yoko Ono discusses the virtues of vegetables with journalist MON Nina Myskow . MON MON Although reluctant to let even the tiniest piece of inferior MON confectionery pass her lips, artist and musician Yoko Ono MON reveals why she finally fell in love with one particular MON food. She explains that one of husband, John's pleasures was MON chocolate and how it came to comfort her. MON MON A long time devotee of macrobiotics, Yoko tells Nina about MON the experiences that shaped her tastes: from a Japanese diet MON low in animal fat to the years, during World War II, when MON she was evacuated from Tokyo. She made rice and miso soup MON for her siblings, longed for butter and was forced to barter MON for food. MON MON Odd then perhaps that several years later she would go on a MON forty day fast with John Lennon. MON She explains why. MON MON Yoko also shares her passion for fish and chips, as well as MON Korean pickles. And how did she make John eat sushi? MON MON Producer: Tamsin Hughes MON A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04vd88w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04vdnbz (Listen) MON Pilgrim, Jackson's Mill MON MON by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. A new series of dark fantasies MON featuring William Palmer, the immortal wanderer. Pilgrim MON discovers that an old friend is being haunted by a MON malevolent spirit. Meanwhile, homeless people are MON disappearing from a local shelter. MON MON 1 of 4 MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON Credits MON William Palmer: Paul Hilton MON Morgan: Justin Salinger MON Hartley: Matthew Tennyson MON Liam: Shaun Mason MON Karen: Bettrys Jones MON Gabriel: Paul Heath MON Gaynor: Jane Slavin MON The Girl: Agnes Bateman MON Director: Marc Beeby MON Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b04vdnc1 (Listen) MON Brain of Brains 2014 MON MON Russell Davies chairs the general knowledge contest of MON champions, held every three years, featuring the Radio 4 MON 'Brain of Britain' champions for 2012, 2013 and 2014. This MON year the highest-scoring runner-up in any of the last three MON Finals also joins them. MON MON A close contest is guaranteed, between four of Britain's MON most competitive quiz brains: Mark Grant, Barry Simmons, MON David Stainer and Ray Ward. MON MON The special contest launches the brand new season of 'Brain MON of Britain' which begins in earnest next week. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04vd69h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Midwives to Be b04vf6z9 (Listen) MON It's one of the most popular degree courses in the country. MON If you've managed to secure a place at King's College London MON to study midwifery, you've beaten 17 other applicants to MON secure the place. MON MON Sarah Taylor has been following the September 2014 intake of MON BSc Midwifery students who are studying at King's College MON London. Less than half of them are straight from school, MON some arrive on the course having already studied something MON completely different. Other members have finally got a place MON to study midwifery after doing their time as Health Care MON Assistants and studying via the access course route. MON MON It's a really diverse student group and of the 99 student MON midwives, just one is male. The students share their stories MON of what motivated them to apply for the course, how hard it MON was to get on and how they are coping with the first term. MON It's an intense student experience - twelve hour shifts in MON hospital alongside lots of lectures to help them get up to MON speed with everything they need to know to support women in MON labour. MON MON Presented and produced by Sarah Taylor. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04vdngf (Listen) MON TS Eliot's Religious Poetry MON MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss the enduring appeal of TS MON Eliot's religious poetry. MON MON It's 50 years since TS Eliot died. His later work, most MON notably the Four Quartets, is informed by a Christian Faith MON which became one of the pillars which sustained his life. MON How religious is his poetry? And what does it have to say to MON a society which many feel has lost its Christian moorings? MON Ernie is joined by Lyndall Gordon, author of The Imperfect MON Life of T S Eliot; the Rt Rev the Lord Harris, former Bishop MON of Oxford; and Roz Kaveney, poet, and critic and author of a MON series on Eliot for the Guardian newspaper. MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b04vdngh (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vd4kl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04vdngk (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 6 MON MON Back for a second week at The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, MON regulars Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden are joined on the MON panel by Susan Calman and Tony Hawks, with Jack Dee in the MON chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Tony Hawks MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04vdnkp (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04vdnkr (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04vdgq0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Invisible Age b04vdnkt (Listen) MON The Living Archive MON MON What's it really like to be old? This programme is dedicated MON to conversations with the over 85s about the great turning MON points in their lives. Presenter Matthew Sweet describes his MON friends in their 80s and 90s as a "living archive". The MON "fourth generation" is not only a fast-growing feature of MON modern Britain, it's a portal to our collective past. MON MON How does it feel to know about something that the culture MON has forgotten? What happens when your friends and family MON pass on and you are left? Matthew Sweet talks to people aged MON over 85 in a quest to find out not only about their lives MON but also how life has changed around them. We meet some of MON Britain's 14,000 centenarians - they are part of a growing MON trend, with demographers predicting that, by 2114, a million MON Britons alive will have received their telegram from the MON Queen. MON MON And Matthew travels back to his home town of Hull where, as MON a six year old, he liked nothing more than spending time MON with his elderly neighbours. He meets one of these MON neighbours, who, unbeknown to Matthew at the time, is MON eminent political theorist Professor Bikhu Parekh, now Baron MON Parekh. Matthew also talks to Mary Urwin whose father knew MON Florence Nightingale, and Bridgette Paterson who once played MON with the von Hindenburg children in the German President's MON Palace. MON MON Produced by Hermeet Chadha MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04v59h7 (Listen) MON The Knights of New Russia MON MON Russian support for the separatists in eastern Ukraine MON doesn't all come directly from the Kremlin. The rebellion MON there may be stoked, and armed, by Vladimir Putin - but it's MON also become a personal cause for young Russian volunteers MON recruited by a variety of nationalist and far-right groups. MON Many say they're motivated by their Orthodox faith - and MON their dream to restore Novorossiya, or New Russia, the MON territory which encompassed eastern Ukraine under the MON Tsarist Empire. Passionate members of re-enactment MON societies, they've spent their weekends reliving Russia's MON historic battles. But now they're fighting - and sometimes MON dying - for real, in what they see as a test of their own, MON and Russia's, "manhood". Tim Whewell has gained rare access MON to the weird, shadowy world of Russia's radical MON nationalists. He travels with volunteers from the grand old MON imperial capital, St Petersburg, to the chaotic, muddy MON battlefields of eastern Ukraine - and reveals a movement MON whose leaders have become increasingly influential in MON Putin's Russia - but is now in danger of becoming an MON embarrassment to the Kremlin. MON Producer: Dina Newman. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04v381l (Listen) MON Sharing Our Lives with Wolves MON MON Few creatures have infiltrated our psyche as much as wolves. MON They haunt our imagination and appear in our stories, myths MON and legends. They are at once the embodiment of the devil MON and of the wild, enough dog that we relate to them, but also MON rugged, unpredictable and wild. They roam vast, untamed MON landscapes and then appear in our midst, hunting sheep and MON spreading fear. Our relationship has been so conflicting MON that they were almost eradicated from the earth by the end MON of the 19th Century. But since being protected they are MON slowly coming back in both Europe and America. Are we now MON able to live with them? Do we want to? Monty Don explores MON the enigma that is the wolf and looks at how our attitudes MON have shaped their destiny. MON MON Tom Arnbom MON MON Tom Arnbom is a senior conservation officer at MON WWF Sweden MON He has studied both sperm whales (M.Sc.) and elephant seals MON (Ph.D.) and has worked for both the MON Ministry of Enviroment MON and natural film industry. MON MON For almost 20 years, he has been working in relation to MON large carnivores in Sweden and seeking solutions for MON carnivore conflicts on a European level with the European MON Commission. MON MON He has vast experiences in human wildlife conflicts and has MON worked with the MON International Whaling Commission MON sealing and Swedish National Carnivore Board. MON MON Darlene Kobobel MON Darlene Kobobel rescued a wolf-dog by the name of Chinook in MON 1993. The two-year-old female was going to be put down MON because she was a ‘wolf-hybrid’ but Darlene took her home MON and learned of the issues and controversies regarding MON wolf-dogs and wolf-dog breeders in Colorado county. MON Wanting to provide a safe haven for unwanted wolf-dogs, MON Darlene launched the Wolf Hybrid Rescue Center. She and her MON team were inundated with calls from people who felt they can MON no longer keep them as pets. MON Through this work, Darlene discovered that of the around MON 250,000 wolf-dogs born in the US every year, 80 per cent are MON likely to die before the age of three because they commonly MON have to be put down after being donated to shelters. Kobobel MON decided the answer was more education and began work to turn MON the Wolf Hybrid Rescue Centre into an educational facility MON now known as the MON Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center MON MON Dr Thomas Heberlein MON Dr Thomas A Heberlein began his career as an environmental MON sociologist in 1971, earning a Ph. D. in Sociology at the MON University of Wisconsin-Madison. He spent a year at the MON University of Colorado before joining the MON Department of Rural Sociology at Madison MON He served as Department Chair, Director of the Center for MON Resource Policy Studies and Programs and in the Gaylord MON Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at UW-Madison MON before retiring in 2001. MON Heberlein was a visiting professor in the Department of MON Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies at the Swedish MON University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå Sweden from MON 2004-2012. MON He currently divides his time between Sweden and the United MON States. His capstone book, Navigating Environmental MON Attitudes, Oxford University Press (2012), deals in part MON with his research on attitudes toward wolves. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b04vddws (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04vd4kn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04vdqpk (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04vdqpm (Listen) MON The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Episode 1 MON MON E M Delafield was great friends with Margaret Mackworth, 2nd MON Viscountess Rhondda, and became a director of Time and Tide MON magazine. When the editor "wanted some light 'middles', MON preferably in serial form, she promised to think of MON something". And so it was, in 1930, that her most popular MON and enduring work The Diary of a Provincial Lady was MON written. It has never been out of print. MON MON The Diary of a Provincial Lady charts the day-to-day life of MON a Devonshire-dwelling lady and her attempts to keep her MON somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos. MON MON Husband Robert, when he's not snoozing behind The Times, MON does everything with grumbling reluctance. Her children are MON gleefully troublesome. A succession of tricky servants MON invariably seem to gain the upper hand. And if her domestic MON trials are not enough, she must keep up appearances - MON particularly with the maddeningly patronising Lady Boxe, MON with whom our Provincial Lady eternally (and unsuccessfully) MON endeavours to compete. MON MON This largely autobiographical novel substituted the names of MON "Robin" and "Vicky" for her own children, Lionel and MON Rosamund. MON MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON Read by Claire Skinner MON MON Produced by Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Claire Skinner MON Author: EM Delafield MON Abridger: Libby Spurrier MON Producer: Joanna Green MON MON 23:00 Good Omens b04knthd (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes MON Nutter, the world will end on a Saturday. A Saturday quite MON soon, here on Radio 4. MON MON Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of MON Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making MON their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower MON Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, MON Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the MON corners of the earth and are assembling. MON MON Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton MON Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some MON unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, MON descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to MON decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly MON where the impending Apocalypse will take place. MON MON Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; MON everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan. MON Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and MON a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the MON forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden MON of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), MON and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around MON London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on MON Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of MON the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place MON they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring MON about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself. MON MON There's just one small problem: someone seems to have MON mislaid him... MON MON With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is MON the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil MON Gaiman's Good Omens. MON MON Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs. MON Produced by Heather Larmour. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Peter Serafinowicz MON Actor: Mark Heap MON Writer: Neil Gaiman MON Writer: Terry Pratchett MON Adaptor: Dirk Maggs MON MON 23:30 Good Omens b04vdqpp (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of MON Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making MON their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower MON Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, MON Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the MON corners of the earth and are assembling. MON MON Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton MON Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some MON unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, MON descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to MON decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly MON where the impending Apocalypse will take place. MON MON Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; MON everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan. MON Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and MON a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the MON forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden MON of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), MON and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around MON London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on MON Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of MON the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place MON they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring MON about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself. MON MON There's just one small problem: someone seems to have MON mislaid him... MON MON With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is MON the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil MON Gaiman's Good Omens. MON MON Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs. MON Produced by Heather Larmour. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Peter Serafinowicz MON Actor: Mark Heap MON Writer: Neil Gaiman MON Writer: Terry Pratchett MON Adaptor: Dirk Maggs MON MON TUE TUESDAY 23 DECEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04vd4ll (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04vdgpw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vd4ln (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vd4lq (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vd4ls (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04vd4lv (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04vdy0r (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the TUE Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04vdy0t (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 b04t0htz (Listen) TUE Hyacinth Macaw TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Sir David Attenborough presents the hyacinth macaw of the TUE Brazilian Pantanal. Raucous ear-piercing screeches are TUE produced by one of the most beautiful parrots in the world, TUE flying high over the marshy wetlands of the Pantanal. As TUE their name suggests they are a rich cobalt blue, with TUE sulphur-yellow eye rings with a massive bill and long TUE elegant tail-feathers streaming behind them in flight, TUE making them our longest parrot. Popular as captive caged TUE birds, they are now endangered in the wild and legally TUE protected in Brazil. They feed on palm nuts, including those TUE of the acuri palm which are so hard that even the macaw's TUE powerful bill can't break into them, until they've first TUE passed through the digestive tracts of cattle. TUE TUE Hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) TUE TUE Webpage image taken by Miles Barton (BBC) © BBC TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04vdy0w (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b04vdy0y (Listen) TUE Documenting the Self: Victorian Diaries and 21st-Century TUE Social Media TUE TUE Jonathan Freedland compares the current fashion for TUE recording the details of our lives in digital photos and on TUE social media with the 19th century obsession with keeping a TUE diary. TUE TUE Producer Mohini Patel. TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b04wmy4c (Listen) TUE The Making of Kind of Blue TUE TUE Drummer Jimmy Cobb recalls playing with Miles Davis on the TUE album that changed jazz for ever. Kind of Blue was recorded TUE in just two sessions at 30th Street Studios in New York City TUE in 1959. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04vdy10 (Listen) TUE Stories in the Stars, Episode 2 TUE TUE A seasonal reading for clear and frosty nights, when the TUE skies sparkle with thousands of dots forming half TUE remembered, almost traceable shapes. These are the stories TUE behind the names and shapes of the constellations that TUE pattern the night sky. TUE TUE Stories In The Stars by Susanna Hislop is read by a range of TUE voices and accents from around the country and the globe. It TUE might be one of the stories that the great Egyptian TUE astronomer Ptolemy assigned to them in his masterwork that TUE became known as the Almagest, or it might be a personified TUE first person narration from the constellation Chameleon TUE having a grumble about the number of different names and TUE imagined shapes assigned to him over the millennia. TUE TUE From Greco-Roman mythology to the lives of the eighteenth TUE century astronomers, this is a delightful miscellany which TUE gives us a reason to step outside, look up and wonder at the TUE magic lantern show above us. TUE TUE Readers: Susanna Hislop, Noma Dumezweni, Paul Copley, Colman TUE Domingo TUE TUE Episode Two: TUE Orion is one of the most famous and recognisable figures in TUE the night sky. Close by Taurus gallops across our night sky. TUE TUE Abridged, directed and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Susanna Hislop TUE Reader: Noma Dumezweni TUE Reader: Paul Copley TUE Reader: Colman Domingo TUE Author: Susanna Hislop TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Director: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04vdy12 (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 b04vdy14 (Listen) TUE The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth, A Tour of the Cages TUE TUE Imelda Staunton stars as Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St TUE Custards, in this brand new adaptation of the notorious TUE Goriller of 3B's guide to skool life for tiny pupils and TUE their parents. TUE TUE Aided by best friend Peason and thwarted by everyone from TUE Grabber the skool bully to Wandsworth the skool dog, Nigel TUE Molesworth teaches us the ins and outs of skool life - TUE including how to avoid lessens and how to build your own TUE H-bomb. TUE TUE Episode 2: A Tour of the Cages TUE Molesworth and his friend Peason explain the different types TUE of masters and how best to deal with them. TUE TUE Adapted by Patrick Barlow and George Poles from the books by TUE Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, with additional material TUE by Abigail Wilson. TUE TUE Directed by Patrick Barlow TUE TUE Produced by Liz Anstee TUE A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Molesworth: Imelda Staunton TUE Peason: Sophie Thompson TUE Grabber: Jack Farthing TUE Prudence: Jessica Brown Findlay TUE Mr Metcalf-Walker: Lewis Macleod TUE Adaptor: Patrick Barlow TUE Adaptor: George Poles TUE Author: Geoffrey Willans TUE Author: Ronald Searle TUE Director: Patrick Barlow TUE Producer: Liz Anstee TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04vdy2q (Listen) TUE Pit Stops and Stopovers TUE TUE The Amur Falcon and the Swan Goose are both migrating birds. TUE These birds, like many other migrating birds, need to rest, TUE feed and refresh en route. Some journeys are thousands of TUE miles and rich feeding habitat is disappearing for TUE development. Wetlands, estuaries and coastlines are often TUE the focus of industrial expansion, tourism and new housing, TUE yet they are also the places most needed by migrating TUE waders. Inland there are problems too as water bodies, scrub TUE and insect rich grasslands are quickly taken over for TUE agriculture and urban development. What can be done? In TUE Nagaland in north-eastern India the Amur falcon has recently TUE congregated at a newly built reservoir to feed on the rich TUE insect life that it supports. Hundreds of thousands, TUE millions even, of these small birds of prey come together TUE for a few days and in the past have been heavily hunted and TUE trapped for food. Yet local people, encouraged by NGOs and TUE the churches, have decided to let the birds be. In America TUE the migrating monarch butterfly is being helped by people TUE planting nectar rich flowers and protecting the trees they TUE like to roost in. Some of the challenges are huge, others TUE easy to solve. Monty Don explores the trials of migration. TUE TUE Dr Tony Fox TUE After a BSc and a hydrological PhD obtained up to his knees TUE in a quaking peat bog in mid-Wales, Professor Fox worked for TUE the British statutory nature conservation agency the Nature TUE Conservancy Council in Wales and the Highlands of Scotland. TUE Two expeditions to Greenland convinced him to return to TUE waterbird research at the TUE Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust TUE at Slimbridge in an NCC-funded research position, where he TUE eventually became Acting Head of Research in 1992. TUE He moved to Denmark in 1993, where he is now Professor of TUE Waterbird Ecology at the Department of Biosciences at TUE Aarhus University, Denmark TUE and visiting professor at the TUE Chinese Academy of Sciences TUE in Beijing. TUE He feels deeply privileged and fortunate to have survived a TUE career in avian research that continues to support TUE conservation management actions, not least through studies TUE of the Greenland White-fronted Goose over more than 35 TUE years. TUE TUE Dr Yvonne Verkuil TUE Dr Yvonne Verkuil is an ecologist at the TUE University of Groningen TUE Her research describes the evolutionary adjustments of TUE migratory birds to our continuously changing planet, with a TUE focus on population genetics and migration ecology of TUE shorebirds, often called ‘waders’. TUE Coastal wader habitats often have dense human populations, TUE and this shared use of resources is a major challenge along TUE all migration routes, inspiring her work at the interface TUE between research and conservation. After her PhD she held a TUE position at the TUE Royal Ontario Museum TUE Toronto, Canada. She is chair of the TUE International Wader Study Group TUE (IWSG), editor of the journal Wader Study, and an active TUE member of the Global Flyway Network (GFN). TUE In 2012 she co-authored a situation analysis, commissioned TUE by the TUE International Union for Conservation of Nature TUE (IUCN), on the ecological crisis in East and Southeast Asian TUE intertidal habitats, with particular reference to the Yellow TUE Sea. This was followed in 2014 with a WWF report on TUE Prioritizing Migratory Shorebirds for Conservation Action on TUE the East Asian-Australasian Flyway TUE . These syntheses of collective knowledge of the global TUE community of shorebird ecologists, including recent TUE ground-breaking work by researchers from Netherlands, China, TUE Australia and New Zealand, largely initiated and supported TUE conservation action in the Yellow Sea. TUE TUE 11:30 The Voices of Elly Stone b04vdzy3 (Listen) TUE Elly Stone is a modest 87 year old New Yorker ("born and TUE dragged up"), whose sublime voice will forever be associated TUE with the songs of Belgian chanteur Jacques Brel. TUE TUE In My Childhood, Song for Old Lovers, The Old Folks and TUE Carousel she brings a new perspective to Brel's familiar TUE emotional intensity and piercing social commentary. TUE TUE Twenty years after her retirement from the stage, she offers TUE a rare insight into her life and what music has meant to her TUE - in a quiet New York studio, out on the streets of her TUE bustling city and at Sardi's, the famous theatre restaurant. TUE TUE Running through Elly's own story - from troubled childhood, TUE through Broadway success, to marriage, motherhood and TUE mid-life epiphany - there's a musical counterpoint that can TUE be traced in the songs she famously made her own in the TUE musical revue Jacques Brel's Alive and Well and Living in TUE Paris. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04vd4lx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04vdzy5 (Listen) TUE 23 December 1914 - Sylvia Graham TUE TUE The Christmas tea for the Belgian Wounded doesn't go TUE entirely to plan. TUE TUE Written by: Shaun McKenna TUE Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Phyllis: Christine Absalom TUE Sylvia: Deborah Findlay TUE Albert: Harry Myers TUE Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown TUE Humphrey: Matthew Tennyson TUE Isabel: Keely Beresford TUE Forrester: Nigel Hastings TUE Belgian Man: Nicholas Murchie TUE Writer: Shaun McKenna TUE Director: Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04vdzy7 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04vd4lz (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04vdzy9 (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark TUE Mardell. TUE TUE 13:45 Food for Thought b018g3n6 (Listen) TUE Series 2, David Sedaris TUE TUE Over takeaway sushi in his London kitchen, American essayist TUE and humorist David Sedaris talks to Nina Myskow about being TUE greedy, good at dieting - for his regular book tours - and TUE how he stopped wanting to eat the condiments after he gave TUE up smoking drugs. TUE TUE David's large, idiosyncratic family must play some part in TUE his obsession with second helpings. From a thrifty father TUE who hoarded titbits and clipped money-off coupons for the TUE weekly grocery shop to a mother who spent hours in TUE conversation with her six children around the dinner table, TUE he still worries that there'll never be enough. TUE TUE His boyfriend orders for him in restaurants and cooks TUE elaborate meals like rabbit in mustard and cream sauce but TUE he still relishes the thought of a huge hamburger called the TUE 'Widow-maker' and a side order of spinach that comes in a TUE dish the size of a mixing bowl. TUE TUE "The hard thing about being on a diet is getting off of it" TUE he explains, before recounting the unpleasant side effects TUE of some French pharmacy diet pills he took, in order to get TUE into his 'tour pants.' Eating on tour can be difficult so he TUE orders supper at each venue and takes a bite in between TUE signing books. TUE TUE He also tells Nina about his love of Mr Whippy ice cream, TUE sticky toffee pudding and why eating chocolate is like TUE eating drain cleaner. TUE TUE What would he choose for his last meal on earth? A TUE comforting dish his mother used to make. TUE TUE Producer: Tamsin Hughes TUE A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04vdnkp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b011jv85 (Listen) TUE The Big Broadcast TUE TUE The Big Broadcast TUE TUE Words and music by Neil Brand TUE TUE It's 1932, and the Chicago Beefsteak's Hour of Charm is the TUE most successful programme on Midwest US radio. Tonight's TUE live broadcast stars famous husband and wife team of TUE composer/lyricists Grant Thornhill and Jean Forsythe. TUE Gambling Grant is in debt to gangster Brannigan but a new TUE song might just save the day. TUE TUE BBC Singers TUE Margaret Cameron, Charles Gibbs, TUE Olivia Robinson, Stephen Jeffes TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jean Forsythe: Josie Lawrence TUE Grant Thornhill: Nigel Harman TUE Arthur Clarke: Sam Dale TUE Brannigan: Sean Baker TUE Myrna: Joanna Monro TUE Sadie: Jane Whittenshaw TUE Billy: Stuart McLoughlin TUE Writer: Neil Brand TUE Director: David Hunter TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b04v95t3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Character Studies with Alexander McCall Smith TUE b04vdzyc (Listen) TUE Alexander McCall Smith explores the work of writers and TUE their popular characters from literature, drama and comedy. TUE TUE With contributions from Mark Haddon, Lee Hall, William Boyd, TUE Helen Fielding and Adil Ray he examines the process of TUE generating character and how creations such as Billy Elliot TUE and Bridget Jones came into existence and infiltrated our TUE lives. TUE TUE Hilary Mantel explains the method of reimagining real life TUE characters and McCall Smith offers insights into his own TUE creation Precious Ramotswe and whether she's now part of TUE public ownership. TUE TUE Throughout the programme McCall Smith reveals that TUE characters can be as enticing, vibrant and tangible as real TUE people, allowing us to reflect on the world around us and TUE accompany them on their journeys. TUE TUE Some of the material was broadcast previously as part of TUE Radio 4's Character Invasion. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b04vdzyf (Listen) TUE Ebola: How should we talk about it? TUE TUE Michael Rosen talks to Oxfam's media officer on Ebola, Ian TUE Bray, about the language we use about the disease, both in TUE this country and in Liberia, where he's been based. Michael TUE also asks linguists Louise Sylvester and Laura Wright about TUE the words we've used though history to describe disease and TUE plague, and what they tell us about changing attitudes to TUE sickness. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04vdzyh (Listen) TUE Series 35, Michael Young TUE TUE Brian Eno has worked with David Bowie, David Byrne and U2 TUE but his choice of Great Life is not a rock star but the TUE sociologist Lord Young of Dartington. TUE Michael Young wrote the Labour party's 1945 election TUE manifesto, researched slum clearance in the East End of TUE London, set up the Consumers' Association, coined the word TUE meritocracy, co-founded the Open University and planned the TUE colonisation of Mars. With the help of Michael's son Toby, TUE Brian considers the life and work of one of the architects TUE of post-war Britain. Producer: Julia Johnson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Brian Eno TUE Interviewed Guest: Toby Young TUE Producer: Julia Johnson TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04vdzyk (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vd4m1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b04vf25d (Listen) TUE Series 5, Zurich, Part 1 TUE TUE One of the most popular radio sitcoms of the past ten years TUE bows out with a special double episode. As Martin decides TUE whether to take his new job, is this the end for MJN Air? TUE And just what has Arthur painted on the side of the van? TUE TUE With the show titles running alphabetically from the first TUE ever episode - "Abu Dhabi" through to this double finale TUE "Zurich" - the cast and crew of MJN Air discover that TUE whether it's choosing an ice-cream flavour, putting a TUE princess in a van or remembering your grandmother's name, no TUE job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. TUE TUE With special guests including Anthony Head and Timothy West. TUE TUE Written by John Finnemore TUE Produced and Directed by David Tyler TUE TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey: Stephanie Cole TUE First Officer Douglas Richardson: Roger Allam TUE Capt Martin Crieff: Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Arthur Shappey: John Finnemore TUE Captain Hercules "Herc" Shipwright: Anthony Head TUE Princess Theresa: Matilda Ziegler TUE Gordon Shappey: Timothy West TUE Karl: Dan Tetsell TUE Bruce Fraser: Gordon Kennedy TUE The Auctioneer: Jonathan Kydd TUE Writer: John Finnemore TUE Director: David Tyler TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04vf25g (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04vklb0 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04vdy14 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Terror and the Oxygen of Publicity b04vf2qh (Listen) TUE The Islamic State has been described as one of the most TUE brutal terrorist organisations currently fighting in the TUE Middle East and one with the most sophisticated (social) TUE media strategy. Much of their expansion is not happening on TUE the ground but online through videos, magazines and blogs TUE they publish. TUE TUE In 'Terror and the Oxygen of Publicity' Gordon Corera, the TUE BBC Security Correspondent, examines the jihadists' social TUE media strategy, the attempts to combat it, and how media TUE organisations tread the fine line of giving publicity to TUE terrorists and reporting the news. TUE TUE The Producer is Anna Meisel. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04vf36m (Listen) TUE Peter White is joined by Tony Shearman, who finds himself TUE dating again after a long-term relationship and opera singer TUE Denise Leigh, who is now happily married following an TUE earlier divorce. TUE The three share their experiences of dating, some with TUE disastrous consequences and others more successful. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b04vf36p (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond investigate the mind, the brain and why we TUE behave the way that we do. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b04vdy0y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04vd4m3 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04vf435 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04vf437 (Listen) TUE The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Episode 2 TUE TUE E M Delafield was great friends with Margaret Mackworth, 2nd TUE Viscountess Rhondda, and became a director of Time and Tide TUE magazine. When the editor "wanted some light 'middles', TUE preferably in serial form, she promised to think of TUE something". And so it was, in 1930, that her most popular TUE and enduring work The Diary of a Provincial Lady was TUE written. It has never been out of print. TUE TUE The Diary of a Provincial Lady charts the day-to-day life of TUE a Devonshire-dwelling lady and her attempts to keep her TUE somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos. TUE TUE Husband Robert, when he's not snoozing behind The Times, TUE does everything with grumbling reluctance. Her children are TUE gleefully troublesome. A succession of tricky servants TUE invariably seem to gain the upper hand. And if her domestic TUE trials are not enough, she must keep up appearances - TUE particularly with the maddeningly patronising Lady Boxe, TUE with whom our Provincial Lady eternally (and unsuccessfully) TUE endeavours to compete. TUE TUE This largely autobiographical novel substituted the names of TUE "Robin" and "Vicky" for her own children, Lionel and TUE Rosamund. TUE TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE Read by Claire Skinner TUE TUE Produced by Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Claire Skinner TUE Author: EM Delafield TUE Abridger: Libby Spurrier TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE TUE 23:00 Andrew O'Neill: Pharmacist Baffler b04vf439 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In the second of two stand-up shows, comedian Andrew O'Neill TUE delves into sexual identity and homophobia. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Isy Suttie TUE Producer: Lianne Coop TUE TUE 23:30 Good Omens b04vf43c (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of TUE Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making TUE their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower TUE Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, TUE Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the TUE corners of the earth and are assembling. TUE TUE Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton TUE Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some TUE unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, TUE descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to TUE decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly TUE where the impending Apocalypse will take place. TUE TUE Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; TUE everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan. TUE Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and TUE a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the TUE forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden TUE of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), TUE and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around TUE London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on TUE Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of TUE the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place TUE they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring TUE about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself. TUE TUE There's just one small problem: someone seems to have TUE mislaid him... TUE TUE With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is TUE the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil TUE Gaiman's Good Omens. TUE TUE Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs. TUE Produced by Heather Larmour. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Peter Serafinowicz TUE Actor: Mark Heap TUE Writer: Neil Gaiman TUE Writer: Terry Pratchett TUE Adaptor: Dirk Maggs TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 24 DECEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04vd4n3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04vdy10 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vd4n5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vd4n7 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vd4n9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04vd4nc (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04vf6t9 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the WED Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04vf6tc (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 b04t0lwc (Listen) WED House Wren WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Sir David Attenborough presents the house wren found across WED the New World. Having one of the largest ranges of any WED songbird in the New World, the migratory house wren occurs WED anywhere from their breeding grounds in Canada and North WED America, to their to wintering grounds from Central America WED to Chile. The male house wren's song is a torrent of trills WED delivered at full volume from his territory of shrubs, low WED trees and ferny banks. Diminutive he may be but he's feisty WED and is known to drag other birds' eggs or chicks from a WED nest-hole he wants for himself. In parts of North America, WED house wrens are a significant cause of nest failure in some WED other species of songbirds. WED WED House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Shattil and Rozinski / WED naturepl.com. WED NPL Ref 01295484 WED © Shattil and Rozinski / naturepl.com WED WED 06:00 Today b04vf6tf (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b04vf6th (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04vf6tk (Listen) WED Stories in the Stars, Episode 3 WED WED A seasonal reading for clear and frosty nights, when the WED skies sparkle with thousands of dots forming half WED remembered, almost traceable shapes. These are the stories WED behind the names and shapes of the constellations that WED pattern the night sky. WED WED Stories In The Stars by Susanna Hislop is read by a range of WED voices and accents from around the country and the globe. It WED might be one of the stories that the great Egyptian WED astronomer Ptolemy assigned to them in his masterwork that WED became known as the Almagest, or it might be a personified WED first person narration from the constellation Chameleon WED having a grumble about the number of different names and WED imagined shapes assigned to him over the millennia. WED WED From Greco-Roman mythology to the lives of the eighteenth WED century astronomers, this is a delightful miscellany which WED gives us a reason to step outside, look up and wonder at the WED magic lantern show above us. WED WED Readers: Noma Dumezweni, Jessica Gunning, Colman Domingo WED WED Episode Three: WED A Unicorn - the constellation Monoceros is as likely to WED exist as Father Christmas. WED WED Abridged, directed and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Noma Dumezweni WED Reader: Jessica Gunning WED Reader: Colman Domingo WED Author: Susanna Hislop WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Director: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04vf6tm (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 10:40 15 Minute Drama b04vf6z5 (Listen) WED The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth, Lessens and How to Avoyd WED Them WED WED Imelda Staunton stars as Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St WED Custards, in this brand new adaptation of the notorious WED Goriller of 3B's guide to skool life for tiny pupils and WED their parents. WED WED Aided by best friend Peason and thwarted by everyone from WED Grabber the skool bully to Wandsworth the skool dog, Nigel WED Molesworth teaches us the ins and outs of skool life - WED including how to avoid lessens and how to build your own WED H-bomb. WED WED Episode 3: Lessens and How to Avoyd Them WED Molesworth's efforts to explain the best way to bunk off WED class are thwarted by the fact all the masters seem to have WED disappeared. Can he and Peason find the missing teachers in WED time to avoyd their lessens? WED WED Adapted by Patrick Barlow and George Poles from the books by WED Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, with additional material WED by Abigail Wilson. WED WED Directed by Patrick Barlow WED WED Produced by Liz Anstee WED A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Molesworth: Imelda Staunton WED Peason: Sophie Thompson WED Grabber: Jack Farthing WED Prudence: Jessica Brown Findlay WED Headmaster: Patrick Barlow WED Latin Master: Lewis Macleod WED Adaptor: Patrick Barlow WED Adaptor: George Poles WED Author: Geoffrey Willans WED Author: Ronald Searle WED Director: Patrick Barlow WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04vf6z7 (Listen) WED Lily and Matilda - Best Friends WED WED Fi Glover with friends who had their share of disagreements WED through primary school and were about to start new schools WED on opposite sides of town when this conversation was WED recorded. WED WED This conversation was first broadcast on R4 on 22/11/2013. 