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SAT SATURDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06mbt69 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06nbzds (Listen) SAT Charlotte Bronte: A Life, Affairs of the Heart SAT SAT Hattie Morahan reads Claire Harman's new and intimate SAT biography of Charlotte Bronte. This vivid and complex SAT portrait of one of our greatest novelists looks ahead to the SAT two hundredth anniversary of her birth in April 2016. Today, SAT Charlotte grieves for her brother Branwell and her sisters SAT Emily and Anne who died in quick succession. Affairs of the SAT heart are also on her mind. SAT SAT Abridged by Julian Wilkinson SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Hattie Morahan SAT Author: Claire Harman SAT Abridger: Julian Wilkinson SAT Producer: Elizabeth Allard SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06mbt6c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06mbt6f (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06mbt6h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06mbt6l (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06mv4pt (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Jasdeep SAT Singh, curator of the National Army Museum's Indian Army SAT collection. SAT SAT Script SAT Good Morning. From the middle of next week it will be SAT Diwali: one of the major festivals celebrated worldwide by SAT Hindus Sikhs and Jains. Each year for five days, clay lamps SAT filled with oil are lit and adorn houses, shops and Hindu SAT temples to welcome Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and SAT happiness. For Hindus, the festival also commemorates the SAT return of Lord Rama after 14 years of exile, during which he SAT had fought and defeated the demon king, Ravana. On Rama’s SAT return, people were joyous and lit their houses to celebrate SAT his victory over evil: a victory of light over darkness. SAT In this season of Remembrance, we recall how light has SAT triumphed in other dark times. Researching for the British SAT Army Museum, I discovered that Hindu soldiers formed the SAT majority of the British Indian Army in the First World War. SAT Many of these men were decorated for their acts of valour SAT and bravery. SAT In the battle of Cambrai one November night in 1917, with SAT his regiment cut off and surrounded by the enemy - under SAT fire, and across a six-mile stretch of open ground - one SAT Hindu soldier managed to deliver and return a vital message SAT to brigade headquarters. For this action, Gobind Singh SAT Rathore was awarded the Victoria Cross; Britain’s highest SAT award for gallantry. SAT The Diwali message of victory of good over evil is a SAT metaphor for the conflict in our own lives. Let us strive SAT with courage to fight and win the internal battle between SAT light and darkness within our own minds. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06mv4pw (Listen) SAT 'It was a very emotional discovery'. A listener finds his SAT father's World War II album and we hear an archived Your SAT News from Peter Donaldson. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06mbt6y (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06mbt74 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06mtn8g (Listen) SAT Tollesbury Wick in Essex SAT SAT Helen Mark visits Tollesbury Wick on the Essex coast. SAT Situated on the mouth of Tollesbury Fleet and the Blackwater SAT estuary, a giant sea wall snakes around the coast protecting SAT both village and ancient grazing marshland. Helen meets the SAT Wildlife Trust warden who cares for 650 hectares of unspoilt SAT 'humpy bumpy' marshland and gets a surprise when she finds SAT out what those bumps actually are. SAT SAT She learns about the seafaring history of the place from a SAT descendent of boat builders and discovers how it was the SAT Dutch who shaped this English Landscape. Meanwhile, 'wild SAT writer' James Canton and renowned sculptor, Roland Piche SAT describe how Tollesbury Wick comes alive in art and SAT literature. Tollesbury native Flavian Capes lives in the SAT middle of this vast, salty landscape and discusses being at SAT the mercy of the tides. SAT SAT Producer: Ruth Sanderson. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06ncx19 (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 Vernon Harwood. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06mbt78 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06nhpxg (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 b06nhpxj (Listen) SAT Radio 4 BBC Children in Need Auction, Ian Rankin SAT SAT On 7th November, Radio 4's Saturday Live is offering SAT listeners the chance to bid for some amazing prize packages SAT to raise money for BBC Children in Need. The phone lines SAT will be open during the programme and you'll be able to SAT place your bids for four prizes. SAT SAT There's a Just a Minute VIP Experience, a Today Programme SAT VIP Experience, a Saturday Live VIP Experience and The SAT Infinite Monkey Cage VIP Experience. SAT SAT To tell us more about what the lucky winners might SAT experience, Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by SAT Nicholas Parsons from Just a Minute, Mishal Husain from the SAT Today programme and Robin Ince from The Infinite Monkey SAT cage. SAT SAT JP Devlin will be on the team manning the phones, but be SAT aware, lines are only open during the programme. To see more SAT information about the prizes and read the full terms and SAT conditions please click on the links below. SAT SAT Ian Rankin OBE is an award-winning writer of crime fiction SAT and the creator of the Scottish detective John Rebus who he SAT has featured in 20 novels to date. On the release of his SAT latest book, Even Dogs in the Wild, he joins Richard and SAT Aasmah in the studio. SAT SAT We also hear from young people who share their personal SAT experiences of how they have benefitted from projects funded SAT by BBC Children in Need and are joined in the studio by Jess SAT Davies who completed the 450 mile Rickshaw Challenge last SAT year, which raised 2.7 million in a week. SAT SAT Antiques Roadshow auctioneer, Will Farmer, will keep us SAT updated on how the bids are progressing and who are the SAT final winners. SAT SAT And we'll have the inheritance tracks of Leona Lewis. SAT SAT And that's only the start. These prizes are exclusive to SAT Saturday Live. For details of other auction prizes and Buy SAT it Now items, you can visit Radio 4's online auction. All SAT money raised will go towards helping disadvantaged children SAT in the UK. SAT SAT More information and Terms and Conditions SAT SAT More information about the prizes SAT here SAT SAT Terms and conditions SAT here SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Nicholas Parsons SAT Interviewed Guest: Mishal Husain SAT Interviewed Guest: Robin Ince SAT Interviewed Guest: Ian Rankin SAT Interviewed Guest: Jess Davies SAT Interviewed Guest: Will Farmer SAT Interviewed Guest: Leona Lewis SAT SAT 10:30 In Pod We Trust b06nhpxl (Listen) SAT Welcome to Podland SAT SAT Miranda Sawyer presents a new, stylish round-up of the best SAT and most memorable podcasting from around the world. SAT SAT There's been an explosion in the profusion and quality of SAT podcasts, plus a new public awareness after the breakthrough SAT moment in 2014 with Serial. Suddenly, podcasts have become SAT cool. SAT SAT There are now more than 100,000 English speaking podcast SAT feeds worldwide covering everything from science to sport to SAT every conceivable niche. Last year, there were 165 million SAT podcasts downloaded just from BBC Radio 4 programmes alone, SAT and the trend is seemingly ever upwards. But is this a SAT bubble or is podcasting set to take its place alongside TV SAT and radio as a long-term media genre? SAT SAT British podcaster Helen Zaltzman guests in this first SAT episode which explores the genre, plays some great podcasts SAT and asks why it's taken off in such a big way. SAT SAT Producer: Jim Frank. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b06nhpxn (Listen) SAT Paul Waugh of the Huffington Post looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The case for air strikes on Syria -further investigatory SAT powers for the police and intelligence services and the by SAT -election in Oldham-a test for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of SAT the Labour party. Plus the progress of the EU Referendum SAT Bill -is the government getting anywhere with re-negotiating SAT Britain's terms of membership? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06mbt7b (Listen) SAT North of Timbuktu SAT SAT Fifty nations are contributing 14-thousand people to SAT peace-keeping in northern Mali - and their abilities are SAT being severely tested. The tourists have turned their backs SAT on the Greek holiday island of Lesbos but the volunteers, SAT who've flooded in to help the migrants arriving on its SAT shores, are generating new business opportunities. A visit SAT to two military cemeteries, back to back in the Ethiopian SAT capital Addis Ababa, where the dead lie after Italy's SAT African empire was brought to a abrupt end. The SAT extraordinary tenacity and stoicism of the fishermen of SAT Greenland as they prepare for the long cold winter ahead. SAT And Eccles, the Wirral and the frozen borderlands between SAT Norway and Russia are all involved in a story about a giant SAT crab and its march on western civilisation. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06mbt7d (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06nhpxq (Listen) SAT Hear how criminals impersonating TalkTalk try to steal a SAT customer's money, The King's Cross Fourex mystery SAT SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance, with SAT Paul Lewis. SAT TalkTalk Help: SAT Website attack affecting our customers SAT Action Fraud SAT Financial Ombudsman Service SAT Financial Conduct Authority: Credit card market study SAT Money Saving Expert: Credit cards and loans SAT Money Advice Service: Debt and borrowing SAT SAT SAT Social Market Foundation SAT Gov.UK: Pension Wise SAT The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06mv2zr (Listen) SAT Series 88, Episode 8 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news. Joining Miles Jupp in SAT this, the final episode of series 88, are Romesh SAT Ranganathan, Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front and Camilla Long. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Romesh Ranganathan SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Rebecca Front SAT Panellist: Camilla Long SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06mbt7m (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06mbt7r (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06mv4jq (Listen) SAT James Brokenshire MP, Lynne Featherstone, Max Hastings, Lisa SAT Nandy MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Churchill Academy School in Somerset with a panel SAT including the Immigration Minister and Security Minister SAT James Brokenshire MP, the Liberal Democrat Lynne SAT Featherstone, the author and commentator Max Hastings, and SAT the Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change SAT Lisa Nandy MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06nhr7d (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b04n20ty (Listen) SAT Lanark SAT SAT Dramatisation of Alasdair Gray's cult classic by Robin SAT Brooks with Alasdair Gray. SAT SAT First published in 1981, Lanark changed the face of Scottish SAT literature for a generation and propelled the visual artist SAT Alasdair Gray into the literary limelight. SAT SAT It's a modern masterpiece that spans three worlds in four SAT books, and tells the connected stories of Duncan Thaw - a SAT student at Glasgow's Art School in the 1950s - and Lanark - SAT a man who wakes to find himself in an unspecified period in SAT the strange yet familiar place, Unthank. SAT SAT Unthank is a city with no sun and no sense of time. It's an SAT endless present, but there are ways to escape - people SAT disappear mysteriously, others succumb to the strange SAT diseases this peculiar form of hell generates. Lanark's SAT escape will take him into another circle of hell where he'll SAT hear the story of a life that was once his and where the SAT life he now lives will change forever. SAT SAT Starring Sandy Grierson, Melody Grove and Siobhan Redmond, SAT with a guest appearance by Alasdair Gray. SAT SAT Directed by Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT Credits SAT Lanark: Sandy Grierson SAT Duncan: Sandy Grierson SAT Rima: Melody Grove SAT Marjorie: Melody Grove SAT The Oracle: Siobhan Redmond SAT Gloopy: James Anthony Pearson SAT Ritchie Smollett: James Anthony Pearson SAT Sludden: Robert Jack SAT Kenneth: Robert Jack SAT Gay: Claire Knight SAT Peggy: Claire Knight SAT Ozenfant: Finlay Welsh SAT Father: Finlay Welsh SAT Young Duncan: Sean Graham SAT MacKenzie: Angela Darcy SAT Midwife: Angela Darcy SAT Arthur: Liam Brennan SAT Young Sandy: Leo Graham SAT Nastler: Alasdair Gray SAT Author: Alasdair Gray SAT Adaptor: Robin Brooks SAT Director: Kirsty Williams SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06nhr7h (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT The home economist and cook Marguerite Patten would have SAT been 100 this week. Her daughter Judith tells us why she SAT wants everyone to cook a Marguerite Patten dinner in their SAT home in her honour and Rosemary Moon, the Chair of the Guild SAT of Food Writers committee tells us how they came up with the SAT idea. SAT SAT The legendary singer, songwriter and poet, Patti Smith talks SAT about her new memoir M Train on the 40th anniversary of her SAT hugely celebrated 1975 album Horses. SAT SAT Author Kate Mosse tells us why Chimamanda Ungozi Adichie's SAT book for Half of a Yellow Sun is the best book written by a SAT woman in the last ten years. SAT SAT Angelina Jolie took action to prevent breast cancer when she SAT knew she had the gene, why would others with a family SAT history refuse to be tested? We hear from Renee Maguire who SAT lost her sister to the disease and to Emma East who has a SAT family history of Motor Neurone Disease about their SAT decision. SAT SAT Claire Throssell's two young son's Jack and Paul died as a SAT result of a fire in their family home started deliberately SAT by their father. Claire takes us back to that day. SAT SAT We hear how autism affects teenage girls and young women SAT from Alis Rowe who is 26 and has Asperger's Syndrome and Sam SAT Ramsay who has twin daughters one of whom is on the autism SAT spectrum. SAT SAT Leather is back in fashion for Autumn/Winter 2015. So how SAT should you wear your leather or pleather skirts, jackets and SAT leggings? Stacey Duguid Fashion Director of The Pool.com and SAT journalist Lowri Turner give us their personal and expert SAT opinions. SAT SAT Presented by Jenni Murray SAT Producer Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Judith Patten SAT Interviewed Guest: Rosemary Moon SAT Interviewed Guest: Patti Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Mosse SAT Interviewed Guest: Renee Maguire SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma East SAT Interviewed Guest: Claire Throssell SAT Interviewed Guest: Alis Rowe SAT Interviewed Guest: Sam Ramsay SAT Interviewed Guest: Stacey Duguid SAT Interviewed Guest: Lowri Turner SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06nhr7k (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b06mts63 (Listen) SAT Fast Fashion SAT SAT From the design desk to the shop window, how do fast fashion SAT brands deliver the latest trends in double-quick time? Evan SAT Davis and guests discuss fabric, factories and a nimble SAT supply chain. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Catarina Midby, Sustainability manager, H & M; SAT Carol Kane, Co-founder and Joint CEO, Boohoo; SAT Kim Winser, Founder and CEO, Winser London. SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06mbt7w (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06mbt82 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06mbt8b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06nhr7m (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Scottee, Joe Brown, Mackenzie Crook, John SAT O'Farrell, The Zombies, Toyah Willcox SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Joe Brown, SAT Mackenzie Crook and John O'Farrell for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Zombies SAT and Toyah. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Joe Brown SAT Joe Brown UK Tour 2015/2016 starts on Sunday 15th November SAT at The Orchard, Dartford, with dates through to February SAT 2016. SAT SAT Mackenzie Crook SAT ‘Detectorists’ is on BBC Four on Thursdays at 22.00. SAT SAT Toyah Willcox SAT 'Toyah - Proud, Loud & Electric' is at The Garage, London on SAT Sunday 8th November. SAT SAT John O'Farrell SAT 'There's Only Two David Beckhams' is published by Black Swan SAT and out now. SAT SAT The Zombies SAT SAT ‘Still Got That Hunger’ out now on Cherry Red Records. SAT SAT The Zombies are playing at The Haunt, Brighton Tuesday 1st SAT and The Globe, Cardiff on Wednesday 2nd December. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Scottee SAT Interviewed Guest: Joe Brown SAT Interviewed Guest: Mackenzie Crook SAT Interviewed Guest: John O'Farrell SAT Performer: The Zombies SAT Performer: Toyah Willcox SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b06nhr7p (Listen) SAT Aung San Suu Kyi SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06mbt8m (Listen) SAT Brooklyn, Bob Dylan bootlegs, Mr Foote's Other Leg, Jonathan SAT Coe, Blood at the Jewish Museum SAT SAT Saoirse Ronan in the film adaptation of Colm Toibin's novel SAT Brooklyn has been touted by some critics as Oscar material; SAT do our reviewers agree? SAT Bob Dylan Bootlegs Vol 12 date from his most fecund period SAT 1965-66. How much light does a collection of outakes and SAT alternative versions throw upon his creative processes? SAT Simon Russell Beale plays an 18th century cross-dressing SAT satirist, impressionist and comedian in Mr Foote's Other SAT Leg. It's now transferred to the West End SAT Jonathan Coe's new novel Number 11 is his 11th book, SAT published on 11th November. SAT A new exhibition at London's Jewish Museum looks at the SAT significance of blood in religion through manuscripts, SAT prints, Jewish ritual and ceremonial objects, art, film, SAT literature and cultural ephemera. SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Kit Davis, Tom Holland and Kerry SAT Shale. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Kit Davis SAT Interviewed Guest: Tom Holland SAT Interviewed Guest: Kerry Shale SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06nhr7r (Listen) SAT Fifty years since the abolition of the death penalty in the SAT UK, the debate about its possible return has not gone away. SAT John Tusa looks back at how abolition was achieved and SAT considers the continuing arguments with Labour politician SAT Roy Hattersley, philosopher Roger Scruton, lawyers, SAT criminologists and other experts. SAT SAT Capital punishment was effectively abolished in the UK on SAT the 8th November 1965. It was one of the succession of SAT changes in the law - along with legalisation of abortion and SAT decriminalization of homosexuality - during the Harold SAT Wilson governments of 1964 -70 that transformed British SAT society. SAT SAT What did the abolition of capital punishment do for our SAT society? And how do the prophesies of disaster and the SAT assurances of a more moral society of the time look through SAT the prism of current homicide statistics? SAT SAT The public story of abolition has largely been told by the SAT abolitionists, focusing on notorious cases of blatant SAT mistakes, such as Timothy Evans, or apparent state brutality SAT such as Ruth Ellis or Derek Bentley. For the first time, SAT John Tusa investigates, through case papers, the resistance SAT to abolition that took place below the radar from within the SAT legal establishment. SAT SAT While the arguments were expressed in and out of Parliament SAT in high-flown language of morality and the obligations of SAT the state to protect its citizens, the archive reveals the SAT minutiae of the last days of the condemned men and women. SAT SAT John Tusa considers how far the three main issues that were SAT debated at the time - deterrence, protection from wrongful SAT execution, and the national morality - would have been SAT affected by present day evidence-gathering such as DNA SAT profiling and current victim-oriented politics. SAT Producer: John Forsyth SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06lth6p (Listen) SAT I Capture the Castle, Episode 1 SAT SAT Jane Rogers dramatises Dodie Smith's rags-to-riches tale and SAT moving coming-of-age novel with a cast of eccentrics. SAT SAT In the ruins of medieval castle, deep in rural 1930's SAT Suffolk, funny, intelligent seventeen year old Cassandra SAT Mortmain attempts to capture her family's life in a journal. SAT Their isolation is disrupted by the arrival of rich American SAT brothers Simon and Neil and desperate to escape the family's SAT grinding poverty Cassandra's beautiful older sister Rose SAT determines to marry Simon. SAT SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari. SAT SAT Credits SAT Cassandra: Holliday Grainger SAT Rose: Scarlett Alice Johnson SAT Mortmain: Toby Jones SAT Topaz: Charlotte Emmerson SAT Thomas: Sam Hattersley SAT Stephen: Harry McEntire SAT Simon: John MacMillan SAT Neil: Henry Devas SAT Shop Assistant: Martha Loader SAT Author: Dodie Smith SAT Adaptor: Jane Rogers SAT Director: Nadia Molinari SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06nhvp6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b06mg9fy (Listen) SAT Population Control SAT SAT This week the Moral Maze asks: "is it our moral duty to have SAT fewer children?" The question has been brought in to focus SAT by two stories in the past week. First, that by 2027 the SAT population of the UK is expected to top 70 million people SAT and the second that China is to end its "one child" policy. SAT With 238,737 births every day the world population is SAT rapidly approaching 7 and a half billion and will be 8 SAT billion by 2024. While many people will be campaigning for SAT tougher policies at next month's UN climate change SAT conference, should they also be calling for policies to SAT control population growth? Without some technological SAT miracle, more people will mean more unsustainable resource SAT use, worse climate change, massive population displacement SAT and large scale migration - something we're already seeing. SAT If we can foresee the suffering that unrestrained population SAT growth will cause for all those who live after us isn't it SAT our moral duty to do something about it? Is it time to SAT accept that having more than one child is just something SAT that none of us has a moral right to do? Of course, if all SAT the world's resources of food, energy, homes and knowledge SAT were evenly distributed, the problems of population would be SAT less urgent. So do we have a moral duty to take a less of SAT them so that others who were born less fortunate can have SAT more? This is global question, but also an intensely SAT personal one. Is it reasonable to expect people to sacrifice SAT their own family interests, in terms of size or privilege, SAT in favour of the common good? Is our profound love for our SAT family and our children a barrier to a more just society and SAT equitable world? Chaired by Michael Buerk, with Matthew SAT Taylor, Giles Fraser, Melanie Phillips and Anne McElvoy. SAT Witnesses are Prof Sarah Conly, Hazel Healy, Frank Furedi SAT and Dr Dernot Grenham. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b06mc9xf (Listen) SAT Programme 3, 2015 SAT SAT (3/12) SAT If Darlington is worth 550, why would Manchester be worth SAT twenty times as much as Liverpool - and why is Motherwell SAT worth Manchester and Liverpool added together? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe welcomes teams from the South of England and SAT Northern Ireland this week, clashing for the first time in SAT the current series. This year the South of England is SAT represented by the author and Independent columnist Marcus SAT Berkmann and the science writer Simon Singh. Playing for SAT Northern Ireland are the writer Polly Devlin and the SAT historian and commentator Brian Feeney. SAT SAT They'll need to muster all of their arcane general knowledge SAT and powers of lateral thinking, to tackle RBQ's trademark SAT cryptic questions. SAT As always the programme includes question ideas suggested by SAT listeners - and Tom will be revealing the answer to the SAT teaser he set at the end of the previous edition. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Last week's teaser question SAT SAT Tom asked: Why might Fry's solicitor and the greatest of all SAT Victorian engineers give you a clue as to how Jay-Z came out SAT of DC? SAT SAT The solicitor played by Stephen Fry, in the ITV drama series SAT set in East Anglia, was Peter Kingdom. Isambard Kingdom SAT Brunel is the engineer we were thinking of. Both of these SAT might suggest Jay-Z's 2006 album Kingdom Come, inspired by a SAT DC comics graphic novel of the same title - hence the SAT reference to 'coming out of DC'. SAT SAT SAT SAT Questions in this programme SAT SAT Q1 To which verb could you add four different prepositions SAT in order to: call for silence, exclude, confine, and finish SAT work? SAT SAT Q2 (from Peter Vigurs): If Darlington is worth 550, then SAT Manchester is worth twenty times Liverpool, and Motherwell SAT equals Manchester and Liverpool added together. Can you SAT explain? SAT SAT Q3 (Music/voices) Why might these make you think of Harry SAT Houdini? SAT SAT Q4 What might Dr Parnassus do with Moliere's Argan, Soren SAT Lorenson and the square root of minus 1? SAT SAT Q5 Where might you find together the first Irish Eurovision SAT winner, the man whom Donald Sinclair inspired, and Scout SAT Finch's collard-patch friend? SAT SAT Q6 (Music) In which annual competition might these all be SAT contenders? SAT SAT Q7 The first, cinematically speaking, is repeatedly bloody, SAT whilst a professed dislike of the second was allegedly used SAT as an excuse for a bloodbath. The third is an actress who SAT forms a strong bond; the fourth is also known as Miss SAT Addams; and the fifth is Gilbert's nightmare. What is the SAT sixth, and why is it popularly associated with poets? SAT SAT Q8 (from Michael Marett-Crosby): If I leave a South African SAT batsman and take the Embassy car to visit a literary mayor SAT of Rye and an apologetic mathematician, why would I end up SAT all alone? SAT SAT This week's teaser question SAT SAT What's similar about Lady Chatterley, a man without whom SAT German electronic music wouldn't have been the same, and Mrs SAT Charlie Brooker? SAT SAT Don't write or e-mail with the answer, there are no prizes - SAT but you can find out if you're right at the beginning of the SAT next edition. SAT SAT 23:30 New Lyrical Ballads b06mblgr (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT First of two programmes that will see Britain's current SAT poets reading their own work inspired by Wordsworth and SAT Coleridge's original Lyrical Ballads. That slim volume of SAT poetry, published in Wine Street in Bristol, is renowned for SAT its radical preface and considered to have marked the SAT beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. SAT Featuring Fleur Adcock, Patience Agbabi, John Burnside, SAT Gillian Clarke, Paul Farley, David Harsent, Kathleen Jamie, SAT Liz Lochhead, Ian McMillan, Andrew Motion, Sean O'Brien, SAT Alice Oswald, Ruth Padel, Don Paterson, Jean Sprackland and SAT Michael Symmons Roberts. The programme was recorded at the SAT Bristol Festival of Ideas which commissioned the work and SAT gathered all the poets together to read their work to an SAT expectant audience. The poets will be introduced by festival SAT director, Andrew Kelly. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 08 NOVEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06nl567 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Feminine Mystiques b0385kp5 (Listen) SUN Theatre Six SUN SUN By Sarah Hall SUN Read by Francesca Dymond SUN SUN Fifty years since the first publication of Betty Friedan's SUN seminal feminist work The Feminine Mystique, three leading SUN writers celebrate her influence in new short stories for SUN Radio 4 exploring the contemporary feminist landscape. SUN SUN In our final story in the series, Sarah Hall's compelling SUN story takes us to a dystopian near future in the tradition SUN of Margaret Atwood. In a world almost - but not quite - SUN recognisable to us, a young woman finds herself in a SUN terrifying situation, and a young doctor confronts a new SUN political world order that challenges her professional SUN faith. SUN SUN Sarah Hall has been chosen as one of Granta's Best Young SUN British Novelists 2013, and is author of The Carhullan Army SUN and The Electric Michelangelo. SUN SUN Producer: Allegra McIlroy. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Francesca Dymond SUN Producer: Allegra McIlroy SUN Writer: Sarah Hall SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06nl569 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06nl56c (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06nl56f (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06nl56h (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06nl725 (Listen) SUN Bells from Cathedral Church of Christ, Oxford. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b06nhr7p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06nl56k (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06nl727 (Listen) SUN New Homes, Strange Lands SUN SUN Mark Tully explores the pleasures, the pain and the SUN potentials of making your home in a new country, both for SUN those who choose to do so and for those forced to by SUN circumstance. SUN SUN He talks to Syrian poet, writer and refugee Ghias Aljundi SUN about his experiences of becoming a British citizen and he SUN draws on the work of musicians and writers from all round SUN the world, who have lived in more than one country. SUN SUN There are readings from the work of Salman Rushdie, V.S. SUN Naipaul and Gustavo Perez Firmat and music from Hans Gal and SUN Maryam Mursai. SUN SUN The readers are Samantha Bond, Sam Dastor and Ivan Pilo. SUN SUN Presenter: Mark Tully SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Broadcasting Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Half a Life SUN SUN Author: V.S. Naipaul SUN SUN Published by Vintage Books SUN SUN SUN Title: Foreign SUN SUN Author: Carol Ann Duffy SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe (in Being Human) SUN SUN SUN Title: Bilingual Blues SUN SUN Author: Gustavo Perez Firmat SUN SUN Published by Bilingual Press, Tempe Arizona SUN SUN SUN Title: Imaginary Homelands SUN SUN Author: Salman Rushdie SUN SUN Published by Granta Books SUN SUN SUN Title: The Passport SUN SUN Author: Mahmoud Darwish SUN SUN Publisher: The Greenfield Review Press SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b06nl729 (Listen) SUN Herons SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. In this programme recorded in 2003, Lionel SUN Kelleway heads to the banks of the river Medway in Kent in SUN search of herons. At the time of recording this was the SUN largest heronry in Britain standing between both wetland and SUN woodland, prompting Lionel to ask, "what are herons, SUN woodland birds, or wetland, or both?". SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06nl56m (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06nl56p (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06nl72c (Listen) SUN Coventry remembers, Vatican 'extravagance' leaked, Call the SUN Midwife nuns pack up SUN SUN A notice placed in the Jewish Chronicle by the London Beth SUN Din has called for a man to be banned from Synagogues as he SUN won't give his wife a religious divorce. Lawyer Joanna SUN Greenaway explains why they decided to 'name and shame'. SUN SUN As Myanmar holds its first contested general election in 25 SUN years there's concern that the Muslim population has been SUN denied a vote and that Buddhist monks are too influential. SUN We have the latest on polling day from our correspondent SUN there. SUN SUN Thousands of British Asians are expected to pack Wembley to SUN welcome the Indian PM Narendra Modi to the UK next week. We SUN debate if inter-religious tensions in India have worsened SUN since Modi came to power or if his policies are forging a SUN new united India. SUN SUN Two new books have exposed what they claim is, 'corruption, SUN mismanagement and waste' at the heart of the Holy See. SUN Christopher Lamb, Rome correspondent for The Tablet, tells SUN Edward Stourton about Vatican reaction to the revelations. SUN SUN Bob Walker reports on the blitz that destroyed Coventry SUN Cathedral 75 years ago and how it still shapes Remembrance SUN Sunday in the city. SUN SUN The last surviving nuns who inspired the BBC 1 drama, Call SUN the Midwife, are selling up and downsizing. Rosie Dawson SUN pays them a visit them as they pack up the prayer books. SUN SUN When hospital chaplain Jeremy Pemberton married his same sex SUN partner the licences he required to work were refused by the SUN Diocesan Bishop and he was unable to take up a new job. This SUN week an employment tribunal ruled that decision was legal. SUN Jeremy tells Edward what he plans to do next and Ruth SUN Gledhill from Christian Today analyses what this decision SUN means for the Church. SUN SUN Producers: SUN David Cook SUN Rosie Dawson SUN SUN Editor: SUN Amanda Hancox SUN SUN Photo courtesy Coventry Cathedral. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06nl72f (Listen) SUN Adoption UK SUN SUN Anne, a beneficiary of the charity Adoption UK, presents The SUN Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity. SUN Registered Charity No 1160647 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Adoption UK'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Adoption UK'. SUN SUN Adoption UK SUN Adoption UK SUN provides support, awareness and understanding for those SUN parenting or supporting children who cannot live with their SUN birth parents. 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We work closely with local authorities across the SUN UK helping them to match children and prospective adopters SUN by featuring profiles in 'Children Who Wait' of the many SUN children waiting to find their 'forever homes'. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06nl56r (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06nl56t (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06nl72h (Listen) SUN Remembrance through Music SUN SUN Can you imagine a Remembrance Service without music? Many SUN would answer no, so why does music seem to play a central SUN role in our acts of Remembrance? The celebrated composer SUN Paul Mealor reflects on the relationship between SUN remembrance, faith and music in a service for Remembrance SUN Sunday which comes live from Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, SUN led by the Dean, the Very Rev Gerwyn Capon. The BBC National SUN Chorus of Wales is accompanied by Jane Watts and directed by SUN Adrian Partington. Producer: Karen Walker. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06kh677 (Listen) SUN Roger Scruton: Offensive Jokes SUN SUN Roger Scruton says we must feel free to express opinions and SUN to make jokes that others may find offensive; censoring them SUN them only leads to a loss of reasoned argument. SUN "The policing of the public sphere with a view to SUN suppressing 'racist' opinions has caused a kind of public SUN psychosis, a sense of having to tip-toe through a minefield, SUN and to avoid all the areas where the bomb of outrage might SUN go off in your face." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger Scruton SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkym5 (Listen) SUN Blue-Footed Booby SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Galapagos Islands SUN blue-footed booby. Far off the Ecuador coastline the SUN Galapagos Archipelago is home to a strange courtship dance SUN and display of the male blue-footed booby and his large SUN bright blue webbed feet. The intensity of the male's blue SUN feet is viewed by the female as a sign of fitness and so he SUN holds them up for inspection as he struts in front of her. SUN She joins in, shadowing his actions. As the pair raise and SUN lower their feet with exaggerated slow movements, they point SUN their bills sky-wards while spreading their wings, raising SUN their tails and calling. SUN SUN Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Christophe Courteau / SUN naturepl.com. SUN N SUN PL Ref 01126446 SUN © Christophe Courteau / naturepl.com. SUN SUN 09:00 News and Papers b06nl761 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 09:15 The Archers Omnibus b06nl763 (Listen) SUN The Archers Omnibus 08/11/2015 SUN SUN It is time for a public meeting, and the Grundys try to keep SUN their chins up. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN Director: Peter Wild SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN SUN 10:30 Ceremony of Remembrance from the Cenotaph b06nl7mk (Listen) SUN Coverage of the solemn ceremony in London's Whitehall which SUN remembers the sacrifices made in two world wars and other SUN conflicts. SUN SUN 11:45 One to One b01s89mk (Listen) SUN Ritula Shah talks to Satish Kumar SUN SUN Ritula Shah was brought up as a Jain, which has renunciation SUN as one of its central tenets. Ritula has always been SUN fascinated by this idea and in this series she wants to SUN explore what it means to give up something that still has SUN value to those around you. Why do it? Where does it leave SUN your relationships with those people whose choices you will SUN have contradicted or undermined by your own? What happens SUN when you waver (as surely you must)? SUN SUN In this first programme she explores the theory with ex-Jain SUN monk, Satish Kumar. He explains his own personal journey to SUN renunciation of both the material and the spiritual while SUN still a young man and why he ultimately rejected it as a way SUN of improving the world. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06nl56y (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b06mccq7 (Listen) SUN Series 73, Episode 5 SUN SUN Durdle Dor, Back to the Future, and The First Cheque I Ever SUN Wrote are among the topics on the cards as Julian Clary, SUN Susan Calman, Josie Lawrence & Paul Merton take on the Just SUN a Minute challenge. Just how hard is it to speak for 60 SUN seconds on a given topic without deviation, hesitation or SUN repetition? Nicholas Parsons adjudicates. Hayley Sterling SUN blows the whistle. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Julian Clary SUN Panellist: Susan Calman SUN Panellist: Josie Lawrence SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06np7nk (Listen) SUN Trish Deseine Goes Home SUN SUN Trish Deseine may not be a household name in the UK. But in SUN France, the home of gastronomy, her 12 cookbooks, all SUN written in French, have sold hundreds and thousands of SUN copies, and influenced a generation of chefs, food writers SUN and home cooks. She has won international awards and in SUN 2009, was named one of the 40 most influential women in SUN France by French Vogue magazine. SUN SUN But don't let a surname deceive you. Trish was born and SUN raised in Northern Ireland, and now, after spending more SUN than 25 years in France, she has released her first book on SUN Irish food, and is returning there to live and work. SUN SUN In this programme, Trish speaks to Sheila about her life and SUN career, and the people and food that have shaped it. They SUN meet in Paris, Trish's home for most of her time in France, SUN and she shares the food, flavours, and fresh produce which SUN will always remind her of the city. SUN SUN Sheila asks Paris-based chef Stéphane Reynaud and the owner SUN of the largest cookbook shop in the world, Déborah SUN Dupont-Daguet, about the impact that Trish's writing has had SUN in France. And asks why, after all these years, Trish is SUN returning home to Ireland. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon. SUN Produced by Clare Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Trish Deseine SUN Interviewed Guest: Stephane Reynaud SUN Interviewed Guest: Deborah Dupont-Daguet SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06nl570 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06np7nn (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b06np7ns (Listen) SUN Series 4, Hands SUN SUN Hardeep cooks lunch with Corinne Hutton who's in line to be SUN the first person in the UK to have a double hand transplant. SUN Her bag is packed and the call to travel to hospital for the SUN operation could come at any moment. Not only does Corinne SUN not have any hands, she doesn't have any feet either. They SUN were amputated two years ago after what she thought was a SUN bad cough turned into pneumonia and eventually septicaemia. SUN Though doctors saved her life, they couldn't save her hands SUN and feet. She's focused on regaining her health and as much SUN independence as possible, living alone with her young son. SUN SUN Since her illness, Corinne has been busy with her own SUN physiotherapy and treatment and also raising money and SUN helping other people who have experienced life changing SUN trauma through her charity, Finding your Feet. She is hoping SUN new hands will enable her to do even more - but things will SUN get worse before they get better, as her lunch companion, SUN Mark Cahill helps explain. Mark had a hand transplant two SUN years ago. He's really pleased with the results but it is a SUN slow process and takes time to gain sensations and SUN dexterity. He can't yet hold a knife and fork but is able to SUN feel pain and hot and cold. Corinne decided to agree to have SUN a hand transplant after meeting Mark who allayed some of her SUN fears. She's going to become very dependent after her SUN transplant as she will not be able to use her forearms at SUN all for months. She believes she has coped with a lot worse SUN and is focused on the end result. Ultimately she says, "I SUN want to hold my son's hand again." SUN SUN Producer: Phil Pegum. SUN SUN Corinne Hutton and Mark Cahill SUN SUN Corinne Hutton, her brother Davy, father Colin and mother SUN Doreen SUN SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli and Davy Hutton SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli and Davy Hutton SUN SUN Hardeep in the kitchen SUN Hardeep in the kitchen SUN SUN Hardeep, Corinne and Mark SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06mv2zf (Listen) SUN Cornwall SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Cornwall. SUN SUN Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank, and Matthew Wilson answer SUN questions from the audience. SUN SUN This week the panel discuss how and when to cut back lilacs, SUN how best to cultivate a lime tree, and how to create a SUN 'tropical jungle' in a UK garden. They also reveal their SUN topical tips for this time of year. SUN SUN Matt Biggs investigates the fascinating story of the SUN inspirational plant hunter William Lobb, and Matthew Wilson SUN takes a trip round the Lost Gardens of Heligan. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Thunderbox SUN Signatures of the Helligan outdoor staff who left for WWI SUN can still be seen on the wall of the gardeners’ lavatory SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – Why has my Hibiscus stopped flowering after several SUN years? I’ve had it for eigth years, it’s in acid soil and SUN full sun. I also use chicken manure. SUN SUN Panel (in unison) – Don’t use chicken manure! SUN SUN Anne – It’s having too good a time; stop feeding it. SUN SUN Matthew – Hibiscus do quite well in pots – they respond well SUN to being strangled – so you might want to try that SUN SUN Q – Could the panel advise on the correct techniques and SUN timings for pruning overgrown Lilac trees. They’re in the SUN front garden and are about 15-20ft (4.5m-6m) tall with lots SUN of suckers. SUN SUN Chris – Tackle these when you’re feeling ambitious! We’re SUN talking about *Syringa vulgari*s – the broad-leaf, vigorous SUN Lilac. Don’t worry about over-pruning them; if they are SUN mature plants you can’t really. Cut it back about SUN two-thirds of its total height and then select the suckers SUN that you then want to allow to prosper. You will lose SUN flowering for a short period but they will come back into SUN flower. SUN SUN I think you can prune at any time. SUN SUN Q – I have a Salvia ‘Hot Lips’ – this year the flowers are SUN mainly white – how can I get the red/white flowers back? SUN SUN Matthew – The Salvia ‘Hot Lips’ does this. It’s quite SUN weather dependent. Also, the longer they are in the ground SUN they run out of steam – so you might want to add a bit of SUN general purpose fertiliser. Prune in late spring. SUN SUN SUN Q – I have a very vigorous Kiwi. It is eight-years-old – SUN when can I expect my first flower and my first fruit? SUN SUN Matthew – Kiwis like to be in pairs so it may never give you SUN the goods if you’ve only got one. SUN SUN Anne – You should prune it to encourage it to flower. There SUN is one called ‘Jenny’ that is self-fertilising if you only SUN want one. SUN SUN Chris – Think of it as a vine or a vitis – if you can grow SUN grapes then you can grow *Actinidia* (Kiwis). So give it a SUN nice sunny wall, protect it from cold winds, and train it up SUN 6-8ft (1.8m-2.4m) on a single stem and then go SUN horizontally. There is one called ‘Solo’ that is SUN self-fertilising and will fertilise others which could be SUN good. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’m replacing an old shed with a summer house and I’d SUN like to make the area around it into a tropical glade. What SUN plants can you recommend that are hardy but will give the SUN feel of a tropical jungle? SUN SUN Anne – *Clerodendrum bungei* because it looks very SUN tropical. Also, *iris confusa* – the ‘Bamboo iris’. And SUN *Persicaria* ‘Red Dragon’. SUN SUN Matthew – I would go for Hydrangea ‘Villosa’ – it’s a SUN hydrangea on steroids! Also, *Eupatorium purpureum* or ‘Joe SUN Pye’ weed. *Thalictrum* ‘Elin’ – big bamboo-like plant. SUN SUN Chris – *Musa basjoo* – the ‘Hardy Banana’. A must have is SUN *Tetrapanax papyrifer* – huge palm-like foliage and a very SUN delicate leaf. *Cannas* of course, start them off about SUN Boxing Day, say, with lots of organic matter and they’ll SUN flower in April/May. SUN SUN SUN Q – I don’t use sprays on my fruit or vegetables; how do I SUN prevent my ‘Williams Pears’ from developing acne spots? SUN They are delicious but look terrible. SUN SUN Chris – It could be difficult without sprays. Once it SUN defoliates you need to take all the foliage away and then SUN burn it rather than composting it. You need to completely SUN clean the plant in this way. You will need to hope for good SUN weather conditions too. A dry spring will really help. SUN SUN Anne – Generally improving the health of the plant helps. SUN Dig out a planting hole and mulch around the base. SUN SUN Matthew – Taking the grass away and mulching will help to SUN seal the spores in the ground. SUN SUN SUN Topical tips SUN SUN Matthew – Deep clean your glass house – perfect time of year SUN to take everything out and wash the inside thoroughly SUN SUN Anne – Sowing broad beans and hardy peas – ‘Aquadulce SUN Claudia’ or the ‘Valenciana’ for the broad beans. Make a SUN double row, about a foot (30cm) apart, and set the seeds SUN about 6 inches (15cm) apart from each other. The beans want SUN to be about 2 inches (5cm) before Christmas. SUN SUN Chris – Start protecting your plants from the wind – go out SUN with a pair of loppers and prune down your shrubs to stop SUN wind rock SUN SUN SUN Q – Is there anything that you would never, ever grow SUN again?! SUN SUN Chris – *Dracunculus vulgaris* – The Devil’s Lily or Dragon SUN Arum… it emits a rotting meat smell and stinks the house SUN out! SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06np7nv (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with three conversations between parents and their SUN sons, about having a disabled twin, having a disabled SUN father, and the joys of Lego, all in the Omnibus edition of SUN the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when SUN 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 b06np7nx (Listen) SUN I Capture the Castle, Episode 2 SUN SUN Jane Rogers dramatises Dodie Smith's classic rags to riches SUN love story. SUN SUN Following Simon's marriage proposal, Rose is whisked off to SUN a world of wealth in London and Cassandra finds herself in SUN turmoil, pining for Simon and trying to cope with her SUN father's increasingly bizarre behaviour in their ruined SUN castle. SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari. SUN SUN Credits SUN Cassandra: Holliday Grainger SUN Rose: Scarlett Alice Johnson SUN Mortmain: Toby Jones SUN Topaz: Charlotte Emmerson SUN Thomas: Sam Hattersley SUN Stephen: Harry McEntire SUN Simon: John MacMillan SUN Neil: Henry Devas SUN Author: Dodie Smith SUN Adaptor: Jane Rogers SUN Director: Nadia Molinari SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b06np877 (Listen) SUN Jeremy Gavron SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to two writers who have written SUN memoirs of their mothers: Jeremy Gavron, whose mother Sarah SUN died when he was very young, investigates her life and death SUN in his book A Woman on the Edge of Time. Novelist Kate SUN Grenville has written an account of her mother, One Life, SUN based on long conversations and documents that her mother SUN left her. The two writers share their experience of SUN documenting this most personal relationship. SUN SUN Also on the programme, the shortlist of the The Sunday SUN Times, Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year SUN Award, novelist Eugene Vodolazkin discusses his book Laurus SUN which won two of Russia's biggest book prizes and crime SUN writer FH Batacan sends a literary postcard from Manila. SUN SUN Read the introduction to Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin SUN Laurus: Introduction SUN by Eugene Vodolazkin SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Gavron SUN Interviewed Guest: Kate Grenville SUN Interviewed Guest: Eugene Vodolazkin SUN Interviewed Guest: FH Batacan SUN SUN 16:30 New Lyrical Ballads b06npkhw (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Second of two programmes that will see Britain's current SUN poets reading their own work inspired by Wordsworth and SUN Coleridge's original Lyrical Ballads. That slim volume of SUN poetry, published in Wine Street in Bristol, is renowned for SUN its radical preface and considered to have marked the SUN beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. SUN Featuring Fleur Adcock, Patience Agbabi, John Burnside, SUN Gillian Clarke, Paul Farley, David Harsent, Kathleen Jamie, SUN Liz Lochhead, Ian McMillan, Andrew Motion, Sean O'Brien, SUN Alice Oswald, Ruth Padel, Don Paterson, Jean Sprackland and SUN Michael Symmons Roberts. The programme was recorded at the SUN Bristol Festival of Ideas which commissioned the work and SUN gathered all the poets together to read their work to an SUN expectant audience. The poets will be introduced by festival SUN director, Andrew Kelly. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b06mfwcn (Listen) SUN Locum Doctors: Bad for Your Health? SUN SUN How safe are we in the hands of locum staff at NHS SUN hospitals? The Government's crackdown on big fees charged by SUN agencies that hire them out has been making headlines, but SUN what's being done to ensure they are up to the job? SUN Allan Urry investigates recent cases which raise questions SUN about the quality of care delivered by some temporary staff. SUN Should an agency doctor have better assessed a poorly SUN surgical patient on his ward who died a short time later SUN from a post -operative bleed? The programme also asks how SUN well the agency sector is regulated following the revelation SUN that a partly-qualified doctor was able to treat more than SUN 3000 patients after lying about his qualifications. SUN Reporter: Allan Urry Producer: David Lewis. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b06nhr7p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06nl572 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06nl574 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06nl576 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06np879 (Listen) SUN Simon Parkes SUN SUN Simon Parkes chooses his BBC Radio highlights from the past SUN week. SUN SUN According to the Collins English Dictionary, the word of the SUN year for 2015 is... 'Binge-watch' - the definition being 'to SUN watch a large number of television programmes in succession' SUN and this week Simon has emerged from a Binge-Listen session SUN to proudly announce that in Pick of the Week, he'll be SUN exploring the on-going power of being a Dame - especially in SUN Australia - how to inflate a flamingo-shaped lilo and the SUN best possible pronunciation of 'gobble-de-gook' he's ever SUN heard. SUN SUN The Pick of the BBC Radio iPlayer this week is Tim Key and SUN Gogol's Overcoat. SUN SUN Produced by Stephen Garner. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06nnbwq (Listen) SUN On Remembrance Sunday, Ambridge remembers the fallen. Eddie SUN musters some fighting spirit. SUN SUN 19:15 Junior Just a Minute b06npj0t (Listen) SUN The classic BBC Radio panel game gets a youthful twist, as SUN 11-13 year olds join established players of the game to SUN speak for a minute without hesitation, repetition or SUN deviation. SUN SUN Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence make up the grown-up half of SUN each team, and are joined by Mathilda from Edinburgh, and SUN Douglas from Cheshire. SUN SUN Recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre with the same wonderful SUN host as Just A Minute, Nicholas Parsons. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN SUN 19:45 Nights of the Hunter b06npkfd (Listen) SUN Anti-Fan SUN SUN Stories that dwell in the shadows. A set of SUN specially-commissioned tales about pursuers and the pursued. SUN SUN Episode 3 (of 3): Anti-Fan by Neil Noon. Talent show hopeful SUN Jarell lies in a coma after being attacked near his home. SUN But his friend Diz suspects it might be a publicity stunt. SUN SUN Neil Noon is a recovering music journalist, raised in one of SUN the north's more obscure new towns. Moving south to promote SUN events in pubs, clubs and galleries, he eventually turned SUN his back on a nocturnal lifestyle to refocus on writing. In SUN this he has been guided, supported and corrected when SUN necessary by New Writing South, and is about to start work SUN on his debut novel. Anti-Fan is his first story for radio. SUN SUN Writer: Neil Noon SUN Reader: Lloyd Hutchinson SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Neil Noon SUN Reader: Lloyd Hutchinson SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b06mv2zm (Listen) SUN Free speech and Guantanamo reporting SUN SUN Roger Bolton hears listeners' views on Vanessa Feltz's SUN interview with a gay man awarded £7,500 by a judge in a SUN landmark case. The man was said to have been a victim of SUN discrimination that was purely non-verbal after he claimed SUN he had been abused by a member of shop staff who used SUN homophobic gestures at him over several months. Some SUN listeners felt that the exchange went too far and forced the SUN man into a distressing situation. Roger speaks to one such SUN listener to debate the line between journalistic rigour and SUN journalistic insensitivity. SUN SUN Also, when Roger Scruton appeared on Radio 4's A Point of SUN View, some listeners found his advocacy of free speech a SUN refreshing antidote to certain modern sensibilities, but SUN others felt that the freedoms he was endorsing could result SUN in abuse of groups such as homosexuals and Muslims. Roger SUN Scruton discusses the balance between free speech and social SUN equality, and the place of political correctness in the SUN modern age. SUN SUN And in the week when the last British resident to be held at SUN Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre, Shaker Aamer, was released SUN after 13 years' imprisonment without charge, some listeners SUN were surprised to hear contribution from a think tank SUN calling his innocence into question. Roger Bolton speaks to SUN the Editor of the Today programme Jamie Angus, to put the SUN concerns to him and discuss the nature of balanced SUN contribution. SUN SUN Producer: Katherine Godfrey SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06mv2zk (Listen) SUN Norman Moore, Diane Charlemagne, Professor David Cesarani, SUN Colin Welland and Peter Donaldson SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Norman Moore, the conservationist who discovered that SUN organochorine pesticides were decimating the UK's bird of SUN prey population. He fought a twenty year campaign to have SUN them banned. SUN SUN The singer Diane Charlemagne - known as the diva of drum and SUN bass. We have a tribute from Moby. SUN SUN The academic David Cesarani - a leading authority on modern SUN Jewish history. SUN SUN The actor and screenwriter Colin Welland who, on winning an SUN Oscar for Chariots of Fire, announced "The British Are SUN Coming". SUN SUN And a powerful poem read by the Radio 4 newsreader and Chief SUN Announcer Peter Donaldson. SUN SUN Norman Moore SUN SUN Matthew spoke to David Chelmick, friend and fellow SUN conservationist. SUN SUN Born 24 February 1923; died 21 October 2015 aged 92 SUN SUN Diane Charlemagne SUN SUN Matthew spoke to music journalist Jacqueline Springer and SUN Moby pays tribute. SUN SUN Born 2 February 1964; died 28 October 2015 aged 51 SUN SUN Professor David Cesarani OBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Friend, fellow student, and now Director of SUN the Institute of Historical Research, Lawrence Goldman. SUN SUN Born 13 November 1956; died 28 October 2015 aged 58 SUN SUN Colin Welland SUN SUN Last Word spoke to author Tony Hannan. SUN SUN Born 4 July 1934; died 2 November 2015 aged 81 SUN SUN Peter Donaldson SUN SUN Matthew spoke to former BBC Radio 4 continuity SUN announcer, Peter Jefferson. SUN SUN Born 23 August 1945; died 2 November 2015 aged 70 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06nhpxq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06nl72f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b06mcfdp (Listen) SUN Currencies and Countries SUN SUN Looking at the UK, reunified Germany and the European Union, SUN the former Conservative Cabinet Minister John Redwood MP SUN asks how successful a currency union can be without SUN political union behind it. SUN After the travails of the eurozone in the wake of Irish, SUN Portuguese, Spanish and - above all - Greek woes, John SUN Redwood argues that the pressure is growing on the countries SUN which use the euro to move closer politically. But not SUN everyone in those countries agrees, as he discovers. SUN Meanwhile, in the UK, leading Scottish Nationalists continue SUN to make the argument for Scotland to become independent SUN while retaining the pound. But how sustainable is this SUN position? And what are the lessons of the decision by the SUN German government to bring together the old East and West SUN using a currency union that valued both countries' SUN currencies at the same rate despite a huge gap in the SUN productivity between the two? SUN SUN Producer: Simon Coates. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06nl578 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06npkft (Listen) SUN Peter Hitchens of the Mail on Sunday looks at how the papers SUN covered the week's stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06mtqsr (Listen) SUN Bradley Cooper, Nick Hornby SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN Bradley Cooper reveals his plans to write, direct and star SUN in a personal project and why he'd rather be bad in a great SUN movie rather than great in a bad movie. SUN SUN Nick Hornby discusses his adaptation of Colm Toibin's novel SUN Brooklyn and why he wanted to turn it into an old fashioned SUN weepie that would break people's hearts. SUN SUN As the world's largest youth film festival, Into Film, SUN begins, we hear from a 14 year old debutant who's just made SUN a short movie in 5 days. SUN SUN INTO FILM SUN Into Film is an education charity that seeks to put film at SUN the heart of children and young people's learning, SUN contributing to their cultural, creative and personal SUN development. The Into Film Festival is the largest youth SUN film festival in the world and runs from 4 – 20 November. SUN All events are free and can be booked by educators SUN here SUN SUN SUN ALEC - SERIAL SEDUCER OR HOPELESS ROMANTIC? SUN Do you agree with Francine that he’s had brief encounters SUN before? Email us your thoughts at SUN thefilmprogramme@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Bradley Cooper SUN Interviewed Guest: Nick Hornby SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06nl727 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 09 NOVEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06nl589 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06mg9fh (Listen) MON The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, The MON hidden life of domestic things MON MON The Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) has MON stirred more passionate controversy than any other trade MON negotiations. Critics suggest it will undermine democracy MON and workers' rights, lowering health and safety standards MON and eroding public services; supporters claim it will MON produce spectacular growth and job creation. Laurie Taylor MON explores the likely costs and benefits in a discussion with MON Gabriel Siles-Brugge, Lecturer in Politics at the University MON of Manchester and co-author of an analysis of the TTIP. MON They're joined by the Rt Hon Lord Maude of Horsham, Minister MON of State for Trade and Investment. Also, the hidden life of MON domestic things. Sophie Woodward, Lecturer in Sociology at MON the University of Manchester, explores the dormant objects MON we stash away in drawers, cupboards and lofts. What can they MON tell us about the history of our homes, lives and MON relationships? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Dormant Things Project - University of Manchester MON projects.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/dormant-things/?pag MON _id=2 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06nl725 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06nl58c (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06nl58f (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06nl58h (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06nl58k (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06phm42 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Jasdeep MON Singh, curator of the National Army Museum's Indian Army MON collection. MON MON Script MON Good morning. A century ago in India, whilst fireworks lit MON up the night skies during the festival of Diwali, drowning MON out the children’s screams of excitement; Indian soldiers MON heard explosions and cries of a different kind resonating on MON the battlefields of the Great War. I was recently asked; how MON did the Indian soldiers (known as Sepoys) celebrate Diwali MON during the war, if at all? MON What information we have comes from letters written home, MON and I’d like to sare a glimpse into how two Indian soldiers MON celebrated this festival, in 1914: MON ‘Sometimes I lose track of the days here, but somebody told MON me it was Diwali: my first away from home. The Rajput cook MON and me lit a couple of small lamps and prayed. He used some MON spices he had siphoned away before leaving India and added MON it to our vegetable rations. Not as good as your food, but MON better than normal. We explained Diwali to a few of the MON white people. They did not understand (Christianity only has MON one God), but a few of them lit their cigarette lighters in MON solidarity. ‘ MON This letter reminds me of a school assembly as a child, MON where I made deeva lamps with my class for Diwali. Our MON teacher lit four deevas using one she had made. From this we MON learnt how the one flame was multiplied, and the light was MON not shortened, but spread, symbolising the one light within MON us all. MON Of course light helps us to see things more clearly - MON however, Diwali represents an internal light within us, MON sparked from knowledge that helps give us foresight and MON clarity when tackling issues and problems. MON Let us always see this light in ourselves - and others - to MON help guide us daily. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06nn1xj (Listen) MON Tenant farmers, Ice cream success story, Agritechnica MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Caz Graham. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06nl58m (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlphq (Listen) MON Southern Cassowary MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Chris Packham presents the roaring southern cassowary of MON Australia's Queensland. The territorial roaring calls of the MON world's second heaviest bird, the cassowary are odd enough, MON but it still won't prepare you for your first sighting of MON these extraordinary birds. Reaching a height of over 1.5 MON metres, they have thick legs armed with ferocious claws, MON blue - skinned faces and scarlet dangling neck- wattles. MON These are striking enough but it is the large horn, or MON casque, looking like a blunt shark's fin on the bird's head MON that really stands out. It's earned this giant its common MON name - cassowary comes from the Papuan for "horned head". MON Such a primitive looking creature seems out of place in the MON modern world and although the southern cassowary occurs MON widely in New Guinea, it's still hunted for food there. MON Cassowaries can kill dogs and injure people with their stout MON claws, but the bird usually comes off worst in MON confrontations. MON MON Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Ediwn Giesbers / naturepl.com MON MON NPL Ref MON 01364564 MON © Ediwn Giesbers / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b06phm48 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06nn1xn (Listen) MON Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival MON MON Anne McElvoy presents a special edition of Start the Week at MON the Free Thinking Festival at Sage, Gateshead, exploring MON injustice, myth and the role of the poet 'to name the MON unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides'. The American MON poet Claudia Rankine exposes the ever-present racial MON tensions in contemporary society, while the Syrian poet Amir MON Darwish, having arrived in the UK hanging underneath a lorry MON on a cross-channel ferry, writes of love, loss, exile and MON demonisation. The historian Catherine Fletcher looks at the MON stories told about Alessandro de'Medici, the 16th century MON duke of Florence who was believed to be mixed-race, and what MON those stories tell us about attitudes to race, while the MON philosopher Jules Holroyd tackles the thorny issue of MON implicit and unconscious bias. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Supporting content MON Photo credit: John Lucas MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Anne McElvoy MON Interviewed Guest: Claudia Rankine MON Interviewed Guest: Amir Darwish MON Interviewed Guest: Jules Holroyd MON Interviewed Guest: Catherine Fletcher MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06nn7cw (Listen) MON Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The MON Life of Gore Vidal, Episode 1 MON MON The authorised behind-the-scenes biography of one of MON America's great and most under-rated man of letters, the MON cosmopolitan and wickedly satirical Vidal, from a devoted MON yet candid old friend. MON MON In Episode 1, the author Jay Parini recalls his first MON encounter with Gore and describes a privileged, lonely MON childhood and the birth of the political, social and sexual MON interests that would last a lifetime. MON MON Written by Jay Parini MON Read by Toby Jones MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON MON Produced and directed by Clive Brill MON A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Toby Jones MON Author: Jay Parini MON Abridger: Eileen Horne MON Director: Clive Brill MON Producer: Clive Brill MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06nn7cy (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 b06nn7d0 (Listen) MON Children in Need: D for Dexter, Episode 1 MON MON Skye hates to leave her baby brother Dexter with the MON foster-whatevers, but she knows that come Thursday, they'll MON all be back together. MON MON With Mum. MON MON And if that visit goes well, maybe they can both stay for MON more than a night. MON MON Skye and Dexter return in this heart-breaking, heart-warming MON story by Amanda Whittington, in one of the highlights of MON this year's BBC Children in Need Appeal on Radio 4. MON MON Skye is twelve, Dexter is three. They live in Gainsborough, MON Lincolnshire, but they were taken away from their Mum last MON year after things got bad. MON MON There's nothing Skye wants more than to have the family back MON together. Her Mum has stopped drinking and Skye has had MON supervised visits. Now she's here for the whole of half-term MON and Dexter is coming too for the first time. Not the last MON time. MON MON Skye and Dexter's story was developed with the help of Hull MON Children's University and Voice of Young People in Care, MON both organisations that receive funding for specific MON projects from BBC Children in Need. MON MON Writer...Amanda Whittington MON Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON Credits MON Skye: Sydney Wade MON Dexter: Alfie Johnson MON Joe: Bill Rodgers MON Jak: Una McNulty MON Dean: Peter Caulfield MON Amber: Liz Godber MON Ant: John Elkington MON Director: Mary Ward-Lowery MON Writer: Amanda Whittington MON MON 11:00 The Invention of... b06knkfs (Listen) MON France, Maximilien Robespierre MON MON On July 28 1794 one of the great names of the French MON Revolution met madame guillotine in front of the Parisian MON mob. Maximilien Robespierre lived quite nearby his place of MON execution, in Rue Saint Honore where he lodged with a master MON carpenter called Maurice Duplay. Robespierre was a pacifist, MON a man of the people ... yet no other name is more associated MON with the Terror than this man, and his death is among the MON most dramatic of all these bloody years. MON MON In the second Invention of France, Misha Glenny explores the MON impact of the Revolution through the life of this man. MON Robespierre troubles many French people - the plaque on his MON house has been scratched away in the past. Why has he taken MON virtually all the blame for the executions and chaos of MON these years? Perhaps he plays a similar role to Oliver MON Cromwell, except French history is not the same as ours, not MON all. MON MON "Revolution is the spine of recent French history - 1789, MON 1830, 1848, 1870, 1936, 1968." MON MON With contributions from Marisa Linton, Ruth Scurr, Joel MON Felix, Jonathan Fenby and Jeremy Black. MON MON The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde. MON MON 11:30 Dilemma b01r9rtd (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 5 MON MON Sue Perkins presents the panel show that has no right MON answers - just deeply damning ones. With Jason Cook, Cerys MON Matthews, David Aaronovitch and Sara Pascoe. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06nl58p (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 The Why Factor b06nn7d2 (Listen) MON Series 2, Graffiti MON MON In large parts of the world, at most times in history, walls MON in public spaces have been decorated by illicit art. When MON the public were allowed into the homes of wealthy Romans, MON graffiti soon began to appear and it was regarded as a MON weakness to remove it. The modern day graffiti artist risks MON being arrested and even death, climbing into forbidden MON premises to spray private buildings or parked subway trains. MON Why do so many people like making graffiti art? MON MON Presenter:Mike Williams MON Producer:Rose de Larrabeiti MON Editor:Andrew Smith. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06nn7d4 (Listen) MON Social Care, Airbags, Lasting power of attorney MON MON The Government is about to decide how much money will be MON spent on social care over the next five years. Many are MON agreed that social care is underfunded and in crisis, MON putting an unsustainable strain on the NHS, and leaving tens MON of thousands of people without care. All this week in this MON series of mini-manifestos, we hear from people involved in MON the social care sector about what they think should be in MON the Chancellor's November Spending Review (November 25th). MON MON Last week regulators in the US announced that Takata would MON be fined for selling botched airbags. It's at the root of a MON massive recall tied to seven deaths in the U.S. and more MON than 100 injuries. The Japanese company will be hit with MON additional fines if it fails to adhere to safety measures in MON the future. MON MON Claire Harvey is used to air travel. She's a Paralympian, MON who captained the sitting volleyball team in London 2012 but MON made the transition to track and field by switching to MON discus and javelin. Claire's just come back from Doha, MON Qatar, where she's been taking part in the International MON Paralympic Committee Athletics World Championships. She had MON to leave early having picked up a shoulder injury, and she MON told You&Yours why her flight home, with the official MON carrier for the games, Qatar Airlines, left her feeling like MON a third class citizen. MON MON Independent book shops have for years been in decline. In MON 2005 there were 1535 independent bookshops in the UK. There MON are now 939 - the lowest since records began. Bookshops are MON fighting against growing online sales and the fact that MON e-readers are forming 30% of UK book purchases. The biggest MON of these has been Amazon's kindle e-reader. Last week Amazon MON announced they were opening their first traditional book MON shop. And the Managing Director of Waterstones has said the MON British book retailer will no longer be stocking Kindles MON after 'pitiful sales'. He's replacing them with print books. MON So are we witnessing the return of the physical book shop on MON our high street? MON MON Very few people have any legal arrangements in place, MON nominating someone to make decisions on their behalf if they MON become incapacitated and can no longer make decisions for MON themselves. According to research published this morning by MON YouGov only seven in every hundred people have made these MON arrangements - granting what is called a Legal Power of MON Attorney to someone they trust to act in their best MON interests should the need arise. MON MON Claire Harvey MON Team GB Paralympian Claire Harvey MON MON 12:57 Weather b06nl58r (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06phm4d (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre MON and Screen b06nnbwl (Listen) MON The Big Time MON MON In the first of ten programmes tracing a century of black MON British theatre and screen, Lenny Henry begins with the MON breakthrough moment when Kwame Kwei-Armah's celebrated MON tragedy Elmina's Kitchen, set on so-called Murder Mile in MON Hackney, was staged first at the National Theatre to great MON acclaim in 2003, and then - a first for a black British play MON - received a major West End transfer to the Garrick Theatre MON in 2005. MON MON In this programme, Lenny talks to the actor, singer, MON playwright and now theatre artistic director, Kwame MON Kwei-Armah about that key moment in his career, and in the MON history of the black British stage; a moment described at MON the time by the Daily Telegraph as 'boom-time for black MON theatre'. MON MON Elmina's Kitchen features an all-black cast of characters MON and is set in a Caribbean café in London, MON where family ties, gang violence, inter-generational MON conflict, tenderness and seething anger all mix in a classic MON story of jealousy, loyalty, masculinity and betrayal. MON MON Series Consultant Michael Pearce MON Producer Simon Elmes. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06nnbwq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06nndfz (Listen) MON Fat Little Thing, Episode 1 MON MON As Louise recalls the loss of her mother as a young girl she MON finds herself remembering and reliving her childhood MON experiences and emotions - the overwhelming grief, MON isolation, and desperate desire for love and reassurance. MON Louise is a spirited girl with a vivid imagination and it is MON to her imagination she retreats to deal with the grief and MON loneliness she experiences. For there she can conjure up her MON favourite TV stars and musical heroes for company: Cheyene MON Bodie, Tommy Steele, Harry Secombe and Cliff Richard. MON MON When her father introduces her to the beautiful Margaret to MON whom he will soon be married, Louise is delighted and MON imagines a perfect, happy future with her new family and her MON new mummy. But when tragedy strikes her family for a second MON time, Louise retreats further into herself and her imaginary MON world and comes up with a desperate plan; one she hopes will MON make what's gone wrong right and make her family happy once MON again. MON MON A new two-part drama from Lucy Gannon (The Best of Men, MON Soldier Soldier, Frankie, Bramwell) starring Julie MON Hesmondhalgh and Amy Beth McNulty. MON MON Writer ..... Lucy Gannon MON Producer ..... Heather Larmour. MON MON Credits MON Louise: Julie Hesmondhalgh MON Young Louise: Amy-Beth McNulty MON Dad: Paul Stonehouse MON Margaret: Zoe Telford MON Auntie Rose: Melanie Kilburn MON Peter: Jack Hollington MON Cheyenne: Stephen Hogan MON Father Burns: Andrew Secombe MON Writer: Lucy Gannon MON Producer: Heather Larmour MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b06nnnl9 (Listen) MON Programme 4, 2015 MON MON (4/12) MON Northern Ireland take on Scotland in the contest of cryptic MON connections, with Tom Sutcliffe in the chair to ensure fair MON play. Val McDermid and Roddy Lumsden of Scotland are MON defending their Round Britain Quiz champions' title. The MON challengers from Northern Ireland are long-standing regulars MON Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney. MON MON The programme's trademark questions will require both sides MON to delve into the most arcane depths of their knowledge, MON spanning words coined by famous authors, culinary recipes, MON British rock albums and curious historical mishaps. If MON that's whetted your appetite, jojn Tom and the teams for the MON fourth contest of the 2015 series, when Tom will also be MON revealing the answer to the teaser question left hanging at MON the end of the last programme. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06np7nk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Pete & Clive b06nnnlc (Listen) MON Pete Atkin and Clive James have shared a partnership in MON songwriting for half a century since their University days MON in Cambridge, creating an archive of 300 or more songs known MON for their intellectual ranking. MON MON "Writing song lyrics is my favourite form of writing MON anything. But I've never managed to become famous for it" MON declares Clive. MON MON Pete and Clive's songs are reminiscent of The Great American MON Songbook. Although Pete is well known for performing the MON songs, they were also writing songs for other people to sing MON in a similar tradition to Tin Pan Alley. MON MON In the 1970s, their musical partnership was described as MON "one of the best song-writing partnerships alive", alongside MON Elton John, Joni Mitchell and The Beatles. At this time, MON Pete Atkin was the most booked artist on The John Peel Show MON for two years running. The songs gained most recognition in MON the 1970s thanks to DJ Kenny Everett and recordings by MON singers Julie Covington and Val Doonican. MON MON In this programme, we hear revealing and personal MON reminiscences from Pete and Clive today as they discuss how MON it all began, the differences between writing poetry and MON song, and their thoughts on the future of their songs. MON Friends and colleagues contribute a personal insight into MON this unique pairing, considered to be masters of their craft MON by Stephen Fry, Bruce Beresford, Daniel Finklestein, Simon MON Wallace and Russell Davies. MON MON Why is this the missing part in Clive James' career despite MON it being the one thing he wants to be most remembered for? MON MON Producer: Hayley Redmond MON A Sue Clark production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b06nnnlf (Listen) MON Series 8, Body MON MON Since ancient Greece and probably before we've always used MON metaphors drawn from our current technology to understand MON our bodies. From the time of Newton we thought of the body MON as an elaborate clockwork device, the industrial revolution MON brought us the steam engine and the body became a system of MON pressures and levers. Aleks Krotoski asks what metaphor MON prevails in the digital era and what shortcomings in our MON understanding accompany these analogies. MON MON Producer: Peter McManus. MON MON 17:00 PM b06nnnlh (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06nl58t (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b06nnnlk (Listen) MON Series 73, Episode 6 MON MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the long running panel show where MON guests must try to speak without hesitation, deviation or MON repetition. MON MON Sue Perkins, Tony Hawks and Gyles Brandreth are joined by MON newcomer to the game Andy Hamilton, who has a few problems MON with the rules. MON MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Sue Perkins MON Panellist: Tony Hawks MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Andy Hamilton MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06nnnlm (Listen) MON Someone appears to be in business, and has Lynda got her MON woman? MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06nnnlp (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06nn7d0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Muslim Sex Doctor b06nnnlr (Listen) MON The Muslim Sex Doctor captures counselling sessions between MON clients and an Imam working as a sex therapist, offering a MON unique insight into British Muslim sex lives. MON MON We'll hear what issues affect the community and how one man MON is trying to change the way in which sex problems are MON discussed and remedied. MON MON Psychologist and Imam Alyas Karmani is a man on a mission. MON He offers a bespoke service dealing with everything from MON masturbation to the Islamic stance on S and M and MON discovering the 'joy of Muslim sex'. MON MON Through Imam Alyas's counselling we'll get a valuable MON insight into a community that normally just doesn't talk MON about sex. We'll unpack the impact of unspoken desire and MON through this, develop a new understanding of the Muslim MON community in modern Britain. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b06nnnlt (Listen) MON Will They Always Hate Us? MON MON The Middle East conflict and other long-running MON international disputes have so far proved incapable of MON resolution by war or traditional diplomacy. So are the MON parties fated always to hate each other? Or might there be MON another approach that could be worth trying? MON MON David Edmonds explores new ideas that psychologists are MON testing which could offer a way of tackling seemingly MON intractable disputes. These include understanding the real MON importance of sacred sites and how to negotiate about them, MON how to achieve empathy with opponents and the importance of MON how different sides understand historical events and how MON these then lastingly shape how different groups view each MON other. MON MON The programme also hears from those with direct experience MON of conflict resolution and negotiation to understand how MON they react to what the latest research has to say. These MON include Senator George Mitchell, who was famously involved MON in talks over both Northern Ireland and the Middle East, and MON Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's former chief of staff Jonathan MON Powell, author of "Talking with Terrorists". MON MON Producer Simon Coates. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9lgh (Listen) MON Cockroach MON MON For as long as humans have been around, we've had the MON cockroach as an uninvited house guest. No other MON creepy-crawly has the power to elicit such strong feelings: MON the horror of uncleanliness and the involuntary shudder that MON only a scuttling cockroach can bring, as it vanishes behind MON the bread bin. MON MON But they've entered our imaginations as well as our living MON spaces. We may have given the cockroach its dark reputation, MON but this insect is a survivor. Disgusting and revolting are MON some of the more polite descriptions we use for cockroaches. MON Is that because we associate them with squalor and poor MON hygiene, or because they hold a mirror up to the less MON savoury side of human nature? MON MON But there is a different side to this great survivor. MON Probably the most famous cockroach in literature is Franz MON Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis. Films such as Men in MON Black use the cockroach as a metaphor for alien arrivals. MON The cockroach can feed our imagination in other ways too. MON Its reputation can also be turned inward to explore MON humanity, satirically described by Archy the cockroach early MON last Century. It's no wonder then that in Australia, MON attempts were made to bring the worlds biggest cockroach to MON the tourism trail. MON MON Dr George Beccaloni MON Dr George Beccaloni is curator of the MON Natural History Museum MON London’s collection of cockroaches, termites, praying MON mantids, earwigs, ice crawlers, stick insects, grasshoppers, MON crickets and bush crickets. He also curates the historic MON A. R. Wallace Insect Collection MON - a grand total of about 790,000 specimens both dry pinned MON and in spirit. MON In 1999, he set up the MON A.R. Wallace Memorial Fund MON and in 2002 he played a key role in helping the Natural MON History Museum’s library acquire the world's largest and MON most important collection of Wallace’s manuscripts, books MON and insect specimens from his grandsons, made up of more MON than 6,000 items. He is also the director of the MON Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project MON MON Jilly Goolden MON Jilly Goolden presented the television series Food & MON Drink for nearly two decades and became famous as the most MON widely-known wine expert in the UK. MON A new generation took to her after her stint in the jungle MON for ITV’s MON I’m A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here! MON She also presented BBC One's MON The Great Antiques Hunt MON and Going, Going, Gone, and featured as a regular presenter MON on the BBC's Holiday programme. MON MON Professor Jeff Lockwood MON Professor Jeff Lockwood began his career as an insect MON ecologist at the University of Wyoming in 1986. But over MON the course of 20 years he metamorphosed into a Professor of MON Natural Sciences & Humanities, working in the Philosophy and MON Creative Writing departments. MON He teaches courses in natural resource ethics, environmental MON justice and the philosophy of ecology, along with creative MON non-fiction writing workshops. He is the author of MON award-winning books including MON The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe and Love Insects MON MON Dr Tom Turpin MON Dr Tom Turpin is a Professor of Entomology at Purdue MON University, Indiana. He has taught a variety of courses from MON pest management to insects in prose and poetry and theatre. MON He started the MON Bug Bowl at Purdue University MON and an insect knowledge quiz bowl for students called MON the Linnaean Games. He writes a regular popular column on MON insects for newspapers entitled “On 6 Legs”, MON available as a podcast MON and transcription, and is the author of two popular books MON and one textbook on insects. MON MON Paul Williams MON Paul Williams is a producer and director at the BBC Natural MON History Unit. Some of his most exciting encounters include MON filming rare 20 inch long leeches on Mount Kinabalu in MON Borneo, joining conservationists as they rescued orangutan MON in Sumatra, and exploring the Naica cave, ‘the deadliest MON place on earth’ - home to the world’s biggest crystals. MON Before joining the BBC Natural History Unit Paul studied MON palaeontology at the Natural History Museum in London MON following his childhood obsession for all things MON prehistoric. MON MON Dr Susan Villarreal MON Dr Susan Villarreal is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell MON University, where she earned her doctoral degree in MON Entomology. At Cornell she teaches a class called “Insects MON in Science Fiction and Popular Culture.” MON In her free time, she runs her website MON Insect Interviews MON which is focused on educating children about insect biology MON and behavior through humorous one-on-one interviews with the MON bugs themselves. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06nn1xn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06nl58w (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06nnnlw (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06nnnly (Listen) MON Death in the Fifth Position, Episode 1 MON MON With McCarthyism reaching fever pitch in 1950s America, MON Peter Sargeant - a dashing PR man - is hired by the Grand St MON Petersburg ballet to fend off rumours that their star MON choreographer is a communist. But New York's ballet world is MON shocked when, on the opening night, the lead ballerina MON plummets to her death from a wire, maintaining her classical MON pose in the 'fifth position' as she hits the floor. MON MON Gore Vidal's earlier novel The City and the Pillar was MON published in 1948 when the author was 23 years old. Its MON central story of a homosexual relationship caused such a MON scandal that the New York Times book critic refused to MON review any book by Gore Vidal. Others followed his lead and MON the author found himself at a loss as to how to continue to MON earn a living through his pen until a publisher suggested MON that he turn his hand to writing under a different name. MON Death In the Fifth Position was published in 1952 - the MON first of a trio of entertainments featuring Peter Cutler MON Sargeant II as a publicist turned private eye. MON MON Episode 1: MON Peter Sargeant, a young publicist, is invited to the offices MON of the Grand St Petersburg ballet. MON MON Written by Edgar Box (Gore Vidal) MON Read by Jamie Parker MON MON Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Jamie Parker MON Author: Gore Vidal MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 23:00 Mending Young Minds b0670037 (Listen) MON Children MON MON In this moving and insightful two part series for BBC Radio MON 4, children and teenagers receiving treatment at the world MON renowned Tavistock Centre in London share their experience MON of living with mental health problems. MON MON Over recent years the number of British children suffering MON from psychiatric illnesses has increased considerably and MON the age of presentation is falling. One in 10 MON five-to-16-year-olds has a mental health disorder, according MON to a 2014 Parliamentary task force report, and there has MON been a dramatic increase in demand for childhood and MON adolescent mental health services across the country. MON MON In the first programme, Dr. Juliet Singer goes inside the MON consulting room to speak to young patients, their parents MON and therapists about the mental health conditions affecting MON children - including OCD, anxiety and behavioural MON difficulties - and the treatments available to them. MON MON The series explores why mental health problems among young MON people appear to be growing worse, with increased pressures MON from schools, parents, peer groups and social media. MON MON Presenter: Juliet Singer MON Producer: Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06nnnm0 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06nl59t (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06nn7cw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06nl59w (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06nl59y (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06nl5b0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06nl5b2 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06p037p (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Jasdeep TUE Singh, curator of the National Army Museum's Indian Army TUE collection. TUE TUE Script TUE Good morning. Four years ago on the eve of the festival of TUE Diwali, I was performing in a Sikh gurdwara with one of my TUE musical mentors. This man represented the last of a TUE 300-year-old tradition of Muslim musicians who were master TUE exponents of traditional Sikh devotional music. After the TUE service, the octogenarian joined us for a meal at my home TUE where he shared memories of his youth. My family learnt a TUE lot about how Diwali was celebrated in pre-partitioned TUE Punjab by many cultures together. TUE The Sikh narrative of Diwali celebrates with lighting of TUE lamps and singing of Sikh hymns a most joyous occasion from TUE the seventeenth-century: the release of Guru Hargobind. He TUE was unjustly made a political prisoner by the Mughal Emperor TUE Jahangir. The guru also demanded the release of 52 Hindu TUE prisoners – but the emperor agreed to release only as many TUE prisoners as could hold on to the hem of the guru's robe TUE whilst walking through the prison door. In an ingenious TUE plan, the guru had a special robe made with 52 long tassels, TUE one for each prisoner to hold on to. The emperor was forced TUE to keep his word and all the prisoners walked free. TUE As I’ve discovered through my research into the British TUE Indian Army, Sikhs continued this tradition of bravely TUE standing up for freedom and upholding justice with a TUE significant contribution to the First World War. In the 1911 TUE India Census, Sikhs made up just under one per cent of the TUE population, yet comprised twenty per cent of the British TUE Indian Army at the start of the Great War. TUE Freedom and justice are universal across boundaries, TUE backgrounds and religions. Let us be brave and ingenious in TUE finding ways to help others at their time of need. TUE TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06nnpwz (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 b04mlphz (Listen) TUE Common Indian Cuckoo TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Chris Packham presents the Indian cuckoo found across much TUE of South East Asia. A bird singing "crossword puzzle" - TUE "crossword puzzle" over the woods is an Indian Cuckoo, a shy TUE and slender bird, grey above and barred black and white TUE below. These features are similar to those of a small hawk TUE and when a cuckoo flies across a woodland glade, it's often TUE mobbed by other birds. They're right to sense danger. Indian TUE cuckoos are brood parasites and the females lay their eggs TUE in the nests of other species including drongos, magpies and TUE shrikes. The Indian cuckoo's song is well-known in the TUE Indian sub-Continent and has been interpreted in different TUE ways. As well as "crossword puzzle " some think it's saying TUE "one more bottle" or "orange pekoe". And in the Kangra TUE valley in northern India, the call is said to be the soul of TUE a dead shepherd asking "... where is my sheep? Where is my TUE sheep?". TUE TUE Indian cuckoo (Cuculus micropterus) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of M. Strange / Vireo / naturepl.com TUE TUE NPL Ref 01471641 © M. Strange / Vireo / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06p037r (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b06nnqdl (Listen) TUE Kathy Willis TUE TUE "I'm determined to prove botany is not the 'Cinderella of TUE science'". That's what Professor Kathy Willis, Director of TUE Science at the Royal Botanic Garden in Kew, told the TUE Independent in 2014. TUE TUE In the two years since she took on the job at Kew she's been TUE faced with a reduction in government funding. So, Kathy TUE Willis has been rethinking the science that's to be done by TUE the staff of the Gardens - and been criticised for her TUE decisions. TUE TUE But as well as leading this transformation, Kathy has a TUE distinguished academic career in biodiversity. She is TUE currently a professor at Oxford University and, during her TUE research career, she's studied plants and their environments TUE all over the world, from the New Forest, when she was a TUE student in Southampton, to the Galapagos Islands where she TUE studied the impact of the removal of the giant tortoises on TUE the vegetation there. TUE TUE Jim al-Khalili discusses the future of biodiversity with TUE Kathy Willis. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b06nnqlj (Listen) TUE David Schneider talks to palliative care consultant Kathryn TUE Mannix TUE TUE David Schneider is terrified of death. In his two editions TUE of One to One he wants to try to overcome his fear by TUE talking to those who have first-hand understanding of dying. TUE In this programme, he talks to Palliative Care consultant, TUE Kathryn Mannix. With almost forty years of clinical TUE experience and witnessing over twelve thousand deaths, she TUE believes that a 'good death' is possible even when you are TUE seriously ill. She explains the process of dying to David. TUE This, she believes, if accepted by the patient, removes much TUE of the anxiety and fear surrounding the end of life. TUE To hear an extended version of this programme please visit TUE the programme page. TUE Next week he talks to writer and journalist, Jenny Diski, TUE who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06q7mrg (Listen) TUE Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The TUE Life of Gore Vidal, Episode 2 TUE TUE The authorised behind-the-scenes biography of one of TUE America's great and most under-rated man of letters, the TUE cosmopolitan and wickedly satirical Vidal, from a devoted TUE yet candid old friend. TUE TUE In Episode 1, the author Jay Parini recalls his first TUE encounter with Gore and describes a privileged, lonely TUE childhood and the birth of the political, social and sexual TUE interests that would last a lifetime. TUE TUE Written by Jay Parini TUE Read by Toby Jones TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE TUE Produced and directed by Clive Brill TUE A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Toby Jones TUE Author: Jay Parini TUE Abridger: Eileen Horne TUE Director: Clive Brill TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06nnqq9 (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 b06nnrc5 (Listen) TUE Children in Need: D for Dexter, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Amanda Whittington. Skye's home with her Mum for a week TUE on a contact visit, and if everything goes well, Dexter will TUE come on Thursday. Things are different now: there's TUE furniture, food, and a new family member. TUE TUE Why wouldn't she be ok with that? TUE TUE Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE Credits TUE Skye: Sydney Wade TUE Dexter: Elsa Rodgers TUE Director: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE Writer: Amanda Whittington TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9lgt (Listen) TUE Fleas TUE TUE Throughout history, human fleas have been one of our closest TUE companions; the irritating bedfellows of everyone from kings TUE and queens to the poorest in society. Brett Westwood TUE discovers how the flea has been a carrier of disease, TUE causing suffering on an enormous scale. But, despite being a TUE danger and a pest, their proximity has led to us to try to TUE understand them and find humour in them. TUE TUE The esteemed British naturalist Dame Miriam Rothschild was TUE one of the world's leading experts on fleas and led an TUE investigation into how they propel themselves to such speed TUE and distance from their minuscule frame. As parasites, their TUE ability to jump onto hosts to suck their blood led to fleas TUE being charged with sexual energy in the 16th century. Poets TUE wrote entertainingly intimate poems of their jealousy that TUE the flea could jump onto areas of a beautiful woman that TUE they themselves would be unable to reach. TUE TUE The comedic role of the flea continued into the era of the TUE flea circus when they pulled miniature metal chariots TUE several times their weight and their role as performers TUE didn't end there - leading on into early cinema and even TUE tourism. They may have been often overlooked but fleas have TUE had a stark impact on our lives. TUE TUE Theresa Howard TUE Theresa Howard is a Collections Manager at the TUE Natural History Museum TUE in London and Head of Entomological Collections, Molecular TUE Collections and Plants. With more than 32 years of TUE curatorial, research and management experience within the TUE Life Sciences Department, she has an excellent working TUE knowledge of both how the collections function and the TUE inherent problems associated with a collection of its size TUE and variety. TUE Her particular collections and research interests are TUE Siphonaptera, (fleas) and Culicidae (mosquitoes) and she has TUE published widely on these topics. As a core member of the TUE Collections Committee she is responsible for the overarching TUE planning of the maintenance and development of the Natural TUE History Museums Collections. TUE TUE Professor Judith Buchanan TUE Professor Judith Buchanan is Professor of Film and TUE Literature at the University of York’s Department of English TUE and Director of TUE Silents Now TUE She is an expert in the production and reception of silent TUE cinema and in Shakespeare performance histories. TUE Through the creative work of Silents Now, she seeks to make TUE silent films more than just documents of historical TUE interest, but a source of pleasurable engagement for TUE contemporary audiences also, thereby helping to ensure the TUE preservation and ongoing life of a valuable but threatened TUE part of our film heritage. TUE She is the author of, among other things, Shakespeare on TUE Film and Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb TUE Discourse and she is editor of The Writer on Film: Screening TUE Literary Authorship. TUE Twitter: TUE @jrbyork TUE TUE Dr Tim Cockerill TUE Dr Tim Cockerill TUE is a zoologist, circus performer, broadcaster and TUE photographer. He specialises in communicating science and TUE natural history to a wide range of audiences, with TUE particular expertise in the smaller examples of animal life TUE – especially insects and their relatives. TUE He is also a seasoned performer specialising in obscure and TUE often dangerous circus and sideshow stunts. TUE TUE Dr Kelvin Corlett TUE Dr Kelvin Corlett is a lexicographer and senior assistant TUE editor at the TUE Oxford English Dictionary TUE which he joined shortly after completing a PhD in TUE mathematics at the University of East Anglia. TUE Specialising in scientific vocabulary, he is part of the TUE editorial team currently working on the ongoing project to TUE completely revise the OED. TUE TUE Cheryl Whitehorn TUE Cheryl Whitehorn is Principal Scientific Officer at the TUE London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), TUE specialising in the identification of medically important TUE insects. TUE She has worked on mosquito control with the TUE Mosquito Research and Control Unit TUE on the Cayman Islands and in Brazil and now teaches students TUE at LSHTM the fundamentals of distinguishing one insect TUE vector from another. TUE She contracted malaria whilst working on a malaria control TUE programme in East Timor. The irony was not lost on her. She TUE said in her defence that she was taking anti-malarial TUE tablets but parasites don’t always read the labels. TUE TUE 11:30 On the Road b06nnwhs (Listen) TUE With Maddy Prior and Rose Kemp - Part 2 TUE TUE Maddy Prior, lead singer of Steeleye Span, and her daughter TUE Rose Kemp, who has made several doom metal albums discuss TUE their totally different musical journeys. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06nl5b4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 The Why Factor b06nnwhv (Listen) TUE Series 2, Diaries TUE TUE Diaries are one of the longest-established and riches TUE sources of social history. Why do many people feel so TUE compelled to keep them? Why do they stop and who do they TUE allow to read them? TUE TUE Presenter:Mike Williams TUE Producer:Hannah Moore TUE Editor:Andrew Smith. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06nnwhx (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06nl5b6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06p037t (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre TUE and Screen b06nnwhz (Listen) TUE A Long, Hard Road TUE TUE In the second of ten programmes tracing a century of black TUE British theatre and screen, Lenny Henry focuses on the TUE evolving depiction of African Caribbean society on popular TUE television across fifty years. TUE TUE He charts the journey from the overt racism of TV sit-coms TUE like Love Thy Neighbour (which nonetheless was a great hit TUE amongst black Britons, simply because it was one of the few TUE places in the 1970s where black Britain was regularly TUE depicted on the nation's TV screens) to more sympathetic TUE programmes like Empire Road. By the time Desmond's hair TUE salon opened on Channel 4, with Norman Beaton and Carmen TUE Munroe in the leading roles, a much more realistic picture TUE of African Caribbean Britain was taking shape on British TUE television. TUE TUE Series Consultant Michael Pearce TUE Producer Simon Elmes. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06nnnlm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b06nnx0x (Listen) TUE Fat Little Thing, Episode 2 TUE TUE As Louise recalls the loss of her mother as a young girl she TUE finds herself remembering and reliving her childhood TUE experiences and emotions - the overwhelming grief, TUE isolation, and desperate desire for love and reassurance. TUE Louise is a spirited girl with a vivid imagination and it is TUE to her imagination she retreats to deal with the grief and TUE loneliness she experiences. For there she can conjure up her TUE favourite TV stars and musical heroes for company: Cheyene TUE Bodie, Tommy Steele, Harry Secombe and Cliff Richard. TUE TUE When her father introduces her to the beautiful Margaret to TUE whom he will soon be married, Louise is delighted and TUE imagines a perfect, happy future with her new family and her TUE new mummy. But when tragedy strikes her family for a second TUE time, Louise retreats further into herself and her imaginary TUE world and comes up with a desperate plan; one she hopes will TUE make what's gone wrong right and make her family happy once TUE again. TUE TUE A new two-part drama from Lucy Gannon (The Best of Men, TUE Soldier Soldier, Frankie, Bramwell) starring Julie TUE Hesmondhalgh and Amy Beth McNulty. TUE TUE Writer ..... Lucy Gannon TUE Producer ..... Heather Larmour. TUE TUE Credits TUE Louise: Julie Hesmondhalgh TUE Young Louise: Amy-Beth McNulty TUE Dad: Paul Stonehouse TUE Margaret: Zoe Telford TUE Auntie Rose: Melanie Kilburn TUE Peter: Jack Hollington TUE Father Sullivan: Stephen Hogan TUE Father Burns: Andrew Secombe TUE Writer: Lucy Gannon TUE Producer: Heather Larmour TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b06np61j (Listen) TUE Series 8, Inheritance TUE TUE From fictional family stories to nightmares in the womb, TUE Josie Long hears stories of what one generation passes on to TUE another. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b06np61l (Listen) TUE Murder in Cambodia TUE TUE Peter Hadfield travels to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to TUE investigate the illegal trade in Siamese Rosewood. TUE TUE Rosewood is a hard wood that is highly prized because it can TUE be carved into ornate items of furniture, but the appetite TUE for the wood is so voracious that Siamese Rosewood is now TUE becoming critically endangered. TUE TUE The wood is traded on the black market and now the Siamese TUE Rosewood tree is close to being totally eradicated. Not only TUE that, those responsible for the smuggling are leaving a TUE trail of death and environmental destruction in their wake. TUE TUE Peter Hadfield goes in search of the tree. TUE TUE He's on the trail of the smugglers and discovers the TUE measures being taken to try and safeguard the surviving TUE trees. TUE TUE Presenter: Peter Hadfield TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b06np61n (Listen) TUE A Threat to Justice? TUE TUE Senior judges, magistrates and politicians have criticised TUE the criminal courts charge since it was introduced in TUE England and Wales in April. Many say it is a threat to TUE justice. In this week's edition of Law in Action, a serving TUE magistrate tells Joshua Rozenberg how the charge has TUE prompted him to think about giving up his role. Also in the TUE programme: Britain's intelligence services commissioner, Sir TUE Mark Waller, discusses the new Investigatory Powers Bill. TUE And would the UK be able to scrap EU laws in the event of a TUE "Brexit"? Sylvia de Mars of Newcastle University explains. TUE TUE Producers: Keith Moore and Tim Mansel. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b06np61q (Listen) TUE Jonathan Coe and Gemma Cairney TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert is joined by comic novelist Jonathan Coe TUE and Radio 1 DJ Gemma Cairney to recommend favourite books. TUE TUE Jonathan's choice is the first part in a tragi-comic epic, TUE 'The Complete Pratt',a semi-autobiographical novel by the TUE late David Nobbs, creator of 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald TUE Perrin'. It's called 'Second From Last in the Sack Race'. TUE TUE Gemma chooses a novel by Laura Dockrill, a vividly imagined TUE story of mermaids and pirates, 'Lorali'. TUE TUE Harriett dusts off a novel from the 1940s by Nevil Shute, TUE 'Pied Piper'. Its subject matter is sharply topical: an TUE elderly man leads a growing group of refugee children across TUE Europe, attempting to avoid the Nazi invaders. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Krishnan Guru-Murthy TUE Interviewed Guest: Ann Cleeves TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06p03qw (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06nl5b8 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Gloomsbury b03zby85 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Anarchy Looms over Staplehurst TUE TUE Talk of a General Strike is in the air as Lionel and Ginny TUE Fox pay a visit to Sizzlinghurst Castle to see Vera TUE Sackcloth-Vest and Henry Mickleton. TUE TUE Green-fingered Sapphist Vera Sackcloth-Vest shares a bijou TUE castle in Kent with her devoted husband Henry, but longs for TUE exotic adventures with nervy novelist Ginny Fox and wilful TUE beauty Venus Traduces. It's 1921, the dawn of modern love, TUE life and lingerie, but Vera still hasn't learnt how to boil TUE a kettle. TUE TUE Ginny is writing a new book and wants to pick Vera's brains TUE about her aristocratic childhood. But all is not well. Henry TUE thinks that Ginny is a bad influence on Vera because Ginny TUE is so highly strung and Lionel thinks that Vera is too TUE aristocratic and not socialist enough for Ginny. TUE TUE Terrified that the oppressed people of Staplehurst will rise TUE up and storm the castle, they flirt with a posh kind of TUE socialism until the working class DH Lollipop pops in with TUE his demi-mondaine Venus Traduces and tells them that he TUE likes them just the way they are. TUE TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Vera Sackcloth-Vest: Miriam Margolyes TUE Gosling: Roger Lloyd Pack TUE Henry Mickleton: Jonathan Coy TUE Mrs Gosling: Alison Steadman TUE Lionel Fox: Roger Lloyd Pack TUE Ginny Fox: Alison Steadman TUE Venus Traduces: Morwenna Banks TUE DH Lollipop: John Sessions TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE Writer: Sue Limb TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06np61s (Listen) TUE There is another case for PC Harrison Burns, and Helen TUE senses an opportunity. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06np61v (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06nnrc5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b06np61x (Listen) TUE An Inside Job TUE TUE An inside job: the Britons smuggling illegal immigrants into TUE the UK. TUE File on 4 hears from Britons jailed for hiding people in TUE their cars. They reveal why - and how - they did it. TUE They were paid to smuggle people across the Channel by gangs TUE based in London and the North West. TUE This unofficial migrant taxi service - run from camps in TUE Calais and Dunkirk - is believed to be netting criminal TUE networks three million pounds a year. TUE But even that is dwarfed by the money to be made by British TUE criminals bringing migrants over by the lorry load. TUE Jane Deith speaks to those who paid tens of thousands of TUE pounds for their ticket to hide - in trucks bound for TUE Britain. And, as checks are stepped up at ports in England TUE and France, the programme follows those being shown a TUE back-door route by British smugglers - via Ireland. TUE Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06np61z (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b06np621 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents a series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b06nnqdl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06nl5bb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06np623 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06q796r (Listen) TUE Death in the Fifth Position, Episode 2 TUE TUE With McCarthyism reaching fever pitch in 1950s America, TUE Peter Sargeant - a dashing PR man - is hired by the Grand St TUE Petersburg ballet to fend off rumours that their star TUE choreographer is a communist. But New York's ballet world is TUE shocked when, on the opening night, the lead ballerina TUE plummets to her death from a wire, maintaining her classical TUE pose in the 'fifth position' as she hits the floor. TUE TUE Gore Vidal's earlier novel The City and the Pillar was TUE published in 1948 when the author was 23 years old. Its TUE central story of a homosexual relationship caused such a TUE scandal that the New York Times book critic refused to TUE review any book by Gore Vidal. Others followed his lead and TUE the author found himself at a loss as to how to continue to TUE earn a living through his pen until a publisher suggested TUE that he turn his hand to writing under a different name. TUE Death In the Fifth Position was published in 1952 - the TUE first of a trio of entertainments featuring Peter Cutler TUE Sargeant II as a publicist turned private eye. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE Our narrator, Peter Sargeant, is beginning to get to know TUE the members of the Grand St Petersburg ballet company. Their TUE complicated relationships have already come to his attention TUE when he overheard the conductor Miles Sutton threatening to TUE kill his wife, Ella, the lead ballerina in the new ballet. TUE TUE Written by Gore Vidal (as Edgar Box) TUE Read by Jamie Parker TUE TUE Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Jamie Parker TUE Author: Gore Vidal TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 23:00 Liam Williams b06ns6l4 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE From 28 year old misanthrope Liam Williams, a two-time TUE Edinburgh Festival Award Nominated comedian, comes a rich TUE and cinematic new storytelling Radio 4 series about Liam's TUE teenage misadventures in the Yorkshire suburbs. With TUE evocative monologues by "Adult Liam" being interjected with TUE flashback scenes from his teenage years, the series was TUE recorded in Leeds and stars real Yorkshire teens, with each TUE episode delving into Liam's memories of virginity loss, his TUE first fight, the best house party ever organised, and his TUE marvellous outwitting of an entire teaching staff. This is TUE the New Labour, post-mining, aspirational heartland, meeting TUE 50 Cent and Generation Y ennui, represented in a bourgeois TUE radio format - by one of Britain's most exciting comedians. TUE TUE Written By: Liam Williams TUE TUE Produced By: Arnab Chanda. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Liam Williams TUE Writer: Liam Williams TUE Producer: Arnab Chanda TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06np625 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06nl5c5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06q7mrg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06nl5c7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06nl5c9 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06nl5cc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06nl5cf (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06phz3d (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Jasdeep WED Singh, curator of the National Army Museum's Indian Army WED collection. WED WED Script WED Good morning. This year, Armistice Day falls on the same day WED as Diwali, the Indian festival of light. Many people of WED Indian descent will be lighting lamps for Diwali which will WED also commemorate their ancestors among the Commonwealth and WED Indian troops who served and died alongside the British WED during the Great War. It’s a role that’s not widely known WED and sometimes overlooked, although the British Indian Army WED served in all major theatres of the First World War WED including the Western Front, Gallipoli, East Africa, WED Salonika, and Mesopotamia - with 11 Indian soldiers being WED awarded the Victoria Cross. WED A century ago, undivided India comprised modern-day India, WED Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma and Sri Lanka. Soldiers in the WED Indian Army were recruited from the so-called ‘martial WED races’ including Sikhs, Gurkhas, Punjabi Muslims - as well WED as Hindu Dogras and Rajputs. They came from a variety of WED religions and cultures, and spoke many languages. WED At the outbreak of the war, the Indian Army had 240,000 men. WED By war’s end, more than 1.5 million Indians had volunteered WED for service - a larger number than the rest of the dominions WED and colonies combined, and second only to those enlisting WED from the British Isles. WED Today we mark the contribution of all those who served as WED brothers in arms during the Great War - from the British WED Tommy to the Indian Sepoy. This was truly a world war, WED fought in all areas by men from across the globe. WED Let us remember the dead, injured, and bereaved of all wars. WED The contribution of those who served and fell in the Great WED War knows no boundaries of race, class or religion, and WED their sacrifice has lit the way for our society today. WED WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06nq0dh (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 b04mlpj8 (Listen) WED Plumbeous Antbird WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Chris Packham presents the Plumbeous antbird in a Bolivian WED rainforest. When army ants go on the march in the Bolivian WED rainforest, they attract a huge retinue of followers; often WED heard but rarely seen. These include Antbirds. The Plumbeous WED Antbird is a lead-coloured bird; the males have a patch of WED blue skin around their eyes, whilst the females are bright WED russet below. Like other antbirds they are supreme skulkers, WED hiding under curtains of dense foliage and only betraying WED themselves by their calls and song, a particularly fluty WED call. But you'd think that with a name like antbirds, their WED diet is easily diagnosed, but surprisingly antbirds rarely WED eat ants. Instead, most species shadow the columns of army WED ants which often change nest-sites or raid other ant WED colonies. As the ants march across the forest floor, they WED flush insects and other invertebrates which are quickly WED snapped by the attendant antbirds. WED WED Plumbeous antbird (Myrmeciza hyperythra) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of J. Dunning / Vireo / naturepl.com WED WED NPL Ref 01471605 © J. Dunning / Vireo / naturepl.com WED WED 06:00 Today b06p594w (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b06nq1dw (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06qbv1w (Listen) WED Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The WED Life of Gore Vidal, Episode 3 WED WED The authorised behind-the-scenes biography of one of WED America's great and most under-rated man of letters, the WED cosmopolitan and wickedly satirical Vidal, from a devoted WED yet candid old friend. WED WED In Episode 3, despite commercial success, lacklustre reviews WED of The City and The Pillar send Gore in retreat to Europe WED where he meets Tennessee Williams - soon to become his great WED friend. WED WED Written by Jay Parini WED Read by Toby Jones WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED WED Produced and directed by Clive Brill WED A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Toby Jones WED Author: Jay Parini WED Abridger: Eileen Horne WED Director: Clive Brill WED Producer: Clive Brill WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06nq1dy (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06nq1f0 (Listen) WED Children in Need: D for Dexter, Episode 3 WED WED by Amanda Whittington. WED WED Skye's in the bath. There's hot water these days, and a WED plug. WED WED Her mum can't understand why she's locked the bathroom door, WED but Skye doesn't want her newly- discovered Uncle Dean to WED come barging in. WED WED Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED Credits WED Skye: Sydney Wade WED Dexter: Alfie Johnson WED Director: Mary Ward-Lowery WED Writer: Amanda Whittington WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06nq1f2 (Listen) WED Matt and Melodie - My Life Just Changed WED WED Fi Glover with friends who are both parents of disabled WED children, reflecting on their shock when it became obvious WED that there was a problem soon after their children's birth. WED Their children have been helped by Acorns Children's Hospice WED in Walsall, which has received funding from Children In Need WED since 2011 WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Armistice Day Silence b06nq1f4 (Listen) WED The traditional two-minute silence to mark Armistice Day. WED WED 11:04 The Last Post b06nq1f6 (Listen) WED How did a simple British Army bugle call from the 18th WED century become a sacred anthem of death and remembrance? And WED how did it spread to the rest of the world, played at the WED funerals of Gandhi and Nelson Mandela? WED WED The Last Post started as just one of a couple of dozen bugle WED calls played every day in a British Amy barracks. Then, in WED the 1850s, it found a new role, played at soldiers' funerals WED and from there it was extended to be used at memorial WED services for those who had died in conflict. WED WED Gradually, it moved beyond the military, played at the WED funerals of many who had never been in the armed forces, WED such as Wallace Hartley, bandmaster of the Titanic. WED WED But it was in the midst of the First World War that The Last WED Post had its greatest resonance, becoming the obvious WED soundtrack to remembrance. WED WED Then, as the British Empire dissolved, it was invariably The WED Last Post that was sounded as the Union flag was lowered for WED the final time in former colonies across the world. WED WED Somewhat bizarrely, it was played to mark the passing of WED Gandhi and Nelson Mandela; it is still sounded on both sides WED of the disputed border between India and Pakistan; it was WED the accompaniment to the funerals of terrorists from both WED the IRA and the UDA. And it spread beyond the British WED Empire, to countries like Portugal and Belgium and to their WED former colonies. WED WED Now, The Last Post is played in its original incarnation WED only at the Tower of London, where it is still sounded WED nightly. But in its role as the music of loss, it has become WED almost a sacred anthem in an increasingly secular society. WED WED Alwyn Turner tells the untold story of one of the most WED famous pieces of music in the world. WED WED Presenter: Alwyn Turner WED Producer: Ben Crighton WED Editor: Andrew Smith. WED WED 11:30 The Lentil Sorters b06nq1f8 (Listen) WED Standard Deviation WED WED A sitcom set in the Office of Local and National Statistics WED which, depending on who you ask, is either where the real WED power of government resides, or the place where fun goes to WED die. WED WED In this episode, the team uncover an unexpected statistical WED correlation between eyebrows, strawberries and dangerous WED dogs. WED WED Meet the team: WED Graham Quicks (Vincent Franklin), Head of the People and WED Places Department of the LNS. There are three things in the WED world that Graham will always have faith in - statistics, WED the supremacy of filofaxes over computers and the idea that WED cardigans will never go out of style. WED WED Audrey Carr (Rebekah Staton) is the Survey Researcher for WED the department. She believes passionately that statistics WED should be used as a tool to help the man on the street. WED Fortunately for her, she's never actually met "the man in WED the street". She's also passionate about Jane Austen, Les WED Miserables and pretending that she doesn't work in an office WED with Daniel. WED WED Daniel Porter (Kieran Hodgson) is the department's Data WED Analyst. He used to work in the City, until the City WED realised he was a colossal waste of space. Daniel divides WED his time between manipulating statistics to further his WED vision of capitalism, necking energy drinks and telling WED people his thighs are really, really strong. He's terrible. WED WED Mrs. Wilkins (Julia Deakin) has worked as tea lady, WED archivist and maintenance guru for fifteen years. She knows WED where the bodies are buried. We must stress that that is a WED figure of speech. WED WED Special guests: WED Spanner............Steve Brody WED Candlestick........Phil Whelans WED Terry..................Charlie Quirke WED The Bookie.........Morgan Jones WED WED With Jo Unwin as The Narrator. WED WED Written by Jack Bernhardt WED Produced by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Graham Quicks: Vincent Franklin WED Audrey Carr: Rebekah Staton WED Daniel Porter: Kieran Hodgson WED Mrs Wilkins: Julia Deakin WED Spanner: Steve Brody WED Candlestick: Phil Whelans WED Terry: Charlie Quirke WED The Bookie: Morgan Jones WED Narrator: Jo Unwin WED Writer: Jack Bernhardt WED Producer: David Tyler WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06nl5ch (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 The Why Factor b06nq1fb (Listen) WED Series 2, Gardens WED WED Why are so many people drawn to gardening? Helena Merriman WED speaks to a neuroscientist who's discovered that soil has WED some surprising qualities and she hears the extraordinary WED story of a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay who created his own WED garden. WED Producer: Helena Merriman WED Presenter: Helena Merriman WED Editor: Andrew Smith. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06p3xk5 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06nl5ck (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06p4j0m (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre WED and Screen b06nq1fd (Listen) WED Othello Across the Ages WED WED In the third of ten programmes tracing a century of black WED British theatre and screen, Lenny Henry uses Shakespeare's WED character of Othello to tell the story of how the Moor of WED the play has for nearly 200 years offered black actors a WED part to savour - and also provoked debates about who can WED play the role. WED WED In 2009, Lenny himself took the role in a production by WED Northern Broadsides at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in WED Leeds, and subsequently in London. It won him the Evening WED Standard newspaper's Newcomer of the Year award, and was WED generally acknowledged a triumph. WED WED Yet nearly 200 years ago, in 1833, the black WED American-British actor Ira Aldridge (known as 'the negro WED tragedian') played Othello with the Covent Garden players WED for just two nights until deplorable racist reviews, WED objecting to "this wretched upstart", forced the management WED to close the production. WED WED Even well into the twentieth century, those 19th century WED newspapers' complaints about Desdemona being 'pawed' by a WED black actor were echoed when the great Paul Robeson took the WED role, and white actors in blackface have regularly played WED Othello right up to the modern era. WED WED Featuring an interview with Lolita Chakrabarti, whose WED award-winning play Red Velvet, depicted Aldridge's Othello. WED WED Series Consultant Michael Pearce WED Producer Simon Elmes. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06np61s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Tommies b06nq1fg (Listen) WED 11 November 1915 WED WED by Jonathan Ruffle WED WED Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. WED WED Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness WED accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at WED war, exactly 100 years ago. WED WED Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and WED his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the WED British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense WED machine, one which connects situations across the whole WED theatre of the war, over four long years. WED WED Indira Varma, Lee Ross and Pippa Nixon star in this special WED story for Remembrance Day, set at La Gorgue on 11th November WED 1915. A day when Second Lieutenant Mickey Bliss finds WED himself in two meetings. One which might change the whole WED war for the Signal Service. And one which is about to change WED his life forever. WED WED Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle WED Director: Jonquil Panting. WED WED Credits WED Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross WED Dr Celestine de Tullio: Pippa Nixon WED Commentator: Indira Varma WED Colonel Bernard Anson Otho Crowden: Gunnar Cauthery WED Major 'Ting a Ling' Bell: Stephen Critchlow WED Captain Robert Paddon: Chris Pavlo WED Sgt Albert Pinto: Colin Hoult WED Aide-de-Camp: Neet Mohan WED Producer: David Hunter WED Producer: Jonquil Panting WED Producer: Jonathan Ruffle WED Director: Jonquil Panting WED Writer: Jonathan Ruffle WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06nq26r (Listen) WED Cohabiting WED WED Is "move in with me" the new "marry me"? According to the WED Office for National Statistics, cohabiting couples are the WED fastest growing type of family - there are more than three WED million in the UK. But when it comes to personal finances, WED how does cohabiting differ from marriage or a civil WED partnership? WED WED If you are thinking of moving in with your partner, Paul and WED panel can tell you what you need to know. E-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now or call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to WED 3.30pm on Wednesday. WED WED More than 50% of respondents to the British Social Attitudes WED Survey wrongly believe that unmarried couples who live WED together for some time have the same legal rights as married WED couples. In Scotland, legislation has been in place since WED 2006 which offers cohabiting partners increased rights. WED WED Perhaps you've got a question about what you can do to make WED sure things are fair and equal before you move in together, WED or how to maximise the scant protection that currently WED exists in England or Wales. Find out what your rights are if WED you and your partner split up, as well as what is being done WED in the rest of the country to catch up with Scotland. WED WED The panel: WED Joanne Edwards, Family Law Partner at Penningtons Manches WED LLP and the national chair of Resolution. WED Sarah Pennells, founder Savvy Woman - the money website for WED women. WED Robert Gilmour, director of family law specialists Sheehan WED Kelsey Oswald, based in Edinburgh. WED WED Presenter: Paul Lewis WED Producer: Lesley McAlpine WED Editor: Andrew Smith. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b06np621 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06nq26t (Listen) WED Zoos explored, Funeral arranging WED WED Zoos in the modern world: Laurie Taylor talks to David WED Grazian, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University WED of Pennsylvania and author of 'American Zoo: A Sociological WED Safari'. Zoos blur the boundaries between culture and WED nature; animals and humans and separate civilisation from WED the 'wild'. They are centres of conservation, as well as WED recreation and reveal the way we project our desires on to WED the animal kingdom. So how do zoos juggle their many WED contradictory meanings and what is their future? Eric WED Jenson, Associate Professor in Sociology at the University WED of Warwick, joins the discussion. WED WED Also, funeral arranging. Isabelle Szmigin, Professor of WED Marketing at the University of Birmingham, explores WED 'consumption' choices which are forced through circumstance WED and can involve a competing range of sentiments, from love WED to obligation and regret. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06nq26w (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06phz3n (Listen) WED PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and WED analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06nl5cm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 To Hull and Back b06nq26y (Listen) WED It's My Party WED WED To Hull and Back is the eagerly anticipated sitcom from BBC WED New Comedy Award winner Lucy Beaumont. WED WED Sophie still lives at home with her mum in Hull. They make a WED living doing car boot sales at the weekend. Except they WED don't really make a living because her mum can't bear to get WED rid of any of their junk. Plus, they don't have a car. As WED their house gets more cluttered, Sophie feels more trapped. WED WED "It's My Party" WED WED Last episode in the series. Sophie finally comes in to some WED money. It's her chance to get away at last. However, her WED mother's birthday is imminent and a surprise party takes WED precedence. The party turns out to be more of a surprise to WED Sophie than her mother. WED WED Writer ... Lucy Beaumont WED Producer ... Carl Cooper WED WED This is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED Credits WED Sophie: Lucy Beaumont WED Sheila: Maureen Lipman WED Jean: Kerrie Marsh WED Ernie: Norman Lovett WED DJ Ritchie: Jon Richardson WED Debs: Jemma Walker WED Receptionist: Debra Baker WED Nurse: Debra Baker WED Glenda: Debra Baker WED Car Boot Johnny: Ewan Bailey WED Vidal Sassoon: Ewan Bailey WED Writer: Lucy Beaumont WED Producer: Carl Cooper WED WED 19:00 The Archers b06nq270 (Listen) WED Charlie is put on the back foot, and Kenton is clearing his WED debts. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06p41bj (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06nq1f0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b06nrjjg (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, Melanie WED Phillips and Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06nrjjp (Listen) WED Changing Laws of War WED WED Muna Baig argues that forced displacement should be taken WED seriously as a war crime. WED WED Muna is a lawyer who has spent time working with refugees WED and with international lawyers. She calls forced WED displacement the 'cinderella war crime' and argues that WED despite it being considered a war crime since at least the WED Second World War, there is little political will to enforce WED the law. She maintains that only by talking about forced WED displacement will that change. WED WED Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b06np61l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06nq1dw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06pnkml (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06q79tr (Listen) WED Death in the Fifth Position, Episode 3 WED WED With McCarthyism reaching fever pitch in 1950s America, WED Peter Sargeant - a dashing PR man - is hired by the Grand St WED Petersburg ballet to fend off rumours that their star WED choreographer is a communist. But New York's ballet world is WED shocked when, on the opening night, the lead ballerina WED plummets to her death from a wire, maintaining her classical WED pose in the 'fifth position' as she hits the floor. WED WED Gore Vidal's earlier novel The City and the Pillar was WED published in 1948 when the author was 23 years old. Its WED central story of a homosexual relationship caused such a WED scandal that the New York Times book critic refused to WED review any book by Gore Vidal. Others followed his lead and WED the author found himself at a loss as to how to continue to WED earn a living through his pen until a publisher suggested WED that he turn his hand to writing under a different name. WED Death In the Fifth Position was published in 1952 - the WED first of a trio of entertainments featuring Peter Cutler WED Sargeant II as a publicist turned private eye. WED WED Episode 3: WED It becomes clear that Ella Sutton's death was not an WED accident. What is also clear is that one of the ballerinas WED is pregnant and the father of the child (as the whole WED company knows) is Miles Sutton, the conductor and widower. WED WED Written by Edgar Box (Gore Vidal) WED Read by Jamie Parker WED WED Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Jamie Parker WED Author: Gore Vidal WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 23:00 The Pin b06nrjk1 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Join Alex and Ben in their weird twist on the double-act WED sketch show. Strap in for a 15 minute delve in to a world of WED oddness performed in front of a live studio audience. WED WED The Pin are an award-winning comedy duo, and legends of WED Edinburgh festival. They deconstruct the sketch form, in a WED show that exists somewhere between razor-sharp smartness and WED utterly joyous silliness. WED WED After a sold-out run in Edinburgh, and a string of hilarious WED performances across BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC 3, Channel 4, and WED Comedy Central, this is The Pin's debut solo show for Radio WED 4. Join them as they celebrate, make, collapse and rebuild WED their jokes, each other, and probably the radio too. WED WED For fans of Adam and Joe, Vic and Bob, and Fist of Fun - a WED show of absurd offerings from two loveable idiots. WED WED 'Reinventing sketch comedy before our very eyes.' WED ***** The List WED 'Eviscerating their chosen form completely.' WED **** The Sunday Times WED 'A very classy, very funny show indeed.' WED **** The Telegraph WED 'Adept at finding laughs in surprising places.' WED **** The Times WED 'A genuine boundary pusher.' WED **** London is Funny. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Alex Owen WED Performer: Ben Ashenden WED WED 23:15 Warhorses of Letters b03q59t3 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED By Robbie Hudson and Marie Phillips WED WED Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby star as Napoleon's horse WED Marengo and Wellington's horse Copenhagen, with an WED introduction by Tamsin Greig, in the world's first WED epistolary equine love story. WED WED Still cruelly sundered by fate despite the war having ended, WED Marengo is put rather unwillingly out to stud and discovers WED the overwhelming and exhausting joys of parenthood, and WED Copenhagen finds a new way of passing the time - writing WED racy horse fan fiction, a genre for which he turns out to WED have a remarkable flair... WED WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED Credits WED Marengo: Stephen Fry WED Copenhagen: Daniel Rigby WED Narrator: Tamsin Greig WED Producer: Gareth Edwards WED Writer: Marie Phillips WED Writer: Robbie Hudson WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b06nrjk3 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster on today's debates in WED the House of Lords. WED WED 23:45 The Listening Project b06kb0g4 (Listen) WED Omnibus WED WED Fi Glover introduces conversations from Aberystwyth, WED Birmingham and Grantham, celebrating rugby, community, and WED the mother-son relationship, in the Omnibus edition of the WED series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you WED listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06nl5dk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06qbv1w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06nl5dm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06nl5dp (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06nl5dr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06nl5dt (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06p07bq (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Jasdeep THU Singh, curator of the National Army Museum's Indian Army THU collection. THU THU Script THU Good morning. Every year during Diwali there is long queue THU at my local Indian sweet shop. On this day, families THU exchange sweets and catch up over a tasty home cooked meal. THU On one occasion, a family member joined a Diwali gathering THU over a video call. THU Today we can communicate at the click of a button – but 100 THU years ago this wasn’t an option during the Great War when THU Indian soldiers wrote emotional letters home to their THU families. In one such letter, Jemadar Man Singh writes: THU ‘This is the fourth Diwali festival since I left India. The THU state of things in India and France is very different. The THU chief difference is that in India tonight everyone will THU assemble in his house with his wife, children and will have THU an excellent meal and be full of rejoicing. Here we see the THU very opposite. Everyone is separated from his kith and kin, THU thousands of miles away in a foreign country. Yet, thanks to THU God, I am fit and well and have everything I want, and there THU is only one worry - separation from you.’ THU This gives us insight into how the men felt, being so far THU from home but what of the women and families left behind? THU In her lament to her husband of a few days, a newlywed bride THU expresses her anguish and pleads with her husband not to go THU to war: THU ‘May you never be enlisted, you who has left me crying, THU write my name amongst the widows, you who are off to Basra’. THU Our loved ones are our support, and at times of separation, THU we draw strength from our memories of them. Let us be THU grateful for the time we have with our families and friends THU and do our best to make that time special. THU THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06nrqv6 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Felicity Evans and produced by Sally Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlpll (Listen) THU Bell Miner THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Chris Packham presents the bell miner of eastern Australia. THU The sound of a tiny hammer striking a musical anvil in a THU grove of gum trees signifies that bell miners are in search THU of sugar. More often heard than seen the bell miner is a THU smallish olive-green bird with a short yellow bill, with a THU small orange patch behind the eye. It belongs to a large THU family of birds known as honeyeaters because many have a THU sweet tooth and use their long bills to probe flowers for THU nectar. But the bell miner gets its sugar hit in other ways. THU Roving in sociable flocks, bell miners scour eucalyptus THU leaves for tiny bugs called psyllids who produce a THU protective waxy dome. Bell miners feed on these sweet THU tasting shelters. Some scientists suggest that Bell Miners THU actively farm these insects by avoiding over-exploiting of THU the psyllid colonies, allowing the insects numbers to THU recover before the birds' next visit. So dependent are they THU on these psyllids bugs that Bell Miners numbers can often THU fluctuate in association with any boom-and-bust changes in THU psyllid population. THU THU Bell Miner (Manorina melanophrys) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Roland Seitre / naturepl.com THU THU NPL Ref THU 01469773 THU © Roland Seitre / naturepl.com THU THU Recording of bell miner by Cedar A Mathers-Winn / Ref: THU ML188942 THU THU This programme contains a wildtrack THU recording of the bell miner THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Cedar A Mathers-Winn on 4 Oct THU 2013, at Wivenhoe Lookout, Mt. Glorious, D'Aguilar National THU Park, Queensland, Australia. THU THU 06:00 Today b06phqgw (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b06nrqv8 (Listen) THU The Battle of Lepanto THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Battle of Lepanto, 1571, THU the last great sea battle between galleys, in which the THU Catholic fleet of the Holy League of Venice, Spain, the THU Papal States, Malta, Genoa, and Savoy defeated the Ottoman THU forces of Selim II. When much of Europe was divided over the THU Reformation, this was the first major victory of a Christian THU force over a Turkish fleet. The battle followed the Ottoman THU invasion of Venetian Cyprus and decades in which the THU Venetians had been trying to stop the broader westward THU expansion of the Ottomans into the Mediterranean. The THU outcome had a great impact on morale in Europe and Pope Pius THU V established a feast day of Our Lady of Victories. Some THU historians call it the most significant sea battle since THU Actium (31 BC). THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06qbvz7 (Listen) THU Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The THU Life of Gore Vidal, Episode 4 THU THU The authorised behind-the-scenes biography of one of THU America's great and most under-rated man of letters, the THU cosmopolitan and wickedly satirical Vidal, from a devoted THU yet candid old friend. THU THU In Episode 4, Gore turns to writing for the small screen and THU becomes a star turn at churning out TV drama. Meanwhile, his THU novels continue to flow but his political ambitions are THU thwarted. THU THU Written by Jay Parini THU Read by Toby Jones THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU THU Produced and directed by Clive Brill THU A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Toby Jones THU Author: Jay Parini THU Abridger: Eileen Horne THU Director: Clive Brill THU Producer: Clive Brill THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06nrqvb (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 b06nrqvf (Listen) THU Children in Need: D for Dexter, Episode 4 THU THU by Amanda Whittington. Dexter is coming for the night, for a THU contact visit, and Skye can't wait. Mum's even told Uncle THU Dean to stay away. Things are looking up. THU THU Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU Credits THU Skye: Sydney Wade THU Dexter: Alfie Johnson THU Director: Mary Ward-Lowery THU Writer: Amanda Whittington THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b06nrqvh (Listen) THU Norway, Russia and the Silencing of Thomas Nilsen THU THU In Norway, the sacking of a newspaper editor, allegedly THU after pressure from Russia, has caused a political storm THU over media freedom, and raised questions over what price the THU country should pay for good relations with its powerful THU eastern neighbour. Thomas Nilsen is a veteran environmental THU activist who edited a paper in the far north of Norway, in a THU region which has enjoyed a unique cross-border relationship THU with Russia. Now that's threatened by rising tension between THU Russia and NATO. And relations have been further strained by THU the flow of refugees, now coming through Russia into the far THU north of Norway. Tim Whewell reports on what it means for THU the Norwegian outpost of Kirkenes, where Norwegians and THU Russians work closely together in the oil and fishing THU business and where cooperation and friendship go back THU decades. THU THU 11:30 The Lost Songs of Hollywood b06nrqvk (Listen) THU The classic film soundtracks of the Golden Age of Hollywood THU feature some of the most quintessentially American music THU you're likely to hear. But the music for King Kong, THU Casablanca, High Noon and many other movies was actually THU written by Europeans - exiled classical composers, many of THU them Jewish, arriving in the USA in the 1920s and 30s. THU THU Opera singer Julia Kogan was forced to leave the Soviet THU Union with her parents. Fascinated by the impact of exile on THU other artists, she goes in search of the songs many of these THU composers wrote away from the Hollywood spotlight, which THU until recently remained unpublished, hidden away in family THU archives. THU THU What can these songs tell us about the emotional impact on THU these musicians, of being uprooted from their homelands and THU starting anew in a culturally alien world? THU THU Kogan visits Los Angeles, to unearth and perform songs by THU multiple Oscar-winning composer Dimitri Tiomkin and by Erich THU Zeisl, a little-known composer whose fortunes took a rather THU different turn after leaving Europe. And she meets the last THU surviving exiled composer in Hollywood, Walter Arlen. At his THU 95th birthday celebrations, Kogan asks how a lifetime away THU from his native Austria is reflected in the songs that are THU only now seeing the light of day for the first time. THU THU We hear Julia performing Tiomkin's 'Sweet Surrender' (with THU Alan Steinberger at the piano), Eric Zeisl's 'Prayer', and THU 'Es geht wohl anders' and 'Wiegenlied' by Walter Arlen (all THU with pianist Edan Gillen). THU THU For more information on the music and contributors, please THU visit juliakogan.com. For more information on Walter Arlen THU and Eric Zeisl, visit orelfoundation.org. THU THU Presenter: Julia Kogan THU Producers: Chris Elcombe, Dave King and Julia Kogan THU THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06nl5dy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 The Why Factor b06p0843 (Listen) THU Series 2, Trainers THU THU Sneaker, trainer call them what you will. How did this THU product of the industrial revolution and a rising middle THU class become a global fashion item worth tens of billions of THU pounds a year? Especially when 85% of the purchases are THU never intended for the it's original purpose, health and THU fitness. Join Mike Williams for the Why Factor: Sneakers. THU THU Presenter:Mike Williams THU Producer:Julie Ball THU Editor:Andrew Smith. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06p0847 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06nl5f0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06phqgy (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre THU and Screen b06nrs7t (Listen) THU Caribbean Voices THU THU In the fourth of ten programmes tracing a century of black THU British theatre and screen, Lenny Henry, himself the son of THU Jamaican immigrants who settled in the west Midlands, tells THU the story of Caribbean migration as reflected in the work of THU such playwrights as Errol John, and the poet Una Marson who THU first came to Britain from Jamaica in 1932. THU THU With Michael Buffong, artistic director of Talawa Theatre THU Company, whose production of John's 1958 play, Moon on a THU Rainbow Shawl, at the National Theatre was an acclaimed THU revival. THU THU Series Consultant Michael Pearce THU Producer Simon Elmes. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06nq270 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03bsb9p (Listen) THU Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk THU THU This new dramatisation by Marty Ross of the classic 1865 THU novella by Nikolai Leskov tells the dramatic story of THU Katerina, whose provincial life in 19th century Russia, THU married to an older man she has never loved, is transformed THU by the arrival of attractive philanderer, Sergei. THU THU Katerina embarks on a passionate affair and, in her state of THU heightened emotion, she is determined to destroy anything THU that stands in her way. With her husband working away, and THU her relationship with Sergei on the point of exposure in the THU close knit farming community, she begins by dispensing with THU her father in law, but soon it becomes inevitable that THU further murders will be necessary to sustain her ferocious THU desires. THU THU Shakespearean in both its language and emotional intensity, THU Katerina is portrayed as an anti-heroine of compelling THU intensity. The story, perhaps best known as the source for THU Shostakovich's famous opera of the same name, is by a THU Russian writer less well known than the likes of Tolstoy and THU Dostoevsky, but whose work was much admired by Chekhov and THU Gorki, a rural Russian 'film noir'. THU THU Sound design.......Jon Calver THU Writer..................Nikolai Leskov THU Dramatist.............Marty Ross THU Director................Cherry Cookson THU THU Producer: Mariele Runacre Temple THU A Wireless Theatre Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Katerina: Rochenda Sandall THU Sergei: Joe Armstrong THU Zinovy: Harry Myers THU Boris: Trevor Cuthbertson THU Aksinya: Jessica Dennis THU Guard: Mark Straker THU Sonya: Ceri Gifford THU Fedya: Christopher York THU Director: Cherry Cookson THU Producer: Mariele Runacre Temple THU Adaptor: Marty Ross THU Author: Nikolai Leskov THU THU 15:00 Open Country b06nrsrw (Listen) THU Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most enduring tragedies; the THU tale of a Scottish king driven to his death as a consequence THU of the ruthless pursuit of power. However many are surprised THU to hear that there was a real king Macbeth of 11th century THU Alba who bears little resemblance to the character in the THU play. Macbeth or Macbethad had a legitimate claim to the THU kingship and ruled relatively successfully from 1040 to THU 1057. It's possible to trace Macbeth's story through the THU landscapes he's associated with and where the significant THU events of this period of history occurred. Helen Mark THU journeys through Moray and south to Perthshire to visit THU places that are strongly connected to the life of Macbeth; THU landscapes in which it's also possible to discover the THU heritage of medieval Alba. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06nl72f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b06np877 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06nrxb8 (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06nrxbb (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06pj09j (Listen) THU PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and THU analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06nl5f2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01r0c5r (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU THU New series of the comedy show hosted by Alex Horne and his THU five piece band and specially written, original music. THU Guests across this series include Phill Jupitus, Charlie THU Baker, Nick Mohammed, Doc Brown, Matt Lucas and Danny Baker. THU THU This second episode explores the theme of 'the body' THU including songs on shampoo, beards and catarrh. Guest THU starring Phill Jupitus who sings with the band and reads a THU poem, plus a rap from Lady Lykez. THU THU Host .... Alex Horne THU Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland THU Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown THU Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier THU Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds THU Piano/keyboard .... Ed Sheldrake THU Guest performers .... Phill Jupitus and Lady Lykez THU Producer .... Julia McKenzie. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b06nrxbd (Listen) THU Clarrie could do with a bit of luck, and Helen is at home in THU the office. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06p0849 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06nrqvf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b06np61n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b06nrxbg (Listen) THU Breaking the Mould THU THU Rewriting the rules: what does it take to be a THU non-conformist? Evan Davis is joined by a banker, a brewer THU and a tech entrepreneur as they discuss how success can mean THU challenging the orthodox way of doing things. THU THU Guests: THU THU James Watt - Founder, Brewdog Ltd THU THU Sarah Wood - Co-founder, Unruly Media THU THU Anders Bouvin, CEO, Handelsbanken UK. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06nrxbb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06nrqv8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06pj09l (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06q7fd9 (Listen) THU Death in the Fifth Position, Episode 4 THU THU With McCarthyism reaching fever pitch in 1950s America, THU Peter Sargeant - a dashing PR man - is hired by the Grand St THU Petersburg ballet to fend off rumours that their star THU choreographer is a communist. But New York's ballet world is THU shocked when, on the opening night, the lead ballerina THU plummets to her death from a wire, maintaining her classical THU pose in the 'fifth position' as she hits the floor. THU THU Gore Vidal's earlier novel The City and the Pillar was THU published in 1948 when the author was 23 years old. Its THU central story of a homosexual relationship caused such a THU scandal that the New York Times book critic refused to THU review any book by Gore Vidal. Others followed his lead and THU the author found himself at a loss as to how to continue to THU earn a living through his pen until a publisher suggested THU that he turn his hand to writing under a different name. THU Death In the Fifth Position was published in 1952 - the THU first of a trio of entertainments featuring Peter Cutler THU Sargeant II as a publicist turned private eye. THU THU Episode 4: THU At Peter's suggestion, Jane Garden - his new girlfriend - THU has stepped in to take on the lead role played by the THU murdered ballerina, Ella Sutton. In the meantime, Detective THU Gleason has some questions to ask Peter about 'the murder THU weapon'. THU THU Written by Edgar Box (Gore Vidal) THU Read by Jamie Parker THU THU Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Jamie Parker THU Author: Gore Vidal THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 23:00 Radio 4's Night of Comedy for Children In Need THU b06nrxbj (Listen) THU For one night only BBC Comedy takes over the Radio Theatre THU as Susan Calman hosts a top bill of stand up, sketches and THU music all in aid of Children in Need. THU THU 23:45 The Listening Project b06bd7sj (Listen) THU Omnibus THU THU Fi Glover introduces conversations gathered during The THU Listening Project Booth's summer tour, about retirement and THU memories, learning, and the power of history to change THU lives, in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's THU surprising what you hear when you listen. THU THU The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a THU snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the THU UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to THU them about a subject they've never discussed intimately THU before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK THU by teams of producers from local and national radio stations THU who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're THU not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - THU lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key THU moment of connection between the participants. Most of the THU unedited conversations are being archived by the British THU Library and used to build up a collection of voices THU capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade THU of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening THU Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject THU THU Producer: Marya Burgess. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06nl5g0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06qbvz7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06nl5g2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06nl5g4 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06nl5g6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06nl5g8 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06pcz7t (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Jasdeep FRI Singh, curator of the National Army Museum's Indian Army FRI collection. FRI FRI Script FRI Good morning. As a young boy, I attended a Jain school in FRI India for a short time. I remember learning about the basic FRI Jain principles of non–violence, non–absolutism and FRI non–possessiveness. I was fascinated at the length Jains FRI went to avoiding harm to any living beings, wearing FRI facemasks and carrying a brush to gently sweep any insects FRI on the ground. FRI I remember the run up to Diwali night and how excited my FRI brother and I would be about seeing the vast array of FRI fireworks in the sky. It was my only real connection with FRI the festival as a child. I remember boys in my class FRI boasting about how many fireworks their parents had bought FRI for them, each trying to top the other. I recall one of my FRI friends telling us how his family were Jains and so didn’t FRI celebrate Diwali with fireworks. FRI Diwali or Dipavali has a very special significance in FRI Jainism. It marks the anniversary of attainment of Nirvana FRI salvation of Lord Mahavira, in the sixth century: the last FRI propagator of the Jain faith. This event occurred on the FRI night of Diwali at the dawn of the new moon, and it’s FRI celebrated at the same time as the Hindu and Sikh festival FRI of Diwali. FRI For Jains, the day following Diwali marks the start of the FRI Jain New Year. Different religions use different dates to FRI mark their new year, but regardless of whether it’s in FRI January, April or November, this is a time where we reflect FRI on our past year and aim to improve in the year to come. FRI Let us dispel ignorance from our lives and seek to improve FRI not only our own lives but also those around us. FRI FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06nrzqm (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04syygh (Listen) FRI Hawaiian Goose (Nene) FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Liz Bonnin presents the Nene, or the endemic and rare FRI Hawaiian goose. Visit a Wildfowl and Wetland Trust centre in FRI the UK and it is likely you'll be mobbed by the nasal calls FRI of one of the world's rarest birds, the Hawaiian Goose or FRI "Ne-Ne". In the late 18th century there were around 25,000 FRI of these neat attractive geese, with ochre cheeks and FRI black-heads, on the Hawaiian Islands. But by the early FRI 1950s, due to development and introduced predators, a mere FRI 30 or so remained. A few of these remaining Nene's were FRI taken to Slimbridge, home of Peter Scott's Wildfowl Trust as FRI part of a captive breeding programme. They bred successfully FRI and now many generations of geese produced there have been FRI returned to their native islands. Their future is still FRI precarious in the wild, but as the state bird of Hawaii the FRI Nene's outlook is more secure today than for the last FRI seventy years. FRI FRI Hawaiian goose (Branta sandvicensis) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Andrew Harrington / naturepl.com. FRI NPL Ref 01049744 FRI © Andrew Harrington / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06ns4gc (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b06nrzqp (Listen) FRI Lord Indarjit Singh FRI FRI Lord Indarjit Singh is interviewed by Kirsty Young for FRI Desert Island Discs FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Taylor. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Kirsty Young FRI Interviewed Guest: Indarjit Singh FRI Producer: Sarah Taylor FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06qbvnm (Listen) FRI Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The FRI Life of Gore Vidal, Episode 5 FRI FRI The authorised behind-the-scenes biography of one of FRI America's great and most under-rated man of letters, the FRI cosmopolitan and wickedly satirical Vidal, from a devoted FRI yet candid old friend. FRI FRI In Episode 5, Gore finds his largest audience yet, with his FRI ground-breaking novel Myra Breckinridge. He leaves the US FRI and establishes a life in Italy in his dream home on the FRI Amalfi Coast. FRI FRI Written by Jay Parini FRI Read by Toby Jones FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI FRI Produced and directed by Clive Brill FRI A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Toby Jones FRI Author: Jay Parini FRI Abridger: Eileen Horne FRI Director: Clive Brill FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06pcz0b (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 b06nrzqr (Listen) FRI Children in Need: D for Dexter, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Amanda Whittington. FRI It's the early hours of Friday morning. Dexter could sleep FRI through a riot. In fact, he just has. FRI But Skye isn't going down to see her Mum, not this time. FRI FRI Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. FRI FRI Credits FRI Skye: Sydney Wade FRI Dexter: Alfie Johnson FRI Director: Mary Ward-Lowery FRI Writer: Amanda Whittington FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b06nrzqt (Listen) FRI Series 21, 13/11/2015 FRI FRI When pensioners Viv and Fred Morgan read about a teenager FRI committing suicide clutching her teddy, they decided to act FRI - turning their home into a school to help other bullied FRI kids. FRI FRI They took their Bed and Breakfast in Hatton, Warwickshire FRI and turned rooms into classrooms and built recreation and FRI therapy facilities in the grounds. Now they have 17 pupils FRI attending, more than half of whom have tried to take their FRI own lives in the past. FRI FRI Children aged between 11 and 16 can be referred by their FRI local authorities and most stay for about a year. At first FRI they often struggle with the curriculum but gradually they FRI join classes - with 22 full and part time teachers covering FRI everything from Science and English through to Photography FRI GCSE. FRI FRI Fred was 90 when they founded Northleigh House School but FRI even now, four years on, he has no interest in retiring and FRI Viv agrees: "We're not people who sit back and do nothing. FRI When we heard of the situation facing youngsters we just FRI knew we should try and help." FRI FRI Alan Dein meets pupils and also those who have successfully FRI taken their GCSEs and moved back into mainstream for 6th FRI form. Ruth was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome when she FRI was 12 and struggled so desperately with school that she FRI wanted her life to end. When she eventually arrived at FRI Northleigh it took her weeks to develop the trust and build FRI up the energy needed to attend lessons. Now she has her FRI sights set on applying to study law at University: FRI FRI "When I first walked in here it was like being at a friend's FRI house. I didn't know what to expect but I saw the fire in FRI the grate and the welcoming feel of the place. It has been FRI the best thing that has happened to me coming here and I FRI wish others knew it existed and could help them as well." FRI FRI Producer Susan Mitchell. FRI FRI 11:30 John Finnemore's Double Acts b06nrzqw (Listen) FRI English for Pony-Lovers FRI FRI In a small town in Germany, Lorna is about to give Elke an FRI English lesson. FRI FRI Rebecca Front and Beth Mullen star in the fifth of six FRI two-handers, written by Cabin Pressure's John Finnemore FRI FRI Written by John Finnemore FRI Produced by David Tyler FRI FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Elke: Rebecca Front FRI Lorna: Beth Mullen FRI Writer: John Finnemore FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06nl5gb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 The Why Factor b06nrzqy (Listen) FRI Series 2, Long-Distance Sports Fans FRI FRI Every week, hundreds of millions of people around the world FRI surrender their emotions; leave them for a while in the FRI hands of strangers. They might face dejection or, with luck, FRI jubilation. The US National Basketball Association says that FRI less than one percent of fans globally will ever watch a FRI game live. While the Premier League is played in England and FRI Wales, almost half of the fans 470 million of them live in FRI Asia and Oceania. Another 260 million follow the game from FRI sub-Saharan Africa. Mike Williams asks why do sports fans do FRI it? With Eric Simons, author of the Secret Life of Sports FRI Fans, Xinjiu Wang, Chinese fan of Swansea City, Stanley FRI Kwanke, BBC Africa, Emily Clarke, fan of the Denver Nuggets, FRI David Goldblatt, Author of The Ball is Round. FRI FRI Presenter:Mike Williams FRI Producer:Bob Howard FRI Editor:Andrew Smith. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06pcz0g (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06nl5gd (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06nrzr3 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre FRI and Screen b06nrzr8 (Listen) FRI Pressure, Conflict and Creativity FRI FRI To end the first week of Raising the Bar, in the fifth of FRI ten programmes tracing a century of black British theatre FRI and screen, Lenny Henry takes a journey back to the 1960s FRI and 70s to catch the spirit of protest and violent anger FRI that welled up as the result of years of overt or FRI thinly-veiled racism. FRI FRI With the advent of the Black Power movement, British African FRI Caribbeans found a new and angry voice - it expressed itself FRI on stage and on screen, notably in Horace Ové's film FRI Pressure, that tells the story of a young black British boy FRI growing up under powerful influences: his old parents' FRI rectitude, his own desire to make his way in the society FRI he's been born into, and the angry, uncompromising voices of FRI his Black Power advocate brother. FRI FRI Horace Ové talks to Lenny Henry about the world that FRI inspired this famous first British feature film by a black FRI director. FRI FRI Series Consultant Michael Pearce FRI Producer Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06nrxbd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03g937t (Listen) FRI Queens of the Coal Age FRI FRI Maxine Peake dramatises the story of four miners' wives, who FRI attempted to save pits from closure by occupying a mine. FRI FRI Maxine says "I've always wanted to write about aspects of FRI the miners strike that I felt had been under explored in FRI British drama. How the women mobilized, became the backbone FRI of the strike and why they kept on fighting. The 80s was the FRI era women from mining communities became emancipated and FRI found their voice. I was overwhelmed by their strength and FRI courage." FRI FRI In 1993, nearly 10 years on, Anne Scargill, Dot Kelly, FRI Elaine Evans and Lesley Lomas tried to smuggle themselves FRI down a Parkside pit, when the remaining 31 pits were FRI threatened with closure. Maxine tells the story from their FRI point of view. FRI FRI "I'd had this idea for over eight years and this story was FRI the first thing I wanted to write but, aware it was a hard FRI sell, I sat on it. After my first radio play about the FRI cyclist Beryl Burton, I felt more confident. As with Beryl's FRI story, this is about ordinary women doing extraordinary FRI things. It's a piece about friendship, camaraderie and FRI perhaps surprisingly, much laughter." FRI FRI Anne Scargill, Dot Kelly, Elaine Evans, Lesley Lomas also FRI feature as themselves. FRI FRI Musical Director / Guitarist: Alan E Williams FRI Humming Miners: Saddleworth Male Voice Choir FRI Female Singers: Cast, Original Women, Crew FRI Female Vocalist: Keeley Forsyth FRI FRI Director / Producer: Justine Potter FRI Sound Engineer and Designer: Eloise Whitmore FRI FRI A Savvy production for BBC Radio Four. FRI FRI Anne Scargill is interviewed by the Press FRI Anne Scargill is interviewed by the Press on Easter Monday FRI 1993 after her occupation of Parkside Colliery to protest FRI against the remaining pit closures. FRI FRI Crowds including Arthur Scargill gather outside Parkside FRI Colliery FRI Crowds including Arthur Scargill gather outside Parkside FRI Colliery to support the women who have occupied Parkside FRI Colliery, when news is announced that the 4 women are coming FRI out of the mine. FRI FRI The cast and crew go down Kellingley Colliery to experience FRI a working mine FRI L-R: Maxine Peake *(playing Anne Scargill), *Betty Cook, FRI Lorraine Cheshire* (playing Elaine Evans), *Justine Potter* FRI (Producer/Director), *Rachel Austin *(playing Lesley FRI Lomas)*, Anne Scargill and Elaine Evans. FRI FRI Safely back above ground FRI FRI Safely back above ground after the research trip down FRI Kellingley Colliery for cast and original women whose story FRI is told in Queens of the Coal Age. FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI L-R: Maxine Peake *(playing Anne Scargill)* Lorraine FRI Cheshire* (playing Elaine Evans), *Elaine Evans herself, FRI Justine Potter *(Producer/Director)* Rachel Austin *(playing FRI Lesley Lomas)*, Betty Cook and Anne Scargill. FRI FRI Credits FRI Anne Scargill: Maxine Peake FRI Dot Kelly: Julie Hesmondhalgh FRI Elaine Evans: Lorraine Cheshire FRI Lesley Lomas: Rachel Austin FRI Michael: Gerard Kearns FRI Under Manager: Peter Slater FRI Riley: Peter Slater FRI Writer: Maxine Peake FRI Director: Justine Potter FRI Producer: Justine Potter FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06ns0r0 (Listen) FRI Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. FRI FRI Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Christine Walkden are FRI this week's panellists taking questions from an audience of FRI local gardeners. FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 New Writing from the Arab World b06ns27g (Listen) FRI Playing with Bombs FRI FRI A series which focuses attention on contemporary short FRI fiction from the Arab World. FRI FRI In Playing with Bombs by the Kuwaiti born Mai Al-Nakib, a FRI fifteen year old Palestinian finally gets a girlfriend - the FRI girl next door. Sharing notes and longing looks through a FRI gap in the wall which divides their gardens, they begin to FRI explore each other and discover their hopes and plans for FRI the future. FRI FRI Mai Al-Nakib holds a PhD in English Literature from Brown FRI University in the US and teaches Post-Colonial Studies and FRI Comparative Literature at Kuwait University. The Hidden FRI Light of Objects was her first collection of short stories FRI and it won the Edinburgh International Book Festival's First FRI Book Award in 2014. FRI FRI Written by Mai Al-Nakib FRI Read by Amir El-Masry FRI FRI Abridged and Directed by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Mai Al-Nakib FRI Reader: Amir El-Masry FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Director: Jill Waters FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06ns27j (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b06ns27l (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06ns27n (Listen) FRI Matt and Melodie - Support Structure FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces friends who are both parents of FRI disabled children, sharing their feelings about the FRI relentless pressure their children's conditions put them FRI under. Their children have been helped by Acorns Children's FRI Hospice in Walsall, which has received funding from Children FRI In Need since 2011 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 b06pcz0j (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06nl5gg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b06ns27q (Listen) FRI Series 47, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Freya Parker, Holly FRI Walsh, Dr Phil Hammond, Grace Petrie and Jon Holmes for a FRI comic romp through the week's news. FRI FRI Written by the cast, with additional material from Gareth FRI Gwynn, Sarah Morgan, Liam Beirne and Rose Biggin. FRI FRI Produced by Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Performer: Freya Parker FRI Performer: Holly Walsh FRI Performer: Phil Hammond FRI Performer: Grace Petrie FRI Performer: Jon Holmes FRI Writer: Gareth Gwynn FRI Writer: Sarah Morgan FRI Writer: Liam Beirne FRI Writer: Rose Biggin FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06ns27s (Listen) FRI Birthday boy Dan has a moment of clarity, and Ruth pauses FRI for thought. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Usha Franks: Souad Faress FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06pcz0l (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06nrzqr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06ns27v (Listen) FRI Lord Falconer, Rachel Johnson, John Nicolson MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Basingstoke in Hampshire with a panel including Lord FRI Falconer, Rachel Johnson and John Nicolson MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06mv4js (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre FRI and Screen b06ns27z (Listen) FRI Omnibus: Part 1 FRI FRI In April 1833, at the height of the anti-slavery debate, a FRI young African-American named Ira Aldridge took to the stage FRI of the Covent Garden theatre in London as the star of the FRI latest production of Shakespeare's Othello. Two days later, FRI the production closed, ostensibly as the result of illness, FRI but amid howling reviews that decried, in deeply racist FRI language, the elevation of a black actor to the role of FRI Shakespeare's tragic hero. Yet Aldridge was a superstar, FRI feted across Europe who settled in Britain and married a FRI British woman. FRI FRI In this first of two programmes, Lenny Henry traces the long FRI and painful road that black British performers, playwrights FRI and film-makers have travelled, from the overt racial FRI discrimination of the 19th century, via the thinly veiled FRI slurs that persisted through the first 70 years of the 20th, FRI to today's more equal society. This week, Lenny talks to FRI playwrights Mustapha Matura, Roy Williams, Lolita FRI Chakrabarti and Kwame Kwei-Armah and actors and directors FRI Carmen Munroe, Yvonne Brewster and Paulette Randall. As well FRI as Aldridge's Othello, he hears how racial issues were FRI reflected on TV from the Black and White Minstrel Show to FRI Love Thy Neighbour and Desmond's, and in films like Horace FRI Ové's Pressure. FRI FRI Consultant: Dr Michael Pearce FRI Producer: Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06nl5gj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06pcz0n (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06q7gwp (Listen) FRI Death in the Fifth Position, Episode 5 FRI FRI With McCarthyism reaching fever pitch in 1950s America, FRI Peter Sargeant - a dashing PR man - is hired by the Grand St FRI Petersburg ballet to fend off rumours that their star FRI choreographer is a communist. But New York's ballet world is FRI shocked when, on the opening night, the lead ballerina FRI plummets to her death from a wire, maintaining her classical FRI pose in the 'fifth position' as she hits the floor. FRI FRI Gore Vidal's earlier novel The City and the Pillar was FRI published in 1948 when the author was 23 years old. Its FRI central story of a homosexual relationship caused such a FRI scandal that the New York Times book critic refused to FRI review any book by Gore Vidal. Others followed his lead and FRI the author found himself at a loss as to how to continue to FRI earn a living through his pen until a publisher suggested FRI that he turn his hand to writing under a different name. FRI Death In the Fifth Position was published in 1952 - the FRI first of a trio of entertainments featuring Peter Cutler FRI Sargeant II as a publicist turned private eye. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI The story continues with the members of the Grand St FRI Petersburg ballet anticipating the imminent arrest of the FRI husband of the murdered ballerina. Not only had Miles Sutton FRI been asking his wife for a divorce, he was also hiding a FRI serious drug habit. Questions remain however over the murder FRI weapon - the pair of shears found by our narrator, Peter, FRI after the murder took place. The performances of the now FRI sell-out ballet continue as does the investigation, and FRI tonight a wealthy patron holds a party for the company. FRI FRI Written by Edgar Box (Gore Vidal) FRI Read by Jamie Parker FRI FRI Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Jamie Parker FRI Author: Gore Vidal FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b06np61q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Catacombs of the Mind b04sxxsx (Listen) FRI Bruce Lacey has been a mischievous and radical presence in FRI British culture for more than six decades. Now aged 87, he FRI reflects on his life and work. FRI FRI He's made an epic breadth of work as a satirical performer, FRI assemblage artist, filmmaker and creator of earth rituals. FRI FRI After studying painting at the Royal College of Art in the FRI 1950s, he made props for TV comedy - combining a love of FRI variety theatre and mechanical know-how to create effects FRI like Footo the Wonder Boot Exploder for The Goons and FRI Michael Bentine's performing fleas. FRI FRI He became part of London's satire boom, performing with FRI neo-Dadaist jazz band The Alberts in the hit madcap cabaret FRI show, An Evening of British Rubbish. Lenny Bruce was so FRI impressed he tried to become their manager. FRI FRI Later Lacey created assemblages like The Womaniser, which FRI expressed feelings about the dehumanising effects of Cold FRI War society. His robot Rosa Bosom still has pride of place FRI in his parlour - she was 'best man' at his wedding and was FRI once crowned the Alternative Miss World. FRI FRI Moving to Norfolk, Lacey concentrated on performance work FRI from the late 70s, committing himself to becoming a FRI transmitter of nature's force in almost shamanistic FRI community arts and ritual action performances. He still FRI lives in the same Norfolk farmhouse, surrounded by his FRI extraordinary personal archive and collections. FRI FRI Contributions from Jeremy Deller, Andrew Logan, Julian FRI Spalding, Lynda Morris, William Fowler, Jonny Trunk and FRI Ashley Hutchings of Fairport Convention, who wrote the song FRI "Mr Lacey" about him. FRI FRI Produced by Caroline Hughes FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06ns3wn (Listen) FRI Matt and Melodie - Abseil for Acorns FRI FRI Fi Glover with friends who are both parents of disabled FRI children, considering the fund-raising lengths they need to FRI go to in order to overcome compassion fatigue among donors FRI to Acorns Children's Hospice, which has received funding FRI from Children In Need since 2011. Another conversation in FRI the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
06 November, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 07/11/2015 - 13/11/2015
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