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SAT SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06f4y1r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06fntm5 (Listen) SAT Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants, Episode 5 SAT SAT In the aftermath of the Falklands victory, Margaret SAT Thatcher's stock was rising. This period of almost five SAT years, up to the 1987 election, could be described as her SAT golden years. With a decisive majority and a pre-eminent SAT place on the world stage she could truly begin to make her SAT mark. SAT SAT Charles Moore was authorised by Margaret Thatcher to write SAT her biography on the condition that it was published after SAT her death. She also encouraged her former staff and SAT colleagues to readily offer their recollections, diaries and SAT memoirs of their time working with and for her. SAT SAT This abridgement for Radio 4 of his second volume offers a SAT series of windows onto the key events of her second term - a SAT term that was packed with challenges and drama. SAT SAT Episode 5: SAT What was she really like? SAT SAT Music : SAT The music used to frame this series reflects the title of SAT the book. As the author writes, "I have called this book SAT Everything She Wants - the title of a song of the time by SAT Wham! - because it expresses Mrs Thatcher's appetite for SAT achievement and change and the degree to which she was the SAT commanding personality of the era; but, hard as she fought SAT for everything she wanted, this was not always what she SAT got." SAT Track: 'Everything She Wants' from the Wham! album Make it SAT Big, 1984 SAT SAT Read by Nicholas Farrell SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Charles Moore SAT Reader: Nicholas Farrell SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06f4y1t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06f4y1w (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06f4y1y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06f4y21 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06fpgbc (Listen) SAT A spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with The SAT Rev Richard Frazer of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06fpgtp (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06f4y23 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06f4y25 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b06fnkdg (Listen) SAT Series 31, Nun Appleton House, North Yorkshire SAT SAT Clare Balding goes in search of Nun Appleton House in North SAT Yorkshire, the subject of one of Andrew Marvells most famous SAT poems. She's accompanied by contemporary landscape poet, SAT John Wedgwood Clarke and Stewart Mottram a Lecturer in SAT Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Hull University. SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: John Wedgwood Clarke SAT Interviewed Guest: Stewart Mottram SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06gtbhz (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally SAT Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06f4y27 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06gtbj1 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b06gtbj3 (Listen) SAT Extraordinary stories, unusual people and a sideways look at SAT the world. SAT SAT 10:30 The Loss of Lostness b06gtfql (Listen) SAT "Let's Get Lost..." croons Chet Baker, harmonising with his SAT own trumpet. It's a recording made in the 1950s, at the SAT high-water mark of jazz, that improvised and meandering art SAT form. Taking his instruction from Baker, Stephen Smith sets SAT out on a journey. SAT SAT But he knows he has a difficult task. Getting lost is SAT getting harder. Modern technology can almost guarantee that SAT we'll never be lost again - in cities, encyclopaedias or SAT record shops. Many of today's teenagers have never been SAT lost, either literally or metaphorically. We've been given SAT wifi-enabled omnipotence. But, Stephen asks, "What's the fun SAT in that?" SAT SAT In the company of other longing-to-be-lost souls, Stephen SAT turns off his GPS and explores the joys of mooching about, SAT taking a wrong turn and stumbling upon an unexpected SAT delight. SAT SAT He has some rollicking encounters along the way. Stephen's SAT attempts to deliberately disorient himself lead him to SAT Hampton Court Maze where he meets a man - incidentally also SAT called Smith - who claims he was clean shaven when he went SAT in. He goes on a Sunday drive - remember them? - with design SAT guru Stephen Bayley where they reminisce about "the SAT Proustian pleasure of a packet of cheese and onion...on an SAT absolutely futile drive". Via Virginia's Woolf's great essay SAT on getting lost, "Street Haunting", he goes to see Graham SAT Gouldman of 10cc. The idea of getting lost strikes a chord SAT with Gouldman. There's lots of messing around on guitars. SAT Gouldman talks about getting lost in the record shops of his SAT youth, relives the writing of their greatest hit "I'm Not in SAT Love", and in the end pens a new song to lostness. Stephen SAT asks Graham what he might do with it. A week later a fully SAT recorded version arrives in Stephen's inbox - and he hits SAT play.... SAT SAT Producer: Adele Armstrong. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b06gtbt0 (Listen) SAT Worlds in Miniature SAT SAT In an ever-expanding world, why do so many of us favour the SAT brevity of a tweet or Facebook post and find scaled down SAT miniature models magical and appealing? Jeff Nunokawa is a SAT literature professor who loves long 19th century novels but SAT reaches out to his students in bite sized posts. Slinkachu SAT is an artist whose miniature figurines could be hidden in a SAT street nearby, waiting for you to stoop down and enter their SAT tiny world. Plus, a salutatory reminder that small is not SAT always better from clinical geneticist Usha Kini who has SAT pioneered research into microcephaly, a medical condition SAT where disrupted growth means smaller than normal heads and SAT brains. Photo: Balancing Act (credit: Slinkachu). SAT SAT Jeff Nunokawa SAT SAT Jeff Nunokawa teaches at Princeton University where he SAT specializes in English Literature from about 1830 till about SAT 1900. Jeff’s most recent book is Note Book, which is a SAT published selection of mini essays that he’s been posting SAT every day in the notes section of Facebook since 2007. SAT His first book, The Afterlife of Property, studies how the SAT novels of Dickens and Eliot labour to preserve the idea of SAT secure possession by overseeing its transfer from the sphere SAT of a cold and uncertain economy to a happier realm of SAT romance. Tame Passions of Wilde: Styles of Manageable of SAT Desire excavates the aspiration to imagine a form of desire SAT as intense as those that compel us, but as light as the SAT daydream or thought experiment safely under our control. SAT SAT Slinkachu SAT SAT Slinkachu’s 'Little People Project' involves the SAT re-modelling and painting of miniature model train set SAT characters, which he then places, photographs and leaves on SAT the street. It is both a street art installation project and SAT a photography project. The street-based side of his work SAT plays with the notion of surprise and aims to encourage SAT city-dwellers to be more aware of their surroundings. The SAT scenes he sets up aim to reflect the loneliness and SAT melancholy of living in a big city, almost being lost and SAT overwhelmed. But underneath this, there is always some SAT humour. SAT SAT Usha Kini SAT SAT Consultant Clinical Geneticist Dr Usha Kini is the Clinical SAT Head of the Oxford Brain abnormalities research group. She SAT also holds the position of Honorary Senior Lecturer at the SAT University of Oxford. She graduated in medicine from SAT Bangalore University, India and then trained as a SAT Paediatrician in the UK before completing her training in SAT genetics at Manchester. She has a special interest in SAT children with birth defects, particularly structural brain SAT abnormalities. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06f4y29 (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06f4y2c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06gtbt2 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance, with SAT Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06fpc99 (Listen) SAT Series 88, Episode 4 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles SAT Jupp. This week, the programme comes from the Lyceum Theatre SAT in Crewe and Miles is joined by Susan Calman, Hugo Rifkind, SAT Terry Christian and Holly Walsh. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Hugo Rifkind SAT Panellist: Terry Christian SAT Panellist: Holly Walsh SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06f4y2f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06f4y2h (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06fpcgb (Listen) SAT David Aaronovitch, Diane Abbott MP, Charles Moore, Grant SAT Shapps MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Therfield College in Leatherhead, Surrey, with a panel SAT including The Times columnist David Aaronovitch, Shadow SAT Secretary of State for International Development, Diane SAT Abbott MP, Charles Moore the political journalist and SAT authorised biographer for Margaret Thatcher and SAT Internationanl Development Minister Grant Shapps MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06gtc1j (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b047w553 (Listen) SAT The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde SAT SAT by Nick Stafford. SAT SAT Oscar Wilde's courtroom battle with the Marquess of SAT Queensbury. Wilde naturally assumes that he can take on the SAT man who invented the rules of boxing and win. Based on the SAT book "Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess" by Merlin Holland SAT (Oscar's grandson). SAT SAT Director: David Hunter SAT SAT Produced in association with Mike Mansfield Television and SAT Paul Knight Productions. SAT SAT Credits SAT Oscar: Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Queensbury: Sean Pertwee SAT Robbie: Arthur Hughes SAT Bosie: Joel McCormack SAT Carson: Stephen Hogan SAT Clarke: Michael Mears SAT Wright: Sean Murray SAT Littlechild: Steve Toussaint SAT Conway: Harry Jardine SAT Policeman: David Seddon SAT Director: David Hunter SAT Writer: Nick Stafford SAT SAT 15:30 Something Old, Something New b06flmcw (Listen) SAT What happens when your Dad's an African-American soul star SAT and your Mum's a music-loving girl from working class SAT Sheffield? Are your roots on the terraces at a Sheffield SAT United match, or in the stylings of a Spike Lee film? For SAT writer and photographer Johny Pitts, whose parents met in SAT the heyday of Northern Soul, on the dance floor of the SAT legendary King Mojo club, how he navigates his black roots SAT has always been an issue. Not being directly connected to SAT the Caribbean or West African diaspora culture, all he was SAT told at school was that his ancestors were slaves, so for SAT BBC Radio 4, he heads off to the USA, to trace his father's SAT musical migration, and tell an alternative story of Black SAT British identity. SAT From Pitsmore in Sheffield, to Bedford Stuyvesant in New SAT York, and all the way down to South Carolina, where his SAT grandmother picked cotton, Johny Pitts heads off on a SAT journey of self-discovery. On the way he meets author Caryl SAT Phillips, Kadija, a half sister he never knew, and historian SAT Bernard Powers. He visits the Concorde Baptist Church in SAT Brooklyn, New York, and the Bush River Missionary Baptist SAT Church, in Newberry, South Carolina. He tracks down a whole SAT host of long-lost cousins, and talks to Pulitzer winning SAT writer Isabel Wilkerson. On the way he shines a light on the SAT shadows of his ancestry, and finds stories and culture that SAT deliver him to a new understanding of his own mixed race SAT identity and history. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06gtc1m (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week.Presented by Jane SAT Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06gtc1p (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b06jt518 (Listen) SAT Crisis at VW: A Bottom Line Special SAT SAT Volkswagen is dealing with a corporate crisis following the SAT emissions rigging scandal. Evan Davis and guests discuss. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Sir John Egan, former CEO, Jaguar, former Chairman, Severn SAT Trent SAT SAT Lord Browne, former CEO, BP SAT SAT Lucy Marcus, CEO, Marcus Venture Consulting SAT SAT Arndt Ellinghorst, Senior MD, Evercore ISI SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06f4y2k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06f4y2m (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06f4y2p (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06gtcdj (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Danny Wallace, Bill Bryson, Tanika Gupta, SAT Steve Backshall, Rory O'Neill, Frazey Ford, Hugh Cornwell SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Danny Wallace are joined by Bill Bryson, SAT Tanika Gupta, Steve Backshall and Rory O'Neill for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from Frazey Ford and Hugh Cornwell. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Bill Bryson SAT 'The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small SAT Island' is published by Transworld and available now. The SAT film adaptation of ‘A Walk in the Woods’ is in cinemas now. SAT SAT Steve Backshall SAT 'Mountain: A Life On The Rocks' is published by Orion and SAT available now. Steve's 'Wild World Tour' runs from October SAT to 15th November. He's at the Empire Theatre, Inverness on SAT 15th October, King Georges Concert Hall in Blackburn on 16th SAT and the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh on 18th October. SAT Check Steve's website for further dates. SAT SAT Tanika Gupta SAT SAT 'Anita And Me' is at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre until SAT Saturday 24th October then at London’s Theatre Royal SAT Stratford East from 29th of October to 21st of November. SAT SAT Rory O'Neill SAT SAT 'Panti Bliss: High Heels in Low Places' is at London's Soho SAT Theatre from Monday 12th to Saturday 17th October. SAT SAT 'The Queen of Ireland' is showing at selected Irish cinemas SAT from Wednesday 21st October and available on DVD and digital SAT by Monday 16th November. SAT SAT Frazey Ford SAT Indian Ocean’ is out now on Nettwerk. Frazey plays at SAT London’s Union Chapel on Tuesday 13th of October. SAT SAT Hugh Cornwell SAT ‘The Fall And Rise Of Hugh Cornwell’, available on 16th of SAT October on Invisible Hands Music. Hugh's playing at Apex, SAT Bury St Edmunds on Sunday 1st, Union Chapel, London on SAT Monday 2nd and Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury on Tuesday 3rd SAT November. Check his website for further dates. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Danny Wallace SAT Interviewed Guest: Bill Bryson SAT Interviewed Guest: Tanika Gupta SAT Interviewed Guest: Steve Backshall SAT Interviewed Guest: Rory O'Neill SAT Performer: Frazey Ford SAT Performer: Hugh Cornwell SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b06gtcdl (Listen) SAT Bernie Sanders SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06gtcdn (Listen) SAT Sicario, Teddy Ferrara, Jonathan Lee, Frank Auerbach, Black SAT Roses SAT SAT A look at the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06gtcdq (Listen) SAT Bernstein, My Mentor SAT SAT No other conductor has made such an impact on Marin Alsop as SAT Leonard Bernstein. He taught her at several points along her SAT path to becoming a professional conductor and imparted his SAT humanistic perspective on life and his love of sharing great SAT music with others. He instilled in her his beliefs, his SAT values, his dedication to education, as well as his SAT understanding of conducting. Her sense of gratitude to SAT Bernstein is part of the subject of this programme. SAT SAT We hear Marin talk very personally about her memories of SAT working with the maestro at the famous Tanglewood music SAT center in Massachusetts and watching him conduct concerts in SAT New York. SAT SAT We also hear the reflections of Leonard's daughter, Jamie SAT Bernstein, who remembers - as a child - watching the Young SAT People's Concerts that Bernstein presented to vast SAT televisions audiences across America while director of the SAT New York Philharmonic. SAT SAT John Mauceri and Matthew Barley who, like Marin, benefitted SAT from Bernstein's teaching and mentoring offer their SAT perspectives on his huge capacities as a teacher, conductor SAT and composer. SAT SAT The programme considers the music Bernstein himself SAT composed, in particular West Side Story, Kaddish and Mass. SAT Marin discusses what makes Bernstein's music so rewarding SAT and complex, so innovative, experimental and widely SAT appreciated. She admires his commitment to harmony, to tonal SAT music - the place where he felt music communicated most SAT deeply to people. SAT SAT Presented by Marin Alsop SAT SAT Produced by Isabel Sutton SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06f54rq (Listen) SAT Reading Europe - Germany: Look Who's Back, Episode 2 SAT SAT The next stop on Radio 4's literary journey across Europe is SAT Timur Vermes' transgressive novel which topped the SAT bestseller list in its native Germany. SAT SAT Look Who's Back shocked and then thrilled over 1.5 million SAT German readers with its bold approach to the most taboo of SAT subjects - Adolf Hitler. David Threlfall stars as the SAT infamous Nazi leader in this provocative satire. SAT SAT Part 2 SAT SAT Having woken up in modern day Berlin Adolf Hitler decides he SAT needs to re-take control of his beloved Fatherland. But when SAT he is mistaken for a comedy impersonator by TV Executives, SAT rather than running the country, he finds himself the star SAT of a satirical show. As his rants against foreigners and SAT current politics increase in popularity, so does his power SAT over the German people. SAT SAT Theme music composed by Clive Swift and arranged by Stuart SAT Morley. SAT SAT From the novel by Timur Vermes SAT Translated by Jamie Bulloch SAT Dramatised for radio by Marcy Kahan SAT Directed by Helen Perry SAT A BBC Cymru/Wales Production SAT SAT Timur Vermes is a journalist and a ghost-writer. Look Who's SAT Back is his first novel. SAT SAT David Threlfall is a prominent stage, film and TV actor and SAT director. He is best known for his portrayal of Frank SAT Gallagher in the long running TV show Shameless. He recently SAT played Noah in BBC drama The Ark, he has portrayed iconic SAT comedian Tommy Cooper in Not Like That, Like This and SAT real-life cop David Baker in ITV drama Code Of A Killer. SAT SAT Credits SAT Adolf Hitler: David Threlfall SAT Fraulein Vera Kromeier: Alex Tregear SAT The Kiosk Owner: Ben Crowe SAT Frau Carmen Bellini: Caroline Berry SAT Joachim Sensenbrink: John Norton SAT Frank Sawatski: Richard Mylan SAT Actor: Sargon Yelda SAT Actor: Debra Baker SAT Actor: Leo Wan SAT Actor: Gerard Watkins SAT Author: Timur Vermes SAT Adaptor: Marcy Kahan SAT Director: Helen Perry SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06f4y2s (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b06h7ypn (Listen) SAT The Best of Four Thought: Matt Haig, Tim Meek, Adjoa Andoh SAT SAT Another chance to hear three great talks combining personal SAT stories and new ideas. SAT SAT Adjoa Andoh talks movingly about raising a transgender SAT child, and about what really defines who we are or who we SAT might become. "In too many places today," she says, "and in SAT too many ways, we suffocate our true potential selves at SAT birth." SAT SAT Matt Haig describes how words helped him live with SAT depression. "You have to believe there is a point of there SAT being words, and that they can offer real meaning. Normally SAT this belief is taken for granted, but that is because SAT normally we are taking the world itself for granted. But SAT when your mind crumbles to dust everything you thought you SAT knew suddenly becomes something to question. You have to SAT build reality up again. And the bricks we use to shape our SAT realities are called words." SAT SAT Tim Meek explains why he and his family have left their old SAT life behind them for a year of adventure on the road. "We SAT believe that the real measure of modern success is nothing SAT to do with your bank balance or the size of your house, but SAT instead, the amount of free time you have at your disposal." SAT SAT Presenter: Mark Coles SAT Producer: Sheila Cook SAT Editor: Richard Knight. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b06fkjm4 (Listen) SAT Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for SAT its 51st series. SAT SAT In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by SAT writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy SAT types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, SAT Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... SAT have all graced the Quote Unquote stage. SAT SAT Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the SAT origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the SAT famous panel to share their favourite anecdotes. SAT SAT Episode 5 SAT SAT Writer Jeremy Front SAT Comedian Sarah Kendal SAT Writer, critic and broadcaster Nicolette Jones SAT Comedian and Red Dwarf actor Norman Lovett SAT SAT Presenter ... Nigel Rees SAT Producer ... Carl Cooper. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nigel Rees SAT Panellist: Jeremy Front SAT Panellist: Sarah Kendal SAT Panellist: Nicolette Jones SAT Panellist: Norman Lovett SAT Producer: Carl Cooper SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b06f54rv (Listen) SAT Islands SAT SAT Roger McGough presents a programme in celebration of the SAT islands around the UK, from Sark to Shetland. With poetry by SAT AC Swinburne, TE Brown and Sorley MacLean. Producer Sally SAT Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT SAT SAT Snow in Sark SAT SAT by Mervyn Peake SAT SAT From Mervyn Peake – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Fyfield Books SAT SAT SAT SAT In Sark SAT SAT by AC Swinburne SAT SAT From Collected Poetical Works, Volume II [Algernon Charles SAT Swinburne] SAT SAT Published by Harper and Brothers SAT SAT SAT SAT When the Hounds of Spring SAT SAT by AC Swinburne SAT SAT A Choice of Swinburne's Verse SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT The Isles of Scilly SAT SAT by Geoffrey Grigson SAT SAT From The Isles of Scilly And Other Poems SAT SAT Published by Routledge SAT SAT SAT SAT A Bay in Anglesey SAT SAT by John Betjeman SAT SAT From The Best of Betjeman SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT The Anglo Welshman and his Friends SAT SAT by Steve Griffiths SAT SAT From Steve Griffiths – Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Seren SAT SAT SAT SAT The Schooner SAT SAT by TE Brown SAT SAT From The Collected Poems of T E Brown SAT SAT Published by MacMillan & Co SAT SAT SAT SAT On the Point of Extinction SAT SAT By Roger McGough SAT SAT From Roger McGough – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Viking SAT SAT SAT SAT Hallaig SAT SAT by Sorley McLean SAT SAT From Sorley MacLean – From Wood to Ridge, Collected Poems in SAT Gaelic and English SAT SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT SAT SAT The Angel SAT SAT by Pauline Prior-Pitt SAT SAT From Waiting Women SAT SAT Published by Spike Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Young, Chinese and Scottish SAT SAT by Kevin MacNeil SAT SAT From Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides SAT SAT Published by Canongate SAT SAT SAT SAT The Whale SAT SAT by George Mackay Brown SAT SAT From The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown SAT SAT Published by John Murray SAT SAT SAT SAT Perfect SAT SAT by Hugh MacDiarmid SAT SAT From Hugh MacDiarmid – Selected Poetry SAT SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT SAT SAT Shetland SAT SAT by Helen Mort SAT SAT From Division Street SAT SAT Published by Chatto & Windus SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06g1k4p (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Opening Lines b037gt62 (Listen) SUN Series 15, Looking Sadly out of Windows SUN SUN The series which gives first-time and emerging short story SUN writers their radio debut. SUN SUN Daisy Haggard reads Sarah Courtauld's comic tale about a SUN precocious young girl trying to find her place in the world SUN who decides to adopt John the Baptist as her role model. SUN SUN (repeat) SUN SUN Producer: Robert Howells. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Sarah Courtauld SUN Reader: Daisy Haggard SUN Producer: Robert Howells SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06g1k4r (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06g1k4t (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06g1k4w (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06g1k4y (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06gq016 (Listen) SUN Bells from the church of St Leonard, Bledington in SUN Gloucestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b06gtcdl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06g1k50 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06gtghb (Listen) SUN Why Do We Need the Devil? SUN SUN Does the idea of the devil fulfil a useful social purpose? SUN Mark Tully investigates the arguments for myth, for belief SUN in the diabolic and the need for the concept of evil SUN personified. SUN SUN Mark talks to Canon Ralph Godsall in the cloisters of SUN Westminster Abbey about the apparent reluctance in some SUN religious circles to discuss the devil. He asks whether SUN humanity really needed the idea of the devil in the first SUN place and whether it can help us come to terms with social SUN evils. SUN SUN The programme includes a broad range of readings from SUN authors including Imtiaz Dharker, Oliver Lansky and Mikhail SUN Bulgakov - and there's music from Stravinsky, Stephen SUN Sondheim and The Charlie Daniels Band. SUN SUN The readers are Cyril Nri, Francis Cadder and Jane SUN Whittenshaw. SUN SUN Presenter: Mark Tully SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b06gthjt (Listen) SUN The Seven-Month Sleeper SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. SUN SUN In this programme recorded in 2003, Lionel Kelleway is SUN joined by Michael Woods in a Somerset woodland. On a warm SUN late summer day Lionel and Michael head off in search for SUN one of Britain's most secretive mammals, made famous by SUN Lewis Carrol. To do this they check artificial tubes in the SUN hope of finding a dormouse as they fatten up in preparation SUN for a seven month sleep. As Lionel discovers, for such a SUN small mammal who sleeps for most of the year they are quite SUN elusive, and therefore difficult to monitor in the wild. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06g1k52 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06g1k54 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06gthjw (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06gthjy (Listen) SUN Neuroblastoma Children's Cancer Alliance UK SUN SUN Leona Knox presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Neuroblastoma SUN Children's Cancer Alliance UK SUN Registered Charity No 1135601 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'NCCA - UK'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'NCCA - UK'. SUN SUN Neuroblastoma Children’s Cancer Alliance UK SUN SUN Working hard to challenge researchers and push forward SUN innovation, NCCA UK (Neuroblastoma Children’s Cancer SUN Alliance UK) puts the immediate needs of children suffering SUN from high-risk forms of the most dangerous cancers at the SUN heart of its research funding. We aim to focus our funding SUN on cutting edge treatments which show the potential for SUN significant improvements in survival. As well as funding SUN crucial research, NCCA UK offers a range of family services SUN to help inform and support families facing childhood cancer. SUN These include fundraising support to access clinical trials, SUN an annual parent conference, dedicated staff to help parents SUN directly and a calendar of family events. NCCA UK will soon SUN be known as “Solving Kids’ Cancer (Europe)” following our SUN merger with a New York-based charity of the same name. SUN SUN Oscar and Izzie SUN Oscar and his sister Izzie, whom you can hear in the SUN appeal. SUN SUN Conference SUN The annual NCCA UK Parent Education Conference helps parents SUN have a greater understanding of new developments in SUN childhood cancer research. SUN SUN The Research SUN SUN We are passionate about funding the most promising research SUN for high-risk forms of the most dangerous childhood cancers. SUN SUN Solving Kids’ Cancer SUN NCCA UK will soon be known as Solving Kids’ Cancer and we SUN will extend our services to help more families affected by SUN high-risk cancers. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06g1k56 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06g1k58 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06gthk2 (Listen) SUN 'A nurse who tried to do her duty' SUN SUN Norwich Cathedral is the last resting place of Edith Cavell, SUN where her life is commemorated each year on the Sunday SUN nearest to the day of her death, this year, on the 100th SUN anniversary of her execution by German firing squad in First SUN World War Belgium. The British nurse was part of a secret SUN underground network helping hundreds of Allied soldiers SUN escape to safety - many of them carrying secret information SUN gained by spying. The story of this Norfolk vicar's daughter SUN who did her duty as a nurse, treating wounded men of both SUN sides equally, and who faced her death with great faith and SUN courage gained her the status of folk heroine and martyr - SUN but she maintained that all she did was inspired by the life SUN of Christ. In words and music, Norwich Cathedral Choir, and SUN the people of her native Norfolk celebrate this aspect of SUN her life. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06fpcgd (Listen) SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkxh9 (Listen) SUN Common Hawk Cuckoo SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the common hawk cuckoo from SUN the Bengal region. The repetitive call of the common SUN hawk-cuckoo, otherwise known as the brain-fever bird, is one SUN of the typical sounds of rural India and on into the SUN foothills of the Himalayas. Its name partly derives from its SUN call sounding like "brain fever" but also what one writer SUN called its repetition being a "damnable iteration". It looks SUN like a bird of prey, and flies like one too, imitating the SUN flapping glide of a sparrowhawk in the region, known as the SUN shikra, often accompanied by mobbing small birds. SUN Unwittingly as they mob her, birds like babblers betray SUN their nest, into which the cuckoo will lay her egg. SUN SUN Common Hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx varius) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Bernard Castelein / naturepl.com. SUN N SUN PL Ref 01380485 SUN © Bernard Castelein / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06g1k5b (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 b06gthsv (Listen) SUN Rob gets into character, and the Grundy boys are on their SUN guard. 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 Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Will Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06gthsz (Listen) SUN Lemn Sissay SUN SUN Lemn Sissay, writer, poet & playwright, is interviewed by SUN Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Lemn Sissay SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06g1k5d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b06fkm2w (Listen) SUN Series 73, Episode 1 SUN SUN Record breaking, Cologne and Street Performers get the Just SUN a Minute treatment in a special edition recorded at the SUN Edinburgh Festival in August 2015. Nicholas Parsons is SUN joined by Janey Godley, Gyles Brandreth, Joe Lycett, and SUN Paul Merton - who disrobes to display his Edinburgh Tattoo. SUN Thank goodness it's Radio. Hayley Sterling blows the SUN whistle. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Gyles Brandreth SUN Panellist: Janey Godley SUN Panellist: Joe Lycett SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06gqh8k (Listen) SUN How Did the Chicken Cross the World? SUN SUN As a race, we humans owe a fair amount to the chicken. SUN Throughout time it has been a religious deity, a medicine SUN source as well as being a food. It's travelled the world SUN alongside explorers, inspired scientific revelations and of SUN course been the nub of the world's most famous joke. SUN SUN Today, chicken is the second biggest supply of meat protein SUN in the world, and it's on the rise. More than four times as SUN much chicken is now consumed in the USA than in the 1950s, SUN and as new markets emerge in the Middle East and Asia, our SUN hunger for chicken is only set to grow. To meet demand, the SUN bird has become a valuable commodity, farmed and processed SUN in a factory setting. SUN SUN In this programme Dan Saladino tracks the chicken from its SUN roots in the Asian jungle, to its place on our dinner plates SUN today with help from Andrew Lawler, author of 'Why Did The SUN Chicken Cross The World'. He discovers how a competition in SUN the 1950s had a radical impact on the type of chicken we eat SUN and hears how genetics, cooking and art might have a role to SUN play in preserving some almost forgotten breeds and tastes. SUN SUN Presented by Dan Saladino SUN Produced by Clare Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Interviewed Guest: Andrew Lawler SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06g1k5g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06gtk1t (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Highway 61: Fifty Years On b06gtk2l (Listen) SUN Andy Kershaw re-examines the Bob Dylan album that changed SUN popular music and his life. SUN SUN Beginning with the resounding hit of a snare drum, Like A SUN Rolling Stone starts Bob Dylan's first fully electrified SUN album, Highway 61 Revisited. When he first heard the song in SUN his mother's car, Bruce Springsteen said it was "like SUN somebody kicked open the door to your mind." The album SUN represents the birth of rock music, as opposed to the pop or SUN beat music that preceded its release. SUN SUN It sounds as subversive now as it did fifty years ago. SUN SUN Besides revolutionising popular music, the album transformed SUN the life of broadcaster Andy Kershaw. For him, nothing would SUN be the same after Highway 61. SUN SUN Andy travels to America to meet the surviving musicians and SUN hear the extraordinary stories behind the recording SUN sessions. Dylan was only 24 years old when he walked into SUN Columbia Studio A in New York City to record the album in SUN June 1965. For a masterpiece record, it is all the more SUN remarkable that almost no preparation, and absolutely no SUN rehearsal, went into it. SUN SUN Al Kooper, who was brought in as an observer, tells how he SUN mistakenly and fortunately found himself playing the organ SUN on Like A Rolling Stone, discovering the song's melody on SUN the spot. Bassist Harvey Brooks talks about the patience SUN that was required to work with the unorthodox Dylan. SUN Legendary Nashville musician Charlie McCoy describes how he SUN was accidentally brought in to play the memorable SUN Spanish-sounding guitar on Desolation Row. And Keith SUN Richards provides a surprising take on Highway 61's legacy. SUN SUN Produced by Colin McNulty SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06fpbxh (Listen) SUN Beaulieu Motor Museum SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from the SUN Beaulieu Motor Museum in The New Forest. SUN SUN Bob Flowerdew, Matt Biggs, and Pippa Greenwood answer SUN questions from the audience of local gardeners. