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SAT SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b068s1z8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b069b674 (Listen) SAT Maggie Smith: A Biography, Episode 5 SAT SAT No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped SAT witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's SAT best-loved actors. This new biography shines the SAT stage-lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable SAT performer, whose career spans six decades. SAT SAT From her days as a star of West End comedy and revue, Dame SAT Maggie's path would cross with those of the greatest actors, SAT playwrights and directors of the era. Whether stealing SAT scenes from Richard Burton (by his own admission), answering SAT back to Laurence Olivier, or impressing Ingmar SAT Bergman, her career can be seen as a Who's Who of British SAT theatre in the twentieth century. SAT SAT We also hear about her success in Hollywood - inaugurated by SAT her first Oscar for her signature film, The Prime of Miss SAT Jean Brodie - as well as her subsequent departure to Canada SAT for a prolific four-season run of leading theatre roles. SAT SAT Recently, Dame Maggie has been as prominent on our screens SAT as ever, with high-profile roles as Violet Crawley, the SAT formidable Dowager Countess of Grantham in the phenomenally SAT successful Downton Abbey, and in the Harry Potter films as SAT Professor Minerva McGonagall - a role she describes as 'Miss SAT Jean Brodie in a wizard's hat'. SAT SAT Yet paradoxically, Dame Maggie remains an enigmatic figure, SAT rarely appearing in public and carefully guarding her SAT considerable talent. Michael Coveney's absorbing biography, SAT drawing on personal archives, interviews and encounters with SAT the actress, as well as conversations with immediate family SAT and dear friends, is therefore as close as it gets to seeing SAT the real Maggie Smith. SAT SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Peter Firth SAT Author: Michael Coveney SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b068s1zb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b068s1zd (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b068s1zg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b068s1zj (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b068ykg1 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with George SAT Craig. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b069bq42 (Listen) SAT 'You stitch it back together again' SAT SAT 'You stitch it back together again'. How a family turned SAT round a failed adoption. Presented by Eddie Mair and SAT Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b068s1zl (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b068s1zn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b068xwlz (Listen) SAT The Naze in Essex SAT SAT The quiet seaside town of Walton-on-the-Naze in the SAT north-east corner of Essex lies at the end of the 'Essex SAT Sunshine Coast' train line, after its neighbours SAT Frinton-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea. If you walk along the SAT seafront, past the pier and sandy beaches to the north of SAT the town, you reach the headland of the Naze, where the land SAT comes to an abrupt end by rugged cliffs and dissolves into SAT flat watery creeks. SAT SAT Helen Mark is here to explore the unique heritage, geology, SAT and ecology of the Naze and meet those involved with its SAT conservation and restoration. The prominent feature of the SAT headland is the 18th century navigational tower, which SAT stands on top of fossil bearing cliffs that are SAT internationally recognised for their geological value. SAT Behind that lies the watery world of Hamford Water, an SAT important reserve for plants and wildlife, and the setting SAT and inspiration for the 8th book in Arthur Ransome's SAT Swallows and Amazons series, the aptly named Secret Water. SAT Helen also hears about the connection between SAT Walton-on-the-Naze and the pirate radio station, Radio SAT Caroline, whose ships were moored off the coast in the SAT 1960s, 70s and 80s. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Sophie Anton. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b069bq47 (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 Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b068s1zq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b069bq4d (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b069c13x (Listen) SAT Michael Mosley SAT SAT Michael Mosley with Suzy Klein and Kate Silverton, plus SAT Marin Alsop's Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b069c13z (Listen) SAT Series 11, Sheffield SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show from Sheffield. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b069c141 (Listen) SAT Steve Richards presents a special hour-long edition, with SAT coverage and detailed analysis of the Labour leadership SAT election result. SAT SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b068s1zv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b069c143 (Listen) SAT Half a million women and their longer State Pension wait; SAT vishing up-date; plus: data theft SAT SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b068yf8s (Listen) SAT Series 15, Episode 5 SAT SAT Drone attacks, the queen's record breaking reign and the SAT labour leadership contest are all given the Dead Ringers SAT treatment. SAT SAT Credits SAT Performer: Jon Culshaw SAT Performer: Debra Stephenson SAT Performer: Jan Ravens SAT Performer: Lewis Macleod SAT Performer: Duncan Wisbey SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b068s1zx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b068s1zz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:20 Any Questions? b068yf8x (Listen) SAT Natalie Bennett, Dan Jarvis MP, Brandon Lewis MP, Steven SAT Woolfe MEP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Richard Hale School in Hertford with the leader of the SAT Green Party Natalie Bennett, Shadow Minister for Foreign SAT Affairs, Dan Jarvis MP, the Housing Minister Brandon Lewis SAT MP and the UKIP spokesman on migration Steven Woolfe MEP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b069c145 (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Dangerous Visions b0474xcb (Listen) SAT The Martian Chronicles SAT SAT Derek Jacobi and Hayley Atwell lead an all-star cast in a SAT thrilling new dramatisation, re-imagining Ray Bradbury's SAT timeless fable of doomed Martian colonisation. SAT SAT When the first expedition to Mars mysteriously disappears, SAT Earth sends a second to find out what happened. But the real SAT mission is classified. And only Captain Wilder knows the SAT truth. SAT SAT Dramatised for radio by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle. SAT SAT Original Music: Imran Ahmad SAT Sound Design: Alistair Lock SAT Executive Producer: Dirk Maggs SAT SAT Producer/Director: Andrew Mark Sewell SAT A B7 Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Captain Wilder: Derek Jacobi SAT Spender: Hayley Atwell SAT The Lawyer: Anna Madeley SAT Hathaway: Mark Lewis Jones SAT Parkhill: John Altman SAT Evie: Zoe Tapper SAT Biggs: Jonathan Rhodes SAT Thompson: Dean Harris SAT Young Wilder: Ryan Sewell SAT Pluto Survey Officer: Rachael Naylor SAT Soldier: Jacob James SAT Prison Officer: Robert Lock SAT Miss Edwards: Mellissa Aston-Munslow SAT Robert: Owen Sewell SAT Mayflower Rocket Kids: Polehampton Junior School SAT Director: Andrew Mark Sewell SAT Adaptor: Richard Kurti SAT Adaptor: Bev Doyle SAT Author: Ray Bradbury SAT SAT 15:30 Music in the Shadow of Ground Zero b068tz6j (Listen) SAT The story of two New York churches that, despite being a SAT stone's throw from the twin towers, survived 9/11 and are SAT now healing the community with a unique programme of music. SAT SAT 'People stumble on Trinity. A lot of them don't realise it's SAT a church, they think it's a museum. And when they hear the SAT music we offer they are shocked. I take it for granted SAT because that's what Trinity stands for.' SAT (Cynthia Motten, Trinity parishioner for 40 years) SAT SAT Historic Trinity Church, Wall St is only a stone's throw SAT from Ground Zero and has turned itself into a mini-Lincoln SAT Centre, hosting some of the best classical and contemporary SAT music concerts in America. The church is said to be the SAT world's richest Anglican parish - thanks to a gift of SAT Manhattan farmland, donated in 1705 by Queen Anne, and now SAT prime real estate. This year it's investing $2.9m in its SAT music programme. SAT SAT In the shadow of Ground Zero, New Yorkers can listen to SAT Bach's Cantatas in their lunch break, performed by Trinity's SAT own Baroque orchestra, or go to concerts by the church's SAT contemporary music ensemble. The church has had jazz and hip SAT hop masses and pushed aside the pews to host a reggae party. SAT SAT Radio 4 visits the church, and its sister chapel St Paul's, SAT during a special week of music marking 150 years since the SAT abolition of slavery, honouring the power of black music in SAT America featuring special guest Bobby McFerrin. SAT SAT Julian Wachner, Trinity's Grammy-nominated winning music SAT director, says: "There are people who come to St Paul's to SAT remember someone close who was lost in the towers, and they SAT go to the churchyard - think of the ashes and what fell on SAT that space - and the music heals." SAT SAT Producer: Eve Streeter SAT SAT A Greenpoint production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b069c1m3 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Barrister Charlotte Proudman has accused a senior solicitor SAT of sexism after he sent a message complimenting her profile SAT photo on her LinkedIn account. But is naming and shaming on SAT social media the best way of dealing with the situation. SAT Chrissie Hynde discusses her 'reckless' life in music SAT indulging in the sex and drugs excesses of the 60s and 70s. SAT The fertility expert Professor Robert Winston tells us why SAT he is critical of the fertility industry, private, NHS and SAT the regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology SAT Authority. SAT Do we live in a rape culture in which sexual violence SAT against women isn't taken seriously by society and the SAT courts? We discuss. SAT A new BBC radio play goes back to 1955 to tell the story of SAT when Grace Archer - the then golden girl of the Archers - SAT died, and whether her death was a ploy to thwart the launch SAT night of ITV. SAT In our series looking at women who work in technology we SAT speak to Vanessa Vallely about her work in coding. SAT And we cook the perfect Mexican steak salad with the Hairy SAT Bikers. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Interviewed Guest: Charlotte Proudman SAT Interviewed Guest: Chrissie Hynde SAT Interviewed Guest: Robert Winston SAT Interviewed Guest: Vanessa Vallely SAT SAT 17:00 PM b069c1m5 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b069bq42 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b068s201 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b068s203 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b068s205 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b069c2f0 (Listen) SAT Nikki Bedi, Michael Palin, Phil Tufnell, Simon Callow, Rozi SAT Plain, Mac DeMarco, Vicky McClure SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined in studio with SAT guests Michael Palin, Phil Tufnell, Simon Callow and Vicky SAT McClure for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and SAT comedy. With music from Mac DeMarco and Rozi Plain. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Michael Palin SAT ‘Travelling To Work’ is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson SAT on 24th September. SAT SAT Phil Tufnell SAT ‘Where Am I?’ is published by Headline and available now. SAT SAT Vicky McClure SAT 'This is England '90' starts on Sunday 13th September at SAT 21.00 on Channel 4. SAT SAT Simon Callow SAT 'Friday Night Is Music Night Presents The Battle Of Britain SAT At 75' is on Friday 18th September at 8pm on BBC Radio 2. SAT SAT Mac DeMarco SAT SAT 'Another One’ is out now on Captured Tracks. SAT SAT SAT SAT Mac DeMarco is playing at Albert Hall, Manchester on SAT Saturday 12th September. SAT SAT Rozi Plain SAT SAT 'Friend' is available now on Lost Map. SAT SAT Rozi is playing at The Musician, Leicester on Wednesday SAT 30th September, Adelphi, Hull on Thursday 1st and Tin Music SAT & Arts, Coventry on Friday 2nd October. Check her website SAT for further tour dates. SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: Michael Palin SAT Interviewed Guest: Phil Tufnell SAT Interviewed Guest: Simon Callow SAT Interviewed Guest: Vicky McClure SAT Performer: Mac DeMarco SAT Performer: Rozi Plain SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b069c2f2 (Listen) SAT Sam Smith SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b069c2f4 (Listen) SAT Legend, Patrick deWitt, This Is England, Future Conditional, SAT Drawing in Silver and Gold SAT SAT Tom Hardy plays both Reggie and Ronnie Kray in Legend, the SAT latest film to deal with the east end gangster twins SAT Patrick deWitt's new novel Undermajordomo Minor is the SAT follow-up to the Booker shortlisted The Sisters Brothers. SAT It's a bizarre fable of sorts set in an unspecified country SAT and time. SAT This is England '90 is the fourth part of Shane Meadows' SAT partly-autobiographical series. From the initial film, it SAT has become a successful TV series for Channel 4 SAT Rob Brydon plays a long-suffering teacher in Tamsin SAT Oglesby's Future Conditional at London's Old Vic Theatre. It SAT deals with the sticky business of getting your child into a SAT good secondary school. SAT Drawing in Silver and Gold at British Museum looks at the SAT once-popular art of metalpoint, with works from Rembrandt, SAT Van Eyck, Hans Holbein, Otto Dix, Holman Hunt and more. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b069c2f6 (Listen) SAT MP for Penrith and the Border SAT SAT Rory Stewart is an MP with an unusual profile. By the time SAT he was 30 he had worked for the Foreign Office in Indonesia SAT and Montenegro; he had walked across Asia, ending his SAT journey in war-torn Afghanistan; he had then helped to SAT govern two provinces in Southern Iraq before taking up a SAT position at Harvard. Many found it surprising that his next SAT move was to get himself elected to Parliament. SAT SAT At a time when politicians are having to win back the trust SAT of the people and find new ways of engaging the public, we SAT follow Rory Stewart between Westminster and his constituency SAT to hear his perspective on the role of a Cumbrian MP. He SAT offers his views on the effectiveness of our democracy, the SAT relationship between politicians and the media, and his SAT hopes for the future of the UK. SAT SAT The rural constituency of Penrith and the Border is far SAT removed from Westminster. Rory feels a deep sense of SAT affinity for the countryside and the farmers who have lived SAT in the region for generations. But he is also deeply engaged SAT in foreign affairs and chaired the Defence Select Committee SAT from 2014 until the election. SAT SAT Rory believes that an MP's job is unusual, that it demands SAT sacrifices, and that family life must be fitted around these SAT demands - but he also feels strongly that local people SAT should be given much more power to resolve local issues. SAT SAT We hear Rory Stewart at work in his constituency, attending SAT meetings, appearing on politics programmes, and finally SAT campaigning for reelection in May 2015. We travel with him SAT between Cumbria and Westminster and hear his reflections on SAT politics along the way. SAT SAT Produced by Isabel Sutton SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b068sjpb (Listen) SAT A Place of Greater Safety, Liberty SAT SAT Hilary Mantel's gripping account of the cataclysmic events SAT of the French Revolution seen through the eyes of three of SAT its most important figures, Georges Danton, Camille SAT Desmoulins and Maximilien Robespierre. SAT SAT Dramatised by Melissa Murray SAT SAT Part one: Liberty SAT SAT Directed by Marc Beeby. SAT SAT Credits SAT Camille: Carl Prekopp SAT Danton: Mark Stobbart SAT Robespierre: Sam Troughton SAT Narrator: Lizzy Watts SAT Narrator: Paul Ritter SAT Lucile: Chloe Pirrie SAT Gabrielle: Sarah Thom SAT Mirabeau: Sam Dale SAT Adele: Alex Tregear SAT Annette: Jessica Turner SAT Herault: Stephen Critchlow SAT Brissot: David Hounslow SAT Nobleman: Chris Pavlo SAT Author: Hilary Mantel SAT Adaptor: Melissa Murray SAT Producer: Marc Beeby SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b068s207 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Migration Dilemma b06cyg33 (Listen) SAT As the migration crisis intensifies, Edward Stourton hosts a SAT live debate which looks beyond the harrowing daily headlines SAT to ask what it really means for Britain and the rest of SAT Europe. Cutting through familiar polarised positions, a SAT panel of experts place the current situation within its SAT proper historical context and assess the moral obligations SAT that face the UK. And if this is just the start of seismic SAT population shifts, what are the long-term implications? SAT SAT Producers: Jim Frank and Lucy Proctor. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b068tn6y (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 1 SAT SAT Comedy writer and director Graham Linehan. SAT Sports presenter Sally Jones. SAT Actress and writer Morwenna Banks SAT Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band member and Monty Python collaborator SAT Neil Innes SAT SAT Presenter ... Nigel Rees SAT Producer ... Carl Cooper. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nigel Rees SAT Panellist: Graham Linehan SAT Panellist: Sally Jones SAT Panellist: Morwenna Banks SAT Panellist: Neil Innes SAT Producer: Carl Cooper SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b068sjpg (Listen) SAT Bees SAT SAT Roger McGough is back with a Poetry Please celebrating the SAT humble bee. The stripy creatures have long been a muse to SAT poets from Tagore to Carol Ann Duffy. With readers James SAT Fleet and Amanda Root, and beekeeper Jeff Davey. Producer SAT Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT Equinox SAT SAT By Elizabeth Alexander SAT SAT From American Blue – Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT Brother Douglas Looks After the Bees SAT SAT By David Scott SAT SAT From Playing for England SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT Bees Cannot Fly SAT SAT By Roger McGough SAT SAT From Roger McGough – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Viking SAT SAT SAT SAT Virgil’s Bees SAT SAT By Carol Ann Duffy SAT SAT From The Bees SAT SAT Published by Picador SAT SAT SAT SAT An extract from The Eclogues and Georgics SAT SAT by Virgil SAT SAT Translated by C Day Lewis SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The Honeycomb SAT SAT By Pauline Stainer SAT SAT From The Honeycomb SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT Spelling Bees SAT SAT By Roger McGough SAT SAT From The Bees Knees SAT SAT Published by Puffin SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from Bee Journal SAT SAT By Sean Borodale SAT SAT Published by Jonathan Cape SAT SAT SAT SAT ‘We both live in the same village..’ SAT SAT By Rabindranath Tagore SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/1900 SAT SAT SAT SAT ‘Over the green and yellow..’ SAT SAT By Rabindranath Tagore SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/1888 SAT SAT SAT SAT Cornish Wind SAT SAT By Arthur Symons SAT SAT From This Green Earth: A Celebration of Nature Poetry SAT SAT Published by Ellenbank Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The Hive SAT SAT By Jo Shapcott SAT SAT From Six Bee Poems SAT SAT From SAT https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/six-bee-poems/ SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of SAT Britain and Ireland SAT SAT By Steve Roud SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Telling the Bees SAT SAT By John Greenleaf Whittier SAT SAT From The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The Barn SAT SAT By Peter Didsbury SAT SAT From Scenes From A Long Sleep – New and Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT A Bee SAT SAT By Peter Didsbury SAT SAT From Scenes From A Long Sleep – New and Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT The Beekeeper to his Assistant SAT SAT By Noel Duffy SAT SAT From SAT http://noelduffy.net/poetry/in-the-library-of-lost-objects/t SAT e-beekeeper-to-his-assistant/ SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: James Fleet SAT Reader: Amanda Root SAT Interviewed Guest: Jeff Davey SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b069gs1z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Words and Music b0367c3n (Listen) SUN The Piano Player Does Not Do Requests SUN SUN A series of stories by novelist Chris Paling, in which the SUN music plays as important a role as the words. SUN SUN Episode 1: The Piano Player Does Not Do Requests. SUN Snow falls on the village pub. A stranger walks in and SUN orders a whisky. Slowly, hesitantly, he tells his strange SUN story to the landlord - a tale of a fortune being made and SUN the woman he made it for. SUN SUN Occasionally he breaks off to listen to the piano being SUN played in the room next door. But will he ever know how SUN important the music is to the story of his life? SUN SUN Read by Philip Jackson SUN Music composed and performed by Cormac Dorrian SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Philip Jackson SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN Writer: Chris Paling SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b069gs23 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b069gs29 (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b069gs2c (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b069gs2f (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b069gtk1 (Listen) SUN Bells from Durham Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b069c2f2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b069gs2h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b069gtk3 (Listen) SUN Schadenfreude SUN SUN With concerns about increasing social inequality, some might SUN argue that there is ever more fertile ground for SUN Schadenfreude - a nineteenth century German expression SUN coined to describe the joy we sometimes take in the failure SUN or misfortune of others. It has been described as the worst SUN human trait. However, some psychologists argue that it is an SUN intrinsic part of our survival instinct. In conversation SUN with Dr. Caroline Bowman, a leading researcher in this SUN field, Mark Tully explores the pleasure we take in the SUN discomfiture of both peers and rivals. Readings and music SUN range from Clive James and Robert Fulford to Spike Jones and SUN Verdi. SUN SUN The readers are Cyril Nri, Francis Cadder and Jane SUN Whittenshaw. SUN SUN Presenter: Mark Tully SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: SUN The Book Of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered SUN Author: SUN Clive James SUN Publisher: SUN Jonathan Cape SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN The Social Treatise Leviathan SUN Author: SUN Thomas Hobbes SUN Publisher: SUN CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN My Rival SUN Author: SUN Rudyard Kipling SUN Publisher: SUN Wordsworth Poetry Library in The Works of Rudyard Kipling SUN Title: SUN Schadenfreude: One of Life’s Guilty Pleasures SUN Author: SUN Robert Fulford SUN Publisher: SUN The National Post, November, 2003 SUN SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b069gtk5 (Listen) SUN Fell Ponies of Rochdale SUN SUN Caz Graham looks for wild horses in Lancashire and finds one SUN of the UK's last - and largest - herds of semi-feral Fell SUN Ponies at Andrew and Michelle Thorpe's farm on the moors SUN north of Rochdale. SUN SUN Producer: Caz Graham. