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SAT SATURDAY 24 JANUARY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04y6vmq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04yjtjj (Listen) SAT Epilogue: A Memoir, Ambrosia SAT SAT Jamie Parker continues reading from Will Boast's moving SAT account of loss and coming to terms with the past. SAT SAT A thoughtful gesture breaks down barriers between Will and SAT his new-found family. SAT SAT Abridged by Miranda Emmerson. SAT Produced by Gemma Jenkins. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Jamie Parker SAT Author: Will Boast SAT Abridger: Miranda Emmerson SAT Producer: Gemma Jenkins SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04y6vms (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04y6vmv (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04y6vmx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04y6vmz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04yk50k (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ed SAT Kessler, from the Woolf Institute in Cambridge. SAT SAT Dr Ed Kessler SAT SAT Good morning! SAT SAT A story is told of a couple seeking a rabbi's advice to help SAT overcome marital problems. The rabbi sees the husband first, SAT and he explains how his wife is the problem: she doesn't SAT understand the pressures he faces at work, and responds SAT badly to his loving criticism. The rabbi listens carefully SAT and tells him: "You are right." SAT SAT Next, the wife comes in. Her husband is the problem, she SAT says: he doesn't understand the difficulties of bringing up SAT a family; nor does he support the children. The rabbi SAT listens carefully and tells her: "You are right." SAT SAT When the rabbi goes home and tells his wife about their SAT visit, she asks him: "How could they both be right?" He SAT thinks a moment, and then says: "You are right." SAT SAT At the end of the day, we must allow for difference and SAT conflicting points of view. It is for his reason that SAT Judaism welcomes arguments, which are described as SAT ‘arguments for the sake of heaven’. SAT SAT In fact, the greatest prophets even argued with Heaven SAT itself. After all, Abraham argued with God. Moses argued SAT with God. Jeremiah argued with God. So did Job. SAT SAT And the question is not just: why do Jews argue? I suppose SAT everyone argues. The question is: Why is argument the SAT standard form of a Jewish response to anything? SAT SAT Although it’s good to talk and listen too – perhaps even SAT holy – it is important to learn to disagree; to realize that SAT others may be also right. SAT SAT Lord, may we remember to listen as well as to talk, to argue SAT and accept argument, to hear that honest voice again loudly, SAT fearlessly and unequivocally, for our sake, for the sake of SAT our children and for our future in God, in whose reflection SAT alone we see ourselves as we are called on to become. SAT SAT Amen. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04yk50m (Listen) SAT 'We had no idea the debt was so big...it's very hard to see SAT a way out'. Ahead of the elections in Greece, John Humphrys SAT visits his family in Athens and finds out the difficulties SAT of living in a debt-ridden country. Presented by Jennifer SAT Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04y6vn1 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04y6vn3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04ykk58 (Listen) SAT Churchill's Chartwell in Kent SAT SAT To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Winston SAT Churchill, Helen Mark heads to Chartwell in Kent to explore SAT the family home and gardens. SAT SAT Churchill bought the home in 1922 to live in with his wife SAT Clementine and their children and remained here until his SAT death in 1965. As well as making structural changes to the SAT grounds he used it as an inspiration for writing and SAT painting and it's been maintained to reflect how he kept it. SAT Helen asks what Chartwell tells us about the man - to so SAT many a great leader - but also a father, husband and nature SAT lover. SAT SAT Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0501jls (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Agricultural machinery SAT SAT In this week's Farming Today This Week Charlotte Smith SAT visits LAMMA, the UK's largest agricultural machinery show. SAT The event in Peterborough attracts around 40,000 visitors, SAT many of whom are farmers, some with the intention of SAT spending thousands of pounds on new equipment. Charlotte SAT speaks to farmers who are buying and the bank who will lend SAT the money. SAT SAT Farming Today This Week also hears about the shortage of SAT agricultural engineers in the UK and which innovation won SAT 'best in show' in the LAMMA competiton. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04y6vn5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0501jlv (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT Today's running order SAT 0720 SAT SAT Cases of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, among SAT soldiers were recorded much earlier than previously thought. SAT Researchers at Anglia Ruskin University say they've SAT uncovered evidence of PTSD more than three thousand years SAT ago. One of those who discovered the evidence is Professor SAT Jamie Hacker-Hughes, Director of Veterans and Families at SAT Anglia Ruskin University and President-Elect of the British SAT Psychological Society. SAT 0730 SAT SAT A new recruitment video has been launched to try to promote SAT a more positive image of family doctors' work in Britain. SAT The Royal College of GPs has made the film in an effort to SAT attract new recruits to the profession, and to combat what SAT it says are "outdated stereotypes" of family doctors, as SAT people who just hand out cough medicine. The Royal College SAT of GPs estimates that at least 10,000 GPs will be needed by SAT 2020, to meet the needs of an ageing and growing population, SAT with an increasing number of patients needing treatment for SAT multiple and complex illnesses. Dr Maureen Baker is chairman SAT of the Royal College of GPs SAT 0740 SAT SAT Following the death of King Abdullah flags have been lowered SAT on key public buildings in London. But the decision has SAT drawn sharp criticism from some prominent politicians. SAT Graham Bartram, Chief Vexillologist at the Flag Institute SAT explains the etiquette of flying a flag at half mast. SAT 0750 SAT SAT The World Economic Forum has been taking place this week SAT against the backdrop of the European Central Bank's decision SAT to launch a major Quantitative Easing programme, the death SAT of the Saudi king and the approach of the general election SAT in Greece. What have been the major themes under discussion SAT at the forum? Our Business Editor Kamal Ahmed and Economics SAT Editor Robert Peston discuss. SAT 0810 SAT SAT Broadcasters have published new plans for TV election SAT debates including leaders of seven UK political parties. The SAT BBC and ITV plan to stage debates involving the SAT Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SAT UKIP, the SNP and Plaid Cymru. Sky and Channel 4's plan to SAT host a head-to-head between Mr Cameron and Ed Miliband SAT remains unchanged. The broadcasters said the debates would SAT go ahead regardless of whether any party leader refused to SAT take part. So what are the three main parties likely to make SAT of the plans? Tim Montgomerie, former editor of Conservative SAT Home & former chief of staff for Iain Duncan Smith, Sean SAT Kemp, former special adviser for Nick Clegg and Matthew SAT Doyle, former Deputy Director of Communications for Tony SAT Blair at Downing Street discuss. SAT 0820 SAT SAT Asia's richest man Li Ka-shing is in talks to buy Britain's SAT second-largest mobile provider O2. His firm already owns the SAT Three mobile network, and combining it with O2 would create SAT the UK's biggest mobile group. The move would reduce the SAT number of major mobile operators in the UK from four to SAT three, which could mean less competition and higher prices. SAT Alex Brummer is City Editor of the Daily Mail. SAT 0825 SAT SAT In the 17th century Restoration era, Shakespeare’s plays SAT were considered ripe for improvement. King Lear was SAT re-written to give it a happy ending and The Tempest was SAT injected with romantic material and turned into a ‘musical’. SAT It was hugely successful and for nearly two centuries it was SAT this Restoration version not Shakespeare's original that was SAT most familiar to audiences. This weekend, the Orchestra of SAT the Age of Enlightenment will perform the score of the SAT Restoration Tempest with some dramatic interludes at the Sam SAT Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe Theatre. Liz Kenny is the SAT music director for “A Restoration Tempest”. SAT 0830 SAT SAT Political campaigning has ended in the general election in SAT Greece and now Europe awaits the outcome of the vote on SAT Sunday. The left wing party, Syriza, has maintained its lead SAT in the opinion polls; if it does emerge as the leading party SAT in the next election its leaders have said they will start SAT renegotiating the terms of its bail-out. We hear a report on SAT the final rallies of the campaign and speak to Sandro Gozi, SAT Italy's undersecretary for Europe about the potential SAT fall-out from the election in Greece. SAT 0840 SAT SAT The philosopher and humanist John Vanier is best known for SAT starting L’Arche. He spoke to Sarah about the importance of SAT dialogue and understanding in overcoming our differences in SAT society and his belief that the strong need the weak. SAT 0845 SAT SAT The Prince of Wales and Prime Minister David Cameron are SAT flying to Saudi Arabia to today join international figures SAT paying respect in person to the royal family following the SAT death of King Abdullah and flags have been lowered on key SAT public buildings in London. But the decision to fly them at SAT half- mast has drawn sharp criticism from some prominent SAT politicians over abuses of free speech, women's rights and SAT the country's role as cradle of Islamist extremism. Khadlid SAT Mahmood, Labour MP and secretary of the All Party SAT Parliamentary Group on Saudi Arabia and Sarah Wollaston, SAT Conservative MP and member of the All Party Parliamentary SAT Group on Human Rights discuss. SAT 0850 SAT SAT Is a positive review worth a million dollars to a SAT restaurant? The restaurant critic Giles Coren thinks so. His SAT new series the Million Dollar critic on BBC America wants to SAT take that power to a new level. But in the days of bloggers SAT and social media is there any need for professionals to SAT review and rate restaurants? Giles Coren, The Times SAT restaurant critic and Million Dollar Critic presenter and SAT Tracey Macleod, restaurant critic for The Independent SAT discuss. SAT SAT *All subject to change.* SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0501jlx (Listen) SAT George Clarke SAT SAT "Restoration Man" and Amazing Spaces presenter George Clarke SAT joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles to talk about leaving SAT school at sixteen without any qualifications and his passion SAT for bringing buildings back to life. Find out how a present SAT from his Granddad set him on the road to becoming an SAT architect. SAT SAT Sherika Sherard quit University to get a job. But it took SAT her almost a year to get work and in that time she busked SAT around London to earn some money. Now the song she wrote SAT 'Give Me A Job' has gone viral and touched the hearts of SAT thousands. SAT SAT Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Winston SAT Churchill. The wartime leader's funeral was the largest SAT state funeral in world history up to that point, with SAT representatives from 112 nations present, along with many SAT thousands of people who had camped out overnight to pay SAT their respects. Among them was a 21 year old David Savage, SAT who 50 years on reflects on that bitter cold night and SAT historic day. SAT SAT Chris Bates was awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours SAT list for services as an unpaid Ambassador to the island of SAT Tristan da Cunha. SAT SAT JP Devlin joins the crowds of well-wishers who attended the SAT funeral of an RAF veteran who died without any family or SAT friends. SAT SAT Actor Natascha McElhone picks her Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT Inheritance Tracks SAT "Jamming" by the reggae band Bob Marley & the Wailers from SAT their 1977 album Exodus SAT "Lean on Me" written and recorded by singer-songwriter Bill SAT Withers from his 1972 album Still Bill. SAT SAT Studio Photo-24/01/2015 SAT LtoR Aasmah Mir, Sherika Sherard,George Clarke and Richard SAT Coles. SAT SAT Sherika Sherard SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: George Clarke SAT Interviewed Guest: Sherika Sherard SAT Interviewed Guest: David Savage SAT Interviewed Guest: Chris Bates SAT Interviewed Guest: Natascha McElhone SAT Presenter: JP Devlin SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b0501jlz (Listen) SAT Series 9, York SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme in York. SAT SAT Taking questions from a local audience are food historian SAT Annie Gray, DIY food expert Tim Hayward, broadcaster and SAT cook Andi Oliver and Israeli chef Itamar Srulovich. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT Produced by Victoria Shepherd SAT Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0501jp7 (Listen) SAT Isabel Hardman of The Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT Is the controversy over the party leaders' televised debates SAT descending into farce? Do we know enough about the "dark SAT arts" of election campaigning, and why do parties send SAT "moles" to their opponents' meetings? Does David Cameron SAT have any international role model in mind when he goes on SAT the stump? And the fuss over replacing the clerk to the SAT Speaker of the Commons is resolved. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04y6vn7 (Listen) SAT The Revolt Against Austerity SAT SAT 'Crisis' and 'Hope,' two words which have continually SAT cropped up in the Greek election campaign. Chris Morris has SAT been out with campaigners from the leftist Syriza party. SAT Kamal Ahmed talks of chasing the stories in the bubble that SAT is the World Economic Forum in Davos. Devastating floods in SAT Malawi, Rosie Blunt's been meeting families who've lost SAT everything. Kevin Connolly's in Auschwitz where they are SAT getting ready to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation SAT of the death camp. And the birds are doing well. So are the SAT whales and the seals too. But Juliet Rix, far away in the SAT South Atlantic, finds these are difficult, indeed fatal, SAT times for the rats of South Georgia. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04y6vn9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b0501jp9 (Listen) SAT Is Citizens Advice ready for the pensions revolution? Cash SAT savings and Lloyds bonds SAT SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: Citizens Advice has given more SAT detail about how it will offer everyone aged 55 or more SAT face-to-face advice about the new freedoms SAT which begins on 6 April. It says 44 out of its 316 offices SAT in England and Wales will offer Pension Wise guidance with SAT around five members of staff in each office. It is currently SAT recruiting those advisers. However pensions experience is SAT not a criterion to get the job. Some pensions experts have SAT concerns about this. Chief Executive of Citizens Advice, SAT Gillian Guy, and pensions expert Margaret Snowden join the SAT programme. SAT SAT From the summer, banks may have to tell us what rate our SAT savings are earning, on statements and online. That is one SAT of the proposals from the Financial Conduct Authority to SAT help persuade people to move some of the £160 billion SAT languishing in accounts paying 0.5% or less into better SAT paying accounts. Chris Woolard speaks to the programme. SAT SAT First it was the Swiss central bank de-linking its franc SAT from the Euro that sent the single currency plunging. Now SAT the European Central Bank itself has added to the Euro's SAT woes by promising to magic up €1 trillion to embark on SAT eighteen months of Quantitative Easing to stimulate the SAT Eurozone economies as inflation goes negative and growth SAT stalls. The managing director of Currency Index, SAT Robin Haynes, will explain the personal finance implications SAT of the currency turmoil. SAT SAT Is Lloyds' word its bond? That's what thousands of investors SAT who have been getting returns of up to 12.5% a year from SAT long-standing investments in bonds from Lloyds are asking. SAT The bank has now said it will end the interest payments and SAT buy back the bonds at their face value. It insists it is SAT entitled to do that under its terms and conditions in the SAT original bond sale prospectus. But many investors say that SAT wasn't clear to them and that they rely on the income. The SAT programme hears from bond expert Mark Taber. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b04yk373 (Listen) SAT Series 45, Episode 3 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week's news via SAT topical stand-up and sketches featuring guests Marcus SAT Brigstocke and Nish Kumar. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: Marcus Brigstocke SAT Performer: Nish Kumar SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04y6vnc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04y6vnf (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04yk3w1 (Listen) SAT Bea Campbell, Peter Hain MP, Owen Paterson MP, Steve Webb MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Keynsham in Somerset with the writer Bea Campbell, SAT former Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain MP, former Secretary of SAT State for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Owen SAT Paterson MP, and Pensions Minister Steve Webb MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0501k2c (Listen) SAT Leaders' Debates, Devolution, Wealth, Dairy SAT SAT Your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT SAT Will a seven party televised debate tell voters what they SAT need to know? SAT If the SNP join a Westminster coalition after the next SAT general election, should they be allowed to vote on English SAT only matters? SAT Should the 1% wealthiest people own 50% of the world's SAT wealth? SAT Dairy farmers can be asset rich, but have no guarantees of SAT even receiving cost of production for their milk. Is it SAT right that market forces are allowed to work so brutally. SAT SAT Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk, tweet us: @bbcanyquestions or SAT using #bbcaq SAT SAT With Sheila McClennon. SAT SAT Produced by Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b0501k2f (Listen) SAT The Song of Hiawatha SAT SAT The Song of Hiawatha by SAT Henry Wadsworth Longfellow SAT This epic narrative poem, with its picturesque and highly SAT imaginative tales, threads the many aspects of native SAT American mythology concerning life, nature and ritual. SAT Weaving together "beautiful traditions into a whole" as SAT Longfellow intended. SAT SAT Narrator ...... Henry Goodman SAT Hiawatha ..... Neet Mohan SAT Gitche Manito/Mudjekeewis/Pau-Puk-Keewis ...... Ramon SAT Tikaram SAT Nokomis ...... Shaheen Khan SAT Young Hiawatha ...... Talia Barnett SAT Minnehaha ..... Harriet Judd SAT Chibiabos's song, and original music was composed and SAT performed by Olly Fox SAT Directed by Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 15:30 The True Story of Abner Jay b04yftl1 (Listen) SAT Laura Barton pieces together the true story of Abner Jay, a SAT most unusual musical talent. SAT SAT Abner Jay was an itinerant musician - a modern-day minstrel. SAT He was a one-man band, a songster, a storehouse of history SAT and an off-colour raconteur; he was a direct line to a SAT different era. SAT SAT He said that his instruments were centuries old, passed down SAT through his family. That his father and grandfather had been SAT slaves. He claimed to have fathered 16 children, that daily SAT doses of water from the Suwannee River kept him young and SAT that he was 25 years younger than you think. SAT SAT But you never know what to believe with Abner Jay. SAT SAT What is certainly true is that he travelled the Southern SAT states of the US with a converted mobile home which he SAT opened out into a makeshift stage. And he was possibly the SAT last performer of the 'bones' - a musical tradition that SAT involved playing rhythms on cow and chicken bones dried in SAT the sun. SAT SAT The writer Laura Barton talks to those who knew him and SAT those who love his music in an effort to dig beneath the SAT myth and misdirection and reveal the true story of Abner SAT Jay. SAT SAT Featuring Sherry Sherrod Dupree, William Ferris, Jay Martin, SAT Jack Teague and Brandie Watson. SAT SAT Producer: Martin Williams. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0501k2h (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Secret Eating; Democracy Day SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Secret Eating - when SAT does it become a problem? Julie Hesmondhalgh. Baroness SAT D'Souza, Helen and Laura Pankhurst and Stephanie Davies-Arai SAT from the campaign No More Page 3 discuss women and SAT democracy. Coming of age films. Sexism in restaurants. Two SAT women tell us their different experience of getting pregnant SAT very early in a relationship. SAT SAT Eating in Secret SAT SAT Eating in secret can range from the guilty pleasure of SAT eating peanut butter straight from the jar to an indication SAT or symptom of an eating disorder. It can be linked to SAT feelings of indulgence guilt and shame. But where do these SAT feelings come from? Where’s the line between a guilty SAT pleasure and a potential “problem” with food. SAT SAT Sarah Rainey from the Telegraphy and Deanne Jade founder of SAT the National Centre for Eating Disorders join Jane to talk SAT about feelings of guilt and shame linked to eating in SAT private and some of the reasons behind it. SAT eating-disorders.org.uk SAT b-eat.co.uk SAT menget SAT eds SAT too SAT .co.uk SAT SAT Unexpected Pregnancy SAT New Channel 4 comedy ‘Catastrophe’ starring Sharon Horgan SAT and Rob Delaney begins with an unexpected pregnancy between SAT two people who have only recently met, and draws humour from SAT what happens next. But what’s the reality like? We talk to SAT Carmen and Susie about their very different experiences in SAT becoming SAT unexpectedly pregnant. SAT SAT Lord Speaker Baroness D'Souza SAT The Lord Speaker Baroness D’Souza SAT SAT discusses her political career, role within the House of SAT Lords, the significance of the second chamber, and what can SAT be done to ensure women can be politically engaged. SAT SAT No More Page 3 SAT SAT On Tuesday it looked like The Sun had abandoned Page 3 SAT topless models. Jane spoke to Stephanie Davies-Arai – from SAT the campaign SAT No More Page 3 SAT SAT Exploring the Idea of Democracy SAT SAT Helen and Laura Pankhurst –descendants of Suffragette Leader SAT Emmeline talk about the importance of their family heritage SAT and the forthcoming Suffragette film, starring Meryl SAT Streep, in which they had cameo roles. They also discuss SAT the political battles women are still facing with Nan SAT Sloane, SAT Director of the Centre for Women & Democracy SAT and Kuwaiti Artist and activist SAT Shurooq Amin SAT To find out more about the work of Helen and Laura SAT Pankhurst: SAT http://walkinhershoes.careinternational.org.uk/ SAT SAT Coming of Age Films SAT Coming-of-age movies like Clueless and The Breakfast Club SAT show the transition from childhood to adulthood and what SAT it’s like to fit in - or not. But what do we learn from our SAT teenage film heroines? Which female characters have – or SAT will – stand the test of time? And prior to 1995’s Clueless, SAT which women leads influenced girls? Catherine Bray, SAT Co-Producer on SAT teen movie documentary Beyond Clueless SAT and Elizabeth Karlsen, Founder of Number9 Films and chair SAT of Women in Film & Television join Jenni to discuss coming SAT of age classics. SAT SAT Julie Hesmondhalgh SAT Most people know her as the loveable Hayley Cropper, SAT Coronation Street’s first transgender character. But after SAT the death of Hayley last year, Julie Hesmondhalgh has moved SAT on to other roles. She’ll be playing Cleo, sister of gay SAT man, Henry, in Channel 4’s new comedy series, Cucumber, part SAT of a trilogy of programmes written by Russell T Davies. She SAT also appears in the other two programmes, Banana and Tofu. SAT She joins Jane to discuss her various roles. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Sophie Powling SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Rainey SAT Interviewed Guest: Deanne Jade SAT Interviewed Guest: Frances D'Souza SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Pankhurst SAT Interviewed Guest: Laura Pankhurst SAT Interviewed Guest: Stephanie Davies-Arai SAT Interviewed Guest: Elizabeth Karlsen SAT Interviewed Guest: Catherine Bray SAT Interviewed Guest: Sally Peck SAT Interviewed Guest: Julie Hesmondhalgh SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0501k2k (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04yk50m (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04y6vnh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04y6vnk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04y6vnm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0501kvb (Listen) SAT Nikki Bedi, Tom Conti, Simon Nicol, Sue Webster, Bidisha, SAT Fairport Convention and Rhiannon Giddens SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Nikki Bedi, Tom Conti, Simon SAT Nicol, Sue Webster and Bidisha for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. With music from Fairport SAT Convention and Rhiannon Giddens. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Tom Conti SAT ‘Twelve Angry Men’ is at Theatre Royal, Windsor until SAT Saturday 7th February and then touring until Wednesday 17th SAT June. SAT SAT Simon Nicol SAT ‘Myths & Heroes’ is available on 2nd March on Matty Grooves. SAT SAT Sue Webster SAT ‘The Folly Acres Cook Book’ is published by Other Criteria SAT and available now. SAT SAT Bidisha SAT SAT ‘Musn’t Grumble: The Noble British Art Of Complaining’ is on SAT Saturday 17th January at 20.00 on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT ‘Asylum and Exile: The Hidden Voices of London’ is published SAT by Seagull Books on Wednesday 11th February. SAT SAT Fairport Convention SAT ‘Myths & Heroes’ is available on 2nd March on Matty Grooves. SAT The band are touring until 1st of March. They’re playing SAT Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury on Thursday 29th, The Cathedral, SAT Lichfield on Friday 30th and The Atkinson, Southport on SAT Saturday 31st January. Check their website for further SAT dates. SAT SAT Rhiannon Giddens SAT ‘Tomorrow Is My Turn’ is available now on Nonesuch. SAT SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b0501kvd (Listen) SAT Series 17, My Turn For Lunch SAT SAT The award-winning series which sees writers create a SAT fictional response to a major story from the week's news. SAT SAT Cartoonist and author Barry Fantoni's topical drama set SAT against the backdrop of Davos and the World Economic Forum SAT imagines another meeting where money is also on the menu. SAT SAT Credits SAT Austin: Henry Goodman SAT Leon: David Schofield SAT Head Waiter: David Acton SAT Writer: Barry Fantoni SAT Producer: Gemma Jenkins SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0501kvg (Listen) SAT Oppenheimer, A Most Violent Year, Fortitude, Rubens, Sandip SAT Roy SAT SAT The RSC's latest production is Oppenheimer, a play about the SAT man behind the invention of the nuclear bomb - a flawed SAT hero, is it a flawless production? SAT A Most Violent Year is set in New York in 1981, a year when SAT more than 1.2m crimes were committed. JC Chandor's film SAT follows a man trying to build up a family business in the SAT face of alarming violence and corruption. SAT Fortitude is Arctic noir TV. Set in an Icelandic Research SAT Station where mysterious and untoward things start SAT happening, the cast includes Sofie Grabol, Michael Gambon, SAT Christopher Ecclestone and a host of other big names. Will SAT it leave the reviewers cold? SAT Rubens And His Legacy at the Royal Academy attempts to SAT explore the influence of the great Flemish master on artists SAT over the last three and a half centuries. SAT Sandip Roy's first novel Dont Let Him Know tells the story SAT of a young man in modern India exploring his sexual SAT identity. SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Lionel Shriver, Sophie Hannah and SAT Francis Spufford. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Oppenheimer SAT Written by Tom Morton-Smith, the play SAT Oppenheimer SAT is at the RSC Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until 7 SAT March 2015. SAT SAT A Most Violent Year SAT Written and directed by J.C.Chandor, the film SAT A Most Violent Year SAT is in cinemas from Friday 23 January, certificate 15. SAT SAT Fortitude SAT The TV series SAT Fortitude SAT begins on Thursday 29 January, 9pm, Sky Atlantic. SAT SAT Rubens and His Legacy SAT SAT The exhibition SAT Rubens and His Legacy SAT is at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, from 24 January SAT until 10 April 2015. SAT SAT BBC News: Entertainment & Arts: SAT Rubens SAT Royal Academy exhibition SAT SAT Don't Let Him Know SAT The book SAT Don't Let Him Know SAT by Sandip Roy is published by Bloomsbury on 29 January 2015. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Lionel Shriver SAT Interviewed Guest: Sophie Hannah SAT Interviewed Guest: Francis Spufford SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Can You Spot the Hidden Message? b0501kvj (Listen) SAT What is subliminal advertising? David Aaronovitch SAT investigates the mysterious birth of this modern myth - and SAT introduces a unique new BBC experiment, conducted in SAT collaboration with The Infinite Monkey Cage, to try it out. SAT SAT Subliminal advertising was first tried out on the public in SAT a cinema in New Jersey in 1956 - but no information about SAT this was formally released for over a year. SAT SAT And when the man behind the experiment finally went public, SAT the mystery just deepened. James Vicary, a well-known SAT 'motivational researcher', claimed amazing results for his SAT new technique - but refused to reveal details, pleading a SAT patent application. SAT SAT He thought people would be pleased as his method would mean SAT fewer ad breaks - but instead, he faced an explosion of SAT panic and outrage. Subliminal advertising was damned as "a SAT technique for a Goebbels". SAT SAT And then a cinema trade paper, Motion Picture Daily, SAT actually investigated the story - and it turned out that the SAT manager of the cinema said the experiment hadn't really had SAT any impact on sales... SAT SAT In this programme, David Aaronovitch clears away much of the SAT myth and misinformation surrounding Vicary and his strange SAT experiment - and explores what science has to tell us about SAT subliminal influence. SAT SAT He talks to Professor Wolfgang Stroebe of the University of SAT Utrecht in Holland, who explains how, in strict lab SAT conditions, he has repeatedly made subliminal advertising SAT work. SAT SAT But can his laboratory findings be transferred to a public SAT venue? SAT SAT To test this, David presents a unique new BBC experiment, SAT developed and run by producer Phil Tinline under the SAT guidance of Professor Stroebe. SAT SAT In our test, almost 100 volunteers from the Infinite Monkey SAT Cage audience are divided into a test group and a control SAT group. Each group is shown the same three-minute clip - but SAT only one contains subliminal flashes of the name of a drink SAT brand. SAT SAT Then the volunteers are offered a choice of two drinks - the SAT drink brand, and a mineral water. But will the test group SAT pick the subliminally advertised brand significantly more SAT often than the control group? SAT SAT To find out, listeners will need to stay with Radio 4. The SAT results will be announced during the edition of the Infinite SAT Monkey Cage that follows straight on from this programme... SAT SAT With: Professor Charles Acland, Kelly Crandall, Professor SAT Timothy Moore, Professor Wolfgang Stroebe SAT SAT PRODUCER: PHIL TINLINE SAT SAT NOTE: Prof Stroebe's research shows that subliminal messages SAT are ineffective if the participants know about them. SAT Participants in our experiment confirmed in writing that SAT they understood and accepted that we could not divulge the SAT full nature of this experiment, or what we were testing, SAT until afterwards. SAT SAT 20:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b04yfsst (Listen) SAT Series 11, Deception SAT SAT Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by author and SAT journalist David Aaronovitch, psychologist Professor Richard SAT Wiseman and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott as they SAT tackle the science of deception. They'll be asking why we SAT seem to be so good at telling lies, but not very good at SAT spotting them, and why being good liars could be the secret SAT to our success as a social animal. They will also be SAT carrying out their own act of deception on the monkey cage SAT audience. They reveal the results of an experiment to test SAT the idea of subliminal advertising, carried out by David SAT Aaronovitch for the Radio 4 documentary, "Can You Spot the SAT Hidden Message" . Will they manage to secretly persuade a SAT section of the theatre audience to pick one type of soft SAT drink over another by secretly flashing the name of a SAT certain brand on a screen? 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SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Showman's Parson: Tales from the Memoirs of the SUN Rev Thomas Horne b03y00qy (Listen) SUN The Mummer SUN SUN Thomas Horne was born in 1849 in a caravan at Nottingham SUN Goose Fair. He spent the first part of his life as a working SUN showman - dressing up as a performing bear, running a Penny SUN Bazaar around the Lancashire Wakes, working as a doorman in SUN Mrs Williams' Waxwork, and finally becoming an actor in a SUN Mumming Booth and a partner in an Illusion Show. Latterly, SUN he joined a missionary brotherhood in Oxford, and was SUN ordained as a priest in Leeds in 1885. SUN SUN Until his death in 1918, Thomas Horne was a vigorous SUN campaigner for the rights of travelling people. With his SUN education, training as a priest, and family association with SUN the fairground, he was their ideal representative. He SUN travelled throughout the country, preaching to showfolk and, SUN in one year alone, he travelled over 12,000 miles, visiting SUN fairs as far apart as Penzance in Cornwall to Ayr in SUN Scotland. SUN SUN The stories in this series are taken from his memoirs held SUN in the National Fairground Archive in Sheffield. SUN SUN Today's story concerns the actor, Hervey Hoyne and the SUN terrible events surrounding a fire in the Mumming Booth at SUN Rotherham Statutes Fair. SUN SUN Read by Tony Lidington SUN SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Tony Lidington SUN Producer: David Blount SUN Author: Thomas Horne SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05053kb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05053kd (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05053kg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. 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SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: A God in Wrath SUN Author: Stephen Crane SUN Published by Kessinger Publishing in ‘The Black Riders and SUN Other Lines’ SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The Prodigal Son SUN Author: John Newton SUN Published by Wiley-Blackwell in ‘The Bible and Literature: A SUN Reader’ SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Brighton Rock SUN Author: Graham Greene SUN Published by Vintage Classics SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Exclusion and Embrace SUN Author: Miroslav Volf SUN Published by Abingdon Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The Revelations of Divine Love SUN Author: Julian of Norwich SUN Published by Methuen & Co Ltd SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0505l2z (Listen) SUN Biocontrols - Using Bugs to Deal with Plant Problems SUN SUN In Kenya Louise Labuschagne develops bugs rather than SUN pesticides to deal with plant problems. Anna Hill meets her SUN in Rutland to discuss the pros and cons of biocontrols with SUN two local farmers, Andrew Brown and Robert Symington. SUN SUN Louise made her mark recently at the Oxford Farming SUN Conference when she intervened in a disagreement between SUN environmental campaigner George Monbiot and David Caffall, SUN head of the trade organisation that represents pesticide SUN manufacturers, the Agricultural Industries Confederation. SUN She tells Anna how and why she thinks that pesticide use can SUN be reduced with the judicious use of biocontrols, but that SUN they're far from being mutually exclusive. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b05053kn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b05053kq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0505l31 (Listen) SUN Free Schools, Women Bishops Row and Boko Haram SUN SUN William Crawley looks at the religious power and influence SUN behind the throne as Saudi Arabia mourns the death of King SUN Abdullah. SUN SUN How can the Church of England stop the slow decline in the SUN number of people attending services? It's an issue that will SUN be discussed in depth at next month's meeting of the General SUN Synod. Bob Walker reports. SUN SUN We'll hear the remarkable spiritual journey of Slovakian SUN Jewish Holocaust survivor - Miriam Freedman - who went on to SUN become a teacher of yoga in London and then a follower of SUN Sufism. SUN SUN The Catholic Archdiocese of St Paul in Minneapolis has filed SUN for bankruptcy protection saying it's the best way for the SUN church to get as many resources as possible to victims of SUN clergy sexual abuse. Madeleine Baran talks to William about SUN this unprecedented move. SUN SUN This week, a Christian Free School in Durham became the SUN third free school to be closed by the government. SUN Twenty-four hours later another Christian free school in SUN Sunderland was put into special measures. 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SUN As we work towards a cure, recent findings have given us new SUN insights into the causes of MND towards improving diagnosis SUN and will accelerate new treatment strategies, all of which SUN improves quality of life for people with MND. SUN SUN Campaigning for change SUN SUN People living with MND tell us that raising the profile of SUN the disease reduces the sense of isolation they feel. We SUN empower our network of volunteers to campaign, both across SUN the UK and locally, while stepping up our influencing work SUN at Westminster, Stormont and the Welsh Assembly. Campaigning SUN is vital to getting our voice heard and making a positive SUN difference. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b05053ks (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b05053kv (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0505l35 (Listen) SUN Keep the Memory Alive SUN SUN This week sees the 70th anniversary of the liberation of SUN Auschwitz-Birkenau. The choir and pupils of Blue Coat Church SUN of England School & Music College in Coventry, help 'keep SUN the memory alive' as they mark this and other genocides. SUN Given political tensions and outright warfare in various SUN parts of the globe, can we find hope for the future in SUN remembering the past? SUN Preacher: The Archbishop of Canterbury's Director of SUN Reconciliation Canon David Porter; Leader: The Revd Canon Dr SUN David Stone; Music Director: Philip Formstone; Accompanists: SUN Kerry Beaumont and Paul Leddington-Wright. SUN The God of Abraham Praise (Leoni); God, as with silent SUN hearts we bring to mind (The Supreme Sacrifice); The Servant SUN Song (Gillard); Adonai Ro'i Lo Echsar (Cohen); I asked the SUN Lord (arr. Formstone); Go down, Moses (Trad arr. SUN L'Estrange); Si njay njay njay (Zulu trad arr. L'Estrange). SUN SUN Coventry Cathedral SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN SUN SUN BBC Radio 4. Time check. The Archbishop of Canterbury’s SUN Director for Reconciliation Canon David Porter is the SUN preacher from Coventry Cathedral now on this morning’s SUN Sunday worship. The service is led by the Canon Precentor SUN the Revd Dr David Stone. Our service begins with an eye SUN witness account from seventy years ago by Richard Dimbleby: SUN SUN The programme begins with a recording of Richard Dimbleby SUN SUN As we went deeper into the camp and further from the main SUN gate we saw more and more of the horrors of the place. And SUN I realised that what is so ghastly is not so much the SUN individual acts of barbarism that take place in SS camps, SUN but the gradual breakdown of civilisation that happens when SUN human beings are herded like animals behind barbed wire. SUN SUN The Canon Precentor, the Reverend David Stone, says SUN SUN In 1945, broadcaster Richard Dimbleby reported from a SUN newly-liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, revealing SUN to the world the facts of the Holocaust in all their SUN horrific detail. Today, seventy years on, we gather to SUN anticipate Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday. We mourn the SUN lost and keep their memory alive as we mark the anniversary SUN of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration SUN and death camp. SUN SUN Welcome to Coventry Cathedral, this centre of peace and SUN reconciliation, to participate with us in our act of worship SUN this morning. It’s a time for us to pause and remember the SUN millions of people who have been murdered or whose lives SUN have been changed beyond recognition during the Holocaust, SUN through Nazi persecution and also in subsequent genocides, SUN such as in Bosnia – as we mark the 20th anniversary of the SUN Srebrinica massacre – and in places such as Cambodia, SUN Rwanda, and Darfur. SUN SUN Helping to lead our worship this morning is the choir of SUN Coventry’s Blue Coat School. They begin our service by SUN leading us in a glorious hymn of praise. Right from the SUN start, we set ourselves to resist the downward pull of evil SUN and focus instead on the God who invites us to place our SUN confidence in him no matter what – the God of Abraham, who SUN reigns on high. SUN SUN SUN Everyone sings SUN SUN Hymn SUN All The God of Abraham praise SUN SUN Thomas Olivers (1725-1799) SUN based on the Hebrew Yigdal SUN Tune CP 586 Leoni Hebrew melody noted by Thomas Olivers SUN (1725-1799) SUN SUN Canon David says SUN SUN The Coventry Litany of Reconciliation is known all over the SUN world and said here in the Cathedral as part of our pattern SUN of prayer each weekday. Based on the seven deadly sins, it SUN helps us to acknowledge the contribution we each make to the SUN troubles of the world. The response ‘Father forgive’ is what SUN the Cathedral’s Provost, Dick Howard, arranged to be SUN inscribed on the wall of the ruined Cathedral after it was SUN bombed in 1940. Some people at the time were very upset and SUN thought that ‘Father forgive them’ might have been more SUN appropriate. But no. “There are no innocents,” Provost SUN Howard said. “We all stand in need of forgiveness; this SUN understanding is the beginning of reconciliation.” So let us SUN pray together now. SUN SUN All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. SUN SUN George Haynes says SUN SUN The hatred which divides nation from nation, race from race, SUN class from class. SUN All Father forgive. SUN SUN Abigail Claridge says SUN SUN The covetous desires of people and nations to possess what SUN is not their own. SUN All Father forgive. SUN SUN Josh Grimwood says SUN SUN The greed which exploits the work of human hands and lays SUN waste the earth. SUN All Father forgive. SUN SUN Ellisse Dixon says SUN SUN Our envy of the welfare and happiness of others. SUN All Father forgive. SUN SUN Will Haynes says SUN SUN Our indifference to the plight of the imprisoned, the SUN homeless, the refugee. SUN All Father forgive. SUN SUN Abi Bailey says SUN SUN The lust which dishonours the bodies of men, women and SUN children. SUN All Father forgive. SUN SUN Thomas Ermel says SUN SUN The pride which leads us to trust in ourselves and not in SUN God. SUN All Father forgive. SUN SUN All Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, SUN forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. SUN SUN The choir and congregation sing SUN SUN Hymn SUN All Brother, sister, let me serve you, SUN SUN Choir I will weep when you are weeping; SUN upper when you laugh I’ll laugh with you; SUN I will share your joy and sorrow SUN till we’ve seen this journey through; SUN All I will share your joy and sorrow SUN till we’ve seen this journey through. SUN SUN All Brother, sister, let me serve you, SUN let me be as Christ to you; SUN pray that I may have the grace to SUN let you be my servant too. SUN SUN Richard Gillard (b. 1953) SUN Tune CP 393 Servant Song Richard Gillard SUN SUN Canon David says SUN SUN Our Bible reading this morning comes from the Gospel SUN according to Matthew, chapter 5. It’s the beginning of what SUN is often described as the Sermon on the Mount and is read SUN for us by Abi Bailey. SUN SUN Bible Reading SUN Abi Bailey reads SUN SUN 1When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and SUN after he sat down, his disciples came to him. 2Then he began SUN to speak, and taught them, saying: SUN 3’Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom SUN of heaven. SUN 4’Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. SUN 5’Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. SUN 6’Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, SUN for they will be filled. SUN 7’Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy. SUN 8’Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. SUN 9’Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called SUN children of God. SUN 10’Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ SUN sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. SUN 11’Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you SUN and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my SUN account. 12Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in SUN heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who SUN were before you. SUN SUN This is the word of the Lord. SUN All Thanks be to God. SUN SUN Canon David says SUN SUN The choir will now sing Gerald Cohen’s setting of the SUN twenty-third psalm. I was talking to a shepherd the other SUN day who had no doubt that real experience of looking after SUN sheep lies behind this powerful and evocative psalm, which SUN is sung in Hebrew. He described it as easily his favourite SUN passage from the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament: The Lord is SUN my shepherd, I shall not be in want... Surely goodness and SUN mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall SUN dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long. SUN Psalm 23 SUN SUN The choir sings SUN SUN Adonai roi, lo echsar. SUN SUN Canon David says SUN SUN We’re delighted to be joined this morning by Ros Johnson SUN from the Coventry Reform Jewish Community. We’ve asked her SUN to share something of her perspective on keeping alive the SUN memory of the Holocaust, which is this year’s national SUN theme. SUN SUN Ros Johnson says SUN SUN My Great grandfather and great grandmother were called SUN Mendel and Jocha Ariel and they lived in Lodz in Poland. SUN Lodz is the 3rd largest city in Poland and before WW2 had a SUN Jewish population of 230,000, the second largest Jewish SUN Community in Europe. My great grandparents used to run a SUN restaurant there which was popular with actors and this drew SUN several of their children into the acting/performing SUN community. I imagine that restaurant as a noisy bustling SUN place with a lot of laughter and shouting! SUN SUN One of their sons Chayim, my great uncle, his wife Rachel SUN and his sister Sonia travelled very widely across Eastern SUN Europe, performing, acting, and singing in the Yiddish SUN theatre. In 1915 Chayim and Rachel had a baby boy, Harry. He SUN was born in Lodz and then Rachel returned to join the tour. SUN They must have loved their work very much. SUN SUN In 1939 when the Nazis invaded Lodz they began forcing all SUN the Jews into a ghetto, a fenced sealed area with no water SUN or sanitation. Some Jews had fled but still 163,000 lived SUN there in terrible conditions. Food was scarce and life was SUN very hard. Many died of disease in the appalling SUN conditions. SUN SUN Later the Nazis began deporting thousands of Jews to SUN concentration camps. Chayim and Rachel died in Auschwitz in SUN 1942; Sonia also died in 1942, possibly in the ghetto. SUN Harry managed to escape, eventually reaching Britain. I saw SUN him perform in a play when I was 14, we went backstage to SUN see him afterwards, I remember him as a kind man and very SUN friendly, with a big smiley face. I also remember feeling SUN sad when my parents told me that his family – who were my SUN family - had all perished in the Holocaust. SUN SUN Millions of families were devastated by the loss of family SUN members in the Holocaust, millions of people killed, a SUN tragic loss that we must never forget. SUN SUN Canon David says SUN SUN There are few people in the Jewish community whose lives SUN have NOT been affected by the Holocaust: Thank you, Ros, for SUN sharing with us some of the painful memories you hold in SUN your heart today. Before David Porter, the Archbishop of SUN Canterbury’s Director of Reconciliation, speaks to us, we SUN listen to the choir as they sing Johnny Lange and Jimmy SUN Duncan’s song, ‘I asked the Lord to comfort me’. SUN SUN The choir sings SUN SUN Song SUN “I asked the Lord to comfort me when things weren’t going my SUN way. SUN Sermon SUN SUN preached by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Director of SUN Reconciliation, Canon David Porter SUN SUN It has only been in the last six years through my work at SUN Coventry Cathedral that I have been able to visit for the SUN first time some of the camps whose names are synonymous with SUN the horrendous events of the Shoah - the Holocaust. They SUN echo across the decades - Gross-Rosen, Auschwitz-Birkenau, SUN Buchenwald and Dachau. SUN Nothing prepares you for the tangible terrifying sense of SUN place that each conveys. Nor for the quiet yet stark beauty SUN of the surrounding countryside. This was all the more SUN striking as the final stages of my journey to each camp SUN brought me through some remarkable towns and cities - SUN Breslau, Krakow, Wiemar and Munich. Each in their own way SUN symbolic of high European culture. SUN It is in this context that the deep and disturbing SUN inhumanity of the holocaust is set. Hidden away, the dark SUN side of a culture that presumed to civilise the world. SUN In Dachau it was profoundly moving to stay overnight at a SUN small convent on the perimeter of the site and to share with SUN the joint Lutheran - Catholic chaplaincy as they became part SUN of Coventry Cathedral’s international reconciliation SUN network, the Community of the Cross of Nails. SUN Woven throughout this journey over the last six years has SUN been another jarring and seemingly contradictory path. SUN Places whose names have a different resonance - Lubeck, SUN Wurzburg, Pfrozheim and Dresden. German cities I visited on SUN the anniversary of allied heavy bomber raids. In each our SUN partners in the Community the Cross of Nails have taken a SUN lead and sensitively enabled a hard remembering. Citizens of SUN these cities now allow themselves to publicly remember. SUN Heavy hearted, sometimes tentatively and with acknowledgment SUN of the shame which brought such death and destruction to SUN their city. SUN In Wurzburg for instance there is now a walk of witness from SUN the once neglected memorial site to the last remains of the SUN train platform from which the city’s Jews were deported. SUN There the names of all the Jewish children sent to the camps SUN are read out as today’s children lay a stone for each to SUN form a rocky mound of acknowledgement and tribute. SUN Keeping the memory alive - memory of a time of unspeakable SUN violence and profound suffering. Whose memory do we keep SUN alive to make sense of the nature and scale of the violence? SUN How do we remember in a way that bears true witness to the SUN cause of such human loss and pain? SUN As Croatian theologian Miroslav Volf challenges us “To SUN remember wrongdoing untruthfully is to act unjustly.” SUN I would add that to remember selectively is to diminish our SUN common humanity and suffering. How many of us took time last SUN year to remember it was twenty years since the Rwanda SUN genocide? Or know that this April it is the centenary of the SUN Armenian genocide begun in 1915? This summer it will also be SUN the 20th anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica. SUN Today the world shudders as fresh memories of tragedy and SUN suffering are made out of our anger and hate. From Bagra in SUN Nigeria, to Bor in South Sudan, in Aleppo and Mosul, SUN Peshawar and Paris - the list is far too long to recite - SUN people of many faiths and none live with the fresh grief, SUN bodily wounds and emotional scars of inhumanity and SUN