18 September, 2015

Radio 4 Listings for 19/09/2015 - 25/09/2015

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SAT SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b069gsrx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b069z8f3 (Listen) SAT Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio, Episode 5 SAT SAT His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem meaning SAT 'babe' as he was the youngest in his family. From the SAT infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, surrounded by the SAT comfortable middle-class neighbourhoods of Brazil's party SAT city, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a SAT life-changing decision. If the only person who will lend you SAT money in a crisis is a drug baron, then the only way you can SAT repay him is by going to work for the gang. SAT SAT Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the 'don' SAT of the largest slum in Rio. It is a story of fate and SAT retribution, of the inevitable consequences of moral SAT collapse and the blurred boundaries of the law. Brazil's SAT most wanted criminal, Antonio (or 'Nem') tried to bring SAT welfare and a crude kind of justice to a favela of over SAT 100,000 citizens; a world governed by violence and SAT destitution, existing beyond the rule of an equally corrupt SAT state. But his period of ascendancy coincided with the SAT nation's attempts to earn international respect first of all SAT through hosting the football World Cup and then winning the SAT right to stage the 2016 Olympics. SAT SAT This is the story of how change came to Brazil - a country's SAT journey into the global spotlight and the battle for the SAT beautiful but damned city of Rio as it struggles to break SAT free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs and SAT poverty. SAT SAT Episode 5: SAT The authorities cannot risk further internecine violence in SAT the city which is due to come under global scrutiny. The SAT policy of 'pacification' is escalated to include Rocinha. SAT Read by the author, Misha Glenny SAT SAT Music: SAT MC Godô - Salvei minha filha (I saved my daughter - a favela SAT rap about Nem) SAT Seu Jorge - Eu Sou Favela SAT SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Misha Glenny SAT Author: Misha Glenny SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b069gsrz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b069gss1 (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b069gss3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b069gss5 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06b3q0s (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Imam SAT Monawar Hussain. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06b3q0z (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b069gss7 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b069gss9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b069xkzs (Listen) SAT Series 31, Artists Ways: Louise Ann Wilson, Warnscale SAT SAT Clare Balding discovers the essential role walking plays in SAT contemporary artist's work. SAT In this programme she walks with Louise Ann Wilson, a SAT sceneographer, who has created a walking guide and artbook SAT specific to, and created in, Warnscale, an area of fells to SAT the south of Buttermere Lake. Louise explains to Clare that SAT this 9 kilometer walk and the accompanying guide, are aimed SAT at women who are childless by circumstance. Society offers SAT no rituals or rites of passage through which women who have SAT missed the life-event of biological motherhood can be SAT acknowledged and can come to terms with that absence. Louise SAT created this project to offer imaginative and creative ways SAT through which women can engage with landscape to reflect SAT upon and even transform their experience of this SAT circumstance. SAT It provides a multi-layered yet non-prescriptive means for SAT the walker - whether walking alone, with a partner, friend SAT or in a group - to make and perform their own journey, and SAT can also be used by others who are in sympathy with women in SAT this circumstance and persons in comparable situations. SAT They are joined by Zakyeya Atcha, who has undertaken the SAT walk before and found it a consoling and affirming SAT experience and Dr Celia Roberts of Lancaster University SAT SAT The route can be followed on OS Explorer - The English Lakes SAT North Western Area SAT Grid reference NY 196 150 SAT www.louiseannwilson.com SAT SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Louise Anne Wilson SAT Interviewed Guest: Zakyeya Atcha SAT Interviewed Guest: Celia Roberts SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06bcssw (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 b069gssc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06bcssy (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 b06bcst0 (Listen) SAT Professor Green SAT SAT He's sold over three million records, has over 2 million SAT twitter followers and has notched up 66 million YouTube SAT views of his work. Rapper Professor Green aka Stephen SAT Manderson has now written his autobiography which details SAT his troubled past, successful present and hopes for the SAT future. He joins us on Saturday Live. SAT SAT Charlie le Mindu is a hair artist. He cuts hair, makes wigs SAT and what he calls 'haute coiffure' a fusion of high fashion SAT and hair which has produced hair coats and clothes. He's SAT worked with Lady Gaga, Lana Del Ray and gave Florence Welsh SAT her flame red dye. He joins us on Saturday live to tell us SAT about his passion for and the power of HAIR. SAT SAT Seva Novgorodsev is famous in the former Soviet Union for SAT broadcasting pop music across the Iron Curtain and SAT introducing Western culture via the BBC World Service. This SAT month saw him retiring after 38 years, and he joins us to SAT reflect on a career in which he also played a baddie in a SAT Bond film, and received fan mail in the form of a message in SAT a bottle. SAT SAT Catherine Gallop is a listener who contacted us about her SAT regular visits as a volunteer to Lourdes. She tells us what SAT impact it had on her life and those who she travelled with. SAT SAT Actress Emilia Clarke rose to prominence playing "Khaleesi" SAT in Game of Thrones, she's also starred on Broadway and SAT appears in the latest Terminator film. Her inheritance SAT tracks are 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' by The SAT Beatles and 'Check yo self' by Ice Cube. SAT SAT and JP meets Ken Wilkinson who was a Spitfire pilot who flew SAT in the Battle of Britain 75 years ago. SAT SAT Professor Green Lucky by Stephen Manderson is published by SAT Blink publishing SAT Haute Coiffure by Charlie le Mindu is published by Roads SAT Publishing. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Kate Silverton SAT Interviewed Guest: Professor Green SAT Interviewed Guest: Charlie le Mindu SAT Interviewed Guest: Seva Novgorodsev SAT Interviewed Guest: Catherine Gallop SAT Interviewed Guest: Emilia Clarke SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Ken Wilkinson SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b06bcst2 (Listen) SAT Series 11, Wolverhampton SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show from Wolverhampton. SAT SAT On this week's panel are food scientist Professor Peter SAT Barham, chef Sophie Wright, Masterchef winner Tim Anderson, SAT and the food writer Lizzie Mabbott. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT Producer: Darby Dorras SAT Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b06bcst4 (Listen) SAT Tom Newton Dunn of The Sun looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b069gssk (Listen) SAT A Special UK Edition SAT SAT For once, and as part of FOOC's sixtieth birthday SAT celebrations, the programme's handed over to home SAT correspondents and the stories they have to tell about the SAT UK today. The growth in Scottish nationalism is explored; we SAT find out how important listening will be as the inquiry into SAT child sex abuse in this country prepares to get underway; we SAT travel to one of the most picturesque villages in England to SAT hear concerns about the increasing cost of housing in rural SAT areas; with the power-sharing government in Belfast close to SAT collapse, we are told of the continuing tensions in both SAT Republican and Unionist communities and we find out what SAT effect the extraordinary political developments of recent SAT days will have on the party political conference season, SAT which is about to begin. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b069gssm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06bcst6 (Listen) SAT Flight compensation, The new banks on the block, SAT Disappearing tax credits SAT SAT The Chief Executive of German bank Fidor, Matthias Kroner SAT explains why he believes his bank's community concept will SAT appeal to British customers. Fidor, is the latest SAT "challenger" bank to enter the UK market and provide an SAT alternative to the longer established names in financial SAT services. Kroner wants banking to be fun - so we ask for SAT your favourite bank jokes. SAT SAT The Civil Aviation Authority is taking action against SAT Ryanair for failing to pay compensation to passengers for SAT flight delays of over three hours. SAT SAT From April, the Government will reduce spending on tax SAT credits by £4.5 billion, a move which will affect thousands SAT of low income families. Exactly how, isn't certain, as they SAT will also pay less income tax and benefit from a rise in the SAT minimum wage at the same time. Will Hadwen, rights adviser SAT with Working Families - a charity which helps families SAT balance work and home life, explains. SAT SAT And a detective who specialises in investigating SAT bank"vishing" criminals, admits that the police response to SAT individual cases could be improved. SAT SAT Presenter:Paul Lewis SAT Producer:Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT Fidor Bank SAT Which: Switching Your Bank Account SAT FDA: How To Claim Compensation SAT CAA Civil Aviation Authority SAT MoneySavingExpert.com: Flight Delay Compensation SAT BBC News: Tax Credit Cuts SAT Low Incomes Tax Reform Group: Tax Credit Cuts SAT Working Families SAT IncomeMAX SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06b3nxy (Listen) SAT Series 88, Episode 1 SAT SAT Miles Jupp and an esteemed panel of guests including Mark SAT Steel, Susan Calman, Sarah Kendall and Danny Finkelstein SAT chew over the big stories of the week in this, the first SAT episode of series 88 of the long-running satirical quiz. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Mark Steel SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Sarah Kendall SAT Panellist: Daniel Finkelstein SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b069gssr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b069gsst (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06b3ny4 (Listen) SAT Therese Coffey MP, Seema Malhotra MP, John McTernan, Allison SAT Pearson SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Impington Village College in Cambridgeshire with the SAT Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, Therese Coffey MP, SAT Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasurer Seema Malhotra MP, SAT the political strategist John McTernan and the Daily SAT Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06bcv9q (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b06bcv9s (Listen) SAT Dead Girls Tell No Tales SAT SAT Starring Simon Russell Beale, Eleanor Tomlinson and Ysanne SAT Churchman. SAT SAT Joanna Toye's drama explores the backstage story to a SAT watershed moment in the history of broadcasting which became SAT one of the defining cultural events of the 1950s. SAT SAT It is media folklore that the death of soap opera heroine SAT Grace Archer was a ploy to thwart the launch night of ITV on SAT 22 September 1955. But for the first time, this new drama SAT delves deep into SAT The Archers' archives to reveal what really inspired 20 SAT million people to tune in and left tens of thousands of SAT listeners distraught. SAT SAT Writer ..... Joanna Toye SAT Director ..... Sean O'Connor. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Joanna Toye SAT Director: Sean O'Connor SAT Dan Archer/Harry Oakes: Jon Culshaw SAT Doris Archer/Gwen Berryman: Pam Ferris SAT Phil Archer/Norman Painting: Lex Shrapnel SAT Grace Archer/Ysanne Churchman: Eleanor Tomlinson SAT Christine Archer/Lesley Saweard: Georgie Fuller SAT John Tregorran /Basil Jones: Geoffrey Streatfeild SAT Carol Grey/Anne Cullen: Sally Bretton SAT Godfrey Baseley: Simon Russell Beale SAT Tony Shryane: John Hopkins SAT Valerie Hodgetts: Claudie Blakley SAT Geoffrey Webb: David Reed SAT Edward J Mason: Miles Jupp SAT BBC Announcer: Zebedee Soanes SAT TV Interviewer: Paddy O'Connell SAT Ysanne Churchman: Ysanne Churchman SAT Actor: David Hounslow SAT Actor: Sam Dale SAT Actor: Chris Pavlo SAT Actor: Jessica Turner SAT Actor: Alex Tregear SAT SAT 15:30 Birth of an Orchestra b069rv9w (Listen) SAT Alan Bennett, former members of the Yorkshire Symphony SAT Orchestra (1947-55) and students of the new Yorkshire Young SAT Sinfonia discuss Yorkshire orchestras past, present and SAT future. SAT SAT Last year on BBC Radio 4, Alan Bennett recalled his boyhood SAT visits to the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra. In Death of an SAT Orchestra, he was joined by supporters and former members in SAT telling the YSO's history, from 1947 to its sad demise in SAT 1955. SAT SAT As he listened to that programme, David Taylor was SAT coincidentally in the process of creating a new youth SAT orchestra - the Yorkshire Young Sinfonia - and Alan SAT Bennett's story of the YSO gave his project a new sense of SAT purpose: "To create the musicians of tomorrow, providing a SAT springboard to a career in the arts, and stimulate the arts SAT in Yorkshire". SAT SAT Birth of an Orchestra follows the students of the YYS as SAT they prepare for their inaugural concert - just 60 years on SAT from the YSO's last performance. The young players talk SAT about their musical backgrounds and ambitions, and hear SAT advice from three former members of the YSO with long and SAT distinguished orchestral careers - violinist Stan Smith, SAT harpist Mair Roberts and cellist Betty Wood, a founder SAT member of the YSO at the age of 19. SAT SAT The programme explores Yorkshire's musical heritage. Alan SAT Bennett remembers an embarrassing visit to the Leeds SAT Triennial Festival, Leeds City Organist Simon Lindley SAT outlines the origins of music-making in the county and SAT Bernard Atha - former Lord Mayor of Leeds - recalls hearing SAT John McCormack sing there in the 1930s. SAT SAT Producer: Susan Kenyon SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06bcv9v (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06bcv9x (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b06b3q0z (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b069gssy (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b069gst1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b069gst3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06bcz30 (Listen) SAT Sara Cox, Kelis, Tony Christie, Kate Mosse, Fred MacAulay, SAT Squeeze SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Kelis, Tony SAT Christie, Kate Mosse and Fred MacAulay for an eclectic mix SAT of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Tony SAT Christie and Squeeze. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Tony Christie SAT 'The Great Irish Songbook' is out now on Wrasse Records, and SAT Tony and Ranagri perform every Wednesday until October 28th SAT at Blackpool North Pier Theatre. SAT SAT Kate Mosse SAT 'The Taxidermist’s Daughter' is published by Orion and SAT available now. SAT SAT Kelis SAT 'My Life on a Plate' is published by Kyle Books and SAT available now. SAT SAT Fred MacAulay SAT SAT Fred’s show ‘Twenty Fifteen’ is at The Duchess, York on SAT Tuesday 22nd, Gala Theatre, Durham on Wednesday 23rd and SAT Forum Theatre, Northallerton on Thursday 25th September. It SAT then tours until the end of November. Check Fred's website SAT for details. SAT SAT Squeeze SAT 'Cradle To The Grave' is available now on Virgin EMI. SAT Squeeze are playing at G Live, Guildford on Saturday 26th, SAT Brighton Dome on Monday 28th and Milton Keynes Theatre on SAT Tuesday 29th September. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Sara Cox SAT Interviewed Guest: Kelis SAT Interviewed Guest: Tony Christie SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Mosse SAT Interviewed Guest: Fred MacAulay SAT Performer: Tony Christie SAT Performer: Squeeze SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b06bcz32 (Listen) SAT The Eagle Twins SAT SAT Perching on Labour's new front bench are high-flying twin SAT sisters: Angela and Maria Eagle. Angela is the new shadow SAT business secretary. Maria has been given the defence brief. SAT SAT Mark Coles profiles the pair who - over 25 years in politics SAT - have soared from Merseyside to the heart of Westminster. SAT SAT Producers: Hannah Barnes and Chloe Hadjimatheou. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06bcz34 (Listen) SAT Submission; Hangmen; The World Goes Pop; You, Me and the SAT Apocalypse; Tangerines SAT SAT Michel Houellebecq's controversial sixth novel Submission is SAT set in 2022 and depicts France ruled by sharia law under an SAT Islamic president who has the stated aim of converting the SAT whole of Europe to Islam. Part satire, part science fiction, SAT does Hoeullebecq remain the "enfant terrible" of SAT contemporary French literature? SAT SAT Oscar and Golden Globe nominated film "Tangerines" is a SAT beautifully eloquent statement for peace and the futility of SAT bloodshed over racial and ethnic division. Set in the 1992 SAT it features two tangerine growing Estonian farmers caught up SAT in the conflict between Georgia and Abkhazian separatists. SAT It is directed by award winning Georgian film maker Zaza SAT Urushadze SAT SAT The Ey Exhibition: The World Goes Pop at the Tate Modern SAT shows how 60's and 70's pop art extended beyond America and SAT Britain and dealt with more issues than consumerism, issues SAT which include social imbalances, censorship, sexual SAT liberation, war and civil rights. SAT SAT Rob Lowe and Pauline Quirke star in a new Sky 1 comedy drama SAT "You, Me and The Apocalypse," where the characters are SAT forced to confront imminent extinction from an 8 mile wide SAT comet hurtling towards earth. What would you do if you were SAT told there were only 34 days before oblivion? SAT SAT And Martin McDonagh's first UK play in ten years, Hangmen, SAT receives its World Premiere at the Royal Court in London, SAT and tells the fictional story of a rival to the well known SAT hangman Albert Pierrepoint. How does Britain's second SAT best-known executioner respond to the news that the British SAT government is abolishing capital punishment? SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06bcz36 (Listen) SAT From the Self to the Selfie SAT SAT The current craze for taking selfies has attracted vast SAT tracts of criticism - mostly from the pre-selfie generation. SAT These posted self portraits are often seen as narcissistic, SAT superficial, infuriating and possibly dangerous for SAT vulnerable young people. SAT SAT Lauren Laverne takes an elegant and thoughtful look at the SAT origins of the selfie and its cultural context. She talks to SAT art historian Andrew Graham Dixon, philosopher Simon SAT Blackburn, beauty editor Sali Hughes and fashion designer SAT Henry Holland, together with psychologist Oliver James and SAT author and journalist Hadley Freeman. SAT SAT It seems that selfies have their roots in our shifting SAT attitudes to celebrity and to the self. In an ever more SAT democratic landscape of media and communications they are SAT about our increasing desire to star in the show of our own SAT lives. They are also forging a revolution in industries such SAT as fashion and beauty and, some argue, putting the power SAT back in the hands of the people. SAT SAT The programme includes archive from the earliest Amateur SAT Hour on US radio, through the self-help campaigns of the SAT 80s, and on to the Kardashian-fuelled selfie phenomenon of SAT the present. SAT SAT Produced by Susan Marling and Victoria Ferran SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b069h37w (Listen) SAT A Place of Greater Safety, Equality SAT SAT Hilary Mantel's epic account of the French Revolution as SAT seen through the eyes of its principal characters. Pressure SAT is growing on the revolutionaries to depose the king and SAT create a republic. SAT SAT Dramatised by Melissa Murray SAT SAT Part 2: Equality SAT SAT Directed by Marc Beeby. SAT SAT Credits SAT Camille: Carl Prekopp SAT Danton: Mark Stobbart SAT Robespierre: Sam Troughton SAT Lucile: Chloe Pirrie SAT Narrator: Lizzy Watts SAT Narrator: Paul Ritter SAT Gabrielle: Sarah Thom SAT Claude: Sam Dale SAT Adele: Alex Tregear SAT Annette: Jessica Turner SAT Lafayette: David Hounslow SAT Marat: Chris Pavlo SAT Freron: Stephen Critchlow SAT Author: Hilary Mantel SAT Adaptor: Melissa Murray SAT Producer: Marc Beeby SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b069gst5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 FutureProofing b068xjtj (Listen) SAT Ownership SAT SAT Presenters Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson look at their SAT belongings, and those of others, with fresh eyes as they ask SAT - is ownership over? It may be a central pillar of most SAT societies, but in the future will people still want to own SAT so much stuff if they can easily share? SAT SAT Financial constraints and increased awareness of the SAT planet's finite resources may mean a new generation is SAT prizing access and experience over belongings. The growing SAT tech revolution can provide the digital platforms to make SAT this possible. FutureProofing unpicks the consequences: Will SAT we see a shift in our attitudes towards owning physical SAT objects? What will be the implications of the new ideas SAT economy? And can objects own themselves? SAT SAT The programme tackles these subjects with the help of writer SAT Rachel Botsman, Daan Weddepohl of Peerby, software developer SAT Mike Hearn, psychology lecturer Sheila Cunningham, SAT journalist Paul Mason, the residents of Christiania in SAT Copenhagen, and the comedian George Carlin with his routine SAT on 'stuff'. SAT SAT Producer: Marnie Chesterton. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b06bhw9q (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 2 SAT SAT Oscar winning lyricist Don Black SAT Actress and writer Shobu Kapoor SAT TV Presenter Fern Britton SAT Novelist and Screenwriter Anthony Horowitz SAT SAT Presenter ... Nigel Rees SAT Producer ... Carl Cooper. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nigel Rees SAT Panellist: Don Black SAT Panellist: Shobu Kapoor SAT Panellist: Fern Britton SAT Panellist: Anthony Horowitz SAT Producer: Carl Cooper SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b069h380 (Listen) SAT Altered States SAT SAT Roger McGough has poetry to take you into altered states, SAT reveries and waking dreams... including Tennyson's strange SAT and magical Lotus-Eaters and Coleridge's Kubla Khan. The SAT readers are Tim Pigott-Smith and Indira Varma. SAT SAT Producer Beth O'Dea. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT The Reverie of Poor Susan SAT SAT By William Wordsworth SAT SAT From Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics SAT SAT Published by Lowrie Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from Fragments from an Unfinished Drama SAT SAT By Percy Bysshe Shelley SAT SAT From The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley SAT SAT Published by The Modern Library SAT SAT SAT SAT The Lotus-Eaters SAT SAT By Alfred Lord Tennyson SAT SAT From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Penguin Classics SAT SAT SAT SAT The Fairies SAT SAT By William Allingham SAT SAT From The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems SAT SAT Published by BBC Books SAT SAT SAT SAT Kubla Khan SAT SAT By Samuel Taylor Coleridge SAT SAT From Coleridge: Poetical Works SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT To Imagination SAT SAT By Emily Bronte SAT SAT From The Brontes – Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Dent SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Reader: Indira Varma SAT Producer: Beth O'Dea SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06bd4h0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Words and Music b036jhtp (Listen) SUN My Old Man 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 2: My Old Man SUN Bee loves Brad but she's worried they're stuck in a rut. He SUN seems to care more for his guitar than he does for her. When SUN the skater boy next door shows an interest in her she begins SUN to wonder if there's not a better world for her somewhere SUN else. SUN SUN But Brad has his own concerns - concerns about his health he SUN can only voice in the darkness of his room when he plays his SUN guitar. Soon, even that is not enough, and finally they have SUN to face the fact it's more than music keeping them apart. SUN SUN Read by Suranne Jones SUN Music composed and performed by Andrew Cresswell-Davis SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Suranne Jones SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN Writer: Chris Paling SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06bd4h2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06bd4h4 (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06bd4h6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06bd4h8 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06bd5f1 (Listen) SUN Church bells from Loughborough Parish Church. