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SAT SATURDAY 05 SEPTEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b067vwzh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06810pl (Listen) SAT Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads, Episode 5 SAT SAT Paul Theroux's account of his car journeys across America's SAT southern states SAT is timely, and abridged for radio by Katrin Williams: SAT SAT 5. He takes to the backroads of Georgia and Alabama, which SAT smell of sun-heated tar. SAT The fields are full of cotton and the big rivers beckon.. SAT SAT Reader Henry Goodman SAT SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Henry Goodman SAT Author: Paul Theroux SAT Abridger: Katrin Williams SAT Producer: Duncan Minshull SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b067vwzk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b067vwzm (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b067vwzp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b067vwzr (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b068132l (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Claire SAT Campbell Smith. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b068132n (Listen) SAT 'I have an empty seat at my kitchen table' SAT SAT 'I have an empty seat at my kitchen table'. When adoption SAT doesn't work as you hope. Presented by Eddie Mair and SAT Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b067vwzt (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b067vwzw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b0680s8m (Listen) SAT The Peak District SAT SAT Helen Mark is in the Peak District to meet Mountain Rescue SAT Team who keep visitors safe should they come a cropper when SAT enjoying the rugged countryside. SAT SAT The Peak District is one of the most popular destinations in SAT the world as over half the UK's population lives within an SAT hour of the area. Helen takes to two wheels to discover the SAT network of traffic-free cycle tracks, before meeting the SAT Buxton Mountain Rescue team on one of their exercises. The SAT summer is one of their busiest of times and they regularly SAT train so that they are ready for any situation that they are SAT faced with. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b068lslt (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: China SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b067vx02 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b068lslw (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b068lsnd (Listen) SAT Will Young and Deborah Meaden SAT SAT Will Young came to prominence as the first ever winner of SAT Pop Idol. He's since had four number one UK albums and sold SAT 10 million records. He joins Richard and Suzy to talk SAT success, self-doubt and Simon Cowell. SAT SAT Destined to be a successful entrepreneur from a young age, SAT Deborah Meaden has been an investor on BBC 2's Dragons' Den SAT for the last decade. She discuss's straight talking, picking SAT winners and her passion for all things equine. SAT SAT Also joining us is Kenton Cool, one of the world's leading SAT high-altitude climbers. He has summited Mount Everest eleven SAT times - more than any other Briton. In 1996 he shattered SAT both heel bones and was told he would never walk properly SAT again. He defied all expectations and now has the best SAT success rate of any Everest guide with 80% of his clients SAT making it to the top. SAT SAT 10 years ago Hannah Whittam starred in a documentary about SAT Great Ormond Street Hospital called 'Will I Still Love Mum' SAT as she waited for a heart and lung transplant. She was in a SAT wheelchair with 24-hour oxygen, fighting to stay alive. She SAT originally refused a transplant, but now, age 21 and SAT achieving things she never dreamed of, says she will never SAT be able to put into words how her life changed thanks to her SAT donor. SAT SAT Former Olympic hurdler Colin Jackson shares his Inheritance SAT Tracks and we visit listener Clive Parker's allotment - on SAT the site of what once was the largest coke works in Britain. SAT SAT Then, 35 years ago Saturday Live listener Harry Gill rescued SAT a young boy from the River Brit in Hampshire. Every time he SAT hears the Saturday Live 'thank you' slot he is reminded of SAT what happened and wanted to tell us about it. SAT SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Will Young SAT Interviewed Guest: Deborah Meaden SAT Interviewed Guest: Kenton Cool SAT Interviewed Guest: Hannah Whittam SAT Interviewed Guest: Colin Jackson SAT Interviewed Guest: Clive Parker SAT Interviewed Guest: Harry Gill SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b068lsnl (Listen) SAT Series 11, Rochester SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show from Rochester. SAT SAT He's joined by food historian Dr Annie Gray, Glaswegian chef SAT with a taste for Catalonian cuisine Rachel McCormack, SAT restaurateur and school food tsar Henry Dimbleby, and the SAT Indian cuisine expert Meera Sodha. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT Producer: Darby Dorras SAT Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b068lsp5 (Listen) SAT Shells SAT SAT Mankind has long been attracted to beautiful shells, but SAT what are the many other secrets that link them to our human SAT fate? Bridget Kendall asks the marine scientist Anne Cohen, SAT the archaeologist Josephine Joordens and the cultural SAT historian Toby Green to share their thoughts.(Photo: A man SAT holds a conch shell. Credit: AFP/Getty Images). SAT SAT Anne Cohen SAT SAT Anne Cohen is a South African marine scientist based at SAT Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts. Her SAT research focuses on the impact of ocean acidification on SAT shells, and how the added CO2 has affected shells ability to SAT calcify and therefore develop to adulthood. She says the SAT problem has become so severe on the West coast of the US SAT that they have already moved many oyster hatcheries to SAT Hawaii. She is also looking at how food supplies could help SAT molluscs counter the effects of ocean acidification. SAT SAT Josephine Joordens SAT SAT Dr Josephine Joordens is a Dutch archaeologist from the SAT University of Leiden in the Netherlands whose studies of SAT shell remains have revealed surprising new evidence about SAT human evolution, especially early Homo. Much of her research SAT is based in Indonesia and Kenya, and as well as discovering SAT what kind of shells these early humans ate and how it SAT affected their brain size and development, her team has also SAT found one of the earliest forms of abstract art engraved on SAT a shell. Josephine argues that while much research on early SAT humans has focused on stone cultures, the importance of SAT shells in our evolution has been underestimated. SAT SAT Toby Green SAT SAT Dr Toby Green is a British author and travel writer, and SAT lecturer in Lusophone African History and Culture at Kings SAT College London. He will be sharing with us his latest SAT research on shells in pre-colonial West Africa, which were a SAT major form of currency from as early as the 14th century. SAT Toby explains how the Portuguese took advantage of the shell SAT currency to cause hyper-inflation, and how the use of this SAT currency was then responsible for the economic SAT under-development of many African countries. His forthcoming SAT book is – due to be published in 2017 is A Fistful of SAT Shells: West Africans and Their Kingdoms during the slave SAT trade era. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b067vx0h (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b067vx0k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b068lsp7 (Listen) SAT Phone fraud: the woman conned out of her £12,000 savings SAT SAT We've all heard stories of people losing huge sums to phone SAT or online fraudsters. But we rarely get to hear the conmen SAT in action. But Money Box has been given recordings by SAT Nargess Sadjady of how she was tricked out of her £12,000 SAT savings by scammers pretending to be from Santander Bank. SAT They used sophisticated software to generate a phone number SAT that appeared to be the same as the number on the back of SAT her bankcard. Fearful that her savings were at risk, she was SAT persuaded to move her money to an account controlled by the SAT conmen. Listen in to hear how the fraudsters operate in SAT trying to trick us. Joe Lynam reports. And Ed Wallace, SAT director of MWR Infosecurity explains why the banks find it SAT difficult to stop such crimes. SAT SAT It is now illegal to make a single cash payment in France SAT for more than €1000 - around £730. And if you have more than SAT €10,000 going into or out of your bank account in a month, SAT you will be reported to the trafficking and money laundering SAT fraud agency TracFin. This latest clampdown on France is SAT less to do with terrorism and more to do with the fears of SAT the French government that the cash economy is costing it SAT billions in tax that should be paid. Brigitte Granville, SAT Professor of International Economics at Queen Mary College SAT London, explains the issue. SAT SAT It's five months since the start of pensions freedom, giving SAT people over the age of 55 more control over how they access SAT their retirement savings. A worrying picture is emerging of SAT how thousands of people who've drawn money down from their SAT pot or bought an annuity have done so without shopping SAT around or taking formal advice. They are unlikely to be SAT getting the best deal for themselves. And they could face a SAT big tax charge. IFA Mark Meldon from Meldon and Co speaks to SAT the programme. SAT ActionFraud SAT Financial Ombudsman - Vishing Report 2015 SAT Age UK - Scams Advice SAT TPS: Telephone Preference Service SAT SAT SAT The Telegraph - Franch to abolish large cash transactions SAT European Consumer Centre: Cash Payment Limitations - France SAT SAT SAT Gov.UK Pension Wise SAT The Pensions Advisory Service SAT ABI: Association of British Insurers SAT MoneySavingExport.com - Pension Freedom SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b06811fb (Listen) SAT Series 15, Episode 4 SAT SAT A satirical take on politics, media and celebrity. SAT SAT Featuring Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson, Jan Ravens, Lewis SAT MacLeod and Duncan Wisbey. SAT SAT Produced by Bill Dare. SAT SAT Credits SAT Performer: Jon Culshaw SAT Performer: Debra Stephenson SAT Performer: Jan Ravens SAT Performer: Lewis Macleod SAT Performer: Duncan Wisbey SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b067vx0m (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b067vx0p (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06811fh (Listen) SAT Amanda Foreman, Nick Gibb MP, Alan Johnson MP, Ken SAT Livingstone SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Dorford Centre in Dorchester with a panel including SAT the historian and author Amanda Foreman, education minister SAT Nick Gibb MP, Labour MP Alan Johnson and the former mayor of SAT London, Ken Livingstone. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b068lspr (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Dangerous Visions b046j2jc (Listen) SAT The Illustrated Man SAT SAT Iain Glen is the Illustrated Man in a dramatisation by Brian SAT Sibley of Ray Bradbury's iconic short story collection. SAT SAT A young traveller encounters a vagrant on the road who SAT claims his tattoos come to life after dark and have the SAT powers of prophecy. SAT SAT The vagrant offers his young travelling companion SAT tantalising glimpses into the future with tales of restless SAT androids, children caught up in a sinister game and SAT astronauts stranded in outer space which all hint at dark SAT and troubling times ahead. SAT SAT The Illustrated Man.....Iain Glen SAT The Youth.....Jamie Parker SAT The Tattoo Witch.....Elaine Claxton SAT The Driver.....Wilf Scolding SAT Brayling/Brayling 2.....Patrick Kennedy SAT Smith.....Stephen Hogan SAT Mink....Nell Herrin SAT Mother....Heather Craney SAT Father....Clive Hayward SAT Anna....Lucy Hutchinson SAT Hollis....Alec Newman SAT Applegate....John P. Arnold SAT Stone....Jaimi Barbakoff SAT Stimson....Craige Els SAT SAT Directed by Gemma Jenkins SAT SAT Production Co-ordinator: Philippa Tilbury SAT Studio Managers: Anne Bunting, Peter Ringrose, Alison Craig. SAT SAT First published in the UK in 1952, it's the startling SAT framing device of a man whose tattoos predict the future of SAT humankind which signals Bradbury's collection out as one of SAT the defining works of 20th century Science Fiction. SAT SAT The award-winning radio dramatist, Brian Sibley's other SAT credits include dramatisations of TH White's The Once and SAT Future King, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels and The Lord SAT of The Rings trilogy. SAT SAT Credits SAT The Illustrated Man: Iain Glen SAT The Youth: Jamie Parker SAT The Tattoo Witch: Elaine Claxton SAT The Driver: Wilf Scolding SAT Brayling: Patrick Kennedy SAT Brayling 2: Patrick Kennedy SAT Smith: Stephen Hogan SAT Mink: Nell Herrin SAT Mother: Heather Craney SAT Father: Clive Hayward SAT Anna: Lucy Hutchinson SAT Hollis: Alec Newman SAT Applegate: John P Arnold SAT Stone: Jaimi Barbakoff SAT Stimson: Craige Els SAT Director: Gemma Jenkins SAT Adaptor: Brian Sibley SAT Author: Ray Bradbury SAT SAT 15:30 Space: The Vinyl Frontier b067x151 (Listen) SAT A spoken word concept album linking space and music. SAT SAT Track 1: Carl Sagan on The Voyager Gold Disc. SAT In 1977 the Voyager space probes set off on their journey SAT across the Solar System. On board are gold discs with the SAT music of planet Earth in the hope that they are one day SAT intercepted by alien life. SAT SAT Track 2: Peter Pesic on the Music of the Spheres SAT The ancient Greeks first found a connection between maths, SAT music and the movement of the planets. The idea was SAT developed in the 17th century by Johannes Kepler into the SAT Music of the Spheres. SAT SAT Track 3: Lydia Kavina on the music of the Theremin and the SAT space-age pop of Vyacheslav Mescherin's Orchestra of SAT Electronic Instruments. SAT SAT Track 4: Space and Race, the music of Afro-Futurism by Ken SAT McLeod. SAT Although many exponents of space-related pop music are white SAT Anglo-American artists, some of the most vibrant uses occur SAT within the realm of Afro-Futurism with artists such as Sun SAT Ra and George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic. SAT SAT Track 5: The Race for Space - Public Service Broadcasting SAT J Willgoose Esq., one half of Public Service Broadcasting, SAT talks about the band's latest and critically acclaimed SAT album, The Race for Space, which uses archive recordings to SAT chart the American-Russian space race. SAT SAT Space: The Vinyl Frontier is voiced by Tom Bevan, Ben Crowe SAT and Ben Onwukwe. SAT The linking drama Space Oddity was written by Danny Westgate SAT SAT The interview with Carl Sagan was first broadcast in 1983 as SAT part of the programme Music From A Small Planet produced for SAT BBC Scotland by Martin Goldman and R. Carey Taylor. SAT SAT New music and sound design by Nick Romero SAT SAT Produced by Julian Mayers SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b068lssw (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Sona Jobarteh, Redheads, Retirement SAT SAT Three women senior police officers reflect on their careers SAT and describe what it's like to work in policing today. SAT As the new school term begins we discuss pros and cons of SAT staggered starts for four and five year olds. SAT How do women and men use their appearance to fit in with SAT different social groups and situations? SAT Forty-five years ago the author Miriam Moss was a fifteen SAT year old girl who was a passenger on a flight from Bahrain SAT to London which was hijacked by the popular Front for the SAT Liberation of Palestine. She describes what happened to her SAT and why she's decided to write about it now. SAT Women retiring now are some of the first to have worked at a SAT career for their whole life, so what is retiring like for SAT them and how should it be dealt with? SAT We look at the history of red hair which spans centuries and SAT continents and why red hair has attracted prejudice as well SAT as admiration. SAT And we have music from West Africa, Sona Jobarteh plays the SAT Kora. SAT SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Miriam Moss SAT Performer: Sona Jobarteh SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b068lssy (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b068132n (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b067vx0r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b067vx0t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b067vx0w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b068lst0 (Listen) SAT Sara Cox, Nikki Bedi, Noel Fielding, Rick Stein, Bobby SAT Friction, Rebecca Root, Georgia, Nerina Pallot SAT SAT Sara Cox and Nikki Bedi are joined in studio by Noel SAT Fielding, Rick Stein, Bobby Friction and Rebecca Root for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from Georgia and Nerina Pallot. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Noel Fielding SAT 'AAAAAAAAH!' is showing at End of the Road Festival from 4th SAT to 6th September and Mayhem, Nottingham from 15th to 18th SAT October. ‘An Evening with Noel Fielding’ is in Aylesbury on SAT 12th November and continues until the 13th December in SAT Brighton. SAT SAT Rick Stein SAT SAT 'From Venice to Istanbul – Discovering the flavours of the SAT Eastern Mediterranean' is published by BBC Books and SAT available now. The accompanying series is on BBC Two on SAT Friday 11th September. SAT SAT SAT Rebecca Root SAT ‘Boy Meets Girl’ continues on BBC TWO next Thursday at SAT 9:30pm – you can catch the first episode on iplayer. SAT SAT Bobby Friction SAT Bobby Friction’s show is on Asian Network from 5:30pm until SAT 9pm on Thursday 10th September with a special live simulcast SAT on BBC Radio 2 from 8-9pm when Bobby is joined by Jo Whiley SAT to celebrate the BBC’s India season. SAT SAT Georgia SAT ‘Georgia’ is out now on Domino Records. SAT SAT Georgia is playing at St Helens Central Library on Friday SAT 18th September and Corsica Studios, London on Wednesday 7th SAT October. SAT SAT Nerina Pallott SAT 'The Sound and the Fury' SAT SAT is available on September 11th on Idaho Records. Nerina is SAT playing at London's Scala on Thursday 17th September. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sara Cox SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: Noel Fielding SAT Interviewed Guest: Rick Stein SAT Interviewed Guest: Bobby Friction SAT Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Root SAT Performer: Georgia SAT Performer: Nerina Pallot SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b068lst2 (Listen) SAT Michel Houellebecq SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b068lst4 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Franzen, People, Places and Things, Me and Earl and SAT the Dying Girl, Lady Chatterley, Dulwich Picture Gallery SAT SAT Jonathan Franzen's latest novel Purity deals with the SAT intrusiveness of the internet and social media though a SAT mysterious family history and hacking and whistleblowing. SAT People Places and Things at The Dorfman Theatre is Duncan SAT Macmillan's latest play, dealing with addiction, recovery SAT and an individual's identity SAT Me and Earl and The Dying Girl, is a film which sort-of SAT delivers what the title says. It's a teenage cancer weepy, SAT but does it have anything new to say or a new way of saying SAT it? SAT Lady Chatterley returns to the small screen in a new BBC SAT adaptation. Modern sensibilities are less likely to be SAT offended by some aspects than others. Should we let wives SAT and servants watch this version? SAT We visit Dulwich Picture Gallery's permanent collection - SAT the world's first purpose-built public art gallery founded SAT in 1811. SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Meg Rosoff, David Olusoga and SAT Stephanie Merritt. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Meg Rosoff SAT Interviewed Guest: David Olusoga SAT Interviewed Guest: Stephanie Merritt SAT Presenter: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b068lst6 (Listen) SAT The Power of Political Forgetting SAT SAT When a major crisis from the past slips from public memory, SAT does this open up possibilities for current politicians? SAT David Aaronovitch finds out, drawing on archive recordings, SAT a panel of historians and political experts and an audience. SAT SAT How does public memory shape political policy? Margaret SAT Thatcher was the first post-war Prime Minister who did not SAT spend the Second World War in either Parliament or the Armed SAT Forces, and she was the first with no memory of the General SAT Strike. She did not share Heath, Wilson and Callaghan's SAT terror of mass unemployment, and she had no experience of SAT cross-class male bonding in uniform. And by 1979, when she SAT arrived in Downing Street, many people who remembered the SAT Depression had died, while many more far too young to SAT remember it became voters. So did this liberate her to SAT pursue ideas for which her predecessors had little appetite? SAT SAT And 70 years after the celebrations for VE Day and VJ Day, SAT how has our collective attitude towards the war changed, as SAT the generation who fought and survived gradually disappears? SAT And does this have political implications now? SAT SAT To consider the power of political forgetting, David SAT Aaronovitch is joined by historian Juliet Gardiner, whose SAT books include The Thirties: An Intimate History, Andy SAT Beckett, author of When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the SAT Seventies, and columnist Daniel Finkelstein. David also SAT draws on the views and memories of an audience drawn from SAT different generations, with ages ranging from 20 to 80 and SAT beyond. SAT SAT Producer Phil Tinline. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b067xccp (Listen) SAT Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea, Episode 2 SAT SAT Jeremy Irons stars Iris Murdoch's 1978 Booker prize winning SAT novel, dramatised by Robin Brooks - as part of the Iris SAT Murdoch season on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Episode 2 (of 2): SAT Charles Arrowby, a distinguished theatre director, has SAT retired to a remote house by the sea. After encountering his SAT adolescent love, he sets out on a mission to reclaim her SAT and, in so doing, redeem the misdemeanours of his past. But SAT a young man appears with a mission of his own. SAT SAT Sound Design: Wilfredo Acosta SAT Producer: Fiona McAlpine SAT Director: Bill Alexander SAT SAT An Allegra production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Charles Arrowby: Jeremy Irons SAT Gilbert Opian: Anthony Calf SAT Titus Fitch: Matthew Tennyson SAT Hartley Fitch: Maggie Steed SAT Rosina Vamburgh: Sara Kestelman SAT Ben Fitch: David Horovitch SAT James Arrowby: Simon Williams SAT Peregrine Arbelow: Tim McInnerny SAT Lizzie Scherer: Joanna David SAT Arkwright: Nick Underwood SAT Dr Tsang: Nick Underwood SAT Author: Iris Murdoch SAT Adaptor: Robin Brooks SAT Director: Bill Alexander SAT Producer: Fiona McAlpine SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b067vx0y (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 FutureProofing b0680jh6 (Listen) SAT Food SAT SAT Presenters Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson taste some SAT strange foods of the future, as they investigate how SAT technology and a rising global population might transform SAT what we eat. SAT SAT With a predicted two billion extra mouths to feed by 2050 SAT and a rapidly rising obesity problem in many richer SAT countries, the world faces a 21st century food crisis which SAT combines the threats of starvation and ill health from SAT over-eating at the same time. SAT SAT FutureProofing examines possible responses to these twin SAT problems: change in the way food is produced, and change in SAT the way we think about food and its place in our lives, SAT could significantly alter what we eat in the decades to SAT come. Visiting Italy, the programme finds what solutions are SAT on offer at the huge Expo 2015, as countries from across the SAT world present their ideas for the future of food. SAT SAT Producer: Jonathan Brunert. SAT SAT The Future of Food SAT Leo SAT SAT There is a knock on the door. Timandra and I are in the SAT studio, arguing over the Future of Food. It is Sam Francis, SAT the ferociously bright BBC researcher, moving slowly towards SAT me with a white Styrofoam cup. There is something about the SAT way he is carrying this cup. A la urine specimen. Sam SAT places it on the table in front of me and I pull off the SAT lid. Inside the cup, eyeballing me, there is a SAT gruel-coloured liquid with a yellow slick of oil round the SAT rim. I have what in Greek tragedy is called the anagnoresis, SAT the moment of tragic recognition. It is Soylent, the “food SAT substitute” (just stir up the chemical ingredients with some SAT water and there’s your nutrient-rich meal to share with all SAT your friends.). I know what this cup means. For the last ten SAT minutes I have been going through a whole shtick with SAT Timandra about the valuable role technologies like Soylent SAT and in vitro meat (or “Tubesteak”, next time you’re in a SAT restaurant) can play in the future of food; slashing carbon, SAT slashing water use, saving livestock from slaughter, SAT liberating farmers - women especially - from the SAT back-breaking work of agriculture. Now I’ve got to walk the SAT walk. I’ve got to drink it. I man up. Ready Brek, is my SAT first thought. I could do this. By sip three I am flagging. SAT I down the rest in a gulp and look up at the ceiling. Then SAT Sam hands over a second cup. “This one is Queal”, he says. SAT “Just as good.” I wake up at four in the morning, my stomach SAT in a state of unrest, bordering on civil war. And I have a SAT thought. SAT SAT Food, explained the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, is SAT culture. It’s food that reveals our culture’s myths and SAT governing assumptions. After centuries dominated by the task SAT of taming and industrializing nature for our food, maybe a SAT new myth is emerging, a techno-fantasy that we can instead SAT bypass the ecosystem for food, not industrialising nature SAT but synthetically recreating and replacing it. There is only SAT one thing, I realize at four a.m., that this myth doesn’t SAT take into account. We are not the boss. We can maybe bypass SAT the microbes when it comes to making food, but it’s the SAT bugs, 90% of the cells of our body, that call the shots when SAT it comes to tasting it. The stomach, I suddenly see, as the SAT skies lighten, is a democracy - a parliament of microbes SAT that vote on the food proposals of the esophagus. And when SAT they don’t like what’s on offer, it’s the whole body politic SAT that suffers. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b067wb37 (Listen) SAT Series 29, The Final, 2015 SAT SAT (13/13) SAT The three competitors who've beaten off all competition in SAT this year's tournament of the music quiz now face the final SAT hurdle - with one of them destined to be named the 2015 SAT Counterpoint champion. SAT SAT What do the English call the musical note known in French as SAT a 'noire'? What was Elvis Presley's middle name? Which SAT Scottish composer founded the Ayrshire music festival known SAT as the Cumnock Tryst? SAT SAT The calibre of contestants in a Counterpoint Final is so SAT high it's hard to stump them - but the competition will be SAT fierce and every point counts. As usual, they'll all have to SAT pick a musical topic for the specialist round, and in the SAT Final the categories can be especially unpredictable. SAT SAT The winner will take home the coveted Counterpoint trophy, SAT and theirs will become the 29th name on the roll of honour SAT since Counterpoint began in 1986. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT The 2015 Finalists SAT SAT DAN ADLER, an IT consultant from Farnham in Surrey SAT SAT TED BARR, a barrister from Wigston in Leicestershire SAT SAT ALAN FRANKLIN, a retired librarian from Fulham in London. SAT SAT 23:30 Poems from Syria b067xfs8 (Listen) SAT In the last few years, during the conflict in Syria, it SAT seems incredible that there are still writers expressing SAT their experiences through poetry. In this moving programme, SAT news journalist Mike Embley meets and speaks to Syrian SAT poets, writers and academics about how their work has SAT reflected the emotions and humanity in a seemingly SAT impossible situation. Some are in exile while others spend SAT their time helping writers still in Syria to translate their SAT poems and share them with a wider world. There are many who SAT are writing to make sense of the trauma suffered by every SAT Syrian and there are those who've found themselves unable to SAT write. SAT SAT With moving, traumatic, defiant, tragic, sad and SAT (incredibly) sometimes hopeful words, this programme goes SAT right to the human story behind the news headlines. Poems by SAT Mohja Kahf, Ghada al-Atrash, Najat Abdul Samad, Ghias SAT al-Jundi, Ibrahim al-Qashoush, Golan Haji and Aicha Arnaout. SAT Interviews with writers Ghada al-Atrash, Ghias al-Jundi, SAT Golan Haji, Aicha Arnaout and Dr Atef Alshaer. Readings by SAT Frank Stirling and Eve Matheson. SAT SAT Consultant: Dr Atef Alshaer SAT Producer: Laura Parfitt SAT A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 06 SEPTEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b068s1mv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 New American Shorts b02yjbx4 (Listen) SUN Thief SUN SUN A series of recently published stories that reflect on SUN everyday lives across the water. SUN SUN Set in the author's hometown of Spokane this sharply SUN observed story by Jess Walter features a troubled father who SUN frets about being a good parent as he sets a trap to catch a SUN thief. SUN SUN Read by John Schwab SUN Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins SUN SUN Thief is taken from Jess Walter's debut short story SUN collection, We Live In Water. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: John Schwab SUN Producer: Gemma Jenkins SUN Abridger: Gemma Jenkins SUN Author: Jess Walter SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b068s1mz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b068s1n1 (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b068s1n3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b068s1n5 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b068s44c (Listen) SUN Bells from the Parish Church of St Lawrence, Alton, SUN Hampshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b068lst2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b068s1n7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b068s44f (Listen) SUN A Good Argument SUN SUN The word 'argument' can have negative connotations. Yet SUN argument is a mainstay of democratic life. Mark Tully talks SUN to prominent QC Dinah Rose about the importance of legal SUN argument and asks whether arguing is a skill that can be SUN taught. He examines the positive side of disputing an issue, SUN the benefits of debate and the healthy business of enjoying SUN a good argument. Here is argument in all its guises SUN -philosophy with Schopenhauer, politics with Nixon, science SUN with Huxley, poetry with Carl Sandburg and musical argument SUN from battling drums to Leonard Bernstein. SUN SUN The readers are Polly Frame, Peter Marinker and Francis SUN Cadder. SUN SUN Presenter: Mark Tully SUN Producer: Frank Stirling at Unique SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: SUN Wilberforce vx Huxley SUN Author: SUN J.R Lucas SUN Publisher: SUN MacMillan Magazine SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN On Friendship SUN Author: SUN Michele de Montaigne SUN Publisher: SUN Penguin SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN The Great Debate: Kennedy, Nixon and Television in the 1960 SUN Race for the Presidency SUN Author: SUN Liette Gidlow SUN Publisher: SUN The National Post SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN Gospel Mission SUN Author: SUN Charles Spurgeon SUN Publisher: SUN www.spurgeon.org SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN Elephants Are Different To People SUN Author: SUN Carl Sandburg SUN Publisher: SUN Houghton Mifflin Harcourt SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b068s44h (Listen) SUN Honey Harvest SUN SUN Ruth Sanderson visits a bee farm in Northamptonshire to see SUN the honey being harvested. Lara Manton is learning the ropes SUN on her Dad's farm with a view to take on and expand the SUN business one day. SUN SUN Producer: Beatrice Fenton. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b068s1n9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b068s1nc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b068s44k (Listen) SUN The chief rabbi and the cardinal meet the pope, Bonhoeffer SUN and noisy churches SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b068s44m (Listen) SUN Sustrans SUN SUN Nick Crane presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Sustrans SUN Registered Charity No 326550 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Sustrans'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Sustrans'. SUN SUN Sustrans SUN SUN Sustrans enables people across the UK to travel in ways SUN which benefit their health and the environment. With obesity SUN on the rise and vehicles polluting our streets, there is an SUN urgent need to transform the way we travel and create public SUN spaces which are safe for people. SUN By working in schools, workplaces and communities, we give SUN millions of people the skills, knowledge and confidence they SUN need to travel more by bike, on foot and by public SUN transport. We also design and create walking and cycling SUN routes in rural and urban areas to give people a safe SUN journey from their doorsteps. SUN SUN The National Cycle Network: connecting communities SUN SUN In 1995 Sustrans began developing the National Cycle SUN Network, and now nearly five million people use the walking SUN and cycling routes every year. Over the last 20 years, The SUN National Cycle Network has had a huge impact on our health SUN and well-being. SUN *Photo: a cyclist rides over a new bridge in Worcester * SUN (Credit: J Bewley/Sustrans) SUN SUN Giving children a safe journey to school SUN SUN As well as giving thousands of children a safe route to SUN school on the National Cycle Network, Sustrans works with SUN 2,400 schools across the UK to help children to develop SUN healthy travel habits that will last a lifetime. SUN SUN *Photo: a pupil practices steering during a cycle session in SUN the playground* SUN (Credit: J Bewley/Sustrans) SUN SUN Making a difference in the community – Our dedicated SUN volunteers SUN SUN Sustrans relies on the support of 2,500 volunteers to help SUN keep the routes on the National Cycle Network fit for SUN purpose. Sustrans’ volunteers work together to carry out SUN essential maintenance work; they re-sign routes, clear SUN foliage, run community events and host walks and rides to SUN introduce people of all ages and abilities to their local SUN routes. SUN SUN *Photo: a Sustrans volunteer updates a signpost on the SUN National Cycle Network* SUN (Credit: J Bewley/Sustrans) SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b068s1nf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b068s1nh (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b068s44p (Listen) SUN Faith in God's Plan SUN SUN A live service from Albany Road Baptist Church, Cardiff, led SUN by the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner with the staff and students SUN of the South Wales Baptist College. The preacher is the SUN Principal, the Rev. Dr. Peter Stevenson. The Cambrensis SUN Choir is accompanied by Jonathan Davies, and directed by SUN Anne Brown. SUN Producer: Karen Walker. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06811fk (Listen) SUN The Abolition of Man SUN SUN John Gray warns about the dangers of science that attempts SUN to enhance human abilities. He says such knowledge can SUN jeopardize the very things that make us human. SUN SUN More than 70 years after C.S. Lewis wrote "The Abolition of SUN Man", John Gray argues that Lewis' questions are even more SUN relevant today than they were then. "The scientists of SUN Lewis's generation were dissatisfied with existing SUN humankind" he writes. "Using new techniques, they were SUN convinced they could design a much improved version of the SUN species". SUN SUN But Gray says that while the scientific knowledge needed to SUN remould humanity hardly existed then, it is rapidly SUN developing at the present time. SUN SUN He believes that the sciences of bioengineering and SUN artificial intelligence carry serious risks. "If at some SUN unknown point in the future it becomes feasible to remould SUN ourselves according to our dreams" he writes, "the result SUN can only be an impoverishment of the human world". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Gray SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvk7n (Listen) SUN Hoatzin SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Sir David Attenborough presents the South American hoatzin. SUN Moving clumsily through riverside trees the funky Mohican SUN head crested hoatzin looks like it has been assembled by a SUN committee. Hoatzin's eat large quantities of leaves and SUN fruit, and to cope with this diet have a highly specialised SUN digestive system more like that of cattle, which gives them SUN an alternative name, 'stink-bird'. SUN SUN Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com. SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01438627 SUN © Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b068s1nk (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 b068s497 (Listen) SUN Opera Singers ..... Pop-up Opera: Eve Daniell, Helen SUN Stanley, Adam Torrance, Oskar McCarthy, Alex Learmonth, SUN Clementine Lovell, Cliff Zammit Stevens, Una Reynolds. MD: SUN Berrak Dyer. SUN Orchestra ..... Orchestra of the Swan, conducted by David SUN Curtis: Jonathan Hill, Cathy Hamer, Adrian Turner, Bryony SUN James, Stacey Watton, Diane Clark, Louise Braithwaite, Sally SUN Harrop, Phil Brookes, Francesca Moore-Bridger. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN Director: Gwenda Hughes SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b069gvl5 (Listen) SUN Alan Bennett's Talking Heads SUN SUN The alcoholic and Godless wife of a vicar, a SUN curtain-twitching meddler who finds happiness in prison and SUN a timid suburban housewife who falls in love with a SUN murderer. Three of 12 seemingly remarkable yet ordinary SUN characters who made up Alan Bennett's two series of SUN ground-breaking TV monologues. SUN SUN Despite a script for just one voice, each play is peopled SUN with vivid additional characters and dramatic action, so SUN vivid that years later some viewers falsely remember seeing SUN "off-screen" characters. SUN SUN The heartbreaking and hilarious stories were a big hit with SUN TV audiences who saw ordinary folk like them grappling with SUN indignities, dilemmas and disasters. SUN SUN In this edition of The Reunion, Alan Bennett describes who SUN inspired his characters and why he choose the monologue SUN form. SUN SUN Penelope Wilton, who appeared as Rosemary in Nights in the SUN Garden of Spain, explains to Sue MacGregor how it took two SUN days to decipher Bennett's terrible handwriting before she SUN realised that he'd written a Talking Head for her. SUN SUN Tristram Powell directed two episodes and describes his less SUN is more approach allowing the actors, and significantly SUN Bennett's writing, to captivate viewers, rather than slick SUN editing and eye-catching sets. SUN SUN The concept of a monologue was virtually unheard of in SUN television and has rarely been tried since. It was initially SUN met with scepticism by some, including, actress Patricia SUN Routledge who recalls how Bennett patiently waited for her SUN to capitulate. She went on to appear in two episodes. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b068s1nm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b067wf2r (Listen) SUN Series 15, Episode 2 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, Jon Richardson, Susan Calman and David SUN O'Doherty are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Pets, Bacteria, Zombies SUN and Water. 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: Jon Richardson SUN Panellist: Susan Calman SUN Panellist: David O'Doherty SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b068s4qs (Listen) SUN Libera Terra: Sicily's Anti-Mafia Farms SUN SUN Dan Saladino hears how farms confiscated from Sicily's mafia SUN are providing food and wine, helping to fight crime and SUN providing a future for a new generation on the island. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b068s1np (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b068s4qv (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 The Great Songbook b064yjnw (Listen) SUN Spain SUN SUN What makes a song typically Spanish? In a country of SUN autonomous regions and different languages, is there such a SUN thing as a 'Spanish songbook'? Cerys Matthews travels to the SUN capital of Catalonia to meet people who live, breathe and SUN sing some of Spain's complex legacy of popular songs. The SUN discussion ranges from Civil War songs such as 'Ay, Carmela' SUN to Franco-era copla ballads, to Beatles-inspired pop songs. SUN She discovers one Catalan protest song that started life in SUN the Franco era; it was subsequently taken up by protesters SUN in Poland, and then more recently in Tunisia, before SUN returning to the streets of Barcelona amidst protests SUN against austerity. Cerys' guests include veteran rocker and SUN writer Sabino Mendez, musicologist Silvia Martinez, music SUN journalist Nando Cruz and cultural historian Alex Fernandez SUN de Castro. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06810q5 (Listen) SUN Liverpool SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Liverpool. Matthew Wilson, Christine Walkden and Pippa SUN Greenwood answer questions from the audience. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q. I am an Everton supporter and would like some more blue SUN plants in my garden. Could the panel make some suggestions? SUN Pippa SUN – One of my favourite shrubs is Ceanothus puget blue. It has SUN beautiful bunches of flowers, a honey-like perfume and SUN attracts lots of bees in the summer. You could under plant SUN it with Phacelia. Lithospermum is a lovely little plant and SUN can be fitted in between paving or in any sunny, SUN free-draining spot. SUN Matthew SUN – There are two plants that would work well at this time of SUN year. Firstly, Ceratostigma has lovely blue flowers and SUN works well with the pink of Nerine bowdenii. Secondly, SUN Caryopteris is a low growing sub-shrub and I would go for SUN the Dark Night variety. SUN Q. What sort of fruit trees would you recommend for fruit SUN drying. The site is well drained and sandy. SUN Christine SUN – Raspberries air dry very well, especially the large autumn SUN varieties like Polka. SUN Pippa – SUN Strawberries would also work. Dried Pear is delicious and SUN has a lovely flavour and texture. SUN Q. I have three twelve inch (30cm) sticks that are supposed SUN to be Bouganville. One end is covered in wax. What am I SUN supposed to do with them? SUN Christine SUN – I think you have been given some hard wood cuttings. Put SUN them in a free-draining compost, waxy end upwards. SUN Matthew SUN – You need to put them somewhere warm like a conservatory. SUN Pippa SUN – I think a heated propagator may help. SUN Q. Is it possible to eradicate Raspberry Beetle? SUN Pippa – SUN You can hang a pheromone trap which will mimic the smell of SUN the female beetle and attract the males. They will reduce SUN numbers but won’t completely eradicate them. Try to open up SUN the area to increase circulation. SUN Q. I am unable to grow Fennel bulbs. What am I doing wrong? SUN Christine SUN – Fennel needs a long growing season and good light levels. SUN January is a good time to start growing. Plant it out as SUN soon as you can harden it. SUN Q. Could you suggest some fun fruit and veg to grow next SUN season? SUN Pippa SUN – it is important to grow something that suits your climate. SUN I would try Sweet Potatoes as they have lovely ground cover SUN and trumpet-shaped flowers. In a good summer you can unearth SUN some very large crops. Try the Beauregard variety. SUN Matthew SUN – I have enjoyed growing Cornichon this year. SUN Christine SUN – I would grow Pattypan Squash. SUN Q. Why are my Agapanthus curving towards the edge of the SUN pot? SUN Christine SUN – You may have congested growth. If you have a large amount SUN of foliage then the flower heads may be trying to escape. I SUN would lift and divide them to see if they improve. SUN Matthew SUN – If they aren’t getting enough light they could be affected SUN by Phototropism. SUN Pippa SUN – There is an Agapanthus bug but it affects the heads rather SUN than the shape of growth. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04y9rj2 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces teenagers campaigning on the issue of SUN anorexia, and fathers and daughters dealing with the loss of SUN a family member and the loss of a career, in the Omnibus SUN edition of the series that proves it's surprising what you SUN hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b068sjpb (Listen) SUN A Place of Greater Safety, Liberty SUN SUN Hilary Mantel's gripping account of the cataclysmic events SUN of the French Revolution seen through the eyes of three of SUN its most important figures, Georges Danton, Camille SUN Desmoulins and Maximilien Robespierre. SUN SUN Dramatised by Melissa Murray SUN SUN Part one: Liberty SUN SUN Directed by Marc Beeby. SUN SUN Credits SUN Camille: Carl Prekopp SUN Danton: Mark Stobbart SUN Robespierre: Sam Troughton SUN Narrator: Lizzy Watts SUN Narrator: Paul Ritter SUN Lucile: Chloe Pirrie SUN Gabrielle: Sarah Thom SUN Mirabeau: Sam Dale SUN Adele: Alex Tregear SUN Annette: Jessica Turner SUN Herault: Stephen Critchlow SUN Brissot: David Hounslow SUN Nobleman: Chris Pavlo SUN Author: Hilary Mantel SUN Adaptor: Melissa Murray SUN Producer: Marc Beeby SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b068sjpd (Listen) SUN David Nicholls - One Day SUN SUN David Nicholls talks to James Naughtie and a group of SUN readers about his enormously successful novel One Day. SUN SUN The book has now sold over 5 million copies worldwide since SUN its first publication in 2009. It's the will-they-won't they SUN story of Dexter and Emma, who get together on their last day SUN at Edinburgh University in the late 80s, and whom we meet in SUN the novel every July 15th for the next twenty years. It is SUN in turns moving, stylish and funny. SUN SUN David Nicholls discusses how cinema and tv and his work as SUN an actor influenced the writing of this novel, as well as SUN his love of Hardy and Dickens. Looking back at the novel, SUN having not read it for four years, he is honest about how he SUN might write it differently, if he was allowed. SUN SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Interviewed guest : David Nicholls SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN October's Bookclub choice : Married Love by Tessa Hadley SUN (2012). SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b068sjpg (Listen) SUN Bees SUN SUN Roger McGough is back with a Poetry Please celebrating the SUN humble bee. The stripy creatures have long been a muse to SUN poets from Tagore to Carol Ann Duffy. With readers James SUN Fleet and Amanda Root, and beekeeper Jeff Davey. Producer SUN Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Equinox SUN SUN By Elizabeth Alexander SUN SUN From American Blue – Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN Brother Douglas Looks After the Bees SUN SUN By David Scott SUN SUN From Playing for England SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN Bees Cannot Fly SUN SUN By Roger McGough SUN SUN From Roger McGough – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Viking SUN SUN SUN SUN Virgil’s Bees SUN SUN By Carol Ann Duffy SUN SUN From The Bees SUN SUN Published by Picador SUN SUN SUN SUN An extract from The Eclogues and Georgics SUN SUN by Virgil SUN SUN Translated by C Day Lewis SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN The Honeycomb SUN SUN By Pauline Stainer SUN SUN From The Honeycomb SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN Spelling Bees SUN SUN By Roger McGough SUN SUN From The Bees Knees SUN SUN Published by Puffin SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Bee Journal SUN SUN By Sean Borodale SUN SUN Published by Jonathan Cape SUN SUN SUN SUN ‘We both live in the same village..’ SUN SUN By Rabindranath Tagore SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/1900 SUN SUN SUN SUN ‘Over the green and yellow..’ SUN SUN By Rabindranath Tagore SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/1888 SUN SUN SUN SUN Cornish Wind SUN SUN By Arthur Symons SUN SUN From This Green Earth: A Celebration of Nature Poetry SUN SUN Published by Ellenbank Press SUN SUN SUN SUN The Hive SUN SUN By Jo Shapcott SUN SUN From Six Bee Poems SUN SUN From SUN https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/six-bee-poems/ SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of SUN Britain and Ireland SUN SUN By Steve Roud SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Telling the Bees SUN SUN By John Greenleaf Whittier SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN The Barn SUN SUN By Peter Didsbury SUN SUN From Scenes From A Long Sleep – New and Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN A Bee SUN SUN By Peter Didsbury SUN SUN From Scenes From A Long Sleep – New and Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN The Beekeeper to his Assistant SUN SUN By Noel Duffy SUN SUN From SUN http://noelduffy.net/poetry/in-the-library-of-lost-objects/t SUN e-beekeeper-to-his-assistant/ SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: James Fleet SUN Reader: Amanda Root SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeff Davey SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 Big Game Theory b067x5w1 (Listen) SUN The death of Cecil the lion was international news and a SUN social media sensation. Yet trophy hunting of lions and SUN other species is common in Africa. Foreigners pay big money SUN to adorn their walls with heads and skins. SUN Many find it abhorrent, angry that it exists at all. Hunters SUN claim it is vital, providing money to fund conservation. SUN With hunters claiming that a ban would be "catastrophic" for SUN wildlife, what's the truth? SUN Biologist Professor Adam Hart explores this explosively SUN controversial subject, talking to hunters, conservationists, SUN lion experts and those opposed to hunting. SUN Trophy hunting is not the major problem. Lions are SUN persecuted because they eat livestock and threaten people. SUN Africa is not the romantic place we might think. A hugely SUN expanding population and development set us in conflict with SUN wildlife. SUN Trophy hunting does work in places where regular tourists SUN are few and far between. It works too in South Africa. SUN Private ownership and fencing, which protects wildlife from SUN people and people from wildlife, mean that hunting and SUN tourism generate the cash needed to maintain huge numbers of SUN animals. Wildlife thrives because "it pays it stays". SUN But in Tanzania lion populations are rapidly declining. SUN Craig Packer, a world expert on lions, says "it takes $2000 SUN annually to maintain 1km2 of lion habitat; 300000km2 of SUN hunting blocks need $600million. Trophy hunting pays SUN $20million with 10-15% used for conservation." It's the only SUN source of income but it is far too little, only slightly SUN slowing the inevitable. SUN Hunting pitches emotion against evidence and sentimentality SUN against practicality. Adam's travels reveal a complex and SUN sometimes unpalatable tale of economics, ecology and SUN conservation with implications that affect everyone that SUN cares about African wildlife. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b068lst2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b068s1ns (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b068s1nv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b068s1nx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b068sjpj (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay SUN SUN Radio listeners were spoiled for choice this week with SUN musicians Van the Man, Rod Stewart and David Bowie topping SUN the programme charts; Donald Duck, Cecil the Lion and David SUN Sedaris's turtles tugging at our heart strings and some SUN intriguing surprises thrown in. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b068sjpl (Listen) SUN Ruth is looking forward, and Clarrie is looking on the SUN bright side. SUN SUN 19:15 The Absolutely Radio Show b068sp4g (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Members of the cast of Channel 4's hugely popular sketch SUN show Absolutely reunite for a brand new radio series. SUN SUN Pete Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy SUN and John Sparkes are back together with all new material. SUN They are revisiting some of their much loved sketch SUN characters, while also introducing some newcomers to the SUN show. SUN SUN In 2013, the group got back together for Radio 4's SUN Sketchorama: Absolutely Special, which won a BBC Audio Drama SUN Award in the Best Live Scripted Comedy category. SUN SUN The opening episode of this new series features The SUN Stoneybridge Town Council attempting to adapt to today's SUN technology, Denzil and Gwynedd discussing Gwynedd's plan to SUN enter the Miss Swansea competition, The Little Girl's very SUN personal take on Divorce and Calum Gilhooley getting some SUN customer feedback of his own. There are sketches about the SUN downside of Facebook, the dangers of watching television in SUN middle age, vague War memories from people who were almost SUN there and the perils of having to look after your own, SUN ageing parents. SUN SUN Produced by Gus Beattie and Gordon Kennedy SUN A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Performer: Peter Baikie SUN Performer: Morwenna Banks SUN Performer: Moray Hunter SUN Performer: Gordon Kennedy SUN Performer: John Sparkes SUN Producer: Gus Beattie SUN Producer: Gordon Kennedy SUN SUN 19:45 Comic Fringes b068sp4j (Listen) SUN Series 11, Cats Who Walk Like Gentlemen, by Robert Florence SUN SUN Short story series featuring new writing by leading SUN comedians, recorded live in front of an audience at this SUN year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. SUN SUN In the final story of the series, Robert Florence reveals SUN the dark doings of the Scottish branch of the Illuminati. SUN SUN As well as his interest in secret societies, Robert Florence SUN is the acclaimed writer and co-creator of BBC Scotland's SUN cult sketch show Burnistoun. SUN SUN Writer: Robert Florence SUN SUN Robert Florence SUN SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Robert Florence SUN Performer: Robert Florence SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b06810qc (Listen) SUN Fit for Work or at Death's Door? SUN SUN Deaths of people 'fit for work' SUN Thousands of people are dying after being declared 'fit for SUN work' by the government according to the Guardian. The SUN figures are from a long awaited freedom of information SUN release from the Department for Work and Pensions. But do SUN the figures actually tell us anything? More or Less SUN investigates. SUN SUN Sugar SUN Sugar has had a pretty bad press over the last few months SUN and seems to have replaced fat as the current 'evil' in our SUN diets. We look at some of the claims that have been made SUN about rotting teeth and the justifications for a sugar tax. SUN SUN Zero-hours contracts SUN The latest figures show a 20% rise - but does this really SUN mean that more people are on zero hours contracts thab=n SUN last year? SUN SUN Queuing Backwards SUN Britons love to queue, but have we been getting it wrong? SUN Lars Peter Osterdal from the University of Southern Denmark SUN discusses his theory of how to make queuing more efficient. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06810q9 (Listen) SUN Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Joy Beverley, Oliver Sacks, SUN Annette Worsley-Taylor SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Lord Montagu of Beaulieu who founded the National Motor SUN Museum, opened his estate to the public and served a prison SUN sentence for homosexuality. His son, who has succeeded to SUN the title, pays tribute. SUN SUN Joy Beverley - one of the Beverley sisters who became close SUN harmony singing stars in the 1940s and 50s. She married the SUN England and Wolves footballer Billy Wright, making them the SUN Posh and Becks of their day. SUN SUN The neurologist Oliver Sacks who told his patients' SUN extraordinary stories in books like "The Man Who Mistook His SUN Wife For A Hat". SUN SUN And Annette Worsley-Taylor who started London Fashion Week SUN to promote young British designers. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George. SUN SUN Lord Montagu of Beaulieu SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his son, Ralph Montagu. SUN SUN Born 20 October 1926; died 31 August 2015 aged 88. SUN SUN Joy Beverley SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her daughter Vicky Wright. SUN SUN Born 5 May 1924; died 30 August 2015 aged 91. SUN SUN Oliver Sacks SUN SUN Last Word spoke to the popular science writer and SUN broadcaster, Philip Ball, who knew Sacks. SUN SUN Born 9 July 1933; died 30 August 2015 aged 82. SUN SUN Annette Worsley-Taylor SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Caroline Rush, Chief Executive of SUN the British Fashion Council, who knew Annette well. SUN SUN Born 2 July 1944; died London 27 August 2015 aged 71. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Ralph Montagu SUN Interviewed Guest: Vicky Wright SUN Interviewed Guest: Philip Ball SUN Interviewed Guest: Caroline Rush SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b068lsp7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b068s44m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b0680s92 (Listen) SUN Colombian Women SUN SUN An International Labour Organization report ranked Colombia SUN second globally for the percentage of women in middle and SUN senior management positions. Peter Day investigates why SUN Colombian women have managed to advance in business and SUN whether the figures are a true reflection of life for women SUN in a country known for its machismo culture. SUN SUN Producer: Keith Moore. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b068sp4l (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b068sp4n (Listen) SUN Tom Newton Dunn of The Sun analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0680s8p (Listen) SUN Liv Ullmann, Brian Helgeland on the Kray twins SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Liv Ullmann discusses Miss Julie, Ingmar Bergman and Sex And SUN The City, and why she turned down the opportunity to play SUN George Clooney's love interest. SUN SUN Brian Helgeland reveals why he decided to cast Tom Hardy to SUN play both Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, in his new bio-pic SUN Legend. SUN SUN Model maker Jose Granell on what it's like to see your best SUN work blown to smithereens and how he built his own miniature SUN submarine from a manual. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Liv Ullmann SUN Interviewed Guest: Brian Helgeland SUN Interviewed Guest: Jose Granell SUN Producer: Philip Sellars SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b068s44f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 07 SEPTEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b068s1py (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Writing a New South Africa b053bsfm (Listen) MON Page and Stage MON MON A picture of South Africa now, as seen by a new generation MON of writers and poets. MON MON In the second programme of the series Johannesburg-based MON poet Thabiso Mohare looks at the challenges, tensions and MON solutions facing South African writers. He talks to MON publishers, writers and poets about the issue of a small MON book-reading culture being exacerbated by the high cost of MON books in the country, and looks at how the spoken word scene MON has grown in the past twenty years to provide an outlet for MON new voices. And he travels to the University of MON Stellenbosch, once the intellectual engine-room of MON apartheid, to talk to two poets who have managed to create a MON rare thing: spoken word sessions in a township that are MON attended by a truly diverse and mixed audience of poets and MON aspiring poets, where poetry in any of the eleven official MON languages of South Africa is welcomed. MON MON In a three part series, poet Thabiso Mohare ('Afurakan'), MON looks at South Africa through the themes the post-apartheid MON generation of writers are choosing to engage with in their MON work. These authors, poets and playwrights are exploring the MON past and present, from apartheid's legacy to political MON corruption, and the chaos of the inner city; some are MON exorcising ghosts, and some tackling current issues, or MON looking to an imagined future. There is plenty to write MON about after the end of the struggle. Other outlets for MON storytelling too - poetry and spoken word events, plugging MON into older traditions - are supporting the flowering of a MON diversity of voices as hoped for when the political MON landscape changed so radically in 1994, with writers of all MON ethnicities pitching in to the fray. Radio 4 explores the MON range of voices now being heard, some of the challenges they MON face, and the picture they present. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b068s44c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b068s1q0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b068s1q4 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b068s1q6 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b068s1q8 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b068sqsc (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Claire MON Campbell Smith. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b068sqsf (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b068s1qb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwdc (Listen) MON African Jacana MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the wetland loving African MON Jacana. Being rich chestnut coloured above, with black MON heads, white throats, each has a patch of blue skin above MON the bill, known as a shield, Jacanas are waders with very MON long slender toes which allow them to walk on floating MON plants giving them the name lily-trotters. Widespread in wet MON places south of the Sahara desert they may become nomadic MON moving between wetlands as seasonal water levels change. MON They have an unusual mating system. Females mate with MON several males, but leave their partners to build the nest, MON incubate the eggs and bring up the chicks. With up to 3 or 4 MON mates rearing her different broods, her strategy is to MON produce the maximum number of young lily-trotters each year. MON MON African Jacana (Actophilornis africanus) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Lou Coetzer / naturepl.com MON NPL Ref 01463976 MON © Lou Coetzer / naturepl.com MON MON Recording of African Jacana by Linda R. Macaulay / Ref: ML MON 135964 MON MON This programme contains a wildtrack recording of the MON African Jacana MON kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab MON of Ornithology; recorded by Linda R Macaulay, 5th October MON 2002, Mukumi National Park, Tanzaniaa. MON MON 06:00 Today b068srm9 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The Robert Peston Interview Show (with Eddie Mair) MON b05zhm88 (Listen) MON Denis Norden MON MON What happens if you take the warring parties of radio's MON biggest feud and give them their own show? Radio 4 is about MON to find out as Eddie Mair and Robert Peston join forces to MON spring surprise guests on each other in a unique late night MON interview programme. Expect spontaneous discussions with a MON wide array of interesting figures. MON MON Eddie and Robert have each chosen three guests of personal MON interest to them- all in the public eye - who they feel are MON worthy of a late night interview slot, keeping it secret MON from the other which guests they have chosen until the MON interview itself. Tonight is Eddie's second choice - Denis MON Norden. His time as a cinema manager, being involved with D MON Day, stumbling across Bergen-Belsen and secretly sending on MON his jokes are all covered. MON MON 09:30 Soundstage b05n1dpv (Listen) MON Glacial Melt MON MON Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson first visited MON Antarctica in January 2010 and on his first morning, he was MON woken up by a howling blizzard. It's the sound of arguably MON the most hostile environment on the planet. Whilst Chris was MON in Antarctica he was really keen to record one of the MON greatest transitional events on the planet, the sounds of a MON glacier being transformed over the antarctic summer from a MON solid mountain of freshwater ice into the salt water of the MON Ross sea. The place where he began recording was Cape Evans MON on Ross island and by the hut 'Terra Nova' which was used by MON Capt Scott and his party during their ill-fated expedition MON to the South Pole in 1911.The cinematographer Herbert MON Ponting who remained at Cape Evans later produced a film MON called "The Great White Silence". But this landscape is far MON from silent. Looking west from 'Terra Nova' Chris could see MON the Barne glacier, a massive river of ice which flows down MON the slopes of Mount Erebus to the Ross sea. The recordings MON Chris made follow a journey which begins inside the glacier MON with low, deep, powerful thumping sounds before it calves MON and huge blocks of ice crash onto the frozen Ross sea. The MON sea ice buckles and cracks under the weight of these blocks MON producing extraordinary musical tones. Blocks of ice break MON off under pressure to form icebergs. Then there's a gradual MON reduction as the sea ice undergoes its annual melt. Standing MON near a patch of open water Chris has an astonishing MON encounter with a minke whale which surfaces unexpectedly to MON breathe, and records Adelie penguins and the captivating MON scales of weddell seals. With the transformation complete, MON Chris watches and listens as Orcas break the surface of the MON waters to breathe in the air of the 'Great White Silence'. MON Producer Sarah Blunt. MON MON Chris Watson MON MON Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School MON and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the MON influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret MON Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound MON recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees MON Television. Since then he has developed a particular and MON passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of MON animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As MON a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, MON Watson specialises in natural history and documentary MON location sound together with sound design in MON post-production. MON MON His television work includes many programmes in the David MON Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ MON which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. MON More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with MON David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which MON also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012). MON MON Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio MON productions including; ‘ MON The Listeners MON ’ and ‘The Wire’ which won him the Broadcasting Press MON Guild’s Broadcaster of The Year Award (2012), NATURE, Tweet MON of the Day, and ' MON The Cliff MON '. MON http://www.chriswatson.net/ MON MON Best of Natural History Radio Podcast MON This programme is available to download for free via the " MON Best of Natural History Radio MON " podcast. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b068td6z (Listen) MON Maggie Smith: A Biography, Episode 1 MON MON No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped MON witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's MON best-loved actors. This new biography shines the MON stage-lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable MON performer, whose career spans six decades. MON MON From her days as a star of West End comedy and revue, Dame MON Maggie's path would cross with those of the greatest actors, MON playwrights and directors of the era. Whether stealing MON scenes from Richard Burton (by his own admission), answering MON back to Laurence Olivier, or impressing Ingmar MON Bergman, her career can be seen as a Who's Who of British MON theatre in the twentieth century. MON MON We also hear about her success in Hollywood - inaugurated by MON her first Oscar for her signature film, The Prime of Miss MON Jean Brodie - as well as her subsequent departure to Canada MON for a prolific four-season run of leading theatre roles. MON MON Recently, Dame Maggie has been as prominent on our screens MON as ever, with high-profile roles as Violet Crawley, the MON formidable Dowager Countess of Grantham in the phenomenally MON successful Downton Abbey, and in the Harry Potter films as MON Professor Minerva McGonagall - a role she describes as 'Miss MON Jean Brodie in a wizard's hat'. MON MON Yet paradoxically, Dame Maggie remains an enigmatic figure, MON rarely appearing in public and carefully guarding her MON considerable talent. Michael Coveney's absorbing biography, MON drawing on personal archives, interviews and encounters with MON the actress, as well as conversations with immediate family MON and dear friends, is therefore as close as it gets to seeing MON the real Maggie Smith. MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Bill Nighy MON Author: Michael Coveney MON Producer: Clive Brill MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b068td71 (Listen) MON The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b068tl63 (Listen) MON Prayers for the Stolen, Episode 1 MON MON Prayers For The Stolen MON by Jennifer Clement MON dramatised by Jeff Young MON MON Inspired by true stories, this atmospheric drama follows 15 MON year old Ladydi Martinez in the mountain village of MON Guerrero, Nr. Acapulco, Mexico, where being a girl is a MON dangerous thing and mothers disguise them as sons, hiding MON them in holes in the ground as the drugs cartels scourge the MON town, looking for girls to steal. MON MON Produced and directed by Pauline Harris MON MON More Info:- A timely drama series, as drug kingpin Joaquin MON "El Chapo" Guzman has recently escaped a Mexican prison for MON the second time,. Guzman is considered by US authorities to MON be "the most powerful drug trafficker in the world." He is MON also cited as the 14th wealthiest person in the world. This MON lyrical and atmospheric drama explores the effects of drug MON trafficking through the perspective of a teenage girl, MON LadyDi. MON MON Why is LadyDi named so? MON MON MIKE: Ladydi, Ladydi...Why did your mama name you after a MON dead princess? MON MON LADYDI: Because she hated what that Prince Charles did to MON Diana. She watched it on TV. She loves any woman whose man MON has been unfaithful. It's a special sisterhood of pain and MON hate. Patron Saint of Betrayed Women. MON MON Credits MON LadyDi: Gabriela Montaraz MON Rita: Yolanda Vasquez MON Maria: Georgia Boe-Robertson MON Paula: Afrika Fuentes MON Jose: Joseph Balderrama MON Drug Cartel man: Joseph Balderrama MON Director: Pauline Harris MON Producer: Pauline Harris MON Author: Jennifer Clement MON Adaptor: Jeff Young MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b068tl65 (Listen) MON Series 20, The Life of Reilly MON MON For every stand-up comedian that's a household name, there MON are dozens of hard-working, funny, committed comedians who MON haven't quite broken through into the national MON consciousness. MON MON Christian Reilly is a musical stand-up, a wandering MON minstrel, whose comedy material is delivered through song. MON He's a popular and successful act who's in great demand on MON the comedy-club circuit. His diary is packed: Some weeks MON he'll do two gigs in one night, in two different cities. MON It's an exhausting schedule. His year, along with so many MON others, reaches its peak at the Edinburgh festival in MON August. MON MON In this week's Lives in a Landscape Alan Dein hears MON Christian's story and travels with him to gigs in MON Manchester, Liverpool and, ultimately, Edinburgh. From MON behind-the-scenes at comedy venues, to the share-house MON Christian rents for a month in Edinburgh with fellow MON comedians, Alan discovers what motivates Christian, what his MON ambitions are, and whether he believes he can achieve them. MON MON Producer: Karen Gregor. MON MON Christian on stage MON MON Christian and Alan MON MON Phil Jupitus MON MON 11:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b03hwbrr (Listen) MON Series 1, Out of Our Tree MON MON Tom's father is engrossed in putting together the MON Wrigglesworth Family Tree which is leaving Tom's mother at a MON loose end. Tom suggests she gets in a lodger for company. MON MON Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from MON Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the MON conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call MON to explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate MON various anecdotes from the past which illustrate his MON family's views. And sometimes he just needs to sound-off MON about the maddening world around him and bemoan everyday MON annoyances. MON MON A fascinating and hilarious glimpse into Tom Wrigglesworth, MON his family background and the influences that have shaped MON his temperament,opinions and hang-ups. MON MON During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from MON 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from MON our families and how the past repeats in the present. All in MON a 30 minute phone call. MON MON 'Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups' gets underneath the skin of MON Tom and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a MON bit of totally legal phone hacking. MON MON Cast: MON MON Tom Wrigglesworth ...Tom MON Judy Parfitt ... Granny MON Paul Copley ... Dad MON Kate Anthony ... Mum MON David Reed ... Henry MON MON Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle MON Additional Material by Miles Jupp MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON Credits MON Tom: Tom Wrigglesworth MON Granny: Judy Parfitt MON Dad: Paul Copley MON Mum: Kate Anthony MON Amy: Amy Wrigglesworth MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth MON Writer: James Kettle MON Writer: Miles Jupp MON MON 12:00 News Summary b068s1qf (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b06490tw (Listen) MON 7 September 1915 - Gabriel Graham MON MON The Graham household mark the day, a year on, when they lost MON their only son. MON MON Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole MON MON NOTES MON This is the opening episode of Season Five of Home Front, MON story-led by Sarah Daniels, which has at its heart a focus MON on Spiritualism*. MON MON Unsurprisingly, the tide of grief and bereavement that MON visited Britain during the First World War brought with it a MON great flowering of spiritualism. Relatives wanted to be MON close to their loved ones in a way conventional religion was MON struggling to provide. For this reason many decided to MON extend their faith 'over the church wall', testing the MON waters of Spiritualism and psychical contact with the dead. MON MON The Church was officially hostile, with the Bishop of London MON one of many who warned against the movement. Often the MON concern was less one of fraudulence - Spiritualism was MON compatible with Christianity - but rather that the mediums MON were meddling with dangerous forces and could easily be led MON astray. Accusations of charlatanism, pseudo-science and MON exploiting the bereaved were rife. It hardly helped that MON Spiritualism came in so many different guises. There was MON spiritualism as an industry, where palm-readers and mediums MON sold their services for profit; there was Spiritualism as a MON belief and philosophy; and there was the 'scientific' MON pursuit of psychical research, supported by leading thinkers MON like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who referred to it as "a call of MON hope and of guidance to the human race at the time of its MON deepest affliction" MON MON *Earlier seasons have focused on the Outbreak of War, MON Recruitment, Industry and Profiteering. All previous seasons MON are available to download from bbc.co.uk/homefront. MON MON Credits MON Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw MON Sylvia: Joanna David MON Adeline: Helen Schlesinger MON Hilary: Craige Els MON Young Man: Jack Holden MON Mr Clemons: Chris Pavlo MON Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b068tl6b (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b068s1qh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b068tl6f (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward MON Stourton. MON MON 13:45 The Lore of the Land b068tl6k (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In the first of a five part series examining the enduring MON relevance of the creatures of British folklore, medieval MON literature scholar Dr Carolyne Larrington travels to MON Shropshire to the foot of the mighty Wrekin in search of the MON most prolific landscape shapers in British folk tales - the MON giants. MON MON A hill that stands tall above its surroundings, the Wrekin MON offers panoramic views of eleven counties. Carolyne is MON joined by local storyteller Amy Douglas who has lived in the MON shadow of the Wrekin all her life. MON MON Walking up the side of the Wrekin, Amy tells the story of MON the giant who is said to have formed the hill following an MON attempt to drown the people of Shrewsbury. When Carolyne MON reaches the peak she comes across a peculiar rock formation MON called the Needle's Eye which was said to have been created MON during a violent struggle between two giants. MON MON As well as shaping the landscape through excessive rage, MON giants also take on the role of oversized engineers in the MON folklore of Great Britain. Carolyne reveals that the Anglo MON Saxons had no tradition of building in stone so the Roman MON cities fell into disrepair. The Old English poets often MON remarked on these ruins as the ancient work of giants. MON MON It's not just giants who bring about landscape features, the MON Devil is said to create standing stones and strange rock MON formations across the British Isles. In Cornwall, monoliths MON and stone circles are often associated with King Arthur, who MON has become a mythical being in our traditional folk tales. MON Carolyne explains that, in British folklore, these figures MON become a way of talking about huge processes, about MON geological time which slowly, but irreversibly leaves its MON marks on a landscape. MON MON Producer: Max O'Brien MON A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b068sjpl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b068tmmh (Listen) MON May There Always Be Sunshine MON MON Set in August 1968, against a backdrop of worldwide popular MON protest, Simon and Bruce - two 16 year-old teenagers from MON Manchester - travel to the fabled Soviet Pioneer Camp of MON Artek in Russia. They're off for a week of sun, sea and MON international solidarity, but will their political summer be MON too hot to handle? MON MON MAY THERE ALWAYS BE SUNSHINE MON MON by Alan Pollock MON MON Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. MON MON Credits MON Simon: James Anthony Pearson MON Anna: Vasso Georgiadou MON Bruce: Stewart Campbell MON Arkady: Iain Robertson MON Jerry: Iain Robertson MON Eva: Belle Jones MON Margaret: Belle Jones MON Gennady: Samuel Jameson MON Astronaut: Sharon Mackenzie MON Guide: Sharon Mackenzie MON Newsreader: Sharon Mackenzie MON Director: David Neville MON Producer: David Neville MON Writer: Alan Pollock MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b068tn6y (Listen) MON Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for MON it's 51st series. MON MON In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by MON writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy MON types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, MON Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... MON have all graced the Quote Unquote stage. MON MON Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the MON origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the MON famous panel to share their favourite anecdotes. MON MON Episode 1 MON MON Comedy writer and director Graham Linehan. MON Sports presenter Sally Jones. MON Actress and writer Morwenna Banks MON Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band member and Monty Python collaborator MON Neil Innes MON MON Presenter ... Nigel Rees MON Producer ... Carl Cooper. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Graham Linehan MON Panellist: Sally Jones MON Panellist: Morwenna Banks MON Panellist: Neil Innes MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b068s4qs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Spoken Image b068tsvg (Listen) MON The photographer and former Picture Editor at The Guardian, MON Eamonn McCabe, curates a photo exhibition on the radio, MON featuring images that have moved and inspired him during his MON 50 years in the business. Together, the images represent the MON power photography has to connect us to our past and our MON humanity - our feats and failures, our memories, emotions, MON and our humour. MON MON Pictures by acclaimed war photographer Don McCullin and MON portrait photographer David Bailey remind Eamonn of his MON youth in North London. He talks to the British photographer MON Michael Kenna about the tricks of light and the merits of MON black and white versus colour prints. He also offers some MON very personal reflections on his colleague at the Observer, MON Jane Bown. MON MON We hear from Joel Meyerowitz whose images of the aftermath MON of the attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001 MON offer a visceral example of photo reportage, despite being MON taken after the event. Joel's moving account, courtesy of MON The National September 11 Memorial and Museum, raises MON questions about whether it is right to make something MON aesthetic from something tragic. MON MON Other photographers featured include French greats Willy MON Ronis and Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Hungarian colour MON specialist Nickolas Muray, the Observer sports photographer MON Chris Smith - famous for his pictures of Muhammad Ali, and MON the cult British photographer Raymond Moore. MON MON (Photo credit: "Boats, Dingle" (c) Michael Kenna/Supervision MON New York) MON MON Producer: Olivia Landsberg MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON The Guvnors, Finsbury Park, London, 1958 © Don McCullin MON MON The Kray Twins, 1965 © David Bailey MON MON Mohammed Ali In Miami © Chris Smith/Popperfoto MON MON Le Nu Provencal, Gordes, 1949 © Willy Ronis/Rapho MON MON Soldiers of the Sky © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives MON MON Anthony Blunt, 1979 © Jane Bown/The Observer MON MON Automobile Delage, Circuit de Dieppe, 26 June 1912. MON Photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue MON © Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication, France / MON AAJHL MON MON Assembled panorama of the World Trade Center site, Fall 2001 MON © Joel Meyerowitz, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery MON MON Curraghs, Dingle, 1982 © Michael Kenna/Supervision New York MON MON Pembrokeshire, 1967 © Raymond Moore MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b068tsvj (Listen) MON Rumi MON MON You may be surprised to learn that one of the best-selling MON poets in America today is a man who lived and died 800 years MON ago. The Persian-born Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammed Rumi, to MON give him his full name, was a Sufi master who wrote ecstatic MON poems about joy and love and separation and pain. One MON respected scholar compares Rumi's work to Shakespeare's for MON "its resonance and beauty." Contemporary artists as diverse MON as Madonna and Philip Glass acknowledge their debt to him. MON But the popular editions of his work, much edited, contain MON little evidence of his Muslim origins. Has he been sanitised MON for a sensitive modern reader? Has his religion been removed MON from his poetry to help him become a more universal figure? MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by Fatemah Keshavarz, Director of the MON Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of MON Maryland, College Park; Alan Williams, Professor of Iranian MON Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of MON Manchester; and Shahram Shiva, a Rumi Translator and scholar MON MON Produced by Nija Dalal-Small. MON MON 17:00 PM b068tsvl (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b068s1qm (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b068tsvn (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 3 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Lloyd Langford, Henning Wehn, Sara Pascoe and Miles Jupp are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as zoos, theft, phones and hands. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Lloyd Langford MON Panellist: Henning Wehn MON Panellist: Sara Pascoe MON Panellist: Miles Jupp MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b068tsvq (Listen) MON Rob is full of ideas, and Rex is in need of a favour. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b068tsvs (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b068tl63 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Oil: A Crude History of Britain b068tvkw (Listen) MON Black Spring MON MON James Naughtie charts the hopes and legacy of Britain's oil MON boom. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b0680lpm (Listen) MON Hodei - The Man Who Vanished MON MON The last time anyone saw Hodei Egiluz, a 23-year-old MON computer engineer from Spain, was on a night out in the MON Belgian port of Antwerp in October 2013. Hodei is one of MON roughly 10,000 people who disappear in Europe every year. MON But his case has sparked a remarkable response. Practically MON his entire home town in Spain got behind the Belgian police MON search in one way or another. The search for Hodei triggered MON a campaign which eventually drew in figures such as MON footballer Ronaldo and the prime minister of Spain. But two MON years on Hodei is still missing. For Crossing Continents, MON Neal Razzell retraces Hodei's last hours in Antwerp and MON tries to unravel the mystery surrounding his disappearance. MON Producer: Charlotte McDonald. MON MON Missing Persons Information: MON MON If you have information about a missing person and you live MON in the UK or the EU, call 116 000. MON MON If you have information about the disappearance of Hodei MON Egiluz, visit the website of Belgian charity Child Focus MON http://www.childfocus.be/fr MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9bj5 (Listen) MON Birds Eggs MON MON Beautiful, fragile, mysterious - we have always loved birds' MON eggs. Their colours are more of a hue, the patterning MON gorgeous to the eye, no wonder they have been collected from MON time immemorial. Eggs are a symbol of new life, a MON transformation that speaks to us of great truths beyond the MON purely biological. Easter eggs are a symbol of Christ's MON resurrection and were adopted from pagan beleifs about MON Ostara, the goddess connecting to various German Easter MON festivities.) The egg has been used as a metaphor for the MON origin of the universe in many traditions. We have used them MON in cooking - or eaten raw - since our time on earth. We have MON used the hard shell for decoration, and Faberge designed MON exquisite bejewelled eggs of gold and precious stones for MON the Tsars of Russia. A peculiar tradition of using eggs to MON record the varied faces of clowns arose just after WW2 when MON new clowns stamped their identity on the world by MON registering their unique features on eggs - there is now a MON clown egg museum. The natural variety in bird's eggs, even MON clutches in the same year, can be very different, is prized MON by collectors, determined to own the greatest diversity of MON any one species. Along with collecting comes money and then MON fraud. Pleasing to hold, beautiful on the eye, versatile in MON cooking, intriguing in nature, practical as well - eggs will MON always inspire us. MON MON Douglas Russell MON Douglas Russell is responsible for the curation of the MON national avian egg and nest collections as part of the team MON of bird group curators in the Department of Zoology at the MON Natural History Museum, London MON In the egg and nest collection he is responsible for all MON aspects of curatorial care including visitors, enquiries, MON documentation and research on the collections to enhance MON their data. MON MON MON Professor Tim Birkhead MON Tim Birkhead MON is a Professor in the Department of Animal and Plant MON Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He has conducted a MON long term of study of guillemots on Skomer Island in Wales MON since 1972, alongside Ben Hatchwell. MON He has authored and co-authored a large number of books MON including MON The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology MON and the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ornithology. His MON forthcoming book 'The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and MON Outside) a Bird's Egg' is due to be published in April 2016 MON by Bloomsberry. MON MON Dr Ed Connor MON Ed Connor joined the Johns Hopkins University Neuroscience MON Department in 1996 and has served as Director of the MON Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute MON since 2007. MON His research focuses on neural mechanisms underlying object MON vision and has shown how object structure is represented by MON populations of neurons in higher-level visual regions of the MON brain. In studies funded by the Hopkins Brain Science MON Institute, his laboratory has investigated the neural basis MON of shape aesthetics. MON MON Ed Drewitt MON Ed Drewitt MON is a wildlife communicator with an energetic passion for MON nature. He has studied the diet of urban Peregrines and has MON worked on colour-ringing their young. MON He also works on a huge range of activities from taking MON schools fossil hunting to showing people wildlife from MON boats. He works a variety of organisations, including the MON British Trust for Ornithology MON and the MON National Trust MON MON Matthew Faint: "Mattie the Clown" MON Matthew Faint was born in Plymouth and began his career in MON show business in London in 1970 on productions of Hair and MON The Rocky Horror Show and has performed in Lesotho, in MON Southern Africa, and in Japan. MON He began clowning 1971, working in and around London and MON overseas and for many years as a hospital clown. For the MON last 25 years he has been the curator of MON Clowns International MON 's Museum and Archive at its two sites in Dalston in London MON and Wookey Hole in Somerset. MON MON MON Professor Gavin Flood MON Gavin Flood is a professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative MON Religion at Oxford University and Academic Director of the MON Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. MON He has recently published MON The Truth Within MON a history of inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism and MON Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2014). MON MON Kieran McCarthy MON Kieran McCarthy is a director at antiques firm Wartski. His MON antiques research has been widely published and he is a MON lecturer on the subject of Fabergé. His most recent articles MON have focused on the use of wood in Fabergé’s work and on a MON missing Imperial Easter Egg. MON He recently identified the original design source of the MON Constellation Egg. In 2010, he curated the exhibition MON 'The Last Flowering of Court Art' MON a private collection of Fabergé. Kieran was also MON instrumental in the republication of Dame Joan Evans, MON English Posies and Posy Rings MON by Wartski in 2012. MON MON 21:30 The Robert Peston Interview Show (with Eddie Mair) MON b05zhm88 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b068s1qq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b068tvky (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b068tvl0 (Listen) MON The Past, Episode 1 MON MON Today - The party assembles. MON MON Sian Thomas reads Tessa Hadley's powerful and haunting new MON novel, a beautifully observed portrait of a family and the MON change wrought by time across the generations. MON MON Three middle-aged sisters and a brother meet up in their MON grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. MON Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate tensions. MON Secrets, misunderstandings and passion play out as the MON characters shift and reappraise and a way of life - MON bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its MON inevitable end. MON MON While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents MON approach each other, the children watch and come to their MON own conclusions. MON MON Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute MON observer of character, time and place and the most published MON short story writer in the New Yorker in recent years. MON MON The reader is Sian Thomas MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Sian Thomas MON Author: Tessa Hadley MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Di Speirs MON MON 23:00 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b0520pr1 (Listen) MON Series 5, Midnight Cowboy MON MON An X-rated picture winning the Oscar for Best Picture? MON MON It was a shock, but not a surprise when 'Midnight Cowboy' MON won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1969 - not to mention MON gongs for the director, John Schlesinger, and screen writer, MON Waldo Salt. MON MON But take a fresh look at this film, 45 years later, and it's MON obvious why it blasted its way passed the opposition at the MON Academy Awards. The film was rife with acting talent; a MON young Dustin Hoffman, messing up his clean cut reputation by MON taking on the role of a down at heel New York bum; Jon MON Voight as a naïve but optimistic hustler; Brenda Vaccaro as MON a lush, fur-coated party girl and Sylvia Miles hilarious in MON a short but lauded sex scene. . MON MON It also brought one of the most extraordinary scriptwriters, MON Waldo Salt, and one of the first 'out' directors, John MON Schlesinger, together with one of the least experienced, but MON adventurous cinematographers, Adam Holender - a moment of MON production chemistry. MON MON With fresh interviews with Adam Holender, Sylvia Miles, MON producer Jerome Hellman, Brenda Vacaro, Waldo Salt's MON daughter Jennifer, and Schlesinger's long-term partner MON Michael Childers, Paul Gambaccini presents "And The Academy MON Award Goes To... Midnight Cowboy." MON MON Producer: Sara Jane Hall. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b068tvl2 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports as MPs and peers return to Westminster MON after the summer recess. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 08 SEPTEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b068s1rs (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b068td6z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b068s1rv (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b068s1rx (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b068s1rz (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b068s1s1 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0694rrx (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Claire TUE Campbell Smith. TUE TUE Script TUE TUE Good morning. It is a relief in the heat and humidity of TUE the Mediterranean coast, to retreat into the air-conditioned TUE comfort of the new Library of Alexandria in Egypt. This TUE spectacular building replaces one of the greatest libraries TUE of the ancient world, whose destruction by fire became a TUE symbol of the irretrievable loss of public knowledge. TUE Rather than half a million papyrus scrolls, each TUE painstakingly copied, the modern Library aims to collect TUE eight million volumes and to become once again a centre for TUE the dissemination of knowledge and a place which promotes TUE understanding between peoples. TUE TUE Today, International Literacy Day, UNESCO reminds the global TUE community of the value of being able to read and write in a TUE world where nearly a fifth of adults still lack those basic TUE skills. Literacy has long been regarded as a human right, a TUE tool that empowers and enriches individuals, communities and TUE nations, and as a fundamental part of education, is TUE essential in eradicating poverty and ensuring peace. In the TUE Bible, Luke’s Gospel tells how, in the synagogue of his home TUE town of Nazareth, Jesus stood up to read from the scroll of TUE the prophet Isaiah: ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, TUE because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. TUE He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and TUE recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go TUE free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.’ TUE TUE And so, as a new academic year begins: We thank you, Lord, TUE for the provision of literacy and all educational TUE opportunities in this country. We ask you to bless children TUE and adults around the world, who strive to learn in order to TUE build a better future. Help us, as members of the global TUE community, to be part of their journey out of poverty. TUE Amen. TUE TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0694ss7 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwg9 (Listen) TUE Brown Kiwi TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the New Zealand brown kiwi. A TUE piercing wail can be heard in a forest at night. A brown TUE kiwi is calling. Only found in New Zealand, kiwi are TUE flightless birds and the brown kiwi, which is about the size TUE of a domestic chicken, lays an egg weighing as much as a TUE quarter of its own bodyweight - proportionally; the largest TUE egg for its size of any bird. More mammal like than birds; TUE their tiny eyes are of little use, but they have an TUE excellent sense of smell, using their nostrils located TUE unusually for birds near the end of the bill. Held in great TUE affection, brown kiwi appear on coins, stamps and coats-of- TUE arms as well as providing a nick-name for New Zealand's TUE national rugby team. TUE TUE Brown Kiwi (Apteryx australis) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com. TUE N TUE PL Ref 01443142 TUE © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b068tz6b (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b068tz6d (Listen) TUE The Living Wage TUE TUE Jonathan Freedland examines current debates about the TUE "living wage" in the light of a publication by woollen TUE manufacturer, Sir Mark Oldroyd in 1894. As Liberal MP and TUE the owner of a number of mills in Dewsbury in Yorkshire, he TUE delivered a lecture to the Dewsbury Pioneers Industrial TUE Society called "A Living Wage". It said: "A living wage must TUE be sufficient to maintain the worker in the highest state of TUE industrial efficiency, with decent surroundings and TUE sufficient leisure". TUE TUE Jonathan is joined by Dr Stephen Davies from the Institute TUE of Economic Affairs, Margaret Watson, former editor of TUE Dewsbury Reporter and actor Barrie Rutter. TUE TUE 09:30 The Town Is the Menu b047z8xc (Listen) TUE Barnard Castle TUE TUE Stories of Dickens, Richard III, an entrepreneurial TUE community and a unique landscape all provide inspiration for TUE food innovator Simon Preston and local chef Andrew Rowbotham TUE as they capture the spirit of Barnard Castle in Teesdale in TUE a single signature dish. Local antiques expert David Harper TUE shares stories from history; young business entrepreneur TUE Leah Hobson gives her alternative view of the townsfolk TUE through the clothes they buy and sell while retired vet TUE Neville Turner provides a window into the beautiful flora TUE and fauna that surrounds the town. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b069b4lw (Listen) TUE Maggie Smith: A Biography, Episode 2 TUE TUE No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped TUE witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's TUE best-loved actors. This new biography shines the TUE stage-lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable TUE performer, whose career spans six decades. TUE TUE From her days as a star of West End comedy and revue, Dame TUE Maggie's path would cross with those of the greatest actors, TUE playwrights and directors of the era. Whether stealing TUE scenes from Richard Burton (by his own admission), answering TUE back to Laurence Olivier, or impressing Ingmar TUE Bergman, her career can be seen as a Who's Who of British TUE theatre in the twentieth century. TUE TUE We also hear about her success in Hollywood - inaugurated by TUE her first Oscar for her signature film, The Prime of Miss TUE Jean Brodie - as well as her subsequent departure to Canada TUE for a prolific four-season run of leading theatre roles. TUE TUE Recently, Dame Maggie has been as prominent on our screens TUE as ever, with high-profile roles as Violet Crawley, the TUE formidable Dowager Countess of Grantham in the phenomenally TUE successful Downton Abbey, and in the Harry Potter films as TUE Professor Minerva McGonagall - a role she describes as 'Miss TUE Jean Brodie in a wizard's hat'. TUE TUE Yet paradoxically, Dame Maggie remains an enigmatic figure, TUE rarely appearing in public and carefully guarding her TUE considerable talent. Michael Coveney's absorbing biography, TUE drawing on personal archives, interviews and encounters with TUE the actress, as well as conversations with immediate family TUE and dear friends, is therefore as close as it gets to seeing TUE the real Maggie Smith. TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Bill Nighy TUE Author: Michael Coveney TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0694rrz (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 b068tz6g (Listen) TUE Prayers for the Stolen, Episode 2 TUE TUE Prayers For The Stolen ep 2/5 TUE by Jennifer Clement TUE dramatised by Jeff Young TUE An atmospheric drama with each episode immersing us into the TUE heat and fear of Mexico, in this country ripped apart by TUE murder, racketeering, drugs wars and political corruption, TUE told entirely from the perspective of a teenage girl in the TUE mountain village in Guerrera. LadyDi's mother drinks too TUE much and steals, and now she tells her daughter the truth TUE about her father, and best friend Maria. TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. TUE TUE Credits TUE LadyDi: Gabriela Montaraz TUE Rita: Yolanda Vasquez TUE Maria: Georgia Boe-Robertson TUE Ruth: Afrika Fuentes TUE Jose: Joseph Balderrama TUE Director: Pauline Harris TUE Producer: Pauline Harris TUE Author: Jennifer Clement TUE Adaptor: Jeff Young TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9dq2 (Listen) TUE Bears TUE TUE Bears (of the family Ursidae) and people go back a long way, TUE they are disconcertingly human-like, captured in the most TUE popular of tales, Goldilocks, Snow White and Rose Red and TUE Winnie the Pooh. Many cultures from northern Europe to North TUE America to China have traditionally worshiped bears, TUE regarding them as the spirit of ancestors. In the TUE Palaeolithic bear bones were carefully buried in unnatural TUE poses and their skulls in a circle. In Christianity saints TUE have tamed bears as a sign of holiness though bears were TUE persecuted to deter pagan cults. In medieval times the cruel TUE and gruesome sport of bear-baiting was a common pastime, TUE enjoyed by royalty and peasant alike. Seeing a bear TUE tormented by dogs may have been pleasurable, but it was also TUE a physical representation of suffering and struggle at a TUE time when bears were still part of a greater mythology. The TUE mystical qualities of bears is reflected in our seeing them TUE in the stars, the Great and Little Bear track their way TUE across the heavens. The constancy of the Great Bear TUE constellation was used by slaves in the American Civil War TUE to guide them to safety, away from conflict; their song TUE "Follow the Drinking Gourd" tells how to follow the lights TUE of the constellation - the gourd being code for The Great TUE Bear. Today the white polar bear is a potent symbol of TUE climate change, reliant on ice covered land it is in danger TUE of losing its habitat. As we become more removed from nature TUE the style of the much-loved teddy bear has changed. TUE Originally they looked like real bears, today they are pink TUE and fluffy and short-limbed. Our relationship with bears has TUE always been complex and still is today. TUE TUE Professor Adrian Lister TUE Professor Adrian Lister TUE has been research leader at the TUE Natural History Museum TUE since 2007 and is a palaeobiologist interested in patterns TUE and processes of species-level evolution, adaptation and TUE extinction. His work focuses on mammals of the ice age, TUE especially deer, elephants and mammoths. In addition to TUE excavating and studying fossil material from around the TUE world, he has studied living elephants in Ghana, India, TUE Nepal and Borneo. TUE He is the author of more than 150 scientific papers and four TUE books, Evolution on Planet Earth, Mammoths: Giants of the TUE Ice Age, Mammoths: Ice Age Giants and a children’s book, TUE Tracker’s Guide to Ice Age Animals. Prior to joining the TUE Museum, he was Professor of Palaeontology at UCL. He TUE completed his PhD at Cambridge on evolution of fossil TUE mammals. TUE TUE Richard Sabin TUE Richard Sabin is Principal Curator in the Department of Life TUE Sciences at the TUE Natural History Museum TUE specialising in the study of the form and function of marine TUE mammal skeletal anatomy. TUE He is special advisor to the NHM’s TUE UK Strandings Project TUE carries out endangered species identification work for UK TUE and international law enforcement, and develops TUE internationally recognised protocols and techniques for the TUE extraction of genetic material from the Museum's research TUE specimens. TUE TUE Bernd Brunner TUE Bernd Brunner is a writer working at the crossroads of TUE history, science and culture. His writing has appeared in TUE Lapham's Quarterly TUE The Huffington Post TUE The Smart Set TUE Best of American Travel Writing and major German TUE publications such as Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit. TUE He is the acclaimed author of TUE Bears - A Brief History TUE Moon - A Brief History TUE Inventing the Christmas tree TUE The Ocean at Home - An Illustrated History of the Aquarium TUE and TUE The Art of Lying Down - A Guide to Horizontal Living TUE TUE Catherine Howell TUE Catherine Howell is Curator of Toys and Games at the TUE V&A Museum of Childhood TUE Her main research interests are games, optical toys and soft TUE toys and she has contributed her expertise to a number of TUE exhibitions and publications. TUE She has played a key role in many of the Museum’s major TUE exhibitions including Alice: The Wonderland of Lewis Carroll TUE (1998). She was the curator of the hugely successful touring TUE exhibitions Teddy Bear Story: 100 years of the teddy bear TUE (2002) and Magic Worlds (2011). TUE Catherine Howell has worked at the Museum of Childhood since TUE 1991 and is the collections specialist on the history of TUE childhood toys and games. TUE TUE Professor Erica Fudge TUE Erica Fudge is Professor of English Studies at the TUE University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She is the author of a TUE number of books and essays on human-animal relations in the TUE English Renaissance and in the contemporary age. TUE Her work has also appeared in TUE History Today TUE magazine and she is the director of the TUE British Animal Studies Network TUE TUE Professor Paul Pettitt TUE Professor Paul Pettitt is Professor of Palaeolithic TUE archaeology at Durham, specialising in the European Middle TUE and Upper Palaeolithic. In 2003, he co-discovered Britain's TUE only examples of Palaeolithic cave art at TUE Creswell Crags TUE in the Midlands, and since then I've directed excavations TUE at the Crags. TUE He has also co-directed excavations in the world famous site TUE of TUE Kents Cavern TUE with Mark White, with whom he also wrote The British TUE Palaeolithic. TUE TUE Lee Pullen TUE Lee has a degree in astronomy and a Master’s in science TUE communication. He has written on astronomy for TUE NASA TUE the TUE European Space Agency TUE the TUE European Southern Observatory TUE and the TUE International Astronomical Union TUE He is currently works in the planetarium in TUE At-Bristol TUE where he heads a team that produces content for over 100,000 TUE visitors a year. TUE TUE Professor Kimberley Reynolds TUE Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Children's Literature in TUE the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics TUE at Newcastle University and Honorary Senior Fellow at the TUE Centre for the TUE History of Emotions TUE at the University of Western Australia. TUE She has served on the board of a number of national bodies TUE and has been a trustee of TUE Seven Stories TUE the National Centre for Children's Books, since it opened in TUE 2004. She has published widely across the history of TUE children's literature including TUE Children's Literature: A Very Short Introduction TUE for Oxford University Press. TUE With the help of a Major Leverhulme Fellowship she recently TUE completed a book called Left Out: the forgotten radical TUE tradition of publishing for children in Britain, 1910-1949. TUE This will be published by Oxford University Press in spring TUE 2016. TUE TUE 11:30 Music in the Shadow of Ground Zero b068tz6j (Listen) TUE The story of two New York churches that, despite being a TUE stone's throw from the twin towers, survived 9/11 and are TUE now healing the community with a unique programme of music. TUE TUE 'People stumble on Trinity. A lot of them don't realise it's TUE a church, they think it's a museum. And when they hear the TUE music we offer they are shocked. I take it for granted TUE because that's what Trinity stands for.' TUE (Cynthia Motten, Trinity parishioner for 40 years) TUE TUE Historic Trinity Church, Wall St is only a stone's throw TUE from Ground Zero and has turned itself into a mini-Lincoln TUE Centre, hosting some of the best classical and contemporary TUE music concerts in America. The church is said to be the TUE world's richest Anglican parish - thanks to a gift of TUE Manhattan farmland, donated in 1705 by Queen Anne, and now TUE prime real estate. This year it's investing $2.9m in its TUE music programme. TUE TUE In the shadow of Ground Zero, New Yorkers can listen to TUE Bach's Cantatas in their lunch break, performed by Trinity's TUE own Baroque orchestra, or go to concerts by the church's TUE contemporary music ensemble. The church has had jazz and hip TUE hop masses and pushed aside the pews to host a reggae party, TUE while Trinity's choir won the 2015 Pulitzer prize for music. TUE TUE Radio 4 visits the church, and its sister chapel St Paul's, TUE during a special week of music marking 150 years since the TUE abolition of slavery, honouring the power of black music in TUE America featuring special guest Bobby McFerrin. TUE TUE Julian Wachner, Trinity's Grammy-award winning music TUE director, says: "There are people who come to St Paul's to TUE remember someone close who was lost in the towers, and they TUE go to the churchyard - think of the ashes and what fell on TUE that space - and the music heals." TUE TUE A Greenpoint production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b068s1s3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b06491dt (Listen) TUE 8 September 1915 - Alice Macknade TUE TUE Alice Macknade has to say farewell to the love of her life TUE as he heads off to war, just months after saying the same to TUE her husband. TUE TUE Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b068tz6l (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b068s1s5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b068tz6n (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 The Lore of the Land b069b4ly (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Fresh water is mysterious, springing up in unexpected places TUE and vanishing just as quickly. Fresh water gives life, TUE allows humans to settle and thrive. But it can also be TUE dangerous - life-taking as well as life-giving. As a result, TUE the folkloric creatures and spirits that are said to live TUE within our rivers, streams and ponds are both kindly and TUE threatening. TUE TUE In the second episode of her five part series exploring the TUE enduring relevance of the creatures of folklore that are TUE traditionally said to have dwelt in the landscape of Great TUE Britain, medieval literature scholar Dr Carolyne Larrington TUE visits Marden in Herefordshire. Walking along the peaceful TUE River Lugg, Carolyne is accompanied by Sophia Kingshill who TUE has a unique area of expertise - mermaids. TUE TUE Standing by Marden Church, Sophia tells the tale of the TUE Mermaid of Marden who is said to have stolen the church bell TUE and dragged it down to the watery depths of the Lugg. We TUE also hear the tales of mermaids who, when respected, offer TUE pagan healing remedies, but who can be a malevolent force TUE when challenged by the Christian beliefs of those on dry TUE land. TUE TUE Many folkloric creatures that live in British ponds and TUE rivers appear in cautionary tales designed to keep children TUE away from the water's edge. There's Peg Powler who pulls TUE children to their watery doom and Jenny Greenteeth who lives TUE amongst the weeds. TUE TUE Carolyne explains that British folklore offers us a gendered TUE imagining of water, feminine, refreshing and nurturing, but TUE there's also horror and danger below the placid surface; the TUE water-hag and her clutching fingers is never too far away. TUE TUE Producer: Max O'Brien TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b068tsvq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b068w44s (Listen) TUE The Man Who Bit Mary Magdalene TUE TUE Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln the goodliest soul who ever lived, TUE loved by princes and paupers alike needs money to rebuild TUE his beloved Lincoln Cathedral after it's destroyed in an TUE earthquake. But funds are not forthcoming. However, after a TUE visitation from The Virgin Mother herself he is shown the TUE way to raise the much need money - relics. She tells him of TUE the relic of the arm bone of Mary Magdalene which lies at TUE the abbey at Fécamp - a relic that will certainly bring TUE pilgrims (and cash) to Lincoln. But Hugh soon realises The TUE Holy Mother may not be quite so holy as she appears, as she TUE taunts him with an old sin that casts a very long shadow. TUE The great man of faith is thrown into turmoil and it's only TUE a weary, drunken old monk Brother Thibault who can see TUE Hugh's impending actions may destroy not only the abbey, but TUE also one of the very foundations of Christianity. Based on a TUE thrilling true story, the themes and comedy are most TUE definitely contemporary and Hugh's ultimate act is as TUE shocking today as it was almost 1000 years ago. A comedy to TUE really sink your teeth into! TUE TUE Historical Advisor: Sue Scott TUE Director: Celia de Wolff TUE TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Bishop of Lincoln: David Jason TUE Adam: Miles Jupp TUE The Virgin Mother: Patsy Kensit TUE Father Henty: Robert Bathurst TUE Brother Thibault: Kenneth Cranham TUE Director: Celia de Wolff TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b068lsnl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b068w44v (Listen) TUE Sounds of the Seas TUE TUE How noisy is the underwater environment? Tom Heap dips TUE beneath the surface to find out if man-made noise is TUE affecting the marine life that lives below the waves. TUE TUE Costing The Earth begins a new series with three programmes TUE investigating the health of our oceans. The team tackles TUE ocean acidification and how the UK plans to protect marine TUE areas in its overseas territories but first Tom Heap delves TUE into a mystery soundscape: one that exists underwater. TUE TUE Scientists are only just beginning to study the complex TUE noises coming from beneath the waves. All marine life TUE depends on sound to communicate but in a world that is TUE becoming increasingly loud, whales, dolphins, fish of all TUE shapes and sizes, all the way down to molluscs and the TUE smallest organisms are finding their voices lost in a TUE sub-aqua world of rumbles and crunches from various man-made TUE sources. TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Writing a New South Africa b0542zv2 (Listen) TUE Cape Town: Place and Contested Space TUE TUE Johannesburg-based poet Thabiso Mohare travels to Cape Town TUE to meet a new generation of writers, poets and playwrights TUE and look at the theme of place and contested space in their TUE work and the history of the city. In a city dominated by the TUE huge Table Mountain which still ensures a certain amount of TUE segregation, he talks to Lauren Beukes, whose sci-fi visions TUE of South African cities are internationally successful, TUE playwright and novelist Nadia Davids about the undealt-with TUE legacy of slavery in the city, and Thando Mgqolozana whose TUE novels deal with a range of social issues. Thabiso explores TUE the status of Afrikaans in the region among the younger TUE generation now, with poet Toni Stuart and short story writer TUE SJ Naude, uncovering the roots of a language that was TUE appropriated as a tool of oppression but is still felt to be TUE a language of struggle and resistance among the communities TUE where it originated. And there is uncompromising work from TUE Nathan Trantraal and Ronelda Kamfer. TUE TUE In a three part series, poet Thabiso Mohare ('Afurakan'), TUE looks at South Africa through the themes the post-apartheid TUE generation of writers are choosing to engage with in their TUE work. These authors, poets and playwrights are exploring the TUE past and present, from apartheid's legacy to political TUE corruption, and the chaos of the inner city; some are TUE exorcising ghosts, and some tackling current issues, or TUE looking to an imagined future. There is plenty to write TUE about after the end of the struggle. Other outlets for TUE storytelling too - poetry and spoken word events, plugging TUE into older traditions - are supporting the flowering of a TUE diversity of voices as hoped for when the political TUE landscape changed so radically in 1994, with writers of all TUE ethnicities pitching in to the fray. Radio 4 explores the TUE range of voices now being heard, some of the challenges they TUE face, and the picture they present. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b068w44x (Listen) TUE Series 37, Frances Crook on Barbara Castle TUE TUE She was the reforming transport minister who couldn't drive, TUE the childless woman who changed lives for mothers by paying TUE Child Benefit directly to them, the passionate Labour TUE cabinet minister who didn't become the first female Prime TUE Minister but perhaps paved the way for the Conservative TUE woman who did. TUE TUE Matthew Parris explores the life of Barbara Castle with his TUE guest Frances Crook, the Chief Executive of the Howard TUE League for Penal Reform, and Roy Hattersley, who worked with TUE Barbara Castle in the 1960s, is their expert witness. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Frances Crook TUE Interviewed Guest: Roy Hattersley TUE Producer: Christine Hall TUE TUE 17:00 PM b068w44z (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b068s1s7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mitch Benn Specials b068xdrj (Listen) TUE Mitch Benn Has Left the Building TUE TUE Elvis is one of the most impersonated men in history. But TUE it's a surprising complex persona to inhabit. TUE TUE Mitch Benn explores the man behind the phenomenon called TUE 'Elvis'... TUE Humble Southern boy or bejewelled megalomaniac emperor? TUE Fearless rebel or gormless yes-man? TUE Pioneer and innovator or showbiz sell-out? TUE Rock and roll's greatest triumph or its most tragic waste? TUE TUE From the early rock and roll years, to Mr. Presley TUE post-army; food addiction; and his Las Vegas residency in TUE THE SUIT...With a glorious mix of musical parodies and TUE trivia, Mitch Benn is going to find out. TUE TUE Written by and starring Mitch Benn TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith/Ed Morrish. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Mitch Benn TUE Writer: Mitch Benn TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b068xdrl (Listen) TUE Jennifer has exciting news, and Kate is on Adam's turf. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b068xg84 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b068tz6g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b068xg86 (Listen) TUE The Cost of a Cuppa TUE TUE Tea is still the UK's favourite drink - but what's the human TUE cost of a cuppa? TUE TUE In the first of a new series of File on 4, Jane Deith TUE reports from Assam on the plight of workers on tea TUE plantations which help supply some of Britain's best known TUE brands. TUE TUE India is one of the largest tea producers in the world with TUE an industry worth billions of pounds - but critics say TUE pickers often have to endure long working hours and TUE insanitary conditions, leading to poor health and high TUE levels of maternal and infant mortality. TUE TUE Producer: Sally Chesworth. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b068xg88 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b068xg8b (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series exploring health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b068tz6d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b068s1s9 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b068xg8d (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b068xg8g (Listen) TUE The Past, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today: the children make a discovery and seeing something TUE she shouldn't, leaves Harriet disturbed. TUE TUE Sian Thomas reads Tessa Hadley's powerful and haunting new TUE novel, a beautifully observed portrait of a family and the TUE change wrought by time across the generations. TUE TUE Three middle-aged sisters and a brother with his new wife, TUE meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot TUE summer weeks. Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate TUE tensions. Secrets, misunderstandings and passion play out as TUE the characters shift and reappraise and a way of life - TUE bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its TUE inevitable end. TUE TUE While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents TUE approach each other, the children watch and come to their TUE own conclusions. TUE TUE Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute TUE observer of character, time and place and the most published TUE short story writer in the New Yorker in recent years. TUE TUE The reader is Sian Thomas TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Sian Thomas TUE Author: Tessa Hadley TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Di Speirs TUE TUE 23:00 Gossip from the Garden Pond b04hmrvc (Listen) TUE The Garden Spider and Great Pond Snail TUE TUE The Garden Spider played by Amanda Root and the Great Pond TUE Snail played by James Fleet, reveal the truth about life in TUE a garden pond, in the last of three very funny tales, TUE written and introduced by Lynne Truss, with sound recordings TUE by Chris Watson and Tom Lawrence. TUE TUE Hidden amongst the tall vegetation beside the pond the TUE Garden Spider muses on her life. She suffers from TUE arachnophobia. She note only dislikes, but fears the sight TUE of herself; so much so that she only emerges under the cover TUE of darkness to spin her web. She is not alone if finding her TUE appearance quite hideous, she recalls a wasp who even as she TUE wrapped him silk shuddered at the sight of her, rather than TUE save his own life! Her musings are interrupted when she TUE discovers another spider in her web; a visitor to the TUE neighbourhood, a male, who instead of being frightened by TUE her appearance finds her most attractive. Is her luck about TUE to change? TUE TUE The Great Pond Snail glides over the vegetation on his trail TUE of slime, cleaning up as he goes. He's appalled when he sees TUE evidence that another pond sail has not done the same. Great TUE Pond Snails are excellent recyclers, even cleaning up their TUE own waste matter. Our Snail takes great pleasure in this TUE fact "But I'm not saying this makes us some sort of paragon. TUE Just different". There's no getting away from it, he is TUE self-righteous and judgmental but under the guise of TUE political correctness. His only pleasure comes from slime. TUE "My girlfriend used to say that my slime ropes were my best TUE feature" he boasts. And on this subject, he has little time TUE for the human race "All this modern talk of energy TUE efficiency ... and you can't even be bothered to learn how TUE to make slime". And don't get him started on sex and gender TUE roles! TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Lynne Truss TUE Garden Spider: Amanda Root TUE Great Pond Snail: James Fleet TUE Producer: Sarah Blunt TUE Writer: Lynne Truss TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b068xz0t (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 09 SEPTEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b068s1t4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b069b4lw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b068s1t6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b068s1t8 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b068s1tb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b068s1td (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0694tgw (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Claire WED Campbell Smith. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b068vxv5 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwj9 (Listen) WED Shoebill WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the mysterious shoebill of WED Uganda. Reaching almost one and a quarter metres in height WED and looking like a hefty-looking blue-grey stork, WED ornithologists remain unsure which birds are their closest WED relatives. As its name suggests, the Shoebill's most WED outstanding feature, is its enormous clog-shaped bill. Up to WED 20cm long, half as wide and ending in a nail-like hook. They WED live in central and east African swamps where they feed on WED reptiles, fish, amphibians and even young crocodiles. Their WED bill is also useful in the baking heat of the African sun, WED when the adults scoop up beak-fulls of water and shower it WED over their chicks to help them keep cool. WED WED Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Barrie Britton / naturepl.com. WED NPL Ref 01426232 WED © Barrie Britton / naturepl.com. WED WED Recording of Shoebill by Myles E. W. North / Ref: ML 2284 WED WED This programme contains a wildtrack WED recording of the Shoebill WED kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab WED of Ornithology; recorded by MilesE. W. North on 24th Oct WED 1961, in Uganda. WED "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> WED WED 06:00 Today b068vy0m (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Bringing Up Britain b068vy0p (Listen) WED Series 8, Divorce and Separation WED WED With nearly a third of all children likely to experience WED their parents separating by the age of 16, Mariella Frostrup WED explores what a parent can do when they have decided to end WED their relationship. WED WED What is the best way to break the news to your child? How WED should you manage sharing the children's time? When is it WED right to introduce new partners? Or should we just be trying WED harder to stay together for the kids? WED WED For the second in a new series of Radio 4's parenting WED programme, Mariella is joined by experts to discuss how best WED to parent through a divorce or separation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b069b5xj (Listen) WED Maggie Smith: A Biography, Episode 3 WED WED No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped WED witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's WED best-loved actors. This new biography shines the WED stage-lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable WED performer, whose career spans six decades. WED WED From her days as a star of West End comedy and revue, Dame WED Maggie's path would cross with those of the greatest actors, WED playwrights and directors of the era. Whether stealing WED scenes from Richard Burton (by his own admission), answering WED back to Laurence Olivier, or impressing Ingmar WED Bergman, her career can be seen as a Who's Who of British WED theatre in the twentieth century. WED WED We also hear about her success in Hollywood - inaugurated by WED her first Oscar for her signature film, The Prime of Miss WED Jean Brodie - as well as her subsequent departure to Canada WED for a prolific four-season run of leading theatre roles. WED WED Recently, Dame Maggie has been as prominent on our screens WED as ever, with high-profile roles as Violet Crawley, the WED formidable Dowager Countess of Grantham in the phenomenally WED successful Downton Abbey, and in the Harry Potter films as WED Professor Minerva McGonagall - a role she describes as 'Miss WED Jean Brodie in a wizard's hat'. WED WED Yet paradoxically, Dame Maggie remains an enigmatic figure, WED rarely appearing in public and carefully guarding her WED considerable talent. Michael Coveney's absorbing biography, WED drawing on personal archives, interviews and encounters with WED the actress, as well as conversations with immediate family WED and dear friends, is therefore as close as it gets to seeing WED the real Maggie Smith. WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Bill Nighy WED Author: Michael Coveney WED Producer: Clive Brill WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b068vy0r (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b068vylm (Listen) WED Prayers for the Stolen, Episode 3 WED WED Prayers For The Stolen 3/5 WED by Jennifer Clement WED dramatised by Jeff Young WED WED Inspired by true stories, this atmospheric drama follows 15 WED year old Ladydi Martinez in the mountain village of WED Guerrero, Nr. Acapulco, Mexico, where being a girl is a WED dangerous thing and mothers disguise them as sons, hiding WED them in holes in the ground as the drugs cartels scourge the WED town, looking for girls to steal. WED Ladydi and Maria skip home from school but when they go into WED Ladydi's house, her mother drunk on beer and tequila, shoots WED Maria, mistaking her for one of the drugs cartel. WED WED Produced and directed by Pauline Harris WED WED More Info:- A timely drama series, as drug kingpin Joaquin WED "El Chapo" Guzman has recently escaped a Mexican prison for WED the second time,. Guzman is considered by US authorities to WED be "the most powerful drug trafficker in the world." He is WED also cited as the 14th wealthiest person in the world. This WED lyrical and atmospheric drama explores the effects of drug WED trafficking through the perspective of a teenage girl, WED LadyDi. WED WED The author, Jennifer Clement is American, was raised and WED lives in Mexico. She has been translated into 22 languages. WED She was awarded the NEA Fellowship for Literature for WED PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN. Clement was president of PEN Mexico WED during a time when Mexico became one of the most dangerous WED places in the world to practice journalism. WED WED Credits WED LadyDi: Gabriela Montaraz WED Rita: Yolanda Vasquez WED Maria: Georgia Boe-Robertson WED Paula: Afrika Fuentes WED Mike: Javier Marzan WED Taxi Driver: Javier Marzan WED Director: Pauline Harris WED Producer: Pauline Harris WED Author: Jennifer Clement WED Adaptor: Jeff Young WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04pvp85 (Listen) WED Grace and Marie - Big Schools and Big Changes WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between eleven year olds WED in their first term at secondary school about the challenges WED of the transition to 'big school'. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Making Waves b068ylrf (Listen) WED Can we make better surfing waves than the wild ocean? WED WED Marine biologist and writer Helen Scales loves surfing. She WED also describes it as an extreme form of delayed WED gratification, especially around the British coast. Nature WED does not make great surfing waves to order. Waiting for the WED perfect wave demands patience, a warm wet suit and a cool WED head (if somebody jumps the queue and steals your ride). WED WED Helen goes in search of short cuts: aquatic engineering to WED make more and better breaks. WED WED Her quest takes her to Boscombe, a seaside neighbourhood of WED Bournemouth. The council spent £3.2 million on an artificial WED surf reef, which was designed to boost the wave height and WED lengthen the ride duration of the surf there. Boscombe was WED already a spot known to the surfing folk of the Dorset coast WED but the artificial reef was going to make Boscombe a WED national surf destination. Unfortunately in 2010, the WED underwater construction (covering the area of a football WED field) failed to do the job and the surfing is, if anything, WED now worse where the reef lies. Helen talks to the surfing WED scientist who diagnosed the reef's ills and to local surfers WED for their take on the Boscombe reef. The final verdict is WED not as damning as you might think. WED WED But Helen has to travel to the Basque Country in Spain to WED find what she's been looking for. She has the most exciting WED surf ride of her life in a man-made lagoon, the Wavegarden, WED in the foothills of the Cantabrian mountains, miles from the WED ocean. Over the last decade a company formed of surfing WED engineers has invented a machine which summons up two sizes WED of perfect surf waves every minute. WED WED Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. WED WED 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b068vymj (Listen) WED Series 4, The Wedding WED WED Damien recounts the events leading up to his marriage to WED long term partner Anthony, when not everything went exactly WED according to plan... WED WED Producer was Sam Michell. WED WED Credits WED Damien Trench: Miles Jupp WED Anthony: Justin Edwards WED Ian Frobisher: Philip Fox WED Damien's Dad: Philip Fox WED Damien's Mum: Selina Cadell WED Mr Mullaney: Brendan Dempsey WED The Celebrant: Jessica Turner WED Gavin Fox: David Acton WED Producer: Sam Michell WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED WED 12:00 News Summary b068s1tg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b06491k8 (Listen) WED 9 September 1915 - Juliet Argent WED WED When Juliet Argent sees her good friend Dorothea struggling WED to cope with impending motherhood, she has a brilliant idea. WED WED Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Juliet: Lizzie Bourne WED Howard: Gunnar Cauthery WED Ralph: Nicholas Murchie WED Marieke: Olivia Ross WED Dorothea: Rachel Shelley WED Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b068xl1j (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b068s1tj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b068vyt1 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 The Lore of the Land b069b5xl (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Dark and foreboding, the dense woodland that once covered so WED much of Great Britain has always been populated with the WED creatures of folklore. In the third episode of her five part WED series exploring the enduring relevance of the folkloric WED creatures of the British landscape, medieval literature WED scholar Dr Carolyne Larrington heads into the heart of an WED ancient forest in Windsor Great Park to seek them out. WED WED Carolyne is joined on her walk by local storyteller and WED expert on Berkshire folktales, David England. As the pair WED venture deeper into the forest David tells the tale of Herne WED the Hunter. Herne is a mysterious figure. Once the king's WED head huntsman, he is gored to death by a raging stag. WED Brought back to life by a mysterious sorcerer, but robbed of WED his skill as a huntsman thanks to the dirty dealings of a WED horde of jealous hunters, Herne eventually hangs himself WED from an oak in the Windsor woods. According to local WED folklore, Herne still rides through Windsor Great Park with WED a pair of antlers upon his head, accompanied by a hunt made WED up of all those who wronged him. WED WED This tradition of a 'wild hunt' has roots in earlier WED folkloric traditions. In the Anglo Saxon world, Woden the WED storm god leads a host of spectral huntsmen, and in Wales an WED underworld figure called Gwyn ap Nudd is said to be followed WED by a hunt that includes a pack of white hounds with red eyes WED and ears. WED WED Carolyne argues that, while we've lost much of our medieval WED woodland, the forest still arouses a primeval sense of awe WED and terror. The woods are where we imagine the terrifying, WED the alluring and the uncivilised to range freely, inviting WED us to shed our city identities and return to a more WED instinctual way of being. WED WED Producer: Max O'Brien WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b068xdrl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b068vyt3 (Listen) WED The Interrogation, Riz WED WED by Roy Williams WED WED With Kenneth Cranham as DCI Max Matthews and Alex Lanipekun WED as DS Sean Armitage. The boys are getting back into the swim WED after Sean's return to work. 2/3 An American movie star is WED burgled, but the details of the case seem odd. 2/3 The story WED of Riz. WED WED Director ..... Mary Peate WED WED Notes WED WED The fourth series of The Interrogation featuring Kenneth WED Cranham and Alex Lanipekun as two police officers from WED different generations and different worlds who nonetheless WED form a remarkable interrogation team. WED WED Credits WED DCI Max Matthews: Kenneth Cranham WED DS Sean Armitage: Alex Lanipekun WED Riz: Nabil Elouahabi WED Tara: Joanna Horton WED Derek: Chris Pavlo WED Reporter: Stephen Critchlow WED Director: Mary Peate WED Writer: Roy Williams WED WED 15:00 Money Box b068w1h0 (Listen) WED How do criminals posing as your bank gain access to your WED cash? We hear the moment when one suspicious bank customer WED is persuaded to hand over the contents of her current WED account. WED WED 'Vishing', where fraudsters make a telephone call and WED pretend to be a bank representative is now the most common WED type of phone scam. £23.6m was stolen in this way last year WED and over 70% of victims do not get their money back say the WED Financial Ombudsman Service. WED WED So how do criminals convince us to reveal closely guarded WED personal details or transfer