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b069gs2k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b069gs2m (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b069gtk7 (Listen) SUN Bishop Peter Ball, New Sustainable Development Goals, SUN Nigeria's Noisy Churches SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b069gtk9 (Listen) SUN Sound Seekers SUN SUN Sam Evans presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Sound Seekers SUN Registered Charity No 1013870 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Sound Seekers'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Sound Seekers'. SUN SUN Sound Seekers SUN SUN Sound Seekers is dedicated to helping thousands of people SUN with hearing loss in the poorest communities of Africa. A SUN child living in sub-Saharan Africa is more than twice as SUN likely to be deaf as a child living in the developed world. SUN Diseases such as malaria or meningitis can result in hearing SUN loss so even if a child survives, their future will be SUN restricted as deaf children are often excluded from SUN school. SUN Partnering with hospitals, health service providers and SUN schools for deaf children, we help to overcome the effects SUN of deafness by sharing skills and providing resources so SUN that medical staff can identify and treat hearing loss. SUN Sound Seekers also provides training and equipment for SUN teachers so that deaf children can access education and SUN secure their future. SUN SUN Happy, whose story you hear in the appeal. SUN SUN Happy became deaf after suffering from malaria in Malawi. He SUN was stuck in the same class for three years at school SUN because he couldn't hear anything. Last year, Sound Seekers SUN fitted him with hearing aids and now Happy has finally moved SUN up a year and is thriving in school. SUN SUN Providing Audiology Services in Africa SUN SUN Sound Seekers supports the training of hospital staff in SUN Cameroon, Gambia, Malawi and Zambia in audiology and SUN provides the equipment they need to assist people with SUN hearing loss, including fitting hearing aids. Our biggest SUN project is in Malawi where we are building a comprehensive SUN audiology service. SUN SUN Increasing Access to Education in Africa SUN SUN In Africa, children with hearing loss are often thought to SUN be stupid and are excluded from school. Sound Seekers helps SUN facilitate education for deaf and hearing-impaired children SUN by delivering teacher training, materials and equipment, as SUN well as by providing hearing aids where appropriate to SUN enable children to attend school, giving them access to SUN education and a future. SUN SUN Preventing Hearing Loss in Africa SUN SUN In Africa, hearing loss dramatically reduces employment SUN opportunities, and increases the risk of isolation and SUN mental health problems. Yet 50% of hearing loss cases are SUN preventable. Sound Seekers works to raise awareness of the SUN causes of deafness and to promote basic ear care that can SUN reduce the likelihood of hearing loss. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b069gs2p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b069gs2r (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b069gtkc (Listen) SUN A whole new ball game! SUN SUN To mark the forthcoming Rugby World Cup, Chaplains, staff SUN and students at Rugby School lead worship from the school's SUN chapel, remembering The Rev'd William Webb Ellis who, as a SUN schoolboy, and 'with a fine disregard for the rules' of SUN football, ran with the ball and founded the game of rugby. SUN Rugby School's Assistant Chaplain, Lisa Greatwood introduces SUN music from the school's choir, organ, and jazz group, SUN directed by Richard Tanner. The Chaplain, Richard Horner, is SUN the preacher and tells us that Jesus is our example for when SUN to make, bend, and even break the rules! SUN SUN Script SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN SUN BBC RADIO 4: To mark the beginning of the Rugby World Cup SUN this Friday, Sunday Worship comes live from Rugby School, SUN where the game of Rugby Football began – “A Whole New SUN Ballgame.” The preacher is the Chaplain, the Revd Richard SUN Horner. Worship will be led by the Assistant Chaplain, Lisa SUN Greatwood - but we begin with a welcome from the Head SUN Master, Peter Green. SUN SUN HEAD MASTER: SUN Good morning and welcome to Rugby School’s flamboyant and SUN imposing high Victorian chapel. On the playing fields just SUN outside these church doors almost two centuries ago, one SUN schoolboy’s rebellious act began a chain of events leading SUN directly to this glorious sporting celebration with games in SUN stadiums across the UK over a period of six weeks. It’s SUN going to be a real gift to Rugby fans like myself right SUN around the world. SUN SUN The story goes that one day in the year 1823, a young pupil SUN called William Webb Ellis, losing patience with the kicking SUN game, took the ball in his arms and ran towards the opposing SUN touchline. From that moment, by a gradual and convoluted SUN process, there developed the game which the world has come SUN to know as Rugby. Here, of course, we still just call it SUN football! SUN SUN William Webb Ellis, in his time, didn’t just play on the SUN fields outside; he also sat on the pews in this chapel. SUN Along with his schoolmates he sang his hymns and offered his SUN prayers, and like today’s Rugbeian girls and boys, he heard SUN the unchanging message of God’s love for the world, revealed SUN in the life, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus SUN Christ. Something of that life, something of that love, SUN must have taken root in the young William’s heart, for after SUN completing his education he offered himself for a life of SUN service as a minister in the Church. He eventually became SUN the Vicar of St Clement Danes on the Strand in London. SUN SUN In his single act of game-changing rebellion, William Webb SUN Ellis epitomised the courage to question the accepted way of SUN doing things; in his devotion to his professional calling he SUN demonstrated a life of service to God and to others. SUN Today’s Rugbeians could do a lot worse than follow his SUN example. SUN SUN A verse in our first hymn speaks of the need for us to SUN dedicate every human gift to the service of God – ‘Lift up SUN your hearts!’ SUN SUN HYMN: Lift Up Your Hearts (Woodlands) SUN SUN ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN: SUN Blessed are you, Sovereign God of all, SUN ALL: To you be glory and praise for ever! SUN SUN In your tender compassion, SUN the dawn from on high is breaking upon us SUN to dispel the lingering shadows of night. SUN As we look for your coming among us this day, SUN open our eyes to behold your presence SUN and strengthen our hands to do your will, SUN that the world may rejoice and give you praise, SUN Father, Son and Holy Spirit: SUN ALL: Blessed be God for ever! SUN SUN SUN ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN: SUN So the game of Rugby began with the breaking of a rule. SUN History does not record the precise details of the game’s SUN evolution into the sport we know today. Human nature being SUN what it is, though, it’s likely there was plenty of SUN opposition. We don’t always like change, especially change SUN to the things we know and love the most. Voices must have SUN been raised against the rebellious Webb Ellis and the new SUN methods he introduced. Some of his fellow-pupils would SUN surely have objected – “We’ve been playing the same way for SUN years. You can’t just change the rules!” SUN “But it makes the game so much better,” the rebels reply. SUN “That’s not the point,” say the traditionalists. “The rules SUN are the rules. We have to keep them.” SUN SUN Although any ordered society needs rules to function, SUN sometimes we can hide behind rules and customs to protect SUN ourselves from things we find threatening. Such was the SUN case in the Bible reading we’re about to hear. SUN SUN [It was the Sabbath day, the day given by God for rest and SUN refreshment. Jesus wanted his followers to be fed, and he SUN wanted a sick man to be made whole. But the Pharisees, SUN those influential but hypocritical religious leaders, tried SUN to impose the letter of the law while disregarding its SUN spirit. The reading comes from Matthew’s Gospel:] SUN SUN READER – EMILY CURRIE: SUN A reading from the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 12 beginning at SUN the first verse. SUN SUN Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. His SUN disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain SUN and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to SUN him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the SUN Sabbath.” SUN 3 He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and SUN his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God, SUN and he and his companions ate the consecrated breadwhich was SUN not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. [5 Or SUN haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty SUN in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent? 6 SUN I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.] SUN 7 If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, SUN not sacrifice,’[a] you would not have condemned the SUN innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” SUN 9 Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, 10 SUN and a man with a shrivelled hand was there. Looking for a SUN reason to bring charges against Jesus, they asked him, “Is SUN it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” SUN 11 He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls SUN into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and SUN lift it out? 12 How much more valuable is a person than a SUN sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” SUN 13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he SUN stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as SUN sound as the other. 14 But the Pharisees went out and SUN plotted how they might kill Jesus. SUN MUSIC: There's a wideness in God’s mercy (Choir only) SUN ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN: SUN Wherever Jesus went, strange and wonderful things happened. SUN Sick bodies were made whole. Evil spirits were driven SUN away. In every village and by every roadside crowds SUN gathered to see these marvels, and Jesus taught them about SUN the coming Kingdom of God. In the next reading from the SUN Bible, Jesus uses stories – parables - to explain how the SUN influence of God’s Kingdom in a person’s life, or the life SUN of a community, starts in a small way, often unnoticed – but SUN grows to fill and to bless that whole life. SUN SUN [Perhaps if Jesus had been teaching in our time, he would SUN have made a parable out of the apparently inconsequential SUN picking up of a football on the field outside this chapel, SUN and how that would lead by gradual development to a game SUN played around the world and enjoyed by millions. But that’s SUN just speculation. Let’s hear some of the stories he did SUN tell.] SUN SUN READER – RORY FARQUHARSON: SUN SUN A reading from the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 13 beginning at SUN verse 24. SUN Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is SUN like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while SUN everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among SUN the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and SUN formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. SUN 27 “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t SUN you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds SUN come from?’ SUN 28 “‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. SUN “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them SUN up?’ SUN 29 “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the SUN weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow SUN together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the SUN harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles SUN to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my SUN barn.’” SUN 31 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is SUN like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his SUN field. 32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when SUN it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a SUN tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.” SUN SUN ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN: SUN The song “Swing low, sweet chariot” comes from the Bible’s SUN account of the prophet Elijah, who was taken up to heaven in SUN a flaming chariot – the original “chariot of fire”. The SUN song was made popular by the civil rights movement as a song SUN of freedom and a prayer for God’s deliverance. And more SUN recently of course, it’s become a prayer for victory SUN particularly at Rugby matches. It’s quite possible to hold SUN both these desires in mind as we listen to it. SUN SUN MUSIC: Jazz band + soloist – Swing Low, Sweet Chariot SUN SUN ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN: SUN The things Jesus said and did were not just unexpected; they SUN were often impossible, going beyond the laws of nature and SUN the limits of human imagination. For a man to walk on SUN water; to feed a crowd with a handful of bread and fish; to SUN command a storm to be still – these things don’t happen SUN within the rules of science as we know them. Just as SUN remarkable, if less visibly dramatic, was Jesus’s claim to SUN be able to forgive people’s sins, and to be able to lead SUN them to eternal life, making whole the spirit as well as the SUN body. SUN SUN Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised - at the time of his SUN conception the angel had told his mother Mary, “nothing is SUN impossible with God.” It was the beginning of a life of SUN rule-breaking, and it would end with him breaking the rule SUN that gets us all in the end - the rule of death. On the SUN way, there would be many indications of Jesus’s power, like SUN the one we shall hear about in the next Bible reading. In SUN his Gospel, Mark describes an occasion on which his power SUN over death changed people’s scornful laughter into shouts of SUN joy: SUN SUN READER – LYDIA NORTON: SUN A reading from the Gospel of Mark Chapter 5, beginning at SUN verse 21. SUN SUN When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side SUN of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was SUN by the lake. 22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named SUN Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23 SUN He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. SUN Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be SUN healed and live.” 24 So Jesus went with him. SUN 35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the SUN house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is SUN dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?” SUN 36 Overhearing[a] what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be SUN afraid; just believe.” SUN 37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and SUN John the brother of James. 38 When they came to the home of SUN the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people SUN crying and wailing loudly. 39 He went in and said to them, SUN “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead SUN but asleep.” 40 But they laughed at him. SUN After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and SUN mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in SUN where the child was. 41 He took her by the hand and said to SUN her, “Talitha koum!” (which means “Little girl, I say to SUN you, get up!”). 42 Immediately the girl stood up and began SUN to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were SUN completely astonished. 43 He gave strict orders not to let SUN anyone know about this, and told them to give her something SUN to eat. SUN SUN ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN: SUN After our next hymn, the Chaplain of Rugby School the Revd SUN Richard Horner, will give the address. SUN The hymn “I vow to thee my country” was written amidst the SUN horrors of World War 1. Since then, the tune by Gustav SUN Holst has become associated with the game of rugby. And as SUN we sing it now we shall no doubt be trying to send out SUN strength and encouragement to the teams we support. Over SUN the years, the hymn has often been misappropriated. Its SUN patriotic first verse can only be understood within the SUN context of the second: a beautiful hymn to that other SUN country, our true spiritual homeland that quietly grows SUN around us and within us: …The Kingdom of God. SUN SUN HYMN: I Vow To Thee My Country SUN SUN SERMON: SUN THE CHAPLAIN SUN Every morning when we come to chapel, we walk around the SUN edge of the famous Close where the game of rugby football SUN began. Every day we go to and from our lessons past the SUN stone plaque which commemorates that beginning. In 1823, it SUN tells us, William Webb Ellis “with a fine disregard for the SUN rules”, took the ball in his arms, and ran. SUN SUN He was, quite literally, a game-changer. We don’t know SUN whether the young William’s act was premeditated, or simply SUN born of frustration at a boring passage of play. But it SUN must have taken some courage to stoop among the flailing SUN feet of his opponents, reaching in front of swinging boots SUN to scoop the ball away. SUN Let’s be clear - any member of this school who shows a fine SUN disregard for the rules of our community will not be SUN displaying the kind of courage we’re trying to build in SUN Rugby’s pupils today. Rules have a purpose – they guide the SUN way we behave towards one another and they build up our SUN community. SUN SUN Nevertheless, to disregard the rules can be a brave thing to SUN do, it can be a fine thing to do, and, just sometimes, it is SUN the right thing to do. SUN SUN We’ve already heard how a fine disregard for the rules in SUN 1823 led to the World Cup season we’re about to celebrate. SUN SUN In the early years of the 20th century a fine disregard for SUN the rules of Newtonian mathematics led Albert Einstein to SUN the principles which underlie our modern understanding of SUN science. SUN SUN In the 1920s the Suffragettes, with a fine disregard for the SUN rules of the British electoral system, campaigned, fought SUN and even died so that women could have the vote. SUN SUN In 1955 a fine disregard for the rules in segregated Alabama SUN made Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat to a white SUN passenger, a courageous deed which proved a catalyst in the SUN American civil rights movement. SUN SUN I could go on – but I can’t think of anyone who disregarded SUN quite so many rules, nor to such fine effect, as Jesus of SUN Nazareth. Beginning with his appearance in the womb of Mary SUN with a fine disregard for the rules of human fertilisation, SUN his was a life of joyful, painful, playful, disturbing, SUN rule-breaking. SUN SUN With a fine disregard for the rules of his culture, Jesus SUN sought out the most unlikely people. He went to the homes SUN of sinners and ate with them. He called despised SUN tax-collectors to follow him. For his closest followers he SUN chose uneducated working men. Unlike other Jewish rabbis of SUN that era he spent time with women and showed that they too SUN could receive, and give, God’s blessing. Going beyond his SUN own people he healed and blessed those whom the religious SUN leaders of his time regarded as of inferior race. He SUN accepted the devotion of prostitutes and showed special love SUN to the poor, just as he shows love to you and me. SUN SUN With a fine disregard for the rules of nature, Jesus SUN commanded a storm to be still. With a few loaves of bread SUN and some fish he provided a meal for thousands. He filled SUN an empty net with fish and walked on the surface of the SUN water. From many who were in the grip of evil he drove away SUN their torment, and to many who were sick he brought SUN wholeness, giving sight to the blind, dance to the crippled, SUN even life to the dead. He offers the same gifts to you and SUN me. SUN SUN With a fine disregard for the rules of religion, Jesus SUN infuriated the Pharisees, [those religious hypocrites] who SUN seemed to care more about the letter rather than the spirit SUN of the law and the love of God. He went to a synagogue on SUN the Sabbath and broke the rules by healing people on that SUN day when Jews were supposed to do nothing but pray. He SUN offended the priests who considered themselves God’s SUN gatekeepers by telling the crowds of ordinary people who SUN flocked to him, “The Kingdom of God is within you”. He SUN kicked out those who had turned God’s temple into a SUN market-place, and, both literally and metaphorically, he SUN transformed the sterile water of ritual into the wine of SUN celebration. He invites you and me to join the party. SUN SUN Best of all was Jesus’ fine disregard for the rules of life SUN and death. Our last Bible reading told how he was called to SUN the home of a desperately ill little girl. By the time he SUN got there, it seemed too late – she had died. Coming into SUN the house, he said to the grief-stricken family, “She’s not SUN dead, she’s just asleep”. These were apparently callous SUN words to utter over an evidently lifeless body; but here as SUN elsewhere, Jesus was not denying death, but redefining it. SUN With Jesus, death, like sleep, is something from which we SUN get up again. To prove it, Jesus spoke to the dead girl, SUN and sure enough, up she got. He visits us too, in our SUN desperation and need. SUN And then, of course, the ultimate demonstration. Jesus’ SUN fine disregard for the rules of his culture, the rules of SUN nature and the rules of religion offended, angered and SUN threatened the men who occupied the seats of power. With a SUN fine disregard for the rules of revolution as it is normally SUN carried out, Jesus yielded himself to his tormentors, stood SUN meekly before his judges and claimed to be God’s anointed SUN King, the Messiah. Whether it was self-damning blasphemy SUN or mind-blowing truth, it was only going to end one way. SUN With a fine disregard for the conventions of storytelling, SUN the hero of this one got nailed to a cross and died. SUN SUN But with Jesus, death is something from which we get up SUN again. With a fine disregard for the rules of life and SUN death, he burst from the tomb, triumphant in victory. And SUN he has thrown open the gate of glory, for you and for me, SUN that we might follow him there. SUN SUN The stone plaque outside this chapel tells how William Webb SUN Ellis’s action started a process which would lead to the SUN game we celebrate today; a game with its own rules – and how SUN different they are from those of the round-ball game from SUN which it grew. SUN SUN And it’s not to lawlessness that Jesus calls his followers. SUN He said that he had come not to abolish law, but to fulfil SUN it. But in him, the old laws of sin and death are utterly SUN overwhelmed by the new order of grace and forgiveness, of SUN service and love. In his life, death and resurrection, SUN Jesus was the greatest game-changer of all time. Still SUN today, he invites men and women to become