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b06bcz32 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06bd4hb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06bd5hw (Listen) SUN The Other Place SUN SUN The mystery of what happens after we die has long been the SUN subject of writers, artists and thinkers. Don Paterson SUN writes that "Man is probably unique amongst the mammals in SUN that he has conscious foreknowledge of his own death". SUN SUN One of the most powerful cultural influences on how we think SUN about this subject is the poetry of Dante, whose epic poem SUN The Divine Comedy imagined Hell as a physical place of SUN torments nicely matched to the sins of its inhabitants. SUN SUN One of the most troubling ideas found in Dante's afterlife SUN is Limbo, a place of nothingness at the very edge of Hell SUN for the unbaptised. It is an idea that has had a devastating SUN impact on parents of stillborn babies in Roman Catholic SUN countries like Ireland, where thousands of infants and SUN stillborn babies were not allowed to be buried in holy SUN ground and parents were taught to believe their dead SUN children now dwelt out of the sight of God. It wasn't until SUN 2007 that the Roman Catholic church offered hope that God SUN would indeed save these unbaptised babies. A documentary SUN broadcast on Radio 4 around that time included the powerful SUN stories of anguished parents and we hear some of them in SUN this programme. SUN SUN Despite the enduring popular ideas about Heaven and Hell, it SUN is hard to find precise depictions in the Old and New SUN Testament. Samira talks to Rabbi Jonathan Romain about SUN Jewish ideas of Sheol. SUN SUN There are poems and writing by Don Paterson and Charles SUN Dickens, as well as versions of Dante by Clive James and SUN John Agard and music by Monteverdi and the Unthanks, among SUN others. SUN SUN The readers are Peter Marinker and Emily Taaffe. SUN SUN Producer: Natalie Steed SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN The picture used for this programme shows Dante and his SUN guide, Virgil, being rowed across the Styx (image courtesy SUN of the British Library). SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b06bd5hy (Listen) SUN Devon Cider SUN SUN Sarah Swadling visits a cider orchard which is the pride and SUN joy of Barny Butterfield, who's taken his business from a SUN plastic barrel on the coffee table to a million litres a SUN year. SUN SUN Producer and Presenter: Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06bd4hd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06bd4hg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06bd5j0 (Listen) SUN Pope in Cuba, Anglican Communion meeting, Church incense SUN 'ban'? SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06bd5j2 (Listen) SUN War on Want SUN SUN Vanessa Redgrave presents The Radio 4 Appeal for War on Want SUN Registered Charity No 208724 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'War on Want'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'War on Want'. SUN SUN War on Want SUN SUN War on Want fights the root causes of poverty and human SUN rights violation, working in partnership with grassroots SUN social movements, trade unions and workers’ organisations SUN around the world. Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi women SUN are making clothes for British high street shops, surviving SUN on poverty wages, working 80-hour weeks, in appalling SUN conditions. War on Want has worked in partnership with the SUN National Garment Workers’ Federation (NGWF) for many years, SUN fighting for the rights of garment workers in Bangladesh and SUN securing important victories in their struggle for a decent SUN future. SUN SUN Rana Plaza disaster kills 1,100 garment workers SUN SUN The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in 2013 was the SUN biggest disaster to have ever happened in the garment SUN industry. Despite workers voicing concerns about the factory SUN conditions, nothing was done to ensure their safety. Over SUN 1,100 workers, most of them women were killed when the SUN factory collapsed around them. SUN Photo credit: PA SUN SUN Forced to work 80 hours a week SUN SUN Forced to work for 80 hours a week, in appalling conditions, SUN making clothes for British High Streets, garment workers SUN receive a paltry 15p a day. Not enough to buy bread to feed SUN their children. War on Want has been working with our SUN partners the National Garment Workers Federation, in SUN Bangladesh, to help workers understand their rights and SUN fight for fairer working conditions and better pay. SUN Credit: Asian Development Bank SUN Licence: Creative commons. Some rights reserved SUN SUN Exploited: The high price of fashion SUN SUN Clothes strewn amongst the rubble of the Rana Plaza SUN disaster. Public pressure from War on Want and our allies, SUN has led to over 200 companies signing a legally binding SUN agreement to make factories in Bangladesh safer. SUN Photo credit: tearsinthefabric SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06bd4hj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06bd4hl (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06bd5j4 (Listen) SUN A Living Sacrifice SUN SUN Sunday Worship comes from the Archbishop's Chapel at Lambeth SUN Palace, London, where the Most Revd and Rt Hon Justin Welby SUN leads a Service of Commitment for the newly established SUN Community of St. Anselm. SUN SUN The Community of St. Anselm was set up by The Archbishop of SUN Canterbury and brings together Christians aged 20-35 from SUN around the world to spend one year in a community of prayer, SUN study and service. It is based at Lambeth Palace in London SUN where some members will take up residence. 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. Time now for Sunday Worship. On Friday the SUN Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby welcomed 36 young SUN people to the newly established Community of St. Anselm SUN based at Lambeth Palace as they made a commitment to spend a SUN year in the service of God and the local community. The SUN Archbishop’s Chaplain, the Revd Dr Jo Wells, leads the SUN service which begins with the South African anthem, SUN Babethandaza “We are like this, because of prayer”. SUN SUN Anthem Babethandazo/we are marching SUN SUN JO SUN Greeting, and bidding prayer SUN Welcome to Lambeth Palace - home of the Archbishop of SUN Canterbury, on the the river Thames opposite the Houses of SUN Parliament. We’re in the Archbishop’s Chapel, where worship SUN has taken place since the twelfth century. We’re amidst a SUN throng of friends and well-wishers, for a special Service of SUN Commitment to welcome 36 young people from 5 different SUN continents ready to take the risk of committing ‘a year in SUN God’s time’ in joining the Community of St Anselm. SUN SUN This North African prayer from St Augustine gives us the SUN opportunity to name our fears and hopes for new beginnings: SUN SUN Almighty God: you have made us for yourself, and our hearts SUN are restless till they find rest in you. SUN Grant us purity of heart and strength of purpose: that no SUN selfish passion may hinder us from knowing your will, and no SUN weakness hinder us from doing it; SUN but that in your light we may see light, and in your service SUN find our perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. SUN Amen. SUN SUN Hymn O for a thousand tongues to sing SUN SUN JO SUN Narration: The Prior is the person in charge of a religious SUN house or order. Anders Litzell is our Prior, and he’s going SUN to tell us about the journey that’s brought about this new SUN Community. SUN SUN ANDERS (Prior) SUN Intro to the Community of St Anselm (CoSA) SUN Archbishop Justin declared at his appointment that his first SUN priority was for the renewal of prayer and religious life SUN across the church. The Community of St Anselm is drawing SUN young Christians aged 20-35 from all over the world for a SUN 10-month ‘boot camp’ in religious community. There are both SUN resident and non-resident members. Residents have travelled SUN from the corners of the globe to live at Lambeth Palace and SUN devote themselves full-time to community life. Non-resident SUN members will follow some of the same disciplines while SUN remaining in their homes and jobs. All of them seek to shape SUN their whole being in response to God’s radical grace, SUN through commitment to a Rule of Life drawn from the SUN sixth-century monastic rule of St Benedict. As well as many SUN hours of prayer and study, they will spend time inspired by SUN St Francis in service of the poor and, following St SUN Ignatius, in regular self-examination and retreat. SUN SUN Archbishop Justin’s vision is for transformation in church SUN and society through the deep work of the Holy Spirit. That SUN transformation will include of his own work as archbishop, SUN informed and challenged by the presence of young people here SUN at his home-base. We trust it will transform these young SUN lives, to reflect the beauty of God’s holiness with SUN irrepressible integrity. But even more, we dare to seek for SUN the transformation of our world – in business, politics, SUN education, healthcare, development - through the work to SUN which God calls and equips each of us as we commit to God SUN and God’s people in self-giving within our local, national SUN and international communities. SUN SUN This is how the Community of St Anselm’s Rule of Life SUN begins: SUN SUN SR SONIA (DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY) SUN Reading from the Community’s Rule of Life SUN Jesus said: Come to me … and learn from me; for I am gentle SUN and humble in heart (Matt 11:28-29) SUN Jesus, being fully God and fully human, is our example in SUN everything. Our very identity is in Christ and it shapes how SUN we interact with people – like Jesus we can listen deeply SUN and value the worth of each person, see people like our SUN Father sees them, pray with the deepest assurance. Jesus is SUN our model for life. The way we learn from Jesus is given SUN shape by the inheritance the Holy Spirit has given us in St SUN Benedict, St Francis and St Ignatius. SUN We choose to offer our whole persons: body, soul and spirit, SUN to be shaped in the likeness of Christ by a complete SUN openness to His Holy Spirit. We hold nothing back: there is SUN no thought or doctrine or attitude or value that is exempt SUN from the transforming presence of our Lord. SUN JO SUN We hear now from members of the Community of St. Anselm. SUN SUN Testimonies (three members, describing why they have come, SUN what they have left behind) SUN PETER SUN Hello, my name is Peter Angelica and I am 23 years old. I’m SUN joining the Community from New York City, where I worked as SUN an analyst for a commercial bank As one of the millennials SUN that moved to the City straight after school I have the SUN chance to witness how my peers cope with the realities of SUN working life. Many have quickly fallen into the work-hard, SUN play-hard mentality that is associated with working in SUN finance. Many seem to be constantly looking to rapidly SUN advance in the workplace, with little idea what they’re SUN racing towards. SUN Hearing God’s call to join the Community amidst the noise of SUN New York was not an easy task, even after much thought, SUN prayer and contemplation. But it is answering that call SUN which has required even more faith and trust in God. It has SUN been a challenge to transition from the routine of my life SUN in New York and my work at the bank to the Community, and I SUN have sometimes questioned my decision to do so. But through SUN God’s love, and the support of my family, friends and those SUN I worked with, I have come to realize the importance of this SUN decision for me and for others. SUN SUN GEORGE SUN My name if George Karanja Njiri. I am 28 years old. I come SUN from Nairobi, Kenya. I have just completed my divinity SUN studies at university. I applied to join the Community of St SUN Anselm out of an urge for personal spiritual formation. SUN Having prepared practically and academically for ordained SUN ministry, I felt I needed to step back and seek some SUN spiritual preparation. SUN The world is getting more globally interconnected and I feel SUN I needed to grasp the cultural and theological diversity SUN that exists apart from my own local understanding. As a SUN member of the Community I will be living, praying, studying SUN and serving with a wide variety of people from different SUN cultures and denominations. SUN This period is both a personal and a communal sacrifice. I SUN have left behind my own projects and activities in my local SUN diocese, and life-long friends. It is also a sacrifice for SUN my family, for whom I have been a pillar as I am the only SUN son of retired parents, in a family of five. I personally SUN thank them for allowing me to be here and giving me their SUN blessing as I seek to grow spiritually and serve others just SUN as I have been serving them. SUN SUN FRAN SUN SUN JO SUN We are pleased to be joined today by St. Martin’s Voices. SUN They sing an anthem now by the Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo SUN – ‘Ubi Caritas’ – ‘Where there is charity and love God is SUN there.’ Jo SUN SUN Anthem Ubi Caritas (Ola Gjeilo; Norwegian) SUN Choir (a capella) SUN Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est SUN Where there is charity and love, God is there SUN SUN SUN OT reading: Hearing God’s call; Exod.3 SUN CoSA member (– Aussie accent?) SUN SUN A reading from Exodus Chapter 3 SUN Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the SUN priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, SUN and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of SUN the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; SUN he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not SUN consumed. Then Moses said, ‘I must turn aside and look at SUN this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up.’ SUN When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to see, God SUN called to him out of the bush, ‘Moses, Moses!’ And he said, SUN ‘Here I am.’ Then he said, ‘Come no closer! Remove the SUN sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are SUN standing is holy ground.’ He said further, ‘I am the God of SUN your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the SUN God of Jacob.’ And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to SUN look at God. SUN SUN Gradual O God you search me and know me SUN (Psalm 139) Bernadette Farrell SUN Choir/Congregation SUN SUN NT reading: Romans 12:1-5 SUN CoSA member SUN SUN A reading from Romans Chapter 12: SUN SUN I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the SUN mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living SUN sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your SUN spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be SUN transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may SUN discern what is the will of God what is good and acceptable SUN and perfect. SUN For by the grace given to me I say to everyone SUN among you not to think of yourself more highly than you SUN ought to think, but to think with sober judgement, each SUN according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For SUN as in one body we have many members, and not all the members SUN have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in SUN Christ, and individually we are members one of another. SUN SUN Anthem – Alleluia Fongola SUN Choir & drums SUN Alleluia (x12) SUN Fongola matoyi mayo, eh edeko oyoka sago elamu SUN (Literally: Open your ears brother/sister to the word of SUN God) SUN SUN Gospel reading: John 15: 13-17 SUN Bishop Nicolas Hudson (RC Auxiliary bishop of Westminster) SUN SUN Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John SUN SUN ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have SUN loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down SUN one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do SUN what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, SUN because the servant does not know what the master is doing; SUN but I have called you friends, because I have made known to SUN you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not SUN choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and SUN bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will SUN give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you SUN these commands so that you may love one another. SUN Anthem – Alleluia Fongola SUN Alleluia (x12) SUN Fongola matoyi mayo, eh edeko oyoka sago elamu SUN (Literally: Open your ears brother/sister to the word of SUN God) SUN Sermon SUN ABC SUN Religious communities are not new, and they are not rare, SUN they are ancient and current reflections of the love of God SUN seen in the Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit - , in SUN which people risk everything to seek to emulate that love, a SUN love which is so great that it overflows infinitely into the SUN world from the Father in the life, death, resurrection and SUN ascension of Jesus, in the sending of the Holy Spirit. SUN Changed by the love which finds and directs us, changed by SUN that grace, we too are to be sources of love and healing. SUN I received an email yesterday from the Abbot of a SUN Benedictine Community, which described the Community of St SUN Anselm as “this amazingly prophetic community which is about SUN to be born”. It is not new, it is far from unique in that SUN many wonderful communities are being born, but I hope and SUN pray that it speaks God’s truth to itself and the world – in SUN other words that it is prophetic and I pray that Benedictine SUN Abbot is right. SUN If it is prophetic it is because it challenges both the SUN church and the world with the grace of God, and does so from SUN Lambeth Palace, which has often in its history been a place SUN not of grace so much as authority, power and even suffering SUN for its victims. There is still the prison in Lollards SUN Tower, rings set into the walls, ancient Latin sentences SUN scratched in the panelling “Cruel prison of the unhappy SUN followers of Wycliffe” [source: Old and New London: Volume SUN 6. Originally published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, SUN 1878.] at a time when the bible in English, pioneered by SUN Wickliffe, was a problem for the church. Grace is the most SUN beautiful word in the language of God – it means love given SUN freely and without expectation of return. All our readings SUN speak of grace, and the vows the new members of this SUN community will take in a moment are only able to be SUN fulfilled with grace. SUN Moses is called to a people who reject him, in a land where SUN those people have no power, and having been rejected once is SUN now on his own. Grace reaches out to those who are nowhere SUN and going nowhere – to the Lost - even when they think they SUN have everything sorted, or that there is no hope. Israel is SUN told by God in the book of Deuteronomy that they were not SUN called because they were strong but because they were weak. SUN Lostness may not be conscious, but it is real and is seen SUN all around us. Lostness is ended when we find a known path SUN and choose to follow it. To the 36 new members of this SUN community beginning a year of service, you will in a moment SUN say that you choose to follow Christ, and you choose to love SUN one another. Moses chose to obey God, albeit after much SUN arguing. In grace God allowed Moses and thus Israel to SUN discover Him, as they were discovered by grace, by the love SUN of God. So God allows you to discover Him, by grace, and so SUN God offers that same grace of finding community, a known way SUN and a true path, to every human being who says yes. SUN Yet grace in the Exodus story is present in the physical and SUN real. A wilderness, amongst sheep (noisy, smelly and tending SUN to wander) in a bush. Grace is not hidden in holy places, SUN but flaunts itself for us in the open air. In community you SUN will find grace in the ordinary, coming up by surprise when SUN you wonder why you are here. Yet the grace of Jesus will SUN find you, and you will discover and be discovered, in the SUN most mundane moments. Say yes with great expectation of SUN burning grace in our midst here, and in all Christian SUN community where the Holy Spirit is at work. SUN The reading from John includes my favourite verse, “you did SUN not choose me, but I chose you”. Yet - to each of our 36 new SUN members both from the UK and around the world - you come SUN here because you applied and were invited. Then there is a SUN surprise, that we are each the called and chosen, when we SUN thought we chose, and will choose. Jesus is saying, SUN recognise the authority of God’s choice, and co-operate with SUN it, so that there is fruit. SUN We commit to receive each other as a gift. That is a SUN challenge for you, and for all at Lambeth Palace for whom SUN this is a radical change, including me, especially me. You SUN are God’s gifts to me, and astonishing as it may seem, I to SUN you, and all to each other. If we receive those gifts we SUN will bear fruit, now and in the future for decades even into SUN eternity. SUN That fruit is seen in change, in being transformed. Paul in SUN our reading from Romans is writing to a church divided, and SUN struggling with age old patterns of behaviour, from seeking SUN power by one group or another, to ancient contempts and even SUN hatreds. SUN There will be moments of that here, may already be, as from SUN time to time in every Christian community. The thought will SUN cross your mind “it’s because he is from such and such a SUN country”, or because of her background, or ethnicity, or SUN gender. SUN Do not be conformed to the patterns that we inherit. This SUN community will be prophetic when it allows God to do the SUN transforming, and none of us allows our inherited ways to SUN conform us to certain forms of behaviour. Communities of SUN grace see transformation from what is towards what should SUN be. Grace is something that, being shared, transforms us. SUN Religious communities are full of grace when they are full SUN of Christ. Yet his presence is realised in the ordinary, and SUN we see often only in retrospect the nail scarred hand that SUN looked at the time like those of our roommate, we realise SUN that our hearts burned within us as he broke bread with us, SUN we notice the burning bush when it is but a memory of a SUN strange moment in a desert week. Community allows Christ to SUN be present graciously in the ordinary, and in doing so all SUN is changed and all is lit with hope and fruit and purpose. SUN We walk amongst orchards of fruit set by others in grace. We SUN consume, and are changed unaware. SUN SUN JO SUN We invite those who are members of the Community of St SUN Anselm to stand, as our Archbishop and Abbot invites each SUN member to commit to this year of service. SUN SUN The Call and Commitment: Responding to God’s grace SUN ABC plus members SUN Each member replies - (One voice leads all the members) SUN Abbot: God calls each of us by name, just as he called SUN Moses. Are you willing for this call – to follow Christ in SUN Community – whatever it may cost? You who would love God in SUN this Community: I invite you each to answer the call. SUN Abbot: N. SUN N:.I am here (In native language) [N. rises and steps into SUN the aisle, facing the Abbot] (repeat x35; broadcast will SUN merge with Bob Chilcott’s ‘Be Thou My Vision’- in SUN background) SUN Abbot: Are you willing to heed God’s call and follow Christ SUN in this Community – to promise love, humility and openness SUN to his Holy Spirit – wherever it may lead and whatever it SUN may cost? SUN Members: In God’s strength, I commit to follow Christ. SUN Member 1: We will follow Christ; we will prefer him to all SUN things. Empowered by his Spirit we desire to be like him in SUN thought, word and deed – to the glory of our