brutality. SUN At the heart of Christian worship is a simple act of keeping SUN memory alive. In the sharing of bread and wine we keep the SUN memory of Jesus alive among us. Even as I say this, I must SUN press pause. Keeping the memory of Jesus alive in the wrong SUN way could have cost you your life in the religious wars of SUN the past. And the contested nature of this act of worship SUN still prevents Protestant and Catholic from sharing together SUN in full communion. A thought not to be lost as we end the SUN annual week of prayer for Christian unity. Keeping memory SUN alive is always problematic! SUN Yet this is the essence of the worship and witness of the SUN church. The Jesus Christians remember and know by faith, is SUN God who is with us. God who becomes a human being - flesh SUN and blood like us. He inhabits the intimacy of the human SUN story. When we consider others as less than human and not SUN one of ‘us’, whatever our ‘us’ may be, Jesus stands with SUN them. SUN This Jesus offers humanity hope and the possibility of SUN healing the deep wounds we carry from the past. In doing so SUN he invites us to the seemingly impossible. In teaching his SUN disciples to pray Jesus demands much - forgive us our sins SUN as we forgive those who sin against us. SUN Forgiveness does not mean that the hurt of the past doesn't SUN matter nor should it be forgotten. For Christians it is to SUN deal with past hurt in a way that breaks the enmity and SUN hostility that defines our relationships resulting in SUN ongoing violence and war. This is exactly what Jesus does SUN for us Christians in our relationship with God. Jesus makes SUN peace and reconciles us to God and forgiveness is the key SUN ingredient. SUN Having witnessed the systematic dehumanisation of his people SUN in the horrendous events of the Holocaust, Elie Weisel SUN reflects the angst at the heart of his experience when he SUN pleads; “God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers SUN of Jewish children here.” SUN It is the God of Forgiveness whom Jesus invites us to know SUN and remember. To keep the memory of such a God alive when so SUN much makes it impossible to believe such a God exists. SUN The daily use of the litany of reconciliation, as in this SUN service, helps us here at Coventry Cathedral to keep the SUN memory of a forgiving God alive - Father Forgive. Sitting SUN resolutely with all who suffer unspeakable horror. Yet SUN finding the grace which allows us to even begin to SUN contemplate the pain borne by other human beings, whatever SUN guilt they may carry for the atrocities of our world. SUN This is not an easy place to inhabit. However for Christians SUN it is the place that Jesus inhabits and invites us to SUN follow. SUN SUN The choir sings SUN SUN Song SUN SUN Go down, Moses, way down in a Egypt land, SUN SUN Canon David says SUN SUN When several students from Blue Coat School met to talk SUN about this morning’s service, we reflected on how important SUN it is to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, aware of SUN how easy it was back then for ordinary people to be gently SUN and gradually drawn into what now we see as the unimaginable SUN horror of what happened. SUN SUN We thought too about how hard it is to forgive someone who SUN has done something dreadful to you and about the need to SUN pray with humility and hope for those in distress in our SUN world today. As we pray, several students will begin to SUN light seventy candles placed on the altar, including a SUN Jewish Memorial Candle or ‘Yizkor’. That’s one candle for SUN each year since the liberation of Auschwitz. We will also SUN hear the main theme from the film ‘Schindler’s List’, SUN written by John Williams and played on the clarinet by SUN Laurence Trowsdale-Stannard, another Blue-coat student. SUN SUN Prayers SUN SUN Josh Grimwood says SUN SUN It’s a tradition within the Jewish Faith for those who are SUN mourning to say ‘Kaddish’, an ancient prayer which expresses SUN a determination to praise God even in the midst of suffering SUN and loss. SUN SUN Ros Johnson says SUN SUN A few lines from the Mourner’s Kaddish… SUN SUN Yitgadal v'yitkadash sh'mei raba. SUN B'alma di v'ra chirutei, SUN v'yamlich malchutei, SUN b'chayeichon uv'yomeichon SUN uv'chayei d'chol beit Yisrael, SUN baagala uviz'man kariv. V'im'ru: Amen. SUN SUN Let us magnify and let us sanctify in this world the great SUN name of God, SUN whose will created it. May God's reign come in your SUN lifetime and in your days, SUN and in the lifetime of the family of Israel - quickly and SUN speedily may it come SUN Amen SUN SUN --------------------------------- SUN Oseh shalom bimromav, SUN Hu yaaseh shalom aleinu, SUN v'al kol Yisrael.v'al kol Olam, V'imru: Amen. SUN May the Maker of peace in the highest bring this peace SUN upon us and upon all Israel SUN and upon all the world SUN Amen SUN SUN Josh Grimwood says SUN SUN The following words were found scribbled on a piece of SUN wrapping paper near the body of a dead child at Ravensbruck SUN concentration camp. SUN SUN Abigail Claridge says SUN SUN “O Lord, remember not only the men and women of good will SUN but also those of evil will. But do not remember all the SUN suffering they have inflicted upon us; remember the fruits SUN we have borne thanks to this suffering: our comradeship, our SUN loyalty, our humility, our courage, our generosity, the SUN greatness of heart which has grown out of all this. And when SUN they come to the judgement let all the fruits that we have SUN borne be their forgiveness.” Amen. SUN SUN Josh Grimwood says SUN SUN These words come from a litany by Desmond Tutu. SUN SUN Will Haynes says SUN SUN “Oh when will we ever learn that you intended us for shalom, SUN for wholeness, for peace, for fellowship, for togetherness, SUN for brotherhood, for sisterhood, for family? When will we SUN ever learn that you created us as your children, as members SUN of one family, your family, the human family – that you SUN created us for linking arms to express our common humanity.” SUN Amen. SUN SUN The Lord’s Prayer SUN Canon David says SUN SUN As Jesus taught us, so we pray: SUN SUN Our Father in heaven, SUN hallowed be your name, SUN your kingdom come, SUN your will be done, SUN on earth as in heaven. SUN Give us today our daily bread. SUN Forgive us our sins SUN as we forgive those who sin against us. SUN Lead us not into temptation SUN but deliver us from evil. SUN For the kingdom, the power, SUN and the glory are yours SUN now and for ever. SUN Amen. SUN SUN Canon David says SUN SUN Born in Haarlem in the Netherlands, Fred Kaan’s teenage SUN experience of Nazi occupation never left him. His parents SUN were deeply involved in the resistance movement, with SUN weapons hidden under their floor. Three of Fred’s SUN grandparents died from starvation shortly before the war’s SUN end. “Emerging from the war a committed pacifist, I became SUN interested in the faith and began the study of theology and SUN psychology at Utrecht University,” he remembered. He went on SUN to become an ordained minister in what is now the United SUN Reformed Church and was also a prolific hymn writer. Which SUN brings us to our final hymn, which was specially written by SUN Fred for Coventry Cathedral: God! As with silent hearts we SUN bring to mind how hate and war diminish humankind, we pause SUN - and seek in worship to increase our knowledge of the SUN things that make for peace. It’s sung to the tune ‘The SUN Supreme Sacrifice.’ SUN SUN Everyone sings SUN SUN Hymn SUN SUN God! As with silent hearts we bring to mind SUN Fred Kaan (1929-2009) SUN commissioned by Coventry Cathedral SUN Tune The Supreme Sacrifice Charles Harris (1865-1936) SUN SUN Blessing SUN Canon David and Ros Johnson say SUN SUN DS The Lord bless you and watch over you, SUN SUN RH the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious SUN to you, SUN SUN DS the Lord look kindly on you and give you peace. SUN SUN RH My brothers, SUN SUN DS my sisters, SUN SUN Both may the Lord bless you. Amen. SUN Canon David says SUN SUN Thank you for joining with us in our service today. We leave SUN you with a song from South Africa arranged by Alexander SUN L’Estrange. It proclaims a confident faith in God and solid SUN hope for the future – ‘We are who we are through the power SUN of prayer.’ SUN SUN The choir sings SUN Song SUN Si njay njay njay ngeme thanda zoh. SUN Woh mama bagu dalay babay thanda zah. SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04yk3w3 (Listen) SUN The Power of Art SUN SUN AL Kennedy reflects on the importance of the beauty and SUN creativity of art to sustain the human spirit. SUN SUN "Art is a power and most of its true power is invisible, SUN private, memorised and held even in prison cells and on SUN forced marches, so you can see why totalitarians of all SUN kinds dislike it." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN Editor: Richard Knight. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: AL Kennedy SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN Editor: Richard Knight SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0skg (Listen) SUN Horned Screamer SUN SUN Michael Palin presents the Venezuelan horned screamer. SUN Sounding as if someone is using a giant plunger in the SUN Venezuelan marshes, these are the mating calls of the Horned SUN Screamer. They're sounds that only another Horned Screamer SUN could love, but then screamers are very odd birds. Over the SUN years ornithologists have struggled to classify them, modern SUN thinking puts their closest living relatives as the SUN primitive Australian Magpie Goose. SUN SUN Protruding from its head is a long wiry horn made of SUN cartilage, which could rightfully earn it the title of SUN "unicorn of the bird world" Usually seen as pairs or, SUN outside the breeding season in small groups in the marshes SUN and savannas of the northern half of South America, as you'd SUN expect from their name , they are very vocal and these SUN primeval bellows which sound more cow like than bird like SUN and can be heard up to 3 kilometers away. SUN SUN Horned screamer (Anhima cornuta) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Mark Bowler / naturepl.com. SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01257345 SUN © Mark Bowler / naturepl.com SUN SUN Recording of horned screamer by Paul A Schwartz / Ref: ML SUN 58929 SUN SUN This programme contains a SUN wildtrack recording of the horned screamer SUN kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab SUN of Ornithology; recorded by Paul A Schwartz in Sept 1964; at SUN Hato El Milago, Cojedes, Venezuela. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0505l37 (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 b0505l39 (Listen) SUN There is bad news for Ed and a horrible shock for Lilian. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0505l3c (Listen) SUN Professor Peter Piot SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the Director of London School of SUN Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Peter Piot. SUN SUN As a microbiologist he is known for his research into SUN viruses and into the public health aspects of sexually SUN transmitted diseases, and, more recently, on the politics of SUN AIDS and global health. Born in Leuven in Belgium, he SUN studied medicine and in 1976, as a young researcher at the SUN Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, he was sent a SUN blood sample of a Belgian nun living in what was then Zaire SUN who had fallen ill with a mysterious disease. On SUN investigation, Piot and his colleagues realised it was a SUN virus they'd not seen before which they went on to identify SUN as Ebola. He then travelled to Zaire to help quell the SUN outbreak. SUN SUN Later, back in Antwerp, he developed an interest in sexually SUN transmitted diseases and joined the World Health SUN Organisation's Global Programme on HIV/AIDS in 1992. SUN Appointed as Executive Director of the newly created Joint SUN United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in late 1994 his major SUN successes were putting AIDS on the political agenda and SUN achieving a reduction in the price of antiretroviral drugs. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Piot SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b05053kx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b05061zg (Listen) SUN Series 14, Episode 4 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Ed Byrne, Holly Walsh, Richard Osman and Henning Wehn are SUN the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as Ancient Egypt, ice, rubbish and SUN British food. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Produced by Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Mitchell SUN Panellist: Ed Byrne SUN Panellist: Holly Walsh SUN Panellist: Richard Osman SUN Panellist: Henning Wehn SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0505l3f (Listen) SUN The Secret Formula SUN SUN With one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe, many SUN parents in the UK feed their babies formula milk. But what's SUN actually in it? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon discovers why it's an industry steeped in SUN science and secrecy as well as controversy. SUN SUN Journalist Ella McSweeney reports from a lab to explain how SUN its made and why formula is at the heart of Ireland's SUN ambition to become a powerful global food player. SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Sanderson. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Ella McSweeney SUN Producer: Ruth Sanderson SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b05053kz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0505l3h (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 The Secretaries of Juliet b04xnczn (Listen) SUN Every year, 10,000 lovelorn people write to Juliet, SUN Shakespeare's great romantic heroine. Some leave their SUN letters in a postbox at the "House of Juliet", a museum in SUN Verona. Others simply address them to "Juliet, Verona, SUN Italy". Someone has to answer those letters, and the task SUN falls to a committee of a dozen local women who style SUN themselves "The Secretaries of Juliet". SUN SUN Some of the letters celebrate love, but most of them are SUN sad. The Secretaries, all of them volunteers, try to answer SUN all letters, even those that are not written in Italian or SUN English. Sometimes there is a backlog while they hunt for a SUN local speaker of, say Russian. Despite the unremitting SUN sadness of the letters (and in some cases their own personal SUN experiences), all the Secretaries are incurable romantics by SUN disposition. SUN SUN Jolyon Jenkins travels to Verona to meet the Secretaries, SUN and finds himself unexpectedly co-opted as a temporary SUN secretary. How to answer the American woman facing marriage SUN and asking how to be a submissive wife? What about the 15 SUN year old girl needing to choose between her dull but safe SUN boyfriend and the "bad boy who offers rampant lust"? Are the SUN correspondents really looking for advice or do they just SUN want empathy and reassurance? SUN SUN Producer/presenter: Jolyon Jenkins. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04yjzvy (Listen) SUN Arundel Castle SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the programme from Arundel Castle, West SUN Sussex. Taking questions in the Barons' Hall are Matt Biggs, SUN Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank. SUN SUN Anne takes a tour of The Collector Earl's Garden with SUN Arundel's Head Gardener Martin Duncan while Eric has a look SUN around the castle built to last for a thousand years... SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN A garden of grandeur SUN The Collector Earl’s Garden in Arundel SUN SUN Flamboyant feline fountains SUN One of the many theatrical features of The Collector Earl’s SUN Garden in Arundel SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN Q. I have a small, unheated greenhouse and wanted your SUN opinion on whether it was a good idea to line it with bubble SUN wrap. SUN SUN SUN A. The wrap will keep out the sunlight and also keep to SUN humidity in causing problems with mould. So if you do decide SUN to use bubble wrap then make sure you ventilate the green SUN house regularly. You could use thick horticultural fleece to SUN keep plants warm and try using the horticultural grade SUN bubble wrap from garden centres to insulate the house. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Q. Our Eucalyptus tree has a nasty vertical split – what is SUN wrong and what can we do to save the tree? SUN SUN A. It looks like wind damage. To save it, cut it right back SUN to below the split. It will grow several shoots and be more SUN robust as a shrub rather than a tree. Formative pruning of SUN trees in the early years is essential to making them SUN resistant to adverse weather conditions. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Q. What could I grow in old, plastic guttering? I’m going to SUN grow strawberries, but am looking for more recommendations. SUN The guttering is 4inches (10cm) wide. I live 100m (328ft) SUN from the sea, but am planning to put the guttering on the SUN sheltered side. SUN SUN A. Plant Strawberries (try the Alpine varieties) no closer SUN that 3ft (0.9m) apart because they need big root runs. Grow SUN salad leaves, Water Cress, the Heritage Pea ‘Tom Thumb’ and SUN even ‘Tumbling Tom’ Tomatoes. SUN SUN SUN Q. We have inherited a Banana tree that is now 12ft (3.7m) SUN tall. How can we keep the size down? SUN SUN A. Take a saw to it. You can curt in down to 4ft (1.2m) if SUN desired. Protect the roots to make sure it survives the SUN cold. SUN SUN SUN Q. I’m intrigued by crop rotation – can it really be used on SUN a small allotment to increase yields, improve the soil and SUN protect against pests and diseases? SUN SUN A. If you don’t rotate, you will have problems. Potatoes SUN planted without rotation will bring eelworms and when SUN Carrots are planted in the same place every year, there are SUN problems with carrot fly. Always make sure you’re careful to SUN buy good quality seeds in the first place to reduce the SUN chances of white rot etc. and make sure you add loads of SUN compost each year to keep the soil healthy. SUN SUN SUN Q. What can I grow in my boggy back garden for a bit of SUN colour? The garden is south facing but backs onto woodland SUN so gets very little sun, and the soil is clay. SUN SUN A. You could fry growing Willows like the Salix alba SUN ‘Britzensis’ which has beautiful orange stems or the Osmunda SUN regaelis fern would grow well there. The ‘Summer Snowflake’ SUN (Leucijum aestivum) looks like a giant Snowdrop and would SUN also work well. You could also try growing Cadelabra SUN Primulas in areas of dappled shade which would add bright SUN colours. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Q. I’ve recently been given a Pomegranate tree and wanted to SUN know where would be the best place to plant it. SUN SUN A. You will get flowers, but it’s unlikely you’ll get fruit SUN unless you plant it in a very sunny place against a very SUN warm wall. SUN SUN SUN Q. Could the panel recommend a reliable variety of mini SUN Cucumber for outdoor growing and is there a need to reduce SUN the leaf growth or pinch out the tops when you’re growing SUN this variety? SUN SUN A. Try growing Gherkins such as the ‘Paris’ variety. There SUN are also things called Cucamelons that look like mini melons SUN and taste like unpleasant Cucumbers. The ‘Marketmore’ and SUN ‘Burpless Tasty Green’ varieties of Cucumber have a great SUN flavour and grow well when planted up a frame. Don’t worry SUN about nipping things out. Put lots of well-rotted matter SUN into the soil and plant them 45cm (18 inches) apart. SUN SUN SUN Q. I have a hot composting bin made out of polystyrene, SUN which has lots of instructions. I’m wondering about sending SUN it back as it seems like a lot of work and I’m worried it SUN will attract rats. What advice would the panel give? SUN SUN A. If you live in a small place a simple wormery is the SUN ideal way of composting but if you have a lot of kitchen SUN waste and grass clippings, a hot compost bin could be the SUN way to break down the matter quickly. But if you feel it’s SUN too much work, stick to normal compost heaps. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b0505l3k (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces couples who have dealt with serious SUN head injury and with wrongful accusation at work, plus the SUN musician brothers who form the successful band Tinlin in the SUN Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's surprising SUN what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b0505l3m (Listen) SUN Cloud Howe, Episode 1 SUN SUN Lewis Grassic Gibbon's powerful sequel to Sunset Song SUN dramatised by Donna Franceschild. SUN SUN Atmospheric drama about Grassic Gibbon's best-loved SUN character, Chris. SUN SUN Now married to Robert, a young and idealistic minister, SUN Chris and her family move from the crofting village of SUN Kinraddie to the mill town of Segget in Aberdeenshire. SUN Living in the wake of the Great War and during the build up SUN to the General Strike, they find themselves instrumental in SUN the small town's epic class struggle. SUN SUN Starring Amy Manson and Robin Laing. SUN SUN Directed by Kirsty Williams. SUN SUN Credits SUN Chris: Amy Manson SUN Robert: Robin Laing SUN Else: Pearl Appleby SUN Dalziel: Liam Brennan SUN Alec: Philip Cairns SUN Jock: Stephen Duffy SUN Ewan: Roderick Gilkison SUN Leslie: Ralph Riach SUN Ake: Iain Robertson SUN Miss M'Askill: Wendy Seager SUN Mowat: Nick Underwood SUN Director: Kirsty Williams SUN Adaptor: Donna Franceschild SUN Actor: Lewis Grassic Gibbon SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0505t2p (Listen) SUN David Lodge on his memoir Quite a Good Time to Be Born SUN SUN David Lodge is a novelist, critic and academic and now - as SUN he approaches his 80th birthday -he's publishing his first SUN memoir, Quite A Good Time To Be Born. He talks to Mariella SUN about his Catholic faith, his long marriage and how his life SUN and novels - which include Changing Places, How Far Can You SUN Go? and The British Museum is Falling Down - have SUN overlapped. SUN SUN Stewart Bain of Orkney Library reveals to Mariella how their SUN twitter feed became a social media sensation. SUN SUN Ted Hogkinson from the British Council is just back from SUN Amman in Jordan and reports on the literary scene and why SUN Petra is inspiring a new generation of writers. And an SUN editor looks beyond her own books pile to recommend a title SUN from another publisher. SUN SUN Read the first chapter of Quite a Good Time to be Born by SUN David Lodge SUN Quite a Good Time to be Born: Chapter 1 SUN by David Lodge SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN Quite a Good Time to be Born by David Lodge SUN SUN Petra by Amjad Nasser, translated by Fady Joudah SUN SUN She Will Build Him A City by Raj Kamal Jha SUN SUN Orkney Library (@OrkneyLibrary) SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: David Lodge SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b0505t2r (Listen) SUN A Burns Supper SUN SUN Roger McGough celebrates the poet Robert Burns by hosting a SUN Poetry Please Burns supper, with favourites including John SUN Anderson my Jo, To a Mouse and A Man's a Man for A' That, SUN read by John MacKay. Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN SUN Selkirk Grace SUN SUN Trad SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns SUN SUN Published by Senate SUN SUN SUN SUN To a Haggis SUN SUN By Robert Burns SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns SUN SUN Published by Senate SUN SUN SUN SUN John Anderson, My Jo SUN SUN By Robert Burns SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns SUN SUN Published by Senate SUN SUN SUN SUN To a Mouse SUN SUN By Robert Burns SUN SUN From Robert Burns: Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Bloomsbury SUN SUN SUN SUN To a Mountain Daisy SUN SUN By Robert Burns SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns SUN SUN Published by Senate SUN SUN SUN SUN Epitaph on a Wag in SUN Mauchline SUN SUN By Robert Burns SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns SUN SUN Published by Senate SUN SUN SUN SUN Poem to his Love-Begotten Daughter SUN SUN By Robert Burns SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns SUN SUN Published by Senate SUN SUN SUN SUN My Peggy's Charms SUN SUN By Robert Burns SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns SUN SUN Published by Senate SUN SUN SUN SUN A Red, Red, Rose SUN SUN By Robert Burns SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns SUN SUN Published by Senate SUN SUN SUN SUN Address to the Unco SUN Guid SUN SUN By Robert Burns SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns SUN SUN Published by Senate SUN SUN SUN SUN Poor Mailie's Elegy SUN SUN By Robert Burns SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns SUN SUN Published by Senate SUN SUN SUN SUN A Man's a Man for A'that SUN SUN By Robert Burns SUN SUN From Robert Burns: Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Bloomsbury SUN SUN SUN SUN Auld Lang Syne SUN SUN By Robert Burns SUN SUN Performed by the Robert Shaw Chorale Male Chorus SUN SUN Taken from the CD ‘Music For All Occasions’ SUN SUN Label: RCA SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: John MacKay SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b04yk7h6 (Listen) SUN Benefit Sanctions SUN SUN Benefit sanctions are supposed to be part of a system SUN helping people back to work. But critics say they penalise SUN the vulnerable and are among the reasons for the growing use SUN of food banks. So how fair is the Government's system of SUN withholding state payments for those who don't comply with SUN welfare rules? Allan Urry hears from whistleblowers who SUN allege some JobCentrePlus staff are setting claimants up to SUN fail in order to meet internal performance targets. Why did SUN a recovering amputee lose his benefits because he didn't SUN answer the phone? SUN SUN Reporter: Allan Urry Producer: Nicola Dowling. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b0501kvd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05053l1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b05053l3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05053l5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0505t2t (Listen) SUN This week we discover that Ewan MacColl and Robert Burns SUN share a birthday, and find out the various ways people have SUN of commemorating their dead; from Churchill's simple grave SUN in Bladon, to the oak tree planted for MacColl in Russell SUN Square. We investigate the secret life of sperm donors - and SUN of Robert Burns - and explore what happens to secrets when SUN they explode. Plus more to celebrate with Ivor Cutler, Cab SUN Calloway, Duke Ellington and Karinne Polwort. But watch out, SUN parents, when you have parties for your five-year-olds... SUN SUN Jackie Kay SUN Born in Edinburgh in 1961, Jackie grew up wanting to be an SUN actress, inspired by Scottish artist and writer Alasdair SUN Gray. Jackie went on to study English at the University of SUN Stirling; her first publication, The Adoption Papers in SUN 1991, won the Saltire Scottish First Book Award. This became SUN the first of many, followed by the 1994 Somerset Maugham SUN Award for Other Lovers and the Guardian First Book Award SUN Fiction Prize for Trumpet. The story was based on the life SUN of US jazz musician Bill Tipton, born Dorothy Tipton, who SUN lived as a man for 50 years. SUN Jackie went on to write for screen and children. Lamplighter SUN explored the Atlantic slave trade and was broadcast on Radio SUN 3 in 2007 and published in poetry form in 2008. Having been SUN adopted as a young child, Jackie wrote about the search for SUN her biological parents in her 2010 book, Red Dust Road. SUN Jackie was awarded a MBE in 2006 and now resides in SUN Manchester. In October 2014, Jackie was nominated as SUN Chancellor of the University of Salford. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0505t2w (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Gloomsbury b01mx2sp (Listen) SUN Series 1, The Trials of Attempting an Elopement SUN SUN A stellar cast of Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman, Nigel SUN Planer, Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions SUN breathes life into the colourfully chaotic characters of SUN Gloomsbury, a riotous comedy about the Bloomsbury Group. SUN SUN The six-part series from the pen of Sue Limb is an SUN affectionate send up of the infamous literary group whose SUN arty and adulterous adventures dominated the cultural scene SUN in the early 20th century. SUN SUN The series follows the fortunes of Vera Sackcloth-Vest SUN (Margolyes) - writer, gardener and transvestite - and her SUN urge to escape from the tranquillity of her rather cramped SUN little castle in Kent which she shares with her doting but SUN ambiguous husband Henry (Coy), who is 'something in the SUN Foreign Office'. Vera's heart is forever surging with exotic SUN passion for Ginny Fox (Steadman), a highly-strung novelist SUN who adores her, or the beautiful but shallow Venus Traduces SUN (Banks). SUN SUN As the scene shifts from Kent to London, and Cornwall to SUN Monaco, this close-knit coterie is divided by SUN misunderstandings, jealousies and rows. SUN SUN In episode one, Vera longs to elope to Mediterranean SUN sunshine with one of her bosom chums. But her first choice, SUN Ginny, is stubbornly impervious to adventure and Venus SUN Traduces is fully booked for elopements until next April. SUN Will Vera run off instead with the perky waitress at Lyons' SUN Corner house? Meanwhile, what is Vera's husband Henry up to SUN as telegrams fly between him and Archie Pinkerton-Poker at SUN the Foreign Office? SUN SUN Produced by Jamie Rix SUN A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Subway b0505t2y (Listen) SUN In Praise of Radical Fish SUN SUN A multi-contributor series of specially-commissioned stories SUN with subterranean settings. SUN SUN Episode 3 (of 3): In Praise Of Radical Fish by Alison SUN MacLeod SUN Believing themselves to be bound for Syria, three not-very SUN radical young men prepare on Brighton beach. SUN SUN Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for SUN the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story SUN 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in SUN the Radio 4 series Where Were You ... in 2012. Her previous SUN works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of Angels. SUN Her novel Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker SUN Prize and was a Book At Bedtime on BBC Radio 4. Alison is SUN Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the University of SUN Chichester. SUN SUN Read by Amir El-Masry SUN SUN Produced by Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Amir El-Masry SUN Writer: Alison MacLeod SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b04yk0jf (Listen) SUN Is Anti-Semitism Widespread in the UK? SUN SUN Are 95% of hate crimes in the UK directed against Jewish SUN people? Tim Harford and Ruth Alexander fact-check an SUN unlikely statistic. Meanwhile the Campaign Against SUN Anti-Semitism (CAA) says surveys show that almost half of SUN adults believe at least one anti-Semitic statement shown SUN them to be true and that half of British Jews believe Jews SUN may have no long-term future in the UK. But how robust are SUN these findings? More or Less speaks to Gideon Falter, SUN chairman of the CAA and Jonathan Boyd, executive director of SUN the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. SUN SUN Who is in the global 1% of wealthiest people, and where do SUN they live? SUN SUN More than 200 of the MPS voting on the 2012 NHS reform have SUN recent or current financial connections to private SUN healthcare, a recent editorial in the British Medical SUN Journal claimed. Richard Vadon and Keith Moore explain why SUN it's not true. SUN SUN Sixty bodies in 6 years - is a serial killer stalking the SUN canals of Great Manchester? Hannah Moore investigates a SUN theory first raised by the Star on Sunday's crime editor SUN Scott Hesketh. SUN SUN Plus the programme hears from Professor Carlos Vilalta from SUN the University of California San Diego and Steven Dudley SUN from Insight Crime about claims that "98% of homicides in SUN Mexico are unsolved." A shocking statistic, but is it true? SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04yk0jc (Listen) SUN Lord Brittan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Professor John SUN Bayley, Anne Kirkbride SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The former Tory Home Secretary Lord Brittan. As Leon SUN Brittan, he also served as Secretary of State for Trade and SUN Industry and as a European Commissioner. SUN SUN Also: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. He was the thirteenth SUN of at least forty-five sons of the founder of modern Saudi SUN Arabia and seen as a cautious reformer. SUN SUN John Bayley, the eccentric Oxford don whose memoir of his SUN life with the novelist Iris Murdoch was made into a film. SUN SUN And Anne Kirkbride the actress who played Deirdre in SUN Coronation Street for more than forty years. SUN SUN Lord Brittan SUN SUN Matthew spoke to journalists Matthew Parris and Michael SUN White. SUN SUN Born 25 September 1939; died 21 January 2015 aged 75. SUN SUN King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke live to SUN the historian Robert Lacey who has written books about the SUN Saudi kingdom. SUN SUN Born August 1924(?); died 23 January 2015 aged 90. SUN SUN Professor John Bayley SUN SUN Matthew spoke live to his friend, Professor Valentine SUN Cunningham. SUN SUN Born 27 March 1925; died 12 January 2015 aged 89. SUN SUN Anne Kirkbride SUN SUN Damon Rochefort, one of the writers on Coronation Street, SUN pays tribute. SUN SUN Born 21 June 1954; died 19 January 2015 aged 60. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0501jp9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0505l33 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04ykk5q (Listen) SUN Ttip: The world's biggest trade deal SUN SUN The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or Ttip, SUN is currently being negotiated between the US and the EU. It SUN is the world's biggest trade deal and highly controversial. SUN Peter Day asks how it may effect what we eat, how we work SUN and the strength of our democracy. Will it provide a SUN beneficial boost for business or allow big corporations to SUN side-step important regulation? SUN SUN Producer: Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Nick Dearden SUN SUN Director, Global Justice Now SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Allie Renison SUN SUN Head of Europe & Trade Policy, Institute of Directors SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Jeffrey Schott SUN SUN Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International SUN Economics in Washington; SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Ian Wooton SUN SUN Prof of Economics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Scott Walker SUN SUN Chief Executive, National Farmers’ Union in Scotland; SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Prof Francisco Panizza SUN SUN London School of Economics SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0505t30 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b0505t32 (Listen) SUN Olly Duff of the i paper analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 TED Radio Hour b0505t34 (Listen) SUN Transformation SUN SUN A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by SUN riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, SUN Design) stage. SUN SUN Guy Raz investigates if we are the sum of our experiences, SUN or can we choose our own path? With Zak Ebrahim. SUN SUN 23:50 A Point of View b04yk3w3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:48 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 26 JANUARY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b05053m3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04ykd77 (Listen) MON Tribute to Ulrich Beck (1944 - 2015) - Dissident Irish MON Republicanism MON MON Dissident Irish Republicanism - Laurie Taylor talks to John MON Morrison, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University MON of East London, about his in depth study into the recent MON intensification of rogue paramilitary activity, Can the MON upsurge in dissident Republican violence be explained by the MON history of splits within the Movement? He charts the rise of MON groups including the Real IRA, Continuity IRA and the newly MON emerging 'New IRA.' He's joined by Henry Mcdonald, Belfast MON correspondent at the Observer newspaper. MON MON Ulrich Beck - Angela McRobbie, Professor of Communications MON at Goldsmiths, University of London, gives a tribute to the MON eminent German sociologist who died earlier this month. What MON do his ideas about the 'risk society' tell us about current MON concerns relating to global terrorism? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Angela McRobbie MON Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths, University of MON London MON Find out more about MON Angela McRobbie MON MON *The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social MON Change* MON Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd MON ISBN-10: 0761970622 MON ISBN-13: 978-076197062 MON MON John Morrison MON Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, MON University of East London MON Find out more about Dr MON John F. Morrison MON *The Origins and Rise of Dissident Irish Republicanism: The MON Role and Impact of Organizational Splits* MON Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic MON ISBN-10: 1501309234I MON SBN-13: 978-1501309236 MON MON Henry McDonald MON Observer's Belfast correspondent MON Find out more about MON Henry McDonald MON MON *INLA - Deadly Divisions*Publisher: Poolbeg Press Ltd MON ISBN-10: 1842234382 MON ISBN-13: 978-1842234389 MON MON MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography MON Thinking Allowed in association with the British MON Sociological Association announces the annual award for a MON study that has made a significant contribution to MON ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a MON culture or sub-culture. MON MON Are you involved in social science research and completing MON or will have completed ethnography this year? The Award is MON open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or MON researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution MON of higher education. MON MON An entry should be a MON completed ethnography MON a qualitative research project which provides a detailed MON description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole MON authored book or peer reviewed research article published MON during the calendar year of the award will be eligible. MON MON The judges for the Award are yet to be announced. MON MON The judges will be looking for work which displays MON flair MON originality MON and MON clarity MON alongside sound methodology. The work should make a MON significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in MON the relevant area of research. MON MON The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that MON shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will MON be awarded a prize of £1000. MON MON The winner of the Award will be announced at the MON BSA Annual Conference MON in April 2015. MON MON Read on for essential information and details on how to MON enter. MON HOW TO ENTER: MON MON You may submit one entry only, which must be sole authored. MON MON All entries must include the summary and contact details and MON a hard copy or electronic copy (attachments must be under MON the filesize of 10MB) of the ethnography. MON MON Email a summary of your work to MON ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk MON (no more than 250 words) along with your name and phone MON number. MON Please include the name of your paper in the 'Subject' MON category of your email. MON If you are submitting a paper MON it can be attached to your email, provided it is no more MON than 10MB. If you receive no automatic email confirmation MON your paper is too large and you will need to send it by MON post. MON If you are submitting a book MON (which must be published during this year) it should be MON posted to: MON Thinking Allowed MON Ethnography Award MON Room 6045 MON Broadcasting House MON London MON W1A 1AA MON Entries must be submitted by the closing date of 31st MON January 2015 MON TERMS & CONDITIONS: MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography Terms and MON Conditions MON MON MON 1. To be eligible to enter you must meet the following MON criteria: MON MON 2. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested. MON The BBC’s decision as to the eligibility of individual MON entrants will be final and no correspondence will be entered MON into. MON MON 3. Entrants must submit by way of email to MON ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk MON a summary outlining the nature of an ethnography undertaken MON and published by the entrant. Please include the name of MON your paper in the 'Subject' category of your email. The MON summary should not be longer than 250 words. The ethnography MON must consist of a qualitative research project which MON provides a detailed, in-depth description of the everyday MON life and practice of a group, people or culture and been MON included in a peer-reviewed paper or in a book published in MON 2014. All entries and research must be in English. MON MON 4. The email entry must include the following information MON and contact detail for the entrant: full name, postal MON address, institution of higher education, email address and MON contact telephone number. MON MON 5. If you are submitting a book (which must be published MON during this year) it should be posted to: Thinking Allowed MON Ethnography Award, room 6045 Broadcasting House, London W1A MON 1AA. If it is a paper, it can be attached to your email, MON provided it is no more than 10MB. If you receive no MON automatic email confirmation your paper is too large and you MON will need to send it by post. MON MON 6. All entries must include the: (i) summary (by email); MON (ii) the contact details (by email) and (ii) hard MON copy/electronic copy (if under 10MB) of the ethnography. MON MON 7. Only one entry will be allowed per person. MON MON 8. Entries cannot be submitted by any other method or they MON will not be considered. MON MON 9. All entries must be sole authored. MON MON 10. A panel of 5 highly experienced academics will select MON six finalists. These may be contacted by the Production Team MON for an interview. From the finalists, the panel will select MON an overall winner. The selection criteria will be based on MON the work which displays flair and originality, and which MON makes a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. Each entry MON will be a completed ethnography, a qualitative research MON project which provides a detailed, in-depth, description of MON the everyday life and practice of a group, people, or MON culture. 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MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b051dr80 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ed MON Kessler, from the Woolf Institute in Cambridge. MON MON Dr Ed Kessler MON MON Good morning! MON MON Confucius told his disciple that three things are needed for MON government: weapons, food and trust. If a ruler can't hold MON on to all three, he should give up the weapons first and the MON food next. Trust should be guarded to the end, as "without MON trust we cannot stand". Politicians, economists, MON philosophers and sociologists have all recently commented on MON the decline of trust. It is time to add a religious voice MON to the conversation. MON MON There is a general perception that trust has declined, MON particularly gathering momentum after the 2007 financial MON crisis and the (near) collapse of the banking sector. The MON financial markets lost sight of their moral duty. Bad MON conduct (such as financial deception) and the failure of the MON banks to stay within the social (and moral) consensus have MON contributed to the decline in trust. MON MON Although trust is widely used in economics and finance, it MON is not primarily an economic or financial term. The key MON words in the markets are spiritual: “credit” (from the Latin MON “credo” meaning “I believe”) and “confidence” (meaning MON “shared faith”). Indeed, United States coins bear the motto MON ‘In God We Trust’. MON Trust is relational; it cannot be commanded but needs to be MON given, freely. And rebuilding a culture of trust requires MON good conduct. MON MON This is the virtue of religion and is fulfilled by proper MON religious practice, which frees us from the tyranny of false MON gods – and there are many, including mammon – that claim our MON attention. G.K. Chesterton’s famous phrase: ‘When people MON stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they MON believe in anything.’ MON MON Lord, help us strive to rebuild the trust our society so MON urgently needs. MON MON Amen. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0505zvn (Listen) MON Fracking, Milk MON MON Fracking should be put on hold in the UK - that's the MON conclusion of an all-party committee of MPs, which says MON fracking for shale gas has the potential to pose significant MON risks to water and air quality, and to public health. It MON adds that it won't help meet climate change emission MON targets, as although cleaner than coal it is still a fossil MON fuel. MON The Environmental Audit Committee also wants fracking banned MON outright in National parks, areas of outstanding natural MON beauty, sites of special scientific interest and ancient MON woodland. MON And we look at the dairy industry - how milk is priced, and MON what consumers can do if they want to support dairy farmers. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b05053mf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0sxg (Listen) MON Red-Eyed Vireo MON MON Michael Palin presents the red-eyed vireo from North MON America. About the size of British great tits the red-eyed MON vireo is a common summer visitors to much of North America MON where they breed in woodlands. The adult vireos are mainly MON olive green with white bellies and grey heads and their red MON eyes are highlighted by a white eyestripe. Seeing the birds MON as they hunt insects among the leaves is much harder than MON hearing them, because red-vireos are tireless songsters. MON They used to be known locally as "preacher birds " and MON territorial males hold the record for the largest repertoire MON produced by a songbird in a single day. MON MON Each vireo can have a repertoire of between a dozen and over MON a hundred different song-types. And while these marathon MON "question- and- answer" sessions are the soundtrack to many MON North American woods, they aren't universally appreciated. MON The nature writer Bradford Torrey wrote in 1889 that MON "whoever dubbed this vireo the preacher could have had no MON very exalted opinion of the clergy". MON MON Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Gerrit Vyn / naturepl.com. MON MON NPL Ref MON 01308817 MON © Gerrit Vyn / naturepl.com MON MON Recording of Red-eyed vireo by Geoffrey A Keller / Ref: ML MON 176120 MON MON This programme contains a MON wildtrack recording of the red-eyed vireo MON kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab MON of Ornithology; recorded by Geoffrey A Keller on 1 May MON 2007; in Yellowwood State Forest, Brown County, Indiana, MON USA. MON MON 06:00 Today b0505zvz (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON Test MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0505zw1 (Listen) MON Organising the Mind MON MON Tom Sutcliffe is joined in the studio by Daniel Levitin, MON author of New York Times bestseller 'The Organized Mind'. MON Levitin dismisses the idea of multi-tasking and explores how MON we can counter information overload. But the poet Frances MON Leviston with her latest collection, Disinformation, MON believes her best work is conceived in disorganisation. The MON cognitive scientist Maggie Boden puts forward the idea that MON computers can be highly creative, and the conductor Ian Page MON celebrates the genius of Mozart who wrote his first symphony MON in London at the age of eight. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Daniel Levitin MON Dr MON Daniel J Levitin MON is an award-winning scientist, musician, author and record MON producer. He is also the James McGill Professor of MON Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience at McGill University MON in Montreal, where he runs the Laboratory for Music MON Cognition, Perception and Expertise. MON MON *'The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of MON Information Overload'* out 29th January. MON MON Margaret Boden MON MON Neuroscientist MON Margaret Boden MON OBE is Research Professor of cognitive science at the MON Department of informatics at the University of Sussex, MON where her work embraces the fields of artificial MON intelligence, psychology, philosophy, cognitive and computer MON science. MON MON Professor Boden will be giving a MON public lecture MON at the LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social MON Science on 29th January 2015. MON MON Frances Leviston MON MON Poet MON Frances Leviston MON ’s first collection, MON *Public Dream,* MON was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize MON for Best First Collection and the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First MON Collection Prize. MON MON Her latest collection, MON *Disinformation* MON will be published by Picador on 12th February 2015. MON MON Ian Page MON Ian Page MON is the founder, conductor and artistic director of Classical MON Opera which presents world class performances, with its own MON period instrument orchestra, of the works of Mozart and his MON contemporaries. MON MON Full Calendar of Events: MON Mozart 250 MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Daniel Levitin MON Interviewed Guest: Maggie Boden MON Interviewed Guest: Frances Leviston MON Interviewed Guest: Ian Page MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0505zw3 (Listen) MON Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, Episode 1 MON MON In the early 2000s, Peter Pomerantsev (Kiev-born, raised in MON England; the son of Russian political exiles) came to Moscow MON to work in the fast-growing television and film industry. MON The job gave him first hand access to every nook and corrupt MON cranny of the country. He was perfectly placed to witness MON the transformation of the New Russia on its journey from MON communist collapse to a new form of dictatorship. MON MON In a series of character studies, the subjects of MON Pomerantsev's reality TV documentaries, we glimpse the ways MON in which the Russian people have responded to and acted upon MON the opportunities (as well as terrible injustices) of MON Putin's new world order. Including, Oliona, professionally MON trained 'gold digger', escaping a bleak upbringing in MON Siberia; Vitaly, gangster-turned-filmmaker who studied his MON favourite American mafia movies and then made his auto theft MON crimes the subject of a hit six part drama series; and, MON Mozhayev, an architectural and urban historian who fights in MON vain to save what remains of the buildings of the Moscow MON that existed before the Soviet experiment. MON MON Written by Peter Pomerantsev MON MON Read by Justin Salinger MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Justin Salinger MON Author: Peter Pomerantsev MON Abridger: Robin Brooks MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0505zw5 (Listen) MON Knitting and coding; Women's rights in Saudi Arabia; Forced MON marriage MON MON Jane Garvey asks whether there will be changes for Saudi MON women with a new ruler in place. We find out what knitting MON and computers have in common. Over 20% of UK adults in their MON forties will age without children; Adults without Children MON are holding their first conference to look at the MON implications for the future. Panorama this week follows the MON High Commission team in Pakistan as they help British MON citizens sent there to be married against their will; Jane MON speak to Aneeta Prem, founder of the charity Freedom; We MON hear about the suffragette Katie Gliddon who spent time in MON Holloway Prison. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore. MON MON Women’s rights in Saudi Arabia MON When Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah died on Thursday, human MON rights campaigners criticised state leaders for paying MON condolences to a man who persistently discriminated against MON women. Journalist Mona Eltahawy spent her formative years MON growing up in Saudi Arabia. As Abdullah’s successor, his MON half-brother Crown Prince Salman, vows to maintain the same MON approach in governing the country as his predecessor, she MON discusses the situation facing women in the country today. MON MON Knitting and Coding MON MON What do knitting and computers have in common? Answer – they MON both use coding. The repetition of knit one purl is closer MON to the language of computers than you think, which makes MON every knitter in the land a computer geek, of sorts. Jane MON talks to Dr Karen Shoop, Lecturer in Digital Media at the MON Queen Mary University, and MON MON Betsan Corkhill, Director of MON Stitchlinks MON MON Ageing Without Children MON MON It is estimated that over 20% of UK adults in their forties MON will age without children. There is growing concern that in MON an increasingly older society that statistic is being MON overlooked in policy and thinking on ageing. In an effort MON to draw attention to the situation the organisation MON Adults Without Children MON is holding their first conference today. Founding member MON Jodie Day talks to Jane. MON MON Forced Marriage MON MON A forced marriage, where one or both people do not give MON their consent, can lead to abuse, rape and in some cases MON even murder. In the last twelve months alone the MON government's Forced Marriage Unit has dealt with about 1400 MON cases. But it's a hidden problem and the actual number of MON cases is thought to be more than 6000. MON MON In June last year, forced marriage was made a criminal MON offence. Panorama's Jane Corbin had unprecedented access to MON the High Commission team in Pakistan as they help British MON victims sent there to be married against their will. Aneeta MON Prem, founder of MON Freedom Charity MON talks to Jane about what can be done to try and stop crimes MON taking place. MON MON Panorama Rescued from a Forced Marriage is on Monday 26th at MON 8.30pm on BBC One. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Mona Eltahawy MON Interviewed Guest: Karen Shoop MON Interviewed Guest: Betsan Corkhill MON Interviewed Guest: Jodie Day MON Interviewed Guest: Aneeta Prem MON Interviewed Guest: Liz Chapman MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0505zw7 (Listen) MON Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip, Episode 1 MON MON Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip by Lou Ramsden MON MON Episode One MON MON Nicknamed Tinsel Girl by her best-friend Lisa because of her MON sparkly view of life, wheelchair user Maz is one of life's MON eternal optimists. But when Lisa asks Maz to be her maid of MON honour, the next month, in the Seychelles, even Maz is a MON little put out. She is broke, unemployed and has never MON travelled abroad with her wheelchair. Maz has to decide MON whether this is a challenge she is able to take on. MON MON Maz .... Cherylee Houston MON Rachel .... Kathryn Pemberton MON Jim .... James Quinn MON Lisa .... Rosina Carbone MON Didier .... Quentin Surtel MON Photographer .... Hamilton Berstock MON MON Written by Lou Ramsden MON Produced by Charlotte Riches MON MON The drama is inspired by the adventures and experiences of MON Cherylee Houston. MON MON Credits MON Maz: Cherylee Houston MON Rachel: Kathryn Pemberton MON Jim: James Quinn MON Lisa: Rosina Carbone MON Didier: Quentin Surtel MON Photographer: Hamilton Berstock MON Writer: Lou Ramsden MON Producer: Charlotte Riches MON MON 11:00 Out of the Ordinary b0505zw9 (Listen) MON Series 3, Esperanto MON MON Jolyon Jenkins explores Esperanto, the language designed to MON bring world peace and harmony. MON MON Invented in the late 19th century, Esperanto is simple to MON learn, with a logical grammar, a vocabulary drawn from MON European languages, and no irregularities. Its creator, MON Ludovic Zamenhof, hoped that it would become a second MON language that everyone could speak, eliminating MON international misunderstandings. For a while, Esperanto MON flourished, and there was even a tiny Esperanto-speaking MON state in what is now Belgium, but both Stalin and Hitler saw MON it as subversive and tried to crush it. MON MON Jolyon tries to learn the language and to discover what MON remains of those early ideals. He finds elderly Esperantists MON playing word games in a Cardiff pub, Brazilian spiritists MON who believe that Esperanto is the language in which the dead MON converse, and a small Esperanto-speaking enclave in Goma, in MON the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (some of MON whom learned it under the misapprehension that Esperanto was MON an organisation that handed out money). Is Esperanto a MON blindingly obvious and sensible idea, or a ludicrously MON utopian one? MON MON Presenter/producer: Jolyon Jenkins. MON MON 11:30 The Best Laid Plans b0505zwc (Listen) MON Caution: Angel at Work MON MON New sitcom by Mark Daydy. Ardal O'Hanlon plays Smallbone - MON an idiot angel who's sent to earth to fix his mistakes. MON MON In the fourth episode, Smallbone gets a job in a supermarket MON and tries his hand at customer service. But when a fully MON automated, super-brain self-service checkout system MON threatens the workers' jobs, Smallbone finds himself leading MON the protest against the store. MON MON In 1885, God (Geoff McGivern) nodded off. In 2015, he awoke MON to discover that his idiot servant, the angel Smallbone, had MON accidentally handed out God's plans for the next millennium MON when he was only meant to hand out plans for the next MON century. A thousand years of leisurely human progression has MON been crammed into the last 130. No wonder we're all so MON stressed. We weren't even meant to have pocket calculators MON until 2550. MON MON Not only that, but God's blueprints should have run out in MON the mid-eighties - but we kept going. Humans are now MON inventing things God never even dreamed of - mobile phones, MON wireless internet and Made in Chelsea. MON MON Smallbone is cast down to Earth in human form by God, tasked MON with the dauntingly vague mission of 'reversing the last MON thirteen decades of human progression'. The problem is that MON Smallbone is the world's biggest fan - he loves modern MON technology and his new human body, and he becomes distracted MON by everything that he's meant to destroy. Especially MON escalators. MON MON Written by Mark Daydy MON MON Produced by Ben Worsfield MON A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Smallbone: Ardal O'Hanlon MON God: Geoff McGivern MON Tanya: Esther Smith MON Toby: Mike Wozniak MON Susan: Ruth Bratt MON Actor: Duncan Wisbey MON Writer: Mark Daydy MON Producer: Ben Worsfield MON MON 12:00 News Summary b05053mh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 A History of Ideas b0505zwf (Listen) MON How Has Technology Changed Us? MON MON A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in MON many voices. MON MON Melvyn is joined by four guests with different backgrounds MON to discuss a really big question. This week he's asking how MON has technology changed us? MON MON Helping him answer it are Archaeologist Matt Pope, the MON Surgeon Gabriel Weston, the technologist Tom Chatfield and MON the historian Justin Champion. MON MON For the rest of the week Matt, Gabriel, Tom and Justin will MON take us further into the history of ideas about technology MON with programmes of their own. Between them they will tell us MON about Plato and the internet, medieval medicine, tool use in MON human evolution and the origins of Modern Science. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b0505zwh (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b05053mk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0505zwk (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark MON Mardell. MON MON 13:45 Churchill's Other Lives b00zlcpw (Listen) MON Cinema MON MON Winston Churchill was revered by millions as the saviour of MON Britain in the Second World War, but he wasn't just a great MON war leader - he wrote millions of words of journalism, he MON painted, he built brick walls, he owned racehorses, he MON gambled in Monte Carlo casinos and even wrote screenplays. MON Yet his personality was mercurial; bouts of hyper-activity MON were interspersed with black days of depression. While he MON had a loving marriage, he spent long periods apart from his MON wife and children, some of whom caused him deep anxiety and MON distress. MON MON To mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death, celebrated MON historian Sir David Cannadine, author of In Churchill's MON Shadow, examines the life and career of Winston Churchill by MON looking at ten different themes that are less well known, MON but which are crucial to a fuller understanding of one of MON the most extraordinary individuals ever to occupy No. 10 MON Downing Street. MON MON Winston Churchill was a film fanatic and sought an active MON role in the movie business. He became friends with Charlie MON Chaplin and collaborated as a screenwriter in the 1930s with MON the great Hungarian-born director Alexander Korda. A scene MON set in the trenches of World War One from Churchill's MON screenplay - never made into a film - is dramatised here for MON the first time, as Sir David Cannadine explores Winston MON Churchill's love affair with cinema and his growing MON awareness of the power of the moving image. Featuring Roger MON Allam as Winston Churchill. MON MON Producer: Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Producer: Denys Blakeway MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0505t2w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 GF Newman's The Corrupted b0505zwn (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 6 MON MON Crime drama based on the characters from the best selling MON novel by the multi-award winning writer, GF Newman. This MON second series runs from 1961 to 1970. MON MON Spanning six decades, the saga plots the course of one MON family against the back-drop of a revolution in crime as the MON underworld extends its influence to the very heart of the MON establishment, in an uncomfortable relationship of shared MON values. MON MON At the start of the 1960s, Joey Oldman acquires crafty MON Arnold Goodman as his solicitor, and buys shares in the MON civil engineering firm owned by the corrupt Minister of MON Transport, Ernest Marples. MON MON Prospering with the help of venal bankers, and growing more MON devious, he and his wife Cath join Macmillan's Conservative MON Party. They strive without success to keep their son Brian MON free of the influence of Jack Braden (Cath's nephew) as he MON takes their 'firm' from running illicit clubs, where they MON entertain politicians and judges, to armed robbery. All the MON while, Jack and Brian struggle to keep free of the police MON and further entanglements with the law, the Kray twins and MON the Richardsons. MON MON Episode 6: MON Jack gets paranoid as Brian and the firm plot against him MON over a robbery they have planned. MON MON Written by GF Newman MON Produced and Directed by Clive Brill MON A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Ross Kemp MON Joey Oldman: Toby Jones MON Cath Oldman: Denise Gough MON Brian Oldman: Joe Armstrong MON Jack Braden: Luke Allen Gale MON Leah Cohen: Jasmine Hyde MON Writer: GF Newman MON Director: Clive Brill MON Producer: Clive Brill MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b0505zwq (Listen) MON Heat 5, 2015 MON MON (5/17) MON Which singer was fatally shot by his father on the first of MON April 1984? And in the name of the West African terror MON group, what do the words 'Boko haram' actually mean? MON MON Russell Davies puts these and many other questions to the MON participants in the fifth heat of the 2015 series, which MON comes from the University of Salford. The winner will go MON through to the semi-finals in April - and others may too, as MON there are places for the highest-scoring runners-up across MON the series. MON MON As always there's a chance for a listener to 'Beat the MON Brains' by suggesting a devious pair of questions with which MON to try and defeat the combined brainpower of the MON contestants. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b0505l3f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b05061z8 (Listen) MON Sanjeev Bhaskar MON MON Sanjeev Bhaskar, star of Goodness Gracious Me, presents his MON favourite pieces of writing and comedy to the audience at MON the Radio Theatre. His readers are Adrian Lester and Claire MON Benedict. Sanjeev's picks include Monty Python, Alan Alda, MON The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and a stirring speech MON by Frederick Douglass, who after escaping from slavery MON became a leader of the abolitionist movement. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Sanjeev Bhaskar MON Reader: Adrian Lester MON Reader: Claire Benedict MON Producer: Beth O'Dea MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b05061zb (Listen) MON Series 11, Fierce Creatures MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by naturalist MON Steve Backshall, zoologist Lucy Cooke and comedian Andy MON Hamilton as they battle it out to decide which creature wins MON the title of earth's most deadly. The panel reveal their own MON brave encounters with a host of venomous, toxic and just MON downright aggressive beasts, including the bullet ant, rated MON the most painful stinging insect on the planet, deadly tree MON frogs and snakes, sharks, scorpions and hippos. They ask MON whether our seemingly innate fear of snakes and spiders is MON justified, and whether the deadliest creature on the planet MON is in fact a human being. MON MON 17:00 PM b05061zd (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and MON analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05053mm (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b04yfssy (Listen) MON Series 14, Episode 5 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. Lloyd Langford, Josh Widdicombe, Susan MON Calman and David O'Doherty are the panellists obliged to MON talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as MON fakes, holes, cats and Marie Antoinette. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Produced by Jon Naismith. MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Lloyd Langford MON Panellist: Josh Widdicombe MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: David O'Doherty MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b050621v (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b050674t (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0505zw7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Inside the Unit - Treating Disorder b050674w (Listen) MON Writer Carole Hayman spends time locked in a secure unit for MON men detained under the Mental Health Act. She's in the MON company of avuncular Irish psychiatrist Dr. Ray Travers, MON whose job it is to see if the convicted patients under his MON care can be reintegrated into the community. MON MON But it's not just the day-to-day workings of the unit she MON explores, Carole also tries to get under the skin of the man MON in charge. What drives him and how does he maintain his own MON mental wellbeing? How does he reconcile what he is aiming to MON achieve for his patients with what they did to their MON victims. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b050674y (Listen) MON Maskirovka: Deception Russian-Style MON MON 'Maskirovka' is the Russian military strategy of deception, MON involving techniques to surprise and deceive the enemy. Lucy MON Ash looks back over its long history from repelling invading MON Mongols in the 14th Century, to its use to confound the MON Nazis in World War II, to the current conflict in Ukraine. MON Translated literally maskirovka means "a little masquerade", MON but it also points to strategic, operational, physical and MON tactical duplicity. When heavily-armed, mask-wearing gunmen MON - labelled the 'little green men' - took over government MON buildings in Crimea last year, was this a classic example of MON maskirovka in the 21st century? All nations use deception as MON a strategy in war, but Analysis asks whether any other MON nation has pursued guile as an instrument of policy so long MON and so ardently as Russia. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04yftkz (Listen) MON Natural Symbols MON MON In the final programme of the series a panel of experts from MON different disciplines choose an object they feel represents MON our relationship with nature. Recorded in the Natural MON History Museum in London in front of an audience Monty Don MON explores how our connection to nature has changed through MON time and what we may need to do to ensure we live on a MON vibrant planet in the future. The four guests from different MON areas of expertise from archaeology to conservation science MON to oceanography choose one thing that tells a big story. MON Monty Don explores how each object shows how our view of MON nature has changed since our time as hunter gatherers. Over MON the thousands of years we have lived on earth we have become MON increasingly divorced from the nitty gritty of the natural MON world. Where are we heading and what do we need to do to MON enable all of life to share this one planet? As population MON increases and stress on resources gets more intense there MON has never been a more important time to assess our impact on MON planet earth. MON MON Dr Regan Early MON Dr Regan Early MON researches and lectures in conservation biology at the MON University of Exeter. She studies how species are changing MON where they live because of human activity. That includes how MON climate change is forcing species out of their habitat, and MON how humans are transporting species around the world, MON creating biological invasions that cause massive problems MON for wildlife and humans. MON Her research MON has included MON frogs in California MON birds in the UK, butterflies in the mountains of Spain, and MON ducks in the Yukon Territory. However, she can often be MON found creating computer code that models biodiversity across MON the world, and calculates effective means of conserving it. MON Twitter: MON @reganearly MON MON Dan Lafolley MON Dan Laffoley MON is a leading global expert on ocean conservation. At the MON International Union for Conservation of Nature MON (IUCN) he is Principal Advisor, Marine Science and MON Conservation for the Global Marine and Polar Programme, and MON has the global honorary role as Marine Vice Chair for the MON World Commission on Protected Areas MON He provides knowledge, innovation and leadership on MON consolidating action for the ocean and devising new ways for MON delivering marine conservation which lever greater action MON and attention for our seas. MON His track record involves working with leading scientists to MON create initiatives that bring new knowledge into policy on MON issues such as coastal carbon sinks, climate change and MON ocean acidification. He has a broad knowledge of marine MON science matters across multiple disciplines and a track MON record of working with industry, especially with the energy MON sector. MON Twitter: MON @WCPA_Marine MON MON Professor Paul Pettitt MON Professor Paul Pettitt is Professor of Palaeolithic MON archaeology at Durham, specialising in the European Middle MON and Upper Palaeolithic. His research interests are in the MON origins and nature of Palaeolithic art and mortuary MON activity, chronometry, the behaviour of the Neanderthals and MON Pleistocene members of our own species, and the British MON later Palaeolithic. MON He has researched various aspects of the European Middle and MON Upper Palaeolithic and worked with numerous lithic MON assemblages, and on the dating of Neanderthal and early MON modern human remains. In 2003, he co-discovered Britain's MON only examples of Palaeolithic cave art at MON Creswell Crags MON in the Midlands, and since then I've directed excavations at MON the Crags. MON He has also co-directed excavations in the world famous site MON of MON Kents Cavern MON with Mark White, with whom he also wrote The British MON Palaeolithic. In recent years he has been researching MON aspects of earlier Upper Palaeolithic hand stencils in the MON caves of France and Spain, and has collaborated on the MON dating of Spanish cave art, a project which has identified MON Europe's oldest securely dated examples of figurative and MON non-figurative cave art. MON MON MON Professor Andy Purvis MON Professor Andy Purvis is one of the Research Leaders in the MON Department of Life Sciences at the MON Natural History Museum MON ; before moving to the Museum, he was Professor of MON Biodiversity at Imperial College London. MON He leads the MON PREDICTS MON project, which aims to build global models of how local MON terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts. He is MON also involved in the Museum’s digitisation programme, which MON aims to database 20 million of the Museum’s specimens within MON the next 5 years. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0505zw1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0506750 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0506752 (Listen) MON The Bottle Imp, Episode 1 MON MON "All my fortune, and this house itself and its garden, came MON out of a bottle not much bigger than a pint." MON MON The promise of wealth beyond imagining and his every wish MON granted tempts a young Hawaiian sailor to purchase an MON enchanted bottle. There's just one catch; if the owner MON should die before selling it on, his soul will burn in hell MON forever. Keawe reasons that the bottle should be easy enough MON to pass on once he has gained his heart's desire - but it MON must be sold at a loss, and the price drops with every MON trade... MON MON Robert Louis Stevenson travelled the Pacific from 1888, MON finally settling in Samoa in 1890 where he lived until his MON death in 1894. Inspired by his travels he took the Samoan MON name Tusitala - Teller of Tales. "The Bottle Imp" first MON appeared in the short story collection "Island Nights MON Entertainment" (1893) and is a hugely engaging tale of MON greed, consequences and the redeeming power of love. MON MON Read by Ian McDiarmid MON MON Written by Robert Louis Stevenson MON MON Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron MON MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Ian McDiarmid MON Author: Robert Louis Stevenson MON Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b04yk47x (Listen) MON Are you really Somali? Using language to determine country MON of origin MON MON Michael Rosen examines the use of language analysis to judge MON asylum seekers' country of origin, when they've arrived in MON the UK with no documentation. Linguists can then be used to MON try and verify which country the person comes from, as they MON apply for refugee status. With linguists Laura Wright and MON Peter Patrick, and Lars-Johan Lundberg of Verified, the MON Swedish company that the Government uses to carry out the MON analysis. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0506754 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 27 JANUARY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b05053nr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0505zw3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05053nt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05053nw (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05053ny (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b05053p0 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b051j931 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ed TUE Kessler, from the Woolf Institute in Cambridge. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0506855 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0syn (Listen) TUE Poorwill (American Nightjar) TUE TUE Michael Palin presents the common poorwill from an Arizona TUE desert. In the dead of night, loud calls pierce the TUE stillness on a moonlit track, a small shape suddenly sprouts TUE wings and flutters into the darkness ... a Common Poorwill TUE is hunting. TUE TUE Poorwills are small nightjars that breed mainly in western TUE North America, often in deserts and dry grassland. By day TUE the poorwill sits in the open or among rocks relying on its TUE mottled plumage for camouflage. By night, it emerges to hawk TUE after insects snapping them up with its large frog-like TUE mouth. TUE This technique works if it's warm enough for insects to be TUE active, but in some places where poorwills live there are TUE sudden cold snaps. Instead of migrating, the poorwill slows TUE down its metabolism and goes into torpor for days or even TUE weeks . This hibernation-like state is very rare among birds TUE and allows the poorwill to get through lean periods and was TUE first scientifically described in 1948, although the TUE phenomenon had been recorded more than 140 years earlier by TUE the great explorer Meriwether Lewis, during the Lewis and TUE Clark Expedition to discover western side of America in TUE 1804. TUE TUE Common Poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com. TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01304731 TUE © Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com TUE TUE Recording of common poorwill by Geoffrey A Keller / Ref: ML TUE 40634 TUE TUE This programme contains a TUE wildtrack recording of the common poorwill TUE kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab TUE of Ornithology; recorded by Geoffrey A Keller on 4 Jun 1987; TUE in Sycamore Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0506857 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Can Democracy Work? b0506859 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Nick Robinson explores democracy, questioning senior TUE politicians, activists and the public. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b05068jp (Listen) TUE Adrian Goldberg on Mixed Marriage TUE TUE Broadcaster Adrian Goldberg, who is married to a British TUE Asian woman, explores the topic of mixed marriage for One to TUE One. Today, in the third and final of his interviews, he TUE meets Mandy. Mandy is of Sikh/Hindu heritage and had to deal TUE with the rejection by most of her family when she refused to TUE contemplate the idea of an arranged marriage. She went on to TUE meet and marry an Afro-Caribbean man; something which has TUE brought her happiness, although it hasn't been the smoothest TUE of journeys. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b05077k4 (Listen) TUE Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, Episode 2 TUE TUE In the early 2000s, Peter Pomerantsev (the son of Russian TUE political exiles) came to Moscow to work in the fast-growing TUE television industry. He was perfectly placed to witness the TUE transformation of the New Russia on its journey from TUE communist collapse to a new form of dictatorship. TUE TUE In a series of character studies, the subjects of TUE Pomerantsev's reality TV documentaries, we glimpse the ways TUE in which the Russian people have responded to and acted upon TUE the opportunities of Putin's new world order. In this TUE episode we meet Vitaly, the gangster-turned-filmmaker, who TUE studied his favourite American mafia movies and then turned TUE his auto-theft crimes into the subject of a hit drama TUE series. TUE TUE Written by Peter Pomerantsev TUE TUE Read by Justin Salinger TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Justin Salinger TUE Author: Peter Pomerantsev TUE Abridger: Robin Brooks TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b05077k6 (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 b05077k8 (Listen) TUE Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip, Episode 2 TUE TUE Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip by Lou Ramsden TUE TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE With the clock ticking down to Lisa's wedding, Maz begins TUE her mission to try and raise the money for her flight to the TUE Seychelles. It is no easy task, for while the job TUE opportunities are out there, Maz's wheelchair quickly TUE becomes a sticking point. TUE TUE Written by Lou Ramsden TUE Produced by Charlotte Riches TUE TUE The drama is inspired by the adventures and experiences of TUE Cherylee Houston. TUE TUE Credits TUE Maz: Cherylee Houston TUE Rachel: Kathryn Pemberton TUE Jim: James Quinn TUE Ollie: Sonny Flood TUE Ruth: Wendy Patterson TUE Seamus: Toby Hadoke TUE Writer: Lou Ramsden TUE Producer: Charlotte Riches TUE TUE 11:00 Anne Frank's Trees: Keeping the Memory Alive TUE b05077kb (Listen) TUE To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, Michael Rosen TUE examines the ways in which Britain remembers the darkest TUE period in modern history. TUE TUE From Britain's only day-centre catering solely for Holocaust TUE survivors to the narrow attic staircase of Anne Frank's TUE House in Amsterdam, via an art installation in Huddersfield TUE and a primary school in Potters Bar, Michael looks at the TUE many different ways in which we've chosen to commemorate the TUE unimaginable horror of the Holocaust, aided by TUE schoolchildren, campaigners and a 93-year-old survivor of TUE Auschwitz. TUE TUE Produced by Marc Haynes and Nick Minter TUE An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine b05077kd (Listen) TUE David Bowie and Iggy Pop TUE TUE The BBC's archive is justifiably and inarguably TUE world-famous, but most of this attention and praise is TUE showered on the riches contained within the Beeb's music TUE archive - the life-changing Peel performances, seminal TUE sessions from Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie. TUE TUE But these musical marvels risk over-shadowing another TUE archive that's just as diverse, rich and rewarding - the TUE BBC's spoken word, music archive. TUE TUE As long as there have been pop stars, the BBC has spoken to TUE them. Marc Riley and his trusty Time Machine - a rickety TUE rust-bucket, back-firing jalopy - travel back through the TUE years to visit the great and the good, the famous and the TUE infamous, safely ensconced within the treasure trove of the TUE BBC archive. Marc replays candid snapshots at crucial points TUE in the careers of some of the biggest names in music. TUE TUE In each episode, Marc lines up the Time Machine to travel to TUE two different points in time and revisit two interviews with TUE something in common - a person or place, a shared influence TUE or ideology, a discovery, a misunderstanding. TUE TUE In this first episode, the interviews share a geographic TUE connection - Berlin. David Bowie, in conversation with Radio TUE 1's Stuart Grundy from 1977, explains why the city was so TUE good for his creativity. The second interview comes from TUE 1990 when Iggy Pop spoke to Nicky Campbell about how he TUE hooked up with Bowie and offered another perspective on TUE their time together in Germany. TUE TUE Produced by Ian Callaghan TUE A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b05053p2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 A History of Ideas b05077kg (Listen) TUE Writer Tom Chatfield: Has technology rewired our brains? TUE TUE Is technology making us less human? Writer, Tom Chatfield is TUE an enthusiastic downloader of the latest apps, an early TUE adopter of anything small and shiny that promises to smooth TUE his path through life. But Tom can't help feeling a little TUE anxious about the hold that new technology has on his life. TUE TUE Plato felt much the same, concerned that the new- fangled TUE concept of writing might destroy the ability of the Ancient TUE Greeks to memorise vast swathes of human knowledge. Do car TUE sat-navs destroy our innate sense of direction? Do search TUE engines displace our store of general knowledge? TUE TUE With the help of the Economist's Digital Editor, Tom TUE Standage and cybernetics expert, Kevin Warwick, Tom looks TUE toward a future when the communication and computing power TUE of our smartphones is inserted directly into our nervous TUE systems. With superfast thought processes and a battery of TUE new senses will we feel upgraded or out of control, TUE superhuman or inhuman? TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b05077kj (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b05053p4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b05077kl (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark TUE Mardell. TUE TUE 13:45 Churchill's Other Lives b00zft89 (Listen) TUE Women TUE TUE Winston Churchill was revered by millions as the saviour of TUE Britain in the Second World War, but he wasn't just a great TUE war leader - he wrote millions of words of journalism, he TUE painted, he built brick walls, he owned racehorses, he TUE gambled in Monte Carlo casinos and even wrote screenplays. TUE Yet his personality was mercurial; bouts of hyper-activity TUE were interspersed with black days of depression. While he TUE had a loving marriage, he spent long periods apart from his TUE wife and children, some of whom caused him deep anxiety and TUE distress. TUE TUE To mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death, celebrated TUE historian Sir David Cannadine, author of In Churchill's TUE Shadow, examines the life and career of Winston Churchill by TUE looking at ten different themes that are less well known, TUE but which are crucial to a fuller understanding of one of TUE the most extraordinary individuals ever to occupy No. 10 TUE Downing Street. TUE TUE Winston Churchill never knew the names of his secretaries - TUE calling 'get me a miss' when he needed to give dictation. TUE Yet such was his charm that women fell in love with him over TUE the dinner table. How much was he interested in women - or TUE sex? Today, Sir David Cannadine explores Churchill's TUE attitude to women, his relationship with his nanny Mrs. TUE Everest and with the other central woman in his life, his TUE wife Clementine. TUE TUE Featuring Roger Allam as Winston Churchill. TUE TUE Producer: Melissa FitzGerald TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Producer: Denys Blakeway TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b050621v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 GF Newman's The Corrupted b05077kn (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 7 TUE TUE Crime drama based on the characters from the best selling TUE novel by the multi-award winning writer, GF Newman. This TUE second series runs from 1961 to 1970. TUE TUE Spanning six decades, the saga plots the course of one TUE family against the back-drop of a revolution in crime as the TUE underworld extends its influence to the very heart of the TUE establishment, in an uncomfortable relationship of shared TUE values. TUE TUE At the start of the 1960s, Joey Oldman acquires crafty TUE Arnold Goodman as his solicitor, and buys shares in the TUE civil engineering firm owned by the corrupt Minister of TUE Transport, Ernest Marples. TUE TUE Prospering with the help of venal bankers, and growing more TUE devious, he and his wife Cath join Macmillan's Conservative TUE Party. They strive without success to keep their son Brian TUE free of the influence of Jack Braden (Cath's nephew) as he TUE takes their 'firm' from running illicit clubs, where they TUE entertain politicians and judges, to armed robbery. All the TUE while, Jack and Brian struggle to keep free of the police TUE and further entanglements with the law, the Kray twins and TUE the Richardsons. TUE TUE Episode 7: TUE Tory councillor, Margaret Courtney, helps Joey corrupt City TUE officials, while continuing their affair. TUE TUE Written by GF Newman TUE Produced and Directed by Clive Brill TUE A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Ross Kemp TUE Joey Oldman: Toby Jones TUE Cath Oldman: Denise Gough TUE Brian Oldman: Joe Armstrong TUE Jack Braden: Luke Allen Gale TUE Leah Cohen: Jasmine Hyde TUE Writer: GF Newman TUE Director: Clive Brill TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b0501jlz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 The Human Zoo b05077kq (Listen) TUE Series 5, Information TUE TUE The Human Zoo is a place to learn about the one subject that TUE never fails to fascinate - ourselves. Are people led by the TUE head or by the heart? How rational are we? And how do we TUE perceive the world? TUE TUE There's a curious blend of intriguing experiments to TUE discover our biases and judgements, explorations and TUE examples taken from what's in the news to what we do in the TUE kitchen, and it's all driven by a large slice of curiosity. TUE TUE Michael Blastland presents. Nick Chater, Professor of TUE Behavioural Science at Warwick University, is the TUE experimenter-in-chief, and Timandra Harkness the resident TUE reporter. TUE In this programme, information: when and how do we resist TUE the facts? TUE TUE Producer: Dom Byrne TUE TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b05077ks (Listen) TUE Prof Tanya Byron on talking to your children TUE TUE Professor Tanya Byron discusses with Michael Rosen the best TUE way to talk to your children. With linguist Laura Wright. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b05077kv (Listen) TUE Series 35, Mervyn King on Risto Ryti TUE TUE Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England tells TUE Matthew Parris why the life of the Prime Minister of Finland TUE Risto Ryti was so remarkable. TUE They are also joined by expert and biographer Martti TUE Turtola. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Mervyn King TUE Interviewed Guest: Martti Turtola TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b05077kx (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm- Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05053p6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b05077kz (Listen) TUE Series 6, Reece Shearsmith TUE TUE Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new TUE experiences: things they really ought to have done by now. TUE Some experiences are loved, some are loathed, in this show TUE all about embracing the new. TUE TUE Reece Shearsmith had never had a driving lesson - until now. TUE Marcus also persuades him to try wallpapering for the first TUE time. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke TUE Interviewed Guest: Reece Shearsmith TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b05077l1 (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b05077l3 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05077k8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b05077l5 (Listen) TUE Where have all the nurses gone? File on 4 looks at the TUE reasons for the nursing shortage in the NHS in England and TUE the cost of plugging the gaps at a time of peak demand. TUE A decision four years ago to cut training places to save TUE money is still haunting the health service. There's no TUE shortage of people wanting to be nurses but the NHS is badly TUE understaffed. TUE Recruitment in countries like Spain, Portugal and Italy has TUE quadrupled in the last year as NHS trusts fail to find TUE enough domestic nurses. But with thousands of European TUE nurses encouraged to come here with incentives like TUE relocation bonuses and free accommodation, why are hospitals TUE still breaking guidelines on the level of acceptable TUE vacancies? And how much has that contributed to the winter TUE crisis in Accident and Emergency Units across the country? TUE Hospitals aren't the only area of concern. Professional TUE bodies like the RCN say there has been a reduction in the TUE number of experienced senior nurses working in the TUE community. Has the recent focus on increasing nurses on TUE hospital wards meant other areas have suffered? And what TUE impact will that have on the Government's long term plan to TUE solve our hospital crisis by caring for more patients at TUE home? TUE Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Gemma Newby. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b05077l7 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b05077n8 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 Can Democracy Work? b0506859 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b05053p8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05078by (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05078c0 (Listen) TUE The Bottle Imp, Episode 2 TUE TUE The promise of wealth beyond imagining and his every wish TUE granted tempts a young Hawaiian sailor to purchase an TUE enchanted bottle. There's just one catch; if the owner TUE should die before selling it on, his soul will burn in hell TUE forever. Keawe reasons that the bottle should be easy enough TUE to pass on once he has gained his heart's desire - but it TUE must be sold at a loss, and the price drops with every TUE trade... TUE TUE Witnessing the bottle's sinister power, Keawe is TUE increasingly uneasy and determines to rid himself of it as TUE quickly as possible. But once parted with it, can he avoid TUE the curse of previous owners and remain content with his TUE lot? TUE TUE Read by Ian McDiarmid TUE TUE Written by Robert Louis Stevenson TUE TUE Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Ian McDiarmid TUE Author: Robert Louis Stevenson TUE Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b05061zb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b05078c2 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 28 JANUARY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b05053q3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b05077k4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05053q5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05053q7 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05053q9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b05053qc (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b051s5yn (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ed WED Kessler, from the Woolf Institute in Cambridge. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0507lgt (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 b04t0t02 (Listen) WED Oilbird WED WED Michael Palin presents the oilbird, from a Venezuelan WED cavern. Demonic screeching's and the rush of unseen wings WED mixed with a volley of strange clicks are the sound backdrop WED to oilbirds. WED WED Oilbirds are known in Spanish as guacharos .."the wailing WED ones". These bizarre-looking brown birds with huge mouths, WED long broad wings and long tails were seen in 1799 by the WED explorer Alexander von Humboldt in 1817 who described their WED sounds as "ear-splitting". They're similar to nightjars, WED their closest relatives, but unlike them, oilbirds feed on WED fruit; ..... they're the world's only nocturnal flying WED fruit-eating bird. WED WED In their dark breeding caves, they navigate using WED echolocation like bats. Young oilbirds grow fat on a diet of WED fruit brought in by their parents and can weigh half as much WED as again as the adults. These plump chicks were once WED harvested by local people and settlers for oil which was WED used in cooking and, ironically for a bird which spends its WED life in darkness, for lighting lamps. WED WED Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01402255 WED © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com WED WED Recording of oilbird by Scott T Olmstead / Ref: ML 168752 WED WED This programme contains a WED wildtrack recording of the oilbird WED kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab WED of Ornithology; recorded by Scott T Olmstead on 22 Mar 2008; WED in Shaime, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador. WED WED 06:00 Today b0507lgw (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b0507lgy (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0507lh0 (Listen) WED Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, Episode 3 WED WED In the early 2000s, Peter Pomerantsev (the son of Russian WED political exiles) came to Moscow to work in the fast-growing WED television industry. He was perfectly placed to witness the WED transformation of the New Russia on its journey from WED communist collapse to a new form of dictatorship. WED WED "Black is white and white is black." Like the subject of an WED absurdist short story by Gogol, businesswoman Yana Yakovleva WED finds herself accused of drug trafficking and is falsely WED imprisoned: an innocent victim of political wrangling near WED the top of the Kremlin. WED WED Written by Peter Pomerantsev WED WED Read by Justin Salinger WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Justin Salinger WED Author: Peter Pomerantsev WED Abridger: Robin Brooks WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0507lh2 (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 b0507lh4 (Listen) WED Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip, Episode 3 WED WED Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip by Lou Ramsden WED WED Episode 3 WED WED Still furiously trying to raise the money to get herself to WED Lisa's wedding, Maz decides to take handsome temp Ollie up WED on his offer of a date. It is perhaps not quite the romantic WED outing he had imagined - 5.30am on a Sunday morning, driving WED Maz, her wheelchair and a mountain of her household tat to a WED local car boot sale. WED WED Written by Lou Ramsden WED Directed by Charlotte Riches WED WED The drama is inspired by the adventures and experiences of WED Cherylee Houston. WED WED Credits WED Maz: Cherylee Houston WED Rachel: Kathryn Pemberton WED Ollie: Sonny Flood WED Jim: James Quinn WED Lisa: Rosina Carbone WED Ruth: Wendy Patterson WED Writer: Lou Ramsden WED Producer: Charlotte Riches WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b0507lh8 (Listen) WED Margaret and Geraldine - A Talk with Mum WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother who now WED speaks through an electronic device and her daughter, about WED just how precious a chat can be. 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 Tales from the Ring Road b0507lhb (Listen) WED Coventry WED WED Anne-Marie Duff narrates a new documentary series for BBC WED Radio 4, telling stories of survival and resilience on the WED UK's ring roads - in towns & cities often overlooked. WED WED The ring road is the circulatory system of the city - a WED perilous place where life can seem fragile, but one which WED also bears witness to tales of great resilience and WED kindness. WED WED In this first episode, Coventry is in the spotlight. Among WED the stories, the murder of Eritrea-born Genet Kidane who was WED pushed to her death from a bridge over the ring road. Also, WED one man's miraculous survival after a head-on collision with WED a car going the wrong way round the ring road. WED WED As drivers jostle for space in the busy lanes of traffic, WED the ring road is contested in other ways too. In Coventry a WED massive development planned just adjacent to the ring road WED has provoked a fierce debate about the future of the city. WED WED Also in the series, stories from the roads of Wolverhampton WED and Bedford. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 11:30 Alun Cochrane's Fun House b01rlnhp (Listen) WED The Kitchen WED WED Comedian Alun Cochrane has a 25 year mortgage which he can WED only pay off by being funny. In this series he takes us on a WED room by room, stand up tour of his house. WED WED He has a fridge that beeps at him when he doesn't move WED quickly enough and a fire alarm he can't reach. His WED relationship with his house is a complicated one. WED WED A hoarder of funny and original observations on everyday WED life, Alun invites us to help him de-clutter his mind and WED tidy his ideas into one of those bags that you hoover all WED the air out of and keep under your bed. This show will help WED Alun and his house work through their relationship issues WED and prevent a separation that Alun can ill afford; at least WED not until the market picks up anyway. WED WED Alun Cochrane and Gavin Osborn WED WED Writers: Alun Cochrane and Andy Wolton WED WED Producer: Carl Cooper. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Alun Cochrane WED Performer: Gavin Osborn WED Writer: Alun Cochrane WED Writer: Andy Wolton WED Producer: Carl Cooper WED WED 12:00 News Summary b05053qf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 A History of Ideas b0507lhd (Listen) WED Historian Justin Champion on Francis Bacon WED WED Historian Justin Champion on Francis Bacon's anxieties about WED the fallibility of technological innovators. The 17th WED century polymath Francis Bacon blew a fanfare for the new WED scientific age: where man would dominate, understand and WED improve the world and use technology to achieve this. WED Optimistic about man's ingenuity and the potential WED perfectibility of human society he saw also that men were WED weak. Nature might have been laid out by God as a kind of WED book for man to read but individual humans were as likely to WED be motivated by greed, folly and pride as good intentions. WED He explored this idea in his book of 1609, The Wisdom of the WED Ancients, where he used the example of Daedalus, the most WED ingenious of inventors from Greek Myth to consider the WED ambiguities of technical progress. Daedalus inventions were WED truly marvellous but his pride and lack of forethought led WED to disaster for all around him, not least his son Icarus who WED perished testing out one his father's extraordinary WED inventions. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b0507lhg (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b05053qh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0507lhl (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark WED Mardell. WED WED 13:45 Churchill's Other Lives b00zlk0h (Listen) WED Money WED WED Winston Churchill was revered by millions as the saviour of WED Britain in the Second World War, but he wasn't just a great WED war leader - he wrote millions of words of journalism, he WED painted, he built brick walls, he owned racehorses, he WED gambled in Monte Carlo casinos and even wrote screenplays. WED Yet his personality was mercurial; bouts of hyper-activity WED were interspersed with black days of depression. While he WED had a loving marriage, he spent long periods apart from his WED wife and children, some of whom caused him deep anxiety and WED distress. WED WED To mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death, celebrated WED historian Sir David Cannadine, author of In Churchill's WED Shadow, examines the life and career of Winston Churchill by WED looking at ten different themes that are less well known, WED but which are crucial to a fuller understanding of one of WED the most extraordinary individuals ever to occupy No. 10 WED Downing Street. WED WED Winston Churchill's finances were never comfortable. Despite WED being born in a palace, he had to work as a writer to fund WED his lavish lifestyle and lack of money was a constant source WED of anxiety. He spent more than he earned for most of his WED life, gambled in Monte Carlo casinos and was prevented from WED selling Chartwell by the generous intervention of WED supporters. Today, Sir David Cannadine explores Churchill's WED vexed relationship with money. WED WED Featuring Roger Allam as Winston Churchill. WED WED Producer: Melissa FitzGerald WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Denys Blakeway WED WED 14:00 The Archers b05077l1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 GF Newman's The Corrupted b0507lhn (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 8 WED WED Crime drama based on the characters from the best selling WED novel by the multi-award winning writer, GF Newman. This WED second series runs from 1961 to 1970. WED WED Spanning six decades, the saga plots the course of one WED family against the back-drop of a revolution in crime as the WED underworld extends its influence to the very heart of the WED establishment, in an uncomfortable relationship of shared WED values. WED WED At the start of the 1960s, Joey Oldman acquires crafty WED Arnold Goodman as his solicitor, and buys shares in the WED civil engineering firm owned by the corrupt Minister of WED Transport, Ernest Marples. WED WED Prospering with the help of venal bankers, and growing more WED devious, he and his wife Cath join Macmillan's Conservative WED Party. They strive without success to keep their son Brian WED free of the influence of Jack Braden (Cath's nephew) as he WED takes their 'firm' from running illicit clubs, where they WED entertain politicians and judges, to armed robbery. All the WED while, Jack and Brian struggle to keep free of the police WED and further entanglements with the law, the Kray twins and WED the Richardsons. WED WED Episode 8: WED Brian gets scared of Jack's madness and asks his dad, Joey, WED to help him escape his influence. WED WED Written by GF Newman WED Produced and Directed by Clive Brill WED A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Ross Kemp WED Joey Oldman: Toby Jones WED Cath Oldman: Denise Gough WED Brian Oldman: Joe Armstrong WED Jack Braden: Luke Allen Gale WED Leah Cohen: Jasmine Hyde WED Writer: GF Newman WED Director: Clive Brill WED Producer: Clive Brill WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b0507lsb (Listen) WED The State Pension WED WED State Pension question? To talk to Paul Lewis and guests, WED call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED When will you reach state pension age? WED WED Will you fall under the current or the new state pension WED rules? WED WED What will your state pension be worth? WED WED How many qualifying years will you need to receive a full WED state pension? WED WED Will your payment be affected by contracting out? WED WED Where do you stand if you don't work while looking after WED children or have a caring role? WED WED Can you increase the payments by deferring your State WED Pension? WED WED Whatever your question, our guests will be ready to explain WED how it works. Joining presenter Paul Lewis will be: WED WED Chris Curry, Director, Pensions Policy Institute. WED Malcolm McLean OBE, Senior Consultant, Barnett Waddingham. WED Sally West, Policy Manager, Age Concern. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic call charges WED apply. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b05077n8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0507lsd (Listen) WED Migraine - Social Stigma and Negative Labels WED WED Migraine: a cultural history. How did a painful and WED disabling disorder come to be seen as a symptom of WED femininity? Laurie Taylor talks to Joanna Kempner, Assistant WED Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, about her WED research into the gendered values which feed into our WED understanding of pain. Also, 'chavs' and 'pramfaces': Anoop WED Nayak, Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at WED Newcastle University, discusses a study into how WED marginalised young men and women resist the social stigma WED attached to negative labels. He's joined by Helen Wood, WED Professor of Media and Communication at the University of WED Leicester. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Joanna Kempner WED WED Assistant professor of sociology in the Department of WED Sociology at Rutgers University WED WED Find out more about WED Joanna Kempner WED WED *Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health WED *Publisher: University of Chicago Press WED ISBN-10: 022617915X WED ISBN-13: 978-0226179155 WED WED Anoop Nayak WED WED Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at Newcastle WED University WED WED Find out more about WED Anoop Nayak WED WED Abstract: * WED Chavs, chavettes and pramface girls': Teenage mothers, WED marginalised young men and the management of stigma WED *Anoop Nayak & Mary Jane Kehily WED Journal of Youth Studies WED Volume 17, Issue 10, 2014 WED pages 1330-1345 WED DOI:10.1080/13676261.2014.920489 WED WED Helen Wood WED WED Professor of Media and Communication at the University of WED Leicester WED WED Find out more about WED Helen Wood WED WED WED The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography WED Thinking Allowed in association with the British WED Sociological Association announces the annual award for a WED study that has made a significant contribution to WED ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a WED culture or sub-culture. WED WED Are you involved in social science research and completing WED or will have completed ethnography this year? The Award is WED open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or WED researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution WED of higher education. WED WED An entry should be a WED completed ethnography WED a qualitative research project which provides a detailed WED description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole WED authored book or peer reviewed research article published WED during the calendar year of the award will be eligible. WED WED The judges for the Award are yet to be announced. WED WED The judges will be looking for work which displays WED flair WED originality WED and WED clarity WED alongside sound methodology. The work should make a WED significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in WED the relevant area of research. WED WED The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that WED shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will WED be awarded a prize of £1000. WED WED The winner of the Award will be announced at the WED BSA Annual Conference WED in April 2015. WED WED Read on for essential information and details on how to WED enter. WED WED HOW TO ENTER: WED WED You may submit one entry only, which must be sole authored. WED WED All entries must include the summary and contact details and WED a hard copy or electronic copy (attachments must be under WED the filesize of 10MB) of the ethnography. WED WED Email a summary of your work to WED ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk WED (no more than 250 words) along with your name and phone WED number. WED Please include the name of your paper in the 'Subject' WED category of your email. WED If you are submitting a paper WED it can be attached to your email, provided it is no more WED than 10MB. If you receive no automatic email confirmation WED your paper is too large and you will need to send it by WED post. WED If you are submitting a book WED (which must be published during this year) it should be WED posted to: WED Thinking Allowed WED Ethnography Award WED Room 6045 WED Broadcasting House WED London WED W1A 1AA WED Entries must be submitted by the closing date of 31st WED January 2015 WED TERMS & CONDITIONS: WED The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography Terms and WED Conditions WED WED WED 1. To be eligible to enter you must meet the following WED criteria: WED WED 2. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested. WED The BBC’s decision as to the eligibility of individual WED entrants will be final and no correspondence will be entered WED into. WED WED 3. Entrants must submit by way of email to WED ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk WED a summary outlining the nature of an ethnography undertaken WED and published by the entrant. Please include the name of WED your paper in the 'Subject' category of your email. The WED summary should not be longer than 250 words. The ethnography WED must consist of a qualitative research project which WED provides a detailed, in-depth description of the everyday WED life and practice of a group, people or culture and been WED included in a peer-reviewed paper or in a book published in WED 2014. All entries and research must be in English. WED WED 4. The email entry must include the following information WED and contact detail for the entrant: full name, postal WED address, institution of higher education, email address and WED contact telephone number. WED WED 5. If you are submitting a book (which must be published WED during this year) it should be posted to: Thinking Allowed WED Ethnography Award, room 6045 Broadcasting House, London W1A WED 1AA. If it is a paper, it can be attached to your email, WED provided it is no more than 10MB. If you receive no WED automatic email confirmation your paper is too large and you WED will need to send it by post. WED WED 6. All entries must include the: (i) summary (by email); WED (ii) the contact details (by email) and (ii) hard WED copy/electronic copy (if under 10MB) of the ethnography. WED WED 7. Only one entry will be allowed per person. WED WED 8. Entries cannot be submitted by any other method or they WED will not be considered. WED WED 9. All entries must be sole authored. WED WED 10. A panel of 5 highly experienced academics will select WED six finalists. These may be contacted by the Production Team WED for an interview. From the finalists, the panel will select WED an overall winner. The selection criteria will be based on WED the work which displays flair and originality, and which WED makes a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. Each entry WED will be a completed ethnography, a qualitative research WED project which provides a detailed, in-depth, description of WED the everyday life and practice of a group, people, or WED culture. Judges will be looking for work which displays WED flair, originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. WED It should make a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. WED WED 11. The prize will consist of: £1,000. The judges' decision WED will be final and the BBC will not enter into correspondence WED with the applicants. In the event of two outstanding WED entries, the prize of £1000 will be shared. WED WED 12. The finalists will be contacted by telephone in spring WED of 2015 and the winner announced in April 2015. If a WED selected entrant cannot be contacted after reasonable WED attempts have been made to do so, the BBC reserves the right WED to offer the prize to the next best entry. WED WED 13. The winner should refrain from referring to the award in WED order to promote commercial ventures. All references must be WED compliant with BBC branding policies. WED WED 14. The BBC will only ever use personal details for the WED purposes of administering the scheme. Please see the WED BBC’s Privacy Policy WED . WED WED 15. Closing date for entries is 23:59 on 31st January 2015. WED All entries which are received after that will not be WED considered. WED WED 16. The BBC cannot accept any responsibility for any problem WED with the internet or electronic mail system. WED WED 17. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and WED must not infringe the rights of any other party. The BBC WED accepts no liability if entrants ignore these rules and WED entrants agree to fully indemnify the BBC against any claims WED by any third party arising from any breach of these rules. WED WED 18. Entrants retain the copyright in their original ideas WED but on being selected will grant to the BBC a licence to WED broadcast their entry (or parts thereof) across all media, WED as well as use it on any online platforms on standard WED prevailing BBC terms (as agreed with the Writer’s Guild, WED Society of Authors and Personal Managers Association). WED WED 19. By applying for the award, entrants warrant that they WED have legal capacity to enter the scheme and agree to be WED bound by these terms and conditions. WED WED 20. The names of the all selected entrants and any entrant WED whose entry is broadcast or used on-line will be made WED public. Entrants must agree to take part in any post-event WED publicity if required. WED WED 21. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify any entry which WED breaches any of these terms and conditions. WED WED 22. The BBC reserves the right to cancel or alter the award WED (including amending these terms and conditions) at any WED stage, including members of the judging panel if deemed WED necessary in its opinion, and if circumstances arise outside WED its control. In this event, a notice will be posted on the WED following website: WED http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thinkingallowed WED WED WED 23. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of WED England and Wales. WED WED WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0507lsg (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b0507lsj (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05053qk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 What Does the K Stand For? b0507mbg (Listen) WED Series 2, A Royal Visit WED WED Stephen K Amos' sitcom about his own teenage years, growing WED up black, gay and funny in 1980s South London. WED WED Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. Produced by WED Colin Anderson. WED WED Credits WED Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos WED Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah WED Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna WED Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas WED Vincent Amos: Don Gilet WED Miss Bliss: Michelle Butterly WED Jayson Jackson: Frankie Wilson WED Fergie: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Moira S: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Ms Hunt: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED Writer: Jonathan Harvey WED Writer: Stephen K Amos WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0507mbj (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0507pmm (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0507lh4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:40 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b0507pmp (Listen) WED The Law and Rape WED WED Convictions for rape in the UK are described as "shockingly WED low". Why does the law appear to be failing to protect WED women? Clive Anderson discusses what needs to be done to WED improve the situation with the Director of Public WED Prosecutions Alison Saunders, Assistant Metropolitan Police WED Commissioner Martin Hewitt and two leading lawyers working WED in the area. WED WED Solicitor Harriet Wistrich, founder of the campaign group WED Justice For Women, welcomes moves by the Police and the WED Crown Prosecution Service to improve the way they deal with WED rape cases. But she says her experience suggests the message WED is not always reaching individual prosecutors and police WED officers. WED WED Barrister and law lecturer Catarina Sjolin worries that the WED police and the CPS don't have the resources to deal with a WED huge increase in rape cases, pointing out that it can take WED two years between a rape being reported and a verdict. WED WED How effective is the new Crown Prosecution Service and WED Police action plan on rape, which is aimed at increasing WED convictions? How should the CPS approach 'difficult' cases? WED And to what extent should the Police and CPS pursue women WED who falsely claim to have been raped? WED WED Producer name: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 David Baddiel Tries to Understand b050bk90 (Listen) WED In the final episode in the series, David Baddiel tries to WED understand the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam. WED WED David hears about the theological and practical differences, WED and what they mean in the world today. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Gone to Earth b048n3fb (Listen) WED The Fan Dance WED WED Infantry soldiers are trained, challenged and shaped by the WED Brecon Beacons. Horatio Clare walks with former soldiers to WED see the Welsh mountains through their eyes. WED WED For decades the Brecon Beacons in South Wales have played an WED important part in British Army infantry training. Soldiers WED have walked, crawled, run, taken cover, got cold and wet, WED cursed and been shaped by the terrain of the Brecon Beacons. WED Writer Horatio Clare, who grew up in the Beacons, meets WED former infantry soldiers to explore their unique and lasting WED relationship with this landscape. WED WED 1. The Fan Dance: Horatio sets out to walk the infantry WED training route known as The Fan Dance, so called because it WED takes you over Pen y Fan, the highest peak in southern WED Britain. He's joined in the hills by former Parachute WED Regiment officers Adam Dawson and Evan Fuery and by Ed WED Butler who commanded British Forces in Afghanistan in 2006. WED The three soldiers talk about their deep physical and WED psychological connection with these upland border landscapes WED and the fact that, wherever they have served, wherever WED they're from originally, the Brecon Beacons become 'home'. WED WED Horatio also gets first-hand experience of infantry WED endurance training and skills from Steve Rees, a former WED Royal Marine physical training and outdoor pursuits WED instructor. As he shoulders a 55 pound bergen - the military WED term for a rucksack - and Steve puts him through his paces, WED Horatio experiences first-hand a soldier's focused, WED exhausting, exhilarating intimacy with the landscape. He WED discovers how to turn it to your advantage and use it as WED cover; and what you see and know if it as you move invisibly WED through it, gone to earth. WED WED Producer: Jeremy Grange. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0507lgy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b050bk93 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b050bk95 (Listen) WED The Bottle Imp, Episode 3 WED WED Keawe, a young Hawaiian sailor, buys an enchanted bottle WED that grants its owner's every wish. There's just one catch; WED if the owner dies before selling it on, his soul will burn WED in hell forever. Keawe reasons that the bottle should be WED easy enough to pass on once he has gained his heart's desire WED - but it must be sold at a loss, and the price drops with WED every trade... WED WED Witnessing the bottle's sinister power, Keawe is glad to get WED rid of it and when he becomes engaged to a beautiful and WED clever woman his happiness is unbounded. But a shocking WED discovery forces him to reconsider his decision to sell the WED bottle. WED WED Read by Ian McDiarmid WED WED Written by Robert Louis Stevenson WED WED Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Ian McDiarmid WED Author: Robert Louis Stevenson WED Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 23:00 Roger McGough's Other Half b050bmfk (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Roger McGough is joined by Helen Atkinson-Wood, Philip WED Jackson and Richie Webb in a hilarious and surreal new WED sketch show for BBC Radio 4. With sketches about Fandom, WED Fatherhood and 17th Century France, you'll hear his familiar WED voice in a whole new light. Expect merriment and melancholy WED in equal measures, and a whisker of witty wordplay too. WED Produced by Victoria Lloyd. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Roger McGough WED WED 23:15 Love in Recovery b050bmfm (Listen) WED Andy WED WED Comedy drama by Pete Jackson, set in Alcoholics Anonymous WED and inspired by his own road to recovery. Starring Sue WED Johnston, John Hannah, Eddie Marsan, Rebecca Front, Paul WED Kaye and Julia Deakin. WED WED The programme follows the lives of five very different WED recovering alcoholics. Set entirely at their weekly WED meetings, we hear them get to know each other, learn to hate WED each other, argue, moan, laugh, fall apart, fall in love WED and, most importantly, tell their stories. WED WED There are funny stories, sad stories, stories of small WED victories and milestones, stories of loss, stories of hope, WED and stories that you really shouldn't laugh at - but still WED do. Along with the storyteller. WED WED In this fourth episode, Andy (Eddie Marsan) has a date for WED the first time in....well....longer than he'd like to admit. WED It's up to the rest of the group to rally round and get him WED match fit. WED WED Writer Pete Jackson is a recovering alcoholic and has spent WED time with Alcoholics Anonymous. It was there he found, as WED many people do, support from the unlikeliest group of WED disparate souls, all banded together due to one common bond. WED As well as offering the support he needed throughout a WED difficult time, AA also offered a weekly, sometimes daily, WED dose of hilarity, upset, heartbreak and friendship. WED WED Written and created by Pete Jackson WED WED Produced and Directed by Ben Worsfield WED A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Marion: Julia Deakin WED Fiona: Rebecca Front WED Simon: John Hannah WED Julie: Sue Johnston WED Danno: Paul Kaye WED Andy: Eddie Marsan WED Writer: Pete Jackson WED Producer: Ben Worsfield WED Director: Ben Worsfield WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b050bmfp (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 29 JANUARY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b05053r9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0507lh0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05053rc (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05053rf (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05053rh (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b05053rk (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b051s60x (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ed THU Kessler, from the Woolf Institute in Cambridge. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b050bcdx (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0vb1 (Listen) THU Black Sicklebill THU THU Michael Palin presents the black sicklebill of New Guinea. THU The black sicklebill is a breath-taking creature. It's a THU bird of paradise, and the male sicklebill's black feathers THU gleam with metallic blue, green and purple highlights. But THU his most striking features are a slender scythe-like bill, THU and an extremely long sabre-shaped tail whose central plumes THU can reach 50cm in length. THU THU During courtship, he transforms his pectoral and wing THU feathers into a huge ruff which almost conceals his head and THU exposes an iridescent blue patch. Perching on a dead branch, THU he displays horizontally, looking less like a bird than a THU small black comet, all the while producing strange rattling THU cries. THU THU It is thought that the Black sicklebill and its relative the THU Brown Sickle bill may have spooked the Japanese in the THU Second World War. Japanese forces had occupied the North THU coast of (Papua) New Guinea and during their push south to THU the capital, Port Moresby, had to cross the mountain THU territories of the sicklebills. It's said that on hearing THU the birds' courtship displays; they flung themselves to the THU ground, thinking that they were under fire from the Allies. THU THU Black sicklebill (Epimachus fastuosus) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Tim Laman / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01442211 THU © Tim Laman / naturepl.com. THU THU 06:00 Today b050bcdz (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b050bcf1 (Listen) THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Greek historian THU Thucydides. His work recounts a war between Athens and THU Sparta in the 5th century BC, but readers have argued that THU he uses this story as the starting point for a profound THU discussion of politics, human motives and the nature of THU history. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b050bcf3 (Listen) THU Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, Episode 4 THU THU In the early 2000s, Peter Pomerantsev came to Moscow to work THU in the fast-growing television industry. He was perfectly THU placed to witness the transformation of the New Russia on THU its journey from communist collapse to a new form of THU dictatorship. THU THU "Old walls and doors know something we can't understand... THU the true nature of time." Peter tours the city's hidden THU courtyards and side streets with Mozayev, a 'guardian THU spirit' of Old Moscow and self-proclaimed defender of its THU fast-disappearing historic architecture. THU THU Written by Peter Pomerantsev THU THU Read by Justin Salinger THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Justin Salinger THU Author: Peter Pomerantsev THU Abridger: Robin Brooks THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b050bcf5 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b050bcf7 (Listen) THU Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip, Episode 4 THU THU Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip by Lou Ramsden THU THU Episode 4 THU THU A very nervous Maz arrives at the airport for her first trip THU abroad as a wheelchair user. Her first stop, however, is the THU security gate, where she has to smuggle through the cannabis THU which she relies so heavily upon for pain relief. THU THU Written by Lou Ramsden THU Directed by Charlotte Riches THU THU The drama is inspired by the adventures and experiences of THU Cherylee Houston. THU THU Credits THU Maz: Cherylee Houston THU Rachel: Kathryn Pemberton THU Jim: James Quinn THU Lisa: Rosina Carbone THU Callum: John Catterall THU Guard: Toby Hadoke THU Barry: Toby Hadoke THU Writer: Lou Ramsden THU Producer: Charlotte Riches THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b050bfv7 (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Ansel Adams on Tape b04dk88v (Listen) THU Miles Warde explores the life of the great American THU photographer Ansel Adams on tape. Using extensive archive, THU the programme builds a compelling picture of the man THU responsible for some of the most expensive photographic THU prints in history. He is probably most famous for dramatic THU black and white images of Yosemite, while a 1948 print of THU Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico sold for $609,000 in 2006. THU THU With contributions from Ansel Adams, the photographer Greg THU Bartley, and Hiag Akmakjian, whose recordings of Adams THU speaking in Carmel, California over 30 years ago have never THU previously been heard. THU THU The producer is Miles Warde. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b05053rm (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 A History of Ideas b050bfv9 (Listen) THU Surgeon Gabriel Weston on medical technology THU THU Surgeons of the distant past were little more than skilled THU butchers, trying to minimise the agony of their bone-sawing THU craft. Surgery itself was a last-resort and one you might THU not survive, and if you did, one of many brutal contagious THU diseases might wipe you out instead. THU THU But spool forward through history, past the growth in THU sanitation, inventions of anaesthesia, antibiotics, THU radiation therapy and the discovery of germ theory, and look THU at the world of the present-day medic. Safe, effective drug THU treatments are par for the course, and surgeons, operating THU in controlled, clinical environments, can count light-rays THU and robots-assistants alongside scalpels in their quiver of THU surgical instruments. THU THU Clearly medical technology has come a long way. But along THU with changing how we look, how we think and how we live, THU have these developments changed who we are as a species? And THU are we heading in a positive direction? THU THU The meteoric rise of elective, 'cosmetic' surgery is THU testament to the changing expectations we place on our THU bodies, but the idea of either drugging or cutting ourselves THU in pursuit of perfection leaves many feeling uneasy. THU THU Not everyone feels this way however; 'transhumanists' THU believe that it's not just possible, but philosophically THU noble, to try to break through our biological limitations THU through drugs, genetic modification, or enhancement THU therapies. They believe the future of our species relies on THU actively pursuing the dream of 'Superintelligence, THU Superlongevity and Superhappiness'. But at what cost? THU THU Surgeon Gabriel Weston looks at the past, present, and the THU weird and wonderful future of medicine to find the answer. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b050bfvc (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 13:00 World at One b050bfvf (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark THU Mardell. THU THU 13:45 Churchill's Other Lives b00zllkb (Listen) THU Painting THU THU Winston Churchill was revered by millions as the saviour of THU Britain in the Second World War, but he wasn't just a great THU war leader - he wrote millions of words of journalism, he THU painted, he built brick walls, he owned racehorses, he THU gambled in Monte Carlo casinos and even wrote screenplays. THU Yet his personality was mercurial; bouts of hyper-activity THU were interspersed with black days of depression. While he THU had a loving marriage, he spent long periods apart from his THU wife and children, some of whom caused him deep anxiety and THU distress. THU THU To mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death, celebrated THU historian Sir David Cannadine, author of In Churchill's THU Shadow, examines the life and career of Winston Churchill by THU looking at ten different themes that are less well known, THU but which are crucial to a fuller understanding of one of THU the most extraordinary individuals ever to occupy No. 10 THU Downing Street. THU THU Despite not taking up painting until he was 40, Winston THU Churchill produced more than 500 canvasses in his lifetime THU and became an honorary member of the Royal Academy. His show THU there in 1959 outsold every previous exhibition except one THU dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci. So why was painting such an THU important part of Churchill's life? Sir David Cannadine THU explores the hobby that meant most to Churchill and how it THU helped to keep what he called the 'black dog' of depression THU at bay. THU THU Featuring Roger Allam as Winston Churchill. THU THU Producer: Melissa FitzGerald THU A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Producer: Denys Blakeway THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0507mbj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 GF Newman's The Corrupted b050bfvh (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 9 THU THU Crime drama based on the characters from the best selling THU novel by the multi-award winning writer, GF Newman. This THU second series runs from 1961 to 1970. THU THU Spanning six decades, the saga plots the course of one THU family against the back-drop of a revolution in crime as the THU underworld extends its influence to the very heart of the THU establishment, in an uncomfortable relationship of shared THU values. THU THU At the start of the 1960s, Joey Oldman acquires crafty THU Arnold Goodman as his solicitor, and buys shares in the THU civil engineering firm owned by the corrupt Minister of THU Transport, Ernest Marples. THU THU Prospering with the help of venal bankers, and growing more THU devious, he and his wife Cath join Macmillan's Conservative THU Party. They strive without success to keep their son Brian THU free of the influence of Jack Braden (Cath's nephew) as he THU takes their 'firm' from running illicit clubs, where they THU entertain politicians and judges, to armed robbery. All the THU while, Jack and Brian struggle to keep free of the police THU and further entanglements with the law, the Kray twins and THU the Richardsons. THU THU Episode 9: THU The police are trying to arrest Jack and put pressure on THU Brian to turn Queen's Evidence. THU THU Written by GF Newman THU Produced and Directed by Clive Brill THU A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Ross Kemp THU Joey Oldman: Toby Jones THU Cath Oldman: Denise Gough THU Brian Oldman: Joe Armstrong THU Jack Braden: Luke Allen Gale THU Leah Cohen: Jasmine Hyde THU Writer: GF Newman THU Director: Clive Brill THU Producer: Clive Brill THU THU 15:00 Open Country b050bfvk (Listen) THU Helen Mark visits the Ring Of Gullion in Northern Ireland to THU discover it's ancient geographical features that are now THU attracting visitors from all over the world. THU THU The Ring Of Gullion is in South Armagh, near the border with THU Ireland. THU THU For years the area was an area that was dangerous during the THU troubles and so overlooked by tourists, but the locals have THU aware of it's beauty, wildlife and ancient history, packed THU with myths and legends for centuries. Now the area is trying THU to attract visitors and put itself firmly on the map as an THU area with plenty to attract visitors from all over the THU world. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0505l33 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b0505t2p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b050bfvm (Listen) THU Paul Thomas Anderson discusses Inherent Vice THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Paul Thomas Anderson discusses Inherent Vice, the first THU movie adaptation of a novel by reclusive writer Thomas THU Pynchon. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Paul Thomas Anderson THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b050bhnl (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU Producer Adrian Washbourne. THU THU 17:00 PM b050bhnn (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and THU analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05053rp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b050bhnq (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Bridget Christie returns in another series of her THU multi-award winning series about modern feminism. THU THU Bridget thought that she'd be able to put her feet up after THU her last Radio 4 series, she expected it to bomb. Sadly it THU was a huge success and she's had to bang on about feminism THU ever since, perform two sell-out runs at the Edinburgh THU festival and win lots of awards. THU THU But she hasn't managed to single-handedly eradicate sexism THU so she's made a whole new four-part series about it for THU Radio 4. THU THU In this final episode, she talks about why she's not THU grateful Russell Brand has stopped being a sexist, what THU happens when you wear an end FGM badge on a popular TV show THU and why politics has a women problem. THU THU She's assisted in this by the series' token man, Fred THU MacAulay. THU THU The series is written and performed by Bridget Christie and THU the producers are Alexandra Smith and Alison Vernon Smith. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Bridget Christie THU Performer: Fred MacAulay THU Producer: Alexandra Smith THU Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith THU Writer: Bridget Christie THU THU 19:00 The Archers b050bhns (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b050bhnv (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b050bcf7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b050bhnx (Listen) THU French Republican, Insha'Allah THU THU Ahmed Merabet was one of three police officers killed in the THU recent terrorist attacks in France. All were honoured as THU heroes, but it was Ahmed's story which captured France, and THU the world's attention. As a Muslim who died responding to an THU attack on a publication which satirised the prophet THU Muhammed, many saw him as the perfect embodiment of the THU values of the French Republic and its hopes for the THU integration of its substantial Muslim population. As France THU now struggles to figure out how to combat radicalism and THU promote integration, politicians have called for France's THU muslims to "choose the Republic", in essence to be more like THU Ahmed Merabet. At his memorial service, Helen Grady meets THU Muslims who have come to pay their respects, and follows THU their lives in the aftermath of the attacks to find out THU whether they need to do more to be French, or whether the THU Republic's strong insistence on secularism leaves little THU place for French Muslims. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b050bhvc (Listen) THU The Price of Time THU THU How should we price services? By the hour? By results? Or by THU the difficulty of the task? And what impact does each model THU have on how businesses are run? In the first of a new series THU Evan Davis and guests look at the history of how we've THU priced our time and expertise and why this may be about to THU change. THU THU Guests : THU Christopher Saul, senior partner, Slaughter & May THU Debbie Klein, UK CEO, The Engine Group THU Russell Quirk, Founder, EMoov. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b050bhnl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b050bcf1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b050bjhg (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b050bjhj (Listen) THU The Bottle Imp, Episode 4 THU THU Keawe, a young Hawaiian sailor, is tempted into buying an THU enchanted bottle that will grant his every wish. There's a THU catch; if the owner dies before selling it on, his soul will THU burn in hell forever. Keawe reasons that the bottle should THU be easy enough to pass on once he has gained his heart's THU desire - but it must be sold at a loss, and the price drops THU with every trade... THU THU Read by Ian McDiarmid THU THU Written by Robert Louis Stevenson THU THU Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Ian McDiarmid THU Author: Robert Louis Stevenson THU Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 23:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters b050bjhl (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Master character comedian Colin Hoult returns to BBC Radio 4 THU for the second series of his sinister sketch show. Enter the THU Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of THU sketches, stories and characters, presented by the sinister THU Ringmaster. THU THU A host of characters are the exhibits at the Carnival - all THU played by Colin himself. THU THU Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: THU Wannabe Hollywood screenwriter Andy Parker; Anna Mann - THU outrageous star of such forgotten silver screen hits such as THU 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish Delight' and 'A Bowl For THU My Bottom'; and a host of other characters from acid jazz THU obsessives, to mask workshop coordinators. THU THU Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his THU highly acclaimed starring roles in Paul Whitehouse's THU 'Nurse', 'Being Human', Rickey Gervais' 'Life's Too Short' THU and 'Derek', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as THU his many hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also THU appeared and written for a number of Radio 4 series THU including 'The Headset Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' THU Digi-Radio'. THU THU 'Lewis Carol meets The League Of Gentlemen . A beautifully THU staged masterclass in character comedy' - Time Out THU 'Comic gold' - Metro THU 'Delightfully funny' - The Telegraph THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Colin Hoult THU Producer: Sam Bryant THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b050bjhn (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 30 JANUARY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b05053t5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b050bcf3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05053t7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05053t9 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05053tc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b05053tf (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b051s6jx (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ed FRI Kessler, from the Woolf Institute in Cambridge. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b050bwp7 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0t44 (Listen) FRI Kea FRI FRI Michael Palin presents the kea from a windswept mountain in FRI New Zealand. A a snow-capped mountain in New Zealand's South FRI Island are not a place where you'd expect to find a parrot, FRI least of all a carnivorous one (and with a penchant for FRI rubber). But this is the home of the kea. FRI FRI Keas are curious birds in every sense of the word. Drab FRI greenish brown, they're the world's only Alpine parrot. When FRI they can find them, keas eat fruits and berries, but also, FRI especially in winter they descend from the higher slopes and FRI scavenge on animal carcasses at rubbish dumps, cracking FRI bones with their sharp beaks to reach the marrow. They will FRI even attack live sheep, stripping the fat from their backs FRI and damaging vital organs. Although this habit is rare and FRI is now understood to be largely restricted to injured sheep, FRI it led to widespread persecution of the birds and a bounty FRI was paid on the head of each bird killed which led to FRI widespread declines so that keas became endangered. FRI FRI Today Keas are legally protected. In their mountain homes, FRI the parrots survive to entertain and exasperate tourists as FRI they clamber over cars, strip rubber seals from windscreens FRI and remove wiper-blades ... curious birds indeed. FRI FRI Kea (Nestor notabilis) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Andrew Walmsley / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01266363 FRI © Andrew Walmsley / naturepl.com. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b050bwpb (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0505l3c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b050bwpf (Listen) FRI Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the early 2000s, Peter Pomerantsev (the son of Russian FRI political exiles) came to Moscow to work in the fast-growing FRI television industry. He was perfectly placed to witness the FRI transformation of the New Russia on its journey from FRI communist collapse to a new form of dictatorship. FRI FRI In this episode, he reflects upon the fractured nature of a FRI country (and its people) that has moved so quickly from FRI communism to capitalism, where the difference between FRI 'public' and 'private' selves can, by necessity, be extreme. FRI Realising that he can't maintain such psychological FRI divisions, he decides to return to London. FRI FRI Written by Peter Pomerantsev FRI FRI Read by Justin Salinger FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Justin Salinger FRI Author: Peter Pomerantsev FRI Abridger: Robin Brooks FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b050bwpk (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 b050bwpm (Listen) FRI Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip, Episode 5 FRI FRI Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip by Lou Ramsden FRI FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Maz finally arrives in the Seychelles, with the chiselled FRI cheek-boned best man for Lisa's wedding in tow. Yet, with FRI her pain levels riding high, it soon becomes clear to Maz FRI that not everything is as sunny on this island paradise as FRI she had imagined. Maz realises that she needs to work some FRI of her Tinsel Girl magic. FRI FRI Written by Lou Ramsden FRI Directed by Charlotte Riches FRI FRI The drama is inspired by the adventures and experiences of FRI Cherylee Houston. FRI FRI Credits FRI Maz: Cherylee Houston FRI Lisa: Rosina Carbone FRI Callum: John Catterall FRI Didier: Quentin Surtel FRI Writer: Lou Ramsden FRI Producer: Charlotte Riches FRI FRI 11:00 The Sound of Space b050bwpp (Listen) FRI In space, no one can hear you scream. FRI FRI But the previously silent world of outer space is changing. FRI Astronomers are using sound to help them uncover the secrets FRI of our Universe. FRI FRI In this programme, solar scientist Dr Lucie Green is our FRI guide around the noisy Universe. Starting from the Earth, FRI she takes us through the Solar System, past the Sun to FRI distant galaxies. FRI FRI Everyone can recall the sound of the singing comet - a FRI symphony created using measurements taken by the Rosetta FRI lander, Philae. But many other sounds have been created FRI using space missions, from lightening on Venus, to aurora on FRI Saturn. FRI FRI Other space recordings are of actual sounds which have been FRI sped up by astronomers to make them audible, for example the FRI noise of our nearest star, the Sun. FRI FRI Just as a doctor listens to the sound of your heart to make FRI a diagnosis, astronomers listen to the oscillations inside FRI stars to draw a detailed picture of their interior. The FRI range of noises are surprising and diverse - from ringing FRI bells to short buzzes and eerie drum rolls, as a star FRI expands to become a red giant in the final phases of its FRI life. FRI FRI From pulsars to gamma ray bursts, outside our Solar System FRI space becomes even stranger. Pulsars are tiny rotating FRI stars, smaller than London, which can spin at a rate of FRI milliseconds. They emit radio waves from their poles and FRI astronomers detect these pulses as they sweep past earth, FRI like the spinning beam of a lighthouse beacon. FRI FRI Lucie Green brings you all these sounds, and more, from our FRI incredibly noisy Universe. FRI FRI Producer: Michelle Martin. FRI FRI 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b03sztxc (Listen) FRI Series 5, Birkenhead FRI FRI Mark Steel returns to Radio 4 for a fifth series of the FRI award winning show that travels around the country, FRI researching the history, heritage and culture of six towns FRI that have nothing in common but their uniqueness, and does a FRI bespoke evening of comedy in each one. FRI FRI As every high street slowly morphs into a replica of the FRI next, Mark Steel's in Town celebrates the parochial, the FRI local and the unusual. From Corby's rivalry with Kettering FRI to the word you can't say in Portland, the show has taken in FRI the idiosyncrasies of towns up and down the country, from FRI Kirkwall to Penzance, from Holyhead to Bungay. FRI FRI This edition comes from Birkenhead, Wirral, where the FRI landscape may be dominated by the shipyard but the local FRI life has also included monks, a "Bantam Army", one of the FRI quirkiest bands in the country, and a pub inside a FRI barbershop. You will also find out why this edition of Mark FRI Steel's In Town was probably the inspiration for Woody FRI Allen's Manhattan. FRI FRI Written and performed by ... Mark Steel FRI Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair FRI Production co-ordinator ... Trudi Stevens FRI Producer ... Ed Morrish. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Mark Steel FRI Writer: Mark Steel FRI Writer: Pete Sinclair FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b05053th (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 A History of Ideas b050bwpr (Listen) FRI Archaeologist Matt Pope on tools and human evolution FRI FRI There's a tiny bone needle at Creswell Crags in Derbyshire. FRI For archaeologist Matt Pope it's hugely significant. 13,000 FRI years ago local people used it to construct tailored FRI clothing which allowed them to survive and thrive at the FRI very limits of Ice Age civilisation. FRI FRI Skip forward millennia and the first human visitor to Mars FRI will be protected by a thin skin of man-made fabric, a suit FRI containing the only biological processes for millions of FRI miles. Our ability to create tools that take us into new and FRI hostile environments is, for Matt Pope, the key to man's FRI evolutionary journey. FRI FRI It's a view he shares with the first philosopher of FRI technology, Ernst Kapp. Living through Germany's rapid FRI industrial revolution Kapp came to believe that we could FRI extend all the functions of the human mind and body through FRI technology. Together, man and his tools would know no FRI limits. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b050bwpt (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b05053tk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b050bwpx (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:45 Churchill's Other Lives b050bwpz (Listen) FRI Science FRI FRI Winston Churchill was revered by millions as the saviour of FRI Britain in the Second World War, but he wasn't just a great FRI war leader - he wrote millions of words of journalism, he FRI painted, he built brick walls, he owned racehorses, he FRI gambled in Monte Carlo casinos and even wrote screenplays. FRI Yet his personality was mercurial; bouts of hyper-activity FRI were interspersed with black days of depression. While he FRI had a loving marriage, he spent long periods apart from his FRI wife and children, some of whom caused him deep anxiety and FRI distress. FRI FRI Celebrated historian Sir David Cannadine, author of In FRI Churchill's Shadow, examines the life and career of Winston FRI Churchill by looking at ten different themes that are less FRI well known, but which are crucial to a fuller understanding FRI of one of the most extraordinary individuals ever to occupy FRI No. 10 Downing Street. FRI FRI Sir David ends the series by examining Winston Churchill's FRI lifelong fascination with gadgets and technology, and by a FRI scientific future - as evidenced by his early delight in the FRI novels of H.G. Wells. During the First World War, Churchill FRI was awe-struck by the potential of the tank and, in the FRI inter-war years, his friendship with H.G. Wells gave him the FRI vision to predict the creation of a super-bomb that would FRI kill millions of people. He later became friends with FRI Professor Lindeman, who would become his scientific advisor FRI during the Second World War. FRI FRI Featuring Roger Allam as the voice of Winston Churchill. FRI Other parts are played by Ewan Bailey, Jasmine Hyde, James FRI Sobol Kelly and Simon Tchernaik. FRI FRI The theme tune was composed by David Owen Norris, and FRI performed by David Owen Norris on piano, Andrew Lyle on FRI clarinet and Bastwin Terraz on bass. FRI FRI Producer: Melissa FitzGerald FRI A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Copper foil with etched perforations FRI The Tube Alloys Project, Science Museum, London FRI FRI Leather attache case containing boxes of photographic glass FRI plates FRI The Tube Alloys Project, Science Museum, London FRI FRI Microscopic photograph of diffusion membranes FRI ICI Metals Ltd/Science Museum, London FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b050bhns (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 GF Newman's The Corrupted b050bxkb (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 10 FRI FRI Crime drama based on the characters from the best selling FRI novel by the multi-award winning writer, GF Newman. This FRI second series runs from 1961 to 1970. FRI FRI Spanning six decades, the saga plots the course of one FRI family against the back-drop of a revolution in crime as the FRI underworld extends its influence to the very heart of the FRI establishment, in an uncomfortable relationship of shared FRI values. FRI FRI At the start of the 1960s, Joey Oldman acquires crafty FRI Arnold Goodman as his solicitor, and buys shares in the FRI civil engineering firm owned by the corrupt Minister of FRI Transport, Ernest Marples. FRI FRI Prospering with the help of venal bankers, and growing more FRI devious, he and his wife Cath join Macmillan's Conservative FRI Party. They strive without success to keep their son Brian FRI free of the influence of Jack Braden (Cath's nephew) as he FRI takes their 'firm' from running illicit clubs, where they FRI entertain politicians and judges, to armed robbery. All the FRI while, Jack and Brian struggle to keep free of the police FRI and further entanglements with the law, the Kray twins and FRI the Richardsons. FRI FRI Episode 10: FRI Corrupt Tony Wednesday manoeuvres Jack and Brian into court, FRI then gets a big surprise from Joey. FRI FRI Written by GF Newman FRI Produced and Directed by Clive Brill FRI A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Ross Kemp FRI Joey Oldman: Toby Jones FRI Cath Oldman: Denise Gough FRI Brian Oldman: Joe Armstrong FRI Jack Braden: Luke Allen Gale FRI Leah Cohen: Jasmine Hyde FRI Writer: GF Newman FRI Director: Clive Brill FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b050c1rt (Listen) FRI Postbag Edition FRI FRI Peter Gibbs is at the University of Reading for a FRI correspondence edition of the programme. James Wong, Pippa FRI Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew join him to FRI answer horticultural questions sent in by post, phone, email FRI and social media. FRI FRI Producer: Darby Dorras FRI FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Shorts b050c4sd (Listen) FRI Scottish Shorts, No Numbers FRI FRI SHORTS: Scottish Shorts is one of a returning series of FRI short readings featuring new writing from first time or FRI emerging writers. FRI FRI A woman considers the role of numbers in her life as she FRI sits by the bed of her dying grandmother. Francesca Dymond FRI reads a lyrical exploration of death, permanence and FRI mathematics, written by Pippa Goldschmidt. FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI Pippa Goldschmidt is based in Edinburgh and came to creative FRI writing from a previous career as an astronomer. She is the FRI author of Dundee International Book Prize finalist, 'The FRI Falling Sky'. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Pippa Goldschmidt FRI Reader: Francesca Dymond FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b050c4sg (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b050c4sj (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news and in FRI life. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b050c4sl (Listen) FRI Moira and Stephanie - Seeing Hope FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a mother who hadn't seen her daughter FRI since she was eleven years old, but whose vision has now FRI been partially restored. 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 b050c4sn (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05053tm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b050c4sq (Listen) FRI Series 45, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a comic take on the FRI week's news. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b050c4ss (Listen) FRI Motherly comfort for Phoebe, while Lilian faces the future. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Mary Cutler FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b050c4sv (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b050bwpm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b050c5kg (Listen) FRI Tom Crotty, Margaret Hodge MP, Julian Huppert MP, Liz Truss FRI MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Dereham Memorial Hall in Dereham, Norfolk, Director of FRI the Energy firm INEOS, Tom Crotty, Chair of the Public FRI Accounts Committee, the Labour MP Margaret Hodge and the FRI Liberal Democrat backbench MP Julian Huppert and the FRI Secretary of state for the Department for the Environment FRI Food and Rural Affairs Liz Truss MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b050c5kj (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Ideas b050c5p9 (Listen) FRI Omnibus, How Has Technology Changed Us? FRI FRI Omnibus edition of Melvyn Bragg's History of ideas series. FRI Five programmes examining how technology has changed us from FRI flint axe to sat nav. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b05053tp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b050c5wf (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b050c5wh (Listen) FRI The Bottle Imp, Episode 5 FRI FRI Set in 1880s Hawaii, Robert Louis Stevenson's story about an FRI enchanted bottle - its glass tempered in the flames of hell FRI - that grants its owner's every wish. The catch? If the FRI owner dies before selling it on, his soul will burn in hell FRI forever. But it must be sold at a loss, and the price drops FRI with every trade... FRI FRI Read by Ian McDiarmid FRI FRI Written by Robert Louis Stevenson FRI FRI Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Ian McDiarmid FRI Author: Robert Louis Stevenson FRI Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b05077kv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b050c5wk (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b050c5wm (Listen) FRI Catherine and Bea - The Art of Inspiration FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a mother and daughter who are both FRI artists, debating who inspires whom, and discussing living FRI with art and learning from it too. 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
25 January, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 24/01/2015 - 30/01/2015
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