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SAT SATURDAY 07 FEBRUARY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b050xgv1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0512h6h (Listen) SAT Young Eliot, Episode 5 SAT SAT A new biography of TS Eliot by Robert Crawford, abridged by SAT Katrin Williams, is published to mark 50 years since the SAT poet's death: SAT SAT 5. Tom still works in the bank, but his verse is published SAT by Virginia Woolf and he dines with James Joyce in Paris. SAT Then comes The Waste Land.. SAT SAT Readers Tom Mannion and David Acton. SAT SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Tom Mannion SAT Reader: David Acton SAT Author: Robert Crawford SAT Abridger: Katrin Williams SAT Producer: Duncan Minshull SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b050xgv3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b050xgv5 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b050xgv7 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b050xgv9 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0512lsx (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Richard Littledale. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0512lsz (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b050xgvc (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b050xgvf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b05126z9 (Listen) SAT Shetland SAT SAT Shetland is the most northerly part of the UK. The SAT archipelago of islands is home to 23,000 people, who are SAT nearer to Norway than they are to Edinburgh. Helen Mark SAT travels to Lerwick to visit the annual Up Helly Aa fire SAT festival, during which a thousand torches are set alight, SAT and which culminates in the burning of a replica Viking SAT longboat. She also finds out about the wildlife and SAT archaeology of the islands, and visits Scalloway to learn SAT about the "Shetland Bus" - a secret WW2 operation which used SAT undercover fishing boats to send supplies and munitions to SAT the Resistance in Nazi-occupied Norway. SAT SAT Presented by Helen Mark and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b051j5t4 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b050xgvh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b051j5t6 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b051j5t8 (Listen) SAT Ruth Jones SAT SAT The actor and writer Ruth Jones joins Aasmah Mir and Richard SAT Coles. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Ruth Jones SAT SAT 10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b051j5tb (Listen) SAT Series 5, Mrs Miniver SAT SAT Nazis and Hollywood combine for the first in the new series SAT of And The Academy Award Goes To... SAT SAT As the city of celluloid gears up for Oscar time, Paul SAT Gambaccini returns with the series that takes a long hard SAT look behind the scenes of three classic films which have SAT scooped the Best Picture Award. He reports on the artistic, SAT political and personal decisions that lie behind the SAT winners, laced with some pretty good gossip too. SAT SAT First up, Mrs Miniver, from 1942, a war time classic. SAT SAT During the filming, star Greer Garson insisted on tea every SAT afternoon at four o'clock, whilst director William Wyler SAT hated the chocolate box set of rose-strewn villages he was SAT forced to work with. Despite these restrictions Mrs Miniver SAT turned out to be a film that helped change history - SAT credited by many, including Churchill, with helping to turn SAT popular opinion in America away from isolationism and SAT towards whole hearted support for the Allied Forces in SAT Europe. SAT SAT It portrays a family living a safe life in the Garden of SAT England, Kent - a world where Mrs Miniver worries more about SAT a hat than the approaching conflict. But as her world falls SAT apart, she changes and becomes more resilient, as the people SAT of Britain bravely face up to the task of defending this SAT island, whatever the cost. SAT SAT So did Mrs Miniver deserve Best Picture for 1942? SAT SAT Veteran film critic Philip French believes that it hasn't SAT lasted, though he recalls from his own childhood in SAT Liverpool how it touched the hearts of British cinema goers. SAT SAT And behind this patriotic movie lies a darker story - did SAT Hollywood studios protect their sales in Germany by going SAT softly, softly on the Nazi regime, until the tide of public SAT opinion finally turned against the Germans? SAT SAT Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT Further Reading SAT SAT *The Real Mrs Miniver* by Ysenda Maxtone Graham SAT SAT *A Rose for Mrs Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson* by SAT Michael Troyan SAT SAT *William Wyler: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Most SAT Celebrated Director* by Daniel Miller SAT SAT *The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact With Hitler *by Ben SAT Urwand SAT SAT SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b051j5td (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b050xgvk (Listen) SAT Jordan Retaliates SAT SAT The news behind the news. In this edition Paul Adams is in SAT Jordan as the country takes the fight to Islamic State. Sian SAT Griffiths in Ottawa talks of the plight of homeless people SAT in an icy winter. Nick Thorpe in Hungary on why a little SAT baby's at the centre of a storm over racism. Chris Bowlby SAT has been trying to find details about the killing of an SAT ancestor in China. And Christine Finn on how a pack of SAT howling dogs helped her appreciate the Northern Lights. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b050xgvm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b051j5tg (Listen) SAT Give up winter payments? Phone fraud more common than SAT burglary; And closet tracker, anyone? SAT SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: An influential think tank SAT urges wealthy pensioners to opt out of receiving the winter SAT fuel payment. Money Box debates the issue with Policy SAT Exchange, the National Pensioners Convention and millionaire SAT Peter Stringfellow. SAT SAT As figures reveal that you are more likely to be a victim of SAT phone fraud than burglary - Money Box has heard from another SAT listener who lost her money in a vishing attack who cannot SAT get her money back from the bank. Does a victim of such a SAT crime have any legal recourse? The programmes hears from SAT listener Marilyn Wordley; and from litigation expert Ted SAT Greeno from Quinn Emanuel. SAT SAT Is your money invested in a fund that charges you for active SAT management but does not actually manage it very actively? If SAT so - you would be better with a cheaper tracker fund. A SAT slug-it-out discussion between those who want rules about SAT how active active managers should be and those who think SAT regulation would be a backward step. Gina Miller from SCM SAT Private and Jean-Pierre Casey who writes for the Centre for SAT European Policy Studies join the programme. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b0512ln6 (Listen) SAT Series 45, Episode 5 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a comic take on the SAT week's news. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b050xgvp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b050xgvr (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0512lnd (Listen) SAT Molly Scott Cato MEP, Scott Fletcher, Lisa Nandy, Grant SAT Shapps MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Cheadle Hulme High School in Cheshire with the Green SAT MEP for the South West Molly Scott Cato, Manchester based SAT businessman Scott Fletcher, Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, SAT Lisa Nandy MP, and Chairman of the Conservative Party, Grant SAT Shapps MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b051j5tj (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b03q4pss (Listen) SAT Four Quartets SAT SAT Jeremy Irons reads Four Quartets by T.S.Eliot. SAT SAT Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's SAT career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical SAT and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its SAT four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' SAT and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the SAT spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which SAT preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private SAT voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire SAT generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it SAT as an enduring masterpiece. SAT SAT With an introduction by Michael Symmons Roberts, Lord David SAT Alton and Gail McDonald. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Jeremy Irons SAT Author: TS Eliot SAT SAT 15:45 An Image of Sound b051w066 (Listen) SAT Photographer Andrew Heptinstall is embarking on a quest to SAT see whether a photograph can deliver information over and SAT above a pure image; details of the sound of a place that SAT only the photographer could have known at the time of its SAT capture. SAT SAT He spends a day on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland with SAT blind contemporary photographer Rosita McKenzie and meets SAT Professor Fiona Macpherson, a philosopher from Glasgow SAT University to gain an insight into human senses and SAT perception. SAT SAT His many attempts over 6 months to capture the quality of SAT sound within his images take him on a journey as far as SAT Australia; yet he is only at the beginning of his journey as SAT he continues to search for An Image of Sound. SAT SAT Andrew Heptinstall SAT Andrew Heptinstall SAT has more than 30 years experience as a commercial SAT photographer in both studio and live settings and has worked SAT on assignments in different environments all over the world. SAT During his spare time Andrew creates images as he explores SAT not only his native North of England but both nationwide and SAT around the world as he seeks new and inventive ways of SAT creating imagery, as demonstrated in his blog SAT Wanderings of a Photographer SAT He mentors young photographers in the Newcastle area where SAT he lives and hosts regular ‘workshop sessions’, aimed at all SAT levels of photographic knowledge and experience for both SAT adults and children. SAT Twitter: SAT @aheptinstall SAT Picture: Andrew Heptinstall SAT SAT Rosita McKenzie SAT Rosita McKenzie SAT is a blind photographer interested in the multiple qualities SAT of light and its ability to transform and colour, shape, SAT intensify and shadow our physical world, influenced by her SAT experience as a blind person. SAT SAT She is guided by her hearing, sense of touch, taste and SAT smell and overwhelming curiosity, not merely physical sight. SAT SAT She finds the sound of every movement is different. The SAT sound of every environment is different, as well as people, SAT objects and things of nature. She uses these sounds, along SAT with other people’s verbal descriptions, to build up a vast SAT store of memories and mental images. This way, she is able SAT to simultaneously experience and document her life and SAT engage with the unseen world around her. SAT SAT Fiona Macpherson SAT SAT Fiona Macpherson's research concerns the nature of SAT consciousness, perception and perceptual experience, SAT introspection, imagination and the metaphysics of mind. SAT SAT Topics she has worked on include: cognitive penetration, the SAT nature and individuation of the senses, cross-modal SAT intersensory phenomena, sensory substitution and SAT augmentation, hallucination, illusion, delusion, novel SAT colours, inverted spectra, ambiguous and impossible figures, SAT synaesthesia, the admissible contents of experience, SAT disjunctivism and representational theories of phenomenal SAT character. SAT SAT Valeria Carullo SAT Valeria Carullo is co-curator of the SAT Robert Elwall Photographs Collection SAT at the SAT RIBA British Architectural Library SAT She has a Master’s Degree in Architecture and several years’ SAT work experience with architectural photographer Richard SAT Bryant. SAT Valeria has given numerous talks and written several SAT articles on both architectural and photographic subjects. SAT She has curated the exhibitions SAT Art Deco Triumphant: The Exposition Internationale des Arts SAT Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris 1925 SAT at the RIBA, SAT John Pantlin: Photographing the Mid-Century Home SAT at the SAT Geffrye Museum SAT and co-curated SAT Framing Modernism: Architecture and Photography in Italy SAT 1926-1965 SAT at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art and SAT Ordinary Beauty: The Photography of Edwin Smith SAT at the RIBA. SAT SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b051j5tl (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT What Do Women Think About The General Election? SAT Woman's Hour discusses the results of research it has SAT commissioned into what women make of British politics and SAT their lives. We hear about the issues women care about, how SAT they're feeling as the election approaches - and what the SAT differences are between men and women. We ask what it might SAT mean for the political parties who are after women's votes. SAT SAT Joan Armatrading SAT SAT Joan Armatrading was one of the first black female SAT singer-songwriters to gain prominence on the British music SAT scene in the 1970s. This month she starts the British leg SAT of a major world tour – her last of such scale and first SAT performing solo. She talks to Jane about the inspiration SAT behind her music, being a woman in a male dominated SAT industry, and why privacy means so much to her. SAT www.joanarmatrading.com SAT SAT Sterilisation in Your Twenties SAT Should a woman in her 20s be offered a sterilisation on the SAT NHS if she has decided that she never wants children? Holly SAT Brockwell, 29, has been refused sterilisation four times SAT since she first asked her GP for it, aged 26. Helen Kara now SAT 50 was sterilised aged 32 and has never regretted it. SAT Susanna Starling thinks that the NHS is right to discourage SAT sterilisation in young women. NHS guidelines leave the SAT ultimate decision on whether or not to grant a non-medically SAT necessary sterilisation up to the discretion of the surgeon SAT responsible, but is their general reluctance to perform them SAT on young women justified? SAT SAT Election Issue 1: NHS SAT SAT A poll for Woman’s Hour to look at how women voters are SAT feeling ahead of the general election put the NHS as their SAT top area of concern. Jenni looks at what that means for SAT patients, their relatives, people working in the NHS and SAT policy makers. With Dr Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive of SAT The Health Foundation; G.P. Dr. Catherine Glass and Branwyn SAT Jeffreys BBC Health Correspondent. SAT SAT See the poll results in full at: SAT http://www.tns-bmrb.co.uk/news/poll-commissioned-by-bbc-radi SAT -4-womans-hour SAT SAT Zarqa Nawaz SAT Zarqa Nawaz is a British-Canadian writer and broadcaster. SAT She is most well-known for creating the first comedy about a SAT Muslim family living in the West. Her work focuses on the SAT issues in Islamic culture, such as sexism, often in a SAT comical fashion. Her comical memoir “Laughing All the Way to SAT the Mosque” will be available in the UK from 5th February. SAT SAT Women in Construction SAT From childhood structural engineer Roma Agrawal dreamt of SAT building sky scrapers. She talks to Jenni about how she SAT ended up designing the top of the London Shard. SAT SAT Going on Holiday Without your Kids SAT Next week is the start of half term for many families with SAT many using the week to set off on holiday with their SAT children. But is ever ok to plan and book a child-free break SAT and jet off without your children? Jenni speaks to SAT journalist Siobhan McNally about the negative reaction she SAT often gets when she tells people she takes a holiday every SAT year without her young daughter and to broadcaster Beverley SAT Turner who says she can’t face the shock and condemnation of SAT her family and friends when suggesting of a child free SAT holiday. SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b051j5tn (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b05126zr (Listen) SAT Trading Places SAT SAT Naked bath bombs, in-store coffee shops and customer SAT satisfaction charts: Evan Davis and guests discuss some of SAT the secrets to retailing success. Each of them runs of a SAT chain of stores but with hundreds, even thousands of outlets SAT both here and abroad, how do they maintain their brand SAT identity? And what persuades customers to buy their products SAT ahead of their rivals'? SAT SAT Guests: SAT Mark Constantine, Founder and Managing Director, Lush SAT cosmetics SAT SAT Debbie Robinson, Managing Director, Spar UK SAT SAT Robert Forrester, Founder and CEO, Vertu Motors plc. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b050xgvt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b050xgvw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b050xgvy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b051j5tq (Listen) SAT Danny Wallace, Nick Park, Kayvan Novak, Tameka Empson, Susan SAT Calman, Songhoy Blues, Justin Townes Earle SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Danny Wallace, Nick Park, Kayvan SAT Novak, Tameka Empson and Susan Calman for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. With music from Songhoy SAT Blues and Justin Townes Earle. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Nick Park SAT ‘Shaun the Sheep: The Movie’ is in cinemas from Friday 6th SAT February. SAT SAT Tameka Empson SAT ‘Eastenders’ is on Mondays and Fridays at 20.00 and Tuesdays SAT and Thursdays at 19.30 on BBC One. SAT SAT Kayvan Novak SAT ‘Asylum’ is on Monday 9th February at 21.00 on BBC Four and SAT is part of BBC’s Taking Liberties Season. SAT SAT Susan Calman SAT ‘Susan Calman: Lady Like’ is at London’s Soho Theatre until SAT Sunday 15th February. SAT SAT Songhoy Blues SAT ‘Music In Exile’ is available on Monday 23rd February on SAT Transgressive Records. SAT Songhoy Blues are playing at The Great Escape in Brighton SAT from the 14th to 16th of May and London’s Village SAT Underground on 28th May. SAT SAT Justin Townes Earle SAT ‘Absent Fathers’ and ‘Single Mothers’ are available now on SAT Loose Music. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Danny Wallace SAT Interviewed Guest: Nick Park SAT Interviewed Guest: Kayvan Novak SAT Interviewed Guest: Tameka Empson SAT Interviewed Guest: Susan Calman SAT Performer: Songhoy Blues SAT Performer: Justin Townes Earle SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b051j5ts (Listen) SAT Series 17, Waiting List SAT SAT Newspaper headlines and even the radio screams at us daily SAT that the NHS is in crisis. "Immigration, lack of investment, SAT over medication abuse by a growing number of patients who SAT know their rights but not their responsibilities." Whatever SAT the reality there is thin white line of overworked medics SAT holding the system together, but for how much longer can SAT this go on? SAT SAT To complement Radio 4's News and Current Affairs output, our SAT weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major story SAT from the week's news. The form and content is entirely led SAT by the news topic - so drama can come in many guises, as SAT well as poetry and prose. SAT SAT FF2F presents writers with the creative opportunity to work SAT in a bold and instinctive way as they respond to events in SAT the news, beginning on a Monday when an idea is selected SAT through to Friday when the programme is recorded and edited. SAT SAT Writer ..... Annie McCartney SAT Producer ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dr McCormick: Patrick Fitzsymons SAT Julia McCormick: Aine McCartney SAT Mr Hughes: Alan McKee SAT Mrs O'Connor: Marcella Riordan SAT Writer: Annie McCartney SAT Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b051j5tv (Listen) SAT Selma, Human Right Human Wrongs, The Illuminations, You're SAT Not Alone, Better Call Saul SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe and this weeks panel discuss the film Selma, SAT which tells the story of Martin Luther King and struggle for SAT black voting rights in 1960s America. It charts the freedom SAT march between Selma and Montgomery in the segregated deep SAT south, and the high price paid for democracy. SAT Human Rights Human Wrongs is the latest exhibition in The SAT Photographers Gallery in London. It charts, through SAT photojournalism, how violent flash points through the world SAT in 20th century have shaped our perception of conflict, SAT race, empire and ourselves. SAT The illuminations is the 5th novel by author Andrew O'Hagan, SAT it tells the tale of Anne, a Scottish pensioner who is SAT slipping in to the slow slide of dementia and her Grandson SAT who is serving with the Army in Afghanistan. It explores how SAT memory and the past are intertwined in this cross SAT continental, generational tale. SAT The panel also discuss comedian and artist Kim Noble's new SAT show You're Not Alone. He uses live action, video, music and SAT audience participation to paint a picture of darkly comic SAT loneliness. SAT Better Call Saul is the prequel to cult series Breaking Bad. SAT Its from the same creator, so can it capture the magic of SAT the original series? SAT Presenter Tom Sutcliffe. Producer Ruth Sanderson. SAT SAT Selma SAT Directed by Ava DuVernay, the film Selma is in cinemas from SAT Friday 6 February, certificate 12A. SAT SAT The Illuminations SAT The Illuminations SAT by Andrew O'Hagan is published by Faber & Faber. SAT SAT Kim Noble: You're Not Alone SAT The play SAT Kim Noble: You're Not Alone SAT is at the Soho Theatre in London until Saturday 7 March. SAT SAT Better Call Saul SAT SAT Episode 1 of SAT Better Call Saul SAT is available on Netflix from 7am, Monday 9 February. SAT Subsequent episodes are the available every Tuesday. SAT SAT Human Rights Human Wrongs SAT The exhibition SAT Human Rights Human Wrongs SAT is at The Photographers Gallery in London until 6 April SAT 2015. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Producer: Ruth Sanderson SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b051j636 (Listen) SAT Coups and Coalitions: The Two Elections of 1974 SAT SAT May's general election is the most open in decades. In SAT Archive on 4, Steve Richards goes back to 1974, to explore SAT the last time Britain faced such political flux, and its SAT lessons for today. SAT SAT 1974 saw two elections in eight months. The first was so SAT indecisive it produced a minority government. Like today, SAT politics was going through a long, painful change. Neither SAT major party had a commanding leader or a dominant political SAT argument. SAT SAT And then all this was brought to a head by the worst SAT economic crisis since the War. SAT SAT Steve talks to veterans about what followed, as many feared SAT democracy itself hung in the balance. SAT SAT Conservative MP-to-be Douglas Hurd was at Prime Minister SAT Edward Heath's side as his struggling Government was driven SAT to call an early election, only to lose power. SAT SAT His party colleague, Norman Tebbit, already an MP, was SAT biding his time before declaring his contempt for what he SAT saw as Heath's discredited compromises. SAT SAT Dennis Skinner was a junior Labour MP, close to the miners' SAT union - in sharp contrast to his party colleague, Shirley SAT Williams. In 1974, she became Secretary of State for Prices SAT and Consumer Protection - to spearhead the minority SAT government's push against inflation. SAT SAT Meanwhile, as today, smaller parties were on the rise. SAT SAT David Steel had to race back to London to make sure his SAT leader, Jeremy Thorpe, didn't take the Liberals into SAT coalition with the Tories. SAT SAT And Gordon Wilson was one of several new SNP MPs who arrived SAT at Westminster - feeling, he tells Steve, like commandoes in SAT hostile territory. SAT SAT They explore the lessons of all this for today, as Britain SAT faces a return, for the first time since 1974, to an era of SAT deep electoral uncertainty. SAT SAT PRODUCER: PHIL TINLINE. SAT SAT 21:00 War and Peace b04w89ty (Listen) SAT Episode 6 SAT SAT Natasha struggles to cope with Andrei's absence and is sent SAT to stay with her Godmother in Moscow, so that she can meet SAT with Prince Bolkonsky and Marya in a attempt to win them SAT over. It all goes wrong when she is tempted to stray by the SAT two timing Anatole Kuragin who immediately fills Natasha's SAT head with promises of his love. Could Natasha be about to SAT throw away everything she already has with her beloved SAT fiancee, Andrei, for the hand of this wicked Prince? SAT SAT A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake SAT Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by SAT Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes SAT of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic SAT War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and SAT Harriet Walter. SAT SAT The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, SAT Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the SAT events that shaped their lives and the lives of every SAT Russian who lived through these troubled times. SAT SAT War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level SAT of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th SAT Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, SAT social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale SAT never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake SAT Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in SAT ten episodes. SAT SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT Executive Producer: Peter Hoare SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Actor: Lesley Manville SAT Actor: John Hurt SAT Actor: Alun Armstrong SAT Actor: Harriet Walter SAT Actor: Stephen Campbell-Moore SAT Actor: Paterson Joseph SAT Author: Leo Tolstoy SAT Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b050xgw0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b0510gvv (Listen) SAT Is Inherited Wealth Immoral? SAT SAT An academic study by 2 economists of 634 families with rare SAT surnames doesn't immediately sound like it's going to touch SAT one of the rawest nerves in politics, but that's exactly SAT what Professor Gregory Clark and Dr Neil Cummins have done. SAT Their work shows that attempts to promote equality and a SAT more socially mobile society are failing because the rich as SAT so effective at passing their wealth down the generations. SAT Using records of births and marriages and other data going SAT back to 1841 they concluded that there is a significant SAT correlation between the wealth of families five generations SAT apart. You might think all this applies only to a very small SAT number of families in the UK, but figures just released by SAT the Land Registry show there are already 400,000 SAT "homillionaires" - people living in properties worth more SAT than £1 million - and the number is growing by 160 a day. Is SAT inherited wealth and the social privileges it can secure, SAT immoral? Is the transfer of wealth between generations an SAT injustice - an unearned reward for no work, which elevates SAT luck above enterprise and effort which secures access to SAT privileges that would otherwise be beyond reach? Or is the SAT desire to pass on to our children and grandchildren any SAT wealth that we might have at our death, not only a natural SAT desire to help them start out in life, but also a social and SAT moral contract between the generations? With OECD figures SAT showing the gap between the rich and poor in the UK is at SAT its widest for 30 years and growing, the idea of SAT redistributing inherited wealth is a painful matter for the SAT baby-boomer generation. Last year the government raised £3.7 SAT billion in inheritance tax. Was it an immoral and SAT unjustifiable double tax raid on the prudent or a sign that SAT we still care about social justice and meritocracy? SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b050zy3s (Listen) SAT Heat 6, 2015 SAT SAT (6/17) SAT Who played Jane to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan? And which SAT scientist's four equations form a complete description of SAT the production and inter-relation of electric and magnetic SAT fields? SAT SAT Today's competitors face these and many other questions as SAT Russell Davies chairs the sixth heat of the 2015 series, SAT from the University of Salford. SAT SAT As well as competing for a place in the semi-finals in the SAT spring, the contenders will also have to collaborate to SAT tackle a general knowledge challenge from a listener hoping SAT to 'Beat the Brains'. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT DEREK HEYES, a retired schoolteacher from Bolton; SAT SAT DAVID JOHNS, a freelance tour guide from Colne in SAT Lancashire; SAT SAT YAAKOV WISE, a historian and journalist from Prestwich in SAT Greater Manchester; SAT SAT DIANNE WRAGG, a retired lawyer from Pocklington in East SAT Yorkshire. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b051zy5z (Listen) SAT Poems for Winter SAT SAT Roger McGough with requests for wintry poems from Ted SAT Hughes, WH Auden, Gillian Clarke and others. 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SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Are You Inexperienced? b01jrqrf (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Novelist and stand-up performer AL Kennedy relates some of SUN the hapless events that befell her whilst trying to complete SUN her latest book in the USA. Secreted away in a wooden cabin SUN in deepest Connecticut, she finds that she has to contend SUN with noisy woodpeckers that mistake her temporary home for a SUN tasty tree. Later, upon returning to the States from Canada SUN by train, she encounters suspicious US immigration officials SUN who struggle to grasp the fact that she doesn't fly, and SUN arrived in the States by boat. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b051r5wm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b051r5wp (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b051r5wr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b051r5wt (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b051r6nw (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Thomas the Martyr, Oxford. SUN SUN 05:45 Why I Changed My Mind b0510gvx (Listen) SUN Mark Lynas SUN SUN In this series Dominic Lawson interviews people who have SUN changed their mind on controversial matters. SUN SUN This week he asks the environmentalist Mark Lynas, who was SUN once a prominent figure in direct actions to destroy SUN genetically modified crops, why he now advocates for GM SUN technology and what the reaction has been from his former SUN allies. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b051r5ww (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b051r6xm (Listen) SUN Inventories for Life SUN SUN It could be said that humans are list-making beasts. Life is SUN filled with them - shopping lists, to-do lists, guest lists, SUN resolutions, inventories of things we desire, categories of SUN favourite books or songs, tenets of faith, catalogues of SUN things we want to do before we die. SUN SUN Samira Ahmed delves into the secret life of lists and SUN reflects on what they reveal about ourselves. SUN SUN She takes her inspiration from a masterwork of list-making - SUN the Pillow Book by Sei Shonagan, written in 11th century SUN Japan - and considers how this writer's drive to itemise her SUN cloistered world in minute detail reveals startling SUN psychological depths that still resonate down the centuries. SUN SUN Drawing on writers as diverse as Nora Ephron, Woody Guthrie SUN and Michael Ondaatje, Samira considers the magic of a great SUN list, where each individual item enhances the others - SUN whether in a poignant list of longing written at the end of SUN a foreshortened life, a jaunty jumble of new year's SUN resolutions or a heap of entertaining insults. SUN SUN Lists can also have a dark side - the focus of obsession, SUN anxiety or regret. Samira considers how Erik Satie's SUN compulsive list making might be reflected in his music. SUN Lists can also be a source of pleasure, as can be heard in SUN an archive interview with Judi Dench about her devotion to SUN to-do lists. SUN SUN There are readings from writers including Michael Donaghy, SUN F. Scott Fitzgerald and Umberto Eco, with music by Artie SUN Shaw, Nina Simone and The Divine Comedy. SUN SUN Produced by: Caroline Hughes SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: The Pillow BookAuthor: Sei Shonagon (translation Ivan SUN Morris)Synopsis: Exquisite lists and observations by a tenth SUN century Japanese court ladyPublisher: Penguin ClassicsISBN: SUN 0140442367 SUN Title: Leonardo da Vinci’s To-do list (Lists of Note, Shaun SUN Usher ed)Author: Leonardo da VinciSynopsis: Intriguing SUN insight into the workings of the great Renaissance mind SUN Publisher: Canongate UnboundISBN: 1782114521 SUN Title: New Year Rulins’ (Lists of Note, Shaun Usher SUN ed)Author: Woody GuthrieSynopsis: 33 personal resolutions SUN from the great American singer songwriterPublisher: SUN Canongate Unbound/ c Woody Guthrie PublicationsISBN: SUN 1782114521 SUN Title: Sweet Like a Crow (from Running in the SUN Family)Author: Michael OndaatjeSynopsis: Comical list of SUN things that sound out of tunePublisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: SUN 1408801450 SUN Title: The Crack Up (essay collection)Author: F Scott SUN FitzgeraldSynopsis: Making lists as a way to confront the SUN pressures of fame Publisher: New Directions Reprint SUN editionISBN: 0811218201 SUN Title: What I Won’t Miss and What I Will Miss (from ‘I SUN Remember Nothing’)Author: Nora EphronSynopsis: Witty and SUN poignant list of likes and dislikes in lifePublisher: Black SUN SwanISBN: 0552777374 SUN Title: Caliban’s Books (from Collected Poems)Author: Michael SUN DonaghySynopsis: Remembering the dead through a catalogue of SUN memories Publisher: Picador PoetryISBN: 9781447261711 SUN Recording of Michael Donaghy used by permission of The SUN Poetry Archive SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b051r6xp (Listen) SUN Winter Seashore SUN SUN Trai Anfield visits a wintry Bovisand Bay in South Devon in SUN the company of Keith Hiscock, Associate Fellow of the Marine SUN Biological Association. SUN SUN They rummage amongst the storm strewn seaweed making up the SUN strand line at the top of the beach. It is here that insects SUN and crustaceans flourish in the food rich and clement micro SUN world, in turn drawing in birds like wagtails and turn SUN stones. SUN SUN Down in the inter-tidal zone, along with finding a host of SUN marine molluscs are the excitingly named volcano barnacles SUN and beautifully coloured beadlet anenomies. SUN SUN Keith Hiscock SUN Diver and scientist Dr Keith Hiscock is an associate fellow SUN at the Plymouth-based SUN Marine Biological Association SUN (MBA) one of Britain’s most distinguished experts in SUN underwater conservation. SUN He started diving in 1969 as a marine zoology student and SUN visited the island of Lundy in the Bristol channel year SUN after year. SUN He now chairs the SUN Lundy Field Society SUN which has published the book SUN Protecting Lundy’s Marine Life: 40 Years Of Science And SUN Conservation SUN by Keith Hiscock and Robert Irving. SUN SUN Creatures found on the rocky shores of Bovisand Bay SUN Picture: Train Anfield SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b051r5wy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b051r5x0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b051r7hm (Listen) SUN HRH The Prince of Wales, Future of the C of E, Affordable SUN Housing SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b051r7hp (Listen) SUN Target Tuberculosis SUN SUN Simon Callow presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Target SUN Tuberculosis SUN Registered Charity No 1098752 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Target TB'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to Target TB. SUN SUN Target Tuberculosis SUN SUN Target Tuberculosis is the specialist international charity SUN working to eradicate TB in Africa and Asia. They work with SUN the “poorest of the poor” the most marginalised, at risk and SUN hard to reach. Target TB’s success is people, their SUN projects operate at grass-roots levels using local people SUN who can speak to their own communities in their own SUN languages, in their own homes, making the work relevant and SUN appropriate. SUN The “Dickensian Disease” is still will us, across the world SUN 9 million people develop TB each year and 5,000 people die SUN each day, it is without a doubt one of the most urgent and SUN most ignored public health crises. SUN Visit SUN www.targettb.org.uk SUN for more information on their work SUN SUN Training and coordinating community health volunteers SUN SUN Community Volunteers are the heart of Target TB’s work, they SUN are trained to recognise symptoms and provide information to SUN those who may be at risk of TB. These volunteers deliver SUN drugs and food, emotional support and practical advocacy SUN essential for the survival of TB patients. SUN SUN In 2012/13 we trained 6,402 local volunteer carers and SUN health workers. SUN SUN Improving access to life-saving diagnosis and treatment SUN facilities SUN SUN Target TB works in remote areas and areas with little health SUN infrastructure, we work to ensure these barriers are SUN overcome. One of the ways that we do this is by providing SUN mobile clinic, like our a 4x4 vehicle in Eastern India, that SUN is fully equipped with diagnostic facilities, doctors and SUN health staff. This provides immediate testing, reaching SUN hundreds of people with essential TB information. SUN On average we spend £10 per person to deliver our lifesaving SUN work SUN SUN Raising awareness so that more people will be able to SUN recognise the symptoms of TB and seek the treatment they SUN need SUN SUN Health Education is an investment in a world free from TB. SUN We use engaging fun methods to make sure lifesaving SUN information about TB is available in communities. These are SUN memorable and accessible regardless of literacy levels and SUN make a real difference to the stigma that people who have SUN been affected by TB live with. SUN In 2012/13 4 million people were reached with these SUN essential messages SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b051r5x2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b051r5x4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b051r7hr (Listen) SUN Mass for the 5th Sunday of the year live from the Cathedral SUN Church of St Mary and St Helen Brentwood. Preacher: Fr SUN Martin Boland (Cathedral Dean); Celebrant: Fr Mark Reilly; SUN Master of Music: Andrew Wright; Organist: Stephen King; SUN Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN Brentwood Cathedral SUN SUN Due to copyright restrictions on the Roman missal, only the SUN introduction, homily and music details can be put on the SUN website. 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 Opening announcement from Continuity: BBC Radio 4. SUN It’s ten past eight and time now to go direct to Brentwood SUN Cathedral in Essex for Mass. The preacher is the Cathedral SUN Dean Father Martin Boland. The service is introduced by the SUN Celebrant Father Mark Reilly, but first a plainchant SUN introit: Venite, adoremus Deum: Come, let us worship God and SUN bow down before the Lord. SUN SUN Introit Venite, adoremus Deum SUN SUN Fr Mark: Good morning and welcome. Cathedrals were built to SUN proclaim and celebrate the Christian mysteries in an SUN environment of excellence and beauty, and thus to lift the SUN spirit. When we wish to express our experience of the SUN sublimeness of God, the most eloquent way is often in stone, SUN music, colour, art, vestments – all enhancing worship and so SUN combining to raise the heart and mind to God. This was no SUN doubt in the hearts of the anyonymous donors who enabled SUN this cathedral to be commissioned from the architect Quinlan SUN Terry in the late 1980s. We hope your spirit will be lifted SUN as you join our Mass this morning. The lntroductory Rites SUN help the faithful come together as one, prepare themselves SUN to listen to the Word of God and celebrate the Eucharist SUN worthily. The Mass begins with one of the most popular hymns SUN which celebrate Jesus, the gift of God to all the faithful: SUN Amazing grace. SUN SUN SUN Hymn Amazing grace! How sweet the sound SUN SUN The Gloria Lourdes Gloria (G Major) – Jean-Paul Lécot SUN The Homily SUN Job would have been familiar with slavery in all its various SUN forms - the slavery of the body, the slavery of the mind and SUN the spirit. It’s not surprising, then, that he uses it as a SUN vivid image of all that brings humans beings to their knees SUN and demeans them. Job asks, Is not man’s life nothing more SUN than pressed service, his time no better than hired SUN drudgery? Like the slave, sighing for shade. SUN Pope Francis has called modern forms of slavery “an open SUN wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon SUN the body of Christ.” These come in many forms. We might SUN think of the trafficking of men, women and children. Today, SUN the fifth Sunday of the Liturgical Year, is set aside by the SUN Church as ‘the Day of Prayer for Victims of Human SUN Trafficking,’ the day on which we remember in a special way SUN the thousands and thousands of victims of trafficking SUN throughout the world. SUN [It has chosen January 8th to do this on because this is the SUN feast day of St Josephine Bakhita. In 1877, aged nine years SUN old, she was kidnapped by slave traders and for the next SUN twelve years she was sold three more times in the slave SUN markets of Sudan. Her life was one of physical, verbal and SUN emotional abuse. When she died in 1947, she bore the 144 SUN physical scars received as a slave. The trauma of her SUN childhood abduction caused her to forget her own name. She SUN was given the name Bakhita, which means “lucky”. SUN It was providence, not luck, that an Italian merchant bought SUN her and took her to Italy in 1882. Here, she came to know a SUN new master. A master who actually loved her and wanted her SUN to flourish as a human being. A master who wanted her to be SUN his child. That master was Jesus Christ.] SUN But, there is also the slavery to an ideology or prejudice. SUN A slavery to consumption or a loveless promiscuity. A SUN slavish belief in a materialistic world view that disregards SUN the supernatural dimension of reality. A slavery to the SUN powers of darkness. These and many other open wounds need SUN healing. And how we are to begin this process of healing is SUN found in today’s Gospel. They brought to him all who were SUN sick and those who were possessed by devils. SUN Christ is the healer, a healing that is not cosmetic or SUN superficial but a healing that transforms us and our world SUN from within. And we all need that healing. SUN Christ does make the blind see. He heals the cataracts of SUN indifference so that we have the sight to recognise those SUN who are enslaved around and among us. He gives us the sight SUN to penetrate the darkest, most hidden expressions of slavery SUN so that we might bring our brothers and sisters out into the SUN light. SUN Those who have been deaf to the cries of the suffering are SUN now given hearing that is canine. We can hear every whimper SUN and moan. We have no excuse but to bring our brothers and SUN sisters to the one who says, “I no longer call you SUN servants…I call you friends, for everything I learned from SUN my Father, I have made known to you.” SUN The manacles of slavery are hammered loose by the love of SUN Christ, calling us back to the fullness of life, offering us SUN the possibility of a new society based on friendship with SUN God and each other, an anticipation of what we will, one SUN day, know fully when we share in God’s life. SUN The open wound of slavery, that so many know, so many SUN experience, is cauterised by Christ’s gentleness. The SUN scourge is kissed clean. SUN Tongues are loosened so that those who have been slaves are SUN given a grammar of hope. SUN The hope that we have a new master in the living God, the SUN God of life and hope and justice. SUN The hope that we are called to be free men and women in SUN Jesus Christ. SUN SUN At the end of the Homily it is appropriate for there to be a SUN brief silence for recollection. SUN SUN SUN Choir A Prayer of Saint Patrick – Andrew Wright SUN SUN Hymn Lord accept the gifts we offer SUN Sanctus SUN SUN Motet (Elgar) SUN SUN Hymn The Church’s one foundation SUN SUN Organ Voluntary Bach C Major Prelude & Fugue (BWV545) SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b0512lng (Listen) SUN Having Children SUN SUN Will Self reflects on the growing and vexed divide between SUN people with and without children. "The real indication that SUN we don't know what value parenting currently has is that to SUN either valorise or demonise this state of being seems as SUN ridiculous (if not offensive) as doing the same in respect SUN of childlessness". SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0v8k (Listen) SUN Budgerigar SUN SUN Michael Palin presents the wild budgerigar from Australia. SUN Budgerigars are small Australian parrots whose common name SUN may derive from the aboriginal "Betcherrygah' which, roughly SUN speaking, means "good to eat" though it could mean " good SUN food" as budgerigars follow the rains and so their flocks SUN would indicate where there might be seeds and fruits for SUN people. SUN SUN Where food and water are available together; huge flocks SUN gather, sometimes a hundred thousand strong, queuing in SUN thirsty ranks to take their turn at waterholes. Should a SUN falcon appear, they explode into the air with a roar of SUN wingbeats and perform astonishing aerobatics similar to the SUN murmurations of starlings in the UK. SUN SUN Although many colour varieties have been bred in captivity, SUN wild budgerigars are bright green below, beautifully SUN enhanced with dark scalloped barring above, with yellow SUN throats and foreheads. With a good view, you can tell the SUN male by the small knob of blue flesh, known as a cere, above SUN his beak. SUN SUN Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Jouan and Rius / naturepl.com. SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01218825 SUN © Jouan and Rius / naturepl.com. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b051r7ht (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 b051r7hw (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Keri Davies SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Tina: Bella Hamblin SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b051r7hy (Listen) SUN Dan Pearson SUN SUN Kirsty Young's guest this week is the garden designer, Dan SUN Pearson. SUN SUN His style is governed by a desire to create a sense of place SUN and he is drawn to wild plants and gardens. Aged just five SUN he discovered this passion, while building roof gardens for SUN his collection of trolls and spent the summer watching the SUN plant and animal life in a pond created by his father. SUN SUN He gave up A' levels in favour of apprenticeships at RHS SUN Wisley and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and then spent SUN several years working abroad, studying plants in their SUN natural environment. His first large-scale project was SUN creating a garden for Frances Mossman, a colleague of his SUN mother's, who asked him to design the garden at her SUN Northamptonshire plot. He won more clients through word of SUN mouth and set up his own garden design company in the late SUN 1980s. His work has since taken him all over the world and SUN he has designed five award-winning gardens for the Chelsea SUN Flower Show. Amongst his current projects he is creating a SUN design for London's proposed Garden Bridge. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Dan Pearson SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b051r5x6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b050zy41 (Listen) SUN Series 14, Episode 6 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 Arthur Smith, Sarah Millican, Sandi Toksvig and Graeme SUN Garden are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as fat, smells, shopping SUN and gardens. 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: Arthur Smith SUN Panellist: Sarah Millican SUN Panellist: Sandi Toksvig SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b051r7j0 (Listen) SUN How Britain fell in love with the microwave SUN SUN How the microwave succeeded in becoming the UK's most SUN popular kitchen gadget. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b051r5x8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b051r7j2 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Good News Is No News b051r7j4 (Listen) SUN Former news editor Charlie Beckett explores whether there is SUN an unrelenting negativity in the mainstream news agenda, SUN preoccupied with violent crime, human accident, misfortune SUN and disaster. He asks why alternative, so-called positive or SUN solutions-based, ideas for news are so readily dismissed by SUN journalists, broadcasters and editors. SUN SUN More than twenty years ago, the news broadcaster Martyn SUN Lewis made a very public speech calling for journalists to SUN rethink the instinctive diet of unrelentingly negative SUN stories. He argued for more good news, focussing on SUN solutions. The speech was vilified across the profession. SUN But now, with questions raised more widely about the SUN potential distortive effects, and addictive or pacifying SUN aspects of 24 hour news consumption is the unrelenting SUN negativity of mainstream news a question for psychologists SUN as much as for editors? Can news actually inhibit free SUN thinking, divest people of their agency, making them feel SUN helpless and inducing a retreat from the wider world. SUN SUN The programme examines the story so far of the 'positive SUN news' movement - a movement that's growing quickly, SUN especially in the United States. The Washington Post, New SUN York Times and Huffington Post all now have sections SUN explicitly devoted to more positive or constructive stories. SUN Charlie Beckett asks why there's such a visceral resistance SUN to the arguments for change among many professional SUN journalists and editors. SUN SUN Produced by Simon Hollis SUN A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0512lmt (Listen) SUN West Scotland SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the programme from West Scotland. Bob SUN Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson join him to SUN answer questions from the audience. SUN SUN Bob Flowerdew visits Victoria Park's fossilised forest, and SUN Pippa Greenwood and James Wong are out in the garden for SUN some Topical Tips. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN Q. What would the panel use to replace a Privet hedge SUN infected with Honey Fungus? SUN SUN A. Bunny – I would go for a Yew, Taxus baccata. They can be SUN quite slow to develop but will grow more quickly if watered SUN in dry periods. Try planting them in a double staggered SUN rows with four to the metre. Alternatively, you could try SUN Choisya ternata for quick results. SUN SUN Matthew – The main issue is that the mycelium will still be SUN in the ground. Honey fungus will strike a weak plant, so SUN anything you use must be strong and healthy. You could try SUN Leylandii for rapid growth, or perhaps the Thuja. SUN SUN Bob – The soil will now be so poor that I would suggest SUN using a fence. SUN Q. I have a bed of eight-year-old Blackcurrants. Could the SUN panel explain how to prune them and how to increase SUN fruitfulness? SUN A. Bob – Remove the plants and replace them. It is almost SUN certain that they will have the big bud mite and reversion. SUN Bunny – wait until they have fruited and take off the whole SUN twig. Make sure you don’t pick them too early. SUN Q. Do the panel have any planting suggestions for an SUN exposed and windswept garden? SUN A. Bunny – You will need to start with a shelterbelt. You SUN could use Hedgerow, Field Maple, Hawthorn and Hollies. It SUN will lift and filter the wind up to twenty times the height SUN of the belt. SUN Matthew – You could take inspiration from the moors and use SUN plants such as Heather. Try the Blue Arrow or Blue Star SUN varieties of Juniper. Pinus mugo is very sculptural and SUN looks windswept. There is a native variety of Molinia which SUN grows amongst Heather. SUN Bob – Invest in a polytunnel and you will be able to grow SUN whatever you want all year round SUN Q. I would like to use my compost for seed and vegetable SUN growing. How should I prepare it? SUN A. Bob – It is too rich to use for seeding. You need poor SUN compost otherwise the strong nutrients can prevent SUN germination. If you dry the compost off and sieve it, you SUN could use it for potting up. SUN Bunny – It is much more cost effective to buy seeding SUN compost. SUN Q. I cannot grow a firm, waxy new potato. Could the panel SUN suggest a variety that will produce results and suggest why SUN I haven’t been successful in the past? SUN A. Bob – I am not fond of waxy potatoes, so I would go for SUN flavour. Dunluce is my favourite. Elizabeth or Charlotte SUN would give you a more waxy potato. SUN Matthew – don’t grow them in the ground. Big containers SUN produce a much better crop. SUN Q. I am working on a project to plant in 4m (13ft) by 1m SUN (3ft) raised beds on a north-facing slope. Could the panel SUN suggest some attractive, long-lasting edibles? SUN A. Bunny – Spinach, Lettuces, Rhubarb and Artichokes would SUN all work in shady areas. You could use wigwams to take SUN climbing French Beans or Tomatoes. Kales such as the Cavolo SUN Nero would work and you could try Brussel Sprouts. SUN Matthew – You could grow in 1ltr pots elsewhere and then SUN transplant substantial plants into the garden. SUN Bob – You should definitely try the Tayberry as it was SUN developed in Scotland and produces huge, delicious berries. SUN You could also plant Asparagus. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b051r7j6 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations from Devon, London and Belfast, SUN between guitar-makers, two people associated with the Little SUN Angel Puppet Theatre, and two meditative wild swimmers, in SUN the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b051r80b (Listen) SUN Reading Europe - France: Three Strong Women, Episode 1 SUN SUN Reading Europe - France: Three Strong Women - over the next SUN 18 months Radio 4 takes you on a journey across Europe SUN exploring the best in contemporary literature. SUN SUN In this award winning and best-selling French novel Marie SUN NDiaye explores the immigrant experience and the power of SUN humanity. Caught between France and Africa, three women take SUN flight, and their lives are altered forever. SUN SUN Part 1 SUN SUN When Norah's terrifying father calls, she's forced to leave SUN her home in Paris and journey to Dakar. Secrets from the SUN past and horrors from the present are unveiled. SUN Meanwhile, in the Gironde, Fanta and her husband Rudy are SUN still coming to terms with the life they left behind in SUN Senegal. SUN SUN Adapted for radio by Pat Cumper SUN SUN Directed by Helen Perry SUN A BBC Cymru/Wales Production SUN SUN Marie NDiaye is French novelist and playwright. She is the SUN first black woman to win France's most prestigious literary SUN prize - the Prix Goncourt - for Three Strong Women in 2009. SUN The novel was also long-listed for The 2014 International SUN IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award and it was a finalist for the SUN 2013 Man Booker International Prize. SUN SUN Credits SUN Norah: Nikki Amuka-Bird SUN Fanta: Rakie Ayola SUN Khady: Susan Wokoma SUN Norah's Father: Jude Akuwidike SUN Rudy: Alun Raglan SUN Sony: Solomon Israel SUN Massek: Ben Onwukwe SUN Jakob: John Norton SUN Maman: Janice Acquah SUN Warden: Eric Kofi Abrefa SUN Lucie: Scarlett Hoctor SUN Author: Marie NDiaye SUN Adaptor: Pat Cumper SUN Director: Helen Perry SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b051r8p6 (Listen) SUN SJ Watson on his new novel Second Life SUN SUN S J Watson's first novel Before I Go To Sleep was an SUN international hit - it's been published in over 40 languages SUN and adapted into a Hollywood movie. He talks to Mariella SUN about writing the follow up, his new thriller Second Life. SUN And about the impact that seeing his debut made into a film SUN has had on his writing. SUN SUN Also on the programme Ann Morgan discusses her quest to read SUN a book from every country in the world in just one year, and SUN Turkish novelist Elif Shafak reveals the book she'd never SUN lend. SUN SUN And with Valentine's Day approaching writer Rebecca Stott SUN considers some literary declarations of love - from women. SUN SUN Read the first chapter of ' Second Life' by S.J Watson SUN 'Second Life' Chapter 1 SUN by S.J Watson SUN SUN Booklist SUN Before I Go to Sleep SUN by S.J Watson SUN Second Life SUN by S.J.Watson SUN The Bastard of Istanbul SUN by Elif Shafak SUN Hayy ibn Yaqhdan SUN by Ibn Tufail SUN Reading the World SUN by Ann Morgan SUN SUN Next Week's Close Reading: 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' SUN by Muriel Spark SUN SUN Miss Brodie said, ‘So I intend simply to point out to Miss SUN Mackay that there is a radical difference in our principles SUN of education. Radical is a word pertaining to roots – Latin SUN *radix*, a root. We differ at root, the headmistress and I, SUN upon the question whether we are employed to educate the SUN minds of girls or to intrude upon them. We have had this SUN argument before, but Miss Mackay is not, I may say, an SUN outstanding logician. A logician is one skilled in logic. SUN Logic is the art of reasoning. What is logic, Rose?’ '‘To do SUN with reasoning, ma’am,’ said Rose, who later, while still in SUN her teens, was to provoke Miss Brodie’s amazement and then SUN her awe and finally her abounding enthusiasm for the role SUN which Rose then appeared to be enacting: that of a great SUN lover, magnificently elevated above the ordinary run of SUN lovers, above the moral laws, Venus incarnate, something set SUN apart. In fact, Rose was not at the time in question engaged SUN in the love affair which Miss Brodie thought she was, but it SUN seemed so, and Rose was famous for sex. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: SJ Watson SUN Interviewed Guest: Anne Morgan SUN Interviewed Guest: Elif Shafak SUN Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Stott SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b051r8p8 (Listen) SUN Poems about Love SUN SUN Poetry Please looks at poems about love, presented by Roger SUN McGough. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN i carry your heart SUN SUN By ee cummings SUN SUN From Complete Poems 1904-1962 SUN SUN Published by Liveright 1994 SUN SUN SUN SUN Love's Philosophy SUN SUN By Percy Bysshe Shelley SUN SUN From Shelley Complete poetical Works SUN SUN Published by Oxford Paperbacks 1971 SUN SUN SUN SUN Not Love Perhaps SUN SUN By ASJ Tessimond SUN SUN From Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe 1985 SUN SUN SUN SUN Love's Insight SUN SUN By Robert Winnett SUN SUN From Poems for Weddings SUN SUN Published by Penguin 2004 SUN SUN SUN SUN In a Bath Teashop SUN SUN By John Betjeman SUN SUN From The Best of Betjeman SUN SUN Published by Penguin 1978 SUN SUN SUN SUN A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning SUN SUN By John Donne SUN SUN From Donne SUN SUN Published by Everyman’s Library 1995 SUN SUN SUN SUN The World as Meditation SUN SUN By Wallace Stevens SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens SUN SUN Published by Vintage SUN SUN SUN SUN In Paris With you SUN SUN By James Fenton SUN SUN From Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin 2006 SUN SUN SUN SUN Love Without Hope SUN SUN By Robert Graves SUN SUN From Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Cassell 1975 SUN SUN SUN SUN Without You SUN SUN By Adrian Henri SUN SUN From Collected Poems 1967-85 SUN SUN Published by Allison & Busby 1986 SUN SUN SUN SUN Fidelity SUN SUN By DH Lawrence SUN SUN From Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin 1993 SUN SUN SUN SUN For Dusty SUN SUN By Arnold Wesker SUN SUN From All Things Tire of Themselves SUN SUN Published by Flambard Press 2008 SUN SUN SUN SUN The Invitation SUN SUN By John Clare SUN SUN From John Clare, Selected by Paul Farley SUN SUN Published by faber & faber 2007 SUN SUN SUN SUN The Table SUN SUN By Stella Rotenberg SUN SUN From Shards SUN SUN Published Edinburgh 2003 SUN SUN SUN SUN Velvet Shoes SUN SUN By Elinor Wylie SUN SUN Taken from The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Website SUN http://www.columbiagrangers.org/poem/00000050790/00000050790 SUN 00000050790P01/?q SUN = SUN SUN SUN SUN The Ring SUN SUN By Kathleen Raine SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine SUN SUN Published by Golgonooza Press 2000 SUN SUN SUN SUN All You Who Sleep Tonight SUN SUN By Vikram Seth SUN SUN From All You Who Sleep Tonight SUN SUN Published by faber & faber 1990 SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN SUN 17:00 Clinging On: The Decline of the Middle Classes SUN b05108h6 (Listen) SUN Is the middle-class in terminal decline? Writer David Boyle, SUN author of Broke: Who Killed the Middle Classes?, explores SUN the split between a small rich elite and those who are SUN argued to be clinging on to a deteriorating lifestyle and SUN falling expectations. SUN SUN The salaries of financial service workers based in London SUN are soaring away from those in more traditional professions. SUN At the same time, house prices are rising and so-called SUN 'cling-ons' are being forced out to the peripheries of SUN London and beyond. Many of those who might have aspired to SUN private education for their children find the fees are SUN beyond them. SUN SUN But does it matter? According to the eminent American SUN political scientist Francis Fukuyama, it definitely does - SUN democracy is dependent on a healthy middle class and without SUN it there is a real threat of instability, with demonstrators SUN taking to the streets even in Britain and America. SUN SUN David Boyle also talks to the distinguished Oxford SUN sociologist John Goldthorpe, who worries that there is no SUN room at the top for today's aspiring young. Deputy Editor SUN Gavanndra Hodge explains why even Tatler decided to print a SUN guide to state schools. And the programme visits Liverpool SUN College, the great Victorian public school, which decided to SUN cross the great divide and become an academy within the SUN state system. SUN SUN Middle class professionals describe problems buying a house SUN on two doctors' salaries, finding a job as a solicitor and SUN raising the money to pay school fees, and even how an SUN architect's life can be a tough one. SUN SUN Are the professions themselves under threat from technology SUN undermining traditional ways of working? One GP worries that SUN the discretion he once enjoyed is being destroyed by the SUN computer. SUN SUN Producer: Glynn Jones SUN A Jolt production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b051j5ts (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b051r5xb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b051r5xd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b051r5xg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b051r9my (Listen) SUN Stuart Maconie SUN SUN Stuart Maconie chooses his BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b051r9n0 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Gloomsbury b01n6vn5 (Listen) SUN Series 1, The St Ives School of Painting SUN SUN The writer and transvestite Vera Sackcloth-Vest and her SUN bosom chum, the novelist Ginny Fox, go down to St Ives in SUN search of the writer of very naughty books Mr D.H. Lollipop. SUN Their husbands, Henry and Lionel, accompany them, hoping to SUN prevent their wives from succumbing to the dangerous animal SUN magnetism of Lollipop, whose book Lady Hattersley's Plover SUN has scandalized and unsettled them all. SUN SUN Vera's persistent and flamboyant admirer Venus Traduces SUN arrives, desperate to re-kindle their Sapphic passion. SUN However she is distracted when, on the cliff path, she meets SUN a thin man with a red beard who exudes animal magnetism. He SUN informs her that his wife is away in London being painted by SUN Augustus John, invites Venus to call him Dave, and ravishes SUN her in the brambles. SUN SUN Meanwhile, though Vera and Ginny seem to search in vain for SUN Lollipop, he is always much closer than they think. SUN SUN Cast: SUN Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes SUN Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy SUN Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks SUN Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman SUN Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer SUN DH Lollipop ..... John Sessions SUN SUN Produced by Jamie Rix SUN A Little Brother Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Hibernian Homicide: New Irish Crime Stories b051r9n2 (Listen) SUN The Gaining of Wisdom SUN SUN Three new stories of mystery and intrigue from some of SUN Northern Ireland's very best crime writers: Colin Bateman, SUN Claire McGowan and Stuart Neville. SUN SUN Colin Bateman explores how a woman's chance encounter in a SUN supermarket reawakens her painful past and stirs an SUN overwhelming desire for vengeance, while Claire McGowan SUN bring us the story of an archaeological dig which becomes a SUN crime scene upon the discovery of a young woman's body, and SUN Stuart Neville tells of a minister who is asked to commit an SUN unspeakable crime for one of his parishioners. But why? And SUN will he do it? SUN SUN Writer ..... Colin Bateman SUN Reader ..... Cathy White SUN Producer ..... Gemma McMullan. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Cathy White SUN Writer: Colin Bateman SUN Producer: Gemma McMullan SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b0512ln0 (Listen) SUN Is Strenuous Jogging Bad for You? SUN SUN Tim Harford asks whether claims that keen runners might be SUN damaging their health are really true? Joggers will find SUN comfort from an NHS Behind the Headlines analysis of the SUN numbers by Alissia White of consulting firm Bazian. SUN SUN Has the new tuition fees regime saved money? Newsnight's SUN Chris Cook talks Tim through the numbers. SUN SUN Is infidelity among cruise ship passengers rife? SUN SUN How many political seats are genuinely safe? David Cowling, SUN editor of BBC Political Research, looks at the numbers. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0512lmy (Listen) SUN Colleen McCullough, Richard von Weizsaecker, Carl Djerassi, SUN Geraldine McEwan and Lotte Hass SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Colleen McCullough, the Australian writer of the bestseller SUN The Thorn Birds who spent her later life on a Pacific SUN island. SUN SUN Richard von Weizsaecker, President of Germany at SUN re-unification, who gave a highly significant speech about SUN the country's attitude to its troubled 20th Century history. SUN SUN Carl Djerassi, the chemist who was known as the father of SUN the contraceptive pill. SUN SUN The actress Geraldine McEwan, who had a distinguished stage SUN career and played Miss Marple on TV. SUN SUN And the diver Lotte Hass who worked alongside her husband to SUN pioneer underwater films which enchanted TV viewers in the SUN 1950s. SUN SUN Colleen McCullough (pictured) SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Shona Martyn, Publishing Director of SUN HarperCollins in Australia and New Zealand and to the Senior SUN Editor at Head of Zeus, Rosie de Courcy. SUN SUN Born 1 June 1937; died 29 January 2015 aged 77. SUN SUN Richard von Weizsäcker SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Dr Isabelle Hertner, Deputy Director at SUN Institute of German studies at University of Birmingham and SUN to Professor Michael Stuermer, former advisor to the German SUN Chancellor Helmut Kohl. SUN SUN Born 15 April 1920; died 31 January 2015 aged 94. SUN SUN Carl Djerassi SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his son, Dale Djerassi and to Dr Lara SUN Marks, author of *Sexual Chemistry.* SUN SUN Born 29 October 1923; died 30 January 2015 aged 91. SUN SUN Geraldine McEwan SUN SUN Matthew spoke to theatre critic, Michael Coveney. SUN SUN Born 9 May 1932; died 30 January 2015 aged 82. SUN SUN Lotte Hass SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Reg Vallintine, former head of BSAC and SUN author of various diving books. SUN SUN Born 6 November 1928; died 14 January 2015 aged 86. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Shona Martyn SUN Interviewed Guest: Rosie de Courcy SUN Interviewed Guest: Isabelle Hertner SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Stuermer SUN Interviewed Guest: Dale Djerassi SUN Interviewed Guest: Lara Marks SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Coveney SUN Interviewed Guest: Reg Vallintine SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b051j5tg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b051r7hp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b050zy49 (Listen) SUN Referendum Conundrums SUN SUN Scotland last year showed how dramatic referendums can be. SUN So what would an in-out vote on the EU be like? What would SUN be the crucial strategies for a winning campaign? The stakes SUN would be huge for the UK, and if those who want a vote get SUN their way, this could happen within the next few years. SUN Chris Bowlby talks to key potential players and observers SUN about their fears and hopes, lessons drawn from Scotland, SUN and campaign plans already being made behind the scenes. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b051r9sk (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b051rbl0 (Listen) SUN Peter Hitchens of The Mail on Sunday analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b05126zc (Listen) SUN Ava DuVernay on Selma; Eddie Marsan on Still Life; S&M in SUN the Cinema SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Selma recounts the life of Martin Luther King for the first SUN time on the big screen. Its director Ava DuVernay tells SUN Francine what she thinks of the controversy in the United SUN States about the film's portrayal of President Lyndon B SUN Johnson, which some critics say is unfair and unbalanced. SUN SUN Actor Eddie Marsan talks about the research he undertook for SUN Still Life, in which he plays a funeral officer who has to SUN track down the relatives of people who have died alone. And SUN he reveals why he's refused every offer to play an East End SUN gangster. SUN SUN February is the month of S + M in the cinema, with 50 Shades SUN Of Grey and The Duke Of Burgundy being released within weeks SUN of each other. The Film Programme takes a strict look at the SUN subject with director Peter Strickland. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Ava DuVernay SUN Interviewed Guest: Eddie Marsan SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Strickland SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b051r6xm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 09 FEBRUARY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b051r5yg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0510db6 (Listen) MON Inside the Muslim Brotherhood MON MON Inside the Muslim Brotherhood - The first in-depth study of MON the relationship between the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and MON its own members. Laurie talks to Hazem Kandil, Lecturer in MON Political Sociology at Cambridge University, about his MON intimate portrayal of the organisation's recruitment, MON socialisation and ideology. MON MON Privately educated girls - a 3 year study of 91 young women MON at 4 independent schools. Claire Maxwell, Reader in MON Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, finds MON that an elite education doesn't always guarantee class MON privilege. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Claire Maxwell MON MON Reader in Sociology of Education, University College London MON MON Find out more about MON Claire Maxwell MON MON Abtract: MON *The reproduction of privilege: young women, the family and MON private education* MON Claire Maxwell & Peter Aggleton MON International Studies in Sociology of Education MON Volume 24, Issue 2, 2014 pages 189-209 MON DOI:10.1080/09620214.2014.919091 MON MON Hazem Kandil MON MON University Lecturer in Political Sociology, University of MON Cambridge MON MON Find out more about MON Hazem Kandil MON MON *Inside the Brotherhood MON *Publisher: Polity Press MON ISBN-10: 074568291X MON ISBN-13: 978-0745682914 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b051r6nw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b051r5yj (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b051r5yl (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b051r5yn (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b051r5yq (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b052ms2q (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Richard Littledale. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b051rflx (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:56 Weather b051r5ys (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0vfj (Listen) MON Northern Cardinal MON MON Michael Palin presents the northern cardinal from a New MON York's Central Park. Northern Cardinals are finch-like birds MON and make British robins look positively anaemic. They are MON common residents in the south and east of North America MON where they live in woods, parks and gardens. Your first MON sighting of these vermilion birds with their black masks and MON outrageous crests comes as a shock. They seem too tropically MON colourful to brave the dull North American winter. MON MON Only the male Cardinals are bright red. Females are browner MON with flashes of red on their wings and red bills. Both sexes MON obtain their red colours from seeds and other foods which MON contain carotenoid pigments. MON Their familiarity and eye-catching colours have endeared MON cardinals to North Americans. No fewer than seven states, MON including Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio have adopted cardinals MON as their state bird and it's also the mascot. MON MON Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Rolf Nussbaumer / naturepl.com. MON MON NPL Ref MON 01294239 MON © Rolf Nussbaumer / naturepl.com. MON MON 06:00 Today b051rjp9 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b051rjpc (Listen) MON Life in Suburbia MON MON Anne McElvoy talks to the novelist Adam Thirlwell about his MON latest book, described as 'suburban noir'; its setting "a MON kind of absence, without a focus or centre". The academic MON Nick Hubble takes issue with the cultural representation of MON suburbia and the snobbery surrounding it. When Richard MON McGuire created his graphic masterpiece 'Here' he collapsed MON millennia of history into the corner of one suburban house, MON and the photographer Hannah Starkey looks back at photos MON from the end of the twentieth century to see what they say MON about changing Britain. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Adam Thirwell MON Adam Thirlwell MON has twice been named on Granta’s Best of Young British MON Novelists list. As well as his two novels, *Politics *and MON *The Escape*, he is also the author of a novella *Kapow!** * MON MON His latest book, *Lurid and Cute * is available now,* MON *published by Jonathan Cape 2015. MON MON Nick Hubble MON Nick Hubble MON is Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel University, College MON of Business, Arts and Social Sciences, London. MON MON Brunel : MON Papers & Downloads MON by Nick Hubble MON MON Richard McGuire MON Richard McGuire MON regularly contributes to the *New Yorker* magazine and is an MON illustrator, graphic designer, animator, children's book MON author and musician. MON *Here* MON published by Random House is available now. MON MON Hannah Starkey MON Hannah Starkey MON is a photographer and one of the artists curating the MON exhibition, * MON History is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain MON * at the Hayward Gallery: 10th February to 26th April 2015. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Anne McElvoy MON Interviewed Guest: Adam Thirlwell MON Interviewed Guest: Nick Hubble MON Interviewed Guest: Richard McGuire MON Interviewed Guest: Hannah Starkey MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Letters from Europe b051rjpf (Listen) MON Abdelkader Benali MON MON The acclaimed Moroccan-Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali, who MON moved to the Netherlands at the age of four, reflects on his MON first experiences of Europe, and the challenges the MON continent faces now, in the light of recent events in Paris. MON MON Producer Julia Johnson. MON MON Credits MON Producer: Julia Johnson MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b051rjph (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Melissa Etheridge MON The career of American singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge MON already counts 2 Grammys and an Academy Award for ‘I Need to MON Wake Up’, from the Al Gore documentary: ‘An Inconvenient MON Truth’.She’s a committed advocate for climate change and a MON famous gay rights activist, making headlines in 2008 when MON she refused to pay state taxes in protest against MON California's ban on gay marriage. She joins Jane to MON discuss her music, her role in campaigning for change and MON perform a song from her latest album. MON MON Portraying Dementia MON MON Dementia is everywhere at the moment. It is not only in the MON real world, a condition that touches virtually every family, MON but it also features more and more in books, films and MON plays. The novel, Elizabeth is Missing, inspired by the MON author’s grandmother, has a detective at its centre with MON dementia; Julianne Moore, nominated for an Oscar in her MON latest film, Still Alice, plays a woman in her fifties MON diagnosed with early onset dementia. Jane is joined by MON novelist Helen FitzGerald whose latest book, The Exit, MON features a woman in her eighties with dementia and Sally MON Magnusson, whose memoir, Where Memories Go is about the life MON of her mother and the way it is changed by dementia. MON MON Cost of Living MON MON Recent research commissioned for Woman's Hour showed that MON the cost of living was the second most concerning issue for MON women ahead of the general election. Laura Gardiner, Senior MON Economic Analyst from independent think tank The Resolution MON Foundation and Emma Hogan, Britain Correspondent from The MON Economist join Jane to discuss how money matters are MON impacting our daily lives and what the future looks like for MON women in the UK. MON MON See the poll results in full at: MON http://www.tns-bmrb.co.uk/news/poll-commissioned-by-bbc-radi MON -4-womans-hour MON MON Jayne Ozanne – being a Gay Evangelical Christian MON MON Jayne Ozanne, one of the Church of England’s most MON influential advisers, used to believe that it was impossible MON to be both Gay and a Christian. But last week she came out MON as a lesbian and says she wants to help the church to MON promote faithful, loving same sex-partnerships at every MON level of the church in her new role as Director of Accepting MON Evangelicals. She tells Jane Garvey why she no longer MON believes that her Christian faith is incompatible with her MON sexuality. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b051rjpk (Listen) MON 44 Scotland Street: The Blue Spode Tea Cup, Episode 1 MON MON 44 Scotland Street: The Blue Spode Tea Cup MON by Alexander McCall Smith MON MON Edinburgh's Georgian New Town is the setting for the quirky MON tales and 'goings-on' of Alexander McCall Smith's much loved MON characters that have made his bestselling series of books, MON 44 Scotland Street, so popular worldwide. MON MON Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, is a frequent visitor to MON Domenica Macdonald, the anthropologist and longest-term MON resident of 44 Scotland Street. Will their friendship MON blossom and will she ever let his dog Cyril into her flat? MON Domenica's thoughts are elsewhere, sensing trouble with the MON return of her neighbour Antonia who has been living in MON Glasgow of all places! Is Domenica's 'property' safe with MON Antonia back in town? Meanwhile in the flat below lives MON Bertie, aged six, a prodigy and victim of his excessively MON pushy mother, Irene. Bertie wants the life of an ordinary MON six-year-old boy, but instead he has psychotherapy, yoga and MON Italian conversation lessons. He also wants to know why his MON new baby brother, Ulysses, looks remarkably like his MON psychotherapist, Dr Fairbairn. MON MON Alexander McCall Smith dramatises stories from his MON bestselling series, 44 Scotland Street, which continues to MON delight readers around the world. The series introduces MON young actor Simon Kerr in his first role as six year-old MON Bertie! MON MON Producer/director: David Ian Neville. MON MON Credits MON Domenica: Carol Ann Crawford MON Angus Lordie: Crawford Logan MON Irene: Emma Currie MON Bertie: Simon Kerr MON Stuart: David Jackson Young MON Antonia: Anita Vettesse MON Author: Alexander McCall Smith MON Adaptor: Alexander McCall Smith MON Director: David Neville MON Producer: David Neville MON MON 11:00 Salt b051rjpm (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON It's easy to take salt for granted - its abundance on MON supermarket shelves, coupled with the development of MON refrigeration and freezing for our food, means we can all MON too readily overlook its vital and multiple role in our MON history. In part one of 'Salt', BBC Breakfast's Steph MON McGovern sets out to explain this role. She hears how it has MON taken root in our language, visits a chemistry class to find MON out about how it's produced and its importance to our MON physical well being, talks with history professor Peter MON Wallenstein about the unexpected importance of salt in MON military strategy right up until the 20th Century, and also MON Pierre Laszlo who explains how salt not only helped shape MON economies and cities like Salzburg, Munich and Venice, but MON also played a crucial role in revolutions across France, MON America and India. Steph also visits a graveyard and hears MON talk of the tradition of sin-eating at Welsh wakes, an MON illustration of salt's widespread place in religion and MON superstition across the world. Finally she talks with a MON commodities expert to discover just how much salt is worth MON today - significantly less than the days it was traded like MON for like with gold. MON This is part one of a two part series; in the second MON instalment Steph will explore in more detail the role of MON salt in food, looking at its growth as an attractive artisan MON product, and also consider the health warnings against MON over-consumption of salt. MON MON 11:30 The Architects b051rjpp (Listen) MON Series 2, Refurb MON MON Matt and Tim are dispatched to Watford to restyle a Premier MON League footballer's mansion. Meanwhile Sir Lucien must MON negotiate a press interview without putting his foot in it. MON Comedy by Jim Poyser with Neil Griffiths. MON MON Directed by Toby Swift. MON MON Credits MON Sir Lucien: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Tim: Alex Carter MON Sarah: Ingrid Oliver MON Matt: Dominic Coleman MON Danny: Richie Campbell MON Sean: Jude Akuwidike MON John: Ian Conningham MON Computer Caddie: Sam Dale MON Tony: Sam Dale MON Director: Toby Swift MON Writer: Jim Poyser MON Writer: Neil Griffiths MON MON 12:00 News Summary b051r5yv (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b051rjpr (Listen) MON 9 February 1915 - Edie Chadwick MON MON Edie is excited about her new job not least as it allows her MON to escape friction at home. MON MON Written by: Shaun McKenna MON Directed by: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont MON Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart MON Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron MON Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman MON Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready MON Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan MON Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone MON Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian MON Mayor Gregg: Joe Caffrey MON Frederick Dobson: Ben Fiske MON Writer: Shaun McKenna MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b051rjpz (Listen) MON Winifred Robinson looks at efforts to ban diesel cars in MON Paris and asks could that happen in London and other UK MON cities? MON And the big step forward in building houses using straw MON bales. MON MON 12:57 Weather b051r5yx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b051rnld (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:45 The Cliff b051rnlg (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Alan Read's starting point for his review of our MON relationship with Cliffs, is his own vertigo. Vertigo for MON him is not associated with a fear of falling but rather a MON fear of the ground "coming up to meet me to embrace me, or MON to engulf me". It's not heights that worry him but MON proximity. So he has never been to Shakespeare's cliff in MON Dover but he knows it well from the play, King Lear. He MON recalls the scene where Gloucester having had his eyes MON gouged out begs a man who he thinks to be poor mad Tom, but MON is instead his own son Edgar, to lead him to the edge of the MON cliff at Dover. Edgar leads his father, but not to the edge. MON Instead he imagines the cliff. He describes a cliff and on MON this cliff he describes the Rock samphire collectors as they MON move across the cliff gathering this plant - a dreadful MON trade. Imagining this scene, Alan says "Here a graph has MON been drawn, a sequence of points on a grid with two axes, of MON cliff and beach, joined by a line that describes, in the MON form of a gradient angle, the nature of trade, dreadful MON trade indeed" Shakespeare would not have been familiar with MON graphs. The term wasn't in use until the 1800s. One of the MON pioneers of cinematography Etiennne-Jules Marey "certainly MON thought graphs to be the 'universal language' of the MON future". Today graphs are ubiquitous. For example, we have MON the fiscal cliff which describes our economies. As Alan MON reflects on this, he is drawn back to Shakespeare's cliff; MON "Creatures it would seem, do not thrive on the cliff. It is MON samphire that grows so well there, and might be left in MON peace. Dreadful trade." MON Actors are David Acton and Sam Dale. Additional sound MON recordings by Chris Watson. Producer Sarah Blunt. MON MON Professor Alan Read MON In the 1980s Professor Read was director of Rotherhithe MON Theatre Workshop, a neighbourhood theatre based in the MON Docklands area of South East London. MON In the 1990s he worked as a freelance writer in Barcelona MON and was Director of Talks at the MON Institute of Contemporary Arts MON in London, and from 1997-2006 he was Professor of Theatre at MON Roehampton University MON where he directed a five year MON Arts & Humanities Research Council MON -funded programme on performance, architecture and location MON exploring theatre and public ceremonial in rational housing MON blocks and council estates called the MON Performance Foundation MON He is a member of the MON Performance Research Group MON which he runs with his two performance colleagues in the MON Kings College English Department, Dr Lara Shalson and Dr MON Kelina Gotman. MON Professor Read has also written an essay about MON Plato's Cave for BBC Radio 4 MON In this work he considers the room in which he imagines a MON listener is sitting, and then the listener's relationship to MON the space in which they are sitting; the floor and the four MON walls. He then suggests the listener imagines what the room MON would be like if a wall is removed. The room is then MON transformed into a stage; a theatrical space. MON MON MON David Acton MON David Acton was most recently on tour in A Midsummer Night’s MON Dream and The Comedy of Errors with the all male Shakespeare MON company MON Propeller MON He has also worked with Propeller on productions of Henry V MON and Twelfth Night. MON His other work includes: The Woman in Black at the Fortune MON Theatre; Anjin: The Shogun and the Samurai in Tokyo and MON Sadler’s Wells, television programmes such as Diaries of the MON Great War, Doctors, EastEnders, Silent MON Witness, Hollyoaks and the films After Death, MON Volume and Persuasion. MON MON Sam Dale MON Sam was born in Surrey; he attended Wallington County MON Grammar School and went on to complete a Teacher's Course at MON the Central School of Speech and Drama in Swiss Cottage, MON London (1968-71). MON His professional career began in Theatre-in-Education for MON Brian Way's 'Theatre Centre', then he went on to Street MON Theatre in London with Ed Berman's Dogg's Troupe. MON From these beginnings, Sam has worked extensively in theatre MON on productions such as The White Devil at Contact Theatre, MON Manchester, The Seagull - Jackal Productions, Says I Says He MON - Sheffield Crucible and Mickery Amsterdam. MON His television work includes Chips With Everything, Accident MON of Class and Death, Rock Follies among many others and he MON was in the BFI film Brothers and Sisters, directed by MON Richard Wooley. MON MON MON 14:00 The Archers b051r9n0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b051rpvr (Listen) MON Psyche MON MON By Diane Samuels MON MON An experimental and visionary designer has been MON captivated by the story of Psyche and Eros and is MON creating a series of pieces inspired by the myth. She MON has found the right girl to be her model. But where MON does the myth begin and where does it end? MON MON Directed by Tracey Neale. MON MON Credits MON Lizzie: Jaime Winstone MON Apra: Saskia Reeves MON Andreas: Fra Fee MON Director: Tracey Neale MON Writer: Diane Samuels MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b051ryq4 (Listen) MON Heat 7, 2015 MON MON (7/17) MON Competitors from Norfolk, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire and MON Kent join Russell Davies for the seventh heat of the general MON knowledge quiz. MON MON To win a place in the semi-finals they'll have to face MON questions such as which of the asteroids is the brightest as MON seen from earth, and which mainland South American country's MON coast is just seven miles from the islands of Trinidad and MON Tobago? MON MON There's also the usual opportunity for a listener to win a MON prize by stumping the competitors with questions of his or MON her own, in 'Beat the Brains'. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b051r7j0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b051ryq6 (Listen) MON Jonathan Coe MON MON The novelist Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters Club and MON What a Carve Up!, chooses the pieces of writing that have MON meant the most to him and inspired his own work. MON MON His choices - including Lydia Davis, ee cummings, Henry MON Fielding and Thomas Hardy - are read by Eleanor Tremain and MON Peter Marinker for an audience at the Birmingham Literature MON Festival. MON MON Producer: Mair Bosworth. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jonathan Coe MON Reader: Peter Marinker MON Reader: Eleanor Tremain MON Producer: Mair Bosworth MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b051ryq8 (Listen) MON Series 11, When Quantum Goes Woo MON MON When Quantum Goes Woo MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by Bad Science MON author, Ben Goldacre, Professor of Particle Physics at MON Manchester University, Jeff Forshaw, and comedian Sara MON Pascoe. They'll be looking at why quantum physics, in MON particular, seems to attract some of the more fringe MON elements of pseudoscience and alternative medicine, and MON whether there is anything about the frankly weird quantum MON behaviour of particles, like the ability to seemingly be in MON two places at once, that really can be applied to the human MON condition. When spiritual healers and gurus talk about our MON own quantum energy and the power of quantum healing, is it MON simply a metaphor, or is there more to this esoteric branch MON of science that we could all learn from? MON MON 17:00 PM b051ryqb (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b051r5z0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b051ryqd (Listen) MON Series 71, Episode 1 MON MON It's the return of Radio 4's classic panel game in which the MON contestants are challenged to speak on a given subject for a MON minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON MON This series, the guests include Jenny Eclair, Stephen Fry, MON Sheila Hancock, Robin Ince Paul Merton, Graham Norton, and MON trying his hand at the game for the first time, the tenth MON doctor, David Tennant. MON MON Recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre and Marlowe Theatre in MON Canterbury, this long running and popular series enters its MON 47th year with the same wonderful host, Nicholas Parsons. MON MON Kicking off this first episode in the series are Julian MON Clary, Stephen Fry, Paul Merton and David Tennant who makes MON his first impressive appearance on the show. Subjects MON include Exit, Pursued by a Bear, which is Shakespeare's most MON famous stage direction. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Julian Clary MON Panellist: Stephen Fry MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: David Tennant MON MON 19:00 The Archers b051ryqg (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b051ryqj (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b051rjpk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Erasing Enoch: The Tory Quest for the Minority Vote MON b051ryql (Listen) MON Some voters, thinks Gavin Barwell MP, 'are so Conservative MON they don't even know it'. MON MON The Conservative Party won just 16% of the vote from Black, MON Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities in the 2010 MON election - and both Gavin Barwell and party chairman Grant MON Shapps think they can do better in May. But how? MON MON Journalist Hugh Muir - political columnist with The Guardian MON - hits the streets, meeting Tory activists, candidates and MON MPs to witness the quest for more BAME votes. MON MON There's much at stake for the party - the UK is changing, MON with more first-time voters from BAME backgrounds than ever MON before. If it can't secure a higher proportion of the MON minority vote, party officials fear irrelevancy. But they MON have a brand damaged in many communities by memories of MON Enoch Powell. MON MON As Baroness Warsi tells Hugh Muir, individuals in the MON Conservative Party 'still say crazy things, offensive MON things, which re-toxify us when it comes to the ethnic MON minority communities'. MON MON Over the course of a year, Hugh follows two potential MON candidates - Shaun Bailey and Loanna Morrison - as they try MON to secure a seat for 2015. With each Conservative MON association free to select its own candidate, autonomous MON from central office, the party knows what it wants to MON achieve but has limited capability to make it happen. How MON can it square that circle? MON MON The programme also features interviews with Grant Shapps, MON Damian Green (Conservative MP for Ashford), Simon Woolley MON (Operation Black Vote) and Mohammed Amin (Conservative MON Muslim Forum). MON MON Produced by Matt Hill and Peter Price MON A PPM Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b051ryqn (Listen) MON You Can't Say That MON MON Does free speech include a right to cause offence? Many MON thinkers have insisted that it must - but debate has raged MON for millennia over where the limits to insult can be set. MON While some maintain Enlightenment values must include MON permission to shock, offend and even injure, there is a MON growing sense that rights must be balanced by MON responsibilities to one's community, in speech as well as MON action. And as technology has given each of us an worldwide MON platform to express any idea, anywhere, the potential for MON instant, global offence has only grown. How are we to define MON how much is too much - and what really distinguishes insult MON from injury? Edward Stourton speaks to historians, MON theologians and philosophers to explore the outer limits of MON free expression. MON Producer: Polly Hope. MON MON 21:00 Spoilsport: Science Stops Play b05102tf (Listen) MON Millions of us - adults and children - play games like rugby MON and football every week. But concern is growing that the MON dangers of concussion, traumatic brain injuries, aren't MON taken seriously enough in contact sports. MON New evidence that head knocks and head bangs could be MON causing an early onset dementia called CTE, or Chronic MON Traumatic Encephalopathy, has sent shock waves through MON sport. It used to be thought that CTE, formerly known as MON Dementia Pugilistica, was a degenerative brain disease MON confined to boxers who'd spent a life-time taking punishing MON head injuries in the ring. But the disease has recently been MON discovered in the brains of an assortment of elite athletes; MON first an American footballer, then ice hockey players, rugby MON players and professional football players. It's raised real MON fears that playing contact sports, where concussions are a MON common risk, could be the cause. MON Claudia Hammond talks to leading UK neurosurgeon, Dr Tony MON Belli, Professor of Trauma Neurosurgery at the University of MON Birmingham, about the short term and long term dangers of MON repeated concussions. And she hears from Dr Willie Stewart, MON consultant neuropathologist and head of the Glasgow MON Traumatic Brain Injury Archive who identified CTE in the MON UK's first professional football player and an elite rugby MON player, about his suspicions that many more sports people MON could, in fact, have died of CTE. MON Dawn Astle, daughter of West Bromwich Albion and England MON footballer, Jeff Astle, describes her family's campaign to MON get the footballing authorities to find out how many other MON footballers are at risk from the sports-related dementia, MON CTE (her father died in 2002 after a diagnosis of MON Alzheimer's Disease, but last year it was discovered he'd MON died of CTE). And Peter Robinson, who lost his 14 year old MON son, Ben, after a school rugby match, tells Claudia why he's MON campaigning for mandatory concussion education with the MON message that concussion can be fatal. Ben died of Second MON Impact Syndrome after he suffered three concussions during a MON match but was left on the pitch to play on. MON Claudia Hammond investigates how sport, from grassroots MON upwards, needs to change to protect players, as the evidence MON on the risks of cumulative concussions mounts. MON MON Producer: Fiona Hill. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b051rjpc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b051ryqq (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b051ryqs (Listen) MON The Illuminations, Episode 6 MON MON by Andrew O'Hagan MON MON As the Helmand mission begins, Luke is worried about his MON commanding officer Scullion's erratic behaviour. Meanwhile MON in Scotland, Alice responds to growing interest in her MON mother Anne's photographic archive. MON MON Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a MON forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in MON sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned MON retrospective stirs long-buried memories and leads her MON grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which has MON defined three generations. MON MON Abridged by Sian Preece MON Reader: Maureen Beattie MON Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Maureen Beattie MON Abridger: Sian Preece MON Author: Andrew O'Hagan MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie MON MON 23:00 Agatha Christie b01qm7p4 (Listen) MON Murder Is Easy, Episode 1 MON MON by Agatha Christie MON Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson MON MON 1. Ex-policeman Luke Fitzwilliam doesn't believe little old MON Miss Pinkerton when she tells him that she's off to Scotland MON Yard to report a serial killer on the loose in her quiet MON English village. But he's soon forced to reconsider. MON MON Luke ..... Patrick Baladi MON Bridget ..... Lydia Leonard MON Lord Whitfield ..... Michael Cochrane MON Miss Waynflete ..... Marcia Warren MON Miss Pinkerton ..... Marlene Sidaway MON Billy Bones/Rivers ..... Patrick Brennan MON Reverend Wake ..... Thomas Wheatley MON Rose ..... Lizzy Watts MON Abbott ..... Paul Stonehouse MON Ellsworthy ..... Ben Crowe MON Dr Thomas ..... Will Howard MON Major Horton ..... Robert Blythe MON MON Technical presentation was by Anne Bunting and Robin Warren MON MON Directed by Mary Peate MON MON Murder is Easy is another of Joy Wilkinson's fresh new MON dramatisations of Agatha Christie novels for Radio Four. MON Previously she has adapted Crooked House, Endless Night, MON Towards Zero, And Then There Were None and Sparkling MON Cyanide. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b051ryqv (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b051r5zy (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Letters from Europe b051rjpf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b051r600 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b051r602 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b051r604 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b051r606 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b052ms3d (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Richard Littledale. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b051s0f7 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0vhm (Listen) TUE Asian Koel TUE TUE Michael Palin presents the Asian koel's arrival to an Indian TUE orchard. This long-tailed glossy blue-black bird, is a TUE well-known British harbinger of spring, and like it's TUE British counterpart, it is a cuckoo. TUE TUE The koel's plaintive call is heard from late March until TUE July around villages and in wooded countryside from Pakistan TUE east to Indonesia and southern China. In India, it TUE symbolises the birth of a new season, the flowering of TUE fruit-trees, the bloom of romance and all that's good about TUE spring. The koel's song can be heard in many Bollywood TUE movies and has inspired poems and folk songs; it's even TUE rumoured to help mangoes ripen faster. TUE TUE This almost universal feel-good factor doesn't extend to its TUE victims, because the koel is after all a cuckoo, and lays TUE its eggs in other birds' nests. Asian Koels are parasitic on TUE a wide range of birds, but in India especially, on House TUE Crows and Jungle Crows. TUE TUE Asian/Western/Common Koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Hanne and Jens Eriksen / TUE naturepl.com. TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01212812 TUE © Hanne and Jens Eriksen / naturepl.com TUE TUE Recording of Asian koel by Arnoud B van den Berg / Ref: ML TUE 70213 TUE TUE This programme contains a TUE wildtrack recording of the Asian koel TUE kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab TUE of Ornithology; recorded by Arnoud B va denBerg on 19 Mar TUE 1989, West of Ko Libong, Trang, Thailand. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b051s0f9 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Price of Inequality b051s0fc (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE If the statistics can be believed, over the last 30 years TUE the gap between rich and poor in the West has grown as TUE cavernous as it was in the Nineteenth Century. TUE Income and wealth inequality - seen as almost a good thing TUE back in the 1980s - now raises alarm across the UK political TUE spectrum. TUE But who are the 1%? How have they made their wealth? And why TUE have the rest of us seemingly been left behind? TUE Robert Peston speaks to leading policymakers and opinion TUE shapers - as well as two psychologists and a comedian - as TUE he charts the new consensus that inequality is the biggest TUE economic challenge we face. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b051s0ff (Listen) TUE Charlotte Smith meets Sarah O'Donoghue TUE TUE Charlotte Smith looks at the support offered by self help TUE groups to those suffering from emotional trauma. TUE TUE When Sarah O'Donoghue's eighteen year old son died while out TUE celebrating his A level results, she felt she needed to turn TUE to the professionals for help; doctors, bereavement TUE counsellors, therapists. TUE TUE It was only after many months that she finally turned to The TUE Compassionate Friends; one of the several charities that TUE offers support and help to bereaved families after the death TUE of a child. Here she found solace by talking to and being TUE with others who had been through the same experience TUE themselves. TUE TUE Sarah now runs a group for bereaved families in her area. TUE TUE Charlotte and Sarah discuss the positives and negatives of TUE being part of such a group; the support that is given to TUE people who so badly need it, whether there is a danger TUE members could become too dependent, and at what point people TUE might make the sometimes painful decision to leave a group. TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Letters from Europe b05289w7 (Listen) TUE Julia Franck TUE TUE German writer Julia Franck reflects on her move from East TUE Germany to West Berlin as a child, and her initial TUE experience as a refugee, which has informed how she views TUE the challenges facing Europe now. TUE TUE Producer Julia Johnson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Producer: Julia Johnson TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b051s0fh (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 b051s0fk (Listen) TUE 44 Scotland Street: The Blue Spode Tea Cup, Episode 2 TUE TUE 44 Scotland Street: The Blue Spode Tea Cup TUE by Alexander McCall Smith TUE TUE Edinburgh's Georgian New Town is the setting for the quirky TUE tales and 'goings-on' of Alexander McCall Smith's much loved TUE characters that have made his bestselling series of books, TUE 44 Scotland Street, so popular worldwide. TUE TUE Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, is a frequent visitor to TUE Domenica Macdonald, the anthropologist and longest-term TUE resident of 44 Scotland Street. Will their friendship TUE blossom and will she ever let his dog Cyril into her flat? TUE Domenica's thoughts are elsewhere, sensing trouble with the TUE return of her neighbour Antonia who has been living in TUE Glasgow of all places! Is Domenica's 'property' safe with TUE Antonia back in town? Meanwhile in the flat below lives TUE Bertie, aged six, a prodigy and victim of his excessively TUE pushy mother, Irene. Bertie wants the life of an ordinary TUE six-year-old boy, but instead he has psychotherapy, yoga and TUE Italian conversation lessons. He also wants to know why his TUE new baby brother, Ulysses, looks remarkably like his TUE psychotherapist, Dr Fairbairn. TUE TUE Alexander McCall Smith dramatises stories from his TUE bestselling series, 44 Scotland Street, which continues to TUE delight readers around the world. The series introduces TUE young actor Simon Kerr in his first role as six year-old TUE Bertie! TUE TUE In today's episode, there's trouble in New Town Edinburgh TUE when a dog begins a nipping spree, a neighbour starts TUE nicking cups, and plans for Bertie's Saturday are put on TUE hold when baby Ulysses causes confusion. TUE TUE Producer/director: David Ian Neville. TUE TUE Credits TUE Angus Lordie: Crawford Logan TUE Domenica: Carol Ann Crawford TUE Big Lou: Anita Vettesse TUE Irene: Emma Currie TUE Bertie: Simon Kerr TUE Stuart: David Jackson Young TUE Author: Alexander McCall Smith TUE Adaptor: Alexander McCall Smith TUE Director: David Neville TUE Producer: David Neville TUE TUE 11:00 Finding Your Voice b051s0fm (Listen) TUE Comedy performer and broadcaster Helen Keen, explores a rare TUE condition that she herself once suffered from, known as TUE selective mutism or SM. An anxiety disorder that develops in TUE childhood, those affected by SM can usually speak fluently TUE in some situations, notably a home, but remain silent TUE elsewhere - such as in school, with extended family members, TUE or even parents. Their inability to speak is so severe that TUE it's been likened to a phobia of speaking, and is often TUE accompanied by the physical symptoms of extreme anxiety. TUE Selective mutism can be mistaken for shyness or worse, a TUE deliberate refusal to talk. But in reality, these children TUE are desperate to speak, to share their thoughts and ideas, TUE to make friends and to fulfil the expectations of their TUE teachers and parents, in taking an active part in class TUE activities. Yet somehow the words remain "trapped" inside as TUE the anxiety, frustration and fear, builds. TUE TUE Though relatively rare, increasing awareness and official TUE recognition of selective mutism in the psychiatric TUE literature has seen an increase in diagnoses. Today, it's TUE estimated to affect about 1 in 150 children in the UK - TUE roughly equivalent to the number of children who are TUE affected by classic autism. The causes of selective mutism TUE are poorly understood but a genetic component is likely as TUE are environmental influences. What's clear is that without TUE early intervention, SM can take hold and persist well into TUE adulthood and in rare cases can develop into more acute TUE mental health problems. As Helen knows only too well, it can TUE be a lonely place to grow up in as the quiet child is so TUE often, 'the forgotten child'. It wasn't until Helen was in TUE her early twenties that she managed to break the silence. TUE TUE In this programme, Helen meets some of those affected by SM, TUE including parents and former sufferers as well as experts TUE helping children to find their voice again. Producer: Rami TUE Tzabar. TUE TUE 11:30 A Love Supreme: 50 Years On b051s0fp (Listen) TUE Often cited as one of the greatest albums ever made, John TUE Coltrane's A Love Supreme is revered not just by jazz TUE aficionados but music fans the world over. Fifty years after TUE its release, British saxophonist Courtney Pine explores what TUE makes it such a unique and important record. TUE TUE John Coltrane intended A Love Supreme to be a spiritual TUE record - a declaration of his religious beliefs and personal TUE spiritual quest. However the album also had a wider cultural TUE significance. It was released in February 1965, just days TUE after black rights activist