his followers. SUN The call to live the Christian life is an invitation to us SUN all to pick up the ball and run. SUN SUN Great things lie ahead of us. There will be cheers and SUN there will be jeers. There will be pain as well as joy. SUN There will be exhausting effort and there will be SUN air-punching exhilaration. There will be crushing SUN disappointment, and there will be indescribable elation. SUN SUN In the end there will be victory. SUN SUN And it all began with one man’s fine disregard for the SUN rules. SUN [ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN: SUN The victory over sin and death which Jesus won is a victory SUN which all his people will share. When the struggle is over SUN and all conflict is ended, the victors will celebrate SUN together. Together with all the saints, we shall go SUN marching in . . . . . ] SUN MUSIC: Jazz band + choir - When the saints go marching in SUN SUN PRAYERS: SUN SUN READER 1 – AURELIA MARCUS: SUN And so we pray… SUN God of the nations, you have always called your people to be SUN a blessing for the world; SUN bless all who take part in the Rugby World Cup beginning SUN this Friday. SUN Look with favour on the host nations, on the countries SUN represented in competition and on all those who travel to SUN join in the event. SUN May all find in this competition a source of celebration, an SUN experience of common humanity and a growing attitude of SUN generous sportsmanship to others. SUN Lord, in your mercy SUN ALL: Hear our prayer SUN SUN READER 2 – EWAN ROWLANDS: SUN God of all creation, you have given the rules by which the SUN world turns and the flowers grow, the wonders of science and SUN nature that humankind will spend millennia discovering and SUN exploring. And you have taught men and women how to live SUN together in this world that you have made. Forgive the SUN disobedience which makes us put our own desires above your SUN commandments. Hear our prayer for our rulers: for Her SUN Majesty Queen Elizabeth in the week when she became SUN Britain’s longest-reigning monarch – and for those who make SUN the laws that govern our daily life, that we may be wisely SUN and righteously led. Comfort your people who live under SUN unjust laws, and strengthen those who are working for SUN justice and the freedom of all. SUN SUN Lord, in your mercy SUN ALL: Hear our prayer SUN READER 1 – AURELIA MARCUS: SUN God of peace, we pray for the world with all its troubles. SUN For the people of Iraq and Syria, and all whose lives are SUN affected by war. For those who have been driven from their SUN homes, and those who feel that they have no choice but to SUN leave their home to seek a better life elsewhere. We pray SUN for the homeless and for refugees; for people living in SUN lands where famine and drought have taken the lives of many; SUN and for all who are persecuted for their beliefs. SUN Almighty God, have mercy on all who, by hurting and harming SUN one another, insult you, who created us in your image. SUN Lord, in your mercy SUN ALL: Hear our prayer SUN READER 2 – EWAN ROWLANDS: SUN God of all comfort, we pray for those who are suffering SUN today – be it physically, spiritually or emotionally. We SUN remember those among our own friends and family who are SUN unwell, and we think of people we know who are going through SUN difficult times; the bereaved and the lonely, the lost and SUN the confused. We pray for those who are in hospital, for SUN the medical staff who care for them, and for those who SUN anxiously watch beside them. SUN As this new academic year begins, we pray for this and every SUN place of education, that they may be places of happiness and SUN purpose, where the acquisition of knowledge goes hand in SUN hand with the growth of wisdom, and where pupils develop the SUN willingness to serve and the courage to question. SUN Lord, in your mercy SUN ALL: Hear our prayer SUN SUN ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN: […any topical prayer(s)…] SUN SUN SUN We join our prayers with the unspoken prayers of our hearts, SUN and with the prayers of God’s people throughout the world, SUN as we say the Lord’s Prayer together: SUN SUN ALL: SUN Our Father, SUN Who art in heaven, SUN Hallowed be thy name. SUN Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in SUN heaven. SUN Give us this day our daily bread, SUN And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who SUN trespass against us. SUN And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. SUN For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, SUN For ever and ever, SUN Amen SUN BLESSING: SUN THE CHAPLAIN: SUN May God, who with a fine disregard for the rules of sin and SUN death, raised Christ Jesus from the tomb, making all things SUN new in him, strengthen you to walk with him in his risen SUN life; and may the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the SUN Son and the Holy Spirit, be upon you and remain with you SUN this day, and for ever more. SUN SUN ALL: Amen SUN SUN HYMN: Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory (with last verse SUN trumpet descant) SUN SUN SEGUE… SUN SUN MUSIC: Jazz band instead of voluntary… SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b068yf8z (Listen) SUN P J O'Rourke: Presidential Candidates SUN SUN P J O'Rourke sizes up the candidates aspiring to be the SUN President of the United States. SUN "Who are all these jacklegs, high-binders, wire-pullers, SUN mountebanks, swellheads, buncombe spigots, boodle artists, SUN four-flushers and animated spittoons offering themselves as SUN worthy of our nation's highest office?" SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwdc (Listen) SUN African Jacana 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 wetland loving African SUN Jacana. Being rich chestnut coloured above, with black SUN heads, white throats, each has a patch of blue skin above SUN the bill, known as a shield, Jacanas are waders with very SUN long slender toes which allow them to walk on floating SUN plants giving them the name lily-trotters. Widespread in wet SUN places south of the Sahara desert they may become nomadic SUN moving between wetlands as seasonal water levels change. SUN They have an unusual mating system. Females mate with SUN several males, but leave their partners to build the nest, SUN incubate the eggs and bring up the chicks. With up to 3 or 4 SUN mates rearing her different broods, her strategy is to SUN produce the maximum number of young lily-trotters each year. SUN SUN African Jacana (Actophilornis africanus) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Lou Coetzer / naturepl.com SUN NPL Ref 01463976 SUN © Lou Coetzer / naturepl.com SUN SUN Recording of African Jacana by Linda R. Macaulay / Ref: ML SUN 135964 SUN SUN This programme contains a wildtrack recording of the SUN African Jacana SUN kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab SUN of Ornithology; recorded by Linda R Macaulay, 5th October SUN 2002, Mukumi National Park, Tanzaniaa. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b069gs2v (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 b069gvl3 (Listen) SUN Rob is full of ideas. Is Kenton ready to accept help? SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Gillian Richmond SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Usha Franks: Souad Faress SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b068s4qq (Listen) SUN Birmingham Six SUN SUN The release of the Birmingham Six in 1991 was a landmark in SUN British legal history. The six men had been convicted of SUN bombing two Birmingham pubs in November 1974, killing 21 SUN people in what was then the worst IRA attack on British SUN soil. SUN SUN But the Six always protested their innocence and their SUN supporters spent 16 years campaigning for their release SUN before the evidence against them was shown to be unreliable SUN and their convictions quashed. SUN SUN It had been a long hard struggle. In the early years the men SUN and their families wrote to everyone they could think of, SUN appealing for help: politicians, trades unions, church SUN leaders and human rights organisations. Breda Power, whose SUN father Billy was one of the men convicted, tells Sue SUN MacGregor that at first no-one wanted to listen. For many SUN years, they had the door continually shut in their face. Ann SUN Farrell, daughter of Richard McIlkenny, another of the Six, SUN says: "When you know that someone you love is in prison for SUN something they haven't done, you never give up, no matter SUN how hard it is". SUN SUN Paddy Hill was one of the most vocal of the Birmingham Six SUN in protesting his innocence, and eventually one of his SUN letters was published in the left wing journal, Tribune. SUN Chris Mullin, then a journalist, and later an MP, tells Sue SUN MacGregor why he published the letter, and how he went on to SUN investigate the case. SUN SUN Also joining Sue is Brian Hambleton whose sister Maxine was SUN killed in the Birmingham bombs and who is still campaigning SUN to bring the real bombers to justice. SUN SUN Producer: Deborah Dudgeon SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b069gs34 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b068tsvn (Listen) SUN Series 15, Episode 3 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Lloyd Langford, Henning Wehn, Sara Pascoe and Miles Jupp are SUN the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as zoos, theft, phones and hands. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Produced by Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Mitchell SUN Panellist: Lloyd Langford SUN Panellist: Henning Wehn SUN Panellist: Sara Pascoe SUN Panellist: Miles Jupp SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b069gvl7 (Listen) SUN Jam Tomorrow... Today SUN SUN Jam. Think sticky apricot and saccharine strawberry? Think SUN again. Our British love affair with jam goes back to the SUN sweet-toothed 17th century. But now our interest seems to be SUN waning. Shop sales of jam are down amid concerns over the SUN amount of sugar we consume. And anyway, who has time for SUN preserving pans and pretty pots? SUN SUN But there is another way. In fact there are many. In this SUN programme, 'queen of preserving' and author of 'Salt Sugar SUN Smoke, how to preserve fruit, vegetables and fish' Diana SUN Henry, meets the people thinking differently about jam. SUN SUN She finds out how to use some of this year's gluts of fruit SUN with Mary Longford, the woman behind Absolute Preserves in SUN Somerset, discovers a beloved but forgotten fruit with SUN gardener and food writer Mark Diacono; And speaks to Fraser SUN Doherty, the man whose healthier jams have made him an SUN international icon with an MBE to boot. SUN SUN With advice from American preserves blogger for 'Food in SUN Jars' Marisa McClellan, Diana hosts a canning (or jamming) SUN party and explores culinary traditions of jam making from SUN Scandinavia, Ukraine and beyond with food writers Olia SUN Hercules and Camilla Plum. Recipes from around Europe which SUN won't require shiny new kit. SUN SUN Diana Henry wants you to rise up, and make jam. SUN SUN Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury. SUN SUN Olia Hercules' Watermelon Skin Jam SUN SUN The Kherson region of Ukraine where I am from is watermelon SUN country, and it’s where half the country’s crop is SUN cultivated (they love the heat). Kris, the photographer, SUN said after seeing them that he could never look at a SUN watermelon in the UK the same way again. During watermelon SUN season in August, there are big trucks by the side of the SUN road full of the huge, firm, stripy beasts. SUN SUN We do unbelievable things to watermelons. We even (yes, SUN you’ve guessed it) ferment them with salt. Whole. In SUN barrels. I thought that might be too much for an SUN introductory Eastern European cookbook though, so here is SUN some slightly less scary watermelon skin jam – for those who SUN really hate waste and love jams. I add limes to mine, as I SUN like the kick of acidity and bitterness they give, but you SUN can leave them out if you prefer. SUN SUN SUN SUN Makes 2 x 450ml ( ¾ pint) jars SUN SUN SUN SUN 500g (1lb) watermelon skin, tough thin green rind peeled and SUN discarded, white skin chopped SUN SUN 300g (10oz) golden caster sugar SUN SUN 4 limes, thinly sliced SUN SUN SUN SUN 1. Mix all the ingredients together in a container, cover SUN with clingfilm and leave in the refrigerator overnight. SUN SUN SUN SUN 2. Cook the mixture in a non-reactive saucepan over a low SUN heat, making sure the sugar melts before it boils, for 50 SUN minutes or until the watermelon skin turns translucent. SUN SUN SUN SUN 3. Pour into 2 warm sterilized 450ml (¾ pint) jars, seal and SUN let it cool. Store in the refrigerator. It should keep SUN unopened for several months. SUN SUN Taken from *Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine & beyond* by Olia SUN Hercules. Published by Mitchell Beazley SUN SUN Mark Diacono's Mulberry Bakewell Tart SUN SUN I’m not given to risking mulberries’ wonderful flavour in SUN baking, but this tart, with the frangipane filling, brings SUN out their best. It works well with blackberries and SUN raspberries too. If you are dozy enough to upend your tart SUN on the work surface, as I did when last I made it, get a SUN plate under it quickly and flip it right side up - scoop the SUN filling in and press it down and while it may look a little SUN rustic, it glues together remarkably well. SUN SUN *For the pastry* SUN SUN 170g plain flour SUN "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SUN SUN 100g unsalted butter SUN SUN 25g caster sugar SUN SUN 1 egg yolk SUN SUN a pinch of salt SUN SUN SUN SUN *For the filling* SUN SUN 125g blanched whole almonds, coarsely ground SUN SUN 125g sugar SUN SUN 90g cold butter SUN SUN 3 eggs SUN SUN zest of 1 lemon, grated SUN SUN 240g of mulberries (or a generous layer of mulberry jam) SUN SUN a handful of flaked almonds, lightly toasted SUN SUN SUN SUN For the pastry - whizz the butter and flour together food SUN processor (or rub together with your hands) until it SUN resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Add the egg yolk, sugar and SUN salt and whizz until the pastry just comes together into a SUN ball. Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate for an hour. SUN SUN Preheat the oven to 180°C. SUN SUN Lightly butter and flour a 25cm tart tin. Roll the pastry SUN out on a lightly floured surface and line the tin with it. SUN Fork the base of the pastry a dozen or so times and cover it SUN with baking beans to stop it rising when cooking. Bake for SUN about 15 minutes or so, until golden. SUN SUN For the filling - beat the butter and sugar together until SUN pale and fluffy. Stir in the ground almonds, and then add SUN the eggs one at a time, beating as you do. Scatter the SUN mulberries evenly over the pastry case and spoon in the SUN almond mixture. Scatter flaked almonds over the top. SUN SUN Bake for 35-45 minutes until golden brown. Serve with double SUN cream or ice cream. SUN SUN Taken from *A Year at Otter Farm* by Mark Diacono. Published SUN by Bloomsbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Diana Henry SUN Interviewed Guest: Mary Longford SUN Interviewed Guest: Mark Diacono SUN Interviewed Guest: Fraser Doherty SUN Interviewed Guest: Marisa McClellan SUN Interviewed Guest: Olia Hercules SUN Interviewed Guest: Camilla Plum SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b069gs3d (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b069gvl9 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Oil: A Crude History of Britain b068tvkw (Listen) SUN Black Spring SUN SUN James Naughtie charts the hopes and legacy of Britain's oil SUN boom. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b068yd6m (Listen) SUN Gardening Leave SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from SUN Ayr Town Hall. Matthew Wilson, Anne Swithinbank and Bunny SUN Guinness answer local gardeners' questions. SUN SUN Eric Robson and the panel discover the benefits of SUN horticultural therapy at Gardening Leave in Ayr, a charity SUN that specialises in the rehabilitation of armed forces SUN veterans through gardening. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q. Why do white hydrangeas go brown after a few days while SUN pink and blue stay perfect for a couple of weeks? SUN Anne – SUN This is the curse of white flowered cultivars in general. SUN Camellias, Lilacs, SUN Buddlejas – SUN quite a lot of white plants don’t die gracefully. What you SUN want is a variety where the petals are going to shatter SUN rather than stay on the plant. *Hydrangea paniculata* would SUN be better than the *macrophylla* varieties that you’ve got. SUN Bunny – SUN There are hundreds of different white hydrangeas – I think SUN you’ve got one that dies disgustingly! I grow ‘Madame SUN Moulliere’ and that fades gracefully. Also, *Hydrangea SUN arborescens* ‘Annabelle’. SUN SUN SUN Q. How can I stop my cat destroying my Catmint? SUN Anne – SUN I would get more plants! It can only destroy so many plants SUN in one go! SUN Matthew – SUN Some cats don’t like Catmint – so you could get a new cat?! SUN Eric – SUN I heard of one owner who concealed within the Catnip holly SUN leaves and twigs to deter the cat SUN SUN SUN Q. I love Sea Holly but have failed in my attempts to grow SUN it from seed or rear it from a plant – how can I succeed? SUN Matthew – SUN There are a wide range of Sea Hollies – the native one SUN *Eryngium maritimum *requires 20-30ft (6m-9m) of pure sand SUN to grow in. There are some more garden-tolerant varieties SUN like *Yuccifolium* or *Tripartitum* which will seed around. SUN Or ones like *alpinum* but that is a bit harder to grow. SUN It’ll depend on your soil condition as to which one you can SUN grow. SUN Bunny – SUN I’ve found it difficult too – two that have worked though SUN are *agavifolium *and *pandanifolium* SUN Anne – SUN There is one called *Pecos amethyst* which I’d recommend – SUN will grow in wet, heavy clay soil. This would be bought as a SUN plant not grown from seed. If you are attempting to grow SUN from seed then I’d guess you were trying to get something SUN like the biennial *Eryngium giganteum*, often referred to as SUN ‘Mrs Wilmott’s Ghost’ SUN SUN SUN Q. Could the panel please advise on the care of a chilli SUN pepper that was grown from seed – it’s in a 9inch pot SUN (22.8cm), approx.. 18inches (45cm) high and is bearing 30-40 SUN small fruits which are green and range from pea-sized to two SUN inches… will they ripen? SUN Bunny – SUN I tend to pick them when I need them – I’d wait for them and SUN they should turn red if you’ve got them in a nice sunny SUN greenhouse SUN Matthew – SUN Get a really nice pot for it and treat it as something SUN edible and as a table ornament – looks great as a table SUN centrepiece – and then you can spice your food as you go SUN Anne – SUN Keep it in a pot on a saucer so you can see when it needs SUN watering and then put it in something decorative when you SUN put it on the table. This way you’ll avoid over-watering SUN the plant. SUN SUN SUN Q. We have an area of 3m x 3m (9.8ft x 9.8ft) on the SUN north-side of a 2m (6.5ft) wall, it’s in deep shade from SUN mid-May and is also subject to salt-laden gales, what can I SUN grow? SUN Anne – SUN It’s not dry which is good – dry shade is more difficult SUN than damp. A lot of hardy Fuschia would be good, I’ve just SUN got *magellanica* which is the ordinary kind, and that gets SUN pruned hard in the early spring. And then with it is an SUN Actaea (used to be called Cimicifugas) and they like shady, SUN moist soil. They have white flowers and some have purple SUN leaves. You could also mix in Dicentris and Primroses. SUN Matthew – SUN it is important to plant a large amount of one variety. SUN Choisya ternate has an attractive cut leaf and will look SUN lush. You could also plant Persicaria Taurus in shade and it SUN will fill the space with its lush leaves and red flowers. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04stlcg (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about moving up to secondary SUN school, walking on and caving beneath limestone, and SUN volunteering on the Talyllyn railway, from Devon, Cumbria SUN and Wales in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves SUN it's 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 b069h37w (Listen) SUN A Place of Greater Safety, Equality SUN SUN Hilary Mantel's epic account of the French Revolution as SUN seen through the eyes of its principal characters. Pressure SUN is growing on the revolutionaries to depose the king and SUN create a republic. SUN SUN Dramatised by Melissa Murray SUN SUN Part 2: Equality SUN SUN Directed by Marc Beeby. SUN SUN Credits SUN Camille: Carl Prekopp SUN Danton: Mark Stobbart SUN Robespierre: Sam Troughton SUN Lucile: Chloe Pirrie SUN Narrator: Lizzy Watts SUN Narrator: Paul Ritter SUN Gabrielle: Sarah Thom SUN Claude: Sam Dale SUN Adele: Alex Tregear SUN Annette: Jessica Turner SUN Lafayette: David Hounslow SUN Marat: Chris Pavlo SUN Freron: Stephen Critchlow SUN Author: Hilary Mantel SUN Adaptor: Melissa Murray SUN Producer: Marc Beeby SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b069h37y (Listen) SUN John Banville and Children's Literature in Translation SUN SUN John Banville joins Mariella Frostrup to talk about his SUN writing life, about the search for perfection and the SUN recurrence of themes in his art, not least in his new novel, SUN The Blue Guitar. SUN Set in a re-imagined Ireland, it explores the frailty of the SUN human heart through Oliver Orme, a painter who has abandoned SUN his art. SUN SUN And we discuss children's fiction from around the world with SUN Adam Freudenheim, publisher of Dutch classic, Tonke Dragt's SUN The Secrets of the Wild Woods and Joy Fowler of the Carnegie SUN Medal. We get a top tip from an industry insider on a SUN re-discovered collection of short stories and there's an SUN update on the changing literary landscape in China, from a SUN leading Chinese crime writer. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: John Banville SUN Interviewed Guest: Adam Freudenheim SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b069h380 (Listen) SUN Altered States SUN SUN Roger McGough has poetry to take you into altered states, SUN reveries and waking dreams... including Tennyson's strange SUN and magical Lotus-Eaters and Coleridge's Kubla Khan. The SUN readers are Tim Pigott-Smith and Indira Varma. SUN SUN Producer Beth O'Dea. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN The Reverie of Poor Susan SUN SUN By William Wordsworth SUN SUN From Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics SUN SUN Published by Lowrie Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Fragments from an Unfinished Drama SUN SUN By Percy Bysshe Shelley SUN SUN From The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley SUN SUN Published by The Modern Library SUN SUN SUN SUN The Lotus-Eaters SUN SUN By Alfred Lord Tennyson SUN SUN From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin Classics SUN SUN SUN SUN The Fairies SUN SUN By William Allingham SUN SUN From The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems SUN SUN Published by BBC Books SUN SUN SUN SUN Kubla Khan SUN SUN By Samuel Taylor Coleridge SUN SUN From Coleridge: Poetical Works SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN To Imagination SUN SUN By Emily Bronte SUN SUN From The Brontes – Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Dent SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith SUN Reader: Indira Varma SUN Producer: Beth O'Dea SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b068xg86 (Listen) SUN The Cost of a Cuppa SUN SUN Tea is still the UK's favourite drink - but what's the human SUN cost of a cuppa? SUN SUN In the first of a new series of File on 4, Jane Deith SUN reports from Assam on the plight of workers on tea SUN plantations which help supply some of Britain's best known SUN brands. SUN SUN India is one of the largest tea producers in the world with SUN an industry worth billions of pounds - but critics say SUN pickers often have to endure long working hours and SUN insanitary conditions, leading to poor health and high SUN levels of maternal and infant mortality. SUN SUN Producer: Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b069c2f2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b069gs42 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b069gs45 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b069gs47 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b069h77h (Listen) SUN Caz Graham SUN SUN Caz Graham chooses her BBC Radio highlights from the past SUN week. SUN SUN Brace yourself for an 80 fingered robotic piano player SUN trying out a Steinway grand; Noel Coward wrapping the mob SUN around his little finger in 50s Las Vegas; Jarvis Cocker SUN performs a Prom from his bed; and Jim Naughtie hears how SUN north sea oil meant Aberdonians had to learn to 'talk SUN proper'. SUN SUN We're also in Lesbos with Jonny Dymmond who gave one of the SUN week's most moving accounts of the migrant crisis, we'll SUN hear how music soothed troubled souls in the Shadow of SUN Ground Zero, and enjoy the poetic pleasures of Jam. SUN SUN Produced by Stephen Garner. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b069h77k (Listen) SUN David has women on his mind, and Jolene feels optimistic. SUN SUN 19:15 The Absolutely Radio Show b069h77m (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Members of the cast of Channel 4's hugely popular sketch SUN show Absolutely reunite for a brand new radio series. SUN Pete Baikie, Morwenna SUN Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy and John Sparkes are SUN back together with all new material. They are revisiting SUN some of their much loved sketch characters, while also SUN introducing some newcomers to the show. SUN SUN In 2013, the group got back together for Radio 4's SUN Sketchorama: Absolutely Special, which won a BBC Audio Drama SUN Award in the Best Live Scripted Comedy category. SUN SUN This second episode of the series features The Stoneybridge SUN Town Council attempting to cover up a possible bribery SUN scandal, Denzil and Gwynned discussing son Codfyl's starring SUN role in a nativity play, the Little Girl's very personal SUN take on having her Tonsils out and Calum Gilhooley trying to SUN get an appointment with a doctor for something "quite SUN urgent". SUN SUN Mr Muzak sings about the joys of being alone with your SUN computer and the Commissionaire very nearly undergoes an SUN appendectomy. Ther's more from Talking Facebook and the SUN People's War, with stories from those who were nearly there. SUN SUN Produced by Gus Beattie and Gordon Kennedy SUN An Absolutely/Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Performer: Peter Baikie SUN Performer: Morwenna Banks SUN Performer: Moray Hunter SUN Performer: Gordon Kennedy SUN Performer: John Sparkes SUN Producer: Gus Beattie SUN Producer: Gordon Kennedy SUN SUN 19:45 Jellyfish b069h77p (Listen) SUN Jellyfish SUN SUN Stories from the new collection by award-winning writer SUN Janice Galloway. SUN SUN Following the success of her 'anti-memoirs' THIS IS NOT SUN ABOUT ME and ALL MADE UP, the novelist, poet and frequent SUN collaborator with artists and musicians returns to short SUN fiction with the publication of JELLYFISH. The title story SUN is an exquisite tale set between childhood and independence, SUN and is read by the author. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Janice Galloway SUN Writer: Janice Galloway SUN Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b06950lm (Listen) SUN Is it worth targeting non-voters? SUN SUN Can you rely on non-voters SUN During the election for the leadership of the Labour Party SUN in the UK Jeremy Corbyn has whipped up unprecedented support SUN among grass roots activists pushing him into a surprising SUN lead. Bernie Sanders the left-wing Democratic candidate has SUN done the same energised grass roots support in the United SUN States in a similar way. Their supporters believe in both SUN cases they can shake up the political mainstream and SUN convince non-voters to turn out at the ballot box. But is SUN this a wise strategy? SUN SUN The latest on deaths for people admitted at a weekend? SUN Reports suggested 11,000 are dying in hospital after being SUN admitted at the weekend but what does the report actually SUN say? SUN SUN Too dense SUN Is the UK already more densely populated than other places SUN in Europe and is this a good argument against taking more SUN refugees. SUN SUN How many houses do we need? SUN We're told that we need to build 200,000+ houses a year to SUN meet housing need in this country. We talk to Kate Barker SUN the woman who first came up with this number about where it SUN comes from and what it means. SUN SUN How many bananas will kill you? SUN There's a belief among some people that too many bananas SUN will kill you. Eat too many and you will overdose on SUN potassium and die. But how many bananas would you need to SUN eat? SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06950lh (Listen) SUN Sir Adrian Cadbury, Rico Rodriguez, Ieng Thirith, Margaret SUN Harrison, Judy Carne SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Sir Adrian Cadbury - who was chairman of the family SUN confectionery firm, led its merger with Schweppes and wrote SUN an influential report on corporate governance. He was also SUN an Olympic rower - and Sir Steve Redgrave pays tribute. SUN SUN Rico Rodriguez the trombonist who helped create ska and SUN reggae and played with the Specials and Jools Holland, who SUN shares his memories. SUN SUN Ieng Thirith - health minister of the Khmer Rouge and sister SUN in law of Pol Pot. She was indicted for crimes against SUN humanity. SUN SUN Margaret Harrison who founded the Home Start charity which SUN sends volunteers to help parents who are struggling to cope. SUN SUN Sir Adrian Cadbury SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his brother, Sir Dominic Cadbury. SUN SUN Born 15 April 1929; died 3 September 2015 aged 86. SUN SUN Rico Rodriguez (pictured) SUN SUN Last Word spoke to music journalist David Katz. SUN SUN Born 17 October 1934; died 4 September 2015 aged 80. SUN SUN Ieng Thirith SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Robert Carmichael who is an independent SUN correspondent in Cambodia. SUN SUN Born 10 March 1932; died 22 August 2015 aged 83. SUN SUN Margaret Harrison CBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Raj Gill-Harrison who was helped by the SUN Home Start charity. SUN SUN Born 1 April 1938; died 16 August 2015 aged 77. SUN SUN Judy Carne SUN SUN Born 27 April 1939; died 3 September 2015 aged 76. SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Neil George SUN Interviewed Guest: David Katz SUN Interviewed Guest: Robert Carmichael SUN Interviewed Guest: Raj Gill-Harrison SUN Interviewed Guest: Dominic Cadbury SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b069c143 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b069gtk9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b068xx7p (Listen) SUN Steinway SUN SUN For more than 150 years, Steinway and Sons have been SUN building handmade pianos to please the ear of the most SUN discerning musicians. Their sound fills concert halls around SUN the world. Why? Is it simply because they're the best; the SUN best marketed or is there another reason? SUN SUN Peter Day visits one of Steinway's two factories, in Astoria SUN New York, to find out what gives this instrument its prized SUN status in the concert world and ask if this once family SUN owned firm can keep its place on the world stage. SUN SUN Producer: SUN Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN Contributors: SUN SUN Louis Lortie, Concert Pianist SUN SUN Michael Sweeney, CEO Steinway and Sons SUN SUN Regina Davidoff, Steinway and Sons SUN SUN Anthony Gilroy Steinway and Sons SUN SUN Darren Marshall – Steinway and Sons SUN SUN Mark Dillon, Piano Tuner Steinway SUN SUN James Barron, Author, Piano, The Making of a Steinway SUN Concert Grand SUN SUN Stephen Carver, Chief Piano Technician, The Juilliard School SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b069h7tg (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b069h7tl (Listen) SUN Oly Duff of the I Paper analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b068xwm1 (Listen) SUN Pasolini by Ferrara, How to Change the World, Music for SUN robots SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Controversial director Abel Ferrara takes on the life and SUN death of controversial director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was SUN murdered 40 years ago, sparking rumours of political SUN assassination. SUN SUN Jerry Rothwell discusses his documentary about the early SUN years of Greenpeace featuring never before seen footage of SUN early confrontations with whaling boats. SUN SUN Neil Brand explains how film music for robots has evolved SUN from avant-garde electronica to show tunes from Hello Dolly. SUN SUN Set decorator Liz Griffiths explains how she found the tools SUN to kill zombies in Shaun Of The Dead in her dad's shed. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Jerry Rothwell SUN Interviewed Guest: Neil Brand SUN Interviewed Guest: Liz Griffiths SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b069gtk3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b069gs68 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Writing a New South Africa b0542zv2 (Listen) MON Cape Town: Place and Contested Space MON MON Johannesburg-based poet Thabiso Mohare travels to Cape Town MON to meet a new generation of writers, poets and playwrights MON and look at the theme of place and contested space in their MON work and the history of the city. In a city dominated by the MON huge Table Mountain which still ensures a certain amount of MON segregation, he talks to Lauren Beukes, whose sci-fi visions MON of South African cities are internationally successful, MON playwright and novelist Nadia Davids about the undealt-with MON legacy of slavery in the city, and Thando Mgqolozana whose MON novels deal with a range of social issues. Thabiso explores MON the status of Afrikaans in the region among the younger MON generation now, with poet Toni Stuart and short story writer MON SJ Naude, uncovering the roots of a language that was MON appropriated as a tool of oppression but is still felt to be MON a language of struggle and resistance among the communities MON where it originated. And there is uncompromising work from MON Nathan Trantraal and Ronelda Kamfer. MON MON In a three part series, poet Thabiso Mohare ('Afurakan'), MON looks at South Africa through the themes the post-apartheid MON generation of writers are choosing to engage with in their MON work. These authors, poets and playwrights are exploring the MON past and present, from apartheid's legacy to political MON corruption, and the chaos of the inner city; some are MON exorcising ghosts, and some tackling current issues, or MON looking to an imagined future. There is plenty to write MON about after the end of the struggle. Other outlets for MON storytelling too - poetry and spoken word events, plugging MON into older traditions - are supporting the flowering of a MON diversity of voices as hoped for when the political MON landscape changed so radically in 1994, with writers of all MON ethnicities pitching in to the fray. Radio 4 explores the MON range of voices now being heard, some of the challenges they MON face, and the picture they present. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b069gtk1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b069gs6d (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b069gs6g (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b069gs6j (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b069gs6l (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b069jcz6 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with George MON Craig. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b069jcz8 (Listen) MON Devolution concern MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:56 Weather b069gs6n (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvtbk (Listen) MON Florida Scrub Jay MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Sir David Attenborough presents the Florida scrub jay. Less MON than 6,000 Florida scrub jays exist in the wild, yet these MON are some of the most intelligent creatures in the world. MON Long term research has revealed an extraordinary MON intelligence. If other jays are around, a bird will only MON hide its food when the other bird is out of sight. It will MON even choose a quieter medium, and rather than pebbles for MON example, to further avoid revealing its hidden larder to MON sharp-eared competitors. MON MON Florida scrub jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) MON MON Webpage images courtesy of Lynn M Stone / naturepl.com MON MON NPL Ref MON 01042507 MON © Lynn M Stone / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b069jd2m (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The Listening Project b069jd2p (Listen) MON The Listening Project Live from Cumbria MON MON On the shores of Derwent Water in Keswick Fi Glover explores MON conversations that occur in the course of mountain rescue MON and the effects of recording a Listening Project MON conversation with guests in the mobile Booth. MON MON The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a MON snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the MON UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to MON them about a subject they've never discussed intimately MON before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK MON by teams of producers from local and national radio stations MON who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're MON not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - MON lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key MON moment of connection between the participants. Most of the MON unedited conversations are being archived by the British MON Library and used to build up a collection of voices MON capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade MON of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening MON Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject MON MON Producer: Marya Burgess. MON MON 09:30 Soundstage b05n1hws (Listen) MON Dawn Chorus MON MON As a wildlife sound recordist, Chris Watson has been lucky MON enough to travel around the world listening to bird song, MON and is convinced that the very best dawn chorus in the world MON is here in Britain. From late March until mid-June, between MON 3am and 6am, there is a tremendous outpouring of song in MON woodlands between latitudes 50 to 55 degrees north. Resident MON birds are joined by migrant birds from Africa and Eastern MON Europe whose voices coalesce into an international chorus MON which fills our woodlands well before sunrise. Chris decided MON to try and capture a dawn chorus in a landscape he knew well MON as he would have to set up microphones in the dark, so he MON chose Suffolk. It was early May when he set out one evening MON down the old railway path which links Aldeburgh with MON Thorpeness. He arranged his microphones by a likely looking MON area of birch and alder trees, although the first sounds he MON heard were not birds but the bells of Aldeburgh parish MON church nearly two miles to the south. The bells faded under MON the sounds rooks, jackdaws and pheasants returning to their MON roost. There then followed the sounds of the night; owls, MON deer and foxes. At 2.30am Chris heard the first bird song, MON when a nightingale began to sing. This was a beautiful solo MON voice in the darkness. Soon other birds joined the MON Nightingale; Robin, Song thrush, Blackbird and Wren, until MON at 4am the chorus had developed to the extent that it was MON difficult to pick out any individual. With the first rays of MON daylight, the chorus began to subside and the pattern of MON song was changed by the late arrivals. As Chris returned MON back along the footpath, he was accompanied by the cries of MON curlew rising off the marshes and heading inland - a perfect MON end to a wonderful dawn chorus. Producer Sarah Blunt. MON MON Chris Watson MON MON Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School MON and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the MON influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret MON Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound MON recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees MON Television. Since then he has developed a particular and MON passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of MON animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As MON a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, MON Watson specialises in natural history and documentary MON location sound together with sound design in MON post-production. MON MON His television work includes many programmes in the David MON Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ MON which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. MON More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with MON David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which MON also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012). MON MON Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio MON productions including; ‘ MON The Listeners MON ’ and ‘The Wire’ which won him the Broadcasting Press MON Guild’s Broadcaster of The Year Award (2012), NATURE, MON Tweet of the Day MON and ' MON The Cliff MON '. MON http://www.chriswatson.net/ MON MON Best of Natural History Podcast MON This programme is available to download for free via the " MON Best of Natural History Radio MON " podcast MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b069jf1z (Listen) MON Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio, Episode 1 MON MON His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem meaning MON 'babe' as he was the youngest in his family. From the MON infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, surrounded by the MON comfortable middle-class neighbourhoods of Brazil's party MON city, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a MON life-changing decision. If the only person who will lend you MON money in a crisis is a drug baron, then the only way you can MON repay him is by going to work for the gang. MON MON Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the 'don' MON of the largest slum in Rio. It is a story of fate and MON retribution, of the inevitable consequences of moral MON collapse and the blurred boundaries of the law. Brazil's MON most wanted criminal, Antonio (or 'Nem') tried to bring MON welfare and a crude kind of justice to a favela of over MON 100,000 citizens; a world governed by violence and MON destitution, existing beyond the rule of an equally corrupt MON state. But his period of ascendancy coincided with the MON nation's attempts to earn international respect first of all MON through hosting the football World Cup and then winning the MON right to stage the 2016 Olympics. MON MON This is the story of how change came to Brazil. It begins MON with Misha Glenny meeting the eponymous Nem at a high MON security prison in 2012 , the account that follows is of a MON country's journey into the global spotlight, and the battle MON for the beautiful but damned city of Rio as it struggles to MON break free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs MON and poverty. MON MON Episode 1 MON MON It's 2012 and Misha Glenny travels to Brazil's top security MON jail to meet Antonio, known as Nem, who became one of the MON most feared yet respected crime lords in Rio. MON MON Read by the author, Misha Glenny MON MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Misha Glenny MON Author: Misha Glenny MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b069jf21 (Listen) MON Takeover Week: Kim Cattrall MON MON The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b069jf23 (Listen) MON Subterranean Homesick Blues, Episode 1 MON MON by A L Kennedy MON MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON Maggie and John had a passionate affair in their younger MON days but it didn't last. Now in their late sixties a MON surprise encounter gives them another chance to take up MON where they left off. Will they manage to find the best in MON each other and finally get together, or will old wounds and MON an awareness of their ageing bodies deter them ? Will the MON treadmill created by the high-cost, high pressure 21st MON century, their endless other commitments and interruptions MON large and small overwhelm them, or will they take the final MON risk ? MON MON Credits MON John: Bill Nighy MON Maggie: Anna Calder-Marshall MON Writer: AL Kennedy MON Director: Sally Avens MON MON 11:00 The Letters of Ada Lovelace b069jjmg (Listen) MON The Poetry of Mathematics MON MON Georgina Ferry presents part one of the correspondence of MON Ada Lovelace, dramatised by an all-star cast; and reveals MON the intense inner world of a young Victorian lady who MON anticipated our digital age. MON MON Ada Lovelace (Sally Hawkins) was the abandoned daughter of MON the romantic poet Lord Byron. Concerned that Ada might MON inherit her father's feckless and 'dangerous' poetic MON tendencies, her single mother Lady Byron (Olivia Williams) MON made sure she was tutored thoroughly in mathematics, and MON regularly prescribed 'more maths' to improve her mental MON health. When she came out in London society, Ada met the man MON who would change her life, but not in the way most MON debutantes would have imagined. The distinguished MON mathematician, Charles Babbage (Anthony Head) became her MON life-long friend and mentor: Ada was fascinated by his MON steam-powered calculating machines. Supported by her husband MON William (George Watkins), she defied society's expectations, MON studying mathematics with extraordinary passion and MON determination when she was married with three small MON children; and later suggesting boldly to Babbage that he MON might like to work with her on his innovative thinking MON machines. MON MON Archive Acknowledgements MON MON With thanks to Lord Lytton for permission to broadcast MON letters from the Lovelace Byron papers in the Bodleian MON Library ( MON Dep. Lovelace Byron 1-460 MON ) MON MON Letters from Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage are in the MON British Library MON MON Letters from Ada Lovelace to Michael Faraday are in the MON archives of the MON Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) MON MON Credits MON Ada Lovelace: Sally Hawkins MON Lady Byron: Olivia Williams MON Charles Babbage: Anthony Head MON William: George Watkins MON Producer: Anna Buckley MON MON 11:30 All Those Women b069jjml (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Comedy series by Katherine Jakeways about four generations MON of women living under one roof. MON MON As relationships wobble, members of the family descend upon MON Maggie to provide support, plumbing advice and tea. MON Rent-free, naturally. MON MON All Those Women explores familial relationships, ageing, MON marriages - it's about life and love and things not turning MON out quite the way that you'd expected them to. Every week we MON join Hetty, Maggie, Jen and Emily as they struggle to MON resolve their own problems, and support one another. MON MON A BBC Radio Comedy Production. MON MON Credits MON Hetty: Sheila Hancock MON Maggie: Lesley Manville MON Jen: Sinead Matthews MON Emily: Lucy Hutchinson MON David: Denis Lill MON Customer: Rebecca Hamilton MON Announcement: George Watkins MON Writer: Katherine Jakeways MON Producer: Alexandra Smith MON MON 12:00 News Summary b069gs6t (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b06492hv (Listen) MON 14 September 1915- Sylvia Graham MON MON In the Graham household, new science and technology offers MON some practical comfort. MON MON Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Directed by Allegra McIlroy. MON MON Credits MON Sylvia: Joanna David MON Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw MON Juliet: Lizzie Bourne MON Howard: Gunnar Cauthery MON Adeline: Helen Schlesinger MON Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw MON Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Director: Allegra McIlroy MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b069r3rp (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b069gs6w (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b069r3rr (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Computing Britain b069r3rt (Listen) MON Electronic Brains MON MON From the mobile phone to the office computer, mathematician MON Hannah Fry looks back at 70 years of computing history, to MON reveal the UK's lead role in developing the technology we MON use today. MON MON In the first episode, she travels back to the 1940s, to hear MON the incredible story of the creation, in Britain, of the MON computer memory. MON MON Three teams from across the country - in Teddington, MON Manchester and Cambridge - were tasked with designing MON automatic calculating engines for university research. But MON which team would be first to crack the tricky problem of MON machine memory? MON MON Meanwhile, tabloid headlines proclaimed that engineers were MON building 'electronic brains' that could match, and maybe MON surpass, the human brain, starting a debate about automation MON and artificial intelligence that still resonates today. MON MON Producer: Michelle Martin MON MON Photo: Maurice Wilkes and Bill Renwick in front of the MON complete EDSAC MON Credit: Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b069h77k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b039q24p (Listen) MON Carnival MON MON By Rachel De-lahay. MON MON In his neighbourhood, with his boys, Michael is a king. He's MON hosting the MC competition at the annual summer carnival. MON It's the highlight of the social calendar. Everyone will be MON there to see it; including those Michael would rather MON distance himself from. Secrets, lies and torn loyalties are MON exposed in this gritty urban drama exploring prejudice and MON peer pressure in young black communities. MON MON Directed by Helen Perry MON MON Rachel De-lahay is an exciting new writer who won the 2010 MON Alfred Fagon Award and the 2012 Writers Guild Award for her MON Royal Court debut play, 'The Westbridge'. She has been named MON one of Screen International's 2013 UK Stars of Tomorrow. MON Rachel is currently under commission with The National MON Theatre Studio, Film Four, and Birmingham Rep and is part of MON the BBC Writersroom 10. Her second Royal Court play 'Routes' MON is on in September 2013. 