God and Father. SUN SUN Abbot: Will you open your hearts and choose one another as SUN Christ has chosen you? SUN Members: In God’s strength, I commit daily to choose my SUN fellow-members. SUN Member 2: We receive each other as a gift from God. We SUN choose each other as instruments of God’s grace. We give SUN ourselves to the pursuit of the likeness of Christ in, with SUN and through one another. SUN Abbot: Will you give yourselves to the Rule of Life of this SUN Community? SUN Members: In God’s strength, I commit to live according to SUN the Rule SUN Member 3: We receive our shared way of life as a gift and SUN challenge from God; we will learn to live under authority, SUN to live in humility, and to grow in transparency of life SUN before God and each other. SUN Abbot: You have made your promises to me and to one another SUN before God; the Lord grant you grace to live out your SUN promise in thought, word and deed; by what you do and what SUN you leave undone. The Lord grant you grace to love God with SUN all your heart, and mind and strength, and your neighbour as SUN yourself. SUN SUN Receive the robe that you will wear in prayer; you are SUN clothed in Christ, a new creation. May he who has begun a SUN good work in you bring it to completion. SUN SUN Chorus King of Kings, majesty (Jarrod Cooper) SUN SUN SUN SUN Intercessions (interspersed with Taize Veni Sancte Spiritus SUN (in Latin, English, French/Spanish) SUN SUN I invite you to pray for the Community of St Anselm, for the SUN world and for the church. These prayers will be led in SUN English, Spanish and French respectively, each interspersed SUN with a Latin chant that invokes the Holy Spirit to come SUN SUN Veni Sancte Spiritus SUN SUN We give thanks for each member offering their life in SUN service to you and to your world through prayer, study and SUN work with the poor. Guide all who share their journey in SUN body, mind or spirit, and especially the families and SUN friends who will support from afar; Give them all the SUN knowledge and confidence in your unfailing love and mercy. SUN May they be enriched by this year and come to know you more SUN deeply. SUN SUN Veni Sancte Spiritus… SUN SUN (Intro from Jo to next prayer, if it is not in English…) SUN We pray with thanksgiving for our world which you created SUN and in which you give us a share; for its beauty and SUN diversity. We pray for those parts of the world where the SUN joy of life is not easily known; for those who flee their SUN homes in search of peace; for those who are affected by SUN natural disaster and illness; for those who live in the SUN confusion of political situations. May they know you are SUN continually with them, holding their right hand. SUN SUN Veni Sancte Spiritus… SUN SUN Fr Laurent Fabre, head of CCN leads us in prayer in French SUN for the unity of the Church: SUN SUN We pray for the renewal of the religious life; for those who SUN have dedicated their lives in prayer to you; for those who SUN will hear your call and take vows of commitment to follow SUN you; for the church and the world to know and understand the SUN joys and advantages of religious life; for communities, new SUN and old, as they seek to bring more people closer to you. SUN Give them hope and a willingness to serve. May they be SUN sustained by your love and filled with the fruits of the SUN Spirit. SUN SUN Veni Sancte Spiritus… SUN SUN We join together in a prayer for Christian unity, based on SUN that of Abbot Paul Courturier: SUN Lord Jesus SUN Who prayed that we might all be one, SUN We pray to you for the unity of Christians, SUN According to your will, SUN According to your means. SUN May your Spirit enable us SUN To experience the suffering caused by division, SUN To see our sin, SUN And to hope beyond all hope. SUN Amen. SUN JO SUN Lord’s Prayer Each in our own language, as our Saviour SUN taught us, so we pray: SUN Our Father…. SUN We join together in our final hymn which acknowledges the SUN loving guidance of God’s people down the ages. Thy Hand, O SUN God, has Guided SUN SUN Hymn: Thy hand O God has guided SUN Members of the Community gather around the altar during the SUN final verse - (assisted by CoSA team) 0 SUN SUN Jesus invited his disciples to deny themselves, take up SUN their cross and follow him. Members of the Community of St SUN Anselm, I invite each of you here gathered to take up a SUN cross which I give you to wear, as you follow Jesus. Put it SUN on each morning and choose the same path. Dare to shape your SUN living in the manner of his dying. Wear it outside these SUN walls and share God’s deep love, proclaiming the kingdom in SUN word and deed. ABC SUN SUN ABC SUN Blessing SUN God give you grace to follow St Benedict, St Francis and St SUN Ignatius in faith and hope and love; in discipline, in SUN service and in self-examination. And the blessing of God SUN Almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, be with SUN you, with all whom you love and all whom you encounter, this SUN day, this year, and always. Amen. SUN SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06b3ny6 (Listen) SUN Will Self: Losing Sleep SUN SUN Will Self reflects on the various reasons for his inability SUN to sleep soundly any more. SUN SUN "I concede there is something about our contemporary SUN existence, especially in big, bustling cities, which seems SUN altogether inimical to a good night's rest." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvtbk (Listen) SUN Florida Scrub Jay SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Sir David Attenborough presents the Florida scrub jay. Less SUN than 6,000 Florida scrub jays exist in the wild, yet these SUN are some of the most intelligent creatures in the world. SUN Long term research has revealed an extraordinary SUN intelligence. If other jays are around, a bird will only SUN hide its food when the other bird is out of sight. It will SUN even choose a quieter medium, and rather than pebbles for SUN example, to further avoid revealing its hidden larder to SUN sharp-eared competitors. SUN SUN Florida scrub jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) SUN SUN Webpage images courtesy of Lynn M Stone / naturepl.com SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01042507 SUN © Lynn M Stone / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06bd4hn (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 b06bd67z (Listen) SUN It's Ed to the rescue once more, and Ambridge's women SUN celebrate a familiar institution. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Caroline Harrington SUN Director: Marina Caldarone SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard SUN Lillian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Hazel Woolley: Annette Badland SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06bd681 (Listen) SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dame Judi Dench. SUN SUN Born into a family with dramatic leanings, she followed one SUN of her older brothers, Jeffery, to drama school. Having SUN abandoned ideas of becoming a set designer, she made her SUN professional debut as Ophelia at the Old Vic in 1957. An SUN illustrious stage career followed in Franco Zeffirelli's SUN Romeo and Juliet in 1960, in Cabaret in 1968 and as Lady SUN Macbeth for Trevor Nunn in 1976. On TV she found huge SUN success in sitcoms - appearing with her husband, the late SUN Michael Williams, in A Fine Romance and with Geoffrey Palmer SUN in As Time Goes By. SUN SUN She received an Oscar nomination for her first big-screen SUN part as Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown; Shakespeare in Love won SUN her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Mrs SUN Henderson Presents, Notes on a Scandal, Iris, and Philomena SUN followed. She played the part of 'M' in the James Bond films SUN seven times and is about to appear as Paulina in Sir Kenneth SUN Branagh's production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. SUN SUN Married to Michael Williams for 30 years, their daughter, SUN Finty, is also an actress. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Judi Dench SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06bd4hq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b069r813 (Listen) SUN Series 15, Episode 4 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Sarah Millican, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Holly Walsh and SUN Katherine Ryan are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as princesses, SUN diets, sauce and paper. 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: Sarah Millican SUN Panellist: Victoria Coren Mitchell SUN Panellist: Holly Walsh SUN Panellist: Katherine Ryan SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06bd683 (Listen) SUN The Ark of Taste: The Story so Far SUN SUN This is a race against time. Earlier this year The Food SUN Programme set out to record stories of foods around the SUN world facing extinction, a project that has provided SUN dramatic accounts from the depths of Anatolian caves to the SUN heights of Indonesian rainforest canopies. In this episode SUN Jamie Oliver, Thomasina Miers and chef Paula McIntyre talk SUN about the tastes, flavours and ingredients which are facing SUN extinction. SUN SUN The gathered stories all come from the Ark of Taste; an SUN ever-growing list of endangered foods from 100 different SUN countries across the world. Created by the International SUN Slow Food movement, the food NGO founded in Italy 30 years SUN ago, the Ark of Taste is backed by the United Nations as SUN well as the European Union. As the biblical reference SUN indicates, this Ark is on a mission to prevent extinction SUN and protect biodiversity. SUN SUN The Food Programme is about to start a new mini series of SUN stories found within the Ark of Taste. Each week - in SUN Monday's edition of The Food Programme - listeners can hear SUN about an ingredient or recipe, find out why it is SUN disappearing and why it is important to save. But before he SUN unveils a new batch of forgotten flavours, Dan Saladino SUN plays out some of his favourite stories from our last SUN series. SUN SUN Produced by Becky Ripley. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Interviewed Guest: Jamie Oliver SUN Interviewed Guest: Thomasina Miers SUN Interviewed Guest: Paula McIntyre SUN Producer: Becky Ripley SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06bd4hs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06bd4hv (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Oil: A Crude History of Britain b069r81h (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN In Norway, and in Shetland, funds drawing a tax on North Sea SUN oil wealth have built up massive reserves of public money. SUN Calls for such an Oil Fund for the UK have been ignored down SUN the years, dismissed as impractical or undesirable. SUN SUN Instead, North Sea oil, once held up as a transformational SUN force in British politics, came to be used in the day-to-day SUN expenditure of government. Critics argued that what could SUN have been used to upgrade Britain's infrastructure was SUN paying benefits cheques to Thatcher's 3-million unemployed. SUN SUN Elsewhere, the SNPs "It's Scotland's Oil" campaign had SUN brought the party to the brink of a political breakthrough. SUN In episode 2 of Oil: A Crude History of Britain, James SUN Naughtie explores all these strands with those who were SUN there at the time, including former Chancellor and Energy SUN Secretary Nigel, now Lord, Lawson. SUN SUN Jim also recalls the tragic loss of 167 lives on Piper Alpha SUN in July 1988. He hears from one of Red Adair's SUN globe-trotting specialist firefighters, who spent weeks SUN tackling what is still the deadliest ever oil industry SUN disaster. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06b36wj (Listen) SUN Sheffield SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Sheffield. Matt Biggs, Christine Walkden and Pippa Greenwood SUN answer audience questions. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – I’m interested in growing anything that you can eat – SUN can you recommend any forest garden style perennials that SUN are secretly edible? SUN Pippa SUN – Native hedging plants – classics such as Rosehips for SUN Rosehip Jam, Sloes for Sloe Gin, Crabapples for jelly. But SUN for wackier things I’d look at Fuchsia fruits. SUN Matt SUN – You can eat the new shoots of Hawthorn or young Nettles SUN are nice too. But it’s difficult to get a good volume. SUN Christine SUN – Hairy Bittercress which is nice in a salad. Even things SUN such as *Claytonia* are good sprinkled on a salad. SUN Horseradish too. Shepherd’s Purse, Ground Elder as well. SUN Matt SUN – Alexanders – you can eat the young leaves of that as SUN well. Sea Buckthorn is grown in Eastern Europe and there SUN are actually commercial varieties of it. Aronia fruits SUN also, it’s another super fruit, it’s an *Amalanchier* – SUN those things are worth a try as a novelty crop SUN SUN SUN Q – If you are making your own Comfrey Nettle feed how long SUN can it be kept for? Does it get stronger, does it need SUN diluting? SUN Christine SUN – No longer than that growing season because it really pongs SUN and it deteriorates over the winter period unless you can SUN keep it frost free. I tend to strain it through tights and SUN use it as liquid feed that season. SUN SUN SUN Q – Is it too late to take cuttings from a Mock Orange? SUN Matt SUN – You can take them any time from July to September. As it’s SUN a plant that produces lots of cutting material I would SUN definitely have a go. Cuttings about 2-3inches long, remove SUN the leaves at the base and the bud above, you make a cut SUN just below the lowest bud, and get a knife to take a thin SUN slice of the bark dip it in hormone rooting powder and pop SUN it into the compost. That should root for you. Key thing SUN is to make sure that the bark and the stem are of the right SUN consistency so it’s flexible and not too hard. SUN Non-flowering shoots are always better. SUN SUN Gritty compost and little bit of bottom heat would help as SUN well. SUN SUN SUN Q – SUN How to rescue a brick-built flowerbed that’s become overrun SUN with Couch Grass? I would love to rescue the Columbine and SUN Lavender – how should I go about it? SUN Christine SUN – The real way to get rid of it all is to take out the SUN plants you want, wash off the soil and remove any of the SUN little white roots of the Couch, and then allow the bed to SUN regenerate. You can allow the Couch to get quite SUN established – you want a good 6 inches (15cm) of growth and SUN then you can spray it out with a weed killer. One spray SUN won’t knock it off – you’re looking at 12-18months to really SUN take care of it. SUN Q – I’ve tried growing squashes for the first time this year SUN and despite amazing growth only a few of the flowers have SUN set fruit; why? And what should we do differently? SUN Christine SUN – Fluctuating night temperatures this year are to blame. SUN Pippa SUN – Also, generally it’s been a bad summer and squashes do SUN need that bit more warmth than something like a courgette. SUN Matt SUN – Where there is extensive growth just cut back a couple SUN leaves beyond each fruit so that all the moisture goes into SUN the squashes themselves rather than the extension growth. SUN Also, stick a bamboo cane in where you plant them – so when SUN they’ve grown all over the place you’ve still got your SUN marker point as to where you need to water. SUN SUN SUN Q – I have masses of green tomatoes that I fear won’t SUN ripen. I’ve put bananas under the ones in the greenhouse SUN and I’ve put a heater on but are there any other tips to get SUN them ripened? SUN Pippa SUN – Make green tomato chutney! Get lots of fleeces, maybe SUN some homemade cloches (so bits of hosepipe with bamboo canes SUN shoved up the end and made into a hoop) stuck into the SUN ground with polythene draped over the top. For indoor ones SUN just be good at shutting the vents and doors closed in the SUN early evening and then opening up the next day to keep the SUN air circulating. The banana trick does work well because SUN you get ethylene gas produced but it works better in a SUN really enclosed environment rather than a greenhouse. SUN SUN SUN Q – How can I stop squirrels from taking all my hazelnuts? SUN Matt SUN – It’s very difficult. You could try and provide another SUN food source for them or net the hazels. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06bd7sj (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations gathered during The SUN Listening Project Booth's summer tour, about retirement and SUN memories, learning, and the power of history to change SUN lives, in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b06bd7sl (Listen) SUN A Place of Greater Safety, Fraternity SUN SUN Hilary Mantel's epic account of the French Revolution France SUN is at war. Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette have been SUN arrested and await execution. And Robespierre and Danton are SUN increasingly at odds over the direction the Revolution SUN should take SUN SUN Dramatised by Melissa Murray SUN SUN Part 3: Fraternity SUN SUN Directed by Marc Beeby. SUN SUN Credits SUN Danton: Mark Stobbart SUN Camille: Carl Prekopp SUN Robespierre: Sam Troughton SUN Lucile: Chloe Pirrie SUN Monsieur Leclerc: Paul Ritter SUN Jeanne: Lizzy Watts SUN Gabrielle: Sarah Thom SUN Annette: Jessica Turner SUN Claude: Sam Dale SUN Saint Just: Stephen Critchlow SUN The Executioner: David Hounslow SUN Gaoler: Chris Pavlo SUN Author: Hilary Mantel SUN Adaptor: Melissa Murray SUN Producer: Marc Beeby SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b06bd86w (Listen) SUN Bill Clegg on Did You Ever Have a Family SUN SUN Literary agent Bill Clegg is famous in the publishing world SUN for his tough negotiations. Now he's turned novelist himself SUN and he talks to Mariella Frostrup about his Man Booker SUN longlisted Did You Ever Have A Family which imagines the SUN impact of a devastating house fire on those left behind. SUN It's written from a variety of perspectives and he talks SUN about picking up on fictional gossip and the way his own SUN struggle with addiction influenced this novel. SUN SUN Also on the programme, writer Matt Haig on judging the new SUN BBC Young Writers Award, Agnes Poirier offers a guide to SUN French Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano whose works are newly SUN available in English and Israeli novelist Etgar Keret SUN selects the Book He'd Never Lend. SUN SUN Read the first chapter of Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill SUN Clegg SUN Did You Ever Have a Family: Chapter 1 SUN by Bill Clegg SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Bill Clegg SUN Interviewed Guest: Matt Haig SUN Interviewed Guest: Agnes Poirier SUN Interviewed Guest: Etgar Keret SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b06bd86y (Listen) SUN Families SUN SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests SUN with a family theme. Including poems by Anna Akhmatova, SUN Jacob Sam-La Rose and Sylvia Plath. With readers James Fleet SUN and Amanda Root. Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Family Group SUN SUN By Ken Smith SUN SUN From You Again – Last Poems and Other Words SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN Stones on a Dorset Beach SUN SUN By David Scott SUN SUN From Playing for England SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN My Old Cat SUN SUN By Hal Summers SUN SUN From The Oxford Book of Death SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN The Road to Persia SUN SUN By Kathryn Simmonds SUN SUN From Sunday at the Skin Launderette SUN SUN Published by Seren SUN SUN SUN SUN Parting SUN SUN By Kathleen Raine SUN SUN From The School Bag SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Once SUN SUN By Carol Rumens SUN SUN From Poems: 1968-2004 SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN Farewell SUN SUN By Agha Shahid Ali SUN SUN From The Veiled Suite – The Collected Poems of Agha Shahid SUN Ali SUN SUN Published by W.W Norton & Company SUN SUN SUN SUN Dedication SUN SUN From ‘Requiem’ SUN SUN By Anna Akhmatova SUN SUN Translated by D.M Thomas SUN SUN From You Will Hear Thunder – Akhmatova: Poems SUN SUN Published by Secker & Warburg SUN SUN SUN SUN For My Daughter SUN SUN By Jo Roach SUN SUN From Oxford Poets 2007: An Anthology SUN SUN Published by Oxford Poets SUN SUN SUN SUN Cheap Moisturiser SUN SUN By John Siddique SUN SUN From The Prize SUN SUN Published by The Rialto SUN SUN SUN SUN Never SUN SUN By Jacob Sam-La Rose SUN SUN From Breaking Silence SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN Daddy SUN SUN By Sylvia Plath SUN SUN Read by Sylvia Plath SUN SUN From LP ‘The Poet Speaks’ SUN SUN Label: Argo (Decca) SUN SUN PLP1085 SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: James Fleet SUN Reader: Amanda Root SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b069vtmq (Listen) SUN CPS: Prosecutors on Trial SUN SUN Controversial charging decisions in the cases of Lord SUN Janner, Operation Elveden and a doctor accused of female SUN genital mutilation have brought a hostile reaction in the SUN media to the Director of Public Prosecutions and increasing SUN concern about the health of her organisation - the Crown SUN Prosecution Service. SUN SUN Over the past five years the CPS has seen budget cuts of SUN over 25% resulting in job losses and internal reforms. SUN Despite this, the organisation maintains that it continues SUN to improve performance - measured by conviction rates in SUN both magistrates' and Crown Courts. SUN SUN However, there are increasing concerns about staff morale, SUN the quality of decision-making and the standard of advocacy SUN in court . BBC Home Affairs Correspondent, Danny Shaw has SUN been hearing frank testimony from both inside and outside SUN the CPS which presents a revealing picture of the justice SUN system in England and Wales. SUN SUN Presenter: Danny Shaw Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b06bcz32 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06bd4hx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06bd4hz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06bd4j1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06bfbmd (Listen) SUN Nick Baker SUN SUN Nick Baker chooses his BBC Radio highlights from the past SUN week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06bfd57 (Listen) SUN Who will produce a winning entry? Susan has a tasty peace SUN offering. SUN SUN 19:15 The Absolutely Radio Show b06bfd59 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Members of the cast of Channel 4's hugely popular sketch SUN show Absolutely reunite for a brand new series on BBC Radio SUN 4. Pete Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy SUN and John Sparkes are back together with all new material. SUN They are revisiting some of their much loved sketch SUN characters for four half hour shows, whilst also introducing SUN some newcomers to the show. SUN SUN In 2013, the group got back together for the Sketchorama: SUN Absolutely Special for BBC Radio 4 which subsequently won a SUN BBC Audio Drama Award in the Best Live Scripted Comedy SUN category. SUN SUN The third episode of the series will feature another meeting SUN of the highly confused Stoneybridge Town Council as well as SUN Denzil and Gwynedd, the far from devoted Swansea couple. SUN Also appearing will be the Little Girl with her own take on SUN Tea, Mr Muzak on just how busy and important he is and Calum SUN Gilhooley pontificating on the weirdness of road signs. SUN There is also a talking version of Facebook and more from SUN the NEWS NEWS NEWS team. 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 b06bfd5c (Listen) SUN Fittest SUN SUN Stories from the new collection by award-winning writer SUN Janice Galloway. 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. SUN SUN A woman heads north, driven by strange phenomena and uncanny SUN weather. 'Fittest' 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 b06b374x (Listen) SUN Striking Numbers? SUN SUN Striking numbers? SUN Are the unions really on the rise again and holding the SUN country to ransom? SUN SUN The rise of the giants SUN Are rugby players really getting biger and bigger? SUN Living Blue Planet Index SUN Populations of marine mammals, birds, fish and reptiles have SUN declined by 49% since 1970, a report says. But what does SUN this actually mean? SUN SUN Bean counter SUN The Office for National Statistics is much maligned whether SUN it's its data revisions, the fact that some of it statistics SUN have been deemed not fit for purpose or that we still SUN haven't worked out why UK productivity is so low. So George SUN Osborne has launched a review of the economic statistics SUN spewed out by the ONS to see where improvements can be made. SUN Tim talks to Professor Sir Charles Bean who is conducting SUN the review. SUN SUN Banana Equivalent dose SUN Following on from our revelation that bananas can't kill you SUN even if you eat seven we look deeper into their SUN radioactivity and the 'banana equivalent dose'. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06b374v (Listen) SUN Sir David Willcocks, Merv Adelson, Mariem Hassan, Brian SUN Close, Beryl Renwick SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Sir David Willcocks - one of the most influential choir SUN masters of his generation. Known for his descants to SUN Christmas carols, he was director of music at King's College SUN Cambridge for 17 years - and led the Bach choir for 38. SUN SUN Merv Adelson the property developer who founded the TV SUN company Lorimar which made hits like the Waltons, Dallas and SUN Knots Landing. SUN SUN Mariem Hassan, the singer from the marginalised Sahrawi SUN people who used her music to promote their cause. SUN SUN Brian Close the Yorkshire and England cricket captain noted SUN for his courage at the crease. SUN SUN And Beryl Renwick who became a presenter on BBC Radio SUN Humberside in her eighties and won the industry's top award. SUN SUN Sir David Willcocks (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to one of the original King’s Singers, who SUN sang under Sir David in King’s College Cambridge, Alastair SUN Hume SUN SUN Born 30 December 1919; died 17 September 2015 aged 95. SUN SUN Merv Adelson SUN SUN Matthew spoke to journalist Bryan Burrough SUN SUN Born 23 October 1929; died 8 September 2015 aged 85. SUN SUN Mariem Hassan SUN SUN Matthew spoke to world music expert Robin Denselow and SUN Manuel Dominguez who was Mariem Hassan’s music producer in SUN Spain. SUN SUN Born May 1958; died 22 August 2015 aged 57. SUN SUN Brian Close SUN SUN Matthew spoke to fellow Yorkshire and England cricketer Ray SUN Illingworth and the BBC’s Cricket Correspondent Jonathan SUN Agnew. SUN SUN Born 24 February 1931; died 14 September 2015 aged 84. SUN SUN Beryl Renwick SUN SUN Matthew spoke to David Reeves her co-presenter and producer SUN on the Beryl and Betty Show. SUN SUN Born 29 January 1926; died 7 September 2015 aged 89. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06bcst6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06bd5j2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b069xyjn (Listen) SUN China Going Green SUN SUN China is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. SUN SUN Many Chinese dream of seeing blue skies and white clouds but SUN rarely do because of the smog. Often the daily routine is to SUN wake up and check the pollution levels to decide if it is SUN safe for children to play outside, or if a filter mask SUN should be worn for protection. SUN SUN Ahead of December's UN Climate Change summit, Peter Day SUN reports on the Chinese ambitions to make China 'go green'. SUN Many people say the Chinese aren't given enough credit for SUN their efforts and argue the West will be shocked when it SUN realises the extent of their actions. But can that ambition SUN become reality? Peter Day reports from Beijing and beyond SUN and asks when will the Chinese be able to breathe more SUN easily? SUN SUN Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06bffs9 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06bffsc (Listen) SUN Kevin Maguire of The Mirror looks at how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b069xqpr (Listen) SUN Everest, Hitchcock and the Royal Albert Hall, Toronto Film SUN Festival SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN A new drama Everest depicts what happened to a group of SUN mountaineers on Everest when a storm struck in 1996. SUN Film-maker and climber David Breashears was on the mountain SUN at the time and discusses the practicalities and the SUN problems of recreating the fatal expedition with director SUN Baltasar Kormakur. SUN SUN Alfred Hitchcock loved the Albert Hall so much that he SUN filmed there three times, including a boxing movie The Ring, SUN inspired by his frequent visits to see fights in the SUN auditorium. Francine follows in the footsteps of James SUN Stewart and Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much, which SUN the director made not once, but twice. SUN SUN Critic Tim Robey and film buyer Clare Binns run a critical SUN eye over the offerings at the Toronto Film Festival. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: David Breashears SUN Interviewed Guest: Baltasar Kormakur SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Robey SUN Interviewed Guest: Clare Binns SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06bd5hw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06bd4k2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b069x0h7 (Listen) MON Stop and search, Cancer patients and welfare reform MON MON Stop & Search: Laurie Taylor explores a police practice MON which is seen as a vital tool against crime by law MON enforcers, but has been dogged by controversy. He's joined MON by Michael Shiner, Associate Professor of Social Policy at MON the LSE, and editor of a new collection of research which MON assesses the use & misuse of the tactic. How did it arise MON and what is its future? MON MON Also, Suzanne Moffatt, Senior Lecturer at Newcastle MON University, discusses her study into a group of cancer MON patients experience of current welfare reforms. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06bd5f1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06bd4k4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06bd4k6 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06bd4k8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06bd4kb (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06c8r2d (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Imam MON Monawar Hussain. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06bg86w (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06bd4kd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwnn (Listen) MON Andean Cock-of-the-Rock MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Andean Cock-of-the-rock MON from Peru. Deep in a cloud forest a female awaits the MON display of her displaying males. Gathered in front of her MON several head-bobbing wing-waving males, these males are MON spectacularly dazzling; a vibrant orange head and body, with MON black wings and tails, yellow staring eyes, and ostentatious MON fan-shaped crests which can almost obscure their beaks. Male MON cock-of-the rocks gather at communal leks, and their MON performances include jumping between branches and bowing at MON each other whilst all the time calling loudly. Yet, for all MON the males' prancing and posturing, it is the female who's in MON control. Aware that the most dominant and fittest males will MON be nearest the centre of the lekking arena, it's here that MON she focuses her attention. MON MON Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Ben Lascelles / naturepl.com. MON N MON PL Ref 01394947 MON © Ben Lascelles / naturepl.com. MON MON Recording of Andean Cock-of-the-rock by Theodore A Parker, MON III / Ref: ML 31883 MON MON This programme contains a wildtrack MON recording of the Andean Cock-of-the-rock MON kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab MON of Ornithology; recorded by Theodore A Parker, III; on 8 Jul MON 1983, in Huánuco, Peru. MON MON 06:00 Today b06bg8yn (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06bgbvx (Listen) MON Start the Week returns for a new series with a discussion MON about cultural exchange. Andrew Marr talks to the potter MON Edmund de Waal about his fascination with porcelain. De MON Waal's journey to understand the history and secrets of MON 'white gold' takes him from China to Europe and the USA. MON From white pots to multi-coloured: the contemporary Chinese MON artist Ai Weiwei mounts an exhibition at the Royal Academy; MON co-curator Tim Marlow explores his cultural significance. MON The poet Annie Freud takes inspiration from shards of MON pottery found in her garden for her collection, The Remains. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Edmund de Waal MON Interviewed Guest: Tim Marlow MON Interviewed Guest: Annie Freud MON Interviewed Guest: Mark Miodownik MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06bgbvz (Listen) MON The White Road, Mount Kao-ling MON MON Author of The Hare With Amber Eyes potter Edmund de Waal's MON new book on the history of porcelain. MON MON On a personal pilgrimage to the countries and people who MON make porcelain, the author's first stop is China and MON Jingdezhen, the city of porcelain. MON MON Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Abridged by Jules Wilkinson MON Produced by Gemma Jenkins. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Author: Edmund de Waal MON Abridger: Jules Wilkinson MON Producer: Gemma Jenkins MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06bgbw1 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06bglnf (Listen) MON Sovereign, Episode 1 MON MON Atmospheric dramatisation of C. J. Sansom's third Tudor MON crime novel featuring hunchback lawyer detective Matthew MON Shardlake. MON MON Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular MON Royal Progress to York, aiming to strike fear and awe into MON his rebellious northern subjects. Shardlake, and his MON assistant Barak, arrive in the city a day ahead of the MON 3,000-strong procession. Officially there to prepare MON petitions for the King, they have also been tasked with a MON secret mission by Archbishop Cranmer: to ensure the welfare MON of one of the northern conspirators, Sir Edward Broderick, MON who is to be brought back to London for questioning in the MON Tower. MON MON Tensions are running high in the city, and soon Shardlake is MON called to investigate a suspicious death - and stumbles upon MON a daring plot that has the potential to shake England to its MON core. MON MON Other parts are played by members of the cast. MON MON Writer ..... C. J. Sansom MON Dramatiser ..... Colin MacDonald MON Producer/Director ..... Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Shardlake: Justin Salinger MON Barak: Bryan Dick MON Wrenne: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Tamasin: Cath Whitefield MON Radwinter: David Acton MON Broderick: Nick Underwood MON Maleverer: Stephen Critchlow MON Jennet: Alex Tregear MON Craike: Patrick Brennan MON Cranmer: Sam Dale MON Rochford: Amelia Lowdell MON Oldroyd: Chris Pavlo MON Paul: Mark Edel-Hunt MON The Queen: Melody Grove MON Director: Kirsteen Cameron MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON Adaptor: Colin MacDonald MON Author: CJ Sansom MON MON 11:00 The Letters of Ada Lovelace b06bglnh (Listen) MON Thinking Machines MON MON In part two of this dramatization of The Letters of Ada MON Lovelace, Georgina Ferry reveals the nature of the MON relationship between the young heiress, Ada Lovelace (Sally MON Hawkins) and the crusty mathematician, Charles Babbage MON (Anthony Head), inventor of steam-powered calculating MON machines. MON MON Despite, (or perhaps because of), constant battles with her MON mental and physical health, Ada pursued her interest in MON Babbage's innovative engines, with zeal. She threw herself MON into the task of describing his Analytical Engine and MON writing the Notes of the engine for which she is now famous. MON In an extraordinary leap of imagination, she suggested that MON this steam-powered engine could be used for much more than MON just adding and subtracting - 'for music and art perhaps'. MON And grasped just how many problems - and not only MON mathematical ones - might one day be solved by rigorous, MON logical analysis. MON MON All her life Ada struggled to escape her controlling mother, MON Lady Byron (Olivia Williams) and the legacy of her notorious MON and absent father, the romantic poet Lord Byron. Babbage MON gave her the attention and intellectual respect that neither MON of her parents offered. She defied convention and produced a MON work of astonishing prescience, predicting how steam-powered MON calculating machines might one day change the world. She was MON a flawed and fragile individual: a Victorian tech visionary. MON MON Producer: Anna Buckley. MON MON 11:30 All Those Women b06bhvsr (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Comedy series by Katherine Jakeways about four generations MON of women living under one roof. MON MON Jen is driven to compete with Stuart in the parenting MON stakes. Cue the most fun (and educational) sleepover an MON eleven year old could wish for. In theory. In the meantime, MON Maggie would really prefer it if her houseguests would put MON things back in the correct drawer, and stop leaiving teabags MON in the sink. 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 Written by KATHERINE JAKEWAYS MON MON Script editor Richard Turner MON Producer Alexandra Smith 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 Stu: Chris Pavlo MON Pat: Katherine Jakeways MON Mrs Bell: Amelia Lowdell MON Freya: Zoe Castle MON Lucy: Hollie Burgess MON Announcement: George Watkins MON Writer: Katherine Jakeways MON Producer: Alexandra Smith MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06bd4kg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b06494th (Listen) MON 21 September 1915 - Florrie Wilson MON MON Albert Wilson doesn't think he and Florrie should pass up on MON two free tickets to the theatre. MON MON Written by Katie Hims MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Florrie: Claire Rushbrook MON Juliet: Lizzie Bourne MON Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown MON Dolly: Elaine Claxton MON Adam: Billy Kennedy MON Clemmie: Joanna Monro MON Albert: Harry Myers MON Woman: Jane Slavin MON Lilian: Alex Tregear MON Writer: Katie Hims MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06bhvst (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06bd4kj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06bhvsw (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Computing Britain b06bhvsy (Listen) MON Computers in Class MON MON As the manufacturing industries of the 1970s became the MON service sector of the 1980s, the BBC tried to help MON democratize the coming of the affordable microchip, to help MON re-equip a vulnerable workforce for a digital future. MON MON The BBC Computer Literacy Project was aimed initially at MON adults, but somehow ended up putting a beige BBC MON Microcomputer in the corner of nearly every classroom in the MON land. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06bfd57 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06bhw9n (Listen) MON Eurydice and Orpheus MON MON The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has inspired poets, MON painters and especially musicians since ancient times. As a MON season of revivals at the Royal Opera House season explores MON this most potent of musical stories, poet Simon Armitage and MON playwright Linda Marshall Griffiths each tell their own MON versions of the story of the doomed lovers on Radio 4. MON MON Eurydice and Orpheus. Her story...by Simon Armitage . MON MON Sanna is a lab technician in a seed vault at a university. MON She stores and tends to seeds from flowers and trees from MON all over the world . She mostly loves the flowers MON ...Coltsfoot, Early Star of Bethlehem, Lady's Bedstraw, MON Farewell to Spring, Eyebright, Forget-me-not ... MON MON She's had her eye on a busking musician she passes on her MON way home from work in the subway . One evening, on a whim, MON she stops to talk . They quickly become close and fall in MON love. Sanna persuades Zak to turn his back on a life of MON drugs and crime. Having survived withdrawal, this gifted MON musician picks up a harp and discovers that he has an MON overwhelming natural talent, one that will have a deep, MON irreversible effect on both their lives. MON MON Eurydice and Orpheus by Simon Armitage MON MON Her Story MON MON Harpist - Jon Banks MON With electronic music composed by PJ Harvey MON MON Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. MON MON Credits MON Writer: Simon Armitage MON Sanna: Claire Price MON Zak: Bryan Dick MON Richard: Jonathan Keeble MON Announcer: Jonathan Keeble MON Gill: Alexandra Mathie MON Woman: Alexandra Mathie MON Doctor: Stephen Fletcher MON DJ: Stephen Fletcher MON Actor: Stephen Fletcher MON Producer: Susan Roberts MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b069r3rw (Listen) MON Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for MON it's 51st series. MON MON In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by MON writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy MON types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, MON Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... MON have all graced the Quote Unquote stage. MON MON Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the MON origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the MON famous panel to share their favourite anecdotes. MON MON Episode 3 MON MON Writer Jeremy Front MON Comedian Sarah Kendal MON Writer, critic and broadcaster Nicolette Jones MON Comedian and Red Dwarf actor Norman Lovett MON MON Presenter ... Nigel Rees MON Producer ... Carl Cooper. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Jeremy Front MON Panellist: Sarah Kendall MON Panellist: Nicolette Jones MON Panellist: Norman Lovett MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b06bhw9s (Listen) MON BBC National Short Story Award 2015, Briar Road, by Jonathan MON Buckley MON MON When their daughter goes missing, a desperate family enlist MON the help of a clairvoyant to shed light on her fate. Yet MON their encounter with this visitor puts them all under MON immense strain. No ordinary psychic, the unnamed narrator MON surveys the scene with a chillingly forensic eye for detail MON and an extensive back-catalogue of success stories - her MON 'bona fides' - to refer to. But, as she realises through a MON series of intense visions, this will not be a successful MON intervention. MON MON The first of five short stories in contention for this MON prestigious award. Now in its tenth year, the BBC National MON Short Story Award 2015 continues to promote the best in MON contemporary British short fiction and to celebrate both MON established and new writers of the genre. The five stories MON shortlisted for the award will be broadcast every day this MON week at 3.30pm. MON MON To mark the tenth year of the Award, the BBC and Book Trust MON have launched Student Choice, in which nearly 500 16-18 year MON old students from 20 schools around the UK cast their own MON votes on the shortlist. MON MON This year also sees the launch of the BBC Young Writers' MON Award with Book Trust. Open to 14-18 year olds, the aim of MON this Award is to inspire and encourage the next generation MON of short story writers and is a cross-network collaboration MON between BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1. MON MON The winner and the runner-up of the coveted BBC National MON Short Story Award 2015 will be announced live from the BBC's MON Radio Theatre on Front Row from 7.15pm on Tuesday 6th MON October. At the same time the inaugural winners of Student MON Choice and the BBC Young Writers' Award will also be MON unveiled. MON MON Written by Jonathan Buckley MON Read by Maxine Peake MON Produced by Simon Richardson. MON MON Credits MON Writer: Jonathan Buckley MON Reader: Maxine Peake MON Producer: Simon Richardson MON MON 16:00 I Was... b06bnbpg (Listen) MON Series 2, Chet Baker's Last Tour Manager MON MON Chet Baker, the jazz trumpeter and singer came to prominence MON after he joined the Gerry Mulligan quartet in 1952 at the MON heart of the world's first piano-less jazz quartet and the MON originator of cool jazz. Using their instruments, (Gerry MON Mulligan on baritone sax and Chet Baker on trumpet, MON sometimes singing) and playing engaging, contrapuntal MON improvisations they made a startling breakthrough in cool MON jazz. Chet Baker, the singing, trumpet playing star was MON hatched. MON MON When the elements of sex, jazz and cool combined they MON created the equivalent of an intellectual nuclear fusion. No MON one encapsulates that explosion better than the arrival on MON the jazz scene of Chet Baker. MON MON Jim Coleman, owner of a hi fi store on New York's 2nd Avenue MON managed Chet's touring schedules for the last four years of MON his life. Chet was unable to play in certain American clubs MON as a result of his being criminalised by heroin addiction. MON He had been busted in Europe too. MON MON Jim tells the story of how they met briefly across three MON time periods: once when Jim was thirteen and studying MON trumpet in Rome, when his sister Joan married Chet's bass MON player and when Jim opened his hi fi store. In the eighties MON Jim offered to manage Chet's difficult touring schedule. A MON moving and fascinating account of the final years of Chet MON Baker as they intertwined with the owner of a hi fi shop, as MON Chet tried to tour the US and Europe whilst in the fatal MON grip of heroin addiction. MON MON Written and Presented by Andrew McGibbon MON MON Produced by Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon MON MON A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b06bnbpj (Listen) MON Pacifism MON MON A hundred years ago the trenches had been dug and British MON and German soldiers were engaged in bloody combat in MON Flanders and Gallipoli. Faced by the scale of the slaughter, MON many people turned to pacifism, the idea that all resistance MON to evil should be non-violent. It was not a new idea; some MON Eastern religions adopt it as their default position. But MON the deadly potency of weapons of mass destruction have MON reopened the debate in the West. Is pacifism a viable option MON in a world of nuclear weapons and drone aircraft? MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by Pat Gaffney from the Catholic peace MON organisation Pax Christi; Jonathan Romain, Rabbi of MON Maidenhead Synagogue in Berkshire; and Major General Tim MON Cross who has seen active service in Northern Ireland, in MON Bosnia, and in Kuwait and Iraq during the First Gulf War and MON is now Chairman of the Christian Think Tank, Theos. MON MON Produced by Nija Dalal-Small. MON MON 17:00 PM b06bnbpl (Listen) MON News interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06bd4kl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b06bnbpn (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 5 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON David O'Doherty, Susan Calman, Jon Richardson and Arthur MON Smith are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Yorkshire, Fizzy Drinks, MON Skin and Pirates. 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: David O'Doherty MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Jon Richardson MON Panellist: Arthur Smith MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06bnbpq (Listen) MON Rob looks for more structure, and Toby feels confident for MON Christmas. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06bnbps (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06bglnf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Oil: A Crude History of Britain b06bnbpv (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Enough oil and gas has been drawn from the UK continental MON shelf to fill almost 3-million Olympic-sized swimming pools. MON In recent years though, the global oil price has slumped, MON the UK industry tax-take is well down, and redundancies are MON being made across the board. MON MON Moreover, the estimated 15- to 24-billion barrels of oil MON left to be recovered are in ever deeper and harder-to-reach MON areas. What is the future for the North Sea, and for areas MON that rely on oil and gas for jobs, like Europe's 'oil MON capital' Aberdeen? Oil no longer feels transformational for MON Britain in the way it did 40 years ago. Far from being a MON gushing font of power, it is now the sluggish dark stream MON which runs under Britain's politics. MON MON In this final episode of Oil: A Crude History of Britain, MON James Naughtie also speaks to decision-makers about the long MON term impact of oil on the British State. In a world in which MON Russia, China and the OPEC countries all use their gas and MON oil reserves as tools of geo-politics, did Britain make the MON most of its North Sea oil rush? MON MON 20:30 Analysis b06bnbpx (Listen) MON What's Housing Benefit For? MON MON Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, MON asks why Britain spends such vast sums on Housing Benefit - MON now £25 billion. He examines the history of these payments MON and how government funding for house-building has gradually MON changed into subsidies for rents, especially to private MON landlords. 