Malcolm X was assassinated and TUE weeks before Martin Luther King led the March on Alabama, TUE and for many the sound and feel of the music captures TUE perfectly the sadness, confusion and anger of America's TUE growing black consciousness movement. TUE TUE Courtney visits Gaumont State Theatre in Kilburn, North TUE London, where Coltrane performed on a tour in 1961. He is TUE joined by a trio of leading British jazz saxophonists - Nat TUE Birchall, Finn Peters and Jason Yarde - whose lives have TUE been inspired and shaped by A Love Supreme and the music and TUE spirit of John Coltrane. TUE TUE Our quartet of musicians explore why the album touches so TUE many and continues to do so with each new generation. TUE TUE Produced by Jim Lister TUE A Folded Wing production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b051r608 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b051s0fr (Listen) TUE 10 February 1915 - Johnnie Marshall TUE TUE Not everyone at Collingwood Park is in favour of Marshalls TUE manufacturing munitions. TUE TUE Written by: Shaun McKenna TUE Directed by: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready TUE Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham TUE Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf TUE Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom TUE Yevgeny Zamyatin: Simon Scardifield TUE Fannon: Shaun Prendergast TUE Loudhailer Man: Kris Deedigan TUE Writer: Shaun McKenna TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b051s0ft (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b051r60c (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b051s0hp (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:45 The Cliff b051s2bm (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Skellig Michael or Great Skellig is the larger of the two TUE Skellig islands situated some 12km off the coast of TUE Portmagee in south west Ireland. It's a spectacular rocky TUE pinnacle towering over 200metres above sea level. The summit TUE is reached by climbing what is, at times, an almost vertical TUE wall of nearly 700 steps. On the summit are the remains of a TUE well-preserved monastic outpost, including six beehive cells TUE which date back to early Christianity. Monks were sent to TUE island outposts like Skellig Michael to pray and keep evil TUE spirits at bay. A visit to this island cliff is not for the TUE feint-hearted as wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson TUE describes in this vivid account, which is illustrated with TUE recordings he made on and around the island. Landing is no TUE easy task, as the waves crash against the island buttress, TUE whilst kittiwakes soar overhead, their cries piercing the TUE air. Climbing the steps, you have to "hold your nerve and TUE not look back or down, behind you and beneath you is a TUE void". Puffins explode unexpectedly out of underground TUE burrows; their strange low growling calls, reverberating TUE through the ground. Higher up, Chris is met by "by TUE stiff-winged fulmars sheering and slicing through the air". TUE Eventually he reaches the summit, and his destination. After TUE 10pm, there's a flutter of wings in the darkness as storm TUE petrels emerge, their "sinister cackling sounds start to TUE emanate from the walls". But there's more; after midnight, TUE the air is filled with the banshee-like cries of Manx TUE Shearwaters. "Hearing these sounds come out of the darkness TUE must have been a terrifying experience for the monks in TUE their cliff top hives - easy to think that they were evil TUE spirits from the west". Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE Chris Watson TUE Chris Watson TUE is one of the world's leading recorders of wildlife and TUE natural phenomena, and for TUE Touch TUE he edits his field recordings into a filmic narrative. For TUE example. the unearthly groaning of ice in an Icelandic TUE glacier is a classic example of, in Watson's words, putting TUE a microphone where you can't put your ears. TUE Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio TUE productions including; ‘ TUE The Ice Mountain TUE ', ‘The Reed Bed’, ‘The Ditch’, ‘The Listeners’ and ‘The TUE Wire’ which won him the Broadcasting Press Guild’s TUE Broadcaster of The Year Award (2012). His music is regularly TUE featured on the BBC Radio 3 programme ‘Late Junction’. TUE Picture courtesy of Chris Watson. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b051ryqg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03y10gx (Listen) TUE A Kidnapping, Episode 2 TUE TUE Daniel Ryan and Jade Matthew (who won the 2015 BBC Audio TUE Drama Award for Best Debut Performance for her role in A TUE KIDNAPPING), play two British teachers at an international TUE school in Manila who have kidnapped a 10-year-old child. TUE TUE With local taxi driver Rami (Art Acuna) they attempt to TUE extract a ransom from the boy's father, a prominent, corrupt TUE and vengeful politician. But when the boy discovers the TUE identity of one of his captors, their simple get-rich-quick TUE plan begins to unravel. TUE TUE A fast-paced thriller and a grand, comic morality tale set TUE and recorded in the Philippines. TUE TUE Featuing students of the British School, Manila TUE TUE Original Music: Sacha Putnam TUE Sound Design: Steve Bond TUE TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Writer: Andy Mulligan TUE Director: John Dryden TUE TUE A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Mark: Daniel Ryan TUE Rachel: Jade Matthew TUE Rami: Art Acuna TUE Paolo: Nacio Samonte TUE The Headmistress: Madeleine Nicolas TUE Debbie: Jane Fisher TUE Lily: Geraldine Tan TUE Senator Amantez: Bart Guingona TUE Mrs Amantez: Roselyn Perez TUE Colonel Reyas: Leo Rialp TUE Louis: Amiel Mendoza TUE Andreas: Joel Trinidad TUE Jonathan: Andy Mulligan TUE Schoolchild: Seth Argar TUE Schoolchild: Rachel Greenhow TUE Actor: Rona Lou San Pedro TUE Actor: Francis Matheu TUE Actor: Paulo Rodriguez TUE Actor: Max Adarme TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Writer: Andy Mulligan TUE Director: John Dryden TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b051s2bp (Listen) TUE Seventy years on from dramatic and deadly Allied air TUE attacks, Tom Holland visits Dresden in the east of Germany. TUE He finds out how the city has dealt with this history, why TUE it continues to concern us and how different regimes have TUE used it. TUE TUE In the studio, Helen Castor and her guests - Professor TUE Richard Overy (University of Exeter) and Dr Astrid Swenson TUE Lecturer in Politics and History at Brunel University - TUE discuss the horror of those nights in February 1945 and how TUE they compared with bombing raids on other European cities TUE such as London, Coventry and Hamburg. TUE TUE Back in England, Martin Ellis visits Stoke-On-Trent to find TUE out whether history and heritage can replace garden TUE festivals to become a major factor in the social and TUE economic rejuvenation of the Potteries. TUE TUE Contact the programme by email: making.history@bbc.co.uk - TUE or write to Making History, BBC Radio 4, PO Box 3096. TUE Brighton BN1 1PL. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b051s2br (Listen) TUE Taming Australia TUE TUE Australian Premier, Tony Abbott is determined to develop his TUE Northern Territory. With the enormous markets of South-East TUE Asia on the doorstep of Darwin there's huge potential for TUE oil, gas, mining and agriculture in the thinly-populated TUE north. TUE TUE Locals welcome the prospect of jobs but there's a real TUE concern that the extraordinary landscape of the north could TUE be lost. Mining and intensive agriculture require water in TUE vast quantities. To get it dams will have to be built and TUE groundwater abstracted. That will disrupt the complex web of TUE life in the river systems of the north. Fish, turtles and TUE birdlife depend upon the seasonal flows and fluctuations TUE that will be tamed in a developed north. TUE TUE Local Aboriginal people who own half of the land and make up TUE 30% of the population still hunt and fish the rivers. Many TUE worry that development will take their water but fail to TUE offer them the jobs and modern facilities they would like to TUE see. TUE TUE Julian Rush travels across the tropical savannah of TUE Australia's 'top end' to gauge the impact of a populated and TUE energised north, meeting the people and the wildlife that TUE will have to live alongside the incomers. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b051s2bt (Listen) TUE Protecting the Innocent TUE TUE Dwaine George was sent to prison in 2001 for murder. Aged 18 TUE and a member of a Manchester gang, he was convicted for TUE shooting dead another 18-year-old and sentenced to life TUE imprisonment. But Dwaine George said he didn't do it and TUE continued to protest his innocence throughout the 12 years TUE he eventually served. He was finally vindicated by the Court TUE of Appeal shortly before Christmas, when his conviction was TUE quashed. TUE TUE Dwaine George wasn't the only person celebrating that day. TUE Crammed into court for the appeal hearing had been a group TUE of students and lecturers from Cardiff Law School. The law TUE school runs an Innocence Project, where students take up TUE alleged miscarriages of justice. There are more than 30 such TUE projects at universities all over the country. The Dwaine TUE George case was the first case in the UK brought by an TUE Innocence Project to be successfully appealed. TUE TUE In this week's Law in Action Joshua Rozenberg goes to TUE Cardiff to meet the people who made this happen. He hears TUE about the years of work that went into their investigation, TUE and the further years of waiting after the appeal was filed TUE in 2010. And he hears about their euphoria and relief when TUE the email finally came through that the Court of Appeal had TUE quashed the conviction. TUE TUE But is the system that is designed to guard against TUE miscarriages of justice working properly? There are plenty TUE of lawyers who say it isn't. Parliament's Justice Committee TUE is currently conducting an inquiry into the effectiveness of TUE the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), through which TUE all appeals for wrongful conviction must go. The TUE commission's chairman Richard Foster gave evidence to the TUE committee on February 3rd and will be in the Law In Action TUE studio to debate the issue with Joshua Rozenberg and others. TUE TUE Producer: Tim Mansel TUE Editor: Richard Knight. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b051s2bw (Listen) TUE Susie Dent and Janice Langley TUE TUE Countdown dictionary buff Susie Dent and WI Chair Janice TUE Langley talk good reads with Harriett Gilbert. Book choices TUE include An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by the late PD James, TUE Red Love - The Story of an East German Family by Maxim Leo, TUE and A Walk Across The Sun by Corban Addison. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Susie Dent TUE Interviewed Guest: Janice Langley TUE TUE 17:00 PM b051s2by (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b051r60f (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b046ny8j (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Nominated for Best Comedy in the BBC Audio Drama Awards TUE 2015, Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' is a comedy sketch TUE show written and performed by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd, TUE stars of Radio 4's Showstoppers. TUE TUE What happens when you put together jaded (sorry, TUE 'experienced') comedy circuit veteran Ruth Bratt (Derek, TUE People Just Do Nothing, Quick Cuts, Ministry of Curious TUE Stuff, Mongrels) and 'serious circuit' enthusiast Lucy Trodd TUE (famous for her fruit impressions)? TUE TUE This week Ruth gets to perform her favourite sketch TUE featuring eight different Kens - she just has to get Lucy to TUE understand it. Meanwhile the 1940's divas who run a TUE lighthouse can't work out whose turn it is to switch on the TUE light; and on Wetumpka's public access radio station, TUE Thandie is trying to find her clumsy and slightly terrifying TUE daughter Lily-Rose-May a date. TUE TUE Written and performed by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd TUE TUE Supporting cast: Adam Meggido and Oliver Senton TUE TUE Script Editor: Jon Hunter TUE TUE Duncan Walsh Atkins TUE TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Ruth Bratt TUE Performer: Lucy Trodd TUE Actor: Oliver Senton TUE Actor: Adam Meggido TUE Writer: Ruth Bratt TUE Writer: Lucy Trodd TUE Composer: Duncan Walsh Atkins TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b051s2lz (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b051s2m1 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b051s0fk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b051s2m3 (Listen) TUE Around 25 thousand people a year claim asylum in the UK. TUE They're accommodated in some of the nation's most deprived TUE areas while their cases are considered. Now, with numbers on TUE the rise, some communities say they're struggling to cope. TUE Allan Urry reports from Greater Manchester - which has more TUE asylum seekers than the whole of the south east of England - TUE on the pressures that the latest arrivals pose for local TUE health services and schools. And he investigates conditions TUE for those claiming refuge. Stories of asylum seekers living TUE in fancy hotels have led to outraged newspaper headlines but TUE are they a symptom of bigger failings in a system marked by TUE sub-standard housing and long backlogs in dealing with TUE cases? TUE TUE Reporter: Allan Urry TUE Producer: Matt Precey. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b051s2m5 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b051s2m7 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Price of Inequality b051s0fc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b051r60h (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b051s2m9 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b051s2nd (Listen) TUE The Illuminations, Episode 7 TUE TUE by Andrew O'Hagan TUE After witnessing Scullion's horrific battlefield injuries, TUE Luke has left the army. Back in Scotland he vows to help his TUE gran track down her missing photographic archive. TUE TUE Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a TUE forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in TUE sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned TUE retrospective stirs long-buried memories and leads her TUE grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which has TUE defined three generations. TUE TUE Abridged by Sian Preece TUE Reader: Maureen Beattie TUE Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Maureen Beattie TUE Abridger: Sian Preece TUE Author: Andrew O'Hagan TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b051ryq8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b051s2ng (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b051r61b (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Letters from Europe b05289w7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b051r61d (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b051r61g (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b051r61j (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b051r61l (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b052ms4b (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Richard Littledale. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b051s31l (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 b04t0vl3 (Listen) WED Ostrich WED WED Michael Palin presents the avian record breaking ostrich in WED the Kalahari Desert. Ostriches are ornithological WED record-breakers. The black and white adult male ostrich is WED taller and heavier than any other living bird, reaching WED almost 3 metres in height and weighing a whopping 150 WED kilograms. Females are smaller but lay the largest eggs of WED any bird. The ostrich's eye measures 5cm in diameter and is WED the largest of any land vertebrate. WED WED Ostriches live in the wide open landscapes of central, WED eastern and South-West Africa. As well as being tall and WED observant, Ostriches also minimise their chances of being WED predated on, by living in groups and sharing lookout duties, WED or staying close to sharp-eyed antelope and zebra herds. WED They can also use their powerful legs to try and outrun a WED predator, reaching speeds of up to 70 kilometres per hour WED which makes them the fastest avian runner. WED WED Ostrich (Struthio camelus) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Denis-Huot / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01441194 WED © Denis-Huot / naturepl.com. WED WED 06:00 Today b051s31n (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 b051s31q (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Letters from Europe b05289wc (Listen) WED Yasmina Khadra WED WED Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra, now living in France, WED reflects on personal identity, in the light of the WED challenges currently facing Europe. WED WED Producer Julia Johnson. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Julia Johnson WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b051s3fx (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 b051s3fz (Listen) WED 44 Scotland Street: The Blue Spode Tea Cup, Episode 3 WED WED 44 Scotland Street: The Blue Spode Tea Cup WED by Alexander McCall Smith WED WED Friendship is put to the test when Domenica asks Angus to WED accompany her on a secret and possibly illegal mission. WED Bertie's mother's parenting skills are under scrutiny when WED she comes face to face with the Social Work Department. WED WED Edinburgh's Georgian New Town is the setting for the quirky WED tales and 'goings-on' of Alexander McCall Smith's much loved WED characters that have made his bestselling series of books, WED 44 Scotland Street, so popular worldwide. WED WED Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, is a frequent visitor to WED Domenica Macdonald, the anthropologist and longest-term WED resident of 44 Scotland Street. Will their friendship WED blossom and will she ever let his dog Cyril into her flat? WED Domenica's thoughts are elsewhere, sensing trouble with the WED return of her neighbour Antonia who has been living in WED Glasgow of all places! Is Domenica's 'property' safe with WED Antonia back in town? Meanwhile in the flat below lives WED Bertie, aged six, a prodigy and victim of his excessively WED pushy mother, Irene. Bertie wants the life of an ordinary WED six-year-old boy, but instead he has psychotherapy, yoga and WED Italian conversation lessons. He also wants to know why his WED new baby brother, Ulysses, looks remarkably like his WED psychotherapist, Dr Fairbairn. WED WED Producer/director: David Ian Neville. WED WED Credits WED Angus Lordie: Crawford Logan WED Domenica: Carol Ann Crawford WED Antonia: Anita Vettesse WED Big Lou: Anita Vettesse WED Irene: Emma Currie WED Bertie: Simon Kerr WED Markus: Matthew Zajac WED Social Worker: Molly Innes WED Author: Alexander McCall Smith WED Adaptor: Alexander McCall Smith WED Director: David Neville WED Producer: David Neville WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04bs0mt (Listen) WED Iby and Julia - Not Defined by the Holocaust WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a survivor of WED Auschwitz and her granddaughter, which reveals that Iby used WED her experience to pass on tolerance and understanding, not WED fear, proving again that it's surprising what you hear when WED you listen. 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 upload your own conversations or WED just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting WED bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Tales from the Ring Road b051s3g3 (Listen) WED Bedford WED WED Anne-Marie Duff narrates stories of survival and resilience WED from the roads that encircle Bedford. WED WED The edge of town can be a perilous place, a periphery WED landscape of industrial estates and redundant brickworks. WED Life can seem fragile here, but it also bears witness to WED tales of determination and hope. WED WED In this episode, Bedford is in the spotlight. Among the WED stories, an Eden nestled in a garden square, a violent end WED to a relationship that started so happily on line and a WED helicopter pilot tempted into crime, stunned by life in WED Bedford Prison. WED WED Producer: Sarah Bowen. WED WED 11:30 Alun Cochrane's Fun House b01rvpvf (Listen) WED The Bathroom 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 Starring ... Alun Cochrane and Gavin Osborn WED WED Written by ... Alun Cochrane and Andy Wolton WED WED Produced by ... 