our personal savings to them? WED WED Money Box listener Mrs Sadjady was duped into handing over WED £12,000 in July, but a telephone device installed by her son WED means that all the calls were recorded. These recordings WED have been given to Money Box by Mrs Sadjady as a warning to WED others. WED WED On today's programme we'll play the key moments in these WED recordings to expose the techniques, manipulation and WED pressures used by such criminals. WED WED Joining presenter Paul Lewis to with tips on how to beat the WED fraudsters and protect your identity will be: WED WED DCI Matt Bradford, City of London Police/Action Fraud. WED Terry Lawson, Head of Fraud, RBS. WED Ed Wallace, MWR Info Security. WED Stephen Lea, Professor of Psychology, University of Exeter. WED WED Has this happened to you? If you have questions about fraud WED or experiences you'd like to share, call 03700100444 from 1 WED to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED Action Fraud: 0300 123 2040 (textphone 0300 123 2050). WED The Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit WED Financial Ombudsman Service WED Financial Ombudsman Service: calling time on telephone WED fraud. WED Get Safe Online WED Money Saving Expert: Called by an 'anti-fraud team'? Watch WED you don't get scammed WED British Bankers' Association: Fraud Awareness WED Money Advice Service: Protecting yourself from scams and WED theft WED Financial Conduct Authority: Scams WED WED WED WED WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b068xg8b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Inconspicuous Consumption b05n1dnx (Listen) WED Jack Monroe delves into cupboards and kitchen cabinets to WED find out how we consume and care about our crockery. WED WED This is no trivial matter. Tableware is the result of a WED negotiation involving your household rituals, attitudes to WED food and aesthetics. The relationship between cup and lip WED can get obsessional. It's a delicate subject and one which, WED as Jack discovers, goes deeper than you might imagine. WED WED She talks to people at home in kitchens, in restaurants and WED in warehouses. She speaks to one man who lives in his car WED about his experiments with tableware when he doesn't WED actually have a table, and learns how the choices we make WED about our crockery and the way we treat it can offer vital WED clues to the health of a marriage. WED WED Jack also hears how one woman turned her addiction to WED vintage crockery into a business venture, and meets the WED ceramicist Alison Britton who prefers to drink tea from a WED white cup. WED WED Children are conditioned to tableware sensibility from the WED word go - the reward for eating it all up is the picture at WED the bottom of the bowl. Some stuff is too good to eat from - WED but in Greece they ritually smash their plates on the most WED important occasions. Why? WED WED And then there's the office mug collection and the tense WED negotiations of personality and status - as Jack, who WED remembers days in the emergency services, knows only too WED well. WED WED Producer: Sarah Cuddon WED A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b068xjtb (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b068xjtd (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b068s1tl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b03k0s5j (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 2 WED WED Comedy sketches from the quirky world of David Mitchell and WED Robert Webb. WED WED Credits WED Performer: David Mitchell WED Performer: Robert Webb WED WED 19:00 The Archers b068xjtg (Listen) WED Ruth feels out of the loop, and Carol has a blooming good WED idea. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b068xl1l (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b068vylm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 The Migration Dilemma b06cyg33 (Listen) WED A discussion on Radio 4. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b068w44v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:15 Drama: Our Sea b06c0ch5 (Listen) WED Ronan Bennett drama about the desperate migrant crisis in WED the Mediterranean. Mahmoud, Yasser, Shaibul, Marwan and WED Letebrhane share their experiences as they fight for their WED lives hours after their boat is sank by traffickers. Lindsay WED Duncan and Stephen Rea star. WED WED Ronan Bennett is a novelist and screenwriter who was born WED and brought up in Northern Ireland and now lives in London. WED His third novel, 'The Catastrophist' was nominated for the WED Whitbread award in 1998. 'Havoc, in Its Third Year' (2004) WED was listed for the Booker prize. His latest novel is WED 'Zugzwang'. His screen credits include the BBC series' '10 WED Days to War' and 'Hidden', as well as 'Top Boy' and 'Public WED Enemies'. WED WED Writer ..... Ronan Bennett WED Director ..... Stephen Wright WED Producer ..... Jenny Thompson WED Producer ..... Gemma McMullan. WED WED Credits WED The Narrator: Lindsay Duncan WED The Writer: Stephen Rea WED Mahmoud: Amir El-Masry WED Alice: Evie Killip WED Letebrhane: Noma Dumezweni WED Yasser: Waleed Elgadi WED Shaibul: Peter Singh WED Marwan: Rez Kempton WED Tom: George Watkins WED Lady Anelay: Jessica Turner WED Writer: Ronan Bennett WED Director: Stephen Wright WED Producer: Jenny Thompson WED Producer: Gemma McMullan WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b068xjtn (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b068xjtq (Listen) WED The Past, Episode 3 WED WED Today: Pilar confides in Harriet and Kasim finds the WED children useful allies in his romantic campaign. WED WED Sian Thomas reads Tessa Hadley's powerful and haunting new WED novel, a beautifully observed portrait of a family and the WED change wrought by time across the generations. WED WED Three middle-aged sisters and a brother meet up in their WED grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. WED Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate tensions. WED Secrets, misunderstandings and passion play out as the WED characters shift and reappraise and a way of life - WED bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its WED inevitable end. WED WED While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents WED approach each other, the children watch and come to their WED own conclusions. WED WED Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute WED observer of character, time and place and the most published WED short story writer in the New Yorker in recent years. WED WED The reader is Sian Thomas WED The abridger is Sally Marmion WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Sian Thomas WED Author: Tessa Hadley WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Di Speirs WED WED 23:00 Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side WED b068xjts (Listen) WED Series 2, The State of the Arts WED WED A host of issues wait to be explored in a second series of WED Elvis McGonagall's daft comic world of poems, mad sketches, WED satire and facetious remarks broadcast from his home in the WED Graceland Caravan Park just outside Dundee. WED WED Episode 3. The State of the Arts. Elvis is struggling to WED make ends meet and his dog Trouble likes meat. To add insult WED to injury everybody wants a struggling poet to work for free WED these days. Should he compromise himself artistically? Would WED anybody notice? Or should he diversify? Even if it means WED working for local wheeler dealer Mr. Szczypkowsky? WED WED As Elvis, poet Richard Smith is the 2006 World Poetry Slam WED Champion, the compere of the notorious Blue Suede Sporran WED Club and appears regularly on BBC Radio 4. WED WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Clarke Peters WED Elvis MacGonagall: Richard Smith WED Susan the Postie: Susan Morrison WED Actor: Lewis Mcleod WED Actor: Gabriel Quigley WED Actor: Frank Stirling WED Actor: Helen Braunholtz-Smith WED WED 23:15 The Lach Chronicles b036vvrx (Listen) WED Series 1, The Night Dylan Came WED WED Lach was the King of Manhattan's East Village and host of WED the longest running open mic night in New York. WED WED He now lives in Scotland and finds himself back at square WED one, playing in a dive bar on the wrong side of Edinburgh. WED His night, held in various venues around New York, was WED called the Antihoot. WED WED He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff Buckley and many WED others, he discovered and nurtured lots of talent - WED including Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches - but WED nobody discovered him. WED WED Many people came to see him in New York and, in this WED episode, Lach remembers the night Bob Dylan arrived. WED WED Written and performed by Lach WED WED Sound design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin WED WED Producer: Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b068xjtv (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports on the first Prime Minister's Questions WED since July. WED WED THU THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b068s1vf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b069b5xj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b068s1vh (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b068s1vk (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b068s1vm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b068s1vp (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b068xlbj (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Claire THU Campbell Smith. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b068xlbl (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sophie Anton. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwkp (Listen) THU Swainson's Hawk THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the North American Swainson's THU hawk. About the size of the European buzzard, Swainson's THU hawks are dark-brown birds, rusty brown on the chest and THU white on the belly, and a familiar sight across open THU farmland and prairies of western North America where they THU soar effortlessly in search in prey. Most winter in South THU America, this epic round-trip of around 20,000 kilometres is THU probably the longest regular migration made by any American THU bird of prey. When they reach their wintering grounds they THU switch diet. In North America they feed mainly on mammals, THU but in South America, they gather in flocks to hunt THU dragonflies and grasshoppers in the vast pampas plains. THU THU Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Diana McAllister / naturepl.com THU NPL Ref 01343726 THU © Diana McAllister / naturepl.com THU THU Recording of Swainson's hawk by William W. H. Gunn / Ref: ML THU 59299 THU THU This programme contains a wildtrack THU recording of the Swainson's hawk THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by William W. H. Gunn on 17 May THU 1961, in Saskatchewan, Canada. THU THU 06:00 Today b068xnlw (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Keir Hardie: Labour's First Leader b068xnly (Listen) THU Gordon Brown first learned about Keir Hardie whilst an THU undergraduate at Edinburgh University. Lying in hospital, THU temporarily blinded, he listened to tapes sent by Hardie's THU biographer, Fred Reid. Now Gordon goes on a personal journey THU to trace Hardie's footsteps from the shipyards of Govan to THU Lanarkshire mining villages. On the journey he attempts to THU understand how Hardie, an illegitimate child, brought up in THU dire poverty and with no formal schooling, who was down the THU mines by the age of 10, became the first leader of the THU Labour Party. THU THU Visiting the church Hardie joined in Hamilton, a town where THU Gordon's own father was a minister, he explores the THU influence of Christianity and temperance on Hardie's THU political development. Arriving at Hardie's final home in THU Cumnock, Brown concludes it was his moral outrage at the THU poverty, hypocrisy and injustice he experienced in early THU life, followed by his conversion to socialism whilst working THU as a union agent, that convinced Hardie of the need for a THU new party to represent working people in Parliament. THU THU 09:30 A Wonderful Way to Make a Living b00d74s5 (Listen) THU Series 2, Gondolier THU THU American humourist Joe Queenan travels to Venice in search THU of entertaining characters in niche careers. There he meets THU a lawyer who retrained as a gondolier - Giovanni Giudice was THU tired of profiting from other people's problems and wanted THU to make them smile instead. THU The producer is Miles Warde. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b069b5yy (Listen) THU Maggie Smith: A Biography, Episode 4 THU THU No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped THU witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's THU best-loved actors. This new biography shines the THU stage-lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable THU performer, whose career spans six decades. THU THU From her days as a star of West End comedy and revue, Dame THU Maggie's path would cross with those of the greatest actors, THU playwrights and directors of the era. Whether stealing THU scenes from Richard Burton (by his own admission), answering THU back to Laurence Olivier, or impressing Ingmar THU Bergman, her career can be seen as a Who's Who of British THU theatre in the twentieth century. THU THU We also hear about her success in Hollywood - inaugurated by THU her first Oscar for her signature film, The Prime of Miss THU Jean Brodie - as well as her subsequent departure to Canada THU for a prolific four-season run of leading theatre roles. THU THU Recently, Dame Maggie has been as prominent on our screens THU as ever, with high-profile roles such as Violet Crawley, the THU formidable Dowager Countess of Grantham in the phenomenally THU successful Downton Abbey, and in the Harry Potter films as THU Professor Minerva McGonagall - a role she describes as 'Miss THU Jean Brodie in a wizard's hat'. THU THU Yet paradoxically, Dame Maggie remains an enigmatic figure, THU rarely appearing in public and carefully guarding her THU considerable talent. Michael Coveney's absorbing biography, THU drawing on personal archives, interviews and encounters with THU the actress, as well as conversations with immediate family THU and dear friends, is therefore as close as it gets to seeing THU the real Maggie Smith. THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Bill Nighy THU Author: Michael Coveney THU Producer: Clive Brill THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b068xnm0 (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b068xnm2 (Listen) THU Prayers for the Stolen, Episode 4 THU THU Prayers For The Stolen 4/5 THU by Jennifer Clement THU dramatised by Jeff Young THU Inspired by true stories, this atmospheric drama follows 15 THU year old Ladydi Martinez in the mountain village of THU Guerrero, Nr. Acapulco, Mexico, where being a girl is a THU dangerous thing and mothers disguise them as sons, hiding THU them in holes in the ground as the drugs cartels scourge the THU town, looking for girls to steal. Paula's brother Mike THU drives LadyDi to Acapulco where she will work as a servant THU to a rich family. Halfway there Mike turns off down a dirt THU track, parks up outside a shack and locks her in the car. THU When he returns he hands her a plastic bag and tells her to THU look after it until he collects it. Life changes forever for THU LadyDi. THU THU Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU Credits THU LadyDi: Gabriela Montaraz THU Rita: Yolanda Vasquez THU Julio: Joseph Balderrama THU Cop: Joseph Balderrama THU Reporter: Joseph Balderrama THU Mike: Javier Marzan THU Reporter: Javier Marzan THU Director: Pauline Harris THU Producer: Pauline Harris THU Author: Jennifer Clement THU Adaptor: Jeff Young THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b068xnm4 (Listen) THU Paraguay's Schoolgirl Mothers THU THU In April, the case of a 10 year old girl who became pregnant THU after her step-father raped her became front-page news in THU Paraguay, and across Latin America. Abortion is legal in THU this small South American nation only if the mother's life THU is deemed to be in danger. In this case, the authorities THU ruled there was no threat to the girl, and the pregnancy THU continued. But this isn't a one-off example of children THU getting pregnant: more than 700 girls aged 14 and under gave THU birth in 2014. That's more or less two a day. THU THU The 10 year old's pregnancy spawned a series of THU demonstrations and huge debate: about abortion, sex THU education, and the failure of the criminal justice system to THU prosecute the perpetrators of the abuse of children. THU THU For Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly meets some of the THU schoolgirl mothers, and explores the reasons why Paraguayan THU girls are especially vulnerable to abuse. Why are families, THU the state and the law failing to protect them? THU THU 11:30 Too Much Fighting on the Dance Floor b068xrkt (Listen) THU Why was British music in the late 1970's and early 80's so THU tribal and so violent? If going to a musical gig now is THU about having fun and enjoying a "party" atmosphere, it used THU to be very different. It was an era when music was taken THU very seriously. For many, it defined who you were. Writer THU Paul Morley says: "Back then the music you liked was a THU matter of life and death." THU THU It was common for musical differences to end in violence. THU Peter Hook, of Joy Division and then New Order, says "There THU were riots all the time at gigs." THU THU And it was a time when politics played a much more prominent THU role in popular culture. Neville Staple of Two-Tone group, THU The Specials, recalls the havoc caused by the far right THU National Front. "We used to get a lot of conflict at our THU gigs ...we always used to get the NF," he says. THU THU Adrian Goldberg looks back at a culture divided by haircuts, THU clothes, class and politics. What did this tribalism say THU about Britain then? THU THU The programme includes contributors from Peter Hook of Joy THU Division and New Order; Peter Hooton from The Farm; Pauline THU Black of Selecter; Neville Staple of the Specials; Clare THU Grogan of Altered Images plus music journalists Paul Morley, THU ex New Musical Express and Garry Bushell of Sounds. It also THU has a stellar soundtrack from the era. THU THU Producer: Jim Frank. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b068s1vr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b06491kb (Listen) THU 10 September 1915 - Maggie Macknade THU THU Maggie Macknade is the only person in her household who THU seems to understand the dangers of harbouring a deserter. THU THU Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Maggie: Hollie Thoupos THU Roy: Tim Beckmann THU Dolly: Elaine Claxton THU Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell THU Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson THU Ivy: Lizzy Watts THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b0694xql (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b068s1vt (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0694xqn (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 The Lore of the Land b069b60w (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU The fourth episode of medieval literature scholar Dr THU Carolyne Larrington's series exploring the enduring THU relevance of the creatures of British folklore. On the THU Orkney isles, local storyteller Lynn Barbour is on hand to THU recount folktales filled with the mysterious beings that are THU said to live in the sea and on the shore. THU THU Gazing out to sea, Carolyne spies a seal in the bay. Lynn THU explains that grey seals, known locally as selkies, play an THU important role in Orkney folklore. It is said that selkies THU shed their skins and come on land in human form. The selkies THU are known to have relationships with humans, but these often THU end badly. THU THU Lynn tells the tale of the Selkie of Wastness in which a man THU steals a selkie maiden's skin and persuades her to become THU his wife. We also hear the story of the Selkie of Sule THU Skerry which features a lonely wife forming a relationship THU with a selkie man in her husband's absence. The couple have THU a selkie child, but when the husband returns he kills both THU the child and the selkie man while hunting. THU THU And there are tales of the Sea Trow, with their faces like THU monkeys made of jellyfish and the Muckle Mester Stoorworm, a THU great serpent that once spat out its teeth which formed the THU Orkney isles. With the sea lapping in the background, Lynn THU describes the Finn-men who live in a watery city down in the THU depths of the sea and beckon sailors to join them. THU THU Carolyne explains that these local tales examine the THU boundary between sea and shore. In Orkney, there are THU possibilities to cross that boundary close at hand, but the THU stories warn that you do so at your peril. THU THU Transformation, tragedy, desire and despair mark these tales THU of sea and shore. THU THU Producer: Max O'Brien THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b068xjtg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b068xwlx (Listen) THU See THU THU Drama: See by Katharine Way THU Cassie has retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease. THU She falls in love with Danny and moves in with him. The THU problem is Danny has a protective older brother who thinks THU Cassie is faking her disability. A psychological thriller THU about sight and perception. THU THU Director/Producer Gary Brown. THU THU Credits THU Steve: Anthony Flanagan THU Cassie: Erin Shanagher THU Danny: Gerard Kearns THU Becky: Verity Henry THU Nicola: Verity Henry THU Director: Gary Brown THU Producer: Gary Brown THU Writer: Katharine Way THU THU 15:00 Open Country b068xwlz (Listen) THU The Naze in Essex THU THU The quiet seaside town of Walton-on-the-Naze in the THU north-east corner of Essex lies at the end of the 'Essex THU Sunshine Coast' train line, after its neighbours THU Frinton-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea. If you walk along the THU seafront, past the pier and sandy beaches to the north of THU the town, you reach the headland of the Naze, where the land THU comes to an abrupt end by rugged cliffs and dissolves into THU flat watery creeks. THU THU Helen Mark is here to explore the unique heritage, geology, THU and ecology of the Naze and meet those involved with its THU conservation and restoration. The prominent feature of the THU headland is the 18th century navigational tower, which THU stands on top of fossil bearing cliffs that are THU internationally recognised for their geological value. THU Behind that lies the watery world of Hamford Water, an THU important reserve for plants and wildlife, and the setting THU and inspiration for the 8th book in Arthur Ransome's THU Swallows and Amazons series, the aptly named Secret Water. THU Helen also hears about the connection between THU Walton-on-the-Naze and the pirate radio station, Radio THU Caroline, whose ships were moored off the coast in the THU 1960s, 70s and 80s. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Sophie Anton. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b068s44m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b068sjpd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b068xwm1 (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b068xwm3 (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b068xwm5 (Listen) THU News interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b068s1vw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b068xwm7 (Listen) THU Coding Special THU THU This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his THU newest new curator Sarah Millican welcome: THU THU - Matt Parker, who left Australia to teach maths in the UK THU before joining the Festival of the Spoken Nerd comedy group. THU He is a regular on Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage, THU presents the Discovery Channel's You Have Been Warned and THU has shown off his Rubik's Cube skills on CBBC's How to Be THU Epic at Everything. His latest book Things to Make and Do in THU the Fourth Dimension explores such topics as the fairest way THU to cut a pizza and the most efficient way to tie your THU shoelaces. Matt's favourite numbers are 496, 3,435 and THU 2,025. THU THU - Eben Upton, who in 2006 conceived the idea of the THU Raspberry Pi, a credit-card sized fully-programmable THU computer that went on sale in 2011 and has since sold more THU than 5 million, becoming the fastest-selling British THU personal computer in history. MIT has since named him one of THU the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35 and he has THU been awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal. THU THU - Sydney Padua, a Canadian graphic novelist and animator and THU who has worked on blockbuster movies such as The THU Illusionist, Clash of the Titans and John Carter as well as THU teaching at the Animation Workshop in Denmark and at the THU University of Middlesex. Most recently she has written and THU illustrated The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and THU Babbage, a New York Times bestselling graphic novel in which THU 19th century computer pioneers Ada Lovelace and Charles THU Babbage build a vast mechanical computer - and use it to THU fight crime for Queen Victoria. THU THU This week, the Museum's Steering Committee discusses THU computers made with dominoes, praises the mother of all THU computer programs and reveals that the first computer bug THU was actually a moth. THU THU The show was researched by Anne Miller and Stevyn Colgan of THU QI. THU THU The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin and was a THU BBC Radio Comedy Production. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: John Lloyd THU Presenter: Sarah Millican THU Interviewed Guest: Matt Parker THU Interviewed Guest: Eben Upton THU Interviewed Guest: Sydney Padua THU Producer: Richard Turner THU Producer: James Harkin THU THU 19:00 The Archers b068xwm9 (Listen) THU Jolene offers a sympathetic ear, and Kenton seeks THU inspiration. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0694zdl (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b068xnm2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b068xx7m (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b068xx7p (Listen) THU Steinway THU THU For more than 150 years, Steinway and Sons have been THU building handmade pianos to please the ear of the most THU discerning musicians. Their sound fills concert halls around THU the world. Why? Is it simply because they're the best; the THU best marketed or is there another reason? THU THU Peter Day visits one of Steinway's two factories, in Astoria THU New York, to find out what gives this instrument its prized THU status in the concert world and ask if this once family THU owned firm can keep its place on the world stage. THU THU Producer: THU Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b068xwm3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Keir Hardie: Labour's First Leader b068xnly (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b068xx7r (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b068xx7t (Listen) THU The Past, Episode 4 THU THU Today: Ivy loses her temper and keeps her secret close and THU Kasim repays Alice with a joke. THU THU Sian Thomas reads Tessa Hadley's powerful and haunting new THU novel, a beautifully observed portrait of a family and the THU change wrought by time across the generations. THU THU Three middle-aged sisters and a brother meet up in their THU grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. THU Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate tensions. THU Secrets, misunderstandings and passion play out as the THU characters shift and reappraise and a way of life - THU bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its THU inevitable end. THU THU While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents THU approach each other, the children watch and come to their THU own conclusions. THU THU Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute THU observer of character, time and place and the most published THU short story writer in the New Yorker in recent years. THU THU The reader is Sian Thomas THU The abridger is Sally Marmion THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Sian Thomas THU Author: Tessa Hadley THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Di Speirs THU THU 23:00 Richard Marsh: Cardboard Heart b068xyz6 (Listen) THU New Job THU THU Award-winning writer and poet Richard Marsh stars alongside THU Russell Tovey and Phil Daniels in this new hilarious and THU heart-warming sitcom, set in a greetings card company. THU THU In this first episode, the team battle each other for a new THU job that's just opened up in the office. Will tries to make THU himself the model candidate and takes to the street to learn THU what the public really want when it comes to greetings cards THU - but he finds that all he really wants to do is make THU himself the model candidate for the attractive woman he THU meet. THU THU Will, a hapless romantic who's keen to find love is an THU aspiring writer with a 9 to 5 job writing poetry at a THU greetings card company. THU THU Will shares an office with Goadsby, who's responsible for THU the card artwork and being Will's nemesis, Colin, the firm's THU safety and survival-obsessed accountant and charming THU renegade salesman Beast. Rog is their roguish, commandeering THU boss. THU THU Paid to express heartfelt emotions for people he will never THU meet, Will consistently fails to express himself properly to THU anyone he does meet. Every social interaction is a minefield THU for Will. In his head, he knows exactly what to say but the THU minute he opens his mouth, it's a disaster. THU THU Produced by Ben Worsfield THU Directed by Pia Furtado THU A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Will: Richard Marsh THU Goadsby: Rebecca Scroggs THU Colin: Sam Troughton THU Beast: Russell Tovey THU Rog: Phil Daniels THU Actor: Olivia Poulet THU Writer: Richard Marsh THU Producer: Ben Worsfield THU Director: Pia Furtado THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b068xyz8 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b068s1x0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b069b5yy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b068s1x2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b068s1x4 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b068s1x6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b068s1x8 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0694zx2 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Claire FRI Campbell Smith. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0694zx4 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwbt (Listen) FRI African Southern Ground Hornbill FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the African Southern Ground FRI hornbill. Ground hornbills live in south and south-east FRI Africa. They're glossy black birds, as big as turkeys with FRI huge downward-curving bills. The bird produces a deep FRI booming sound that reverberates over long distances, FRI sometimes as much as 5 kilometres, across its grassy FRI habitat. Preferring to walk rather than fly, they strut FRI about in the long grass, searching for prey. Snakes are a FRI favourite: even deadly puff adders are no match for the FRI birds' bludgeoning beaks. FRI FRI African Southern ground hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Denis-Huot / naturepl.com. FRI NPL Ref 0141300 FRI © Denis-Huot / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0694zx6 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b069gvl5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b069b674 (Listen) FRI Maggie Smith: A Biography, Episode 5 FRI FRI No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped FRI witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's FRI best-loved actors. This new biography shines the FRI stage-lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable FRI performer, whose career spans six decades. FRI FRI From her days as a star of West End comedy and revue, Dame FRI Maggie's path would cross with those of the greatest actors, FRI playwrights and directors of the era. Whether stealing FRI scenes from Richard Burton (by his own admission), answering FRI back to Laurence Olivier, or impressing Ingmar FRI Bergman, her career can be seen as a Who's Who of British FRI theatre in the twentieth century. FRI FRI We also hear about her success in Hollywood - inaugurated by FRI her first Oscar for her signature film, The Prime of Miss FRI Jean Brodie - as well as her subsequent departure to Canada FRI for a prolific four-season run of leading theatre roles. FRI FRI Recently, Dame Maggie has been as prominent on our screens FRI as ever, with high-profile roles as Violet Crawley, the FRI formidable Dowager Countess of Grantham in the phenomenally FRI successful Downton Abbey, and in the Harry Potter films as FRI Professor Minerva McGonagall - a role she describes as 'Miss FRI Jean Brodie in a wizard's hat'. FRI FRI Yet paradoxically, Dame Maggie remains an enigmatic figure, FRI rarely appearing in public and carefully guarding her FRI considerable talent. Michael Coveney's absorbing biography, FRI drawing on personal archives, interviews and encounters with FRI the actress, as well as conversations with immediate family FRI and dear friends, is therefore as close as it gets to seeing FRI the real Maggie Smith. FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Bill Nighy FRI Author: Michael Coveney FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0694zx8 (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b068yc88 (Listen) FRI Prayers for the Stolen, Episode 5 FRI FRI Prayers For The Stolen 5/5 FRI by Jennifer Clement FRI dramatised by Jeff Young FRI FRI Inspired by true stories, this atmospheric drama follows FRI teenager Ladydi Martinez in the mountain village of FRI Guerrero, Nr. Acapulco, Mexico, where being a girl is a FRI dangerous thing and mothers disguise them as sons, hiding FRI them in holes in the ground as the drugs cartels scourge the FRI town, looking for girls to steal. FRI LadyDi is in Mexico City in prison for a crime she did not FRI commit. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Pauline Harris FRI FRI More Info:- A timely drama series, as drug kingpin Joaquin FRI "El Chapo" Guzman has recently escaped a Mexican prison for FRI the second time,. Guzman is considered by US authorities to FRI be "the most powerful drug trafficker in the world." He is FRI also cited as the 14th wealthiest person in the world. This FRI lyrical and atmospheric drama explores the effects of drug FRI trafficking through the perspective of a teenage girl, FRI LadyDi. FRI FRI Credits FRI LadyDi: Gabriela Montaraz FRI Rita: Yolanda Vasquez FRI Maria: Georgia Boe-Robertson FRI Aurora: Georgia Boe-Robertson FRI Luna: Victoria Inez-Hardy FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI Author: Jennifer Clement FRI Adaptor: Jeff Young FRI FRI 11:00 Ginny in the Hut b068yc8d (Listen) FRI Virginia Fiennes, first wife of explorer Sir Ranulph, is FRI remembered by friends and family, and through the recordings FRI she kept during the expedition that made her husband famous. FRI FRI She sat alone for months in a 10 foot hut under the snow, FRI with only her dog, Bothie, for company. FRI For much of the duration of her husband's Transglobe FRI expedition, the first circumpolar journey from pole to pole, FRI Ginny Fiennes recorded the strange ethereal sounds coming in FRI from Newfoundland. FRI FRI However, as Base Commander and radio operator for the FRI expedition, she communicated with Ranulph and his team out FRI on the ice, relaying news from the world, updating sponsors FRI at home of their progress and always listening out for FRI mayday signals. FRI FRI The recordings she made during that three year expedition FRI have never been heard. Now, ten years after her death, Sir FRI Ranulph listens to them for the first time. FRI FRI Producer: Emma Colman FRI A Kati Whitaker production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Sisters b068yc8j (Listen) FRI It's the 10th Anniversary of Fiona's disastrous wedding but, FRI as with previous years, she refuses to confront the pain of FRI being jilted and instead gets very drunk. FRI FRI Susan decides this denial has gone on long enough and sets FRI about trying to help her come to terms with it by staging an FRI unusual re-enactment. FRI FRI As she ropes Blake in to help, it becomes clear that Susan's FRI methods of healing aren't exactly conventional and the cats FRI in bow ties, a greased mannequin and a cleaner who takes her FRI role as seductress very seriously all push Fiona to the FRI limits of what she can cope with. FRI FRI Written by Susan Calman FRI Starring: Susan Calman, Ashley Jensen, Nick Helm FRI FRI Producer: Mollie Freedman Berthoud FRI Executive Producer: Paul Schlesinger FRI A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Susan Calman FRI Actor: Ashley Jensen FRI Actor: Nick Helm FRI Writer: Susan Calman FRI Producer: Mollie Freedman Berthoud FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b068s1xb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b06491kd (Listen) FRI 11 September 1915 - Florrie Wilson FRI FRI Florrie agrees to accompany her neighbour Sally on a strange FRI visit. FRI FRI Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Sally: Sarah Thom FRI Clemmie: Joanna Monro FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b0694zxb (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b068s1xd (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0694zxd (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 The Lore of the Land b069b676 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI In the final episode of her five part series exploring the FRI enduring relevance of the creatures of Great British FRI folklore, medieval literature scholar Dr Carolyne Larrington FRI travels to Hart Hall in Glaisdale, North Yorkshire. FRI FRI Strolling down towards Hart Hall and its surrounding dairy FRI farm, Carolyne is joined by local storyteller Rose Rylands. FRI Rose explains that Hart Hall features in a local folktale FRI which involves a peculiar creature known as a hob. Hobs are FRI small dwarf like beings, covered in shaggy hair. They're FRI said to have large feet and superhuman strength. According FRI to local folklore, hobs take up residence on certain farms FRI and stay for generations, working in secret to provide FRI assistance to the farmer. FRI FRI Standing in a barn, surrounded by calves, Rose tells the FRI tale of the hob of Hart Hall who saved a bumper harvest from FRI being ruined by the rain. The farm hands reward the hob with FRI a hemp shirt and a leather belt for his efforts, however FRI this causes grave offence and the hob storms off never to be FRI seen again. Carolyne reveals that, by giving him a gift, the FRI farm hands had inadvertently treated the hob like an FRI employee who gets paid in kind, rather than a spirit who FRI gives his labour for free. FRI FRI Carolyne and Rose head to Runswick Bay where they creep FRI inside a cave known as the Hob Hole which is said to be the FRI residence of a hob with medicinal powers. For years locals FRI would bring their children to the cave in the hope that the FRI hob would cure them of whooping cough. FRI FRI Back at Hart Hall we hear tales of other farm spirits such FRI as the Hogboon and the mischievous boggart. Carolyne FRI explains that labour relations and our treatment of people FRI in the workplace are central to these tales. FRI FRI Producer: Max O'Brien FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b068xwm9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b068yd6k (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 4 FRI FRI Drama: Brief Lives by Tom Fry & Sharon Kelly FRI A black teenager is arrested for the suspected murder of his FRI friend. It seems they had an argument over a mobile phone FRI that got out of hand. But Frank discovers that the case is FRI not so straightforward. They are both the sons of senior FRI policemen. FRI FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank: David Schofield FRI Jerome: David Judge FRI Carly: Kate Coogan FRI Anthony: Kevin Harvey FRI Paul: David Cordon FRI Sergeant: Russell Richardson FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Tom Fry FRI Writer: Sharon Kelly FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b068yd6m (Listen) FRI Ayr FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from FRI Ayr Town Hall. Matthew Wilson, Anne Swithinbank and Bunny FRI Guinness answer local gardeners' questions. FRI FRI Produced by Dan Cocker. FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton. FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Angielski b068yd6p (Listen) FRI Fox Season FRI FRI Three newly commissioned stories offering different angles FRI on the Polish experience in London. FRI FRI Estimates vary but there are now approximately 750,000 Poles FRI living in the UK. And Polish is now the second most spoken FRI language in England. Much of this is the result of FRI immigration since Poland joined the EU in 2004 - but there FRI is also an older community that developed in the years after FRI the Polish Resettlement Act of 1947. FRI FRI Episode 3: Fox Season by Agnieszka Dale FRI Despite her husband's objections, Emilia is determined to FRI keep feeding the foxes at night. FRI FRI Reader: Anamaria Marinca FRI FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Agnieszka Dale FRI Reader: Anamaria Marinca FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06950lh (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b06950lm (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04pvp8t (Listen) FRI Kate and Rachel - Limestone beneath My Feet and above My FRI Head FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a poet fascinated by FRI the limestone landscape of her home and a theatre director FRI who values the secrets hidden beneath the limestone. 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 b06950lr (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b068s1xg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b068yf8s (Listen) FRI Series 15, Episode 5 FRI FRI A satirical take on politics, media and celebrity. FRI FRI Featuring Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson, Jan Ravens, Lewis FRI MacLeod and Duncan Wisbey. FRI FRI Produced by Bill Dare. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Jon Culshaw FRI Performer: Debra Stephenson FRI Performer: Jan Ravens FRI Performer: Lewis Macleod FRI Performer: Duncan Wisbey FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b068yf8v (Listen) FRI Is Kenton ready to accept help? Neil is dressed to impress. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Gillian Richmond FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Usha Franks: Souad Faress FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06950lt (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b068yc88 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b068yf8x (Listen) FRI Vince Cable, Dan Jarvis MP, Allison Pearson FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Richard Hale School in Hertford with the former FRI Business Secretary Vince Cable and Shadow Minister for FRI Foreign Affairs, Dan Jarvis MP and the Daily Telegraph FRI Columnist Allison Pearson. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b068yf8z (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06492dw (Listen) FRI 7-11 September 1915 FRI FRI Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War FRI Britain a hundred years ago this week, when the population FRI was beginning to open up to thoughts of the hereafter. FRI FRI Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Story-led by Sarah Daniels FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sergeant: David Acton FRI Roy: Tim Beckmann FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Howard: Gunnar Cauthery FRI Dolly: Elaine Claxton FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Sylvia: Joanna David FRI Bert: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Young Man: Jack Holden FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Clemmie: Joanna Monro FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Mr Clemons: Chris Pavlo FRI Marieke: Olivia Ross FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Adeline: Helen Schlesinger FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Sally: Sarah Thom FRI Maggie: Hollie Thoupos FRI Girl: Alex Tregear FRI Jessie: Lizzy Watts FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b068s1xj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06950ly (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b068yhql (Listen) FRI The Past, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today: The children observe more strange adult behaviour and FRI Harriet experiences something new. FRI FRI Sian Thomas reads Tessa Hadley's powerful and haunting new FRI novel, a beautifully observed portrait of a family and the FRI change wrought by time across the generations. FRI FRI Three middle-aged sisters and a brother meet up in their FRI grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. FRI Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate tensions. FRI Secrets, misunderstandings and passion play out as the FRI characters shift and reappraise and a way of life - FRI bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its FRI inevitable end. FRI FRI While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents FRI approach each other, the children watch and come to their FRI own conclusions. FRI FRI Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute FRI observer of character, time and place and the most published FRI short story writer in the New Yorker in recent years. FRI FRI The reader is Sian Thomas FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Sian Thomas FRI Author: Tessa Hadley FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Di Speirs FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b068w44x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b068yhqq (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04pshgh (Listen) FRI Mike and Philip - A Love of the Railway FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between two volunteers FRI on the historic Talyllyn narrow-gauge steam railway, who FRI compare notes on how working on it benefits them personally. 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
04 September, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 05/09/2015 - 11/09/2015
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