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06gtl3r (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations between first basses in a male SUN voice choir, residents of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and SUN members of church groups on either side of the Atlantic, in SUN the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b06gtr70 (Listen) SUN Reading Europe - Poland: Entanglement, The Reflection Room SUN SUN Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the SUN best contemporary literature. In this hugely successful SUN Polish crime thriller, a long suffering State Prosecutor SUN finds himself trapped in a post-Communist limbo land of SUN half-truths and secrets. Will he prove himself to be a SUN redoubtable seeker of the truth or will he compromise? A SUN perplexing murder reveals tantalising glimpses of links to SUN the old regime. SUN SUN Part 1: The Reflection Room SUN When Henryk Telak is found dead with a meat skewer in his SUN eye during a Family Constellation Therapy weekend, State SUN Prosecutor Szacki and his police colleague Olga, Kuzniecow, SUN have to work together to deduce who killed the man and why. SUN An apparent total absence of motive is compounded when SUN attractive young news reporter Monika Grezlka, shows a more SUN than professional interest in Szacki. SUN SUN The writer Zygmunt Miloszewski is a leading Polish writer. SUN The Teodor Szacki series is a best seller in Poland. Antonia SUN Lloyd Jones is an award winning translator of Polish fiction SUN and chair of the Translators Association. Dramatised for SUN radio by the writer, critic and journalist, Mark Lawson. SUN SUN About Reading Europe: SUN Europe is central to our lives - we go on holiday to Europe, SUN we do business in Europe, we watch in amazement as the SUN various states try to grapple with migration in Europe. Over SUN the next year or so we will be engaged in the debate as to SUN whether or not we stay in Europe. But how much do we know SUN this continent's countries and, in particular, how much do SUN we know about what they're reading? SUN SUN Over the course of two years, Reading Europe will travel SUN from Calais to Istanbul. Through dramatisations, readings SUN and essays, Reading Europe and Front Row will explore what SUN Europe is writing, publishing and reading - and why. SUN SUN Cast: SUN Teodor Szacki................Bryan Dick SUN Olga Kuzniecow.............Christine Bottomley SUN Cezary Rudzki................David Crellin SUN Monika Grzelka/ SUN Hanna Kwiatowska........Rachel Austin SUN Barbara Jarczyk/ SUN radio news reader.........Alexandra Mathie SUN Euzebius Kaim...............Dermot Daly SUN Henryk Telak/ SUN Father Pazcek...............Glenn Cunningham SUN SUN Written by Zygmunt Miloszewski SUN Translated by Antonia Lloyd Jones SUN Dramatised for radio by Mark Lawson SUN SUN Warsaw backgrounds: Zofia Morus SUN Polish language advisor: Richard Abel SUN Sound design: Eloise Whitmore SUN SUN Producer/director: Polly Thomas SUN Executive Producer: Joby Waldman SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Teodor Szacki: Bryan Dick SUN Olga Kuzniecow: Christine Bottomley SUN Cezary Rudzki: David Crellin SUN Hanna Kwiatowska: Rachel Austin SUN Monika Grzelka: Rachel Austin SUN Barbara Jarczyk: Alexandra Mathie SUN Radio News Reader: Alexandra Mathie SUN Euzebius Kaim: Dermot Daly SUN Henryk Telak: Glenn Cunningham SUN Father Pazcek: Glenn Cunningham SUN Author: Zygmunt Miloszewski SUN Adaptor: Mark Lawson SUN Director: Polly Thomas SUN Producer: Polly Thomas SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b06gtn4x (Listen) SUN British Gothic SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Andrew Michael Hurley SUN whose Gothic novel The Loney has been one of the publishing SUN stories of the year. 300 copies were first published by an SUN small press, it grabbed the attention of a larger publisher, SUN received glowing reviews from Stephen King amongst others SUN and now the film rights have been snapped up. Andrew talks SUN to Mariella about his success and the tradition of British SUN Gothic Writing. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Andrew Hurley SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b06gtn4z (Listen) SUN Rural Miscellany SUN SUN Roger McGough presents listeners' favourite poetry on a SUN rural theme, including works by Robert Frost, John Clare, SUN Christina Rossetti, and Wendell Berry, recorded for the SUN programme in his native Kentucky. Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b06flmfz (Listen) SUN Dirty Money UK SUN SUN What does the theft of a billion dollars from Europe's SUN poorest country have to do with a run-down housing estate in SUN Edinburgh? Moldova was robbed of 12% of its GDP by the SUN bafflingly complex financial scam uncovered earlier this SUN year. It involved a web of companies in the ex-Soviet SUN country, with the money thought to have ended up in Russia SUN via Latvian banks. SUN SUN But the trail also goes via a number of UK-registered SUN companies, including one based in the district of north SUN Edinburgh made famous by "Trainspotting", the novel about SUN heroin addicts. It's not the only example of Eastern SUN European fraudsters using the UK to launder their dirty SUN money in this way. So why is it allowed to happen? Why is it SUN so easy to set up an opaque shell company in the UK? And SUN what is the role of so-called company formation agents? Tim SUN Whewell investigates SUN SUN Reporter: Tim Whewell Producer: Simon Maybin. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b06gtcdl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06g1k5j (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06g1k5l (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06g1k5n (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06g1k5q (Listen) SUN Isy Suttie SUN SUN Isy Suttie chooses her BBC Radio highlights from the past SUN week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06gqfjg (Listen) SUN Has David kept something important from Ruth? Phoebe feels SUN torn. SUN SUN 19:15 Shedtown b01ppn91 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Shed Report SUN SUN Who hasn't thought about running away from it all at some SUN time or other? Throwing caution to the wind, wrenching SUN oneself out of a long established orbit to head for the deep SUN space of the unknown? SUN SUN In series two of Shedtown, our wooden icon of escape and SUN isolation - the shed - continues to be a symbol of SUN possibility and change. Our Sheddists arrived and survived - SUN and, now waking from a beach-baked slumber, the familiar SUN residents find faces old and new on the sand. SUN SUN Episode 1: SUN Deborah Dearden arrives back at the beach. Not such a SUN stranger - yet stranger still. SUN SUN Barry............................Tony Pitts SUN Jimmy..........................Stephen Mangan SUN Eleanor..................Ronni Ancona SUN Colin........................Johnny Vegas SUN Deborah.....................Emma Fryer SUN William..................Adrian Manfredi SUN Diane....................Rosina Carbone SUN Dave......................Shaun Dooley SUN Father Michael........James Quinn SUN Wes......................Warren Brown SUN Nell...........................Eleanor Samson SUN SUN Narrator.................Maxine Peake SUN Music....................Paul Heaton and Jonny Lexus SUN SUN Written and Directed by Tony Pitts SUN Produced by Sally Harrison SUN SUN A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Funny Bones b06gtr72 (Listen) SUN Fete Worse than Death SUN SUN A new series of original stories in which Irish writers SUN showcase their funny bones. SUN SUN In this fantastically funny series, Yasmine Akram tells a SUN tale of young woe and magical intervention. Tara Flynn takes SUN us into the world of competitive baking and zombie hordes in SUN 'Fete Worse than Death'. Finally, a trip to the cinema takes SUN a surprising turn in a new story by comedian Maeve Higgins. SUN SUN Writer ..... Tara Flynn SUN Reader ..... Tara Flynn SUN Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Tara Flynn SUN Reader: Tara Flynn SUN Producer: Jenny Thompson SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b06fpbxm (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for listener comment. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06fpyzd (Listen) SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06gtbt2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06gthjy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b06fkm3g (Listen) SUN The Iran-Iraq War's Legacy SUN SUN Lyse Doucet asks how far the Middle East today is defined by SUN the legacy of the Iran-Iraq war? The conflict - the longest SUN convention war of the 20th century- exposed deep fault lines SUN in a region still shattered by violence. Thirty five years SUN after it began, Iraq has imploded. Syria too. And Iran is SUN extending its influence. Lyse retells the story of the war, SUN then is joined by a panel of guests to ask if the events of SUN three decades ago can help us understand what's going on in SUN the Middle East today? SUN Guests: SUN Professor Mansour Farhang : Former Ambassador to UN of the SUN Islamic Republic of Iran SUN Sinan Antoon: Iraqi poet and novelist SUN Dr Haider al-Safi: BBC Arabic service SUN Professor Ali Ansari: Historian and Director of the SUN Institute for Iranian Studies, St Andrews University SUN SUN Producers: Mike Gallagher and Rozita Riazati. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06g1k5s (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06gtn51 (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06fvgq2 (Listen) SUN Robert Zemeckis on The Walk, Joe Wright on Pan SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN The director of The Walk and Back To The Future, Robert SUN Zemeckis explains the rules of employing 3D in film, and why SUN it shouldn't just be used for effect. SUN SUN Foley artist Barnaby Smyth demonstrates how he followed in SUN the footsteps of Emily Pankhurst and co for the sound SUN effects to Suffragette, which required him to wear specially SUN adapted high heels. SUN SUN Joe Wright, the director of Pan explains why Nirvana's Smell SUN Like Teen Spirit makes an unlikely appearance in his new SUN adaptation of J.M. Barrie's classic children's tale. SUN SUN Denis Villeneuve reveals the pressure of making the sequel SUN to Blade Runner. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Robert Zemeckis SUN Interviewed Guest: Barnaby Smyth SUN Interviewed Guest: Joe Wright SUN Interviewed Guest: Denis Villeneuve SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06gtghb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06g1k6x (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06fn26h (Listen) MON Female Serial Killers, Secular Stagnation MON MON Female Serial Killers: Although there is much written on MON male serial killers, there's less analysis of their female MON equivalent, perhaps because of their comparitive rarity. MON Elizabeth Yardley, Associate Professor of Criminology at MON Birmingham City University, talks to Laurie Taylor about her MON new study into the social context in which such killings MON occur. They're joined by Lisa Downing, Professor of French MON Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham. MON MON Also Secular Stagnation: the impossibility of an economic MON future for our grandchildren? Kevin O'Rourke, the Chichele MON Professor of Economic History at All Souls College Oxford, MON discusses the recent revival of the hypothesis that 'secular MON stagnation' - negligible or zero economic growth - could MON lead to permanently depressed economies, if no policy MON counter-measures are taken. What's the history of this MON theory and how applicable is it today? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Kevin O'Rourke Lecture at The British Academy MON Economic Impossibilities for Our Grandchildren? MON Wednesday 7 October 2015, 6-7.15pm followed by a reception MON The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London MON SW1Y 5AH MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06gq016 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06g1k6z (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06g1k71 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06g1k73 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06g1k75 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06gq01b (Listen) MON A spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with The MON Rev Richard Frazer of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06gq01d (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 b06g1k77 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mj5kt (Listen) MON New Zealand Bellbird MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Chris Packham presents the New Zealand bellbird. In 1770, MON during Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand, an MON extraordinary dawn chorus caught the attention of his crew MON "like small bells exquisitely tuned": these were New Zealand MON bellbirds. New Zealand bellbirds are olive green birds with MON curved black bills and brush-like tongues which they use to MON probe flowers for nectar. Like other honeyeaters , they play MON an important role in pollinating flowers and also eat the MON fruits which result from those pollinations and so help to MON spread the seeds. The well camouflaged bellbird is more MON often heard before it is seen. They sing throughout the day, MON but at their best at dawn or dusk when pairs duet or several MON birds chorus together. Their song can vary remarkably, and MON it is possible hear different 'accents' in different parts MON of New Zealand, even across relatively short distances. MON MON New Zealand bellbird (Anthornis melanura) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com. MON MON NPL Ref MON 01369363 MON © Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com MON MON Recording of New Zealand bellbird by Matthew D Medler / Ref: MON ML1361111 MON MON This programme contains a wildtrack MON recording of the New Zealand bellbird MON kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab MON of Ornithology; recorded by Matthew D Medler on 12 Apr 2004, MON in Te Urewera National Park, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. MON MON 06:00 Today b06gqdwf (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06gqdwk (Listen) MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to historian Niall MON Ferguson about his biography of Henry Kissinger. Reviled and MON revered in equal measure Kissinger was the statesman at the MON heart of American foreign policy for decades, and Ferguson MON argues that far from being a Machiavellian realist he was MON driven by idealism. Jane Smiley's trilogy of novels chart a MON hundred years of American life through the lives of one MON family. She shows clearly how the big political and social MON upheavals of the time were reflected in the day-to-day. The MON personal and political come together in the extraordinary MON diaries of Ivan Maisky, the Russian ambassador to London MON before WWII. Gabriel Gorodetsky has compiled the diaries MON which document Britain's drift to war during the 1930s. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Niall Ferguson MON Interviewed Guest: Jane Smiley MON Interviewed Guest: Gabriel Gorodetsky MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06gqdwm (Listen) MON 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, The Theatre MON MON by James Shapiro MON MON Episode One : The Theatre MON MON In 1606, Shakespeare was writing for a Royal Family hungry MON for new entertainment while the threats of plague, MON insurrection and rebellion threatened English society. At MON the peak of his powers, he was writing for actors who he MON knew well within a theatre company with which he had been MON involved for more than a decade. The resulting plays, KING MON LEAR, MACBETH and ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA were extraordinary. MON MON Ten years ago James Shapiro won the Samuel Johnson Prize for MON his bestseller 1599: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM MON SHAKESPEARE. MON MON 1606: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE YEAR OF LEAR is a MON compelling look at a no less extraordinary year in his life. MON The book traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn MON of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, MON THE CHRONICLE HISTORY OF KING LEIR, and transformed it into MON his most searing tragedy, KING LEAR. MON MON 1606 proved to be an especially grim year for England, MON witnessing the bloody aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, MON divisions over the Union of England and Scotland, and an MON outbreak of plague. But it turned out to be an exceptional MON one for Shakespeare who, before the year was out, went on to MON complete two other great Jacobean tragedies that spoke MON directly to these fraught times: MACBETH and ANTONY AND MON CLEOPATRA. MON MON Abridged by Anna Magnusson MON MON Read by Ian McDiarmid MON MON Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Ian McDiarmid MON Author: James Shapiro MON Abridger: Anna Magnusson MON Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06gqdwr (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06gqdwt (Listen) MON Early One Morning, Episode 1 MON MON Rome 1943. A split-second decision is about to change MON Chiara's life forever. MON MON Cardiff 1973. Welsh teenager Maria learns some shocking news MON about her past. MON MON Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in MON Miranda Emmerson's dramatization of Virginia Baily's MON powerful new novel of love, loss and learning to be a MON mother. The action moves between Nazi-occupied Rome and MON 1973. MON MON Directed by Emma Harding. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Greta Scacchi MON Chiara: Juliet Aubrey MON Maria: Sophie Melville MON Cecilia: Alex Tregear MON Daniele: Adam Thomas Wright MON Gennaro: Cesare Taurasi MON Adult Daniele: Cesare Taurasi MON Simone: Jessica Turner MON Nonna: Jessica Turner MON Antonio: David Hounslow MON Gabriele: David Acton MON Tommaso: Felix Auer MON Nazi Officer: Felix Auer MON Brian: Felix Auer MON Edna: Amelia Lowdell MON Barry: Chris Pavlo MON Goffredo: Chris Pavlo MON Gianni: Sam Dale MON Author: Virginia Baily MON Adaptor: Miranda Emmerson MON Director: Emma Harding MON MON 11:00 In Search of Great Uncle Frank b06gqdwy (Listen) MON Actor and comedian Hugh Dennis takes a personal journey to MON Gallipoli in Turkey to find out about his great uncle, MON private Frank Hinnels, who was sent there to fight against MON the mighty Ottoman Empire in the First World War. MON MON Following in Frank's footsteps is poignant yet serene. In MON the middle of what was no-man's land, surrounded by fields MON of sun-flowers and olive trees, Hugh reads from a journal MON which describes the aftermath of a sniper attack: MON "We were all completely exhausted and fellows risking their MON lives to get to a small water hole full of tortoises and MON covered by enemy snipers". MON MON Hugh's guide is battlefield historian, Major Mike Peters who MON takes him to the very spot where his great-uncle fell in MON October 1915. MON MON "One of the great sadnesses for my grandparents," says Hugh, MON "was that the letter telling them that he had died arrived MON before his last letter home. It was like correspondence from MON beyond the grave." MON MON Hugh's journey is tinged with sadness but also MON characteristic edginess and humour. MON MON Curious to hear the Turkish story, Hugh meets the MON descendants of Turkish Gallipoli soldiers. He is surprised MON to find that some villages on the peninsula have never truly MON recovered since the campaign. Hayriah is a 75 year old café MON owner whose grandfather was killed in the battle. She tells MON Hugh that, because his great-uncle fell on Turkish soil, MON Frank had now become "one of our sons". MON MON Hugh and Mike finish their travels sitting in an ANZAC MON trench as night falls. They ask whether the political MON lessons of Gallipoli have ever been truly learned. MON MON One month later, back home in Sussex, Hugh consults his MON philosopher's stone to tell us what ultimately he thinks MON he's learned from his trip to Gallipoli. MON MON A Jolt production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Dilemma b01qmb08 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON In Dilemma, Sue Perkins puts four panellists through the MON moral and ethical wringer by posing a series of MON finely-balanced dilemmas and then cross-examining them on MON their answers. So, in the first series, Dominic Lawson was MON asked if he would provide an alibi for someone he hated; Fi MON Glover was offered £25,000 to give a talk to a company that MON once screwed over her husband; John Finnemore was asked if MON he'd grass up a sweet old lady who was shoplifting. (Yes, MON Yes, No, were the answers if you're interested.) MON MON As well as these hypothetical questions, the show also MON features a variety of rounds which may include: Audience MON Dilemmas, where the panel 'solve' any problems the audience MON may be having; What Did I Do?, where each panellist relates MON a dilemma they were faced with in their own lives and the MON others have to guess how they resolved it; Why I Was Right, MON where each panellist is given an indefensible action that MON they must morally justify in 30 seconds; Choose Your Own MON Adventure, where the panellists get a series of dilemmas, MON each one following on from the last as they burrow their way MON deeper into a moral quagmire; and Quickfire, where shades of MON grey are dismissed in favour of a fingers-on-the-buzzers MON binary choice - "Would you rather eat a kitten or fight a MON swan?". MON MON This week's show sees comedian Paul Sinha struggling with MON his sporting loyalties; poet Lemn Sissay experiencing MON Something New; actor and comic Margaret Cabourn-Smith facing MON up to some poor parenting; and Graeme Garden contemplating MON life without one of his favourite Aunties. MON MON The show was devised by the award-winning comedian Danielle MON Ward, and is presented by Sue Perkins. MON MON Producer: Ed Morrish. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06g1k79 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b064g27j (Listen) MON 12 October 1915 - Adeline Lumley MON MON On this day, Edith Cavell was shot by a German firing squad, MON and a letter arrives at the Grahams' with bad news. MON MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Adeline: Helen Schlesinger MON Esme: Katie Angelou MON Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw MON Sylvia: Joanna David MON Kitty: Ami Metcalf MON Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06gqdx2 (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06g1k7c (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06gqdx6 (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Peter Snow Returns to the Future b06gqdx8 (Listen) MON Alan Johnson MP MON MON Peter Snow takes Alan Johnson MP on a journey in his time MON travelling DeLorean to the dark days of the Victorian Mill, MON and forwards to the end of work as we know it. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06gqfjg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06gqh7y (Listen) MON The Life and Times of Arthur Miller, Beginnings MON MON Arthur Miller would have been 100 years old on October 17th MON this year. To mark the centenary BBC Radio 4, LA Theatre MON Works, and a stellar American cast have come together to MON produce four new dramas by Mike Walker and Jonathan MON Holloway. MON MON As a writer Miller felt that to create a character, you had MON to understand how family, circumstances and events had MON shaped that character. 'The fish is in the water and the MON water is in the fish', as he famously put it. These MON specially commissioned plays recreate some of the MON experiences that shaped Miller himself, throwing light on MON how he would become one of the most influential playwrights MON in American literature. MON MON 1. Beginnings MON Arthur Miller is born in New York on the 17th of October MON 1915 to a prosperous family in the clothing business. A poor MON school student, he loves making things with wood and dreams MON of becoming a crooner. But when the stock market crashes and MON the Millers face ruin, Arthur contemplates a different MON future. By Mike Walker. MON MON Producer for LA Theatre Works: Susan Loewenberg MON Associate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson and Myke D Wysekopf MON Sound by Mark Holden, Wes Dewberry, and Catherine Robinson MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales and LA Theatre Works Co-Production, MON directed by Kate McAll MON MON LA Theatre Works is a non-profit audio drama company based MON in Los Angeles that records classic and contemporary plays. MON They have been collaborating with the BBC for nearly 30 MON years, beginning with a production of Arthur Miller's The MON Crucible that starred Richard Dreyfuss and Stacey Keach. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Ed Harris MON Arthur Miller: Ben Feldman MON Isidore Miller: Gregory Itzin MON Augusta Miller: Kate Burton MON Maid: Anna Lyse Erikson MON Kermit Miller: Matthew Wolf MON Ed: Matthew Wolf MON William Fox: Andre Sogliuzzo MON Dozick: Andre Sogliuzzo MON Harry: Andre Sogliuzzo MON Young Marxist: Michael Kirby MON Aunt Betty: Jane Kaczmarek MON Mary Slattery: Devon Sorvari MON Director: Kate McAll MON Writer: Mike Walker MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b06gqh8f (Listen) MON Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for MON its 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 6 MON MON Oscar winning lyricist Don Black MON Actress and writer Shobu Kapoor MON TV Presenter Fern Britton MON Novelist and Screenwriter Anthony Horowitz MON MON Presenter ... Nigel Rees MON Producer ... Carl Cooper. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Don Black MON Panellist: Shobu Kapoor MON Panellist: Fern Britton MON Panellist: Anthony Horowitz MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06gqh8k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Let's Go Round Again - The Story of The Magic MON Roundabout b06gqh8m (Listen) MON In October 1965, a new version of the French children's MON television programme Le Manège Enchanté was shown on the MON BBC. Scripted and voiced by the Playschool presenter Eric MON Thompson, and broadcast with its English title - The Magic MON Roundabout, it soon became a firm favourite with viewers of MON all ages. So much so, that when the transmission time was MON changed to an earlier timeslot, there were so many MON complaints to the BBC from outraged adults, that it was MON moved back to its place just before the six o'clock news. MON MON To celebrate the programme's 50th anniversary, Sophie MON Thompson, Eric's daughter, and his wife Phyllida Law tell us MON the story behind the much-loved series. We'll hear tales of MON Zebedee, Florence and Ermintrude, and how Dougal the dog MON nearly caused international relations with France to break MON down. MON MON With contributions from Fenella Fielding, Nigel Planer and MON Mark Kermode, climb aboard for one more spin on the Magic MON Roundabout. MON MON Producer: Elizabeth Foster MON Presenter: Sophie Thompson & Phyllida Law. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b06gqjpt (Listen) MON Series 8, Detection MON MON In the first of the new series, Aleks Krotoski explores how MON the web has influenced detection, from uncovering Osama Bin MON Laden to discovering the identity of long-abandoned Jane and MON John Does. MON MON As human beings, what is it in our nature that drives us to MON find out the end of the story - even when that story has MON nothing to do with us? MON The online world has made the detective mystery one in which MON we can all play a role. Hundreds of cold cases have been MON re-examined and re-explored by cyber sleuths around the MON world - and some cases have picked up definitive leads from MON eagle-eyed members of the public. But what are the MON implications for law enforcement, and how does detection MON work when so many of us are playing outside of the rules? MON MON Producer: Victoria McArthur. MON MON 17:00 PM b06gqjq1 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06g1k7h (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b06gqkv8 (Listen) MON Series 73, Episode 2 MON MON A Trip to Ikea and The Hippocratic Oath are amongst the MON subjects on the cards as Paul Merton, Julian Clary, Susan MON Calman and Josie Lawrence join Nicholas Parsons to see who MON can avoid hesitation, deviation and repetition. Hayley MON Sterling blows the whistle. MON MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Julian Clary MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Josie Lawrence MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06gqr5y (Listen) MON Ed has reason to be gloomy, and Emma has made up her mind. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06gqr61 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06gqdwt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Last Adventure in Aviation b06hhmbv (Listen) MON An insight into the world of ferry pilots in Britain who MON risk their lives in a lucrative but high stakes industry. MON Ferry pilots deliver small planes across oceans and MON continents; distances these aircrafts were not designed to MON fly. MON MON Journalist and broadcaster Poonam Taneja, whose own ferry MON pilot father was killed in a plane crash while delivering a MON plane from Scotland to Canada in 1999, gets a rare insight MON into this largely hidden world. MON MON She meets ferry pilots - Dave Henderson, Julian Storey and MON Robin Drury. She hears their tales of action and adventure MON and tries to discover what inspires them to fly in these MON extreme conditions. Poonam also tracks ferry pilot Joe whose MON flying a small old plane from England to the United States. MON Will Joe get his plane from Scotland to Ford Lauderdale ? MON MON Producer :Perminder Khatkar. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b06gqr68 (Listen) MON Scotland's Radical Land Reform MON MON In June the Scottish Government introduced radical proposals MON for land reform. Local communities would gain a new right to MON ask the government to force a landowner to sell their land MON if they are deemed a barrier to sustainable development. The MON plan caused uproar amongst landowners. David Cameron's MON father-in-law, Lord Astor, claimed the SNP was staging a MON Mugabe-style land grab. Yet campaigners in the growing MON cross-party movement for reform see this as just the start MON of a generational mission to break up the most unequal MON pattern of land ownership in the developed world. Is this an MON attack on the right of individuals to hold on to their MON property - or a much-needed step towards sustainable MON development? MON MON Euan McIlwraith asks why so few people own so much of MON Scotland, whether it matters, and how you can legitimately MON diversify ownership in a 21st century liberal democracy. MON MON Producer: Liza Grieg. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9dxn (Listen) MON Anemone MON MON The Natural History Museum in London owns treasures that MON simply take your breath away. Delicate, anatomically MON accurate and beautifully crafted glass models of anemones MON are so realistic they look like the real thing crystallised MON from the sea. They were made by father and son glass blowers MON called Blaschka in the 19th century in what is now the Czech MON Republic. Scientists could now study the internal structures MON of these delicate animals in the days when it was difficult MON to keep live specimens. Sadly, when the Blaschkas passed MON away they took their secrets of glass blowing with them, but MON they left us objects of pure wonder. These models allowed MON ordinary people too to see the wonders beneath the sea. The MON glass models and the beautiful paintings of anemones in MON books by people like Philip Henry Gosse and Thomas Alan MON Stephenson made the once hidden realm of the sea accessible MON to all. Beach combing became more and more popular with MON strawberry, beadlet and snakes-locks being collected in MON their thousands for home aquaria. The Victorian craze which MON Gosse encouraged (he called them "glimpses of the MON wonderful") put pressure on some places where anemones grow MON and notable declines were recorded. Today the collection of MON anemones for aquaria is devastating places like the MON Philippines, especially since the Hollywood blockbuster MON Finding Nemo was released. Bizarrely the complexity of their MON nerves means they are more closely related to humans than to MON flies and worms. Some species are as close to immortal as MON you can get. Cut them in half and you get two, cut off the MON mouth and it will grow a new one. They seem to go on and on, MON leading some scientists to use them in the search for MON eternal youth. Sea anemones are flowers of the sea, they MON inspire whimsy and fancy, poetry and art. MON MON Miranda Lowe MON Miranda Lowe has been curating the Museum’s invertebrate MON collection, including corals, starfish and crustacea since MON 1991. Her work has been published in MON Darwin-Inspired Learning MON Journal of Natural History MON The London Naturalist and various Natural History Museum MON publications. MON She is involved in many public events at the Museum that MON promote the Museum’s science and collections to wider MON audiences, including Nature Live sessions, Members tours and MON VIP tours. She is also a spokesperson at MON STEMNET MON Science Ambassador Days in Schools. MON MON Dr Keith Hiscock MON Diver and scientist Dr Keith Hiscock is an Associate Fellow MON at the Plymouth-based MON Marine Biological Association MON (MBA) one of Britain’s most distinguished experts in MON underwater conservation. MON He became interested in sea anemones after reading books by MON Philip Henry Gosse while at school and visiting the shores MON he described to find those same species of anemones. He MON started diving in 1969 and that year was the first person to MON discover the spectacularly colourful sunset cup coral in MON Britain at Lundy. MON He is the author of MON Marine Biodiversity Conservation: A Practical Approach MON and now chairs the MON Lundy Field Society MON Picture: Neil Hope MON MON Professor Ralph Pite MON Ralph Pite is a professor of English Literature at the MON University of Bristol. His research is focused on the MON Romantic period MON MON Thomas Hardy MON MON ecocriticism MON and 20th-century poetry. MON He is currently writing a book about the poets, Robert Frost MON and Edward Thomas. They were close friends in the three MON years before Thomas’s death in 1917, at the Battle of Arras. MON Both men shared a love of nature and an interest in ‘the MON simple life’ – in ways of living, which we would call MON sustainable. MON MON Dr Andrew Rhyne MON Dr Andrew Rhyne has invested his career in understanding the MON biology of aquarium fishes and invertebrates and MON the industry for these creatures MON . The trade in aquarium species can be considered a data MON limited industry and the lack of available trade data MON hinders sustainability movements within the trade. Dr. Rhyne MON has worked to develop solutions to this data gap. MON He is developing methods for breeding and rearing popular MON species in aquaria and his body of work illuminates life MON histories, husbandry and larval rearing requirements of many MON wild ornamental fish and invertebrate larvae. MON He is an Associate Professor at Roger Williams University in MON Bristol, Rhode Island, and is a Research Scientist at the MON New England Aquarium MON in Boston, Massachusetts. MON MON Professor Dan Rokhsar MON Dan Rokhsar is Professor of Genetics, Genomics and MON Development at the University of California, Berkeley. MON His research is focused on understanding the origin, MON evolution, and diversity of animals by combining MON computational genome analysis with comparative developmental MON biology. MON He and his team conducted the MON first analysis of the genome of the sea anemone MON which revealed it to be nearly as complex as the human MON genome. It offered major insights into the common ancestor MON of not only humans and sea anemones, but of nearly all MON multi-celled animals. MON MON Professor Rebecca Stott MON Rebecca Stott is Professor of Literature and Creative MON Writing at UEA and the author of several books of fiction MON and non-fiction including a biography of the woman who MON 'invented' the aquarium and who managed a large colony of MON living corals in Westminster Abbey in the middle of the MON nineteenth century. MON The book is called Theatres of Glass: The Woman who Brought MON the Sea to the City. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06gqdwk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06g1k7k (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06gqr6b (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06fpcgg (Listen) MON Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies, No corpse is MON beautiful MON MON Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the MON best in contemporary literature with this bestselling German MON thriller set on a small cliff-top town, in which everyone MON has a secret. MON MON Famous novelist, with a beautiful wife, grand house in the MON country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has MON it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one MON carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to MON protect. But when he makes one fatal error, the whole dream MON begins to unravel. MON Today: An unexpected encounter on the way to the mortuary. MON Reader: Jamie Parker MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett MON Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned MON screenwriters. This, his first novel, has been a huge MON bestseller in Germany. MON Translated by Imogen Taylor. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Jamie Parker MON Author: Sascha Arango MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b06flmfc (Listen) MON Inventing Brand Names MON MON Michael Rosen & Dr Laura Wright look into how new commercial MON brand names are invented, with Greg Rowland, the semiotician MON who came up with the name of a new perfume for Calvin Klein. MON Which words and sounds work, and which don't, and why? MON Professor Will Leben talks about how his company came up MON with the name Blackberry, and the uses of sound symbolism. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06gqs1s (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports as MPs and peers return to Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06g1k8m (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06gqdwm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06g1k8p (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06g1k8r (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06g1k8t (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06g1k8w (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06gqt4n (Listen) TUE A spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with The TUE Rev Richard Frazer of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06gqssm (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 b04mj64k (Listen) TUE Red-Breasted Goose TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Chris Packham presents the red-breasted goose in Siberia. TUE Red-breasted geese are colourful birds with art-deco TUE markings of brick-red, black and white. Despite their dainty TUE and somewhat exotic appearance, these are hardy birds which TUE breed in the remotest areas of arctic Siberia. They often TUE set up home near the eyries of birds of prey, especially TUE peregrine falcons. But there's method in the madness; These TUE wildfowl nest on the ground where their eggs and chicks are TUE vulnerable to predators such as Arctic foxes. But the ever TUE vigilant peregrine falcons detecting a predator, will defend TUE their eyries by calling and dive-bombing any intruders, and TUE this also doubles as a warning system for the geese. In TUE winter red-breasted geese migrate south where most of them TUE graze on seeds and grasses at a few traditional sites in TUE eastern Europe around the Black Sea. TUE TUE Red-breasted goose TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Rod Williams / naturepl.com. TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01412010 TUE © Rod Williams / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06gqx6b (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 Life Scientific b06gqx6d (Listen) TUE Danielle George TUE TUE Danielle George is a radio frequency engineer from the TUE University of Manchester. She designs amplifiers that have TUE travelled everywhere, from outer space to underground. TUE TUE Becoming a professor aged just 38, she talks to Jim about TUE the challenges of age discrimination and working in a male TUE dominated field. TUE TUE As presenter of last year's Royal Institution Christmas TUE Lectures, she's passionate about DIY electronics and coding, TUE and how to inspire the UK's next generation of inventors. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b06gqx6j (Listen) TUE Steve Backshall meets Leo Houlding TUE TUE Steve Backshall is one of our leading natural history TUE broadcasters, he's also an extreme sportsman who has TUE conquered some of the world's most dangerous mountains. TUE Despite suffering a severe rock-climbing injury in 2008 he TUE continues to set himself extraordinary challenges. TUE TUE For One to One Steve meets two other extreme adventurers to TUE try and discover what drives them to significant levels of TUE danger and physical discomfort in order to complete TUE challenges that are almost superhuman. TUE TUE In this programme, he meets Leo Houlding. Leo is one of our TUE greatest rock-climbers. He has free-climbed the world's most TUE challenging peaks and is an experienced base-jumper. One of TUE his greatest achievements was a successful expedition to TUE tackle an unclimbed route on Ulvetanna - a fearsome tower of TUE granite in eastern Antarctica. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06j6zlk (Listen) TUE 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, The TUE Gunpowder Plot TUE TUE by James Shapiro TUE TUE Episode Two: The Gunpowder Plot TUE TUE The impact of the Gunpowder Plot of late 1605 has TUE implications not only for the monarchy and aristocracy but TUE also for the work of the contemporary playwrights, including TUE William Shakespeare. TUE TUE Ten years ago James Shapiro won the Samuel Johnson Prize for TUE his bestseller 1599: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM TUE SHAKSEPEARE. TUE TUE 1606: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE YEAR OF LEAR is a TUE compelling look at a no less extraordinary year in his life. TUE The book traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn TUE of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, TUE THE CHRONICLE HISTORY OF KING LEIR, and transformed it into TUE his most searing tragedy, KING LEAR. TUE TUE 1606 proved to be an especially grim year for England, TUE witnessing the bloody aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, TUE divisions over the Union of England and Scotland, and an TUE outbreak of plague. But it turned out to be an exceptional TUE one for Shakespeare who, before the year was out, went on to TUE complete two other great Jacobean tragedies that spoke TUE directly to these fraught times: MACBETH and ANTONY AND TUE CLEOPATRA. TUE TUE Abridged by Anna Magnusson TUE TUE Read by Ian McDiarmid TUE TUE Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Ian McDiarmid TUE Author: James Shapiro TUE Abridger: Anna Magnusson TUE Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06gqx6l (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 b06gqx6n (Listen) TUE Early One Morning, Episode 2 TUE TUE Italy 1943. Chiara has to flee Rome with her sister and TUE Daniele Levi, the young Jewish boy she is sheltering. Thirty TUE years later, Welsh teenager Maria is still coming to terms TUE with the bombshell that her real father is an Italian man TUE she's never met, a man called Daniele Levi. TUE TUE Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in a TUE dramatization of Virginia Baily's powerful new novel of TUE love, loss and hope. TUE TUE Directed by Emma Harding. TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Greta Scacchi TUE Chiara: Juliet Aubrey TUE Maria: Sophie Melville TUE Cecilia: Alex Tregear TUE Daniele: Adam Thomas Wright TUE Gennaro: Cesare Taurasi TUE Adult Daniele: Cesare Taurasi TUE Simone: Jessica Turner TUE Nonna: Jessica Turner TUE Antonio: David Hounslow TUE Gabriele: David Acton TUE Tommaso: Felix Auer TUE Nazi Officer: Felix Auer TUE Brian: Felix Auer TUE Edna: Amelia Lowdell TUE Barry: Chris Pavlo TUE Goffredo: Chris Pavlo TUE Gianni: Sam Dale TUE Author: Virginia Baily TUE Adaptor: Miranda Emmerson TUE Director: Emma Harding TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9l70 (Listen) TUE Hornbill TUE TUE Exotic and bizarre, hornbills wowed European society when TUE the first live specimens arrived in the nineteenth century. TUE Their almost human like walk combined with their TUE unbelievable bills and strange calls presented an image of TUE nature most Europeans had never encountered. When their odd TUE breeding behaviour became known - the males seal up the TUE female in a hole in a tree cavity so that only her beak can TUE protrude for weeks on end - they became great curiosities. TUE The bill of the helmeted hornbill was particularly prized TUE for carving the Victorian obsession - netsuke. Beautifully TUE coloured, especially if reddened by the oil from a preen TUE gland, the "ivory" became the most sought after material for TUE Victorian display cabinets. Hornbill ivory is still so TUE highly prized by the Chinese that the helmeted hornbill is TUE on the verge of extinction; its bill fetches a higher price TUE than elephant ivory. However in their Indonesian homeland TUE they are seen as mythical creatures that guard the thin veil TUE between life and death, ferrying souls between the earth and TUE heaven. This sacred belief is now being used by modern TUE conservationists to help protect them as they disappear at TUE an alarming rate from the face of the earth. Because many of TUE the Asian Hornbills nest in the largest trees, they are at TUE greatest risk from loggers, legal or illegal, and therefore TUE stand as flagship species for forest conservation in SE TUE Asia. TUE TUE Dr Joanne Cooper TUE Dr Joanne Cooper is a senior curator of the avian anatomical TUE collections at the TUE Natural History Museum TUE including both the avian osteological and spirit TUE collections, some 35,000 specimens in total. TUE After nearly 20 years working on the skeleton collection in TUE particular, she has become an internationally recognised TUE authority in avian osteology and has particular experience TUE and expertise in the taxonomic identification of bird bones. TUE She is interested in the history of the bird collections, TUE and is currently investigating Charles Darwin’s domestic TUE birds, Captain Fitzroy’s bird collection from the famous TUE 1831-36 voyage of HMS Beagle and John Gould’s collection of TUE hummingbird cases. TUE TUE Mark Gordon TUE Singapore-based Mark Gordon is a corporate communications TUE consultant who originally trained as an anthropologist and TUE evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York TUE and the University of Michigan. TUE He has maintained a passionate life-long interest in TUE Southeast Asian Tribal Art. He has assembled a world-class TUE collection of more than 400 pieces that has been exhibited TUE in museums and galleries in Asia and featured in numerous TUE publications, including the illustrated book, TUE Ancient Echoes; the Mark Gordon Collection of Southeast TUE Asian Indigenous Art TUE TUE TUE Dr Alan Kemp TUE Dr Alan Kemp and his wife Meg began a long-term population TUE study of hornbills in Kruger National Park, South Africa, in TUE 1967. Alan is the author of a photographic guide to TUE Hornbills entitled TUE Hornbills of the World TUE He and Meg work with the TUE Mabula Ground Hornbill Project TUE which re-introduces hand-reared ground hornbill chicks into TUE areas where they have become locally extinct, once the TUE original threats in those areas have been mitigated. TUE The project also researches the genetics, behaviour and TUE other important unanswered questions necessary for TUE successful re-establishment of ground hornbills and runs TUE awareness campaigns to educate the general public to the TUE threats facing the species and to reinstate the bird into TUE collective memory in areas where it has become locally TUE extinct. TUE TUE Andrew Owen TUE Andrew Owen began his career as a bird keeper 33 years ago TUE at Padstow Bird Gardens in Cornwall. Since then he has TUE worked all over the country in diverse places from TUE Chessington World of Adventures to Jersey Zoo (Durrell TUE wildlife conservation trust), Waddesdon Manor and the TUE Wildfowl & Wetlands trust at Slimbridge. Andrew also spent TUE four years in the United Arab Emirates working on a bird TUE conservation project. TUE Now at TUE Chester Zoo TUE he is actively involved in many field conservation projects TUE in Mauritius and South East Asia. One of his projects is TUE looking at the critically endangered songbirds of Bali, many TUE of which will feature in a huge free flight aviary in TUE Chester Zoo’s Monsoon Forest – the UK’s largest ever indoor TUE zoo exhibit. He is the European studbook keeper for the TUE Sumatran Laughingthrush. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales From the Stave b06gr3vr (Listen) TUE Series 12, Dvorak's New World Symphony TUE TUE Frances Fyfield begins a new series of Tales from the Stave TUE with one of the most popular Symphonies ever written. TUE Dvorak's Symphony 'From the New World' was composed during TUE his time working in American in the 1890's. There have been TUE claims and counter-claims about his use of spirituals and TUE native American music but the manuscript, held at the Czech TUE National Museum of Music in Prague, and the accompanying TUE sketchbooks, tell a story of both inspiration and craft. TUE TUE Frances is joined by the world renowned Czech conductor Jiri TUE Belohlavek, the American music historian David Beveridge TUE and, given the famous tune from the second movement, the Cor TUE Anglais player Vladislav Borovka. To Vladislav and most TUE Czechs it's difficult to imagine this melody having anything TUE to do with 'bread' (let alone Hovis!) but so it is for TUE British audiences. TUE However, the sketchbooks reveal a fascinating evolution of TUE both this tune and several others that make this work so TUE beloved of audiences the world over. The first movement, for TUE example, was originally conceived in a major key. 'How TUE strange' as an American songwriter was to opine some time TUE later 'the change from Major to Minor.' TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06g1k8y (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b064g2bj (Listen) TUE 13 October 1915 - Kitty Lumley TUE TUE On this day the education aspect was dropped from the TUE recruitment test, and Kitty is shocked to discover a whole TUE world she knew nothing about. TUE TUE Written by Sarah Daniels TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Kitty: Ami Metcalf TUE Edie: Kathryn Beaumont TUE Stella: Ava Bell TUE Ray: Scarlet Bell TUE Isabel: Keely Beresford TUE Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies TUE Marion: Laura Elphinstone TUE Johnnie: Paul Ready TUE Adeline: Helen Schlesinger TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06gr3vv (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06g1k90 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06gr3vz (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Peter Snow Returns to the Future b06hgw85 (Listen) TUE Maggie Aderin-Pocock TUE TUE Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock boards Peter Snow's TUE time travelling DeLorean for an alien encounter which will TUE span the past and the present. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06gqr5y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b06gr444 (Listen) TUE The Life and Times of Arthur Miller, The Lure TUE TUE 2. The Lure TUE TUE The second of four plays marking the centenary of the great TUE American playwright, Arthur Miller. TUE TUE By the time he was 35, Arthur Miller had a very eclectic CV. TUE He was the son of an illiterate Jewish immigrant, whose once TUE flourishing coat business had failed during the Depression. TUE He'd worked nights in an auto-parts warehouse, been a TUE dock-yard worker, a jobbing writer for Orson Welles, a TUE prize-winning student playwright, and a writer of radio TUE drama for Roosevelt's Federal Theatre Project. He was a TUE communist activist and a highly skilled carpenter. In 1950 TUE Death of A Salesman, directed by his good friend Elia Kazan, TUE became a major Broadway hit. By that time Miller was the TUE father of two children and had been married to his college TUE sweetheart, Mary Slattery, for ten years. Now Hollywood TUE beckoned, where a chance meeting with Marilyn Monroe would TUE change everything. Written by Jonathan Holloway. TUE TUE Producer for LA Theatre Works: Susan Loewenberg TUE Associate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson and Myke D Wysekopf TUE Sound by Mark Holden, Wes Dewberry, and Catherine Robinson TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales and LA Theatre Works Co-Production, TUE directed by Kate McAll TUE TUE LA Theatre Works is a non-profit audio drama company based TUE in Los Angeles that records classic and contemporary plays. TUE They have been collaborating with the BBC for nearly thirty TUE years, beginning with a production of Arthur Miller's The TUE Crucible that starred Richard Dreyfuss and Stacey Keach. TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Ed Harris TUE Arthur Miller: Geoffrey Arend TUE Mary Slattery: Devon Sorvari TUE Dolores Donovan: Alexis Jacknow TUE Elia Kazan: Raphael Sbarge TUE Marilyn Monroe: Heidi Dippold TUE Harry Cohn: Hector Elizondo TUE TWA Announcer: Andre Sogliuzzo TUE Director: Kate McAll TUE Writer: Mike Walker TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b06gr4b7 (Listen) TUE Series 8, The Other TUE TUE From the other woman to the other Michael Jackson, Josie TUE Long hears stories from 'others' and outsiders. TUE TUE John Osborne explores how your identity can become TUE inextricably linked with someone you've never met, two TUE academics discover how a piece of theatre can push you TUE outside of society and a homicide detective talks about how TUE you communicate with someone whose actions are outside of TUE your understanding. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b06grjmx (Listen) TUE Paying For Our Parks TUE TUE Our National Parks are getting less money from central TUE government - some have seen their grant cut by 40% in the TUE past 5 years. To make up the shortfall, they're exploring TUE new commercial opportunities. TUE TUE As well as coming up with individual fund-raising plans, the TUE 15 National Parks in England, Wales and Scotland have formed TUE a joint body, called National Parks Partnerships. It's TUE exploring new ways of selling their collective logo: TUE "Britain's Breathing Spaces". The idea is modeled on a TUE similar organisation in the USA, which has done million TUE dollar deals with companies like Disney and Coca-Cola. TUE TUE So, how far should our parks go down the commercial route? TUE Tom Heap investigates. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b06grjn0 (Listen) TUE The Alphabet TUE TUE Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright take us through the A-Z of TUE the alphabet, with the help of Professor Nils Langer. How do TUE we come to have the letters we do? TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b06grjn2 (Listen) TUE David Morrissey and Julia Blackburn TUE TUE Actor David Morrissey and writer Julia Blackburn join TUE Harriett Gilbert to discuss and recommend favourite books. TUE TUE They include a breath-taking collection of stories by JD TUE Salinger, most often eclipsed by 'The Catcher in the Rye' TUE but equally brilliant on children and young people. TUE TUE David's choice is by the American writer John O'Hara. TUE Published in 1934, it's a stylish and surprisingly sexy TUE novel depicting the self-destructive decline of Julian TUE English, a high-ranking member of a small-town elite. TUE TUE Harriett's choice is the devastating and funny memoir of TUE Alexandra Fuller about her childhood as the daughter of TUE white settlers in Rhodesia of the 1970s. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: David Morrissey TUE Interviewed Guest: Julia Blackburn TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06grjn4 (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06g1k92 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 There Is No Escape b06grjn7 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE An audience sitcom about a man dissatisfied with his life, TUE whose feeble attempts to run away invariably end with him TUE traipsing home defeated. In Episode 1 Andrew arrives home TUE from work one evening to find the house even more of a mess TUE than usual. An argument with his girlfriend about cleaning TUE escalates and Andrew storms out to find something to eat. TUE After a soul destroying encounter with the woman in the TUE local shop, who can only recommend frozen turkey dinosaurs TUE for his meal, Andrew joins his work mate, Lennie, for a TUE consolation dinner in the pub. Later he returns home and is TUE forced to negotiate about a cleaner through the letterbox TUE before he is finally allowed back in. Starring Andrew TUE Lawrence and Diane Morgan. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Andrew Lawrence TUE Actor: Diane Morgan TUE Writer: Andrew Lawrence TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06grlhn (Listen) TUE Eddie's ready for his close-up, and Pip has a proposition. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06grlhq (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06gqx6n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b06grl93 (Listen) TUE David Cameron has promised three million new apprenticeships TUE by 2020. But Further Education colleges must deliver them TUE against a background of year-on-year cuts - with the axe TUE likely to fall again in this Autumn's spending review. TUE TUE The National Audit Office has warned more than a quarter of TUE further education colleges could be deemed financially TUE inadequate by the end of the year. And this month MPs on the TUE Public Accounts Committee will launch an inquiry into the TUE financial sustainability of the sector. TUE TUE But how far is the crisis also a result of poor planning and TUE excessive borrowing by colleges themselves? A File on 4 TUE investigation finds some institutions taking increasingly TUE desperate measures to make ends meet. TUE TUE And it asks whether the sector is being adequately policed: TUE when a college faces financial collapse, what safety nets TUE are in place? TUE TUE Reporter: Fran Abrams Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06grl95 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 The Letters of Ada Lovelace b069jjmg (Listen) TUE The Poetry of Mathematics TUE TUE Georgina Ferry presents part one of the correspondence of TUE Ada Lovelace, dramatised by an all-star cast; and reveals TUE the intense inner world of a young Victorian lady who TUE anticipated our digital age. TUE TUE Ada Lovelace (Sally Hawkins) was the abandoned daughter of TUE the romantic poet Lord Byron. Concerned that Ada might TUE inherit her father's feckless and 'dangerous' poetic TUE tendencies, her single mother Lady Byron (Olivia Williams) TUE made sure she was tutored thoroughly in mathematics, and TUE regularly prescribed 'more maths' to improve her mental TUE health. When she came out in London society, Ada met the man TUE who would change her life, but not in the way most TUE debutantes would have imagined. The distinguished TUE mathematician, Charles Babbage (Anthony Head) became her TUE life-long friend and mentor: Ada was fascinated by his TUE steam-powered calculating machines. Supported by her husband TUE William (George Watkins), she defied society's expectations, TUE studying mathematics with extraordinary passion and TUE determination when she was married with three small TUE children; and later suggesting boldly to Babbage that he TUE might like to work with her on his innovative thinking TUE machines. TUE TUE Archive Acknowledgements TUE TUE With thanks to Lord Lytton for permission to broadcast TUE letters from the Lovelace Byron papers in the Bodleian TUE Library ( TUE Dep. Lovelace Byron 1-460 TUE ) TUE TUE Letters from Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage are in the TUE British Library TUE TUE Letters from Ada Lovelace to Michael Faraday are in the TUE archives of the TUE Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Georgina Ferry TUE Ada Lovelace: Sally Hawkins TUE Lady Byron: Olivia Williams TUE Charles Babbage: Anthony Head TUE William: George Watkins TUE Producer: Anna Buckley TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b06gqx6d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06g1k94 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06grl97 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06gqr6d (Listen) TUE Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies, You scare me, TUE Henry TUE TUE Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the TUE best in contemporary literature with this hugely successful TUE German thriller set on a small cliff-top town, in which TUE everyone has a secret. TUE TUE Famous novelist, with a beautiful wife, grand house in the TUE country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has TUE it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one TUE carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to TUE protect. But when he makes one fatal error, the whole dream TUE begins to unravel. TUE Today: Henry tells his mistress what he thinks happened on TUE the cliffs that night... TUE Reader: Jamie Parker TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned TUE screenwriters. This, his first novel, has been a huge TUE bestseller in Germany. TUE Translated by Imogen Taylor. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Jamie Parker TUE Author: Sascha Arango TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE TUE 23:00 Charles Paris Mystery b01p3lg0 (Listen) TUE An Amateur Corpse, Episode 1 TUE TUE by Jeremy Front TUE Based on the novel by Simon Brett. TUE When old friend Hugo offers Charles some voiceover work it TUE leads him into the murky world TUE of Hugo's marriage and his wife's appalling am-dram group. TUE TUE Charles ..... Bill Nighy TUE Frances ..... Suzanne Burden TUE Joan ..... Geraldine McEwan TUE Hugo ..... Paul Ritter TUE Ellie ...... Amaka Okafor TUE Saskia ..... Christine Absalom TUE Geoff ...... Patrick Brennan TUE Clive ...... Sam Alexander TUE TUE Director ...... Sally Avens TUE TUE Bill Nighy is back as Charles Paris, actor, alcoholic and TUE amateur sleuth. Charles is once again out of work an event TUE that is made worse by the fact that his mother (played by TUE Geraldine McEwen) has come to stay whilst recovering from an TUE operation; Joan is even driving 'St Frances of Highgate' TUE mad. So when he bumps into old friend, Hugo, who offers him TUE the chance of some voiceover work Charles is doubly happy; TUE some money and a chance to get out of the house. TUE But a simple voice job leads Charles into Hugo's drink TUE fuelled depressing marriage; his young wife spends most of TUE her time at an am-dram group with some very strange members TUE and Hugo it seems is ready to crack. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06grl9c (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06g1k9z (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06j6zlk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06g1kb1 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06g1kb3 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06g1kb5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06g1kb7 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06gy0rt (Listen) WED A spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with The WED Rev Richard Frazer of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06gy0rw (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04ml9bd (Listen) WED North Island Kokako WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Chris Packham presents the North Island kokako from New WED Zealand. Kokakos are bluish-grey, crow-sized birds with WED black masks. Those from the North Island sport bright blue WED fleshy lobes called wattles; one on each side of the bill. WED And they are famous in New Zealand for their beautiful WED haunting song which males and females sing, often in a long WED duet in the early morning.Known by some people as the WED squirrel of the woods because of their large tails and habit WED of running along branches, kakako used to be widespread, WED today fewer than 1000 pairs remain. The kakapos' slow and WED deliberate, almost thoughtful, flute-like song evokes the WED islands' forests and in the film, The Piano, it features as WED part of the chorus of woodland birds in some of the most WED atmospheric scenes. WED WED North Island Kokako (Callaeas cinerea wilsoni) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01454633 WED © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com WED WED Recording of North Island kokako by Matthew D Medler / Ref: WED ML136122 WED WED This programme contains a wildtrack WED recording of the North Island kokako WED kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab WED of Ornithology; recorded by Matthew D Medler on 26 apr 2004, WED in Pongakowa Ecological Reserve, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. WED WED 06:00 Today b06kd208 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b06grwnc (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06j70c7 (Listen) WED 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, Plague WED WED by James Shapiro WED WED Episode Three : Plague WED WED An outbreak of the plague threatens the livelihood of WED William Shakespeare when the theatres are closed. It also WED looms close to his home in London. WED WED Ten years ago James Shapiro won the Samuel Johnson Prize for WED his bestseller 1599: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM WED SHAKESPEARE. WED WED 1606: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE YEAR OF LEAR is a WED compelling look at a no less extraordinary year in his life. WED The book traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn WED of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, WED THE CHRONICLE HISTORY OF KING LEIR, and transformed it into WED his most searing tragedy, KING LEAR. WED WED 1606 proved to be an especially grim year for England, WED witnessing the bloody aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, WED divisions over the Union of England and Scotland, and an WED outbreak of plague. But it turned out to be an exceptional WED one for Shakespeare who, before the year was out, went on to WED complete two other great Jacobean tragedies that spoke WED directly to these fraught times: MACBETH and ANTONY AND WED CLEOPATRA. WED WED Abridged by Anna Magnusson WED WED Read by Ian McDiarmid WED WED Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Ian McDiarmid WED Author: James Shapiro WED Abridger: Anna Magnusson WED Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06grwnf (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06grwnh (Listen) WED Early One Morning, Episode 3 WED WED Italy 1943. Chiara, Cecilia and Daniele are attempting to WED flee Rome for the countryside. Thirty years later, Chiara WED takes a phonecall from a young Welsh girl, Maria, who claims WED to be Daniele's daughter. WED WED Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in a WED dramatization of Virginia Baily's new novel, which moves WED between Nazi-occupied Rome and 1973. WED WED Directed by Emma Harding. WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Greta Scacchi WED Chiara: Juliet Aubrey WED Maria: Sophie Melville WED Cecilia: Alex Tregear WED Daniele: Adam Thomas Wright WED Gennaro: Cesare Taurasi WED Adult Daniele: Cesare Taurasi WED Simone: Jessica Turner WED Nonna: Jessica Turner WED Antonio: David Hounslow WED Gabriele: David Acton WED Tommaso: Felix Auer WED Nazi Officer: Felix Auer WED Brian: Felix Auer WED Edna: Amelia Lowdell WED Barry: Chris Pavlo WED Goffredo: Chris Pavlo WED Gianni: Sam Dale WED Author: Virginia Baily WED Adaptor: Miranda Emmerson WED Director: Emma Harding WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06grwnl (Listen) WED Danny and Roberta - Not One Bit WED WED Fi Glover introduces a couple whose relationship has been WED shadowed by the Troubles, but who eventually returned to WED make their home in Omagh with no regrets. Recorded in the WED mobile Booth at Omagh Library, this is another conversation WED in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when WED you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Recycled Radio b06grwnq (Listen) WED Series 4, Evolution WED WED Gerald Scarfe is back to guide you through the BBC archive - WED mutated into something completely different. Today's WED subject: Evolution. WED WED This episode tackles the history of our evolution and WED searches the archive for answers to some of the biggest WED questions ever posed on Radio 4. Why are we like we are? Can WED things only get better? What's the full title of the Origin WED of Species? What can Darwin, Lemarck, Bernard Lovell, Tony WED Blair, Brian the Snail, D:Ream, Mary Berry, and the prawn WED cracker tell us about evolution? Recycled Radio might have WED the answer. WED WED Producer: Polly Weston. WED WED 11:30 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics b06grwnt (Listen) WED Mr Gray's Decorators WED WED By John Nicholson, Richard Katz and Javier Marzan WED WED In 19th-century London, a butler struggles to keep pace with WED the destructive lifestyle of his employer, a hauntingly WED good-looking and impressionable young man of means. The WED butler hires painter-decorators to carry out repairs but WED when they accidentally damage a portrait hidden in the WED attic, they find that it has alarming effects on the young WED man. WED WED In this new series the comedy troupe Peepolykus assume the WED roles of minor characters in great works of fiction and WED derail the plot of the book through their hapless WED buffoonery. WED WED Director . . . . . Sasha Yevtushenko WED WED Peepolykus (pronounced people-like-us) has exported its WED brand of irreverent comic theatre to over 100 towns and WED cities across four continents, often under the auspices of WED the British Council. The company's varied CV includes two WED tours of Bangladesh, winning the audience award at The WED Tehran Festival, performing to royalty in Brunei, to Indian WED states people in the Himalayas, a truly disastrous run in WED Barbados, an unforgettable stint on The Price is Right in WED Australia and other occasional bits of telly for the BBC. WED Their theatre scripts are licensed world wide and their WED award-winning musical with NYMT:UK is pencilled for WED re-launch. The company has also played for 3 months in the WED West End and collaborated with numerous organisations WED including Neal Street Productions, Aardman, NT, The Kevin WED Spacey Foundation and currently with Brunel University on WED STUCK - working with schools to adopt improvisation into the WED curriculum. Past forays on Radio 4 have included a co-penned WED series with Rik Mayall, a star-studded adaptation of A WED Christmas Carol and a live recording of The Hound of The WED Baskervilles. Peepolykus is produced by Eleanor Lloyd WED Productions. WED WED Credits WED Richard: Richard Katz WED Javier: Javier Marzan WED John: John Nicholson WED Dorian Gray: Blake Ritson WED Sybil: Rebecca Hamilton WED Lord Henry: Stephen Critchlow WED Basil: Sam Dale WED Young Dorian: Evie Killip WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko WED Writer: John Nicholson WED Writer: Richard Katz WED Writer: Javier Marzan WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06g1kb9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b064g2c8 (Listen) WED 14 October 1915 - Adam Wilson WED WED On this day, Emmeline Pankhurst declared 'There should be a WED place for every man, no matter his age, to wear a uniform WED and learn to shoot', but Adam cannot celebrate. WED WED Written by Sarah Daniels WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Adam: Billy Kennedy WED Sam: Alexander Aze WED Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson WED Kitty: Ami Metcalf WED Clemmie: Joanna Monro WED Albert: Harry Myers WED Florrie: Claire Rushbrook WED Writer: Sarah Daniels WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06grz0x (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06g1kbc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06grz0z (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Peter Snow Returns to the Future b06hgwkl (Listen) WED Simon Calder WED WED Travel writer Simon Calder spends his life crossing borders. WED Today he accompanies Peter Snow on a journey to 1961 to WED witness the building of the Berlin Wall, and forward to a WED world in which the last border of all is about to come WED down... WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06grlhn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b06grz13 (Listen) WED The Life and Times of Arthur Miller, Sin WED WED 3. Sin WED WED The third of four plays marking the centenary of the great WED American playwright, Arthur Miller. WED WED Arthur Miller's play 'The Crucible' opened in New York City WED in January 1953. The reviews were mixed. The parallels with WED Senator McCarthy's witch hunt for Communists with the House WED Un-American Activities Committee were obvious. Few realised, WED however, that it also portrayed Miller's dying marriage to WED his first wife and college sweetheart, Mary Slattery. One of WED Marilyn Monroe's New Year resolutions of 1955 was to improve WED her acting by taking lessons. She moved to New York later WED that year to study with Lee Strasberg. Four years after she WED and Arthur had first met on the West Coast, they began to WED see each other again, in secret. The secret wouldn't be kept WED for long. By Jonathan Holloway. WED WED Producer for LA Theatre Works: Susan Loewenberg WED Associate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson and Myke D Wysekopf WED Sound by Mark Holden, Wes Dewberry, and Catherine Robinson WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales and LA Theatre Works Co-Production, WED directed by Kate McAll WED WED LA Theatre Works is a non-profit audio drama company based WED in Los Angeles that records classic and contemporary plays. WED They have been collaborating with the BBC for nearly thirty WED years, beginning with a production of Arthur Miller's The WED Crucible that starred Richard Dreyfuss and Stacey Keach. WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Ed Harris WED Arthur Miller: Geoffrey Arend WED Morton Miller: Andre Sogliuzzo WED Marilyn Monroe: Heidi Dippold WED HUAC Congressman: Edward Asner WED Slade: Nick Toren WED Reporter: Alan Shearer WED Director: Kate McAll WED Writer: Jonathan Holloway WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06grz15 (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 The Letters of Ada Lovelace b069jjmg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06grz17 (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06grz19 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06grz1d (Listen) WED PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and WED analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06g1kbf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 To Hull and Back b06hjkv6 (Listen) WED The French Connection WED WED To Hull and Back is the eagerly anticipated sitcom from BBC WED New Comedy Award winner Lucy Beaumont. First episode in this WED new series. WED WED Sophie still lives at home with her mum in Hull. They make a WED living doing car boot sales at the weekend. Except they WED don't really make a living because her mum can't bear to get WED rid of any of their junk. Plus, they don't have a car. As WED their house gets more cluttered, Sophie feels more trapped. WED Sophie dreams of moving to London to meet her dad and to WED become a famous actress. Will this dream come true? WED WED Cast WED Sophie - Lucy Beaumont WED Sheila - Maureen Lipman WED Jean - Kerrie Marsh WED Ernie - Norman Lovett WED Michelle - Jemma Walker WED Sadie - Jaimi Barbakoff WED WED Writer WED Lucy Beaumont WED WED Producer WED Carl Cooper WED WED This is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED Credits WED Sophie: Lucy Beaumont WED Sheila: Maureen Lipman WED Jean: Kerrie Marsh WED Ernie: Norman Lovett WED Michelle: Jemma Walker WED Sadie: Jaimi Barbakoff WED Writer: Lucy Beaumont WED Producer: Carl Cooper WED WED 19:00 The Archers b06gs5y9 (Listen) WED It is a poignant day for Ruth, and Phoebe is in the driving WED seat. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06gs5yd (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06grwnh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b06gs5yh (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk, with Matthew Taylor, Giles Fraser, Michael WED Portillo and Melanie Phillips. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06gs5yk (Listen) WED Trust Me, I'm a Magician WED WED Paul Hyland is a writer and a magician - but, as he explains WED in this entertaining essay, he is not a trickster. At least, WED not a dishonest one. "Did the painter trick you when his WED reclining nude turned out to be no more than a layer of WED pigments, textures, lines of perspective, light and shade on WED a flat canvas?" Recorded at the End of the Road music WED festival. WED WED Producer: Richard Knight. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b06grjmx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06grwnc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06gs5ym (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06grl99 (Listen) WED Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies, I need to get WED away from here WED WED Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the WED best in contemporary literature with this hugely successful WED German thriller set on a small cliff-top town, in which WED everyone has a secret. WED Famous novelist, with a beautiful wife, grand house in the WED country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has WED it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one WED carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to WED protect. But when he makes one fatal error, the whole dream WED begins to unravel. WED Today: Henry tells his friend Obradin the what really WED happened to his wife, with shocking repercussions... WED Reader: Jamie Parker WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett WED Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned WED screenwriters. This, his first novel, has been a huge WED bestseller in Germany. WED Translated by Imogen Taylor. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Jamie Parker WED Author: Sascha Arango WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett WED WED 23:00 The Celebrity Voicemail Show b06gs5yr (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED The Celebrity Voicemail Show is an entirely fictitious WED comedy show written, improvised and starring only Kayvan WED Novak in which he imagines what it might be like to hear the WED answerphone messages of the rich and famous. WED WED This week we listen in to the voicemail of US President, WED Barack Obama. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Kayvan Novak WED Writer: Kayvan Novak WED WED 23:15 Dreaming the City b0214801 (Listen) WED The Fox Wife WED WED Four journeys into the dark, recurring dreams of the city. WED In each episode, leading writers collaborate with WED documentary-makers Russell Finch and Francesca Panetta to WED uncover the unsaid obsessions of city life. WED WED Episode 2: The Fox-Wife by Sam Thompson WED In Oxford, we follow a man whose wife has turned into a fox. WED WED These experimental radio features blend archive, fiction and WED documentary footage. What's real and what's fiction becomes WED unclear, just like in the city. WED WED A city isn't just a location on the map, it's a place we WED imagine, dream about, invent. A place to love, to endure or WED to resent. A place where you can find anything - but it WED always has a price. WED WED You don't need to live in a city - it's part of the WED universal imagination. But the way we think of it has common WED dark undertones, recurring dreams that come round again and WED again. These late night woozy dreamscapes uncover those WED unsaid obsessions, each taking a different theme, and WED question why these ideas seem to keep coming back in the way WED we imagine urban living. WED WED Producers: Russell Finch and Francesca Panetta WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Russell Finch WED Producer: Francesca Panetta WED Writer: Sam Thompson WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b06gs6j2 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06g1kcb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06j70c7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06g1kcd (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06g1kcg (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06g1kcj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06g1kcl (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06gvn41 (Listen) THU A spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with The THU Rev Richard Frazer of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06gvn47 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlmf8 (Listen) THU Blue Jay THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Chris Packham presents the North American blue jay. The loud THU warning screams of blue jays are just part of their THU extensive vocabulary. These birds are intelligent mimics. THU Blue jays are neat handsome birds; lavender-blue above and THU greyish below with a perky blue crest, black collar and THU white face. But the blue jay is not blue, but black. Its THU feather barbs contain a dark layer of melanin pigment; the THU blue we see is caused by light scattering through modified THU cells on the surface of the feather barbs and reflected back THU as blue. Common over much of eastern and central North THU America, blue jays will move in loose flocks to take THU advantage of autumnal tree mast. A single blue jay can THU collect and bury thousands of beechnuts, hickory nuts and THU acorns (in a behaviour known as caching) returning later in THU the year to retrieve these buried nuts. Any they fail to THU find, assist in the natural regeneration of native THU woodlands. THU THU Blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Tom Vezo / naturepl.com THU THU NPL Ref THU 01042323 THU © Tom Vezo / naturepl.com THU THU Recording of blue jay by Wilbur L Hershberger / Ref: THU ML77279 THU THU This programme contains a wildtrack THU recording of the blue jay THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Wilbur L Hershberger on 31 Mar THU 1996, in Altona Marsh, Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA THU THU 06:00 Today b06kd20t (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b06gw3jj (Listen) THU Holbein at the Tudor Court THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Hans THU Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) during his two extended THU stays in England, when he worked at the Tudor Court and THU became the King's painter. Holbein created some of the most THU significant portraits of his age, including an image of THU Henry VIII, looking straight at the viewer, hands on hips, THU that has dominated perceptions of him since. The original at THU Whitehall Palace was said to make visitors tremble at its THU majesty. Holbein was later sent to Europe to paint the women THU who might be Henry's fourth wife; his depiction of Anne of THU Cleves was enough to encourage Henry to marry her, a THU decision Henry quickly regretted and for which Thomas THU Cromwell, her supporter, was executed. His paintings still THU shape the way we see those in and around the Tudor Court, THU including Cromwell, Thomas More, the infant Prince Edward THU (of which there is a detail, above), The Ambassadors and, of THU course, Henry the Eighth himself. THU THU With THU THU Susan Foister THU Curator of Early Netherlandish, German and British Painting THU at the National Gallery THU THU John Guy THU A fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge THU THU And THU THU Maria Hayward THU Professor of Early Modern History at the University of THU Southampton THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Susan Foister THU Interviewed Guest: John Guy THU Interviewed Guest: Maria Hayward THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06j76tg (Listen) THU 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, Religion THU THU by James Shapiro THU THU Episode Four : Religion THU THU The ferment in the country and King James' insistence on an THU Oath of Allegiance brings religious tensions to the fore in THU 1606. Anyone refusing to take communion (and therefore THU presumed to be Catholic) was fined. These matters come very THU close to William Shakespeare when a member of his family THU refuses communion in Stratford Upon Avon. THU THU Ten years ago James Shapiro won the Samuel Johnson Prize for THU his bestseller 1599: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM THU SHAKESPEARE. THU THU 1606: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE YEAR OF LEAR is a THU compelling look at a no less extraordinary year in his life. THU The book traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn THU of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, THU THE CHRONICLE HISTORY OF KING LEIR, and transformed it into THU his most searing tragedy, KING LEAR. THU THU 1606 proved to be an especially grim year for England, THU witnessing the bloody aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, THU divisions over the Union of England and Scotland, and an THU outbreak of plague. But it turned out to be an exceptional THU one for Shakespeare who, before the year was out, went on to THU complete two other great Jacobean tragedies that spoke THU directly to these fraught times: MACBETH and ANTONY AND THU CLEOPATRA. THU THU Abridged by Anna Magnusson THU THU Read by Ian McDiarmid THU THU Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Ian McDiarmid THU Author: James Shapiro THU Abridger: Anna Magnusson THU Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06gw3js (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06gw3jz (Listen) THU Early One Morning, Episode 4 THU THU Italy 1943. Chiara flees Rome for the countryside with her THU sister, Cecilia and Daniele, the small Jewish boy she has THU saved from the Nazis' clearance of the Rome ghetto. THU THU Thirty years later, in 1973, Chiara has lost touch with her THU troubled, junkie adoptive son, but she must now decide how THU to deal with the young Welsh teenager who keep phoning her THU and who claims to be Daniele's daughter. THU THU Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in a THU dramatization of Virginia Baily's new novel, which moves THU between Nazi-occupied Rome and 1973. THU THU Directed by Emma Harding. THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Greta Scacchi THU Chiara: Juliet Aubrey THU Maria: Sophie Melville THU Cecilia: Alex Tregear THU Daniele: Adam Thomas Wright THU Gennaro: Cesare Taurasi THU Adult Daniele: Cesare Taurasi THU Simone: Jessica Turner THU Nonna: Jessica Turner THU Antonio: David Hounslow THU Gabriele: David Acton THU Tommaso: Felix Auer THU Nazi Officer: Felix Auer THU Brian: Felix Auer THU Edna: Amelia Lowdell THU Barry: Chris Pavlo THU Goffredo: Chris Pavlo THU Gianni: Sam Dale THU Author: Virginia Baily THU Adaptor: Miranda Emmerson THU Director: Emma Harding THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b06gw3k5 (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Open Art b06gw3k9 (Listen) THU Inside the Rock THU THU In the middle of Ben Cruachan in the hills of Argyl and Bute THU is a man-made cavern 90 metres high and 36 metres long, THU reached through a kilometre long rock tunnel. It's tall THU enough for an entire Cathedral to sit in its belly. This is THU the home of the Cruachan Power Station. THU THU Marking it's 50th anniversary, the artist Maria Fusco is THU creating a site-specific artwork. Master Rock is a THU repertoire for the mountain and will be performed live THU inside the power station for broadcast on 17th October 2015. THU THU This documentary provides context to Maria's artwork and THU tells the remarkable story of the power station's THU construction. We'll hear from some of the self-styled Tunnel THU Tigers, workers brought in from around the UK to perform the THU highly dangerous task of blasting into the rock. We also THU hear from Elizabeth Falconer - the unknown artist who made a THU huge mural inside the turbine hall of the power station. THU THU Master Rock was commissioned as part of a wider THU collaboration between Artangel and BBC Radio 4 to find THU ground-breaking projects from artists working in any medium THU that will transform the UK's cultural landscape. THU THU Producer: Hana Walker-Brown THU Executive Producer: Joby Waldman THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06g1kcn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b064g2tc (Listen) THU 15 October 1915 - Isabel Graham THU THU On this day, the Battle of Loos ended, but it's clear that THU the war has changed Isabel Graham irrevocably. THU THU Written by Sarah Daniels THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Isabel: Keely Beresford THU Sergeant: David Acton THU Esme: Katie Angelou THU Sylvia: Joanna David THU Soldier: Neet Mohan THU Johnnie: Paul Ready THU Dorothea: Rachel Shelley THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06gw3kc (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06g1kcq (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06gw3kf (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Peter Snow Returns to the Future b06hgwyf (Listen) THU Steve Jones THU THU Geneticist Professor Steve Jones boards Peter Snow's time THU travelling DeLorean on a journey to the past and the future THU to explore the origins of the red head and the future of the THU human race. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06gs5y9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b06gw3kh (Listen) THU The Life and Times of Arthur Miller, Dreams THU THU 4. Dreams THU THU The last of four plays based on the life of the American THU playwright. THU THU 1982, Roxbury, Connecticut. Following his divorce from THU Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller has been happily married for THU many years to photographer Inge Morath, whom he met on the THU set of The Misfits. They live in the New England farmhouse THU he bought as a summer retreat after his first big Broadway THU success, All My Sons. Miller has always loved this place. THU It's where, in 1948, he built a wooden studio, ten feet by THU twelve, and sat down to write Death of A Salesman. Now in THU his late sixties, it's been a long time since he had a major THU success. In Mike Walker's drama, a mysterious young visitor THU appears at the door and compels him to look back on his THU life. THU THU Producer for LA Theatre Works: Susan Loewenberg THU Associate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson and Myke D Wysekopf THU Sound by Mark Holden, Wes Dewberry, and Catherine Robinson THU THU A BBC/Cymru Wales and LA Theatre Works Co-Production, THU directed by Kate McAll THU THU LA Theatre Works is a non-profit audio drama company based THU in Los Angeles that records classic and contemporary plays. THU They have been collaborating with the BBC for nearly thirty THU years, beginning with a production of Arthur Miller's The THU Crucible that starred Richard Dreyfuss and Stacey Keach. THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Ed Harris THU Arthur Miller: Geoffrey Arend THU Inge Morath: Jane Kaczmarek THU Young Arthur Miller: Ben Feldman THU Awards Presenter: Devon Sorvari THU Director: Kate McAll THU Writer: Mike Walker THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b06gw3kk (Listen) THU Series 31, Artists' Ways - Wiltshire THU THU Clare Balding has been exploring Artists' Ways in this THU series of Ramblings. This week she walks with Matthew THU Hopwood whose project 'A Human Love Story' takes him walking THU through England as a pilgrim, seeking hospitality where it THU is offered, meeting people where they are; on the path, in THU the pub, around the corner, on the street, in prison, in THU church, on the towpath. The people he meets share their love THU stories, which Matthew records and publishes on his online THU audio archive. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Matthew Hopwood THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06gthjy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b06gtn4x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06gwcp9 (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06gwcpf (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06gwcpk (Listen) THU PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and THU analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06g1kct (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Brig Society b06gwcpm (Listen) THU Series 3, Being a Lord THU THU Good Lord. Exactly what Marcus has become in order to peer THU under the ermine and see if we really do need that second THU chamber. Along the way he'll be looking at the history and THU function of the House of Lords, getting himself a Coat Of THU Arms and having a good old rummage in the Woolsack. THU THU Helping him declare his interests will be Margaret THU Cabourn-Smith (2Miranda"), William Andrews ("Sorry I've Got THU No Head") and Justin Edwards ("The Thick Of It"). THU THU Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, THU Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell. THU THU Produced by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: William Andrews THU Ensemble: Justin Edwards THU Producer: David Tyler THU Writer: Marcus Brigstocke THU Writer: Jeremy Salsby THU Writer: Toby Davies THU Writer: Nick Doody THU Writer: Steve Punt THU Writer: Dan Tetsell THU THU 19:00 The Archers b06gwcpr (Listen) THU Rob is right by Helen's side, and the Fairbrothers are off THU to Norfolk. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06gwfzs (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06gw3jz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b06gwfzv (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b06gwfzx (Listen) THU Sponsorship THU THU Whether it's high-profile sports events or blockbuster art THU exhibitions, companies like Adidas and Unilever spend THU millions of pounds on sponsorship - to get their brand THU associated with sporting or artistic excellence. The global THU sponsorship market is worth more than 30 billion pounds a THU year, but what happens when negative publicity - like Fifa's THU World Cup corruption scandal - starts to tarnish a brand? THU Evan Davis and guests discuss whether sponsors should walk THU away or use their influence to press for change. THU THU Guests: THU THU Peter Mather, Group Regional Vice President for Europe, BP THU THU Jan Gooding, Group Brand Director, Aviva THU THU Jaimie Fuller, Chairman, Skins THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06gwcpf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06gw3jj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06gwfzz (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06gs5yp (Listen) THU Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies, You need help THU THU In 'Reading Europe', Radio 4 continues its journey across THU Europe exploring the best in contemporary literature with THU this hugely successful German thriller set on a small THU cliff-top town in which everyone has a secret. THU THU Famed as a novelist, beautiful wife, grand house in the THU country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has THU it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one THU carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to THU protect. But when he makes one fatal error, the whole dream THU begins to unravel. THU Today: After Betty's mysterious death, suspicion falls on THU Henry... THU Reader: Jamie Parker THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett THU Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned THU screenwriters. This, his first novel, has been a huge THU bestseller in Germany. THU Translated by Imogen Taylor. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Jamie Parker THU Author: Sascha Arango THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett THU THU 23:00 Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of THU Evolution b06gwnx2 (Listen) THU One of Britain's finest comedians, Rob Newman returns to THU Radio 4 with a witty, fact-packed series mixing stand-up and THU sketches, challenging notions of Survival of the Fittest and THU The Selfish Gene with a new theory that's equal parts THU enlightening and hilarious. THU THU Rob is our guide on a journey through a unique audio A-Z of THU nature that takes in everything from altruistic amoebae and THU dancing squid to Richard Dawkins wrestling naked with a THU postal worker. THU THU Piecing these fragments together allows Rob to correct some THU major distortions of Darwinism, as well as rejig the theory THU of natural selection in the light of what we now know about THU epigenetics, mirror neurons and the Flintstones. THU THU Written by Rob Newman THU Starring Claire Price, with Jenni Murray as the voice of the THU Encyclopaedia. THU THU Producer: Jon Harvey THU Executive Producer: Richard Wilson THU A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b06gwnx4 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU 23:55 The Listening Project b06gwp4j (Listen) THU Jordan and Janet - I Don't Need to Worry About You THU THU Fi Glover hears a grandmother and her grandson reflect on THU their special relationship, after she took on his care when THU he was 10 months old, because of his mother's heroin habit. THU Recorded when the mobile Booth was in Glasgow, this is THU another conversation in the series that proves it's THU surprising what you hear when you listen. THU THU The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a THU snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the THU UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to THU them about a subject they've never discussed intimately THU before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK THU by teams of producers from local and national radio stations THU who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're THU not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - THU lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key THU moment of connection between the participants. Most of the THU unedited conversations are being archived by the British THU Library and used to build up a collection of voices THU capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade THU of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening THU Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject THU THU Producer: Marya Burgess. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06g1kdr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06j76tg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06g1kdt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06g1kdw (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06g1kdy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06g1kf0 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06gxw91 (Listen) FRI A spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with The FRI Rev Richard Frazer of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06gxw93 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally FRI Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mj32d (Listen) FRI Toco Toucan FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Chris Packham presents the South American toco tucan. Few of FRI us are lucky enough to have seen or heard a Toco Toucan at FRI home in its South American strongholds but its image will be FRI familiar to drinkers of a certain age. Its pied plumage and FRI sky-blue eye-rings are striking enough but it is the toco FRI toucan's huge black-tipped orange bill that makes the bird FRI instantly recognisable. Despite appearances this FRI cumbersome-looking banana-shaped bill is really quite light. FRI Under the colourful plates which cover the bill a matrix of FRI horny fibres and air-pockets combines strength with FRI lightness a formula which has caught the attention of light FRI aircraft manufacturers . The bird's massive bills were FRI prominent in advertisements for a well-known brand of Irish FRI stout beer in the 1930s and 40s. In various poses, often FRI with a pint pot perched precariously on its bill, toucan's, FRI extolled the virtues of beer-drinking. FRI FRI Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Angelo Gandolfi / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01458606 FRI © Angelo Gandolfi / naturepl.com. FRI FRI Recording of toco toucan by Peter A Hosner / Ref: ML132572 FRI FRI This programme contains a wildtrack FRI recording of the toco toucan FRI kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab FRI of Ornithology; recorded by Peter A Hosner on 22 Oct 2006, FRI in Caleligua National Parl, Jujuy, Argentina. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06gxw95 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b06gthsz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06j78nc (Listen) FRI 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, Union FRI FRI by James Shapiro FRI FRI Episode Five : Union FRI FRI King James' quest for the union of England and Scotland is FRI not easily resolved. FRI FRI Ten years ago James Shapiro won the Samuel Johnson Prize for FRI his bestseller 1599: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM FRI SHAKESPEARE. FRI FRI 1606: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE YEAR OF LEAR is a FRI compelling look at a no less extraordinary year in his life. FRI The book traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn FRI of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, FRI THE CHRONICLE HISTORY OF KING LEIR, and transformed it into FRI his most searing tragedy, KING LEAR. FRI FRI 1606 proved to be an especially grim year for England, FRI witnessing the bloody aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, FRI divisions over the Union of England and Scotland, and an FRI outbreak of plague. But it turned out to be an exceptional FRI one for Shakespeare who, before the year was out, went on to FRI complete two other great Jacobean tragedies that spoke FRI directly to these fraught times: MACBETH and ANTONY AND FRI CLEOPATRA. FRI FRI Abridged by Anna Magnusson FRI FRI Read by Ian McDiarmid FRI FRI Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Ian McDiarmid FRI Author: James Shapiro FRI Abridger: Anna Magnusson FRI Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06gxxl3 (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06gx5qh (Listen) FRI Early One Morning, Episode 5 FRI FRI Italy 1943. Sisters Chiara and Cecilia are now installed in FRI their grandmother's farmhouse in the mountains, where they FRI shelter passing army deserters and Daniele, the small Jewish FRI boy Chiara saved from the Nazis' clearance of the Rome FRI ghetto. FRI FRI Thirty years later, in 1973, Chiara has lost touch with her FRI troubled, junkie adoptive son, but is now preparing for a FRI visit from Maria, the Welsh teenager who claims to be FRI Daniele's daughter. FRI FRI Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in a FRI dramatization of Virginia Baily's new novel, which moves FRI between Nazi-occupied Rome and 1973. FRI FRI Directed by Emma Harding. FRI FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Greta Scacchi FRI Chiara: Juliet Aubrey FRI Maria: Sophie Melville FRI Cecilia: Alex Tregear FRI Daniele: Adam Thomas Wright FRI Gennaro: Cesare Taurasi FRI Adult Daniele: Cesare Taurasi FRI Simone: Jessica Turner FRI Nonna: Jessica Turner FRI Antonio: David Hounslow FRI Gabriele: David Acton FRI Tommaso: Felix Auer FRI Nazi Officer: Felix Auer FRI Brian: Felix Auer FRI Edna: Amelia Lowdell FRI Barry: Chris Pavlo FRI Goffredo: Chris Pavlo FRI Gianni: Sam Dale FRI Author: Virginia Baily FRI Adaptor: Miranda Emmerson FRI Director: Emma Harding FRI FRI 11:00 Two Men and a Mule b06gx5qk (Listen) FRI The Festival of the Snows FRI FRI The Andes have become a symbol of a lost world of Inca FRI wisdom and cities in the clouds, of the Celestine Prophecy FRI and Indiana Jones. It needs two men (and their mule) to cut FRI their way through the mystique with some machetes and wit. FRI FRI For the third and final programme of the series, explorers FRI Hugh Thomson and Benedict Allen - along with their trusty FRI mule Washington - make the arduous journey to Qoyllurit'i, FRI the so-called 'festival of the snows' held high up in the FRI glaciers of Peru, where 30,000 people gather for what is FRI very much a Glastonbury of the Andes. FRI FRI This is one of the very last places where the rituals and FRI beliefs of ancient Peru still intersect with the present in FRI an extraordinary mix of pre-Colombian and Christian ritual - FRI festival goers walk to the high glacier with crosses, which FRI take on the spirit of the glacier and are then carried down FRI the mountain to local chapels, from where the spirit of the FRI glacier can watch over the community. FRI FRI The festival is policed by bear-men who whip the FRI participants if they do not follow the elaborate set of FRI rituals prescribed for the festival from the beginnings of FRI Andean culture. FRI FRI Produced by Ruth Evans FRI A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 John Finnemore's Double Acts b06gx5qm (Listen) FRI A Flock of Tigers FRI FRI A seemingly ordinary train ride turns into an unexpected FRI adventure for Edmund and Dolorosa. FRI FRI Celia Imrie and Charles Edwards star in the first of six FRI two-handers written by Cabin Pressure's John Finnemore. FRI FRI Written by John Finnemore FRI Produced by David Tyler FRI FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dolorosa: Celia Imrie FRI Edmund: Charles Edwards FRI Writer: John Finnemore FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06g1kf2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b064g3dq (Listen) FRI 16 October 1915 - Albert Wilson FRI FRI On this day, Britain heard that nurse Edith Cavell had been FRI executed, and Albert Wilson is up and out early as the FRI troops are marching to the harbour. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Passer-by: David Acton FRI Norman Harris: Sean Baker FRI Passer-by: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Sergeant Major: David Hounslow FRI Clemmie: Joanna Monro FRI Olive: Rhiannon Neads FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Ken: Joe Sims FRI Margaret: Jane Slavin FRI Flora: Jessica Turner FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06gxxl5 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06g1kf4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06gx5qt (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward FRI Stourton. FRI FRI 13:45 Peter Snow Returns to the Future b06hh19v (Listen) FRI Kate Williams FRI FRI Peter Snow's guest today is the historian Kate Williams who FRI accompanies him to the bedchamber of Queen Victoria and the FRI home of an African billionaire. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06gwcpr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03b0q9m (Listen) FRI Drone Pilots FRI FRI By Robert Myers. Two night shift operators fly a drone from FRI a trailer in the American desert. He's a much-decorated FRI fighter pilot from rural Georgia, who has come out of FRI retirement to make ends meet. She is a superstar gamer from FRI New Jersey, who's just been recruited to the job of sensor. FRI FRI They are working for a private corporation in New Mexico but FRI are supervised by an imposing female Captain at a military FRI base in Virginia, who gives them orders to stake out a FRI family in South Waziristan. FRI FRI As they circle their target, the sixty plus pilot and the FRI twenty year old female sensor argue about music, fighting FRI and flying. FRI FRI Sound Design ..... Scott Lehrer FRI FRI Producer/Director: Judith Kampfner FRI A Corporation for Independent Media production for BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Major McCraken: David Rasche FRI Airman Andras: Sarah Elmaleh FRI Captain Holmes: Nora Cole FRI Sergeant Najjar: Amir Darvish FRI Radio Announcer: Sydney Beveridge FRI Ahmad: Rahimullah Mashriqi FRI Lohani: Mohammadulluh Mashriqi FRI Villager: Naheed Bahram FRI Director: Judith Kampfner FRI Producer: Judith Kampfner FRI Writer: Robert Myers FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06gx5qx (Listen) FRI Ayrshire FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Ayrshire. FRI FRI Matthew Wilson, Anne Swithinbank, and Bunny Guinness are on FRI this week's panel, answering questions from the audience. FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Enduring Land - Extracts from Sunset Song FRI b06hhc3l (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI One of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th FRI century, Sunset Song follows the coming of age of its FRI heroine Chris Guthrie in rural Aberdeenshire. Set at the FRI beginning of the last century, the novel is a beautifully FRI wrought depiction of a rural community coming to terms with FRI a rapidly changing modern world and the devastating impact FRI of the Great War. FRI FRI In this extract, Chris and her young son look forward to the FRI return of Ewan, husband and father, from army training. But FRI he's a changed man, brutalised by his experiences and FRI frightened by the prospect of going to the Front. A FRI poignant, searingly honest examination of how the war FRI fractured families and communities. FRI FRI Terence Davies's eagerly anticipated film of Lewis Grassic FRI Gibbon's classic novel had its UK premiere at the London FRI Film Festival this week and will go on general release at FRI the beginning of December. FRI FRI Reader: Hannah Donaldson FRI FRI Writer: Lewis Grassic Gibbon FRI FRI Abridger / Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Hannah Donaldson FRI Writer: Lewis Grassic Gibbon FRI Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06gxxl7 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b06gxxl9 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06gx714 (Listen) FRI Linda and Ethan - Inside Looking Out FRI FRI Fi Glover with a mother and her mixed race son, who moved FRI back to Lowestoft after living in London and have been FRI confronted with ignorance and racism. Recorded in the mobile FRI Booth on Claremont Pier in Lowestoft, this is another FRI conversation in the series that proves it's surprising what FRI you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b06gxxlc (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06g1kf6 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06gx716 (Listen) FRI Series 88, Episode 5 FRI FRI Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06gx718 (Listen) FRI Charlie has something to attend to, and Joe feels flush. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Keri Davies FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Usha Franks: Souad Faress FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Alex Redwood: Josh Harper FRI Ellie: Katie Redford FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06gxysv (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06gx5qh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06gxc1q (Listen) FRI Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh MP, Ian Murray MP, Owen Paterson MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Elphindale Hall at Aberdeen University with a panel FRI including one of the SNP's new MPs at Westminster Tasmina FRI Ahmed-Sheikh, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian FRI Murray MP, and former cabinet minister Owen Paterson MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06gxysx (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064g3jt (Listen) FRI 12-16 October 1915 FRI FRI Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War FRI Britain a hundred years ago this week, when the dead seem FRI more present than ever. FRI FRI Written 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 Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Sam: Alexander Aze FRI Norman Harris: Sean Baker FRI Edie: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Stella: Ava Bell FRI Ray: Scarlet Bell FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Sylvia: Joanna David FRI Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies FRI Passer-by 1: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Marion: Laura Elphinstone FRI Sergeant Major: David Hounslow FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Adam: Billy Kennedy FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Soldier: Neet Mohan FRI Clemmie: Joanna Monro FRI Olive: Rhiannon Neads FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Johnnie: Paul Ready FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Adeline: Helen Schlesinger FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Ken: Joe Sims FRI Margaret: Jane Slavin FRI Flora: Jessica Turner FRI Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06g1kf8 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06gxyt1 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06gwg03 (Listen) FRI Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies, Better always FRI alone than never FRI FRI In 'Reading Europe', Radio 4 continues its journey across FRI Europe exploring the best in contemporary literature as FRI Jamie Parker concludes this hugely successful German FRI thriller set on a small cliff-top town, in which everyone FRI has a secret. FRI FRI Acclaimed as a novelist, beautiful wife, grand house in the FRI country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has FRI it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one FRI carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to FRI protect. But when he makes one fatal error, the whole dream FRI begins to unravel. FRI Today: The denouement: when his wife's body is washed up FRI after the storm, suspicion on Henry mounts... FRI Reader: Jamie Parker FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned FRI screenwriters. This, his first novel, has been a huge FRI besteller in Germany. FRI Translated by Imogen Taylor. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Jamie Parker FRI Author: Sascha Arango FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b06grjn2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06gxc1x (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI
09 October, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 10/10/2015 - 16/10/2015
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