'Carnival' is her first radio MON drama. MON MON Credits MON Michael: Anthony Welsh MON Ezekiel: Damson Idris MON D-Man: Daniel Kaluuya MON Stacey: Letitia Wright MON Marcia: Clare Perkins MON Director: Helen Perry MON Writer: Rachel De-lahay MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b06bhw9q (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 2 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 b069gvl7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 I Was... b069r80x (Listen) MON Series 2, George Orwell's Pupil MON MON Andrew McGibbon returns with the series that analyses great MON artists at a significant time in their careers - but from MON the perspective of someone who worked for them, inspired MON them, employed them, was taught by them or even did their MON job for them while no one was looking. MON MON In 1932, George Orwell was still known as Eric Blair and MON supporting himself by teaching in a private middle school MON run by tradesmen in semi rural Hayes, West London. MON MON Geoffrey Stevens was one of his pupils during the year that MON saw him publish his first book - Down and Out in Paris and MON London - and also change his name from Eric Blair to George MON Orwell. MON MON Geoffrey, now 96, remembers Orwell teaching him French - MON badly, Orwell's harsh classroom style and reliance on MON corporal punishment, his avuncular after school country MON walks to look for puss moth larva and collect marsh gas, and MON Orwell directing the school play which he wrote himself. MON MON He recalls how Orwell was driven mad by the school owner's MON wife playing Baptist hymns on the piano late into the night, MON the curious role of the school parrot during mealtimes and MON Orwell coming round for tea with Geoffrey's mum and dad and MON giving him more homework as a result. MON MON It's a fragment of time that reveals fascinating and mundane MON insights to George Orwell, a powerful sense of early MON thirties suburban London during the depression and the story MON of an underperforming pupil who went on to run two MON businesses and, at nearly 100, still walks 30 miles a week. MON MON Written and presented by Andrew McGibbon MON Produced by Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon MON A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b069r80z (Listen) MON Betrayal MON MON What do Muhammad Ali, Helen Shapiro and John Travolta have MON in common? They all changed their religion. They abandoned MON the traditions in which they had been brought up in favour MON of something different. In some cases, it produced a great MON sense of betrayal. Some religious groups will cut off MON friends and family who renounce their religion. Life for the MON so-called betrayer can be very difficult indeed. The idea of MON betrayal runs very deep in many religions. Why? And what MON does it actually signify? MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by Prakash Shah, Director of the Centre MON for Culture and Law at Queen Mary, University of London; MON Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawar, Chief Executive of the Spiritual MON Capital Foundation Think Tank; and Douglas Davies, Professor MON in the Study of Religion at Durham University. MON MON Produced by Nija Dalal-Small. MON MON 17:00 PM b069r811 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b069gs7c (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b069r813 (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 4 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Sarah Millican, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Holly Walsh and MON Katherine Ryan are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as princesses, MON diets, sauce and paper. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Sarah Millican MON Panellist: Victoria Coren Mitchell MON Panellist: Holly Walsh MON Panellist: Katherine Ryan MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b069r815 (Listen) MON It is Ed to the rescue once more, and Neil faces a dilemma. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b069r81c (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b069jf23 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Oil: A Crude History of Britain b069r81h (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON In Norway, and in Shetland, funds drawing a tax on North Sea MON oil wealth have built up massive reserves of public money. MON Calls for such an Oil Fund for the UK have been ignored down MON the years, dismissed as impractical or undesirable. MON MON Instead, North Sea oil, once held up as a transformational MON force in British politics, came to be used in the day-to-day MON expenditure of government. Critics argued that what could MON have been used to upgrade Britain's infrastructure was MON paying benefits cheques to Thatcher's 3-million unemployed. MON MON Elsewhere, the SNPs "It's Scotland's Oil" campaign had MON brought the party to the brink of a political breakthrough. MON In episode 2 of Oil: A Crude History of Britain, James MON Naughtie explores all these strands with those who were MON there at the time, including former Chancellor and Energy MON Secretary Nigel, now Lord, Lawson. MON MON Jim also recalls the tragic loss of 167 lives on Piper Alpha MON in July 1988. He hears from one of Red Adair's MON globe-trotting specialist firefighters, who spent weeks MON tackling what is still the deadliest ever oil industry MON disaster. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b068xnm4 (Listen) MON Paraguay's Schoolgirl Mothers MON MON In April, the case of a 10 year old girl who became pregnant MON after her step-father raped her became front-page news in MON Paraguay, and across Latin America. Abortion is legal in MON this small South American nation only if the mother's life MON is deemed to be in danger. In this case, the authorities MON ruled there was no threat to the girl, and the pregnancy MON continued. But this isn't a one-off example of children MON getting pregnant: more than 700 girls aged 14 and under gave MON birth in 2014. That's more or less two a day. MON MON The 10 year old's pregnancy spawned a series of MON demonstrations and huge debate: about abortion, sex MON education, and the failure of the criminal justice system to MON prosecute the perpetrators of the abuse of children. MON MON For Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly meets some of the MON schoolgirl mothers, and explores the reasons why Paraguayan MON girls are especially vulnerable to abuse. Why are families, MON the state and the law failing to protect them? MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9dq2 (Listen) MON Bears MON MON Bears (of the family Ursidae) and people go back a long way, MON they are disconcertingly human-like, captured in the most MON popular of tales, Goldilocks, Snow White and Rose Red and MON Winnie the Pooh. Many cultures from northern Europe to North MON America to China have traditionally worshiped bears, MON regarding them as the spirit of ancestors. In the MON Palaeolithic bear bones were carefully buried in unnatural MON poses and their skulls in a circle. In Christianity saints MON have tamed bears as a sign of holiness though bears were MON persecuted to deter pagan cults. In medieval times the cruel MON and gruesome sport of bear-baiting was a common pastime, MON enjoyed by royalty and peasant alike. Seeing a bear MON tormented by dogs may have been pleasurable, but it was also MON a physical representation of suffering and struggle at a MON time when bears were still part of a greater mythology. The MON mystical qualities of bears is reflected in our seeing them MON in the stars, the Great and Little Bear track their way MON across the heavens. The constancy of the Great Bear MON constellation was used by slaves in the American Civil War MON to guide them to safety, away from conflict; their song MON "Follow the Drinking Gourd" tells how to follow the lights MON of the constellation - the gourd being code for The Great MON Bear. Today the white polar bear is a potent symbol of MON climate change, reliant on ice covered land it is in danger MON of losing its habitat. As we become more removed from nature MON the style of the much-loved teddy bear has changed. MON Originally they looked like real bears, today they are pink MON and fluffy and short-limbed. Our relationship with bears has MON always been complex and still is today. MON MON Professor Adrian Lister MON Professor Adrian Lister MON has been research leader at the MON Natural History Museum MON since 2007 and is a palaeobiologist interested in patterns MON and processes of species-level evolution, adaptation and MON extinction. His work focuses on mammals of the ice age, MON especially deer, elephants and mammoths. In addition to MON excavating and studying fossil material from around the MON world, he has studied living elephants in Ghana, India, MON Nepal and Borneo. MON He is the author of more than 150 scientific papers and four MON books, Evolution on Planet Earth, Mammoths: Giants of the MON Ice Age, Mammoths: Ice Age Giants and a children’s book, MON Tracker’s Guide to Ice Age Animals. Prior to joining the MON Museum, he was Professor of Palaeontology at UCL. He MON completed his PhD at Cambridge on evolution of fossil MON mammals. MON MON Richard Sabin MON Richard Sabin is Principal Curator in the Department of Life MON Sciences at the MON Natural History Museum MON specialising in the study of the form and function of marine MON mammal skeletal anatomy. MON He is special advisor to the NHM’s MON UK Strandings Project MON carries out endangered species identification work for UK MON and international law enforcement, and develops MON internationally recognised protocols and techniques for the MON extraction of genetic material from the Museum's research MON specimens. MON MON Bernd Brunner MON Bernd Brunner is a writer working at the crossroads of MON history, science and culture. His writing has appeared in MON Lapham's Quarterly MON The Huffington Post MON The Smart Set MON Best of American Travel Writing and major German MON publications such as Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit. MON He is the acclaimed author of MON Bears - A Brief History MON Moon - A Brief History MON Inventing the Christmas tree MON The Ocean at Home - An Illustrated History of the Aquarium MON and MON The Art of Lying Down - A Guide to Horizontal Living MON MON Catherine Howell MON Catherine Howell is Curator of Toys and Games at the MON V&A Museum of Childhood MON Her main research interests are games, optical toys and soft MON toys and she has contributed her expertise to a number of MON exhibitions and publications. MON She has played a key role in many of the Museum’s major MON exhibitions including Alice: The Wonderland of Lewis Carroll MON (1998). She was the curator of the hugely successful touring MON exhibitions Teddy Bear Story: 100 years of the teddy bear MON (2002) and Magic Worlds (2011). MON Catherine Howell has worked at the Museum of Childhood since MON 1991 and is the collections specialist on the history of MON childhood toys and games. MON MON Professor Erica Fudge MON Erica Fudge is Professor of English Studies at the MON University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She is the author of a MON number of books and essays on human-animal relations in the MON English Renaissance and in the contemporary age. MON Her work has also appeared in MON History Today MON magazine and she is the director of the MON British Animal Studies Network MON MON Professor Paul Pettitt MON Professor Paul Pettitt is Professor of Palaeolithic MON archaeology at Durham, specialising in the European Middle MON and Upper Palaeolithic. In 2003, he co-discovered Britain's MON only examples of Palaeolithic cave art at MON Creswell Crags MON in the Midlands, and since then I've directed excavations MON at the Crags. MON He has also co-directed excavations in the world famous site MON of MON Kents Cavern MON with Mark White, with whom he also wrote The British MON Palaeolithic. MON MON Lee Pullen MON Lee has a degree in astronomy and a Master’s in science MON communication. He has written on astronomy for MON NASA MON the MON European Space Agency MON the MON European Southern Observatory MON and the MON International Astronomical Union MON He is currently works in the planetarium in MON At-Bristol MON where he heads a team that produces content for over 100,000 MON visitors a year. MON MON Professor Kimberley Reynolds MON Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Children's Literature in MON the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics MON at Newcastle University and Honorary Senior Fellow at the MON Centre for the MON History of Emotions MON at the University of Western Australia. MON She has served on the board of a number of national bodies MON and has been a trustee of MON Seven Stories MON the National Centre for Children's Books, since it opened in MON 2004. She has published widely across the history of MON children's literature including MON Children's Literature: A Very Short Introduction MON for Oxford University Press. MON With the help of a Major Leverhulme Fellowship she recently MON completed a book called Left Out: the forgotten radical MON tradition of publishing for children in Britain, 1910-1949. MON This will be published by Oxford University Press in spring MON 2016. MON MON 21:30 The Listening Project b069jd2p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b069gs7p (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b069r9vy (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b069rfk8 (Listen) MON The Past, Episode 6 MON MON Today it is 1968 and Jill, mother to Harriet, Roland and MON Alice, is arrives unexpectedly at her parents home, children MON in tow. MON MON Sian Thomas reads Tessa Hadley's powerful and haunting new MON novel, a beautifully observed portrait of a family and the MON change wrought by time across the generations. MON MON Three middle-aged sisters and a brother meet up in their MON grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. MON Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate tensions. MON Secrets, misunderstandings and passion play out as the MON characters shift and reappraise and a way of life - MON bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its MON inevitable end. MON MON While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents MON approach each other, the children watch and come to their MON own conclusions. MON MON Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute MON observer of character, time and place and the most published MON short story writer in the New Yorker in recent years. MON MON The reader is Sian Thomas MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Sian Thomas MON Author: Tessa Hadley MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Di Speirs MON MON 23:00 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b05329jq (Listen) MON Series 5, Chariots of Fire MON MON Paul Gambaccini explores Oscar-winning films. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b069rfkd (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b069gs96 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b069jf1z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b069gs98 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b069gs9b (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b069gs9d (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b069gs9l (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b069rph5 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with George TUE Craig. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b069rph7 (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 b04dvyfs (Listen) TUE White-Bearded Manakin TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Sir David Attenborough presents the White-Bearded manakin of TUE tropical South America. The sound of party-poppers exploding TUE in a forest clearing tells you that white-bearded manakins TUE are displaying at a lek. At a carefully chosen spot each TUE male clears the forest floor of leaves and other debris TUE before his performance begins. The commonest display is the TUE snap-jump. As he jumps forward he strikes the back of his TUE wings together creating a loud snapping sound followed by an TUE excited "pee-you" call. Snap-jumps are often followed by TUE grunt jumps or a manoeuvre known as "slide-down-the-pole". TUE These displays continue throughout the day, but intensify TUE when females visit. TUE TUE White-bearded manakin (Manacus manacus) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Nigel Bean / naturepl.com TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01055017 TUE © Nigel Bean / naturepl.com TUE TUE Recording of white-bearded manakin by Curtis A Marantz / TUE Ref: ML 117134 TUE TUE This programme contains a TUE wildtrack recording TUE of the white-bearded manakin kindly provided by The Macaulay TUE Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology; recorded TUE by Curtis A Marantz, 23 Jan 1997 in Brazil. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b069rpxf (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b069rpxh (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland and guests use a story from the past to TUE throw light on and inform debate about an event currently in TUE the news. TUE TUE 09:30 The Town Is the Menu b047zn5n (Listen) TUE Merthyr Tydfil TUE TUE A fiery history of rebellion and working class spirit from TUE the town that fuelled the industrial revolution provide TUE inspiring ingredients for food innovator Simon Preston and TUE award winning chef Stephen Terry as they create a brand new TUE signature dish for Merthyr Tydfil. A cast of colour local TUE characters gather at Theatr Soar to share some of the more TUE surprising stories from Merthyr's past - from Mario Basini TUE we hear of the town's Italian community; retired nurse TUE Margaret Lloyd reflects on over 80 years in the town while TUE history enthusiast Chris Parry recalls some of the fights TUE which characterise the town's fiery past. The challenge for TUE Stephen and Simon is to bring all those elements together in TUE a single dish which captures the essence of this intriguing TUE town. TUE TUE Chef Stephen Terry serves up a signature dish for Merthyr TUE Tydfil TUE Having heard the stories and memories of the people of TUE Merthyr, award winning chef Stephen Terry creates an TUE intriguing savoury layered bread and beef pudding with beef TUE broth and topped with Caerphilly cheese. "I think its a TUE fair stab at a dish which is reflective of the industry and TUE the hard working, working class people. This is a dish TUE which would provide lots of sustenance for a family who TUE wouldn't really eat meat on a regular basis". Stephen also TUE introduces an ingredient to give the dish a bit of fighting TUE spirit, so reminiscent of Merthyr past and present, you can TUE find out just what it is by listening to the programme. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06b3rf5 (Listen) TUE Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio, Episode 2 TUE TUE His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem meaning TUE 'babe' as he was the youngest in his family. From the TUE infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, surrounded by the TUE comfortable middle-class neighbourhoods of Brazil's party TUE city, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a TUE life-changing decision. If the only person who will lend you TUE money in a crisis is a drug baron, then the only way you can TUE repay him is by going to work for the gang. TUE TUE Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the 'don' TUE of the largest slum in Rio. It is a story of fate and TUE retribution, of the inevitable consequences of moral TUE collapse and the blurred boundaries of the law. Brazil's TUE most wanted criminal, Antonio (or 'Nem') tried to bring TUE welfare and a crude kind of justice to a favela of over TUE 100,000 citizens; a world governed by violence and TUE destitution, existing beyond the rule of an equally corrupt TUE state. But his period of ascendancy coincided with the TUE nation's attempts to earn international respect through TUE hosting the football World Cup and winning the right to TUE stage the 2016 Olympics. TUE TUE This is the story of how change came to Brazil. It begins TUE with Misha Glenny meeting the eponymous Nem at a high TUE security prison in 2012 , the account that follows is of a TUE country's journey into the global spotlight, and the battle TUE for the beautiful but damned city of Rio, as it struggles to TUE break free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs TUE and poverty. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE Antonio and Vanessa are delighted with the arrival of their TUE baby daughter, Eduarda. But when Duda is diagnosed with a TUE rare illness the cost of the hospital bills is beyond their TUE means. TUE TUE Read by the author, Misha Glenny TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Misha Glenny TUE Author: Misha Glenny TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b069rv9r (Listen) TUE Takeover Week: Nimko Ali TUE TUE The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06bhdlt (Listen) TUE Subterranean Homesick Blues, Episode 2 TUE TUE by A L Kennedy TUE TUE Directed by Sally Avens TUE TUE Maggie and John had a disastrous affair in their younger TUE days but now in their late sixties they are attempting to TUE give it another go, but John's work schedule and Maggie's TUE fear of getting hurt once again are not making this easy. TUE TUE Credits TUE John: Bill Nighy TUE Maggie: Anna Calder-Marshall TUE Writer: AL Kennedy TUE Director: Sally Avens TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b069rv9t (Listen) TUE Brambles TUE TUE Brambles are a common reminder that nature is not just about TUE us. The tangled confusion of spikes and tough stems tear TUE flesh and cloth alike - the long, sinuous creepers creeping TUE along tracks can trip those whose eyes stray from the TUE ground. Tales from Brambly Hedge tempt children to the TUE underworld of the bramble where homely mice families create TUE a secure glow of domestic bliss safe from the dangers TUE outside. Picking blackberries remains very popular and a TUE wistful childhood memory, captured by Seamus Heaney's poem TUE Blackberry Picking. This also echoes the dual nature of the TUE bramble as both tormentor and giver of soft treats. Another TUE dark side to this very common plant is the clues it gives to TUE forensic botanists who use the bramble as an indicator of TUE changed ground, noting if its growing pattern shows signs of TUE disturbance, they can even detect the time the plant was dug TUE up and recovered.The bramble is the commoner of the TUE woodland, but says Richard Mabey, it performs an essential TUE job in protecting young trees. Today BlackBerry is a smart TUE phone, called after the fruit because the inventors knew TUE that any name related to the term "email" made people's TUE blood pressure rise, so they went for a natural, playful, TUE happy-memory inducing name. It has now been twisted into TUE urban slang - "going blackberry picking" now means to go out TUE and steal phones. The humble blackberry, and there are over TUE 650 different species, has many hidden depths. TUE TUE 11:30 Birth of an Orchestra b069rv9w (Listen) TUE Alan Bennett, former members of the Yorkshire Symphony TUE Orchestra (1947-55) and students of the new Yorkshire Young TUE Sinfonia discuss Yorkshire orchestras past, present and TUE future. TUE TUE Last year on BBC Radio 4, Alan Bennett recalled his boyhood TUE visits to the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra. In Death of an TUE Orchestra, he was joined by supporters and former members in TUE telling the YSO's history, from 1947 to its sad demise in TUE 1955. TUE TUE As he listened to that programme, David Taylor was TUE coincidentally in the process of creating a new youth TUE orchestra - the Yorkshire Young Sinfonia - and Alan TUE Bennett's story of the YSO gave his project a new sense of TUE purpose: "To create the musicians of tomorrow, providing a TUE springboard to a career in the arts, and stimulate the arts TUE in Yorkshire". TUE TUE Birth of an Orchestra follows the students of the YYS as TUE they prepare for their inaugural concert - just 60 years on TUE from the YSO's last performance. The young players talk TUE about their musical backgrounds and ambitions, and hear TUE advice from three former members of the YSO with long and TUE distinguished orchestral careers - violinist Stan Smith, TUE harpist Mair Roberts and cellist Betty Wood, a founder TUE member of the YSO at the age of 19. TUE TUE The programme explores Yorkshire's musical heritage. Alan TUE Bennett remembers an embarrassing visit to the Leeds TUE Triennial Festival, Leeds City Organist Simon Lindley TUE outlines the origins of music-making in the county and TUE Bernard Atha - former Lord Mayor of Leeds - recalls hearing TUE John McCormack sing there in the 1930s. TUE TUE Producer: Susan Kenyon TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b069gs9v (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b06492kp (Listen) TUE 15 September 1915 - Alice Macknade TUE TUE Alice and Roy try to evade the inevitable in the hope Roy TUE can escape transfer to France, or even court martial. TUE TUE Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE Directed by Allegra McIlroy. TUE TUE Credits TUE Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell TUE Roy: Tim Beckmann TUE Beau: Stephen Critchlow TUE Solly: Stephen Critchlow TUE Ivy: Lizzy Watts TUE Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE Director: Allegra McIlroy TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b069rv9y (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b069gsb5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b069rvb0 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Computing Britain b069rvb4 (Listen) TUE LEO the Electronic Office TUE TUE Hannah Fry hears the incredible story of how a chain of TUE British teashops produced the first office computer in the TUE world. TUE TUE J Lyons and Company was the UK's largest catering company, TUE with 250 teashops across the country. They also owned their TUE own bakeries, a tea plantation and haulage firm. TUE TUE By the 1950s, this vast business was drowning in paperwork. TUE It embarked on an ambitious new project to build a machine TUE called LEO - the Lyons Electronic Office. TUE TUE Their office computer was based on the giant calculating TUE machines being built inside UK universities to solve TUE mathematical equations. TUE TUE Sure, these machines could manage maths, but could they TUE handle catering? TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b069r815 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 British New Wave b039c5df (Listen) TUE John Osborne - The Author of Himself TUE TUE By Stephen Wakelam. One afternoon in 1955 Theatre Manager TUE George Devine sets out in a rickety rowing boat to inspect TUE an actor, John Osborne, living on a Thames barge who has TUE written a play. Look Back in Anger has been returned by many TUE theatres but Devine has seen something in it. The meeting is TUE a pivotal moment in the course of theatrical history. TUE TUE Director: David Hunter TUE TUE Look Back in Anger was premiered at London's Royal Court TUE Theatre on 8th May 1956 by the English Stage Company TUE directed by Tony Richardson with the following cast - TUE Kenneth Haigh, Alan Bates, Mary Ure, Helena Hughes and John TUE Welsh. The press release referred to John Osborne as "an TUE angry young man" - a phrase that came to represent a new TUE movement in British Theatre. TUE TUE Credits TUE John Osborne: Samuel Barnett TUE George Devine: Jonathan Coy TUE Anthony Creighton: Harry Livingstone TUE Nellie: Joanna Brookes TUE Tony Richardson: David Seddon TUE Director: David Hunter TUE Writer: Stephen Wakelam TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b069c13z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b069rvb8 (Listen) TUE Britain Rules the Waves TUE TUE Britain still owns islands large and small across the globe, TUE from Pitcairn to South Georgia and Bermuda to Ascension. TUE Could we use the waters around these territories to protect TUE vast swathes of the oceans from overfishing and development? TUE Tom Heap meets the islanders and the conservationists eager TUE to see if Britain really can lead the way. TUE TUE He takes to the water to see how Gibraltar is using its TUE spawning grounds to restore the health of the Mediterranean TUE and finds out what the enormous new no-fishing zone around TUE Pitcairn could mean for the Pacific. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b069rvbd (Listen) TUE Number Words TUE TUE First in series. Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright explore TUE the numbers one to ten and look at how we understand - and TUE misunderstand - the language of numbers. Why is a shampoo TUE called Zinc 24 so much more appealing than a shampoo called TUE Zinc 31? How do we cope with offers in supermarkets? Alex TUE Bellos and Michael Blastland explain. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea TUE Alex Bellos is the author of Alex Through the Looking-Glass: TUE How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b069rvbl (Listen) TUE Series 37, Hannah Rothschild on Thelonius Monk TUE TUE Hannah Rothschild champions the life of the jazz musician TUE Thelonious Monk. Brilliant, eccentric and one of the true TUE giants of jazz, Monk was an incredible pianist, the composer TUE of jazz standards such as 'Round Midnight', the co-creator TUE of bebop and a close friend of Hannah's great-aunt, the Jazz TUE Baroness Nica Rothschild. Matthew Parris chairs as Hannah TUE and music writer Richard Williams chart Monk's progress TUE through the jazz clubs and recording studios of TUE mid-twentieth century New York. TUE Producer: Julia Johnson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Hannah Rothschild TUE Interviewed Guest: Richard Williams TUE Producer: Kirsten Lass TUE TUE 17:00 PM b069rvbn (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b069gsc6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06bhk9h (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Welcome to Hardacres, the worst advertising agency in TUE London, and setting of Edward Rowett's new series. TUE TUE In this first episode, the agency is shaken by the arrival TUE of a new accounts chief, Amanda Brook who is determined to TUE rebrand and re-launch the agency as a legitimate business. TUE TUE Inept creative team Joe and Teddy, two recent graduates who TUE are still not entirely sure what it is they're supposed to TUE be doing, find themselves fighting to save their jobs and TUE prove they are not quite as clueless as they appear. TUE TUE Meanwhile, creative director and advertising legend Rupert TUE Hardacre is appalled to discover Amanda expects him to do TUE slightly more than play golf and drink whisky all day. TUE TUE And receptionist Laura...well, she doesn't care what TUE happens. TUE TUE The team must work together as they head to the Advertise TUE NOW! Awards and find an answer to the question - how do you TUE advertise yourself? TUE TUE Rupert Hardacre - Nigel Havers TUE Amanda Brook - Josie Lawrence TUE Joe - Matthew Baynton TUE Teddy - Rasmus Hardiker TUE Laura - Olivia Nixon TUE TUE Director: Alan Nixon TUE Producer: Gordon Kennedy TUE An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rupert Hardacre: Nigel Havers TUE Amanda Brook: Josie Lawrence TUE Joe: Matthew Baynton TUE Teddy: Rasmus Hardiker TUE Actor: Olivia Nixon TUE Director: Alan Nixon TUE Producer: Gordon Kennedy TUE Writer: Edward Rowett TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b069vtml (Listen) TUE Rob gets into training, and Christine takes on a new TUE challenge. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b069vtmn (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06bhdlt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b069vtmq (Listen) TUE Controversial charging decisions in the cases of Lord TUE Janner, Operation Elveden and a doctor accused of female TUE genital mutilation have brought a hostile reaction in the TUE media to the Director of Public Prosecutions and increasing TUE concern about the health of her organisation - the Crown TUE Prosecution Service. TUE TUE Over the past five years the CPS has seen budget cuts of TUE over 25% resulting in job losses and internal reforms. TUE Despite this, the organisation maintains that it continues TUE to improve performance - measured by conviction rates in TUE both magistrates' and Crown Courts. TUE TUE However, there are increasing concerns about staff morale, TUE the quality of decision-making and the standard of advocacy TUE in court . BBC Home Affairs Correspondent, Danny Shaw has TUE been hearing frank testimony from both inside and outside TUE the CPS which presents a revealing picture of the justice TUE system in England and Wales. TUE TUE Presenter: Danny Shaw Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b069vtms (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b069vtmv (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series exploring health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b069rpxh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b069gsc8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b069vtmx (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b069vtmz (Listen) TUE The Past, Episode 7 TUE TUE Today, a moment's indiscretion or time for a new direction - TUE the past influences the present as TUE Sian Thomas reads Tessa Hadley's powerful and haunting new TUE novel, a beautifully observed portrait of a family and the TUE change wrought by time across the generations. TUE TUE Three middle-aged sisters and a brother meet up in their TUE grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. TUE Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate tensions. TUE Secrets, misunderstandings and passion play out as the TUE characters shift and reappraise and a way of life - TUE bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its TUE inevitable end. TUE TUE While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents TUE approach each other, the children watch and come to their TUE own conclusions. TUE TUE Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute TUE observer of character, time and place and the most published TUE short story writer in the New Yorker in recent years. TUE TUE The reader is Sian Thomas TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Sian Thomas TUE Author: Tessa Hadley TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Di Speirs TUE TUE 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b069vvg6 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE TUE The peculiar narrator takes a trip through time with Lady TUE Bowie to Ye Olde Wunderlande, the middle-ages Poundland of TUE magical realms. TUE TUE New series by Alice Lowe, featuring Marcia Warren as the TUE narrator, with Richard Glover, Simon Greenall, Rachel TUE Stubbings and Clare Thompson. TUE TUE Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Alice Lowe TUE Performer: Alice Lowe TUE Narrator: Marcia Warren TUE Performer: Richard Glover TUE Performer: Simon Greenall TUE Performer: Rachel Stubbings TUE Performer: Clare Thomson TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b069vvgb (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b069gsf4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06b3rf5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b069gsf6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b069gsf8 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b069gsfb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b069gsfd (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b069w4pj (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with George WED Craig. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b069w4pl (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 b04dvvnn (Listen) WED Dupont's Lark WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Sir David Attenborough presents the Dupont's lark of WED southern Europe and North Africa. The European home for the WED Duponts lark is the arid grasslands of south-east Spain WED where Spaghetti Westerns were once filmed. The Dupont's lark WED is notoriously difficult to find as it skulks between WED tussocks of dry but at dawn and again at sunset, male WED Dupont's larks emerge from their hiding places and perform WED display flights over their grassy territories. As they rise WED into the sky their song is a melancholy refrain, which once WED heard is rarely forgotten. WED WED Dupont's Lark (Chersophilus Duponti) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Alan Williams / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01469809 WED © Alan Williams / naturepl.com WED WED 06:00 Today b069y95w (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Bringing Up Britain b068vy0p (Listen) WED Series 8, Divorce and Separation WED WED With nearly a third of all children likely to experience WED their parents separating by the age of 16, Mariella Frostrup WED explores what a parent can do when they have decided to end WED their relationship. WED WED What is the best way to break the news to your child? How WED should you manage sharing the children's time? When is it WED right to introduce new partners? Or should we just be trying WED harder to stay together for the kids? WED WED For the second in a new series of Radio 4's parenting WED programme, Mariella is joined by experts to discuss how best WED to parent through a divorce or separation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b069wrmt (Listen) WED Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio, Episode 3 WED WED His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem meaning WED 'babe' as he was the youngest in his family. From the WED infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, surrounded by the WED comfortable middle-class neighbourhoods of Brazil's party WED city, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a WED life-changing decision. If the only person who will lend you WED money in a crisis is a drug baron, then the only way you can WED repay him is by going to work for the gang. WED WED Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the 'don' WED of the largest slum in Rio. It is a story of fate and WED retribution, of the inevitable consequences of moral WED collapse and the blurred boundaries of the law. Brazil's WED most wanted criminal, Antonio (or 'Nem') tried to bring WED welfare and a crude kind of justice to a favela of over WED 100,000 citizens; a world governed by violence and WED destitution, existing beyond the rule of an equally corrupt WED state. But his period of ascendancy coincided with the WED nation's attempts to earn international respect first of all WED through hosting the football World Cup and then winning the WED right to stage the 2016 Olympics. WED WED This is the story of how change came to Brazil. It begins WED with Misha Glenny meeting the eponymous Nem at a high WED security prison in 2012 , the account that follows is of a WED country's journey into the global spotlight, and the battle WED for the beautiful but damned city of Rio as it struggles to WED break free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs WED and poverty. WED WED Episode 3: WED Violence escalates between warring factions in the favela of WED Rocinha. The responsibility is too much for Nem to bear. WED WED Read by the author, Misha Glenny WED WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Misha Glenny WED Author: Misha Glenny WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b069wrmw (Listen) WED Takeover Week: Bishop Rachel WED WED The Bishop of Gloucester, the Right Reverend Rachel Treweek WED is our Guest Editor and takes the theme of transformation as WED her inspiration. WED WED We talk to Angela France about her work with the charity WED Infobuzz delivering art and creative writing projects in WED Eastwood Park HMP. WED WED Bishop Rachel explains how she's been inspired by Jean WED Vanier who's set up L'Arche communities around the world. WED Two hundred people in the UK with learning disabilities are WED cared by in communities supported by assistants, some who WED live in houses with core members. Catherine Carr visits the WED L'Arche community in Preston. WED WED Polly Meynell talks about designing and making Bishop WED Rachel's cope and mitre. Diana Short, whose business Lick WED the Spoon produces handmade chocolate, brings a celebration WED block of chocolate. WED WED Presented by Jane Garvey WED Produced by Jane Thurlow. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED Interviewed Guest: Angela France WED Interviewed Guest: Rachel Treweek WED Interviewed Guest: Emma Nolan WED Interviewed Guest: Polly Meynell WED Interviewed Guest: Diana Short WED Producer: Jane Thurlow WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06bhfsn (Listen) WED Subterranean Homesick Blues, Episode 3 WED WED by A L Kennedy WED WED Directed by Sally Avens WED WED John and Maggie are attempting to reignite an affair they WED had many years ago. Now in their late 60's they find that WED their conversations tend less towards romance and more WED towards mortality and missed chances. WED WED Credits WED John: Bill Nighy WED Maggie: Anna Calder-Marshall WED Writer: AL Kennedy WED Director: Sally Avens WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b069wth4 (Listen) WED Cian and Naomi - Independence of Mind WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation about how history lessons can WED challenge the accepted norms, especially when they are being WED taught in Northern Ireland, recorded when the Listening WED Project Booth was in in Omagh. Another conversation in the WED series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you WED 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 Secrets and Spies: The Untold Story of Edith Cavell WED b069wth6 (Listen) WED Former Director General of MI5, Stella Rimington, WED investigates the secret history of Britain's greatest WED heroine of the First World War, Edith Cavell. WED WED For the first time ever, she uncovers startling new evidence WED that Cavell's secret escape organisation was not just WED involved in helping allied soldiers as we've always been led WED to believe, but was also actively engaged in espionage. WED WED At the start of the First World War, Edith Cavell was an WED English Nurse in occupied Belgium who became part of a WED secret underground network helping hundreds of Allied WED soldiers who were cut off behind enemy lines to get back WED safely to England. WED WED But in October 1915 after being betrayed, interrogated, and WED subjected to a show trial, she was executed by a German WED firing squad. Her death provoked outrage and revulsion WED throughout the world. The Germans later claimed that she and WED her network were spies, an accusation that has always been WED firmly rejected in Britain. WED WED But now on the centenary of her death, compelling new WED evidence has come to light, never previously seen by British WED historians, that for the first time allows us to investigate WED just how far Edith Cavell and her escape network were WED involved with espionage. WED WED Stella Rimington, the former Director of Britain's Security WED Service, travels to Brussels to delve deep into the secrets WED of the Belgian archives to uncover the real history of Edith WED Cavell and her escape network. WED WED It's a story that has remained completely hidden, and some WED say actively covered up, for almost a hundred years. WED WED Producer: Julian Hendy WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Miss Marple's Final Cases b069ww2b (Listen) WED Tape-Measure Murder WED WED June Whitfield returns as Miss Marple in the first of three WED new Agatha Christie dramatisations by Joy Wilkinson. WED WED Gossip spreads through St Mary Mead of a murdered wife and a WED husband under suspicion and then Miss Marple is called as an WED alibi. WED WED Directed by Gemma Jenkins WED WED Marking the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth, WED June Whitfield reprises her role as Miss Marple on BBC Radio WED 4 in three of the best short stories. WED WED Credits WED Miss Marple: June Whitfield WED Bunch: Rosie Cavaliero WED Inspector Slack: Stephen Critchlow WED Miss Hartnell: Jessica Turner WED Miss Politt: Alison Pettit WED Mr Spenlow: Sam Dale WED Ted Gerard: Chris Pavlo WED Director: Gemma Jenkins WED Author: Agatha Christie WED Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson WED WED 12:00 News Summary b069gsfg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b06492m9 (Listen) WED 16 September 1915 - Kitty Lumley WED WED A letter from Marion and the bairns sets Kitty's heart WED racing. WED WED Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Directed by Allegra McIlroy. WED WED Credits WED Kitty: Ami Metcalf WED Edie: Kathryn Beaumont WED Stella: Ava Bell WED Ray: Scarlet Bell WED Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies WED Marion: Laura Elphinstone WED Adeline: Helen Schlesinger WED Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Director: Allegra McIlroy WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b069wzvr (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b069gsfl (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b069wzvt (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Computing Britain b069wzvw (Listen) WED ERNIE Picks Prizes WED WED 'Savings with a thrill!' WED WED In 1956, adverts enticed the British public with a brand new WED opportunity. Buy premium bonds for one pound, for the chance WED to win a thousand. At the time, it was a fortune - half the WED price of the average house. WED WED Behind this tantalising dream was a machine called ERNIE - WED the Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment. WED WED ERNIE was built by the team who constructed Colossus, the WED code-breaking engine housed at Bletchley Park. They had just WED nine months to make a machine that generated random numbers WED using all the latest kit, from printed circuit boards to WED metal transistors. WED WED In this episode, mathematician Hannah Fry hears how ERNIE WED became an unlikely celebrity and why this machine symbolised WED oa great change in Britain's relationship with computers. WED WED Producer: Michelle Martin. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b069vtml (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b069wzvy (Listen) WED The Interrogation, PC Joanne Laverty WED WED by Roy Williams WED WED With Kenneth Cranham as DCI Max Matthews and Alex Lanipekun WED as DS Sean Armitage. 3/3 The story of Sean's friend and WED colleague, PC Joanne Laverty who was inspired to go into the WED police force by her grandfather. WED WED Director ..... Mary Peate. WED WED Credits WED DCI Max Matthews: Kenneth Cranham WED DS Sean Armitage: Alex Lanipekun WED Jordan: Gershwyn Eustache Jr WED Joanne: Sally Orrock WED Director: Mary Peate WED Writer: Roy Williams WED WED 15:00 Money Box b069x0h5 (Listen) WED It's been a volatile summer for global stock markets and the WED value of our own UK FTSE 100, the 100 largest companies WED listed on the London Stock Exchange plunged to 5,898 on 24 WED August from a high of 7,103 back in April. WED WED If you invest in UK shares, share based funds or have a WED pension you may be concerned about the performance of your WED fund and be wondering what your options are. Russ Mould, WED Investment Director at AJ Bell will join the programme to WED give his view on the mood of the market and how to manage WED the swings and roundabouts of stock market investment. WED WED Whether you're close to retirement or have longer term money WED goals, Informed Choice Chartered Financial Planner Nick WED Bamford will be here to answer your financial planning WED questions. How much should you keep in cash, when should you WED consider equities and when is it worth taking advice? WED WED And Savings Champion Anna Bowes will join us with her best WED buy tables and some better news at last for cash savers. WED WED Plus, the amount of money that is protected by the Financial WED Services Compensation Scheme will fall from January but WED there are special rules for temporary high balances, are you WED affected? WED WED Whatever you want to know, presenter Paul Lewis and guests WED will be waiting to help. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED questions to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic WED charges from landlines and mobiles will apply. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b069vtmv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b069x0h7 (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b069x6fl (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b069x6fn (Listen) WED Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b069gsfn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b03kqg03 (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 3 WED WED Comedy sketches from the quirky world of David Mitchell and WED Robert Webb. WED WED Credits WED Performer: David Mitchell WED Performer: Robert Webb WED WED 19:00 The Archers b069x6fq (Listen) WED Ambridge's women celebrate a familiar institution, and WED Jennifer is reminded of an old friend. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b069x6fs (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06bhfsn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 FutureProofing b068xjtj (Listen) WED Ownership WED WED Presenters Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson look at their WED belongings, and those of others, with fresh eyes as they ask WED - is ownership over? It may be a central pillar of most WED societies, but in the future will people still want to own WED so much stuff if they can easily share? WED WED Financial constraints and increased awareness of the WED planet's finite resources may mean a new generation is WED prizing access and experience over belongings. The growing WED tech revolution can provide the digital platforms to make WED this possible. FutureProofing unpicks the consequences: Will WED we see a shift in our attitudes towards owning physical WED objects? What will be the implications of the new ideas WED economy? And can objects own themselves? WED WED Producer Marnie Chesterton. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b069x6fx (Listen) WED Saving the Skyline WED WED Barbara Weiss says we need to act fast to save London's WED skyline from the indiscriminate building of ugly tower WED blocks. WED WED "Many of them are being built in highly inappropriate and WED sensitive locations, dwarfing the city's historic landmarks WED and blighting low-rise surroundings for miles, introducing a WED toxic mix of commercialism and bling that is already greatly WED compromising the reserved and unique beauty of our capital." WED WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b069rvb8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Bringing Up Britain b068vy0p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b069x94w (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b069x94y (Listen) WED The Past, Episode 8 WED WED Today we return to the present as romance blooms, under the WED children's watchful eyes, and the stakes are rising. Sian WED Thomas reads Tessa Hadley's powerful and haunting new novel, WED a beautifully observed portrait of a family and the change WED wrought by time across the generations. WED WED Three middle-aged sisters and a brother meet up in their WED grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. WED Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate tensions. WED Secrets, misunderstandings and passion play out as the WED characters shift and reappraise and a way of life - WED bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its WED inevitable end. WED WED While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents WED approach each other, the children watch and come to their WED own conclusions. WED WED Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute WED observer of character, time and place and the most published WED short story writer in the New Yorker in recent years. WED WED The reader is Sian Thomas WED The abridger is Sally Marmion WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Sian Thomas WED Author: Tessa Hadley WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Di Speirs WED WED 23:00 Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side WED b069xb3t (Listen) WED Series 2, Inspector Norse WED WED A host of issues wait to be explored in a second series of WED Elvis McGonagall's daft comic world of poems, mad sketches, WED satire and facetious remarks broadcast from his home in the WED Graceland Caravan Park just outside Dundee. WED WED Episode 4. Inspector Norse. Elvis is struggling miserably to WED keep warm and fed in his bleak northern caravan site. Susan, WED however, is enthralled by boxed sets of Scandinavian WED thrillers and revels in the frozen, atmospheric wastes. When WED Elvis's dog Trouble mysteriously disappears, the two don WED sweaters and decide to investigate. WED WED Full Cast: WED Narrator....................................Clarke Peters WED Elvis McGonagall........................Richard Smith WED Susan the Postie........................Susan Morrison WED Everyone else.........Lewis McLeod and Helen Braunholz-Smith WED WED Written by Elvis McGonagall with Richard Smith, Helen WED Braunholz-Smith and Frank Stirling. WED Producer: Frank Stirling WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Clarke Peters WED Elvis MacGonagall: Richard Smith WED Susan the Postie: Susan Morrison WED Actor: Lewis Mcleod WED Actor: Helen Braunholz-Smith WED Writer: Elvis McGonagall WED Writer: Richard Smith WED Writer: Helen Braunholtz-Smith WED Producer: Frank Stirling WED Writer: Frank Stirling WED WED 23:15 The Lach Chronicles b0376qlx (Listen) WED Series 1, Kiss Loves You WED WED Lach was the King of Manhattan's East Village and host of WED the longest running open mic night in New York. He now lives WED in Scotland and finds himself back at square one, playing in WED a dive bar on the wrong side of Edinburgh. His night, held WED in various venues around New York, was called the Antihoot. WED WED He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff Buckley and many WED others, he discovered and nurtured lots of talent including WED Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches but nobody WED discovered him. Rock and Roll is about many things, but WED first you've got to get out of the house. Lach finds himself WED trying to find common ground with his small, and at times, WED unappreciative audience. What's so complicated about his WED love for four very hairy men? WED WED Written and performed by Lach WED WED Executive Producer: Richard Melvin WED WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4 WED WED Sound design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b069xb3w (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b069gsh4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b069wrmt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b069gsh6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b069gshc (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b069gshf (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b069gshh (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b069y7nh (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with George THU Craig. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b069y7nk (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 b04dvtjk (Listen) THU Wrybill THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Sir David Attenborough presents the New Zealand wrybill. The THU wrybill is an inconspicuous wader yet it is unique. It is THU the only bird in the world whose bill is bent sideways , and THU as it happens, always to the right. In the shingly, gravelly THU world it inhabits alongside fast flowing rivers, the THU wrybill's beak is the perfect shape for finding food. With THU neat, rapid movements, it sweeps aside small stones to THU reveal insects beneath. Endemic to New Zealand in winter THU dense flocks gather and display, their highly co-ordinated THU aerial movements having been described as a flung scarfe THU across the sky. THU THU Wrybill (Anarhynchus frontalis) THU THU Webpage courtesy of Andrew Walmsley / naturepl.com THU THU NPL Ref THU 01266416 THU © Andrew Walmsley / naturepl.com THU THU 06:00 Today b069xbmb (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 From Our Own Correspondent b069xbmd (Listen) THU 60th Anniversary Special THU THU As part of marking 60 years of reporting on landmark THU international events by Radio 4's iconic series, "From Our THU Own Correspondent", Owen Bennett-Jones presents a THU discussion, recorded at London's Frontline Club, on how THU foreign reporting has evolved over the decades - and where THU it is heading. THU THU Joined by a panel of leading journalists and an audience THU that includes experienced reporters on foreign events, the THU programme recalls outstanding moments of foreign reporting. THU How did coverage of significant events - such as the Suez THU Crisis, the independence of former British colonies and the THU fall of communism - shape our views of the world, of THU particular countries and peoples? THU THU The programme will also consider how politics and broader THU economic and social changes - plus the demands of modern-day THU broadcasting - have all changed the way correspondents now THU bring often complicated international stories to diverse THU audiences here at home. THU THU Some developments continue to be far-reaching - such as THU China's transition from revolutionary peasant state to THU burgeoning economic power and the advent of extreme THU Islamism. How have more specialised reporting, embedding THU journalists with different participants in conflicts and THU focusing on the experiences of the general public changed THU the way we understand such issues? And how is the use of THU social media affecting reporting on foreign events? THU THU The programme will name the places we should be watching in THU the years ahead, and discuss how reporting is likely to THU change further as "citizen journalists" become ubiquitous THU and the trustworthiness of information around the world THU becomes ever more important. THU THU Producer: Simon Coates. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b069xcyl (Listen) THU Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio, Episode 4 THU THU His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem meaning THU 'babe' as he was the youngest in his family. From the THU infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, surrounded by the THU comfortable middle-class neighbourhoods of Brazil's party THU city, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a THU life-changing decision. If the only person who will lend you THU money in a crisis is a drug baron, then the only way you can THU repay him is by going to work for the gang. THU THU Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the 'don' THU of the largest slum in Rio. It is a story of fate and THU retribution, of the inevitable consequences of moral THU collapse and the blurred boundaries of the law. Brazil's THU most wanted criminal, Antonio (or 'Nem') tried to bring THU welfare and a crude kind of justice to a favela of over THU 100,000 citizens; a world governed by violence and THU destitution, existing beyond the rule of an equally corrupt THU state. But his period of ascendancy coincided with the THU nation's attempts to earn international respect first of all THU through hosting the football World Cup and then winning the THU right to stage the 2016 Olympics. THU THU This is the story of how change came to Brazil. It begins THU with Misha Glenny meeting the eponymous Nem at a high THU security prison in 2012 , the account that follows is of a THU country's journey into the global spotlight, and the battle THU for the beautiful but damned city of Rio as it struggles to THU break free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs THU and poverty. THU THU Episode 4: THU When Nem eventually takes over in Rocinha, a prosperous and THU safe environment begins to flourish. THU THU Read by the author, Misha Glenny THU THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Misha Glenny THU Author: Misha Glenny THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b069xcyn (Listen) THU Takeover Week: Michelle Mone THU THU The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06bhg1h (Listen) THU Subterranean Homesick Blues, Episode 4 THU THU by A L Kennedy THU THU Directed by Sally Avens THU THU Maggie has finally had enough of snatching time with John. THU An early morning date in Manchester is not what she was THU hoping for from their romance and why won't John tell her THU where he lives. THU THU Credits THU John: Bill Nighy THU Maggie: Anna Calder-Marshall THU Writer: AL Kennedy THU Director: Sally Avens THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b069xcyq (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Pop Star and the Prophet b069xcys (Listen) THU Nearly forty years ago, French polymath Jacques Attali wrote THU a book called "Noise" which predicted a "crisis of THU proliferation" for recorded music - in which its value would THU plummet. As music sales went into freefall at the turn of THU the century, his prediction seemed eerily resonant to THU up-and-coming singer/songwriter Sam York. Now struggling to THU earn a living as a musician, York visits Attali to help get THU an insight into his own future, learning that music itself THU may hold clues to what is about to happen in the wider THU world. THU THU Along the way, York meets Al Doyle from Hot Chip and folk THU singer Frank Turner, who reveal that - despite being THU relatively well known - they still find it difficult to earn THU a living from their "stardom". Doyle says he struggled to THU afford a one-bedroom flat in London. It's a world away from THU the rock-and-roll lifestyle we might think successful THU musicians enjoy. THU THU Presenter:Sam York THU Producers:Sam Juday and Simon Platt THU Editor:Andrew Smith THU Mixed by James Beard. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b069gshn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b06492n0 (Listen) THU 17 September 1915 - Ralph Winwood THU THU The big day finally arrives for Dorothea and Ralph. THU THU Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Directed by Allegra McIlroy. THU THU Credits THU Ralph: Nicholas Murchie THU Howard: Gunnar Cauthery THU Dorothea: Rachel Shelley THU Edna: Lara West THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Director: Allegra McIlroy THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b069xcyv (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b069gshw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b069xdy1 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Computing Britain b069xdy3 (Listen) THU Connected Thinking THU THU Long before the heroics of the world wide web, the internet THU was born out of a mixture of American ambition and British THU thrift. Packet Switching was the name coined by Welsh THU computer scientist Donald Davies in an effort to link the THU early computers in the labs of the National Physical THU Laboratory in Teddington. THU THU Presented by Hannah Fry THU THU Produced by Alex Mansfield. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b069x6fq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b069xkzq (Listen) THU Stupid Men THU THU By award winning writer Gary Owen. THU THU Ryan was once a rising rugby star, until an early injury THU crushed his dream. Now he's a husband, a father, a worker THU and only a semi-professional part-time rugby player. But as THU the pressures of daily life mount, and his home-life becomes THU increasingly strained, one last shot at sporting glory might THU be his only hope of keeping his family together. THU THU A moving and modern-day story about facing adversity and THU fighting for what you love. THU THU Directed by Helen Perry THU A BBC Cymru Wales Production THU THU Gary Owen is the winner of the Meyer Whitworth, George THU Devine and Pearson best play awards. He recently made his THU Royal Court debut with Violence and Son. Other plays include THU Iphigenia in Splott, Love Steals us from Loneliness, Crazy THU Gary's Mobile Disco, The Shadow of a Boy, The Drowned World THU (winner Fringe first), and Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian. THU Gary was also the co-writer of BBC Wales TV drama Baker THU Boys. THU THU Eve Myles is best known for her award-winning roles in the THU sci-fi phenomenon Torchwood, ITV's drama Broadchurch and THU BBC's Frankie. THU THU Matthew Gravelle is well known for his portrayal of Joe THU Miller in ITV's thriller Broadchurch. He's also starred in THU Welsh TV dramas Belonging, Baker Boys and Hinterland. THU THU Credits THU Ryan: Matthew Gravelle THU Kerry: Eve Myles THU Coach: Rhodri Meilir THU Director: Helen Perry THU Writer: Gary Owen THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b069xkzs (Listen) THU Series 31, Artists Ways: Louise Ann Wilson, Warnscale THU THU Clare Balding discovers the essential role walking plays in THU contemporary artist's work. THU THU In this programme she walks with Louise Anne Wilson, a THU scenographer, who has created a walking guide and artbook THU specific to, and created in, Warnscale, an area of fells to THU the south of Buttermere Lake. Louise explains to Clare that THU this 9 kilometre walk and the accompanying guide, are aimed THU at women who are childless by circumstance. Society offers THU no rituals or rites of passage through which women who have THU missed the life-event of biological motherhood can be THU acknowledged and can come to terms with that absence. Louise THU created this project to offer imaginative and creative ways THU through which women can engage with landscape to reflect THU upon and even transform their experience of this THU circumstance. THU THU It provides a multi-layered yet non-prescriptive means for THU the walker - whether walking alone, with a partner, friend THU or in a group - to make and perform their own journey, and THU can also be used by others who are in sympathy with women in THU this circumstance and persons in comparable situations. THU They are joined by Zakyeya Atcha, who has undertaken the THU walk before and found it a consoling and affirming THU experience and Dr Celia Roberts of Lancaster University THU THU The route can be followed on OS Explorer - The English Lakes THU North Western Area THU Grid reference NY 196 150 THU Producer Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Louise Anne Wilson THU Interviewed Guest: Zakyeya Atcha THU Interviewed Guest: Celia Roberts THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b069gtk9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b069h37y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b069xqpr (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b069xqpt (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b069xqpw (Listen) THU News interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b069gsj1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Brig Society b069xxg5 (Listen) THU Series 3, Football Manager THU THU Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has decided to find out about the THU pure, noble and honest game of football - and also FIFA. THU He'll be tackling some of the sport's biggest problems, like THU racism and homophobia - and also FIFA. THU THU And as a football manager, he'll be taking his amateur side THU all the way to the Premier League. And possibly beyond, if THU Qatar pay him enough. THU THU Helping him to kick it out of the park will be Margaret THU Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda"), William Andrews ("Sorry I've Got THU No Head") and Colin Hoult ("Derek") 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: Colin Hoult 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 b069xxg7 (Listen) THU Jill feels haunted, and Peggy offers a warning. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b069xxg9 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06bhg1h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b069xy2b (Listen) THU The Hollywood Spy THU THU British writer, Cedric Belfrage, avoided prosecution after THU passing top secret documents to Russia in World War Two. But THU was he acting under orders or was he a Soviet spy? THU Gordon Corera examines new evidence from recently THU declassified MI5 files, which help explain how Belfrage went THU from being a Hollywood film critic in the 1930s to having THU access to highly confidential British and US intelligence THU material in the 1940s which he later admitted passing to THU Russia. THU After being named as a Soviet spy in 1945, Belfrage appeared THU before The House Un-American Activities Committee and was THU later deported from the US for having been a member of the THU Communist Party. THU We talk to some of those who met him after he later settled THU in Mexico, including the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, THU who were executed by the US in 1951 for being Soviet spies. THU And we explore why MI5 was anxious to avoid prosecuting THU Belfrage in case it proved embarrassing for the British THU security service. THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 20:30 In Business b069xyjn (Listen) THU China Going Green THU THU China is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. THU THU Many Chinese dream of seeing blue skies and white clouds but THU rarely do because of the smog. Often the daily routine is to THU wake up and check the pollution levels to decide if it is THU safe for children to play outside, or if a filter mask THU should be worn for protection. THU THU Ahead of December's UN Climate Change summit, Peter Day THU reports on the Chinese ambitions to make China 'go green'. THU Many people say the Chinese aren't given enough credit for THU their efforts and argue the West will be shocked when it THU realises the extent of their actions. But can that ambition THU become reality? Peter Day reports from Beijing and beyond THU and asks when will the Chinese be able to breathe more THU easily? THU THU Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b069xqpt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 From Our Own Correspondent b069xbmd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b069xzsx (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b069y6sk (Listen) THU The Past, Episode 9 THU THU Today: Passions boil over with disastrous consequences as THU Sian Thomas reads Tessa Hadley's powerful and haunting new THU novel, a beautifully observed portrait of a family and the THU change wrought by time across the generations. THU THU Three middle-aged sisters and a brother meet up in their THU grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. THU Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate tensions. THU Secrets, misunderstandings and passion play out as the THU characters shift and reappraise and a way of life - THU bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its THU inevitable end. THU THU While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents THU approach each other, the children watch and come to their THU own conclusions. THU THU Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute THU observer of character, time and place and the most published THU short story writer in the New Yorker in recent years. THU THU The reader is Sian Thomas THU The abridger is Sally Marmion THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Sian Thomas THU Author: Tessa Hadley THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Di Speirs THU THU 23:00 Richard Marsh b069y6sm (Listen) THU Cardboard Heart, Engagement THU THU Award-winning writer and poet Richard Marsh stars alongside THU Russell Tovey and Phil Daniels in this new, heart-warming THU sitcom set in a greetings card company. THU THU This week, Will's asked to help someone find the words to THU break some difficult news. As a man who struggles to express THU his own feelings, what chance does he have of putting the THU right words in someone else's mouth? THU THU Richard Marsh is the writer and star of Love and Sweets, a THU Radio 4 comedy series that won Best Comedy in the BBC Audio THU Drama awards 2014. Now, in Cardboard Heart, he plays Will, a THU hapless romantic who's keen to find love and an aspiring THU writer with a 9 to 5 job writing poetry at a greetings card THU company. THU THU Will shares an office with Goadsby (Rebecca Scroggs), who's THU responsible for the card artwork and being Will's nemesis, THU Colin (Sam Troughton), the firm's safety and THU survival-obsessed accountant, and charming renegade salesman THU Beast (Russell Tovey). Phil Daniels plays Rog, their roguish THU boss. THU THU Paid to express heartfelt emotions for people he will never THU meet, Will consistently fails to express himself properly to THU anyone he does meet. Every social interaction is a minefield THU for Will. In his head, he knows exactly what to say but the THU minute he opens his mouth, it's a disaster. Luckily for you, THU Will shares his inner thoughts with the audience. THU THU Written and created by Richard Marsh THU Directed by Pia Furtado THU Produced by Ben Worsfield THU A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Rog: Phil Daniels THU Will: Richard Marsh THU Goadsby: Rebecca Scroggs THU Beast: Russell Tovey THU Colin: Sam Troughton THU Writer: Richard Marsh THU Interviewed Guest: Pia Furtado THU Producer: Ben Worsfield THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b069y6sp (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b069gsl7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b069xcyl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b069gsl9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b069gslc (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b069gslf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b069gslh (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b069z8dx (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with George FRI Craig. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b069z8dz (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 b04dvsrk (Listen) FRI Red-Winged Blackbird FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Sir David Attenborough presents the North American FRI red-winged blackbird. The arrival of spring in the USA is FRI heralded by the unmistakable "conk-ra-lee" call of the FRI red-winged blackbird. The male blackbirds, who are FRI un-related to the European blackbird, flutter their red and FRI yellow wing-patches like regimental badges to announce their FRI territories. The numbers of Red-winged blackbirds has FRI increased spectacularly in the mid 20th century as more land FRI was converted to growing crops on which the birds feed. FRI Today at a winter roost hundreds of thousands, even millions FRI of birds darken the skies over the plantations or marshes in FRI which they will spend the night - a loud and unforgettable FRI spectacle. FRI FRI Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of David Tipling / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01460903 FRI © David Tipling / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b069z8f1 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b068s4qq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b069z8f3 (Listen) FRI Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio, Episode 5 FRI FRI His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem meaning FRI 'babe' as he was the youngest in his family. From the FRI infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, surrounded by the FRI comfortable middle-class neighbourhoods of Brazil's party FRI city, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a FRI life-changing decision. If the only person who will lend you FRI money in a crisis is a drug baron, then the only way you can FRI repay him is by going to work for the gang. FRI FRI Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the 'don' FRI of the largest slum in Rio. It is a story of fate and FRI retribution, of the inevitable consequences of moral FRI collapse and the blurred boundaries of the law. Brazil's FRI most wanted criminal, Antonio (or 'Nem') tried to bring FRI welfare and a crude kind of justice to a favela of over FRI 100,000 citizens; a world governed by violence and FRI destitution, existing beyond the rule of an equally corrupt FRI state. But his period of ascendancy coincided with the FRI nation's attempts to earn international respect first of all FRI through hosting the football World Cup and then winning the FRI right to stage the 2016 Olympics. FRI FRI This is the story of how change came to Brazil - a country's FRI journey into the global spotlight and the battle for the FRI beautiful but damned city of Rio as it struggles to break FRI free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs and FRI poverty. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI The authorities cannot risk further internecine violence in FRI the city which is due to come under global scrutiny. The FRI policy of 'pacification' is escalated to include Rocinha. FRI Read by the author, Misha Glenny FRI FRI Music: FRI MC Godô - Salvei minha filha (I saved my daughter - a favela FRI rap about Nem) FRI Seu Jorge - Eu Sou Favela FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Misha Glenny FRI Author: Misha Glenny FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b069z8f7 (Listen) FRI Takeover Week: Jacqueline Wilson FRI FRI The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06bhg8y (Listen) FRI Subterranean Homesick Blues, Episode 5 FRI FRI by A L Kennedy FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI Inclement weather gives John a chance to talk his way back FRI both into Maggie's heart and her bed, but how long can he FRI manage to stay there? FRI FRI Credits FRI John: Bill Nighy FRI Maggie: Anna Calder-Marshall FRI Writer: AL Kennedy FRI Director: Sally Avens FRI FRI 11:00 Sugar, Saris and Green Bananas b06b36w4 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI When you reach for the sugar bowl do you ever think where FRI those sweet granules come from? In the first of two FRI programmes, London-born journalist Lainy Malkani embarks on FRI a quest to uncover her family's Indo-Guyanese roots on the FRI sugar plantations of the Caribbean. FRI FRI She learns how her ancestors were among the tens of FRI thousands of poor indentured labourers shipped from India to FRI work on the British-owned sugar estates - a practice that FRI began after slavery was abolished in 1838 and continued well FRI into the 20th century. They lived and laboured on FRI plantations with quintessentially English names like Rose FRI Hall and Albion. FRI FRI When Jock Campbell, the Eton-educated son of the owners of FRI Albion, first visited in 1932 he was shocked by the FRI conditions he found. He asked the fearsome Scottish manager FRI James Bee why the workers' lodgings were so much worse than FRI those of the mules. He was told "Because mules cost money to FRI replace." FRI FRI Lainy hears firsthand accounts of life on the sugar FRI plantations and the intense nostalgia workers felt for their FRI Indian homeland. She also learns how some of the most famous FRI West Indies cricketers, such as Clive Lloyd and Rohan FRI Kanhai, began their careers on the cricket grounds of the FRI Guyanese sugar estates. FRI FRI And in a south London suburb, she joins numerous other FRI Indo-Guyanese families as they commemorate the first FRI generation of indentured labourers who went to the FRI Caribbean. FRI FRI She says, "It was sugar that brought my Indian ancestors to FRI the Caribbean. It was the sugar plantations that defined FRI their daily lives. And eventually it was what drove so many FRI of my parents' generation to seek better lives abroad, such FRI as here in Britain." FRI FRI Producer Mukti Jain Campion FRI A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Shush! b06b36w6 (Listen) FRI Top Shelf FRI FRI Alice and Snoo have to resort to some rather unconventional FRI means to get people into the library. A very low shelf, a FRI book about zombies, a hosepipe ban and some hummingbirds FRI bring the public flocking in. FRI FRI Meet Alice, a former child prodigy who won a place at Oxford FRI aged 9, but because Daddy went too she never needed to have FRI any friends. She's scared of everything - everything that FRI is, except libraries and Snoo, a slightly confused FRI individual, with a have-a-go attitude to life, marriage, FRI haircuts and reality. Snoo loves books, and fully intends to FRI read one one day. FRI FRI And forever popping into the library is Dr. Cadogan, FRI celebrity doctor to the stars and a man with his finger in FRI every pie. Charming, indiscreet and quite possibly wanted by FRI Interpol, if you want a discrete nip and tuck and then FRI photos of it accidentally left on the photocopier, Dr FRI Cadogan is your man. FRI FRI Their happy life is interrupted by the arrival of Simon FRI Nielson, a man with a mission, a mission to close down FRI inefficient libraries. Fortunately, he hates his mission. FRI What he really wants to do is once, just once get even with FRI his inexhaustible supply of high-achieving brothers. FRI FRI Written by Morwenna Banks, Rebecca Front and Arthur Mathews FRI FRI Based on an idea developed with Armando Iannucci FRI Produced by David Tyler FRI FRI A Pozzitive production for the BBC. FRI FRI Credits FRI Alice: Rebecca Front FRI Snoo: Morwenna Banks FRI Simon Neilson: Ben Willbond FRI Dr Cadogan: Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Dean: Simon Greenall FRI Deaf Action Man: Gus Brown FRI Wifi Customer: Philip Pope FRI Vikram Seth Customer: Georgie Fuller FRI Writer: Morwenna Banks FRI Writer: Rebecca Front FRI Writer: Arthur Matthews FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b069gslk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b06493hx (Listen) FRI 18 September 1915 - Ivy Layton FRI FRI Ivy Layton creates a theatrical novelty - Madame Aethyria. FRI FRI Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ivy: Lizzy Watts FRI Dolly: Elaine Claxton FRI Roland: Jack Holden FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Sally: Sarah Thom FRI Lilian: Alex Tregear FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06b36w8 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b069gslm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06b36wb (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Computing Britain b06b36wd (Listen) FRI The Job Killer FRI FRI From the earliest days of electronic computers, commentators FRI feared that mass unemployment would result from the FRI efficiencies of computers and automation in the workplace. FRI These fears would resurface over the decades, but came to a FRI head towards the end of the 1970s with the coming of FRI relatively cheap microprocessors. FRI FRI Presented by Hannah Fry FRI FRI Produced by Alex Mansfield. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b069xxg7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b06b36wg (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 5 FRI FRI Drama: Brief Lives by Michael Livesey FRI A journalist is arrested for being in possession of a police FRI disciplinary report. He believes this reveals police FRI corruption. He wants Frank to help him stop a massive cover FRI up. But Frank needs some persuading. FRI FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank: David Schofield FRI Sarah: Kathryn Hunt FRI Nick: Graeme Hawley FRI Martin: Jack Lord FRI Karen: Sally Carman FRI Henderson: David Fleeshman FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Michael Livesey FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06b36wj (Listen) FRI Sheffield FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Sheffield. Matt Biggs, Christine Walkden and Pippa Greenwood FRI answer audience questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Rowing to Eden b06b36wl (Listen) FRI Love Is Not a Pie FRI FRI Amy Bloom has long been regarded as a master of the American FRI short story, and her new collection, Rowing to Eden, FRI celebrates more than two decades of her work. In this, one FRI of her best-known tales, a daughter reflects on her FRI unconventional mother, and her rather unconventional love FRI affair. FRI Author: Amy Bloom is regarded as one of the masters of the FRI American short story. She's the author of three novels FRI (Lucky Us, Away and Love Invents Us), and three collections FRI of short stories, and has been nominated for the National FRI Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. FRI Though her novels have been highly acclaimed, she's best FRI known for her short stories, which have appeared in The New FRI Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic FRI Monthly, among others, over the past 25 years. She is also a FRI trained psychotherapist FRI Reader: Kelly Burke FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Kelly Burke FRI Writer: Amy Bloom FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06b374v (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b06b374x (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06b3nxw (Listen) FRI Javaid and Shabana - Life is So Slow Now FRI FRI Fi Glover with a couple who share the experience of a Kenyan FRI childhood although they only met and married later in life, FRI a second chance for both of them. Recorded in The Listening FRI Project Booth in Glasgow, it's another conversation in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI 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 b06c3hqp (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b069gslp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06b3nxy (Listen) FRI Series 88, Episode 1 FRI FRI Miles Jupp and an esteemed panel of guests including Mark FRI Steel, Susan Calman, Sarah Kendall and Danny Finkelstein FRI chew over the big stories of the week in this, the first FRI episode of series 88 of the long-running satirical quiz. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Morris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Mark Steel FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Sarah Kendall FRI Panellist: Daniel Finkelstein FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06b3ny0 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Caroline Harrington FRI Director ..... Marina Caldarone FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Pip Archer ..... Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer ..... Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer ..... David Troughton FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer ..... William Troughton FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Rex Fairbrother ..... Nick Barber FRI Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI Ed Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward FRI Helen Titchener ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran ..... Eleanor Bron FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Hazel Woolley ..... Annette Badland. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06b3ny2 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06bhg8y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06b3ny4 (Listen) FRI Therese Coffey MP, Tristram Hunt MP, Owen Jones, Allison FRI Pearson FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Impington Village College in Cambridgeshire with the FRI Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, Therese Coffey MP, FRI Labour MP Tristram Hunt, the author and columnist Owen Jones FRI and the Daily Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06b3ny6 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06493hz (Listen) FRI 14-18 September 1915 FRI FRI Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War FRI Britain a hundred years ago this week - a week of evasions, FRI diversions and new arrivals FRI FRI Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Story-led by Sarah Daniels FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Adeline: Helen Schlesinger FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Beau: Stephen Critchlow FRI Solly: Stephen Critchlow FRI Dolly: Elaine Claxton FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Edie: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Edna: Lara West FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Howard: Gunnar Cauthery FRI Ivy: Lizzy Watts FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Lilian: Alex Tregear FRI Marion: Laura Elphinstone FRI Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies FRI Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Roland: Jack Holden FRI Ray: Scarlet Bell FRI Roy: Tim Beckmann FRI Sally: Sarah Thom FRI Stella: Ava Bell FRI Sylvia: Joanna David FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b069gsmh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06b3pp3 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06b3pp5 (Listen) FRI The Past, Episode 10 FRI FRI Today Finding the lost and living without love as Sian FRI Thomas reads the final, tender part of Tessa Hadley's new FRI novel, a beautifully observed portrait of a family and the FRI change wrought by time across the generations. FRI FRI Three middle-aged sisters and a brother meet up in their FRI grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. FRI Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate tensions. FRI Secrets, misunderstandings and passion play out as the FRI characters shift and reappraise and a way of life - FRI bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its FRI inevitable end. FRI FRI While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents FRI approach each other, the children watch and come to their FRI own conclusions. FRI FRI Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute FRI observer of character, time and place and the most published FRI short story writer in the New Yorker in recent years. FRI FRI The reader is Sian Thomas FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Sian Thomas FRI Author: Tessa Hadley FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Di Speirs FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b069rvbl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06b3pp7 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06b3pp9 (Listen) FRI Julie and Lois - Our Brains Work in Different Ways FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a mother and daughter who share a FRI difficulty with learning; it's not that they can't, but that FRI they do it in a way that's different. Recorded in the Booth FRI at the Hay Festival, it's another conversation in the series FRI that proves it's surprising what 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
11 September, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 12/09/2015 - 18/09/2015
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