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 b051r61q (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b051s4jn (Listen) WED 11 February 1915 - Duncan Chadwick WED WED There's unrest within the Chadwick family. WED WED Written by: Shaun McKenna WED Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart WED Ada Stokoe: Hannah Genesius WED Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont WED Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman WED Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell WED Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan WED Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley WED Pastor Vincent Surtees: Shaun Prendergast WED Writer: Shaun McKenna WED Director: Lucy Collingwood WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b051s4jq (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b051r61s (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b051s4js (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 The Cliff b051s4jv (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED "Most people look at a cliff and just see a pile of rocks. WED But when I look at a cliff I see millions of years of WED geological time." says Zoe Shipton, Professor of Geology at WED Strathclyde University. "In cliffs made up of sedimentary WED rocks, each layer of rock contains clues to how that layer WED was laid down millions of years ago, and what has happened WED to it since - we can read those layers like pages in a WED book". Trying to unpick the geological story of the earth WED though is far from simple, after all "The Earth is nearly WED 13,000km across. Geologists are approximately 1.6m tall, WED trying to unpick the story of a complicated 4D puzzle - ie WED one varying in space and changing in time. But we are doing WED this to decipher the history of a planet that is 1023 times WED larger than we are". Undaunted, she takes three cliffs; The WED Book Cliffs in central Utah, the Grand Canyon and Nanga WED Parbat in the Himalayas to explain how geologists decipher WED the clues left in the rocks. But rocks are subject to the WED weather, and so to study them in their natural habitat, WED geologists use underground rock laboratories. To extend the WED depths to which we can observe the Earth even further, WED geologists use geophysical tools such as seismic surveys. WED But because we can't produce signals strong enough to WED penetrate into the very centre of the Earth, geologists use WED natural signals as well. Listening to earthquakes from the WED other side of the planet provides information which can be WED used to map the topography at the outside of the Earth's WED core. "With modern technology we are learning to read the WED complete atlas of Earth's history." Written and presented by WED Zoe Shipton, with readings by David Acton. Additional sound WED recordings by Chris Watson. Producer Sarah Blunt. WED WED Professor Zoe Shipton WED Zoe Shipton is a WED Professor of Geological Engineering WED in the Department of Civil Engineering at Strathclyde WED University. She works on the link between faulting and fluid WED flow in applications such as hydrocarbons, CO2 and WED radioactive waste storage, and geothermal energy, as well as WED the structure of modern and exhumed earthquake faults. WED She also conducts research into quantifying geological WED uncertainties and the perception and communication of risk WED and uncertainty. WED WED David Acton WED David Acton was most recently on tour in A Midsummer Night’s WED Dream and The Comedy of Errors with the all male Shakespeare WED company WED Propeller WED He has also worked with Propeller on productions of Henry V WED and Twelfth Night. WED His other work includes: The Woman in Black at the Fortune WED Theatre; Anjin: The Shogun and the Samurai in Tokyo and WED Sadler’s Wells, television programmes such as Diaries of the WED Great War, Doctors, EastEnders, Silent Witness, Hollyoaks WED and the films After Death, Volume and Persuasion. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b051s2lz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b05107zw (Listen) WED Poorland WED WED Sean Grundy's satirical take on attitudes towards poverty WED and the poor. WED WED Come to "Poorland Yorkshire", the latest addition to our WED chain of exciting theme parks which have transformed some of WED Britain's toughest council estates. Take the family on one WED of our many thrilling rides - "Benefit Island" water ride, WED "Joyride" or "HellEviction". Stay for the night in the WED "Disenchanted Kingdom". Try out one of our celebrity chav WED make-overs or visit our Poorland gift shop where "each toy WED is some child's broken dream". Come to Poorland, where every WED dream is unfulfilled. WED WED On the same day, Susan and John visit the new Poorland theme WED park which has been opened on the site of the Yorkshire WED council estate that they grew up in. Susan's accompanying WED her teenage daughter on her birthday and John's there to WED review the new ride "The Fires of Orgreave". They bump into WED each other and soon discover that they remember their WED childhood on the estate in starkly different ways. WED WED Script Editor ....... Abigail Youngman WED Writer ................Sean Grundy WED Producer ............Alison Crawford. WED WED Credits WED Susan Varley: Angela Griffin WED John Thames: Anthony Flanagan WED Mick: Anthony Flanagan WED Chris Varley: Faye Castelow WED Resus Chambers: Samuel Barnett WED AR Shoals: David Reed WED Betty: Melanie Kilburn WED Writer: Sean Grundy WED Producer: Alison Crawford WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b051s4jx (Listen) WED Energy Saving, Bills and Complaints WED WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on personal WED finance. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b051s2m7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b051s4jz (Listen) WED Harvard Business School WED WED Harvard Business School: Laurie Taylor takes a journey WED through the complex moral world of what many call the West WED Point of American Capitalism. Michel Anteby, Associate WED Professor at Harvard Business School, describes his research WED into the inner workings, mores and rituals of this highly WED influential institution.They're joined by Professor Ken WED Starkey from the Nottingham University Business School. WED WED Also, a cultural history of pain with Dr Louise Hide, WED Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, WED Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck. University of London. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b051s4k1 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b051s4k3 (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b051r61v (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Sinha Carta b051s4qh (Listen) WED Magna Carta is a document, eight hundred years old this WED year, that surprisingly few people have read, considering WED how important it is. Luckily for you, comedian and quizzer WED Paul Sinha (The Sinha Test, The Sinha Games, Paul Sinha's WED History Revision) has read it, and it turns out it's ace, WED especially if you love keeping your own timber and hate WED fishing traps in the River Medway. WED WED In The Sinha Carta, Paul will explain why what's in it is in WED it - how it came to be - and guide you through some of its WED 63 clauses of medieval Latin. He will also supply some new, WED modern clauses, for a Magna Carta fit for Britain in 2015. WED WED Written & performed by ... Paul Sinha WED Produced by ... Ed Morrish. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b051s4qk (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b051s4rd (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b051s3fz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:40 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b051s4rg (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Why I Changed My Mind b051s4sl (Listen) WED Tim Montgomerie WED WED In this series Dominic Lawson interviews people who have WED changed their mind on controversial matters. WED WED This week he asks Tim Montgomerie, founder of the WED Conservative Christian Fellowship, why he has abandoned his WED opposition to same-sex marriage and about the emotional WED backlash. WED WED Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b051s2br (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b051s31q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b051s4t0 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b051s4t2 (Listen) WED The Illuminations, Episode 8 WED WED by Andrew O'Hagan WED WED Luke plans a trip to Blackpool in search of his gran's WED missing photographs, as well as answers to some of the WED mysteries in her past. WED WED Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a WED forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in WED sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned WED retrospective stirs long-buried memories and leads her WED grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which has WED defined three generations. WED WED Abridged by Sian Preece WED Reader: Maureen Beattie WED Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Maureen Beattie WED Abridger: Sian Preece WED Author: Andrew O'Hagan WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie WED WED 23:00 Irish Micks and Legends b051s4t4 (Listen) WED Series 2, King Larry Long Ears WED WED Aisling Bea (British Comedy Award Winner 2014) and Yasmine WED Akram (Sherlock) return with a second series, offering their WED unique take on Ireland's ancient stories. WED WED Irish Micks and Legends is comedic, highly irreverent WED storytelling of ancient Irish folklore. Still the very best WED pals, Aisling and Yasmine take their role explaining Irish WED legends to the British nation very seriously indeed. That WED said, it would appear that they haven't had the time to do WED much research, work out who is doing which parts, edit out WED the chat or learn how to work the sound desk. WED WED With a vast vault of fantastical myths, mixed with 21st WED century references to help you along, prepare for some very WED silly lessons in life, love and the crazy shenanigans of old WED Ireland and modern Irish. The first series was a Chortle WED Best Radio Comedy Nominee 2013. WED WED Episode Two: King Larry Long Ears. WED Aisling and Yasmine tell the tale of King Larry Lonshach, a WED man hiding a terrible, gag inducing secret beneath his WED crown. Only his hairdressers ever find out the secret - but WED that knowledge doesn't end well for them. WED WED Producer: Raymond Lau WED A Green Dragon Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Love in Recovery b051s4vb (Listen) WED The Pub 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 final episode of the series, the group is forced to WED leave the safety of the meeting room to try to rescue one of WED their members - from the pub. 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 Terry: Pete Jackson WED Writer: Pete Jackson WED Producer: Ben Worsfield WED Director: Ben Worsfield WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b051s4vd (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b051r62q (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Letters from Europe b05289wc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b051r62s (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b051r62v (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b051r62x (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b051r62z (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b052ms70 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Richard Littledale. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b051vlp9 (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 b04t0vp4 (Listen) THU Mauritius Kestrel THU THU Michael Palin presents the Mauritius kestrel from the island THU of Mauritius. Today the calls of several hundred Mauritius THU kestrels ring out across the forests and farmland of the THU island, so it's hard to believe that as recently as the THU early 1970s, only four birds could be found in the wild. THU THU These smart chestnut falcons were almost wiped out by a THU cocktail of threats ...destruction of their evergreen THU forests, pesticides and the introduction of predators such THU as monkeys, mongooses, rats and cats. When a species is so THU critically endangered there aren't many options, and THU conservationists decided that their only choice was to take THU some of the wild Mauritius kestrels into captivity. THU THU By 1993, 300 Mauritius kestrels had been released and by THU November of that year there were as many as 65 breeding THU pairs in the wild. Now the kestrels are back, hovering above THU the landscapes that nearly lost them forever. THU THU Mauritius kestrel (Falco punctatus) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Mark Cawardine / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01315489 THU © Mark Cawardine / naturepl.com. THU THU Recording of Mauritius kestrel by Jon P Erickson / Ref: ML THU 167409 THU THU This programme contains a THU wildtrack recording of the Mauritius kestrel THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Jon P Erickson on 4 Nov 2009, in THU the lower gorges, 1.5km NWW of Black River Gorges National THU Park, Black River, Maruitius. THU THU 06:00 Today b051vlpc (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 b051vlpf (Listen) THU The Photon THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the photon. Until the THU beginning of the twentieth century it was generally believed THU that light was a wave. With the dawn of the age of quantum THU physics, it emerged that the reality was far stranger: light THU can be both a wave and a particle. Its particle form is THU known as the photon, and it's an elementary particle of the THU Standard Model of physics - and one of the most perplexing THU objects in the Universe. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Letters from Europe b05289wf (Listen) THU Zafer Senocak THU THU Writer Zafer Senocak, born in Turkey but long resident in THU Germany, offers a personal perspective on the challenges THU facing Europe. THU THU Producer Julia Johnson. THU THU Credits THU Producer: Julia Johnson THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b051vlph (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 b051vlpk (Listen) THU 44 Scotland Street: The Blue Spode Tea Cup, Episode 4 THU THU 44 Scotland Street: The Blue Spode Tea Cup THU by Alexander McCall Smith THU THU There are gender issues with Ulysses - Bertie thinks his THU baby brother looks like a girl. And with Cyril the dog in THU prison, Angus needs help to free the New Town canine! THU THU Edinburgh's Georgian New Town is the setting for the quirky THU tales and 'goings-on' of Alexander McCall Smith's much loved THU characters that have made his bestselling series of books, THU 44 Scotland Street, so popular worldwide. THU THU Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, is a frequent visitor to THU Domenica Macdonald, the anthropologist and longest-term THU resident of 44 Scotland Street. Will their friendship THU blossom and will she ever let his dog Cyril into her flat? THU Domenica's thoughts are elsewhere, sensing trouble with the THU return of her neighbour Antonia who has been living in THU Glasgow of all places! Is Domenica's 'property' safe with THU Antonia back in town? Meanwhile in the flat below lives THU Bertie, aged six, a prodigy and victim of his excessively THU pushy mother, Irene. Bertie wants the life of an ordinary THU six-year-old boy, but instead he has psychotherapy, yoga and THU Italian conversation lessons. He also wants to know why his THU new baby brother, Ulysses, looks remarkably like his THU psychotherapist, Dr Fairbairn. THU THU Alexander McCall Smith dramatises stories from his THU bestselling series, 44 Scotland Street, which continues to THU delight readers around the world. The series introduces THU young actor Simon Kerr in his first role as six year-old THU Bertie! THU THU Producer/director: David Ian Neville. THU THU Credits THU Angus Lordie: Crawford Logan THU Domenica: Carol Ann Crawford THU Irene: Emma Currie THU Bertie: Simon Kerr THU Lawyer: Matthew Zajac THU Social Worker: Molly Innes THU Author: Alexander McCall Smith THU Adaptor: Alexander McCall Smith THU Director: David Neville THU Producer: David Neville THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b051vlpm (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 A World beyond Alice b051vlpp (Listen) THU While British children's books are known across the world, THU far fewer European children's books are translated into THU English. David Almond, the award-winning author of books THU such as Skellig and My Name is Mina, tries to discover how THU and why this has come about, and makes a heart-felt case for THU change. THU THU For at least the 150 years since the publication of Lewis THU Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), British THU children's books have enjoyed a world-wide reputation. By THU contrast, few children's books from continental Europe are THU translated into English. THU THU It's said that up to 40% of books read by continental THU European children are translated from other languages while THU as few as 4% of the books read by British children were THU originally published in a language other than English. THU THU As David sees it, if the lives, experiences and concerns of THU children across Europe differ - and if we hope to resolve THU issues of alienation in our societies - then this loss is THU great indeed. THU THU Amongst the books he champions are a dark and shocking THU existential novel for older children by Danish writer Janne THU Teller, called "Nothing", and a playful but now poignant THU picture book about a harmonious multicultural Paris, by THU Barroux, called "Mr Leon's Taxi". THU THU Hearing from authors Cornelia Funke, Janne Teller and Nadia THU Budde, publisher Jane Winterbotham, children's book experts THU Daniel Hahn and Michael Rosen, translator Sarah Ardizzone - THU and from three tri-lingual British-based brothers - David THU makes a passionate case for A World Beyond Alice. THU THU Producer : Beaty Rubens. THU THU Translated books THU THU Amongst the translated books which David and contributors THU discussed in the course of the programme, were the following THU titles: THU THU For very young children THU Mr Leon’s Paris by Barroux, translated by Sarah Ardizzone, THU published by Phoenix Yard THU THU For young readers THU The Adventures of Shola by Bernardo Atxaga, translated by THU Margaret Jull Costa, published by Pushkin Press – winner of THU the 2015 Marsh Awards. THU Waffle Hearts by Maria Parr, published by Walker Books THU THU For older readers and for young adults THU Diary of an Unknown Soldier by Barroux, with an introduction THU by Michael Morpurgo, translated by Sarah Ardizzone, THU published by Phoenix Yard THU Cornelia Funke: The Ink-Heart trilogy and MirrorWorld THU sequence THU Nothing by Janne Teller, translated by Martin Aitken, THU published by Strident THU THU THU THU THU THU THU 12:00 News Summary b051r631 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b051vlpr (Listen) THU 12 February 1915 - Esther O'Leary THU THU Councillor Maud Burnett's controversial scheme is gathering THU pace. THU THU Written by: Shaun McKenna THU Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron THU Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones THU Maud Burnett: Carolyn Pickles THU Mr Hims: Gerard McDermott THU Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf THU Pearl Thornton: Sophie Scott THU Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom THU Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips THU Writer: Shaun McKenna THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b051vlpt (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 13:00 World at One b051vlpw (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 The Cliff b051vlpy (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU In the last of four illustrated essays by different writers THU on the theme of THE CLIFF, Martin Palmer, Secretary General THU of The Alliance of Religions and Conservation reflects on THU the spiritual responses evoked by cliffs in religious THU stories and traditions across the world. Drawing on examples THU he explores five spiritual responses; First, a sense of awe THU "Reverence for such majestic soaring creations"; the second THU is a feeling of being closer to God, and one of the reasons THU for cliff burials around the world such as those near the THU town of Sagada in the Mountain Province on Luzon Island in THU the Philippines "Neither earth nor sky - safe also from THU scavenging animals"; the third is adding to the wonder of THU Nature's creation with shrines, temples and monasteries THU projecting from cliffs; the fourth response could be THU described as creating or strutting our own power through use THU of cliff faces as advertisement of our status "cliffs have THU been the setting for monumental carvings of victories, for THU religious texts or poems extolling the beauty of the place" THU and for carving vast figures with special significance. THU Finally Martin suggests we have created our own versions of THU cliffs; from skyscrapers to the facades of great Cathedrals THU and temples - and in these we create our own meaning of the THU cliff face. Vast creations, our natural cliffs speak both of THU permanence and time, but also bear witness to change,"even THU if it is change over an unimaginably long period of time". THU Written and narrated by Martin Palmer. The reader is David THU Acton. Additional sound recordings by Chris Watson. Producer THU Sarah Blunt. THU THU Martin Palmer THU Martin Palmer is Secretary General of the THU Alliance of Religions and Conservation THU (ARC), a secular body that helps the world's major faiths THU develop environmental programmes based on their own core THU teachings, beliefs and practices. THU THU David Acton THU David Acton was most recently on tour in A Midsummer Night’s THU Dream and The Comedy of Errors with the all male Shakespeare THU company THU Propeller THU He has also worked with Propeller on productions of Henry V THU and Twelfth Night. THU His other work includes: The Woman in Black at the Fortune THU Theatre; Anjin: The Shogun and the Samurai in Tokyo and THU Sadler’s Wells, television programmes such as Diaries of the THU Great War, Doctors, EastEnders, Silent Witness, Hollyoaks THU and the films After Death, Volume and Persuasion. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b051s4qk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b051vr32 (Listen) THU The Transfer THU THU The Transfer by Nick Perry. THU It's 5am on Monday 2 February and football's transfer window THU closes in eighteen hours. Danny Provisor is a football agent THU negotiating a last-ditch deal to bring Serbian prospect THU Slavko Ilich to the UK, but a call to his girlfriend Frankie THU reveals that Slavko hasn't returned home from a night out. THU Fending off phone calls from suspicious reporters and an THU increasingly irate Chief Executive, Danny searches for THU Slavko knowing that this deal will not only rescue his THU career, but also provide security for his family. With BBC THU Radio 5Live counting down the hours the pressure begins to THU build, and the deal and Danny's world start to collapse. THU THU Producer: Toby Field. THU THU Credits THU Danny Provisor: David Schofield THU Jonathan Provisor: Daniel Abelson THU Keith: Daniel Abelson THU Frankie: Rachel Austin THU Samira: Rachel Austin THU Steve Lucas: Simon Armstrong THU Graham Parsons: Simon Armstrong THU Barman: Simon Armstrong THU Peter Gray: Chris Donnelly THU Mr Agnihotri: Chris Donnelly THU Lewis: David Hounslow THU Stanislav Illich: Velibor Topic THU Slavko Illich: Mirza Koluder THU As Himself: Ian Dennis THU Writer: Nick Perry THU Producer: Toby Field THU THU 15:00 Open Country b051vr34 (Listen) THU Tump 53 THU THU Helen Mark visits Tump 53 - a family friendly nature reserve THU built on the history of a 20th century artillery that was THU once known as 'The Secret City'. This Royal Arsenal was 3 THU miles long, 1 mile wide covering 1,300 acres employing THU 100,000 people at it's peak. Today Tump 53 - a former THU munitions storage site within the arsenal - has been THU reclaimed for nature. THU THU People's love of the Tump was recognised in 2014 when voters THU chose the Tump to receive £50,000 in The Big Lottery Fund's THU The People's Millions awards. London Wildlife Trust has been THU working in partnership with Gallions Peabody Group, Trust THU Thamesmead and the local community to manage the site's THU habitats and run family friendly wildlife activities to THU reconnect with nature. THU THU It now contains mixed woodland, a glade, a pond, and is THU surrounded by a reed-fringed moat. Over 60 bird species have THU been spotted at this unique site, including kingfisher, THU willow warbler and redpoll but traces of it's military THU history still intrigue locals to this day. THU THU Helen Mark explores the site with Volunteering Support THU Officer Jane Clark and industrial archaeology enthusiast Ian THU Bull before heading off to Crossness Pumping Station which THU is currently home to a special part of the Arsenal's last THU remaining narrow gauge railway. Helen also joins former THU Arsenal workers Ray Fordham and Peter Martin at The THU Greenwich Heritage Centre as they share their personal THU memories of working on site before heading back to the THU reserve to join the children of Windrush Primary School who THU now use the former ammunitions site as a very special out THU door classroom. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b051r7hp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b051r8p6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b051vr36 (Listen) THU The latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b051vr38 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU Producer: Adrian Washbourne. THU THU 17:00 PM b051vr3b (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b051r633 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Britain Versus the World b04vf6rp (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 2 THU THU Episode Two: THU THU The second episode of the new comedy panel show - Britain THU Versus The World - that pits two British comedians against a THU team of comics from overseas to find out which side is THU superior. Joining the British captain, Hal Cruttenden, is THU the Mancunian comedian Justin Moorhouse while the captain of THU the Rest of the World - Henning Wehn - is teamed with Danish THU stand-up Sofie Hagen. The contest is overseen by Irishman Ed THU Byrne who does his very best to stay impartial. THU THU Host THU Ed Byrne THU THU Guests THU Hal Cruttenden THU Henning Wehn THU Justin Moorhouse THU Sofie Hagen THU THU Programme Associate Bill Matthews THU THU Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Ed Byrne THU Panellist: Hal Cruttenden THU Panellist: Justin Moorhouse THU Panellist: Henning Wehn THU Panellist: Sofie Hagen THU Producer: Ashley Blaker THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0512j9s (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b051vvgr (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b051vlpk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b051s2bt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b051vvgt (Listen) THU Gold THU THU It's soft, shiny and rare. A symbol of love, of power, of THU wealth - gold has been prized for thousands of years, its THU value rises and falls as the economies round it fluctuate. THU Yet there's only a limited supply of it and demand is high: THU for jewellery, technology, by central banks and investors. THU But after more than a decade of rising prices, the value of THU gold is down. So how to make money from this precious metal? THU Evan Davis and guests follow its journey from the gold mines THU of west Africa to the workshops of an east London jewellery THU maker. What are the risks, responsibilities and rewards for THU those who mine it, invest in it and manufacture with it? THU THU Guests: THU THU Nolan Watson, CEO, Sandstorm Gold THU THU Mark Bristow, CEO, Randgold Resources THU THU Elizabeth Hunt, Director, Allied Gold THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b051vr38 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b051vlpf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b051vvgw (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b051vvgy (Listen) THU The Illuminations, Episode 9 THU THU by Andrew O'Hagan THU THU Anne is on the road to Blackpool with her grandson Luke, who THU is determined to piece together the fragments of his gran's THU past. THU THU Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a THU forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in THU sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned THU retrospective stirs long-buried memories and leads her THU grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which has THU defined three generations. THU THU Abridged by Sian Preece THU Reader: Maureen Beattie THU Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Maureen Beattie THU Abridger: Sian Preece THU Author: Andrew O'Hagan THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie THU THU 23:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01m16pr (Listen) THU Series 2, Lessington THU THU by Bill Dare THU THU Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel THU documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit THU after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre THU adventures. This week, he relives his experiences in THU Lessington where ignorance reigns. THU THU Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson THU Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale THU Sharol ..... Jo Bobin THU Cop ..... Fergus Craig THU Cop ..... Colin Hoult THU Guide ..... Patrick Brennan THU Wife ..... Christine Absalom THU Barman ..... Harry Livingstone THU Robber ..... Sam Alexander THU THU Producer ..... Steven Canny THU THU This is the second series of this satirical adventure story THU from Bill Dare. The series has attracted an excellent cast THU led by Neil Pearson and including, Duncan Wisby, Vicki THU Pepperdine, Lisa Dillon, Colin Hoult, Toby Longworth, Adrian THU Scarborough, Dan Tetsell, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Debra THU Stephenson, Colin Hoult, Nina Conti, Jo Bobin and Marcus THU Brigstocke. THU THU For years Bill Dare wanted to create a satire about THU different worlds exploring Kipling's idea that we travel, THU 'not just to explore civilizations, but to better understand THU our own'. But science fiction and space ships never THU interested him, so he put the idea on ice. Then Brian THU Gulliver arrived and meant that our hero could be lost in a THU fictional world without the need for any sci-fi. THU THU Gulliver's Travels is the only book Bill Dare read at THU university. His father, Peter Jones, narrated a similarly THU peripatetic radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the THU Galaxy. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b051vvh0 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b051r641 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Letters from Europe b05289wf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b051r643 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b051r645 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b051r647 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b051r649 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b052msgf (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Richard Littledale. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b051vywx (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0vqb (Listen) FRI Chowchilla FRI FRI Michael Palin presents the secretive chowchilla from FRI Queensland, Australia. The chowchilla gets its name from its FRI song, which is one of the most distinctive sounds of the FRI coastal rainforest of north-east Queensland. You're not FRI likely to see the bird though because it spends its time FRI skulking on the forest floor. Chowchillas belong to the FRI family known as logrunners because they feed and nest on or FRI near ground-level. They're stout thrush-like birds; the FRI males are dark brown with a white chest and throat, whilst FRI the female's throat is rusty-orange. FRI FRI Chowchillas have been found to sing with different dialects FRI in different areas. Within say, 50 hectares, all the family FRI groups of pairs and non-breeding younger birds may share the FRI same dialect. But in an adjacent area, the families may FRI assemble some of their song components slightly differently. FRI Over time, their song culture could change and a new dialect FRI would be born. FRI FRI Chowchilla (Orthonyx spaldingii) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Tim Laman / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01239484 FRI © Tim Laman / naturepl.com. FRI FRI Recording of chowchilla by Mark B Robbins / Ref: ML 77590 FRI FRI This programme contains a FRI wildtrack recording of the chowchilla FRI kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab FRI of Ornithology; recorded by Mark B Robbins on 6 Jan 1991; in FRI Topaz, 10.0 km SE of Malanda, Queensland, Australia. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b051vywz (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 b051r7hy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Letters from Europe b05289wh (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Personal reflections on the challenges facing Europe after FRI events in France and elsewhere. FRI FRI Producer Julia Johnson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Producer: Julia Johnson FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b051vyx1 (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 b051vyx3 (Listen) FRI 44 Scotland Street: The Blue Spode Tea Cup, Episode 5 FRI FRI 44 Scotland Street: The Blue Spode Tea Cup FRI by Alexander McCall Smith FRI FRI Angus is summoned to the Police Station and fears the worst, FRI while for Domenica sorry seems to be the hardest word. FRI FRI Edinburgh's Georgian New Town is the setting for the quirky FRI tales and 'goings-on' of Alexander McCall Smith's much loved FRI characters that have made his bestselling series of books, FRI 44 Scotland Street, so popular worldwide. FRI FRI Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, is a frequent visitor to FRI Domenica Macdonald, the anthropologist and longest-term FRI resident of 44 Scotland Street. Will their friendship FRI blossom and will she ever let his dog Cyril into her flat? FRI Domenica's thoughts are elsewhere, sensing trouble with the FRI return of her neighbour Antonia who has been living in FRI Glasgow of all places! Is Domenica's 'property' safe with FRI Antonia back in town? Meanwhile in the flat below lives FRI Bertie, aged six, a prodigy and victim of his excessively FRI pushy mother, Irene. Bertie wants the life of an ordinary FRI six-year-old boy, but instead he has psychotherapy, yoga and FRI Italian conversation lessons. He also wants to know why his FRI new baby brother, Ulysses, looks remarkably like his FRI psychotherapist, Dr Fairbairn. FRI FRI Alexander McCall Smith dramatises stories from his FRI bestselling series, 44 Scotland Street, which continues to FRI delight readers around the world. The series introduces FRI young actor Simon Kerr in his first role as six year-old FRI Bertie! FRI FRI Producer/director: David Ian Neville. FRI FRI Credits FRI Domenica: Carol Ann Crawford FRI Angus Lordie: Crawford Logan FRI Stuart: David Jackson Young FRI Antonia: Anita Vettesse FRI Big Lou: Anita Vettesse FRI Bertie: Simon Kerr FRI Author: Alexander McCall Smith FRI Adaptor: Alexander McCall Smith FRI Director: David Neville FRI Producer: David Neville FRI FRI 11:00 Entitlement to Care b051vyx5 (Listen) FRI Meeting the medical needs of asylum seekers makes for heated FRI political discussion, but in many parts of the country GP's FRI quietly get on with the job: we join Bradford GP Dr Alistair FRI Bavington at his Girlington Surgery. FRI FRI Dr Bavington sees at first hand the struggles of those newly FRI arrived to this country and the part health plays in the FRI process as they gradually assimilate. He was born in FRI Pakistan and has helped several waves of immigrants arriving FRI in the city, starting with those from the Mirpur region of FRI the country and more recently the large numbers coming from FRI Eastern Europe. With such vastly different experiences of FRI healthcare in their home countries there's a lot to be done FRI in terms of teaching them how and when to access the NHS. FRI FRI Stepping away from the national debate over whether and what FRI GP's should be charging foreigners, Dr Bavington explores FRI the experiences of his patients. Starting with the basics of FRI how you educate those with no real experience of free health FRI care about how and when should they access the surgery? It FRI takes time to sort out existing conditions and get them on FRI the right treatment programmes. And this takes place against FRI a backdrop of language barriers and when social issues, like FRI poor housing and isolation, come into play. FRI FRI 11:30 Valentine's Day b01qhdjz (Listen) FRI Following on from his very successful John Peel's shed, here FRI is another beautiful story of every day life from the very FRI talented John Osbourne. FRI A young man starts turning out his junk and comes across a FRI box of memories he has saved, letters, birthday and FRI Valentine's cards he has received over the years, tickets FRI for gigs he's been to. And through these we come to FRI understand the recent events in his life. FRI Some are from an ex girlfriend. His first love (played by FRI Isy Suttie) - they were together when they were teenagers. FRI Others are from his mum (played by Suki Webster.) She FRI worries about him. She means well and is trying to make him FRI feel better but it makes him feel worse. John will tell this FRI story in front of an audience in the Radio Theatre. FRI There are also postcards from his Gran (Ann Beach) mainly FRI moaning about her various seaside trips. FRI This is recorded in the Radio Theatre in front of an FRI audience. FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b051r64c (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b051w060 (Listen) FRI 13 February 1915 - Fraser Chadwick FRI FRI A budding local reporter can't believe his luck. FRI FRI Written by: Shaun McKenna FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Female Speaker: Elaine Claxton FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell FRI Official: Shaun Prendergast FRI Speaker 1: Kris Deedigan FRI Speaker 2: Mark Stobbart FRI Yevgeny Zamyatin: Simon Scardifield FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b051w062 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b051r64f (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b051w064 (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 An Image of Sound b051w066 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Saturday] FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0512j9s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b051w2zx (Listen) FRI How Did I Get Here? FRI FRI by Jonathan Myerson FRI FRI Rebecca looks after her kids, and her Dad. But Dad isn't how FRI he used to be. Multi-infarct dementia has made him confused, FRI and forgetful of people and his past. FRI FRI Rebecca misses her Dad. She longs to talk to him, and to ask FRI him questions. FRI FRI But what if she could have him back? Just the way he always FRI was? FRI FRI Has she remembered him right? FRI FRI Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dad: Joseph Millson FRI Granddad: Benjamin Whitrow FRI Rebecca: Raquel Cassidy FRI Murray: Ewan Bailey FRI Tanya: Rosie Wyatt FRI Daniel aka Reggie: Adam Thomas Wright FRI Gazmend: Paul Heath FRI Director: Jonquil Panting FRI Producer: Jonquil Panting FRI Writer: Jonathan Myerson FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b051w2zz (Listen) FRI Baslow, Derbyshire FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from FRI Baslow, Derbyshire. Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Anne FRI Swithinbank answer questions from local gardeners. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton. FRI FRI 15:45 Shorts b051w301 (Listen) FRI Scottish Shorts, Red Bus 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 sworn off relationships after a series of romantic FRI disappointments finds her resolve tested to the limit. FRI Morven Christie reads a witty, contemporary tale which shows FRI inspiration can come from the most unlikely quarter. FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI Vicki Jarrett is a writer from Edinburgh. Her debut novel FRI 'Nothing Is Heavy' was shortlisted for the Saltire Society FRI Scottish First Book award. Her first collection of short FRI stories, 'The Way Out', is published by Freight later this FRI year. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Morven Christie FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI Writer: Vicki Jarrett FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b051w4dk (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b051w4dm (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04fzblf (Listen) FRI Victor and Finola - The Key of Heaven FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation in which 63 year old FRI Victor shares the joy of his new life, now he's learned to FRI read and write, with the mentor who handed him the key, FRI proving once again that it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. 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 b051w4dr (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b051r64h (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b051w4dt (Listen) FRI Series 45, Episode 6 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 b051w4dw (Listen) FRI Ambridge remembers the 1940s. It is Valentine's Day. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee 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 Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Rhiannon Jones: Jade Matthew FRI Vince Murphy: Stephen Critchlow FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b051w4dy (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b051vyx3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b051w4f0 (Listen) FRI Sir Ming Campbell MP, Harriet Harman MP, Alex Salmond MSP, FRI Anna Soubry MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Broadcasting House Radio Theatre in London with Sir FRI Ming Campbell MP the former Leader of the Liberal Democrats, FRI Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman MP, former FRI Leader of the Scottish National Party Alex Salmond MSP and FRI Defence Minister Anna Soubry MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b051w4f2 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b051w4f4 (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 9-13 February 1915 FRI FRI The Mayor of Tynemouth honours the first local soldier to be FRI awarded a V.C and Edie shares the town's excitement. FRI FRI Written by Shaun McKenna FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Maud Burnett: Carolyn Pickles FRI Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Frederick Dobson: Ben Fiske FRI Fannon: Shaun Prendergast FRI Mayor Gregg: Joe Caffrey FRI Mr Hims: Gerard McDermott FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell FRI Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley FRI Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell FRI Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones FRI Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham FRI Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron FRI Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips FRI Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan FRI Ada Stokoe: Hannah Genesius FRI Pearl Thornton: Sophie Scott FRI Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Yevgeny Zamyatin: Simon Scardifield FRI Loudhailer Man: Kris Deedigan FRI Female Speaker: Elaine Claxton FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI Producer: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b051r64k (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b051w4f6 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b051w4f8 (Listen) FRI The Illuminations, Episode 10 FRI FRI by Andrew O'Hagan FRI FRI Luke has left the army for good and travelled to Blackpool FRI with Anne to locate her lost archive, along the way FRI uncovering the tragedy which led to her giving up FRI photography. FRI FRI Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a FRI forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in FRI sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned FRI retrospective stirs long-buried memories and leads her FRI grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which has FRI defined three generations. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Maureen Beattie FRI Author: Andrew O'Hagan FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b051s2bw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b051w4fb (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04bryc6 (Listen) FRI Iby and Carolyn - A Survivor's Secret FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between Iby, who FRI survived the Holocaust but kept her secret for forty years, FRI and the friend to whom she first revealed that she'd spent FRI time in Auschwitz; nearly thirty years on Carolyn asks her FRI why she waited so long to share her past. 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 upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
06 February, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 07/02/2015 - 13/02/2015
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