40% of tenants in private housing receive Housing MON Benefit. Critics argue that these have distorted the market MON and failed to address the fundamental shortage of housing MON supply. Paul asks how we got here and whether anything can MON change. MON MON Producer: Adam Bowen. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b069rv9t (Listen) MON Brambles MON MON Brambles are a common reminder that nature is not just about MON us. The tangled confusion of spikes and tough stems tear MON flesh and cloth alike - the long, sinuous creepers creeping MON along tracks can trip those whose eyes stray from the MON ground. Tales from Brambly Hedge tempt children to the MON underworld of the bramble where homely mice families create MON a secure glow of domestic bliss safe from the dangers MON outside. Picking blackberries remains very popular and a MON wistful childhood memory, captured by Seamus Heaney's poem MON Blackberry Picking. This also echoes the dual nature of the MON bramble as both tormentor and giver of soft treats. Another MON dark side to this very common plant is the clues it gives to MON forensic botanists who use the bramble as an indicator of MON changed ground, noting if its growing pattern shows signs of MON disturbance, they can even detect the time the plant was dug MON up and recovered.The bramble is the commoner of the MON woodland, but says Richard Mabey, it performs an essential MON job in protecting young trees. Today BlackBerry is a smart MON phone, called after the fruit because the inventors knew MON that any name related to the term "email" made people's MON blood pressure rise, so they went for a natural, playful, MON happy-memory inducing name. It has now been twisted into MON urban slang - "going blackberry picking" now means to go out MON and steal phones. The humble blackberry, and there are over MON 650 different species, has many hidden depths. MON MON Dr Mark Spencer MON Dr Mark Spencer is Senior Curator of the British and Irish MON Herbarium at the MON Natural History Museum MON in London. His curatorial and research interests are focused MON on environmental change and its impact upon the UK's flora, MON as well as investigating novel approaches to incorporating MON botanical data into the forensic investigative environment. MON Mark also has an interest in historic botany, particularly MON 17th and 18th century herbariums as well as non-native MON invasive species. He is committed to engaging with and MON educating the wider British public about the value and MON interest of Britain’s flora. Mark’s botanical interests are MON wide-ranging but are particularly focused on the historic MON and non-native floras of London and the Isles of Scilly. MON Mark is the MON Botanical Society of the British Isles MON vice-county recorder for Middlesex and the Vascular Plant MON Recorder for the MON London Natural History Society MON MON Professor Francesca Dall’Olmo Riley MON Professor Dall'Olmo Riley worked in marketing management and MON direct marketing for several years in Italy, the USA and the MON UK, before obtaining a PhD from London Business School. She MON is now Professor of Brand Management in the Strategy, MON Marketing and Innovation Department of Kingston Business MON School, Kingston University UK. MON Her research interests include the study of branding, MON omni-channel grocery shopping, behavioural and attitudinal MON loyalty to brands and services. MON She has published widely in international journals, is and MON Associate Editor of the MON Journal of Marketing Management MON and sits on the Advisory Board of the MON Journal of Customer Behaviour MON and on the Editorial Review Board of the MON Journal of Product & Brand Management MON Francesca chairs the Academy of Marketing Special Interest MON Group in MON Empirical Replications and Generalisations in Marketing MON Science MON MON Richard Mabey MON Richard Mabey MON was educated at Oxford University and worked as a lecturer MON in Social Studies in Further Education and a Senior Editor MON at Penguin Books before becoming a full-time writer in 1974. MON He is the MON author of some thirty books MON including Weeds: How vagabond plant gatecrashed civilisation MON (2010), Whistling in the Dark: In Pursuit of the Nightingale MON (1993), winner of the East Anglia Book Award, 2010, in a MON revised version entitled The Barley Bird, Beechcombings: the MON narratives of Trees (2007), the ground-breaking and MON best-selling “cultural flora” Flora Britannica (1996), MON winner of a National Book Award, and Gilbert White, which MON won the Whitbread Biography Award in 1986. MON His memoir Nature Cure (2005), which describes how MON reconnecting with the wild helped him break free from MON debilitating depression, was short-listed for three major MON literary awards, the Whitbread, Ondaatje, and J.R. Ackerley MON prizes. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and MON Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He has MON written a personal column in BBC Wildlife magazine since MON 1986. MON MON George Monbiot MON George Monbiot is an environmental campaigner, a regular MON columnist for the MON Guardian newspaper MON and the author of several best selling books, MON including Heat: How we can stop the Planet Burning, The Age MON of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order and Captive MON State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, as well as the MON investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon MON Watershed and No Man's Land. His latest book is MON Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of MON Rewilding MON Twitter: MON @GeorgeMonbiot MON MON Stuart Phillips MON Stuart Phillips trained in horticulture at the Royal Botanic MON Gardens, Kew before taking up a career as a horticultural MON lecturer at Reaseheath College in Cheshire and Moulton MON College, Northampton. MON He works for MON Lantra Sector Skills Council MON as Product Development Manger for Forestry and MON Arboriculture and has been a regular contributor to MON gardening programmes on BBC radio, giving gardening advice MON and answering listeners’ questions. MON He is also the author of MON An Encyclopaedia of Plants in Myth Legend Magic and Lore MON and he is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. MON MON Professor Kim 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 Start the Week b06bgbvx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06bd4kn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06bncyb (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06bncyg (Listen) MON Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, Episode 1 MON MON 'Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay', the new novel MON from bestselling author William Boyd, follows one remarkable MON woman through the decades of the twentieth century. MON MON In 1915, Amory's uncle unknowingly sets her life on its MON course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No. 2 as a present MON for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for MON photography. Her camera will take her from high society MON London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of MON inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in MON London's East End, and to France and Germany during the MON Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female MON war photographers. MON MON She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, MON where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life MON that has been just as rich and complex as her professional MON one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her - MON her father, her brother, her lovers - irreparably scarred by MON two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of MON conflict and loss, passion and joy. MON MON William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A MON Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, MON Restless, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Waiting for Sunrise and MON Solo. He lives in London and South West France. MON MON Read by Barbara Flynn MON Abridged by Sara Davies MON Produced by Mair Bosworth. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Barbara Flynn MON Author: William Boyd MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Mair Bosworth MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b069rvbd (Listen) MON Number Words MON MON First in series. Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright explore MON the numbers one to ten and look at how we understand - and MON misunderstand - the language of numbers. Why is a shampoo MON called Zinc 24 so much more appealing than a shampoo called MON Zinc 31? How do we cope with offers in supermarkets? Alex MON Bellos and Michael Blastland explain. MON Producer Beth O'Dea MON Alex Bellos is the author of Alex Through the Looking-Glass: MON How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life. MON MON 23:30 With Great Pleasure b060zddx (Listen) MON Jessica Hynes MON MON Jessica Hynes, who won a Bafta for her role as PR consultant MON Siobhan Sharpe in W1A, and also co-wrote and starred in the MON sitcom Spaced, presents the pieces of writing that have MON meant the most to her throughout her life, in front of an MON audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. MON They include The Queen's Speech by Lemn Sissay, The Wind In MON The Willows, The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, MON Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, Pimp: The Story Of My MON Life by Iceberg Slim, Coming Up For Air by George Orwell, MON and poems by Betjeman and ee cummings. MON Her readers are Cyril Nri, fresh from playing Lance in MON Russell T Davies' drama Cucumber, and Angela Thorne, who MON played Marjory Frobisher in To the Manor Born. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Extracts chosen: MON MON MON MON The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame MON MON MON MON Coming Up For Air by George Orwell MON MON MON MON Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants by John Betjeman MON MON MON MON The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem MON MON MON MON it may not always be so by ee cummings MON MON MON MON The Queen’s Speech by Lemn Sissay, from his collection MON Listener MON MON MON MON Pimp: The Story Of My Life by Iceberg Slim MON MON MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jessica Hynes MON Reader: Cyril Nri MON Reader: Angela Thorne MON Producer: Beth O'Dea MON MON TUE TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06bd4ls (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06bgbvz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06bd4lv (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06bd4lz (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06bd4m1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06bd4m3 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06bndfz (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Imam TUE Monawar Hussain. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06bndg1 (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 b04hkxg2 (Listen) TUE Variable Pitohui TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the poisonous variable TUE pitohui from New Guinea. This jay sized, black-and-tan bird TUE hides a dark secret. Named for their voice, pitohui is a TUE representation of their song and 'variable' refers to their TUE plumage colour which varies across their range. What is TUE striking about this bird is that it is poisonous: its skin TUE and feathers contain powerful neurotoxic alkaloids similar TUE to those of South American poison-dart frogs. For the TUE pitohui, this chemical defence is unlikely to be fatal to TUE predators which prey on them; rather it discourages further TUE attacks. People who've handled have suffered burning TUE sensations in the mouth, numbness in fingers and bouts of TUE sneezing. It is not recommended. TUE TUE Variable pitohui (Pitohui kirhocephalus) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Jack Dumbacher. © Jack Dumbacher TUE TUE Recording of Variable pitohui by Andrew L Mack / Ref: ML TUE 79806 TUE TUE This programme contains a wildtrack TUE recording of the variable pitohui TUE kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab TUE of Ornithology; recorded by Andrew L Mack on 15 Apr 1996, in TUE Papua New Guinea. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06bng2v (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b06bng2x (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland compares Britain's response to refugees TUE from Vietnam in the 1970s with our reaction to refugees from TUE Syria today. TUE TUE Thousands of Vietnamese refugees came to the UK from 1979, TUE were placed in camps and then dispersed around the country. TUE TUE Jonathan and his guests ask how well Britain met the needs TUE of those Vietnamese refugees, how they and their children TUE adapted to life in the UK and what their experience tells us TUE about today's refugee crisis. TUE TUE Producer Julia Johnson. TUE TUE 09:30 The Town Is the Menu b0480347 (Listen) TUE Cambridge TUE TUE Can town and gown be united through food? That's the TUE challenge for food innovator Simon Preston and chef Alex TUE Rushmer as they try to create a dish which will appeal to TUE both the townsfolk and the 'gownsfolk', members of TUE university, in Cambridge - a small city with a huge TUE reputation. University chaplain, Malcolm Guite, shares TUE inspiring stories of the great and the good including a walk TUE with CS Lewis, local historian Caroline Biggs talks of TUE Cambridge's surprising past as an inland port, while tour TUE guide and ex-road sweeper, Allan Brigham, shares his unique TUE perspective on this beautiful city. TUE TUE Chef Alex Rushmer writes about the process of designing a TUE dish for Cambridge TUE TUE The plate is empty, there is no dish. Where Bury has its TUE black pudding and York its ham, Cambridge has no morsel to TUE call its own. Despite a fearsome reputation for academic TUE brilliance, the awesome beauty of the architecture and the TUE rapidly growing commercial success of the city, Cambridge’s TUE lack of a signature dish has been a source of confusion and TUE consternation to me for some time. TUE TUE TUE TUE And it appears I am not alone. As a result I was TUE commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to rectify this gross oversight TUE and construct a dish with a heritage and a history from the TUE outset, one that had links both actual and tenuous to the TUE city and might have a chance of becoming a legacy in itself: TUE a challenge indeed. But not an impossibility. The national TUE staple of fish and chips is barely a century and a half old TUE and the ancient Japanese cuisine of sushi was invented at TUE around the same time. The hamburger dates to 1904 and the TUE mighty tikka masala took just 40 years from invention to TUE become the national dish of Great Britain. The lesson is TUE that traditions can be established very quickly indeed. All TUE I had to do was create one. TUE TUE TUE TUE Ingredients and themes formed the bulk of my thought process TUE – the first part simpler than the second given that I spend TUE most of my waking hours (and some of my sleeping ones too) TUE thinking about food. The challenge came when asked to TUE encompass notions of the city itself, and what it means to TUE those who inhabit it, into the dish. The river, bridges, TUE corn, conservatism, eccentricity, acceptance, liberality, TUE multi-culturalism, pride, tradition, forward-thinking, town TUE and gown (or town versus gown) – these ideas and concepts TUE had to inspire the dish as much as the ingredients TUE themselves which is where the real challenge lay. TUE TUE TUE TUE Many of these ideas seemed to have duality at their core and TUE it seemed logical to create a dish of two parts that could TUE compliment each other. Working with the idea of tradition TUE and openness I hit upon the idea of using a platform that TUE most people would already be familiar and comfortable with TUE and settled on putting together a soup and a sandwich – two TUE items with near infinite variability but comforting enough TUE to be immediately accessible. TUE TUE TUE TUE From there it was a short step to deciding what to put in TUE each of them to give the dish a real sense of place and TUE resonance with Cambridge. Here I was led by ingredients and TUE a desire to create something that should take time. I wanted TUE it to be unhurried, a dish that reached its end point only TUE when it was truly ready to represent the leisurely and TUE relaxed pace the city seems to move at. From within 10 miles TUE of the city I managed to source beef brisket, celery, smoked TUE eel, root vegetables, watercress and bread flour all of TUE which came together in what I am proud to present as Celery, TUE Watercress & Smoked eel Soup & The Cambridge Club Sandwich TUE (suggestions for more succinct names are welcome). I TUE officially have a legacy. TUE TUE Alex's recipe for Celery, Watercress & Smoked Eel Soup TUE TUE Cambridgeshire celery has recently been granted PGI from the TUE European Union, it is a truly local and delicious TUE ingredient. The watercress is my nod to the presence of the TUE river that runs through the city and eels have been caught TUE in the fens for over three thousand years. The pickled TUE celery adds a pleasing acidity. It is a soup that Cambridge TUE should be proud of. TUE TUE TUE TUE One bunch of celery, roughly chopped plus one stick reserved TUE for pickling TUE TUE One white onion, peeled and diced TUE TUE 50g butter TUE TUE Two litres vegetable stock, fresh or from a stock cube TUE TUE Sea salt TUE TUE Two bunches watercress, washed and roughly chopped TUE TUE 150ml white wine vinegar TUE TUE 50g caster sugar TUE TUE 50ml water TUE TUE 100g smoked eel (optional) TUE TUE TUE TUE Begin by pickling the celery. Combine the vinegar, sugar and TUE salt and finely dice a single stick of celery. Add this to TUE the pickling liquid and leave for at least an hour. Melt the TUE butter over a gentle heat in a saucepan large enough to TUE accommodate the rest of the ingredients. Add the celery and TUE onion, season with a couple of pinches of salt and soften TUE for 15 minutes. Stir regularly and do not allow the TUE vegetables to colour or caramelise. Add the vegetable stock, TUE bring to a gentle boil and simmer for 10 minutes or until TUE the vegetables are cooked through. Add the watercress, cook TUE briefly for another two minutes then transfer to a blender. TUE Blend until smooth and then pass through a fine meshed sieve TUE to refine the texture. Pour into bowls, garnish with the TUE smoked eel and pickled celery and eat immediately whilst TUE thinking of Cambridge. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06bng2z (Listen) TUE The White Road, Dresden and Tschirnhaus TUE TUE Julian Rhind-Tutt reads potter Edmund de Waal's new book on TUE the history of porcelain. TUE TUE The author travels back in in time to Dresden and explores TUE the dramatic events which led to the creation of European TUE porcelain TUE TUE Abridged by Jules Wilkinson TUE Produced by Gemma Jenkins. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Author: Edmund de Waal TUE Abridger: Jules Wilkinson TUE Producer: Gemma Jenkins TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06bng31 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06bng33 (Listen) TUE Sovereign, Episode 2 TUE TUE Colin MacDonald's gripping adaptation of C. J. Sansom's TUE Tudor crime novel - featuring lawyer detective Matthew TUE Shardlake - set in 1541, during Henry VIII's spectacular TUE Royal Progress to the north. TUE TUE Shardlake, and his assistant Barak, have arrived in York TUE ahead of the 3,000-strong procession. Officially there to TUE prepare petitions for the King, they have also been tasked TUE with a secret mission by Archbishop Cranmer: to ensure the TUE welfare of one of the northern conspirators, Sir Edward TUE Broderick, who is to be brought back to London for TUE questioning in the Tower. TUE TUE After settling into their living quarters, Shardlake TUE witnesses a man fall to a terrible death and, on hearing his TUE last words, feels sure it was more than an unfortunate TUE accident. TUE TUE Other parts are played by members of the cast. TUE TUE Writer ..... C. J. Sansom TUE Dramatiser ..... Colin MacDonald TUE Producer/Director ..... Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Shardlake: Justin Salinger TUE Barak: Bryan Dick TUE Maleverer: Stephen Critchlow TUE Radwinter: David Acton TUE Broderick: Nick Underwood TUE Craike: Patrick Brennan TUE Paul: Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Oldroyd: Chris Pavlo TUE Director: Kirsteen Cameron TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE Adaptor: Colin MacDonald TUE Author: CJ Sansom TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9dth (Listen) TUE Parrots TUE TUE Colourful birds of the rainforest and companions of pirates, TUE parrots evoke contradictory images. They encompass a huge TUE range of forms from the flightless lumbering kakapo of New TUE Zealand to the diminutive and talkative budgerigar of TUE Australia, the chatty African grey parrot to the garishly TUE colourful macaws of South America. Their striking appearance TUE and apparent sense of mischief have made parrots popular as TUE pets from ancient Egypt to the present day. During the 19th TUE century their exoticism made them status symbols of wealth TUE and luxury. Noted by a young Edward Lear who, believing the TUE upper classes fascination with the family might be TUE lucrative, set about the task of illustrating as many TUE species of parrot as he could for their admirers to collect. TUE Picture the teenage Lear crouching inside the parrot TUE enclosure at London Zoo drawing the birds -the occasional TUE face of his human observers appearing in his sketchbooks as TUE he became an exhibit in himself. Lear's unique method of TUE sketching his subjects from living rather than stuffed TUE specimens captured the character of the birds in a way that TUE had not been achieved before - even rivalling the celebrated TUE Audubon for best bird illustrator of the time. Unfortunately TUE after a series of set-back's Lear ceased natural history TUE illustration in favour of writing nonsense poetry - TUE including one about a parrot (There was an old man from TUE Montrose...). The uncanny ability of some species of parrot TUE to mimic the human voice only add to their appeal. The Popes TUE had a keeper of parrots and Henry VIII was supposedly TUE captivated by his. We cast parrots as the clowns of the TUE natural world; painted in many colours they appear TUE mischievous but innocent, playful but intelligent. But has TUE our anthropomorphism of parrots limited our true TUE understanding of the family? In the words of Mark Cocker TUE "parrots are held in cages, but they are trapped in our TUE imaginations". TUE TUE Paul Cooper TUE Paul Cooper is Special Collections Librarian at the TUE Natural History Museum, London TUE for nearly 30 years. Paul's work has focused on the TUE acquisition and curation of Life Sciences literature. TUE He has contributed an essay on Edward Lear’s “Illustrations TUE of the Family of Parrots” to the forthcoming book “Rare TUE Treasures from the Library of the Natural History Museum” TUE and he is the author of the forthcoming book “The Bauer TUE Brothers” on the Austrian born botanical artists Franz and TUE Ferdinand Bauer. TUE TUE Jonathan Elphick TUE Jonathan Elphick is a naturalist, specialising in TUE ornithology, who has worked since 1969 as a writer, editor TUE and consultant for many publishers, including the Natural TUE History Museum and the BBC. TUE His many books include TUE The Birdwatcher’s Handbook TUE an award-winning BBC field guide to the birds of Britain and TUE Ireland, TUE Birds: The Art of Ornithology TUE Great Birds of Europe, the bestselling multimedia title TUE Birdsong TUE and a major new encyclopaedic book for the NHM, TUE The World of Birds TUE . Jonathan was researcher on two vital celebrations of the TUE cultural importance of birds by Mark Cocker, Birds TUE Britannica and Birds and People. TUE He is also on the Steering Group of TUE New Networks for Nature TUE a broad alliance of individuals who in their personal and TUE professional lives draw creative inspiration from the birds, TUE wildlife and landscapes of this country. TUE TUE Vicky Hammond and Max the parrot TUE Vicky Hammond is the owner of seven parrots including Max, a TUE macaw who appeared in the James Bond film For Your Eyes TUE Only. TUE In the film, Bond receives a call from the Prime Minister, TUE Margaret Thatcher, and Max the parrot asks her to 'give us a TUE kiss, give us a kiss'. TUE TUE Tony Juniper TUE Tony Juniper is a campaigner, writer, sustainability adviser TUE and a well-known British environmentalist. He wrote the book TUE What Nature Does for Britain TUE and currently works as a Special Adviser to the Prince