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 One Day in Winter: Driving Home for Christmas WED b04wgsmt (Listen) WED Each year nearly 15 and a half million people travel home WED for the festive period. This year Radio 4 joins a few of WED them in their way home for Christmas. WED WED Long journeys, short journeys, each trip is for a reason and WED each trip will trigger a multitude of emotions. WED WED This programme will capture those feelings: from the WED excitement of Christmas that never seems to leave us, the WED feeling of relief of making it to a safe haven after a WED difficult year, the feeling of uncertainty and fear of how WED Christmas will play out, the feeling of stress from the WED actual journey. Tension levels increase depending on the WED weather and traffic conditions and the kids in the back of WED the car gradually getting more and more bored, chiming 'Are WED we nearly there yet?' every five minutes. WED WED The great Christmas getaway is always wildly anticipated but WED often fraught and highly stressful: are all the kids in the WED car, is the snow going to come, will we get caught on a jam? WED WED Driving Home For Christmas will capture those feelings and WED emotions as travellers make their journeys home.Producer: WED Martin Poyntz-Roberts. WED WED 11:30 David Sedaris: The Santaland Diaries b04vf7nc (Listen) WED David Sedaris wasn't always an award-winning writer and WED satirist. For two consecutive Christmases in the early WED 1990s, he was a Christmas elf at Santaland in the famous New WED York department store, Macy's. These are hilarious extracts WED from his diaries at the time. WED WED "My costume is green. I wear moss-colored velvet breeches, WED an emerald smock, and a stocking cap decorated with WED spangles. This is my work uniform. My elf name is Crumpet, WED and I was allowed to chose it myself, which is something." WED WED The Santaland Diaries drew David's writing to the attention WED of America and the World. He hasn't read them out loud for WED nearly twenty years - but has agreed to read them once more WED for BBC Radio 4. WED WED The original recording of the story, made for Morning WED Edition on America's National Public Radio (NPR), has been WED aired every Christmas since it was first broadcast. A very WED much shortened version was also recorded by David for Radio WED 4 in 1996. WED WED Crumpet, the little elf in the perky green cap, is re-born - WED and you'll never hear Billie Holiday in the same way ever WED again. WED WED Writer/David Sedaris WED WED Produced by Steve Doherty WED A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Performer: David Sedaris WED Writer: David Sedaris WED Producer: Steve Doherty WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04vd4nf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04vf7nf (Listen) WED 24 December 1914 - Joe Macknade WED WED It's Christmas Eve and one keen young man has an appointment WED to keep. WED WED Written by: Shaun McKenna WED Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Joe: Lloyd Thomas WED Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell WED Florrie: Claire Rushbrook WED Maggie: Hollie Thoupos WED Mickey: Ben Pettengell WED Norman: Sean Baker WED Herbert Loxley: Clive Haywood WED Cissy Loxley: Jane Slavin WED Writer: Shaun McKenna WED Director: Lucy Collingwood WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04vf7nh (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04vd4nh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04vf7q4 (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark WED Mardell. WED WED 13:45 Food for Thought b0368fwm (Listen) WED Series 3, Mary Portas WED WED At breakfast at her favourite local cafe, retail guru Mary WED Portas remembers fighting for scraps as the fourth child in WED a large Irish family in the 1970's. WED WED As the government's 'Queen of Shops', she tells Nina Myskow WED where her passion for the local High Street comes from, when WED at the age of 16, Mary lost her mother and needed to provide WED for herself and her younger brother Lawrence. WED WED Over porridge and a flat white, she contemplates the emotion WED and experiences behind her love of good food and a full WED fridge. With another young mouth to feed who does the WED cooking now in her household? WED WED Plus she talks about the relationship between food and sex WED and admits to a love of fine wine and cheap chocolate. WED WED Producer: Rebecca Maxted WED A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04vf25g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04vf8dr (Listen) WED Big Broadcast, Culture WED WED Words and Music by Neil Brand WED WED It's 1933 and Radio Station WKAZ Chicago delivers live radio WED every week from its theatre. Today, however, the Dusenberg WED Hour of Charm is threatened by the disappearance of its WED sponsor. The arrival of a new owner heralds a new WED high-culture focus much to the dismay of the regular crew. WED WED Singers WED Helen Neeves, Vanessa Heine, Edward Saklatvala, John Ward WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED Credits WED Myrna: Samantha Spiro WED Arthur: Sam Dale WED Louis: Ewan Bailey WED Gilda: Barbara Barnes WED Gally: Jane Whittenshaw WED Jamie: Paul Heath WED Georgia: Roslyn Hill WED Dwight: Monty d'Inverno WED Writer: Neil Brand WED Director: David Hunter WED WED 15:00 A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols b04vf8dt (Listen) WED Live from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge WED WED Hymn: Once in Royal David's City (desc. Cleobury) WED Bidding Prayer read by the Dean WED A Babe is Born (Mathias) WED First lesson: Genesis 3 vv 8-19 read by a Chorister WED Remember, O Thou Man (Ravenscroft) WED Adam Lay Ybounden (Ledger) WED Second lesson: Genesis 22 vv 15-18 read by a Choral Scholar WED One Star, at Last (Maxwell Davies) WED In Dulci Jubilo (Praetorius) WED Third lesson: Isaiah 9 vv 2, 6-7 read by a Representative of WED the Cambridge Churches WED Sussex Carol (arr. Willcocks) WED Hymn: Unto us is born a Son (arr. Willcocks) WED Fourth lesson: Isaiah 11 vv 1-3a, 4a, 6-9 read by a WED Representative of the City of Cambridge WED A Spotless Rose (Howells) WED There Is No Rose (Medieval) WED Fifth lesson: Luke 1 vv 26-38 read by a Representative of WED the sister College at Eton WED Gabriel's Message (arr. Pettman) WED Joys Seven (arr. Cleobury) WED Sixth lesson: Luke 2 vv 1 -7 read by the Chaplain WED Lullaby (Birtwistle) WED In The Bleak Midwinter (Holst) WED Seventh lesson: Luke 2 vv 8-16 read by the Director of Music WED L'adieu des Bergers (Berlioz) WED Hymn: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (arr. Willcocks) WED Eighth lesson: Matthew 2 vv 1-12 read by the Vice-Provost WED De Maria Virgine (Rütti - newly commissioned) WED Ding, Dong, Merrily on High (arr. Wilberg/Stevens) WED Ninth lesson: John 1 vv 1-14 read by the Provost WED Hymn: O come, all ye faithful (arr. Willcocks) WED Blessing WED Hymn: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing (desc. Cleobury) WED WED Organ voluntaries: WED In dulci jubilo (BWV 729) (Bach) WED Symphony No. 6 in g minor Finale: Vivace (Widor) [broadcast WED on Radio 3 on Christmas Day only] WED WED Director of Music: Stephen Cleobury WED Organ Scholar: Douglas Tang WED Producer: Philip Billson WED WED For many people around the world, A Festival of Nine Lessons WED and Carols, live from the candlelit Chapel of King's WED College, Cambridge, marks the beginning of Christmas. It is WED based around nine Bible readings which tell the story of the WED loving purposes of God. They are interspersed with carols WED old and new, sung by the world-famous chapel choir who also WED lead the congregation in traditional Christmas hymns. WED WED A message from the Dean, and Director of Music of King's WED College, Cambridge. WED WED The sound of a solo boy treble singing ‘Once in Royal WED David’s City’ in a chapel packed with people who have queued WED half a winter’s day to be there, transmitted by Radio to WED millions across the globe, has become the true start of WED Christmas for many. The precision of the timing, 3.02pm WED GMT, coupled with the global sweep of the broadcast, bring WED time and space together, and seem to shrink the business of WED the world to the scale of a college chapel. WED WED It has not always been thus. The Festival of Nine Lessons WED and Carols may feel as if it has always been there, but it WED was first celebrated in 1918. Broadcasting by Radio WED followed in 1928 and it was first televised sixty years ago WED in 1954. Today the Radio Broadcast is a live transmission WED direct from the Chapel, whereas what is offered to a WED Television audience has been pre-recorded. WED WED One of the most wonderful aspects of the Festival for those WED who are present in the chapel, is the way in which the vast WED windows become dark during the afternoon so that by the end WED the candles around the choir suggest a remarkably WED cradle-like shape when the Provost reads the final lesson – WED ‘and the word became flesh’. WED WED The fact that the first service took place soon after the WED end of the First World War is no accident. Rather it is the WED key to understanding the spiritual depths of the occasion. WED WED The service was the brainchild of Eric Milner-White, who had WED been the College Chaplain before the war and then went to WED serve as an army chaplain. He was decorated, but also WED traumatised. When he returned to King’s as Dean in 1918 his WED experience told him that if religion were to connect with WED people’s lives it would have to be different. Milner-White WED was no radical, however, and found his idea for a new WED service in something that had already been tried. By WED bringing it to King’s, and offering it as a gift to the WED city, he transformed the service devised by Bishop Benson WED for Truro, a transformation which has continued both as he WED tweaked it into its now familiar shape during his tenure as WED Dean, and as it has developed musically through the work of WED successive Directors of Music. WED WED The greater part of the musical content is traditional in WED character, carols and hymns being selected to reflect the WED themes of the readings, in the same way that the WED responsories in the monastic office were linked to the WED preceding passages of scripture. Some of the choices mark WED anniversaries of significant composers. In 2013 Benjamin WED Britten featured strongly in his centenary year. This year, WED music by two of our senior composers who are celebrating WED their 80th birthday - Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell WED Davies - together with a piece by William Mathias, who would WED have been 80 this year, is included. The distinguished WED musical contribution of Sir David Willcocks, who celebrates WED his 95th birthday at the end of this year, is an enduring WED one. Annually since 1983 there has been a newly commissioned WED carol, reflecting the need to renew our great tradition WED regularly with fresh material. This year's new carol is by WED the Swiss composer, Carl Rütti. WED WED After the famous opening carol, the service is introduced by WED a Bidding Prayer written by Milner-White himself in those WED difficult days when memories of the trenches, and the huge WED sense of grief at the loss of so many young lives, would WED have been acute, if not utterly overwhelming. His words have WED been read by many ministers around the world, but few WED properly appreciate what was on his mind as he wrote and WED read this paragraph. WED WED "Lastly let us remember before God all those who rejoice WED with us, but upon another shore and in a greater light, that WED multitude which no man can number, whose hope was in the WED Word made flesh, and with whom, in this Lord Jesus, we for WED evermore are one." WED WED Once the context is known this reads very differently – WED ‘another shore’ is not just a metaphor for heaven, but a WED reminder of recent atrocities overseas. And ‘that multitude WED which no man can number’ would call to mind not merely a WED vague sense that ‘well yes, many people have lived before WED us’ but the long, long lists of names that were then being WED collated and would in time be etched on to war memorials. WED Memorials such as the one in a side chapel at King’s which WED Milner-White was responsible for, and which should, perhaps WED be one of the images in our minds when we think of King’s WED College, Cambridge at Christmas. WED WED WED WED Stephen Cherry, Dean, and Stephen Cleobury, Director of WED Music, King’s College, Cambridge. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04vf8dw (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04vf8dy (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Paddy O'Connell with interviews, context and WED analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vd4nk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:15 Christmas With... b04vf8f0 (Listen) WED Damien Trench - Christmas Eve WED WED Christmas is finally here and yet there's still room for WED things to go wrong. But don't worry renowned cookery writer WED Damien Trench is on hand to offer survival tips, recipes and WED insights into how he copes so that the only hiccups you WED encounter on Christmas Day are merely of the gastric WED variety. WED WED Credits WED Damien Trench: Miles Jupp WED WED 18:30 Cabin Pressure b04vf959 (Listen) WED Series 5, Zurich, Part 2 WED WED One of the most popular radio sitcoms of the past ten years WED bows out with a special double episode. In this second and WED concluding part, as the crew embark on a race against time, WED just what is Gerti's secret? And will it be happy ever after WED for Carolyn and Herc? WED WED With the show titles running alphabetically from the first WED ever episode - "Abu Dhabi" through to this double finale WED "Zurich" - the cast and crew of MJN Air discover that WED whether it's choosing an ice-cream flavour, putting a WED princess in a van or remembering your grandmother's name, no WED job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. WED WED With special guests including Anthony Head and Timothy West. WED WED Written by John Finnemore WED Produced and Directed by David Tyler WED WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Carolyn Knapp-Shappey: Stephanie Cole WED First Officer Douglas Richardson: Roger Allam WED Capt Martin Crieff: Benedict Cumberbatch WED Arthur Shappey: John Finnemore WED Captain Hercules "Herc" Shipwright: Anthony Head WED Princess Theresa: Matilda Ziegler WED Gordon Shappey: Timothy West WED Karl: Dan Tetsell WED Bruce Fraser: Gordon Kennedy WED The Auctioneer: Jonathan Kydd WED Writer: John Finnemore WED Director: David Tyler WED Producer: David Tyler WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04vf95c (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04vf7nm (Listen) WED John Kander on Cabaret, The Scottsboro Boys and Chicago WED WED Kirsty Lang talks to John Kander, composer of Cabaret, New WED York New York and Chicago and one half of Broadway WED partnership Kander and Ebb. WED WED 87 year old John Kander discusses The Scottsboro Boys, his WED final work with lyricist Fred Ebb, which is currently a hit WED in London's West End. WED WED How he and Ebb discovered Liza Minnelli, and why Judi Dench WED remains his favourite Sally Bowles (Cabaret) on stage. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Kirsty Lang WED Interviewed Guest: John Kander WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04vf6z5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:40 today] WED WED 20:00 Pass the Turkey Twizzlers b04vf95h (Listen) WED Has the middle class obsession with organic, artisan and WED locally sourced food gone too far? WED WED Lucy Kellaway hosts an argumentative dinner party where all WED the debates are about food. Her guests are the columnist WED India Knight, the presenter of Radio 4's The Food Programme WED Sheila Dillon and the author of Bad Science Ben Goldacre. WED WED Producer: Mark Turner. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04vf95m (Listen) WED Series 4, Art, Design and Politics WED WED Paola Antonelli explores the politics in art and design. WED WED The curator of design at the Museum of Modern Art in New WED York City, Paola uses examples from a recent exhibition to WED show how curatorial decisions can be extremely political, WED and to examine the role of museums and curators in WED stimulating political debate and discussion. WED WED The programme is presented by Amanda Stern, from McNally WED Jackson Books in New York City. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b04vf95r (Listen) WED Virtual Therapy WED WED Series exploring new ideas in science. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b04vf6th (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04vd4nm (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04vf95x (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04vf960 (Listen) WED The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Episode 3 WED WED E M Delafield was great friends with Margaret Mackworth, 2nd WED Viscountess Rhondda, and became a director of Time and Tide WED magazine. When the editor "wanted some light 'middles', WED preferably in serial form, she promised to think of WED something". And so it was, in 1930, that her most popular WED and enduring work The Diary of a Provincial Lady was WED written. It has never been out of print. WED WED The Diary of a Provincial Lady charts the day-to-day life of WED a Devonshire-dwelling lady and her attempts to keep her WED somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos. WED WED Husband Robert, when he's not snoozing behind The Times, WED does everything with grumbling reluctance. Her children are WED gleefully troublesome. A succession of tricky servants WED invariably seem to gain the upper hand. And if her domestic WED trials are not enough, she must keep up appearances - WED particularly with the maddeningly patronising Lady Boxe, WED with whom our Provincial Lady eternally (and unsuccessfully) WED endeavours to compete. WED WED This largely autobiographical novel substituted the names of WED "Robin" and "Vicky" for her own children, Lionel and WED Rosamund. WED WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED Read by Claire Skinner WED WED Produced by Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Claire Skinner WED Author: EM Delafield WED Abridger: Libby Spurrier WED Producer: Joanna Green WED WED 23:00 The Lach Chronicles b04vf964 (Listen) WED Series 2, Home on the Range 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 eccentric night, held in various venues around New York, WED was called the Antihoot. Never quite fitting in and lost WED somewhere lonely between folk and punk music, Lach started WED the Antifolk movement. He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff WED Buckley and many others. He discovered and nurtured lots of WED talent including Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches WED - but nobody discovered him. WED WED In this episode, Lach recalls the genesis of his career and WED - ultimately - his independent life. Always an outsider, his WED young rejection of aspiration and fledgling discoveries of WED Messrs Bruce and Bob led Lach to a salvation he still holds WED dear. WED WED Produced by Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Mission Improbable b01p4254 (Listen) WED Series 1, Splash! WED WED A brand new series of high octane mini-adventures, written WED by and starring The Boom Jennies - Anna Emerson, Lizzie WED Bates and Catriona Knox. WED WED When cub reporter Jane arrives in Tintagel to get an WED interview with Cornwall's oldest whelk fisherman, her WED long-suffering companions could be forgiven if they were a WED little reluctant to tag along. Not a bit of it. WED Spinster-in-waiting Lucy has her eye on Jane's WED septuagenarian man of the sea, and zoo assistant Amelia has WED her mind fixed on dolphins. But as they head out into the WED bay to intercept the aged shellfish gatherer, the speed of WED Amelia's rowing sets them on a very different course - one WED of world records, mountainous seas and near misses with oil WED tankers. WED WED Will Jane get her story? Will Lucy catch the man of her WED dreams? Will Amelia remember to take the lens cap off her WED binoculars? All these questions will be answered before WED their plucky rowing boat spies land once more. WED WED Jane ................ Catriona Knox WED Lucy .................Lizzie Bates WED Amelia ..............Anna Emerson WED Bill ................... Paul Ryan WED WED Written by Anna Emerson, Lizzie Bates and Catriona Knox 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 Midnight Mass b04vf968 (Listen) WED A Venetian-style First Mass of Christmas with splendid WED Gabrieli motets and Palestrina's Missa Hodie Christus Natus WED Est (Today Christ is Born) make for a very special WED atmosphere as the Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Vincent WED Nichols celebrates the First Mass of Christmas live from WED Westminster Cathedral. The vibrant sounds of traditional WED sackbutts and cornets played by the vituoso English Cornett WED and Sackbut Ensemble will echo and re-echo around the WED cathedral exploiting its unique spacial properties. The WED service closes with the resplendent brass and organ WED voluntary: Hodie Christus Natus Est by Heinrich Schutz. The WED renowned choir of Westminster Cathedral is directed by WED Master of Music Martin Baker and the organ is played by the WED Assistant Master of Music Peter Stevens. Cathedral WED Administrator: Canon Christopher Tuckwell; Precentor: Fr WED Alexander Master. Producer: Clair Jaquiss. WED WED THU THURSDAY 25 DECEMBER 2014 THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vd4pm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vd4pp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vd4pr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04vd4pt (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04vfczc (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the THU Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04vfczf (Listen) THU Away in a Manger - Farmyard Nativity THU THU For a special Christmas morning programme, Farming Today THU joins farmers, children and parishioners for the annual THU Bittadon nativity staged in a barn at a dairy farm. THU THU Church Farm nestles between Dartmoor, Exmoor and the Devon THU coast and has been in the Houlton family for three THU generations. They produce milk, butter and traditional THU clotted Devon cream. THU THU Each year after the afternoon milking on a night just before THU Christmas; the Houltons are joined by 300 people for a THU nativity play in one of their barns. THU THU Children, animals and local parishioners keep the spirit of THU Christmas alive by re-enacting the Christmas story where it THU all began - it a lowly cowshed. THU THU Produced by Sybil Ruscoe. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0ly5 (Listen) THU Christmas Shearwater THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU On Christmas Day, Sir David Attenborough presents the THU Christmas shearwater. 2000km south of Hawaii the highly THU marine Christmas shearwater is at home over the Central THU Pacific seas, tirelessly riding the air-currents, skimming THU wave-crests and hugging the contours of the sea looking for THU food. They rarely come to land as adults, but when they do, THU it is to return to their place of birth on remote oceanic THU islands to breed. Here they form loose colonies, laying a THU single white egg which is incubated for around 50 days. THU Inhabiting these far flung inaccessible islands means little THU is known about their biology, but that remoteness gives them THU protection from land based predators. THU THU Christmas shearwater (Puffinus nativitatis) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Yukihiro Fukuda / naturepl.com. THU NPL Ref 01405185 THU © Yukihiro Fukuda / naturepl.com THU THU Recording of Christmas shearwater by Alvaro Jaramillo / Ref: THU ML 134099 THU THU This programme contains a THU wildtrack recording of the Christmas shearwater THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Alvaro Jaramillo on 4 Mar 2004, THU in Motu Nui, Rapa Nui, Valparaiso, Chile. THU THU 06:00 Word of Mouth b04v382j (Listen) THU First Words: How do children develop language? THU THU Michael Rosen finds out about the first sounds, words and THU phrases that babies recognise and learn to say. He talks to THU author Tom Chatfield and his 15-month-old son, and to THU linguists Laura Wright and Kriszta Szendroi. THU Producer: Beth O'Dea. THU THU 06:30 Open Book b04vd69r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 07:00 The Reunion b04w5nn9 (Listen) THU Wallace and Gromit THU THU Wallace and Gromit - created by Bristol-based animation THU company Aardman - have entertained millions, made their THU Plasticine stars national treasures, won multiple Oscars and THU boosted sales of Wensleydale cheese. THU THU Sue MacGregor is joined by Aardman founders Peter Lord and THU David Sproxton, producer Carla Shelley, ex-manager Mary THU Lowance and Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park - as well THU as the two stars themselves - to recall four decades of THU comic craft and innovation at Aardman that have left an THU indelible impression on British cultural life. THU THU Aardman came to prominence with their Plasticine man Morph THU and went on to create classics, such as Creature Comforts THU which pioneered the use of real-life interviews as the THU voices of Aardman's eccentric animal kingdom. THU THU Wallace and Gromit remain firm favourites. Wallace, the THU eccentric inventor from Wigan who loves cheese, and his THU silent but very well-read associate, quietly saving the day THU with a range of facial expressions that have brought THU comparisons with the great silent star Buster Keaton. THU THU A collaboration with American producers Dreamworks led to THU the big-budget feature film Chicken Run. And few who saw it THU will ever forget Wallace's moonlit transformation in The THU Curse of the Were Rabbit. THU THU Yet there have also been moments of real-life drama, like THU the huge fire that destroyed many character models, original THU drawings and sets. THU THU As our guests reveal how they created these extraordinary THU films and characters, they reflect on the ups and downs of THU their experiences and look forward to the next chapter of THU Aardman, Wallace and Gromit, Shaun The Sheep and those THU characters waiting in the wings. THU THU Produced by David Prest and Peter Curran THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 08:00 All the Christmases b04wgt8l (Listen) THU Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales remains one of THU his most enduring and characterful works. In the year of the THU poet's Centenary, Cerys Matthews takes us on a new musical THU journey through the memories and characters of Swansea's THU Christmas past. THU THU 09:00 Christmas Service b04vfczk (Listen) THU Christmas morning worship from Portsmouth Cathedral THU celebrates the season with members of the naval community, THU many of whom worship at the Cathedral. That includes several THU younger members of the cathedral choir who are from naval THU families whose parents are frequently on the other side of THU the world serving on ships in situations of danger or THU conflict. THU Leader: The Dean of Portsmouth, the Very Reverend David THU Brindley THU Preacher: The Chaplain of the Fleet, the Venerable Ian THU Wheatley THU Director of Music: David Price THU Sub Organist: Oliver Hancock THU Producer: Clair Jaquiss. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04vfczm (Listen) THU Stories in the Stars, Episode 4 THU THU A seasonal reading for clear and frosty nights, when the THU skies sparkle with thousands of dots forming half THU remembered, almost traceable shapes. These are the stories THU behind the names and shapes of the constellations that THU pattern the night sky. THU THU Stories In The Stars by Susanna Hislop is read by a range of THU voices and accents from around the country and the globe. It THU might be one of the stories that the great Egyptian THU astronomer Ptolemy assigned to them in his masterwork that THU became known as the Almagest, or it might be a personified THU first person narration from the constellation Chameleon THU having a grumble about the number of different names and THU imagined shapes assigned to him over the millennia. THU THU From Greco-Roman mythology to the lives of the eighteenth THU century astronomers, this is a delightful miscellany which THU gives us a reason to step outside, look up and wonder at the THU magic lantern show above us. THU THU Readers: Jessica Gunning, Paul Copley, Maggie Steed, Colman THU Domingo THU THU Episode Four: THU A telescope - Telescopium - is given as a gift. Libra THU balances things out. THU THU Abridged, directed and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Jessica Gunning THU Reader: Paul Copley THU Reader: Maggie Steed THU Reader: Colman Domingo THU Author: Susanna Hislop THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Director: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04vfczp (Listen) THU Kirsty Young, Adil Ray and the Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin THU THU Special Christmas edition of the programme that offers a THU female perspective on the world. Presented by Jenni Murray THU and Jane Garvey. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU Presenter: Jane Garvey THU Producer: Corinna Jones THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04vfczr (Listen) THU The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth, Wizz for Atomms THU THU Imelda Staunton stars as Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St THU Custards, in this brand new adaptation of the notorious THU Goriller of 3B's guide to skool life for tiny pupils and THU their parents. THU THU Aided by best friend Peason and thwarted by everyone from THU Grabber the skool bully to Wandsworth the skool dog, Nigel THU Molesworth teaches us the ins and outs of skool life - THU including how to avoid lessens and how to build your own THU H-bomb. THU THU Episode 4: Wizz for Atomms THU Tired of masters skipping lessens to visit the new THU under-matron, Prudence, the Headmaster has banned everyone THU in school from visiting the infirmary. But Grabber, the THU skool bully, has fallen for her and orders Molesworth to THU help him out. THU THU Adapted by Patrick Barlow and George Poles from the books by THU Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, with additional material THU by Abigail Wilson. THU THU Directed by Patrick Barlow THU THU Produced by Liz Anstee THU A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Molesworth: Imelda Staunton THU Peason: Sophie Thompson THU Grabber: Jack Farthing THU Headmaster: Patrick Barlow THU Radio Announcer: Lewis Macleod THU Adaptor: Patrick Barlow THU Adaptor: George Poles THU Author: Geoffrey Willans THU Author: Ronald Searle THU Director: Patrick Barlow THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU THU 11:00 Woman's Hour b04vkflc (Listen) THU Kirsty Young, Adil Ray and the Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin THU THU Special Christmas edition of the programme that offers a THU female perspective on the world. Presented by Jenni Murray THU and Jane Garvey. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU Presenter: Jane Garvey THU Producer: Corinna Jones THU THU 11:30 Music on Hold b04vflsd (Listen) THU Each of us spends 43 days of our whole lives on hold. That's THU far too many hours listening to Greensleeves or Vivaldi's THU Four Seasons. THU THU Despite being in an age of emails and social media, people THU are still turning to customer service lines for support and THU are still having to listen to music on hold. It's supposed THU to be designed to calm the listener but often only incenses THU them more in time for when they speak to a customer service THU representative. THU THU Isy Suttie knows the wrath of angry callers, having worked THU in several call centres herself, and feels their pain. So THU she has decided to do the noble thing and compose the THU ultimate on hold music to end their suffering. THU THU Isy will ring up experts for help - what instruments? What THU tempo? What genre? And why? She'll take all of their advice THU on board to create something that will both reassure and THU entertain callers while they wait so those 43 days will be a THU pleasure and not a chore. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04vd4pw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b04vj0y1 (Listen) THU 25 December 1914 - Dorothea Winwood THU THU At St Jude's Vicarage, not everyone's feeling the festive THU spirit. THU THU Written by: Shaun McKenna THU Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Dorothea: Rachel Shelley THU Adam: Leo Montague THU Barry: Kris Deedigan THU George: Ronan Raftery THU Marieke: Olivia Ross THU Ralph: Nicholas Murchie THU Ramesh: Navin Chowdhry THU Writer: Shaun McKenna THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU THU 12:15 Pick of the Year b04vj0y3 (Listen) THU Pick of the Year 2014 THU THU Can a year's worth of radio be condensed into less than an THU hour? Lynne Truss does, with the help of a nightingale THU singing to a cello. An elephant tickling some ivories. A THU Mongolian thunderstorm throws listeners right across the THU kitchen, and we will learn the meaning of friendship, being THU from Yorkshire, and growing chrysanthemums. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04vd4py (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 News b04vj15r (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 13:15 Voices of the First World War b04n67xq (Listen) THU The Christmas Truce THU THU There are now no living veterans of WW1, but it is still THU possible to go back to the First World War through the THU memories of those who took part. In a unique partnership THU between the Imperial War Museums and the BBC, two sound THU archive collections featuring survivors of the war have been THU brought together for the first time. The Imperial War THU Museums' holdings include a major oral history resource of THU remarkable recordings made in the 1980s and early 1990s with THU the remaining survivors of the conflict. The interviews were THU done not for immediate use or broadcast, but because it was THU felt that this diminishing resource that could never be THU replenished, would be of unique value in the future. Among THU the BBC's extensive collection of archive featuring first THU hand recollections of the conflict a century ago, are the THU interviews recorded for the 1964 TV series 'The Great War', THU which vividly bring to life the human experience of those THU fighting and living through the war. THU Dan Snow narrates 'Voices of the First World War', a new THU oral history, which will be broadcast in short seasons THU throughout the commemorative period. THU THU The Christmas Truce THU In a special programme for Christmas Day, Dan Snow looks at THU the few hours of impromptu ceasefire that took place between THU 24th and 25th December 1914. According to veterans' THU recollections, in several places along the Western Front THU German and British troops mingled in No Man's Land and some THU even played football. Drawing on the recordings of soldiers' THU memories in the archive collections of the Imperial War THU Museum and the BBC, Dan examines what actually happened and THU the myths that built up around the truce. THU THU 13:45 Food for Thought b018gylx (Listen) THU Series 2, Carlos Acosta THU THU In a rehearsal studio at the Royal Opera House, over an THU impromptu picnic of tostones (fried plantains) and moros y THU cristianos (rice with black beans), dancer Carlos Acosta THU recalls a lifetime of counting the carbs, and his blessings, THU during a successful career in ballet. THU THU From the food ration in his native Cuba, to the abundance of THU sugar on the island that left him with an explicably sweet THU tooth, Carlos tells Nina about stealing mangoes as a boy to THU fund trips to the cinema. He also explains how, arriving in THU Europe as a teenager, he had to adapt his tastes, his THU attitudes and his body. He eats a steak before each THU performance and avoids carbohydrates after six o'clock, THU despite the fact that he dances for over eight hours almost THU every day of the week. THU THU Eating well is crucial to Carlos' livelihood and eating THU badly could end his career but the Royal Ballet's principal THU guest artist still chows down on ice cream, chicken korma THU and gets drunk, occasionally. He also tells Nina where you THU can get the perfect mojito. THU THU Producer: Tamsin Hughes THU A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04vf95c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04vj0y5 (Listen) THU Big Broadcast, Snow THU THU Words and Music by Neil Brand THU THU It's 1933, Christmas Eve, and Radio Station WKAZ Chicago's THU promise to deliver its last Hour of Charm programme from its THU theatre is threatened by a snowstorm which has trapped a THU handful of staff in the building. But the festive show must THU go on. THU THU Singers THU Helen Neeves, Vanessa Heine, Edward Saklatvala, John Ward THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU Credits THU Myrna: Samantha Spiro THU Arthur: Sam Dale THU Harry: Jim Norton THU Jamie: Paul Heath THU Georgia: Roslyn Hill THU Caitlin: Bettrys Jones THU Doug: Ian Conningham THU Writer: Neil Brand THU Director: David Hunter THU THU 15:00 HM The Queen b04vj15t (Listen) THU The Queen's Christmas message to the Commonwealth and the THU nation, followed by the national anthem. THU THU 15:05 News b04vj15w (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:15 Desert Island Discs b04nvgq1 (Listen) THU Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown THU THU Kirsty Young's guest is former Royal Navy test pilot Captain THU Eric 'Winkle' Brown - the programme's 3000th edition. THU THU The Fleet Air Arm's most decorated pilot, his life reads THU like a handbook in beating the odds. THU THU Landing on a flight deck is acknowledged as one of the most THU difficult things a pilot can do. Eric Brown has held the THU world record for the most flight deck landings - 2,407 - for THU over 65 years. He was one of only two men on his ship, HMS THU Audacity, to survive a German U-boat bombing. THU THU In a long and remarkable life he has witnessed first-hand THU momentous events in world history, from the Berlin Olympics THU in 1936 to the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp. THU THU Flying, he believes, is in his blood. He originally climbed THU into the open cockpit of a Gloster Gauntlet as a child to THU sit on his father's knee. Thirty years later he would pilot THU Britain's first ever supersonic flight. THU THU He says: "It's an exhilarating world to live in. There's THU always that aura of risk - you come to value life in a THU slightly different way." THU THU Producer: Paula McGinley. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Kirsty Young THU Producer: Rebecca Stratford THU THU 15:56 Radio 4 Appeal b04vd695 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 Cells and Celluloid: A Science and Cinema Special THU b04vj1x8 (Listen) THU The Film Programme's Francine Stock and Adam Rutherford from THU BBC Inside Science join forces for a special Christmas day THU programme celebrating science in the movies. Francine meets THU Paul Franklin, the special effects wizard behind blockbuster THU Interstellar, and discovers how he worked with theoretical THU physicist Kip Thorne to create the most detailed simulation THU of a black hole ever produced. But can Hollywood ever really THU be faithful to science and should it be? Professor Sidney THU Perkowitz, one of the authors of Hollywood Chemistry, THU considers what happens when physics gets warped by cinema. THU Christopher Frayling explores the scientist on screen, from THU Frankenstein to Dr Strangelove; and can science save THU celluloid? Adam visits the archives of British Film THU Institute to uncover the science behind film preservation. THU Adam and Francine subject themselves to a psychological THU experiment that tracks their eye movements as they watch a THU film on the big screen. THU THU 17:00 With Great Pleasure b04vj1xb (Listen) THU With Great Pleasure at Christmas 2014 THU THU Ian Hislop, star of Have I Got News for You and editor of THU Private Eye, chooses the pieces of writing that mean the THU most to him, with the help of readers Jim Broadbent and THU Tamsin Greig. It's a special Christmas edition of With Great THU Pleasure recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio THU Theatre. THU Robyn Stapleton joins them to sing My Love is like a Red Red THU Rose by Robert Burns. She's BBC Radio Scotland's Young THU Traditional Musician of the Year. THU Ian's choices range from poems that form part of his own THU family's Christmas tradition, such as The Oxen by Thomas THU Hardy, to newer works by Carol Ann Duffy, and extracts from THU plays he loves such as Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth. There THU are satirical pieces by Craig Brown and Spike Milligan, and THU sound archive recordings of comedy from Peter Cook, Alan THU Bennett, Danny Kaye, Mitchell & Webb and Flanders and Swann. THU Producer Beth O'Dea. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vd4q0 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:15 Christmas With... b04vj1xd (Listen) THU Damien Trench - Christmas Day THU THU Cookery writer Damien Trench invites listeners into his home THU for a special Christmas helping of tips and recipes for THU surviving Christmas intact. THU THU Credits THU Damien Trench: Miles Jupp THU THU 18:30 My Teenage Diary b04vj1xg (Listen) THU Series 6, Lucy Worsley THU THU Rufus Hound is joined by the historian Lucy Worsley, whose THU diaries reveal that she was swottier than the average THU teenager. While her friends were out at parties, Lucy was THU curating her collection of rocks, and gardening. THU THU Produced by Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Rufus Hound THU Interviewed Guest: Lucy Worsley THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04vj1xj (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04vj6gv (Listen) THU Sir Alan Ayckbourn THU THU In conversation with Kirsty Lang, Sir Alan Ayckbourn THU discusses his long and prolific career that has seen him, at THU the age of 75, premiere his 78th play - Roundelay. THU THU Sir Alan is one of this country's most celebrated THU playwrights. His ability to write and stage his tales of THU British middle-class domestic disharmony in ever more THU inventive ways has endeared him to a national audience. THU However, with his plays performed worldwide, he has a THU devoted international audience as well. THU THU He talks to Kirsty Lang about Scarborough, his adopted home, THU his love of event theatre, and his belief in theatre's power THU to connect people - whether they want to be connected or THU not. THU THU Sir Alan Ayckbourn THU Information about upcoming UK productions of Sir Alan THU Ayckbourn's plays can be found THU here THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Kirsty Lang THU Interviewed Guest: Alan Ayckbourn THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04vfczr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Thinking Allowed b04vj6gx (Listen) THU Rituals THU THU Rituals at Christmas & beyond. It may be best not to invite THU a sociologist for Xmas. They're liable to spend their time THU chronicling your seasonal rituals. In this festive THU programme, Laurie Taylor looks back at the other rituals and THU customs that have been detected and often disrupted on THU Thinking Allowed in 2014 - all the way from the new THU etiquette of kissing to the modern morality of the bathroom. THU THU Producer: Jayne Egerton. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04vj6gz (Listen) THU The Business of Kindness - Revisited THU THU The Business of Kindness - Revisited THU Random acts of kindness can help businesses grow in THU surprising ways. Peter Day talks with one woman who explains THU how the generosity of others has made all the difference to THU her company. Henrietta Lovell, the Rare Tea Lady, started THU her firm just before becoming seriously ill. Through the THU kindness of strangers she has managed to return to health THU and run a prosperous company. She is now a great advocate THU for spreading the idea that kind gestures are an important THU force in the way we conduct our personal and professional THU lives. THU THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU Contributors to this programme THU THU Henrietta Lovell, Founder, The Rare Tea Company THU THU THU THU Alexander Mccall Smith, Author THU THU THU THU Henry Mason, Global Head of Research, Trendwatching.com THU THU THU THU Alexander Armstrong, actor THU THU 21:00 All the Christmases b04wgt8l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 22:00 Wireless Nights b04l0pwh (Listen) THU Series 3, BBC Philharmonic Presents... THU THU Jarvis Cocker brings his award winning series Wireless THU Nights to Salford, forming part of this year's BBC THU Philharmonic Presents... series, a celebration of orchestral THU music in its many different forms. THU THU In front of a studio audience, Jarvis Cocker and the BBC THU Philharmonic weave tales of insomnia, nocturnal inspirations THU and dark imaginings from the world of classical music - THU against the backdrop of a President embroiled in the Vietnam THU War. There's also a special performance from Jarvis himself. THU THU Jarvis tells stories of an insomniac German Count who THU supposedly had Bach compose his Goldberg Variations as a THU sleeping aid, and a wired President Nixon listening to THU Rachmaninov in the small hours when he felt the urge to go THU on a bizarre excursion in the presidential limo. THU THU He also conjures up music that came in dreams and THU revelations - from Stravinsky's wild visions in the Rite of THU Spring to Schumann's once forgotten Violin Concerto, which THU apparently re-emerged during a séance many years after the THU composer's death. THU THU Maxime Tortelier conducts the BBC Philharmonic led by Yuri THU Torchinsky. Anthony Marwood plays solo violin and Peter THU Donohoe plays solo piano. The programme was recorded on 1 THU October. THU THU Producers: Laurence Grissell & Neil McCarthy. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04vjb5w (Listen) THU The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Episode 4 THU THU E M Delafield was great friends with Margaret Mackworth, 2nd THU Viscountess Rhondda, and became a director of Time and Tide THU magazine. When the editor "wanted some light 'middles', THU preferably in serial form, she promised to think of THU something". And so it was, in 1930, that her most popular THU and enduring work The Diary of a Provincial Lady was THU written. It has never been out of print. THU THU The Diary of a Provincial Lady charts the day-to-day life of THU a Devonshire-dwelling lady and her attempts to keep her THU somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos. THU THU Husband Robert, when he's not snoozing behind The Times, THU does everything with grumbling reluctance. Her children are THU gleefully troublesome. A succession of tricky servants THU invariably seem to gain the upper hand. And if her domestic THU trials are not enough, she must keep up appearances - THU particularly with the maddeningly patronising Lady Boxe, THU with whom our Provincial Lady eternally (and unsuccessfully) THU endeavours to compete. THU THU This largely autobiographical novel substituted the names of THU "Robin" and "Vicky" for her own children, Lionel and THU Rosamund. THU THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU Read by Claire Skinner THU THU Produced by Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Claire Skinner THU Author: EM Delafield THU Abridger: Libby Spurrier THU Producer: Joanna Green THU THU 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b04vjb5y (Listen) THU The Infinite Monkey Cage Christmas Special THU THU Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Brian Blessed, THU astronaut Chris Hadfield, bible scholar Professor Francesca THU Stavrakopoulou and the Reverend Richard Coles for a very THU special festive edition of the show. They'll be taking their THU own unique look at the Christmas story and the history of THU the bible and asking whether the christmas story and your THU view of humanity changes once you've look back at earth from THU the heavens themselves. THU THU Producer : Alexandra Feachem. THU THU 23:30 Good Omens b04vjb60 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of THU Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making THU their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower THU Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, THU Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the THU corners of the earth and are assembling. THU THU Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton THU Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some THU unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, THU descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to THU decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly THU where the impending Apocalypse will take place. THU THU Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; THU everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan. THU Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and THU a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the THU forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden THU of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), THU and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around THU London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on THU Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of THU the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place THU they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring THU about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself. THU THU There's just one small problem: someone seems to have THU mislaid him... THU THU With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is THU the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil THU Gaiman's Good Omens. THU THU Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs. THU Produced by Heather Larmour. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Peter Serafinowicz THU Actor: Mark Heap THU Writer: Neil Gaiman THU Writer: Terry Pratchett THU Adaptor: Dirk Maggs THU THU FRI FRIDAY 26 DECEMBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04vd4r2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:15 Christmas Meditation b04vjh7f (Listen) FRI Famous for his 10 Second Sermons, comedian Milton Jones FRI offers witty and winsome thoughts on the spirit of Christmas FRI at the conclusion of the day's festivities. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04vfczm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vd4r6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vd4r8 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vd4rb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04vd4rd (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04vjh7h (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the FRI Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04vjh7k (Listen) FRI Ten years on from the hunting ban FRI FRI Ten years on since hunting with dogs was banned in England FRI and Wales, Farming Today explores what the ban has meant for FRI both sides of the debate. Sybil Ruscoe visits the Bicester FRI with Whaddon Chase hunt where she meets huntsmen Patrick FRI Martin and his pack of hounds as they prepare to go out for FRI a days hunting. Pro-hunt supporters, such as Patrick, would FRI like to see the Hunting Act repealed by government, however FRI anti-hunt campaigners are calling for tighter regulations. FRI Sybil hears from the League Against Cruel Sports about the FRI changes they would like to see and questions the RSPCA on FRI the high profile prosecutions they have brought forward FRI since the ban was enforced. FRI FRI Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Lucy Bickerton. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0lzb (Listen) FRI Wandering Albatross FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Sir David Attenborough presents the wandering albatross of FRI the South Atlantic Ocean. On the windswept South Georgian FRI Islands, a stiff breeze is ruffling the grass tussocks as a FRI wandering albatross is billing and cooing to its mate. These FRI huge seabirds, mate for life and can live for 50 years (or FRI more). Longevity is vital for a species which produces only FRI one chick every two years. The chocolate brown youngster FRI takes to the air nine months after hatching, the longest FRI pre-fledging period of any bird, but when it does, it breaks FRI another record, as adults have the longest wingspan of any FRI living bird, which can reach over 5 metres. FRI FRI Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Yukihiro Fukuda / naturepl.com. FRI NPL Ref 01238597 FRI © Yukihiro Fukuda / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Archive on 4 b04v9r5f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] FRI FRI 07:00 Today b04vjh7m (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b04vd69f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04vjh7p (Listen) FRI Stories in the Stars, Episode 5 FRI FRI A seasonal reading for clear and frosty nights, when the FRI skies sparkle with thousands of dots forming half FRI remembered, almost traceable shapes. These are the stories FRI behind the names and shapes of the constellations that FRI pattern the night sky. FRI FRI Stories In The Stars by Susanna Hislop is read by a range of FRI voices and accents from around the country and the globe. It FRI might be one of the stories that the great Egyptian FRI astronomer Ptolemy assigned to them in his masterwork that FRI became known as the Almagest, or it might be a personified FRI first person narration from the constellation Chameleon FRI having a grumble about the number of different names and FRI imagined shapes assigned to him over the millennia. FRI FRI From Greco-Roman mythology to the lives of the eighteenth FRI century astronomers, this is a delightful miscellany which FRI gives us a reason to step outside, look up and wonder at the FRI magic lantern show above us. FRI FRI Readers: Colman Domingo, Paul Copley, Maggie Steed FRI FRI Episode Five: FRI Virgo - The Maiden points towards Spring. Canis Major is FRI leader of the pack. FRI FRI Abridged, directed and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Colman Domingo FRI Reader: Paul Copley FRI Reader: Maggie Steed FRI Author: Susanna Hislop FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Director: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04vjh7r (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 b04vjh7t (Listen) FRI The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth, Fun with Scrumms FRI FRI Imelda Staunton stars as Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St FRI Custards, in this brand new adaptation of the notorious FRI Goriller of 3B's guide to skool life for tiny pupils and FRI their parents. FRI FRI Aided by best friend Peason and thwarted by everyone from FRI Grabber the skool bully to Wandsworth the skool dog, Nigel FRI Molesworth teaches us the ins and outs of skool life - FRI including how to avoid lessens and how to build your own FRI H-bomb. FRI FRI Episode 5: Fun with Scrumms FRI As the school term comes to an end, Molesworth must find a FRI way to survive the perils of the playing field and the wrath FRI of skool bully Grabber if he is to have any hope of tucking FRI into some Christmas turkey. FRI FRI Adapted by Patrick Barlow and George Poles from the books by FRI Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, with additional material FRI by Abigail Wilson. FRI FRI Directed by Patrick Barlow FRI FRI Produced by Liz Anstee FRI A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Molesworth: Imelda Staunton FRI Peason: Sophie Thompson FRI Grabber: Jack Farthing FRI Prudence: Jessica Brown Findlay FRI Headmaster: Patrick Barlow FRI Chief Prune: Lewis Macleod FRI Adaptor: Patrick Barlow FRI Adaptor: George Poles FRI Author: Geoffrey Willans FRI Author: Ronald Searle FRI Director: Patrick Barlow FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI FRI 11:00 Music to Save Grimethorpe b04vjh7w (Listen) FRI Ian McMillan, Yorkshire poet and broadcaster, was born and FRI brought up near Grimethorpe, home of one of the most famous FRI brass bands in the world - Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band. FRI He knows and loves their music, and understands their FRI importance to the local community. In this programme, he FRI celebrates brass band music, revels in its power and FRI precision and explores it's meaning in a world where FRI coal-mining has all but disappeared. FRI Throughout the twentieth century, the local brass band was a FRI badge of pride for British industry that sat at the very FRI centre of the community. Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band was FRI founded in 1917 and paid for by the pit to offer miners a FRI hobby. After the mine shut, its fight to survive inspired FRI the 1995 film Brassed Off, starring Ewan McGregor and Tara FRI Fitzgerald. FRI FRI Through thick and thin, Grimethorpe Colliery Band have FRI toughed it out and remained one of the world's best known FRI brass bands. The band manager Nigel Dixon and trustees have FRI committed to staying involved as long as they can and have FRI turned attention to trying everything they can to save FRI Grimethorpe. FRI FRI To hear them strike up, there is no other sound like it and FRI this programme is filled with their wonderful, rich, FRI colourful, emotional sounds. FRI FRI Ian McMillan meets members of the band, sits in on FRI rehearsals, and finds out how they fight to survive FRI financial catastrophe. He talks to the community as the band FRI push on with their work of funding music education in the FRI local school so that children can learn instruments for free FRI and, for one or two, offer the potential to change their FRI lives too, in the same way most of the current Grimethorpe FRI band first started out. FRI FRI Produced by Bob Dickinson FRI A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b04vjh7y (Listen) FRI Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! Christmas Special FRI FRI Count Arthur is saved from the seemingly simple task of FRI writing his Christmas cards by a call from the Vicar. An FRI invitation to star in the local pantomime gets Arthur FRI excited about possible return to the stage. FRI FRI Count Arthur Strong - one time Variety Star, now sole FRI proprietor and owner of Doncaster's Academy of Performance - FRI is a show business legend, raconteur, and lecturer FRI extraordinaire. All false starts and nervous fumbling badly FRI covered up by a delicate sheen of bravado and FRI self-assurance, and an expert in everything from the world FRI of entertainment to the origin of the species, everyday life FRI with Arthur is an enlightening experience. FRI FRI Produced by John Leonard and Mark Radcliffe FRI A Komedia Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Count Arthur Strong: Steve Delaney FRI Actor: Mel Giedroyc FRI Actor: Alastair Kerr FRI Actor: David Mounfield FRI Actor: Terry Kilkelly FRI Producer: John Leonard FRI Producer: Mark Radcliffe FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04vd4rg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04vjh80 (Listen) FRI 26 December 1914 - Isabel Graham FRI FRI The Grahams plan a quiet harmonious Boxing Day. FRI FRI Written by: Shaun McKenna FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Phyllis: Christine Absalom FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Nurse Betts: Jane Slavin FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04vjh82 (Listen) FRI The big brands that try to be a force for good FRI FRI Is corporate charity work all about looking good rather than FRI doing good? FRI FRI Peter White presents a special edition assessing some of the FRI causes taken up by big brands including: FRI FRI The bank promising to teach everyone about technology, the FRI baker funding breakfast clubs for school children and the FRI high street cobbler actively recruiting convicted criminals. FRI FRI We examine the progress of a plan to improve the safety of FRI clothing factories supplying UK high streets following the FRI deaths of over a thousand workers in Bangladesh. FRI FRI And we hear from a former 'big oil' employee who now advises FRI other firms on corporate responsibility. FRI FRI Presenter: Peter White FRI Producer: Jon Douglas. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04vd4rj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04vjh84 (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Food for Thought b00mjk5v (Listen) FRI Series 1, Joan Rivers FRI FRI Journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food, FRI shape and affect individual lives. FRI FRI Over tea and chocolate tart in a suite at The Ritz, comedian FRI Joan Rivers recounts a lifetime of self-loathing and fear of FRI being fat. She recalls the shock of discovering she wasn't FRI beautiful, her mother's advice on dinner parties and an FRI extraordinary daily diet of vitamin pills, low calorie ice FRI cream sandwiches and cereal with whipped cream. FRI FRI The producer is Tamsin Hughes, and this is a Wise Buddah FRI production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04vj1xj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04vklq9 (Listen) FRI Blithe Spirit FRI FRI In a first for Radio 4, Ambridge's Queen of Am Dram, Lynda FRI Snell, brings a ghostly chill to this year's Christmas FRI Production as she directs and stars in Coward's classic FRI wartime comedy. Joined by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Eleanor Bron, FRI Michael Cochrane and other members of THE ARCHERS cast, FRI Lynda finds much sympathy with the eccentric medium Madame FRI Arcati and her efforts to conjure some seasonal high FRI spirits. Novelist Charles Condomine is researching a book FRI about a fake medium. But has he bitten off more than he can FRI chew when his dead wife is summoned from beyond the grave? FRI FRI Adapted and directed by Sean O'Connor. FRI FRI Credits FRI Douglas Herrington/Charles: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Helen Archer/Ruth: Louiza Patikas FRI Fallon Rogers/Elvira: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell/Madame Arcati: Carole Boyd FRI Oliver Sterling/Dr Bradman: Michael Cochrane FRI Carol Tregorran/Mrs Bradman: Eleanor Bron FRI Susan Carter/Edith: Charlotte Martin FRI Author: Noel Coward FRI Adaptor: Sean O'Connor FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI FRI 15:45 King Albert's Book b04vjh86 (Listen) FRI Episode 2 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 the second episode, narrated by the writer and producer FRI Paul Dodgson, there is a poem by Thomas Hardy, a statement FRI of support from Emmeline Pankhurst, and the writer Arnold FRI Bennet remembers his first trip to the Continent. 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 b04vjh88 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 A Good Read b04kbl8c (Listen) FRI Jeremy Paxman and Mary Beard FRI FRI Jeremy Paxman and Mary Beard argue heatedly and FRI entertainingly about the books they love, with presenter FRI Harriett Gilbert acting as referee. FRI FRI Jeremy's choice is Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben FRI Fountain: a rollercoaster of a novel that's been called the FRI Catch-22 of the Iraq War. FRI FRI The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis is FRI classicist Mary Beard's recommendation. It's a depiction of FRI French peasant life that's been described as even greater FRI than the film of the same story. FRI FRI Travels with my Aunt, a genuinely funny novel by Graham FRI Greene, is Harriett Gilbert's contribution. FRI FRI Producer Beth O'Dea. FRI FRI BOOKS FEATURED IN THIS BROADCAST FRI FRI Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain FRI FRI Publisher: Canongate FRI FRI FRI FRI The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis FRI FRI Publisher: Harvard University Press FRI FRI FRI FRI Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene FRI FRI Publisher: Vintage FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Harriett Gilbert FRI Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Paxman FRI Interviewed Guest: Mary Beard FRI Producer: Beth O'Dea FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04vjl6z (Listen) FRI Kiki and Faith - Dreams of Daddy FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between sisters who are FRI still at primary school reflecting on the alcohol-related FRI death of their father with extraordinary perceptiveness and FRI wisdom. The sisters were supported through their loss by the FRI charity Children and Families in Grief, and their counsellor FRI and their mother sat in on the recording. FRI FRI This conversation was first broadcast on R4 on 15/10/2014. 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 b04vjl71 (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vd4rl (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:15 Christmas With... b04vjl73 (Listen) FRI Ed Reardon FRI FRI It's Boxing Day in Ed Reardon's House and we find Ed making FRI a toast in celebration of another successful year for the FRI Reardon Family. Yes, you read correctly, Ed is surrounded by FRI his wonderful family. Not only that but he's up there FRI amongst the best writers in the world and his Boxing Day FRI lunch is joined by Jaz Milvain, one of the best directors in FRI the world. Yes, Jaz and End are riding high and Ed and his FRI gorgeous wife and kids are happy. FRI FRI But this, after all, is Ed Reardon's Week and all is not as FRI it seems as Ed is visiting Christmas long past. In 2014 he FRI only has Elgar and a rather disappointing Millennium Cracker FRI to keep him company. Still, there's always something good on FRI the telly....... FRI FRI Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas FRI Produced by Dawn Ellis. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas FRI Jake: Sam Pamphilon FRI BBC Announcer: Sam Pamphilon FRI Eli: Lisa Coleman FRI Jaz Milvain: Philip Jackson FRI Janet: Nicola Sanderson FRI Writer: Andrew Nickolds FRI Writer: Christopher Douglas FRI Producer: Dawn Ellis FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b04vjl75 (Listen) FRI Series 13, Episode 1 FRI FRI The impression show takes a look at all the shows that come FRI out around Christmas time and are given that extra festive FRI cheer: Crimewatch and Embarrassing Bodies. Who doesn't want FRI to see a crime scene brightened up with tinsel and fake FRI snow? And a pustulating sore that looks like a snowman? FRI FRI Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis FRI MacLeod, Debra Stevenson. FRI FRI Producer: Bill Dare. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Jon Culshaw FRI Performer: Jan Ravens FRI Performer: Duncan Wisbey FRI Performer: Lewis Macleod FRI Performer: Debra Stevenson FRI Producer: Bill Dare FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04vjl77 (Listen) FRI King's School Worcester Choir ..... conducted by Simon FRI Taranczuk FRI Organist ..... Christopher Allsop. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04vjl79 (Listen) FRI The Art of Book Cover Design FRI FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04vjh7t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 21st-Century Mythologies b04wy810 (Listen) FRI Omnibus, Part 1 FRI FRI In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes FRI began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular FRI culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In FRI this series of witty talks, the acclaimed writer and critic FRI Peter Conrad delivers a series of 21st Century Mythologies FRI in a French accent of the mind. Conrad ranges over the FRI defining effluvia of our era, from the Cronut, to the Shard, FRI to the Kardashians. Today he looks at the ubiquitous home of FRI piri piri chicken, Nandos. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04vjl7c (Listen) FRI David Cannadine reflects on the history of the Queen's FRI Christmas message. Following the success of the first FRI broadcast in 1932 by the Queen's grandfather, King George V, FRI "what had begun as a one-off innovation" soon "became an FRI invented tradition". FRI FRI "There can be no doubt," says Cannadine, "it brought the FRI King closer to his subjects than had been true of any FRI monarch who had gone before him." FRI FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: David Cannadine FRI Producer: Sheila Cook FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04vjl7f (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 22-26 December 1914 FRI FRI This week, the Grahams host a family Christmas and FRI Folkestone's yuletide festivities don't go entirely to plan. FRI FRI Story-led by: Katie Hims FRI Written by: Shaun McKenna FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Phyllis: Christine Absalom FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Norman: Sean Baker FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Ramesh: Navin Chowdhry FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Barry: Kris Deedigan FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Forrester: Nigel Hastings FRI Herbert Loxley: Clive Hayward FRI Laurie: Will Howard FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Mickey: Ben Pettengell FRI George: Ronan Raftery FRI Marieke: Olivia Ross FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Nurse Betts: Jane Slavin FRI Humphrey: Matthew Tennyson FRI Joe: Lloyd Thomas FRI Maggie: Hollie Thoupos FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04vd4rs (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04vjl7h (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04vjl7k (Listen) FRI The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Episode 5 FRI FRI E M Delafield was great friends with Margaret Mackworth, 2nd FRI Viscountess Rhondda, and became a director of Time and Tide FRI magazine. When the editor "wanted some light 'middles', FRI preferably in serial form, she promised to think of FRI something". And so it was, in 1930, that her most popular FRI and enduring work The Diary of a Provincial Lady was FRI written. It has never been out of print. FRI FRI The Diary of a Provincial Lady charts the day-to-day life of FRI a Devonshire-dwelling lady and her attempts to keep her FRI somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos. FRI FRI Husband Robert, when he's not snoozing behind The Times, FRI does everything with grumbling reluctance. Her children are FRI gleefully troublesome. A succession of tricky servants FRI invariably seem to gain the upper hand. And if her domestic FRI trials are not enough, she must keep up appearances - FRI particularly with the maddeningly patronising Lady Boxe, FRI with whom our Provincial Lady eternally (and unsuccessfully) FRI endeavours to compete. FRI FRI This largely autobiographical novel substituted the names of FRI "Robin" and "Vicky" for her own children, Lionel and FRI Rosamund. FRI FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Read by Claire Skinner FRI FRI Produced by Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Claire Skinner FRI Author: EM Delafield FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b04vdzyh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Good Omens b04vjll9 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of FRI Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making FRI their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower FRI Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, FRI Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the FRI corners of the earth and are assembling. FRI FRI Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton FRI Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some FRI unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, FRI descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to FRI decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly FRI where the impending Apocalypse will take place. FRI FRI Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; FRI everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan. FRI Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and FRI a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the FRI forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden FRI of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), FRI and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around FRI London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on FRI Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of FRI the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place FRI they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring FRI about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself. FRI FRI There's just one small problem: someone seems to have FRI mislaid him... FRI FRI With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is FRI the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil FRI Gaiman's Good Omens. FRI FRI Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs. FRI Produced by Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Peter Serafinowicz FRI Actor: Mark Heap FRI Writer: Neil Gaiman FRI Writer: Terry Pratchett FRI Adaptor: Dirk Maggs FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04vjllc (Listen) FRI Claudia and Isabella - Sisterly Heirarchy FRI FRI Fi Glover hears a conversation between sisters Claudia and FRI Izzy, recorded when Claudia was 11 and Izzy 10; they're FRI close, but Claudia will always be the older sister. FRI FRI This conversation was first broadcast on R4 on 30/11/2012. 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
19 December, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 20/12/2014 - 26/12/2014
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