of TUE Wales Charities’ International Sustainability Unit. TUE He is a Senior Associate with the University of Cambridge TUE Programme for Sustainability Leadership TUE (CPSL), working as a member of the teaching faculty and TUE contributing to several programmes. In November 2012, he was TUE named as the first TUE President of the Society for the Environment TUE Twitter: TUE @TonyJuniper TUE TUE Professor Ralph Pite TUE Ralph Pite is a professor of English Literature at the TUE University of Bristol. His research is focused on the TUE Romantic period TUE TUE Thomas Hardy TUE TUE ecocriticism TUE and 20th-century poetry. TUE He is currently writing a book about the poets, Robert Frost TUE and Edward Thomas. They were close friends in the three TUE years before Thomas’s death in 1917, at the Battle of Arras. TUE Both men shared a love of nature and an interest in ‘the TUE simple life’ – in ways of living, which we would call TUE sustainable. TUE TUE 11:30 Orpheus Underground b06cw171 (Listen) TUE Novelist Neil Gaiman explores the intricacies of Orpheus TUE myth, the timeless story of art's place in trying to recover TUE the dead. TUE TUE With contributions from writers Margaret Atwood, Jonathan TUE Carol, and Russell Hoban, songwriter and cartoonist Peter TUE Blegvad, and composer and conceptual artist Hannah Catherine TUE Jones. TUE TUE Produced by Michael Umney TUE A Resonance production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06bd4mc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b064956r (Listen) TUE 22 September 1915 - Dorothea Winwood TUE TUE The Winwoods venture out for the first time with their new TUE baby. TUE TUE Written by Katie Hims TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Dorothea: Rachel Shelley TUE Peggy: Vicky Brazier TUE Kitty: Ami Metcalf TUE Ralph: Nicholas Murchie TUE Alec: Tom Stuart TUE Writer: Katie Hims TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06bnq0t (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06bd4mf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06bnq0w (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Computing Britain b06bnq0y (Listen) TUE Computers at Home TUE TUE In the 1980s, 'micro computers' invaded the home. In this TUE episode, Hannah Fry discovers how the computer was TUE transported from the office and the classroom right into our TUE living room. TUE TUE From eccentric electronics genius Clive Sinclair and his TUE ZX80, to smart-suited businessman Alan Sugar and the Amstrad TUE PC, she charts the 80s computer boom - a time when the UK TUE had more computers per head of population than anywhere else TUE in the world. TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06bnbpq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b06bnq12 (Listen) TUE Orpheus and Eurydice TUE TUE The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has inspired poets, TUE painters and especially musicians since ancient times. As a TUE season of revivals at the Royal Opera House begins exploring TUE this most potent of musical stories, poet Simon Armitage and TUE playwright Linda Marshall Griffiths each tell their own TUE versions of the story of the doomed lovers on Radio 4. TUE TUE Orpheus and Eurydice. His Story. By Linda Marshall Griffiths TUE TUE Grief-stricken, the young singer Orfeo tries to find his way TUE to his dead wife Eurydice. His path is the way of dreams, TUE fractured memories - a journey into the Underworld to bring TUE back his love from the silence. But is love stronger than TUE death if everything can be destroyed by a backward glance? TUE TUE With music composed by PJ Harvey TUE TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Linda Marshall Griffiths TUE Orfeo: Nico Mirallegro TUE Eurydice: Emily Taaffe TUE Apollo: Jonathan Keeble TUE Hades: Alexandra Mathie TUE Police Officer: Stephen Fletcher TUE Young Man: Stephen Fletcher TUE Director: Nadia Molinari TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b06bcst2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b06bnq16 (Listen) TUE BBC National Short Story Award 2015, Bunny, by Mark Haddon TUE TUE He dangerously over-eats; just as seriously he lives at home TUE in fear of the outdoors. Until Leah calls and his life takes TUE a dramatic turn.. TUE TUE The second of five short stories shortlisted for this TUE prestigious award, which in 2015 marks its 10th year. For a TUE decade now the award has shone a light on the very best in TUE contemporary British short fiction and celebrates writers TUE both established and new. TUE TUE To mark the tenth year of the Award, the BBC and Book Trust TUE have launched Student Choice, in which nearly 500 16-18 year TUE old students from 20 schools around the UK cast their own TUE votes on the shortlist. TUE TUE This year also sees the launch of the BBC Young Writers' TUE Award with Book Trust. Open to 14-18 year olds, the aim of TUE this Award is to inspire and encourage the next generation TUE of short story writers and is a cross-network collaboration TUE between BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1. TUE TUE The winner and the runner-up of the coveted BBC National TUE Short Story Award 2015 will be announced live from the BBC's TUE Radio Theatre on Front Row from 7.15pm on Tuesday 6th TUE October. At the same time the inaugural winners of Student TUE Choice and the BBC Young Writers' Award will also be TUE unveiled. TUE TUE Written by Mark Haddon TUE Read by Colin Buchanan TUE Abridged by Penny Leicester TUE Produced by Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Mark Haddon TUE Reader: Colin Buchanan TUE Abridger: Penny Leicester TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b06bnq18 (Listen) TUE Reading: Print v eBooks TUE TUE Michael Rosen & Dr Laura Wright discuss with linguist TUE Professor Naomi Baron the quantifiable differences between TUE the experience of reading print books and of reading eBooks, TUE or onscreen. Which allows for deeper reading and a stronger TUE emotional response, and what is the future of reading? TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b06bnq1b (Listen) TUE Series 37, Nick Stadlen on Bram Fischer TUE TUE This week's Great Life might have become an Afrikaner TUE Nationalist Prime Minister of apartheid South Africa, but TUE instead became its most prominent white opponent. A TUE formidable advocate, he led the defence of Nelson Mandela in TUE the Rivonia Trial. TUE It is no exaggeration to say Bram Fischer saved Mandela's TUE life, and it is said Mandela would have made him his TUE vice-president, had he lived to see Mandela's release. TUE He's nominated by former English High Court Judge Sir Nick TUE Stadlen along with Lord Joffe. Matthew Parris is the TUE presenter. The producer is Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Joel Joffe, Matthew Parris and Nick Stadlen on the Great TUE Life of Bram Fischer TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Nick Stadlen TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06bnq1d (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06bd4mp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06bnq1g (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Change is afoot at Hardacre's, London's worst advertising TUE agency. New accounts chief Amanda Brook is well underway TUE with her plans to turn the agency around, insisting they TUE take any work they can get. Creative team Joe and Teddy thus TUE find themselves reduced to working on posters for industrial TUE adhesives, cast iron stoves, and jewellery for dogs. TUE TUE Horrified at seeing his name associated with such a low TUE calibre of clients, creative director and advertising legend TUE Rupert Hardacre resolves to bring in a better class of TUE account. He enlists Amanda's help to chase down McCutcheon's TUE Whisky, a client he worked with many years earlier. TUE TUE While Hardacre and Amanda head off, Joe and Teddy are left TUE at the office determined to prove that they can design a TUE poster, hire a plumber, and interview a client entirely TUE unsupervised. Their jobs may just depend on it. TUE TUE Rupert Hardacre - Nigel Havers TUE Amanda Brook - Josie Lawrence TUE Joe - Matthew Baynton TUE Teddy - Rasmus Hardiker 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 Director: Alan Nixon TUE Producer: Gordon Kennedy TUE Writer: Edward Rowett TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06bnq1l (Listen) TUE At Grey Gables, it is the time and place to remember, and TUE there is quite a revelation. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06bnqsw (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06bng33 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b06bnqsy (Listen) TUE In the Shadows TUE TUE With the Government cracking down on migrants working TUE illegally, Simon Cox investigates Britain's shadow economy. TUE He meets illegal workers to ask whether the get-tough TUE message is putting them off. And he reveals the ways in TUE which both employers and workers are getting round the law. TUE So can the UK Border Force deliver on ministers' promises to TUE make the UK an "unattractive" place for those who want to TUE work illegally? TUE TUE Reporter: Simon Cox Producer: David Lewis. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06bnqt0 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b06bnqt2 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series exploring health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b06bng2x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06bd4mw (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06bnqt4 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06bnqt6 (Listen) TUE Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, Episode 2 TUE TUE 'Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay', the new novel TUE from bestselling author William Boyd, follows one remarkable TUE woman through the decades of the twentieth century. TUE TUE In 1915, Amory's uncle unknowingly sets her life on its TUE course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No. 2 as a present TUE for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for TUE photography. Her camera will take her from high society TUE London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of TUE inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in TUE London's East End, and to France and Germany during the TUE Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female TUE war photographers. TUE TUE She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, TUE where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life TUE that has been just as rich and complex as her professional TUE one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her - TUE her father, her brother, her lovers - irreparably scarred by TUE two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of TUE conflict and loss, passion and joy. TUE TUE William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A TUE Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, TUE Restless, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Waiting for Sunrise and TUE Solo. He lives in London and South West France. TUE TUE Read by Barbara Flynn TUE Abridged by Sara Davies TUE Produced by Mair Bosworth. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Barbara Flynn TUE Author: William Boyd TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Mair Bosworth TUE TUE 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b06bnqt8 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE TUE A child ghost from the 1970s teams up with the narrator on a TUE journey through Wunderland (the Poundland of magical realms) TUE to try and track down the person who bumped him off. 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 Narrator: Marcia Warren TUE Performer: Alice Lowe TUE Performer: Richard Glover TUE Performer: Simon Greenall TUE Performer: Rachel Stubbings TUE Performer: Clare Thompson TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner TUE Writer: Alice Lowe TUE TUE 23:30 With Great Pleasure b061qhsz (Listen) TUE Levi Roots TUE TUE Businessman and musician Levi Roots picks his favourite TUE readings. Read by Adrian Lester and Claire Benedict. TUE TUE Extracts Chosen TUE TUE Psalm 23 from The Bible (King James Version) TUE TUE Cuss Cuss by Louise Bennett TUE TUE Shock for the Secret Seven by Enid Blyton TUE TUE Speech to the United Nations (4 October 1963) by Haile TUE Selassie TUE TUE Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela TUE TUE Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare TUE TUE The Tyger by William Blake TUE TUE Levi Roots and Guests TUE From left to right, Adrian Lester, Claire Benedict, Levi TUE Roots and Gyasi Crosdale TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Levi Roots TUE Reader: Adrian Lester TUE Reader: Claire Benedict TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06bd4q4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06bng2z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06bd4q6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06bd4q8 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06bd4qd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06bd4qg (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06bnsjl (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Imam WED Monawar Hussain. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06bnsjn (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwtg (Listen) WED Black Drongo WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the black drongo of Southern WED Asia. What looks a like a small crow crossed with a WED flycatcher is riding a cow's back in an Indian village. WED Black drongos are slightly smaller than European starlings, WED but with a much longer tail. They feed mainly on large WED insects: dragonflies, bees, moths and grasshoppers which WED they will pluck from the ground as well pursuing them in WED aerial sallies. Although small, these birds are famous for WED being fearless and will attack and dive-bomb almost any WED other bird, even birds of prey, which enter their WED territories. This aggressive behaviour has earned them the WED name "King Crow" and in Hindi their name is Kotwal - the WED policeman. WED WED Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Hanne & Jens Eriksen / WED naturepl.com. WED N WED PL Ref 01212819 WED © Hanne & Jens Eriksen / naturepl.com. WED WED Recording of black drongo by Arnoud B van den Berg / Ref: ML WED 70669 WED WED This programme contains a wildtrack WED recording of the black drongo WED kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab WED of Ornithology; recorded by Arnoud B van den Berg on 26 Jun WED 1989, in Baluram Reserve, Jawa Timr, Indonesia. WED WED 06:00 Today b06bp2v7 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Bringing Up Britain b069wkvs (Listen) WED Series 8, Manners and Discipline WED WED How important are good manners and discipline in young WED children? Mariella and her guests debate the best methods of WED tackling bad behaviour when children test boundaries. They WED discuss whether giving them rewards, banishing them to the WED naughty step, or "love bombing" works best. WED WED Do children learn from their parents or act up due to the WED food they eat, too much screen time, their genetics or WED gender? WED WED Mariella is joined by Oliver James, clinical psychologist, WED Penny Palmano, best-selling author on good manners, Stephen WED Scott, Professor of Child Health and Behaviour at Kings WED College London and Bonamy Oliver, Head of the Nurture Lab at WED the University of Sussex. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06bp2vc (Listen) WED The White Road, Meissen and Bottger WED WED Julian Rhind-Tutt reads potter Edmund de Waal's new book on WED the history of porcelain. WED WED Imprisoned in Meissen castle, young alchemist, Johann WED Freidrich Bottger, is about to unlock the secrets of WED porcelain creation. WED WED Abridged by Jules Wilkinson WED Produced by Gemma Jenkins. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Author: Edmund de Waal WED Abridger: Jules Wilkinson WED Producer: Gemma Jenkins WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06bp2vf (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06bp2vh (Listen) WED Sovereign, Episode 3 WED WED Atmospheric dramatisation of C. J. Sansom's Tudor crime WED novel featuring lawyer detective Matthew Shardlake. WED WED Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular WED Royal Progress to York. Shardlake and his assistant Barak WED have arrived in the city ahead of the 3,000-strong WED procession. Officially there to prepare petitions for the WED King, they have also been tasked with a secret mission by WED Archbishop Cranmer: to ensure the welfare of one of the WED conspirators, Sir Edward Broderick, who is to be brought WED back to London for questioning in the Tower. His gaoler, WED Radwinter, resents being watched over and is determined to WED make Shardlake's task as difficult as possible. WED WED After meeting with fellow lawyer Wrenne, Shardlake and Barak WED decide to go back to Oldroyd's house and see if they can WED find something to confirm Shardlake's suspicion that there WED was more to the glazier's death than a terrible accident. WED WED Other parts are played by members of the cast. WED WED Writer ..... C. J. Sansom WED Dramatiser ..... Colin MacDonald WED Producer/Director ..... Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Shardlake: Justin Salinger WED Barak: Bryan Dick WED Wrenne: Geoffrey Whitehead WED Maleverer: Stephen Critchlow WED Tamasin: Cath Whitefield WED Jennet: Alex Tregear WED Craike: Patrick Brennan WED Director: Kirsteen Cameron WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED Adaptor: Colin MacDonald WED Author: CJ Sansom WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06bp2vk (Listen) WED Dennis and Daniel - Marmite for the Gorillas WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation recorded in the Booth at WED Durrell Wildlife Park in Jersey between two zoo workers who WED give an entirely new meaning to a day's work: it can involve WED handing over flamingos in a car park... Another conversation WED in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when WED you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Burying Chernobyl b06bp2vm (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED A year before the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster in April 1986 WED Alla Alban, nee Kravchuk, left the nearby town of Pripyat in WED order to take her place at music college in Kiev. The rest WED of the family also moved away and so she and her father were WED together in Kiev when news of the accident broke. Since then WED Alla has never returned to the site although her parents did WED go back to help work on the plans to render Chernobyl safe WED in the long term. WED WED Now, as plans are underway to mark the thirtieth anniversary WED of the accident and the huge mobile sarcophagus that will WED roll over the damaged reactor is nearing completion, Alla WED returns to both the Chernobyl Station and the deserted WED satellite town of Pripyat which was once her home. WED WED Alla's mother and father both worked at Chernobyl. They died WED several years ago. Meanwhile a career as an Opera singer WED took Alla first to Britain and then Germany. Now, she WED travels back to see at first hand the Chernobyl Safe WED Confinement project, a scheme funded by countries from all WED over the world and watched by all those with an interest in WED Nuclear energy and the risks inherent in its production. She WED talks to those involved in the challenging task of making WED Chernobyl safe without risking the health of those involved WED in the task. WED WED But this is, above all, a personal journey. Alla's memories WED of Pripyat are of a beautiful, vibrant young town ablaze WED with flowers and the perfect place for a young teenager. WED She's seen many pictures which tell a very different story WED and has struggled to maintain the memories of her youth in WED the face of them. She's also known only the vaguest details WED of her father's work as an engineering draughtsman, although WED his old work colleagues were able to send her several of his WED beautifully detailed drawings of what would eventually WED become the mobile arch that is being prepared to cover WED Reactor Number Four. WED WED Alla also meets up with an old friend who had stayed in WED Chernobyl and was there at the time of the accident. Her WED story is a very different one. WED WED Producer: Tom Alban. WED WED 11:30 Miss Marple's Final Cases b06bp2vp (Listen) WED The Case of the Perfect Maid WED WED June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple in the second of three WED new Agatha Christie dramatisations by Joy Wilkinson. WED WED Miss Marple uncovers a mystery when she looks into the WED curious sacking of a lady's maid. Her investigative skills WED are also required when her nephew, crime writer Raymond WED West, arrives on the doorstep with a severe case of writer's WED block. WED WED Directed by Gemma Jenkins. WED WED Credits WED Miss Marple: June Whitfield WED Raymond West: Raymond Coulthard WED Lavinia Skinner: Claudie Blakley WED Emily Skinner: Tracy Wiles WED Inspector Slack: Stephen Critchlow WED Miss Hartnell: Jessica Turner WED Edna: Alex Tregear WED Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson WED Author: Agatha Christie WED Director: Gemma Jenkins WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06bd4qn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b0649583 (Listen) WED 23 September 1915 - Juliet Argent WED WED Juliet makes an undercover visit. WED WED Written by Katie Hims WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Juliet: Lizzie Bourne WED Esme: Katie Angelou WED Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw WED Howard: Gunnar Cauthery WED Dolly: Elaine Claxton WED Johnnie: Paul Ready WED Dorothea: Rachel Shelley WED Writer: Katie Hims WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06bp2vr (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06bd4qs (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06bp38f (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Computing Britain b06bp38h (Listen) WED UK Gaming WED WED Computers in school and at home nurtured a generation of WED programmers who cut their teeth playing and writing computer WED games in the 1980s. WED WED Hannah talks to the Oliver Twins, who won a competition on WED ITV's Saturday Show and went on to write best-selling WED computer games featuring an egg called Dizzy. WED WED She takes a trip back to an early publishing house in WED Liverpool where fast cars and marketing ploys went WED spectacularly wrong and hears how some games created in the WED UK, like Tomb Raider and Grand Theft Auto, hit the big time. WED WED Nowadays, an 'AAA' video game has budgets to match feature WED films, costing up to $250m to produce. So is there still WED room for the bedroom coder? WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06bnq1l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b06bp3bc (Listen) WED Quill WED WED Hunslet Fair 1851. Edward Quill is tasked to write a play by WED Mr Samuel Wragg - actor manager at Wragg's Theatrical WED Pavillion. WED Since having a career at Drury Lane, Quill has fallen on WED hard times and eagerly accepts the commission which he needs WED to pay his rent. WED He does not expect the commission to be quite so WED prescriptive; the play must contain a ghost, a hero, a WED heroine, a storm and a dog. Nor yet does he expect the WED characters he creates to take over his life, or the wife of WED his landlord to take over his heart. WED WED Produced and Directed by Clive Brill WED WED A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Edward Quill: Daniel Weyman WED Samuel Wragg: Edward Max WED Sir Jasper Dashwood: Edward Max WED Mrs Octavia Wragg: Susan Brown WED Susannah Swan: Jasmine Hyde WED Mr Swann: Robert Hudson WED Willie Lumb: Robert Hudson WED Actor: Harriett Hare WED Actor: Stuart Rooker WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Director: Clive Brill WED Writer: Tony Jones WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06bp3bf (Listen) WED Want to change the way you work or set up a business in WED later life? Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on WED Wednesday with your questions or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED now. WED WED Choosing to work longer can make great financial sense but WED you might want to work fewer hours or in a different way. WED Sarah Veale, Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the WED TUC will be here to explain your rights to working past WED retirement age. WED WED Perhaps you'd prefer to be your own boss and use your skills WED to start a small business? Paula Tallon, Managing Partner at WED Gabelle Tax can talk you through the tax rules and WED self-assessment process. What happens if you need to buy WED equipment or rent premises, what are the allowable running WED costs and expenses? And don't miss the important tax WED deadlines! WED WED Plus you may want to think about when to take an WED occupational or state pension. What happens if you want to WED work and receive your pension? Is it sensible to defer? Put WED your questions to Michelle Cracknell, Chief Executive, The WED Pensions Advisory Service. WED WED Whatever your need to know, Paul Lewis and guests will be WED waiting to help on Wednesday. Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail questions to WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic charges from WED landlines and mobiles will apply. WED ACAS: 0300 123 1100 WED TUC: Age Equality WED Work Smart: Age Discrimination WED Third Age Employment Network WED National Careers Service: Older Workers WED Shaw Trust Charity that helps people facing disadvantage WED into work. WED HMRC Self Assessment WED HMRC: Tax overpayments and underpayments WED HMRC: Tax Codes WED WED WED WED 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b06bp3cj (Listen) WED BBC National Short Story Award 2015, Broderie Anglaise, by WED Frances Leviston WED WED In Frances Leviston's short story, hidden tensions between a WED mother and daughter surface in the emotional build-up to a WED family wedding. WED This is the third story shortlisted for this celebrated WED award. WED WED The third of five short stories shortlisted for this WED prestigious award, which in 2015 marks its 10th year. For a WED decade now the award has shone a light on the very best in WED contemporary British short fiction and celebrates writers WED both established and new. WED WED To mark the tenth year of the Award, the BBC and Book Trust WED have launched Student Choice, in which nearly 500 16-18 year WED old students from 20 schools around the UK cast their own WED votes on the shortlist. WED WED This year also sees the launch of the BBC Young Writers' WED Award with Book Trust. Open to 14-18 year olds, the aim of WED this Award is to inspire and encourage the next generation WED of short story writers and is a cross-network collaboration WED between BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1. WED WED The winner and the runner-up of the coveted BBC National WED Short Story Award 2015 will be announced live from the BBC's WED Radio Theatre on Front Row from 7.15pm on Tuesday 6th WED October. At the same time the inaugural winners of Student WED Choice and the BBC Young Writers' Award will also be WED unveiled. WED WED Written by Frances Leviston WED Read by Kate O'Flynn WED Abridged by Sara Davies WED Produced by Justine Willett. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Frances Leviston WED Reader: Kate O'Flynn WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Justine Willett WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06bp3z0 (Listen) WED Cross-Class Marriage, The social history of women-only train WED carriages WED WED Cross class marriage: Laurie Taylor talks to Jessi Streib, WED Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke University, US, WED about her study into the lives of people who married a WED partner raised in a social class very different from their WED own. Do spouses from blue collar backgrounds take a laissez WED faire approach to daily life? Are those from white collar, WED professional families likely to want to take organisational WED control? They're joined by Mary Evans, Centennial Professor WED at the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics WED and Political Science. WED WED Also, the social history of women only train carriages: did WED they promote safety or inequality? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06bp3z2 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06bp3z4 (Listen) WED News interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06bd4r1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b03lph8r (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 4 WED WED Last in the series of comedy sketches from David Mitchell, WED Robert Webb, Olivia Colman and James Bachman, including a WED horror story for slugs; the Escalator brothers inventing the WED world's first horseless staircase; and the very last WED programme the BBC ever does... WED WED Credits WED Performer: David Mitchell WED Performer: Robert Webb WED Performer: Olivia Colman WED Performer: James Bachman WED Producer: Gareth Edwards WED WED 19:00 The Archers b06bp3z6 (Listen) WED Jennifer turns detective once again, and time has changed WED Pat's view. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06bp3z8 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06bp2vh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 FutureProofing b069x6fv (Listen) WED Transport WED WED Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson examine the big ideas set WED to transform the way society functions. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06bp3zp (Listen) WED The Unequal Past WED WED Jim Smallman examines the attitude of society to our pasts WED and argues that men and women are treated very differently. WED WED "I am not proud of my past," he says, "I'm massively ashamed WED of huge swathes of it." But Jim's misdeeds are, he argues, WED "easily forgivable" because he was "just being a bit of a WED lad". In contrast, Jim's wife - a former pornographic WED actress - is not given the same latitude. Too many people, WED he says, would "use her past to hold her back from the WED future that she deserves". Recorded at the End of the Road WED music festival. WED WED Producer: Richard Knight. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b06bp5tm (Listen) WED Oceans of Acid WED WED As the oceans absorb manmade carbon emissions a chemical WED reaction takes place which is making sea water more acidic. WED This subtle shift in pH level is having a profound effect on WED the sea animals which use calcium carbonate to form their WED shells and skeletons and Marine Biologists are now WED discovering that this could have implications across the WED world's oceans. Already shellfish industries in America are WED being adversely affected and scientists are working hard to WED predict how the world's fisheries might respond in the WED future. Professor Alice Roberts discovers there are WED surprising lessons to be learnt from the past and hears why WED immediate action is needed to prevent further threats to WED biodiversity. WED WED Producer: Helen Lennard. WED WED Alice with 40 legged starfish WED WED 21:30 Bringing Up Britain b069wkvs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06bp5tp (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06bp5tr (Listen) WED Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, Episode 3 WED WED 'Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay', the new novel WED from bestselling author William Boyd, follows one remarkable WED woman through the decades of the twentieth century. WED WED In 1915, Amory's uncle unknowingly sets her life on its WED course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No. 2 as a present WED for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for WED photography. Her camera will take her from high society WED London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of WED inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in WED London's East End, and to France and Germany during the WED Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female WED war photographers. WED WED She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, WED where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life WED that has been just as rich and complex as her professional WED one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her - WED her father, her brother, her lovers - irreparably scarred by WED two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of WED conflict and loss, passion and joy. WED WED William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A WED Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, WED Restless, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Waiting for Sunrise and WED Solo. He lives in London and South West France. WED WED Read by Barbara Flynn WED Abridged by Sara Davies WED Produced by Mair Bosworth. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Barbara Flynn WED Author: William Boyd WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Mair Bosworth WED WED 23:00 The Celebrity Voicemail Show b06bp5tt (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED The Celebrity Voicemail Show is an entirely fictitious WED comedy show written, improvised and starring only Kayvan WED Novak in which he imagines what it might be like to hear the WED answerphone messages of the rich and famous. WED WED This week we listen in to the voicemail of 'Sherlock' star WED Benedict Cumberbatch. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Kayvan Novak WED Writer: Kayvan Novak WED Producer: Matt Stronge WED WED 23:15 The Lach Chronicles b037jcjt (Listen) WED Series 1, Rock and Roll Nation 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. WED WED His night, held in various venues around New York, was WED called the Antihoot. He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff WED Buckley and many others; he discovered and nurtured lots of WED talent including Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches WED - but nobody discovered him. WED WED This week we find Lach reminiscing about his influences and WED he shares his thoughts on Jim Morrison, Batman and Tom WED Petty. WED WED Written and performed by Lach WED Sound design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin WED Producer: Richard Melvin WED WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 With Great Pleasure b062jy92 (Listen) WED Henry Marsh WED WED Neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm Henry Marsh chooses WED writing that means something to him, from The Hobbit to The WED Fine Art of Cabinetmaking to Thinking, Fast and Slow. WED Recorded at his home with readers Tim Pigott-Smith and WED Joanna David. WED Producer Beth O'Dea. WED WED Extracts Chosen WED WED The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. WED WED Watching the English by Kate Fox. WED WED The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov. Translated by Michael WED Glenny. WED WED The Fine Art of Cabinetmaking by James Krenov. WED WED Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. WED WED The Truce by Primo Levi. Translated by Stuart Woolf. WED WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Henry Marsh WED Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith WED Reader: Joanna David WED Producer: Beth O'Dea WED WED THU THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06bd4sq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06bp2vc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06bd4ss (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06bd4sv (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06bd4sx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06bd4sz (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06c06n6 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Imam THU Monawar Hussain. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06c06n8 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkx14 (Listen) THU Arctic Warbler THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the long distant migrant THU Arctic warbler. These classic olive-grey warblers, slightly THU smaller than the European robin, with a pale eye-stripe, THU winter in south-east Asia, but each spring fly to northern THU forests to breed. This can be as far as Finland, up to THU 13,000 kilometres away as well as Arctic and sub-Arctic THU Russia, Japan and even Alaska. They do this to feed on the THU bountiful supply of insects which proliferate during the THU 24-hour daylight of an Arctic summer. A few make it to THU Britain, the Northern Isles, but whether they finally return THU to Asia is not known. THU THU Arctic warbler (Phylloscopus borealis) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Markus Varesvuo / naturepl.com. THU NP THU L Ref 01179125 THU © Markus Varesvuo / naturepl.com. THU THU Recording of arctic warbler by Matthew D Medler / Ref: ML THU 163313 THU This programme contains a wildtrack THU recording of the arctic warbler THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Matthew D Medler on 28 Jun 2010, THU in Vakdez-Cordova Count, Alaska, USA. THU THU 06:00 Today b06c06nb (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b06c06nd (Listen) THU Perpetual Motion THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the idea of THU perpetual motion and its fall, in the 19th Century, with the THU Laws of Thermodynamics. For hundreds of years, inquiring THU minds and some of the biggest names in science explored the THU possibility of perpetual motion, that there might be a THU machine that could power itself endlessly, just as the Moon THU travels round the Earth. Designs included: windmills pumping THU bellows to turn those windmills round and waterwheels driven THU by their own recirculating millstreams. Leonardo Da Vinci THU drew plans for a wheel that kept on turning, with one side THU always heavier, Robert Boyle made a bucket that might THU constantly refill itself, with a tube at the bottom leading THU back to the top and Gottfried Leibniz supported a friend, THU Johann Bessler, who built a wheel which he claimed ran THU forever and even allowed to be inspected, under strict THU conditions. An increasing number of scientists voiced their THU opposition, from the time of Galileo, but none could prove THU that perpetual motion was impossible. For scientists, the THU machines were a way to explore the limits of the laws of THU nature, even if they didn't yet work in the way they hoped. THU For the less scrupulous, who claimed their inventions THU actually worked, the machines promised a limitless supply of THU energy, supposedly just another scientific 'miracle' in an THU age of discovery. All this changed in the 19th Century with THU the experiments of James Joule and Robert Mayer, on the THU links between heat and work, and the establishment of two of THU the most robust laws in science, the First and Second Laws THU of Thermodynamics. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06c0cgn (Listen) THU The White Road, Tregonning Hill THU THU Julian Rhind-Tutt reads potter Edmund de Waal's new book. THU THU The author's pilgrimage to the lands and people who make THU porcelain takes him to Cornwall where he explores William THU Cookworthy's contribution to porcelain's history. THU THU Abridged by Jules Wilkinson THU Produced by Gemma Jenkins. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt THU Author: Edmund de Waal THU Abridger: Jules Wilkinson THU Producer: Gemma Jenkins THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06c0cgq (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06c0cgs (Listen) THU Sovereign, Episode 4 THU THU Colin MacDonald's dramatisation of C. J. Sansom's Tudor THU crime novel featuring lawyer detective Matthew Shardlake. THU THU Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII's spectacular Royal Progress THU is drawing closer to York. Shardlake and his assistant Barak THU have arrived in the city ahead of the 3,000-strong THU procession. Officially there to prepare petitions for the THU King, they have also been tasked with a secret mission by THU Archbishop Cranmer: to ensure the welfare of one of the THU conspirators, Sir Edward Broderick, who is to be brought THU back to London for questioning in the Tower. THU THU But they have become distracted from their duties by the THU mysterious death of a local glazier, Oldroyd, and Shardlake THU has been attacked by an unknown assailant who then stole THU papers from a box found hidden in Oldroyd's house. Bruised THU and smarting from tough questioning by Sir William THU Maleverer, Shardlake prepares to ride out to meet King Henry THU VIII. THU THU Written by C J Sansom THU THU Dramatised by Colin MacDonald THU THU Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Shardlake: Justin Salinger THU Barak: Bryan Dick THU Maleverer: Stephen Critchlow THU Radwinter: David Acton THU Wrenne: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Tamasin: Cath Whitefield THU Jennet: Alex Tregear THU Henry VIII: Patrick Brennan THU Youhill: Sam Dale THU Author: CJ Sansom THU Adaptor: Colin MacDonald THU Director: Kirsteen Cameron THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b06c0cgv (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Dotun and Dean b06c0cgx (Listen) THU Hollywood actor James Dean died in a crash 60 years ago on THU 30 Sept 1955 age 24. His early death immortalised him as the THU first American teenager - appealing to young people in the THU late 50s. Fast forward to the 70s and a young black boy in THU North London hears the term Rebel without a Cause and the THU love affair begins. THU THU Broadcaster Dotun Adebayo was that boy. He tells of the THU lengths to which he went to adopt everything he could to THU become like James Dean both physically and in attitude. He THU reveals how this led him to become London's first black THU Teddy Boy, one of the Southgate Teds, and how his THU determination to rebel got him into trouble. THU THU Following his hero's footsteps, Dotun joined the National THU Youth Theatre where he met the playwright Barrie Keeffe THU famed for the Long Good Friday screenplay. They got talking THU and it turned out Barrie had shared the Dean obsession in THU his youth. This resulted in writing the play Killing Time THU about a young black boy's obsession with James Dean - THU incorporating some of Dotun's own feelings. THU THU We also hear from James Dean's family still living in the THU small town where he grew up as a quiet farm boy and where THU he's buried - Fairmount Indiana. To them he was likeable THU Jimmy Dean and not the moody, rebellious Hollywood actor. THU Since his death Dean has become big business - there's the THU Gallery, the Museum, and the family farm's door is always THU open to fans. Visitors from all over the world make THU pilgrimages, so it seems Dotun wasn't alone in his THU obsession. There is also a corporation that takes care of THU the Dean image for the family, and their involvement in THU various projects brings earnings estimated at $7 million a THU year. The brand continues to get stronger across the world. THU THU Producer: Sue Clark THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06bd4t1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b06495c1 (Listen) THU 24 September 1915 - Kitty Lumley THU THU Kitty Wilson makes a strategic decision to keep her friends THU close. THU THU Written by Katie Hims THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Kitty: Ami Metcalf THU Edie: Kathryn Beaumont THU Stella: Ava Bell THU Ray: Scarlet Bell THU gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw THU Sylvia: Joanna David THU Marion: Laura Elphinstone THU Johnnie: Paul Ready THU Adeline: Helen Schlesinger THU Writer: Katie Hims THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06c0cgz (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06bd4t3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06c0ch1 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Computing Britain b06c0ch3 (Listen) THU Dotcom Bubble THU THU The city went crazy for dot com companies in 1999. But in THU March 2000, the boom suddenly turned into a bust. Hannah THU discovers that technology then wasn't up to the job. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06bp3z6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b06c0ch5 (Listen) THU Our Sea THU THU Ronan Bennett drama about the desperate migrant crisis in THU the Mediterranean. Mahmoud, Yasser, Shaibul, Marwan and THU Letebrhane share their experiences as they fight for their THU lives hours after their boat is sank by traffickers. Lindsay THU Duncan and Stephen Rea star. THU THU Ronan Bennett is a novelist and screenwriter who was born THU and brought up in Northern Ireland and now lives in London. THU His third novel, 'The Catastrophist' was nominated for the THU Whitbread award in 1998. 'Havoc, in Its Third Year' (2004) THU was listed for the Booker prize. His latest novel is THU 'Zugzwang'. His screen credits include the BBC series' '10 THU Days to War' and 'Hidden', as well as 'Top Boy' and 'Public THU Enemies'. THU THU Writer ..... Ronan Bennett THU Director ..... Stephen Wright THU Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. THU THU Credits THU The Narrator: Lindsay Duncan THU The Writer: Stephen Rea THU Mahmoud: Amir El-Masry THU Alice: Evie Killip THU Letebrhane: Noma Dumezweni THU Yasser: Waleed Elgadi THU Shaibul: Peter Singh THU Marwan: Rez Kempton THU Tom: George Watkins THU Lady Anelay: Jessica Turner THU Writer: Ronan Bennett THU Director: Stephen Wright THU Producer: Jenny Thompson THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b06c0ch7 (Listen) THU Series 31, Windsor Great Park with Bill Bryson THU THU Clare Balding heads out across Windsor Great Park in the THU company of writer and prolific walker, Bill Bryson. He THU explains how he developed a passion for exploring both THU Britain and parts of America on foot. They discuss how ones THU notion of distance changes dramatically when you walk. THU THU 'A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally THU considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very THU limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in THU a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers THU know. Planetary scale is your little secret.' THU THU Bill takes Clare on one of his very favourite walks around THU Windsor Park, a place he has enjoyed walking with his THU family. THU THU Producer Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Bill Bryson THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06bd5j2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b06c0ch9 (Listen) THU BBC National Short Story Award 2015, The Assassinaton of THU Margaret Thatcher, by Hilary Mantel THU THU In Hilary Mantel's shortlisted story for this coveted award THU which celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2015 a woman THU mistakes a sniper for a plumber. Held in captivity in leafy THU Windsor, will she become complicit in his murderous plot? THU THU The fourth of five short stories shortlisted for this THU prestigious award, which in 2015 marks its 10th year. For a THU decade now the award has shone a light on the very best in THU contemporary British short fiction and celebrates writers THU both established and new. THU THU To mark the tenth year of the Award, the BBC and Book Trust THU have launched Student Choice, in which nearly 500 16-18 year THU old students from 20 schools around the UK cast their own THU votes on the shortlist. THU THU This year also sees the launch of the BBC Young Writers' THU Award with Book Trust. Open to 14-18 year olds, the aim of THU this Award is to inspire and encourage the next generation THU of short story writers and is a cross-network collaboration THU between BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1. THU THU The winner and the runner-up of the coveted BBC National THU Short Story Award 2015 will be announced live from the BBC's THU Radio Theatre on Front Row from 7.15pm on Tuesday 6th THU October. At the same time the inaugural winners of Student THU Choice and the BBC Young Writers' Award will also be THU unveiled. THU THU Written by Hilary Mantel THU Read by Rebekah Staton THU Abridged by Julian Wilkinson THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Hilary Mantel THU Reader: Rebekah Staton THU Abridger: Julian Wilkinson THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06c0cj3 (Listen) THU John Waters - The Pope of Trash THU THU With Francine Stock THU THU The director of Hairspray and Pink Flamingos, John Waters, THU discusses whether shock value still has any currency. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: John Waters THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06c0cj5 (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06c0cj7 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06bd4t5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Brig Society b06c0cj9 (Listen) THU Series 3, Being a Woman THU THU Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has decided to cross the Gender THU Gap and become a woman. Expect a clear-eyed assessment of THU sexism and a doubling of the bathroom candle budget. THU THU Helping him to pass the Bechdel Test will be Margaret THU Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda"), William Andrews ("Sorry I've Got THU No Head"), Tom Crowley and Freya Parker. THU THU Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, THU Nick Doody, Steve Punt & 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: Tom Crowley THU Ensemble: Freya Parker 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 b06c0cjc (Listen) THU Eddie stirs up some community spirit, and Rob hits a THU setback. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06c0cjf (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06c0cgs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b06c0cjh (Listen) THU My Big Fat Greek Crisis THU THU Greece's future in Europe dominated headlines throughout the THU summer, but can the country turn its fortunes around? While THU it's true that the country owes hundreds of billions of THU euros and is facing austerity for years to come, Frances THU Stonor Saunders finds that Greece has plenty going for it - THU and not just its idyllic islands where Brits like to THU holiday. THU THU Frances takes a trip to picturesque Skiathos, with its sandy THU beaches and boutique hotels, before exploring the 'real' THU Greece on the mainland of Volos. Along the way she discovers THU that, contrary to the popular narrative, the Greek people THU are accepting responsibility for the crisis that now engulfs THU them, and are coming up with innovative solutions to fix the THU future. THU THU Presenter: Frances Stonor Saunders THU Producer: Ben Crighton. THU THU 20:30 In Business b06c0cjk (Listen) THU What Makes a Company Last? THU THU Peter Day asks whether companies really should still be THU built to last in today's hi-tech internet world. What are THU the characteristics of those that stand the test of time? THU Many do learn to change or even re-invent themselves while THU others, such as Woolworths, have disappeared altogether. In THU interviews with business leaders and entrepreneurs he THU discusses whether longevity still matters. THU THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06c0cj5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06c0cjm (Listen) THU Perpetual Motion THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the idea of THU perpetual motion and its fall, in the 19th Century, with the THU Laws of Thermodynamics. For hundreds of years, inquiring THU minds and some of the biggest names in science explored the THU possibility of perpetual motion, that there might be a THU machine that could power itself endlessly, just as the Moon THU travels round the Earth. Designs included: windmills pumping THU bellows to turn those windmills round and waterwheels driven THU by their own recirculating millstreams. Leonardo Da Vinci THU drew plans for a wheel that kept on turning, with one side THU always heavier, Robert Boyle made a bucket that might THU constantly refill itself, with a tube at the bottom leading THU back to the top and Gottfried Leibniz supported a friend, THU Johann Bessler, who built a wheel which he claimed ran THU forever and even allowed to be inspected, under strict THU conditions. An increasing number of scientists voiced their THU opposition, from the time of Galileo, but none could prove THU that perpetual motion was impossible. For scientists, the THU machines were a way to explore the limits of the laws of THU nature, even if they didn't yet work in the way they hoped. THU For the less scrupulous, who claimed their inventions THU actually worked, the machines promised a limitless supply of THU energy, supposedly just another scientific 'miracle' in an THU age of discovery. All this changed in the 19th Century with THU the experiments of James Joule and Robert Mayer, on the THU links between heat and work, and the establishment of two of THU the most robust laws in science, the First and Second Laws THU of Thermodynamics. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06c0dgl (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06c0dgn (Listen) THU Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, Episode 4 THU THU 'Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay', the new novel THU from bestselling author William Boyd, follows one remarkable THU woman through the decades of the twentieth century. THU THU In 1915, Amory's uncle unknowingly sets her life on its THU course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No. 2 as a present THU for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for THU photography. Her camera will take her from high society THU London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of THU inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in THU London's East End, and to France and Germany during the THU Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female THU war photographers. THU THU She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, THU where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life THU that has been just as rich and complex as her professional THU one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her - THU her father, her brother, her lovers - irreparably scarred by THU two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of THU conflict and loss, passion and joy. THU THU William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A THU Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, THU Restless, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Waiting for Sunrise and THU Solo. He lives in London and South West France. THU THU Read by Barbara Flynn THU Abridged by Sara Davies THU Produced by Mair Bosworth. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Barbara Flynn THU Author: William Boyd THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Mair Bosworth THU THU 23:00 Richard Marsh b06c0dgs (Listen) THU Cardboard Heart, Stag 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 and the gang help organise a stag do to THU remember - in more ways than one. 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 Louise: Jemima Rooper THU Goadsby: Rebecca Scroggs THU Beast: Russell Tovey THU Colin: Sam Troughton THU Writer: Richard Marsh THU Director: Pia Furtado THU Producer: Ben Worsfield THU THU 23:30 With Great Pleasure b0639jp6 (Listen) THU Paddy Ashdown THU THU Paddy Ashdown reads from his favourite works of poetry and THU prose at home in Somerset, with readings by Simon Armstrong THU and Pippa Haywood, including Shakespeare, John Donne, Tagore THU and Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Music and THU verse provided by singer songwriter, Steve Knightley from THU Show of Hands THU THU Producer: Maggie Ayre. THU THU Extracts used THU THU THU THU The Good Morrow by John Donne THU THU Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare THU THU Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen THU THU The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides THU (translated by Rex Warner) THU THU The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle THU THU A Letter from 1920 by Ivo Andric (translated by Lenore THU Grenoble) THU THU Unity in Diversity by Rabindranath Tagore THU THU The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn THU (translated by Thomas P. Whitney) THU THU Satire III by John Donne THU THU THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Paddy Ashdown THU Reader: Simon Armstrong THU Reader: Pippa Hayward THU Producer: Maggie Ayre THU THU FRI FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06bd4v3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06c0cgn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06bd4v5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06bd4v7 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06bd4v9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06bd4vc (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06c0hrs (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Imam FRI Monawar Hussain. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06c0hrv (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwmk (Listen) FRI Hawaiian Crow FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the now extinct in the wild FRI Hawaiian Crow. It's hard to imagine any crow becoming FRI endangered, but only a hundred or so the formerly widespread FRI Hawaiian crow survive and all of them in captivity. Also FRI known by its Hawaiian name 'Alala' these sooty black brown FRI crows produce a chorus of caws and screeches. Early settlers FRI in the Hawaiian archipelago reduced their numbers, leaving FRI the remaining populations vulnerable to introduced FRI predators; feral pigs further reduced the fruit-laden FRI understory plants favoured by the crow. The species was last FRI seen in the wild in 2002. All may not be lost. A captive FRI breeding programme overseen by San Diego Zoo is hoping to FRI reintroduce the crows into the wild, so perhaps the Hawaiian FRI forests will once again resound with their calls. FRI FRI Hawaiian Crow (Corvus hawaiiensis) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Jack Jeffery / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref 01473774 © Jack Jeffery / naturepl.com. FRI FRI Recording of Hawaiian Crow by William V Ward / Ref: ML 13434 FRI FRI This programme contains a wildtrack FRI recording of the Hawaiian crow FRI kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab FRI of Ornithology; recorded by William V Ward on 12 Aug FRI 1961, in Hawai County, Hawaii. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06c0j89 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b06bd681 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06c45nz (Listen) FRI The White Road, Allach FRI FRI Julian Rhind-Tutt reads potter Edmund de Waal's new book. FRI FRI The author's pilgrimage to the lands and people who make FRI porcelain takes him to Dachau where he uncovers the dark FRI history of Allach porcelain FRI FRI Abridged by Jules Wilkinson FRI Produced by Gemma Jenkins. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Author: Edmund de Waal FRI Abridger: Jules Wilkinson FRI Producer: Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06c48nj (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06c48nt (Listen) FRI Sovereign, Episode 5 FRI FRI Gripping dramatisation of C J Sansom's Tudor crime novel, FRI featuring lawyer detective Matthew Shardlake and set during FRI Henry VIII's spectacular Royal Progress to the north in FRI 1541. FRI FRI Reeling from his public humiliation at the hands of King FRI Henry, Shardlake returns to York knowing that it will haunt FRI him for the rest of his life. His troubles aren't over, FRI however, because an old enemy is waiting to see him: Sir FRI Richard Rich. FRI FRI Writer: C J Sansom FRI FRI Dramatiser: Colin MacDonald FRI FRI Producer / Director: Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Shardlake: Justin Salinger FRI Barak: Bryan Dick FRI Maleverer: Stephen Critchlow FRI Radwinter: David Acton FRI Broderick: Nick Underwood FRI Tamasin: Cath Whitefield FRI Craike: Patrick Brennan FRI Rich: Chris Pavlo FRI Author: CJ Sansom FRI Adaptor: Colin MacDonald FRI Director: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 11:00 Sugar, Saris and Green Bananas b06c48pj (Listen) FRI Indo-Guyanese and Proud FRI FRI A cutlass once used for chopping sugar cane, a collection of FRI old Indian music albums and a pair of shiny red stiletto FRI shoes. Can these objects help a daughter better understand FRI her mother's past? FRI FRI Since her mother died, London-born journalist Lainy Malkani FRI has been trying to make sense of her family's history of FRI double migration. In the first programme she uncovered the FRI epic story of her ancestors who came from India to work as FRI indentured labourers on the sugar plantations of British FRI Guyana in the 19th and early 20th century. In this programme FRI she discovers how difficult it was to forge an Indo-Guyanese FRI identity for the migrants who came to build new lives in FRI Britain during the 1960s. FRI FRI "No-one knew what to make of us when we came to England. We FRI looked Indian but we didn't speak any Indian language or FRI dress in Indian clothes. If we said we were from the FRI Caribbean people didn't understand because, to most British FRI people, Caribbean just meant being black. So we became sort FRI of invisible." FRI FRI When her parents were alive they didn't speak much about the FRI past. But by going through her mum's belongings with her FRI siblings and speaking to other immigrants of that period FRI Lainy has begun to reconnect with her Indo-Guyanese FRI heritage. And as she reflects on the life her mother created FRI for herself and her children in north London, Lainy learns FRI that migration can be motivated by many things other than FRI money. FRI FRI Producer Mukti Jain Campion FRI A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Shush! b06c48pr (Listen) FRI Mobile Library FRI FRI An intruder, an ice-cream van and Daniel Barenboim make life FRI difficult for Snoo and Alice as Simon constructs a deadly FRI cornflakes-based trap. 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 FRI Snoo, a slightly confused individual, with a have-a-go FRI attitude to life, marriage, haircuts and reality. Snoo loves FRI books, and fully intends to read one one day. FRI FRI Forever popping into the library is Dr. Cadogan, celebrity FRI doctor to the stars and a man with his finger in every pie. FRI Charming, indiscreet and quite possibly wanted by Interpol, FRI if you want a discrete nip and tuck and then photos of it FRI accidentally left on the photocopier, Dr Cadogan is your FRI man. 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 and Rebecca Front FRI Based on an idea developed with Armando Iannucci FRI FRI Produced by David Tyler FRI FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Alice: Rebecca Front FRI Snoo: Morwenna Banks FRI Simon Neilson: Ben Willbond FRI Dr Cadogan: Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Ice Cream Seller: Philip Pope FRI Angry Parent: Georgie Fuller FRI Writer: Morwenna Banks FRI Writer: Rebecca Front FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06bd4vf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b06495lh (Listen) FRI 25 September 1915 - Ralph Winwood FRI FRI It's a day of ceremonies for the vicar of St Jude's. FRI FRI Written by Katie Hims FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Boy: Alexander Aze FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Peggy: Victoria Brazier FRI Sylvia: Joanna David FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Mayor: John Woodvine FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06c49ny (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06bd4vh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06c4fvh (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Computing Britain b06c4fvm (Listen) FRI Mobile Revolution FRI FRI The story of how a British company, ARM, developed tiny FRI hyper-intelligent silicon chips that drove the smartphone FRI revolution. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06c0cjc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b06c4fvt (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 6 FRI FRI Drama: Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly FRI Last in current series. Frank's suspicions about Ronnie's FRI boyfriend Nick come to a head. FRI FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank: David Schofield FRI Sarah: Kathryn Hunt FRI Ronnie: Rachel Austin FRI Nick: Graeme Hawley FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Tom Fry FRI Writer: Sharon Kelly FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06c4fvw (Listen) FRI Eden Project FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the programme from the Eden Project. FRI Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Wilson answer FRI questions from the Mediterranean Biome. FRI FRI Produced by Dan Cocker FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b06c4j1g (Listen) FRI BBC National Short Story Award 2015, Do It Now, Jump the FRI Table, by Jeremy Page FRI FRI In Jeremy Page's short story, a young man prepares to meet FRI his girlfriend's parents for the first time - in the FRI disquieting knowledge that they enjoy a somewhat alternative FRI lifestyle. FRI FRI The fifth shortlisted entry for this coveted award for the FRI short story. Now in its tenth year the award continues to FRI celebrate the very best in British short fiction and to FRI showcase writers both established and new. FRI FRI To mark the tenth year of the Award, the BBC and Book Trust FRI have launched Student Choice, in which nearly 500 16-18 year FRI old students from 20 schools around the UK cast their own FRI votes on the shortlist. FRI FRI This year also sees the launch of the BBC Young Writers' FRI Award with Book Trust. Open to 14-18 year olds, the aim of FRI this Award is to inspire and encourage the next generation FRI of short story writers and is a cross-network collaboration FRI between BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1. FRI FRI The winner and the runner-up of the coveted BBC National FRI Short Story Award 2015 will be announced live from the BBC's FRI Radio Theatre on Front Row from 7.15pm on Tuesday 6th FRI October. At the same time the inaugural winners of Student FRI Choice and the BBC Young Writers' Award will also be FRI unveiled. FRI FRI Written by Jeremy Page FRI Read by Blake Ritson FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion FRI Produced by Justine Willett. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Jeremy Page FRI Reader: Blake Ritson FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06c4k44 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b06c4k46 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06c4k48 (Listen) FRI Stephanie and John - The View from the Bike FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a blind and a sighted member of the FRI North West Tandem Club, recorded in the Booth in Derry as FRI they review the partnership between 'pilot' and 'stoker' on FRI a bicycle made for two. 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 FRI 17:00 PM b06c41jp (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06bd4vk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06c4k4d (Listen) FRI Series 88, Episode 2 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles FRI Jupp. Sara Pascoe, Jeremy Hardy and Samira Ahmed are among FRI the panellists joining Miles to dissect the week's big (and FRI not so big) news stories. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Morris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Sara Pascoe FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Samira Ahmed FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06c4k4g (Listen) FRI Will the truth ever be understood? Jill is alone with her FRI thoughts. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Joanna Toye FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard FRI Lillian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06c4k64 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06c48nt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06c4k66 (Listen) FRI Sir Vince Cable, Caroline Lucas MP, Grant Shapps MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from South Downs College in Waterlooville, Portsmouth with a FRI panel including the former Business Secretary Vince Cable, FRI the Green MP Caroline Lucas and International Development FRI Minister Grant Shapps MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06c4l20 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06495lk (Listen) FRI 21-25 September 1915 FRI FRI Omnibus edition of the Epic drama series set in Great War FRI Britain a hundred years ago this week, when Folkestone seems FRI to be poisoned by the war. FRI FRI CAST FRI Esme ..... Katie Angelou FRI Boy ..... Alexander Aze FRI Edie Kathryn Beaumont FRI Stella Ava Bell FRI Ray Scarlett Bell FRI Gabriel ..... Michael Bertenshaw FRI Juliet ..... Lizzie Bourne FRI Mrs Grimes ..... Amelda Brown FRI Peggy ..... Victoria Brazier FRI Howard ..... Gunnar Cauthery FRI Dolly ..... Elaine Claxton FRI Sylvia Joanna David FRI Marion Laura Elphinstone FRI Adam ..... Billy Kennedy FRI Kitty ..... Ami Metcalf FRI Clemmie ..... Joanna Monro FRI Ralph ..... Nicholas Murchie FRI Albert ..... Harry Myers FRI Johnnie ..... Paul Ready FRI Florrie ..... Claire Rushbrook FRI Adeline ..... Helen Schlesinger FRI Dorothea ..... Rachel Shelley FRI Woman ..... Jane Slavin FRI Alec ..... Tom Stuart FRI Lillian ..... Alex Tregear FRI Mayor ..... John Woodvine FRI FRI Written by Katie Hims FRI Story-led by Sarah Daniels FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Boy: Alexander Aze FRI Edie: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Stella: Ava Bell FRI Ray: Scarlet Bell FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown FRI Peggy: Victoria Brazier FRI Howard: Gunnar Cauthery FRI Dolly: Elaine Claxton FRI Sylvia: Joanna David FRI Marion: Laura Elphinstone FRI Adam: Billy Kennedy FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Clemmie: Joanna Monro FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Johnnie: Paul Ready FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Adeline: Helen Schlesinger FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Woman: Jane Slavin FRI Alec: Tom Stuart FRI Lilian: Alex Tregear FRI Mayor: John Woodvine FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06bd4vm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06c4l22 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06c4l24 (Listen) FRI Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, Episode 5 FRI FRI 'Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay', the new novel FRI from bestselling author William Boyd, follows one remarkable FRI woman through the decades of the twentieth century. FRI FRI In 1915, Amory's uncle unknowingly sets her life on its FRI course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No. 2 as a present FRI for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for FRI photography. Her camera will take her from high society FRI London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of FRI inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in FRI London's East End, and to France and Germany during the FRI Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female FRI war photographers. FRI FRI She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, FRI where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life FRI that has been just as rich and complex as her professional FRI one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her - FRI her father, her brother, her lovers - irreparably scarred by FRI two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of FRI conflict and loss, passion and joy. FRI FRI William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A FRI Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, FRI Restless, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Waiting for Sunrise and FRI Solo. He lives in London and South West France. FRI FRI Read by Barbara Flynn FRI Abridged by Sara Davies FRI Produced by Mair Bosworth. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Barbara Flynn FRI Author: William Boyd FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Mair Bosworth FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b06bnq1b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 With Great Pleasure b063zx1d (Listen) FRI John Finnemore FRI FRI Comedy writer and star of R4's Cabin Pressure John Finnemore FRI presents his favourite funniest readings, with the help of FRI his readers Stephanie Cole & Geoffrey Whitehead. Recorded in FRI front of an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. Great words FRI from Julian Barnes, Kurt Vonnegut, Dorothy Parker, Philip FRI Larkin, Jack Handey, Shakespeare and PG Wodehouse, and FRI comedy archive from Chris Morris and Peter Cook contribute FRI to a hilarious and warm-hearted show. FRI Producer Beth O'Dea. FRI FRI Extracts chosen FRI FRI Short pieces by Wordsworth and Housman FRI FRI FRI FRI Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare FRI FRI FRI FRI Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey FRI FRI FRI FRI First Sight by Philip Larkin FRI FRI FRI FRI A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters by Julian FRI Barnes FRI FRI FRI FRI A review of ‘The Ideal System for Acquiring a Practical FRI Knowledge of French’ by Dorothy Parker FRI FRI FRI FRI Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse FRI FRI FRI FRI God Bless You, Mr Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut FRI FRI FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: John Finnemore FRI Reader: Stephanie Cole FRI Reader: Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Producer: Beth O'Dea FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06c4lb3 (Listen) FRI Charlotte and Deborah - People and Ponies FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces two horsewomen talking about how their FRI relationships with their mounts affect their human FRI relationships. Another conversation in the series that FRI 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