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SAT SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06p4js1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06pddgz (Listen) SAT Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, Diving for Pearls SAT SAT Elvis Costello, one of the UK's greatest and most SAT influential singer-songwriters, reads the final part of his SAT witty, frank and very irreverent take on 40 years at the top SAT of the music business. SAT Born Declan Patrick MacManus in London in 1954, Elvis SAT Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, the grandson of SAT a trumpet player and son of dance-band singer. At SAT twenty-four he had his first record deal and was at the SAT forefront of the the first wave of the British punk and new SAT wave. Costello's album, 'My Aim Is True', was a huge hit, SAT and with his band, The Attractions, he went on to record SAT some of the most influential albums in the 1980s and 90s. He SAT has since gone on to collaborate with some of the greats in SAT music this century, including Burt Bacharach, Johnny Cash, SAT Bob Dylan and Van Morrison. SAT Today, infamy in the US, and protest songs at home. SAT Written and read by Elvis Costello SAT Producer: Justine Willett SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Elvis Costello SAT Author: Elvis Costello SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton SAT Producer: Justine Willett SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06p4js3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06p4js5 (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06p4js7 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06p4js9 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06pdlpr (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with author SAT Rebecca Manley Pippert. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06pdlpt (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06p4jsc (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06p4jsf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06pd8rx (Listen) SAT Prehistoric Gower SAT SAT Writer Iain Sinclair seeks the UK's oldest burial site in a SAT cave along south Gower's windy clifftops. The 'Red Lady of SAT Paviland' was interred in a cave 26,000 years ago, the bones SAT decorated with red ochre. But, as he tells Helen Mark, "she" SAT was in fact a he, buried with jewellery and alongside a SAT mammoth's skull. This was at a time when the Bristol Channel SAT was a tundra landscape. SAT SAT Best known for his psychogeographic journeyings through SAT unloved modern landscapes and wastelands, such as the M25 SAT perimeter, Sinclair explains to Helen why he's drawn back to SAT the ancient past in this part of south Wales, a place of SAT childhood holidays, and the subject of his latest book, SAT 'Black Apples of Gower'. SAT SAT He's joined by archaeologist Ffion Reynolds, who's a SAT specialist in prehistoric sites, and antiquarian bookseller SAT Jeff Towns. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06ppb2c (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Drinks Industry SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06p4jsh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06pphch (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 b06ppb2f (Listen) SAT Griff Rhys Jones and Beverley Knight SAT SAT Griff Rhys Jones and Beverley Knight join Aasmah Mir and the SAT Rev. Richard Coles. Tracey Ford discusses the loss of her SAT son, Andre, and the foundation she launched in his memory to SAT provide bereavement support to families, deliver youth SAT awareness and restorative justice based programmes. Polly SAT Wright describes finding the stash of letters between her SAT grandmother and an Italian prisoner of war who worked on the SAT family farm in Wales during WWII, and how she has used them SAT to trace his family. JP meets ... Paul Hendy and his family, SAT to find out about their passion for pantomimes. And Kellie SAT Maloney shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Griff Rhys Jones SAT Interviewed Guest: Beverley Knight SAT Interviewed Guest: Tracy Ford SAT Interviewed Guest: Polly Wright SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Hendy SAT Interviewed Guest: Kellie Maloney SAT SAT 10:30 In Pod We Trust b06ppb2h (Listen) SAT Podcast Pioneers SAT SAT Miranda Sawyer with the third episode of her series about SAT the world of podcasts, rounding up some of the best from SAT around the globe. This week: podcast pioneers, the SAT agenda-setting podcasters who have broken new ground in the SAT genre. SAT SAT Miranda hears from the creators of Welcome to Night Vale, SAT who talk about their perhaps unlikely surrealist pod hit. SAT SAT The programme also features Wendy Zukerman's SAT Australian-based science podcast Science Vs, recently bought SAT up by Gimlet Media, an increasingly powerful new media SAT player in the burgeoning podcasting market. SAT SAT Ben Hammersley, internet technologist and journalist, and SAT the man who invented the word "podcast" guests. SAT SAT Producer: Jim Frank SAT Researcher: Chris Pearson. SAT SAT Ben Hammersley SAT Ben Hammersley SAT is a tech journalist and the Innovator-in-Residence for SAT Goldsmiths University. He also SAT coined the word 'Podcast' SAT SAT Welcome to Night Vale SAT Welcome to Night Vale SAT is a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community radio, SAT set in the mysterious town of Night Vale. This week, Miranda SAT interviews the podcast's creators Joseph Fink and Jeffrey SAT Cranor. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b06ppb2k (Listen) SAT Isabel Hardman of The Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06p4jsm (Listen) SAT November in Paris SAT SAT Foreign correspondents' stories. In this programme, Kevin SAT Connolly talks of the dogged durability that got Parisians SAT out to work again in the days after those terrible attacks, SAT 'the foot soldiers' ability to soldier on through the SAT darkness'. Joanna Robertson, also in the French capital, SAT says despite the huge numbers of police deployed in various SAT parts of the city, many in the suburbs are complaining SAT they've been left unprotected. She's asked: 'What's being SAT done to protect our way of life?' Emma Jane Kirby meets up SAT again with an Italian man who can't forget the day he went SAT out boating and came across scores of migrants scattered SAT across the sea, only some of whom he managed to rescue. A SAT way of life comes to an end with the closing of a well-known SAT narrow gauge railway in central India. Mark Tully's among SAT the last to travel on the Satpura Lines in the centre of the SAT country. A station master asks:'Why do they have to close SAT such a busy railway?' Steve Evans tells us that in Seoul, a SAT whole building is full of civil servants preparing for the SAT day North and South Korea will finally be united. But that's SAT a development unlikely to happen soon. Perhaps it will never SAT happen and, as a result, Steve finds these are workers not SAT over-burdened with work! SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06p4jsp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06ppb2m (Listen) SAT The Collapse of HBOS SAT SAT What caused the collapse of HBOS (Halifax Bank of Scotland) SAT in 2008? Two reports out this week make it clear that senior SAT management at the bank and the regulator - then the SAT Financial Services Authority - were both partly responsible SAT for the events that led to the £20 billion taxpayer rescue. SAT Paul Moore, former HBOS director turned whistleblower, talks SAT to us about events that led up to the banks collapse. SAT SAT The Financial Conduct Authority banned self-certification SAT mortgages in the UK from April 2014. But could they be SAT making a come-back? Ex-payday lender QuickLoans has plans to SAT relaunch them in January - not from the UK but from an as SAT yet unnamed eastern European state. The loans will be SAT supervised by that state's regulator and compensation SAT scheme. SAT SAT A change in National Insurance from next April will mean 5.5 SAT million people in salary related contracted out work based SAT pensions will face an average 15% rise in the money taken SAT for National Insurance. Most are in the public sector and SAT those employers will also face a big hit - an average rise SAT of well over a third in their employer National Insurance SAT contributions. It could cost the NHS alone £1 billion a SAT year. SAT SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Producer: Lesley McAlpine SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT SAT Related links SAT Financial Conduct Authority: FCA and PRA review into the SAT failure of HBOS Group SAT BBC News: HBOS report: 10 executives could face ban SAT The Financial Reporting Council SAT SAT SAT Paul Lewis Money SAT SAT Punter Southall SAT SAT Gov.UK: National Insurance SAT SAT Money Advice Service: Homes and mortgages SAT Financial Ombudsman Service SAT SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b06pdjhc (Listen) SAT Series 47, Episode 2 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Freya Parker, Mitch SAT Benn and Mae Martin for a comedy take on the week's news. SAT SAT Written by the cast with additional material from Gareth SAT Gwynn, Andy Wolton, Sarah Campbell and Kiri SAT Pritchard-McClean. SAT SAT Produced by Alexandra Smith. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: Freya Parker SAT Performer: Mitch Benn SAT Performer: Mae Martin SAT Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06p4jsr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06p4jst (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06pdlg5 (Listen) SAT Charles Clarke, Lindsey German, Lord Lawson, Sir Martin SAT Sorrell SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Charles Darwin School, Biggin Hill, Kent with a panel SAT including the former Home Secretary Charles Clarke, the SAT convenor of the Stop the War coalition, Lindsey German, SAT former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lawson and the SAT businessman Sir Martin Sorrell. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06ppb2p (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b06pphck (Listen) SAT Blood, Animals SAT SAT Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola, Season 1 - Blood SAT Animals by Dan Rebellato SAT SAT The first season of 24 hours of drama inspired by the works SAT of literature's greatest whistle blower - Emile Zola. Glenda SAT Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old and matriarch to a SAT family of wolves - the Rougon-Macquart's. SAT France is on the brink of a new Empire. This episode is a SAT compelling combination of biting humour and tragedy, as SAT Pierre, Dide's son siphons off her money and steals his SAT illegitimate sibling's inheritance. By stark contrast, Dide SAT strikes up a caring and loving relationship with her great SAT grand-son, Silvere, whose friendship and love for Miette is SAT heartbreaking as they run off to join the Republican SAT uprising. SAT SAT Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris SAT SAT Further info: SAT Damaged by a lifetime of seizures and her mind scarred by SAT trauma but Dide cannot forget her family. "What did I bring SAT into this world? Wolves... I have raised a family of SAT Wolves... I have watched their years. I will tell their SAT story. Crime by crime. Blood by blood." Dide (GLENDA SAT JACKSON) marries Rougon, and gives birth to Pierre Rougon SAT (ROBERT LINDSAY). After Rougon's death, Dide has an affair SAT with the smuggler Macquart and gives birth to Antione SAT Macquart (IAN HART) and Ursule (Kate Coogan) and the SAT Rougon-Macquart dynasty is born. SAT SAT Les Rougon-Macquart themed around Blood, Sex And Money, the SAT series is a mash-up of the 20 novels, that draws us into SAT 19th century France and the tragic, farcical reign of SAT Napoleon III, as it marches forward towards a modern, SAT industrialised society. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dide: Glenda Jackson SAT Pierre: Robert Lindsay SAT Felicite: Fenella Woolgar SAT Antoine: Ian Hart SAT Silvere: Ashley Margolis SAT Miette: Shannon Flynn SAT Eugene: Robert Jack SAT Col Masson: Jonathan Keeble SAT Sicardot: Jonathan Keeble SAT Burgat: Seamus O'Neill SAT Roudier: Seamus O'Neill SAT Ursule: Kate Coogan SAT Director: Pauline Harris SAT Producer: Pauline Harris SAT Author: Emile Zola SAT Adaptor: Dan Rebellato SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06pphcm (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06ppkjp (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b06pdcf6 (Listen) SAT The Northern Powerhouse SAT SAT Can the Northern Powerhouse solve Britain's North-South SAT economic divide? For now, the Northern Powerhouse is a SAT concept: an idea that towns and cities in the north can SAT unite, forming their own economic hub to rival London and SAT the south east. So how to turn it into a reality? Evan Davis SAT and guests are with an audience at the Greater Manchester SAT Chamber of Commerce to discuss what kind of businesses will SAT settle in the north of England and what needs to be done to SAT encourage them to make the move. They'll talk about the SAT frustrations of poor transport links, the joys of green SAT spaces and the reasons why businesses like to cluster. SAT SAT Guests: SAT Wayne Hemingway, Designer and entrepreneur, Hemingway Design SAT Vanda Murray, an Independent Director, Manchester Airports SAT Group SAT Sir Richard Leese, Leader, Manchester City Council and SAT Chair, Transport for the North SAT Jo York, co-founder, Reframed TV SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06p4jsw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06p4jsy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06p4jt0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06ppkxj (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Nikki Bedi, Simon Le Bon, Evgeny Lebedev, SAT Kim Longinotto, Jen Kirkman, The Soil, Milk & Green SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Simon Le Bon, SAT Kim Longinotto, Evgeny Lebedev and Jen Kirkman for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from The Soil and Milk & Green. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Simon Le Bon SAT SAT 'Paper Gods' is available now on Warner Bros. SAT SAT Duran Duran are playing at Manchester Arena on 27th, First SAT Direct Arena, Leeds on 28th and Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff on SAT 30th November. Check their website for further tour dates. SAT SAT Evgeny Lebedev SAT The 61st Evening Standard Theatre Awards take place on 22nd SAT November. SAT SAT Kim Longinotto SAT 'Dreamcatcher: Surviving Chicago's Streets' is available now SAT on BBC iPlayer. SAT SAT Jen Kirkman SAT Jen Kirkman is at Soho Theatre, London to Saturday 21st SAT November. SAT SAT Milk and Green SAT SAT 'Milk & Green' is out now on Nueva Onda Productions. SAT SAT The band are playing at The Hoxton Bar & Grill, London on SAT 25th November. SAT SAT The Soil SAT SAT ‘Nostalgic Moments’ is out now on Native Rhythms Records. SAT SAT The Soil have been performing as part of the EFG London Jazz SAT Festival, which continues until 22nd November, alongside SAT pop-up EFG festival The Streets in London. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: Simon Le Bon SAT Interviewed Guest: Kim Longinotto SAT Interviewed Guest: Evgeny Lebedev SAT Interviewed Guest: Jen Kirkman SAT Performer: The Soil SAT Performer: Milk & Green SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b06ppkxl (Listen) SAT Anonymous SAT SAT An insight into the character of an influential person SAT making the news headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06p4jt2 (Listen) SAT Film: Love, Book: Reacher Said Nothing, Theatre: Waste, TV: SAT Capital, Exhibition: Imagined Museum SAT SAT A look at the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Meeting Myself Coming Back b06ppm2m (Listen) SAT Kate Adie SAT SAT Kate Adie reflects on her life and career, as revealed in SAT the BBC archives in conversation with John Wilson - from SAT local radio shifts to the frontline of international crises. SAT SAT Producer Ella-mai Robey. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06p56zj (Listen) SAT The Day of the Locust SAT SAT Classic Serial: The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West. SAT Dramatised by Jim Poyser SAT SAT Tod is a young scene designer in 1930s Hollywood trying to SAT earn an honest buck and still maintain his artistic SAT integrity. He falls in love with Faye, an aspiring actress SAT and gets sucked into the toxic periphery of Hollywood. A SAT caustic satire on the flipside of the 1930s dream factory. SAT SAT Director/Producer Gary Brown. SAT SAT Credits SAT Tod: Simon Lee Phillips SAT Faye: Laura Aikman SAT Homer: Kerry Shale SAT Miguel: Kerry Shale SAT Abe: John Guerrasio SAT Harry: John Guerrasio SAT Mrs Loomis: Teresa Gallagher SAT Mrs Johnson: Teresa Gallagher SAT Claude: Louis Labovitch SAT Earl: Todd Kramer SAT Director: Gary Brown SAT Producer: Gary Brown SAT Author: Nathanael West SAT Adaptor: Jim Poyser SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06p4jt4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b06pbwzp (Listen) SAT Islamic Terrorism SAT SAT Perhaps one of the truly shocking things to come out of the SAT events in Paris this week is that the security services were SAT expecting a mass casualty terrorist attack and there are SAT almost certain to be more of them in the future. Does the SAT nature of modern terrorism mean we now have to change our SAT way of life including what many regard as our fundamental SAT liberal values? Does the threat mean that we all have to SAT accept less freedom and more surveillance? Does the Muslim SAT community have to accept that inevitably they will be SAT subject to more scrutiny? President Hollande has said that SAT France will destroy IS and there are those who see Islamic SAT terrorism as an existential threat to our civilisation. But SAT in our rush to arms and the moral barricades are we in SAT danger of sacrificing the core values that our societies SAT have been built on? The Moral Maze has been following the SAT issue of Islamic terrorism, fundamentalism and how we should SAT react to it since 1994. Paris has now been added to the list SAT that already includes London, Madrid and many others over SAT those years. This week we'll be inviting back witnesses SAT who've appeared on our programme about this issue over the SAT decades to take an historical perspective and to ask "where SAT we go from here?" Combative, provocative and engaging debate SAT chaired by Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, SAT Michael Portillo and Anne McElvoy. Witnesses are Inayat SAT Bunglawala, Simon Jenkins, Dr Taj Hargey and Edward Lucas. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b06p7blp (Listen) SAT Programme 5, 2015 SAT SAT (5/12) SAT What would Fred Hoyle think of a writer of pulp Westerns, a SAT penal reformer, a Restoration Archbishop of Canterbury, and SAT British India? SAT SAT Simon Singh and Marcus Berkmann of the South of England take SAT on Adele Geras and Jim Coulson of the North of England, in SAT this week's contest of cryptic connections. They'll have to SAT unravel this and plenty of other puzzles, including several SAT RBQ listeners' suggestions. Tom Sutcliffe is on hand to SAT ensure fair play and to provide gentle hints wherever SAT necessary, though he'll also be deducting points for every SAT clue he has to give them. SAT SAT The questions are available to view on the programme's SAT webpage each week, from the beginning of the broadcast. Tom SAT will also be giving the answer to the teaser question he SAT left unanswered at the end of the previous edition - and SAT setting another for this week. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Last week's teaser question SAT SAT Tom asked: If Abba recorded a minus two, Fleetwood Mac a SAT minus three and Simon & Garfunkel a minus four, what might SAT we be talking about? SAT SAT This was about song titles which refer to golfing terms. Two SAT under par is an eagle (Abba's song Eagle appeared on their SAT 1978 release Abba: The Album). Three under is an albatross SAT (recalling Fleetwood Mac's no.1 hit of 1969). Four under - SAT needless to say extremely rare - is known as a condor (and SAT Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water album SAT included their arrangement of the folk tune El Condor Pasa). SAT SAT Well done if you worked it out: Tom will set another teaser SAT question at the end of the programme. SAT SAT Rankings before today's programme SAT SAT Standings in the 2015 series after four games: SAT SAT Scotland Played 2 Won 1 Drawn 0 Lost 1 Total points 29 SAT SAT Midlands P1 W1 D0 L0 Points 20 SAT SAT South of England P1 W1 D0 L0 Points 17 SAT SAT Northern Ireland P2 W0 D0 L2 Points 23 SAT SAT Wales P1 W0 D0 L1 Points 16 SAT SAT North of England P1 W0 D0 L1 Points 12 SAT SAT SAT SAT Questions in this programme SAT SAT Q1 Can you rearrange: something that smells of rotten eggs SAT into a rapid transport project; a volcanic emission into a SAT defunct computer operating system; and a laxative magnesium SAT compound into a text-speak exclamation? SAT SAT Q2 (from Ronald Monroe) What's deceptive about a SAT tree-dweller said to look ursine; a vegetable said to be SAT sweet; and a fruit acknowledged as pyriform? And what are SAT they all really? SAT SAT Q3 (Voices) If this were a music question, which instrument SAT would we hear? SAT SAT Q4 (from Ivan Whetton) Why might you find the following in SAT Rhodes's company: a gathering of morris men, the rescuer of SAT a well-held cat, and two actors in a Saga? SAT SAT Q5 Why might the man who documented Bob Dylan's tour of SAT Britain be interested in a US prosecuting official, the SAT unified atomic mass unit, and a teddy boy's haircut? SAT SAT Q6 (Music) Listen to these three pieces and suggest another SAT to complete the set. SAT SAT Q7 What would Fred Hoyle think of a writer of pulp SAT Westerns, a Restoration Archbishop of Canterbury, a prison SAT reformer, and British India? SAT SAT Q8 (from Michael Trevett) Where would you be, what would SAT you be doing, and with whom would you be doing it, if your SAT companions were the main settlement on the Isle of Mull, the SAT capital of New Zealand, a long South American river and a SAT French town where a rebellion was brutally suppressed in SAT 1793? SAT SAT SAT SAT This week's teaser question SAT SAT Ulm in Germany; Philadelphia, New York, Chicago; Kuala SAT Lumpur, Taipei, Dubai. To what does this sequence of places SAT refer? SAT SAT No need to contact us with the answer: it's just for fun, SAT and Tom will reveal the answer at the beginning of the next SAT programme. SAT SAT 23:30 Forgotten History b06p56zt (Listen) SAT Neil Kinnock is a long standing admirer of the poetry of SAT fellow Welshman, Idris Davies. Born in 1905, Davies's two SAT major poetic sequences draw on his experience of life as a SAT miner and the economic hardships in the 1920s and 1930s. The SAT socialist principles at the heart of Davies' writing chime SAT with the South Wales valleys Kinnock knew half a century SAT later. In the fifties Pete Seeger's setting of "The Bells of SAT Rhymney" turned Davies into a folk hero, while TS. Eliot's SAT description of his verse as "the best poetic document I know SAT about a particular epoch in a particular place" has SAT consigned Davies' voice to a small patch of Wales. To SAT counter-balance these views, Neil Kinnock returns to SAT Rhymney, Davies' birthplace and the source of much poetic SAT inspiration, to meet those who knew the poet and his poetry, SAT arguing that the breadth and depth of Davies' writing is the SAT universal message of Everyman, Everywhere, in a wretched, SAT angry world. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06pps91 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Comic Fringes b038zhb3 (Listen) SUN Series 9, Kill Dilly SUN SUN Story series featuring new writing by leading comedians, SUN recorded live in front of an audience at this year's SUN Edinburgh Festival Fringe. SUN SUN Larry has been (mostly) happily married to Dilly for SUN forty-five years. Things have deteriorated, however, since SUN his retirement and now Larry is contemplating murder. SUN Ludicrous and funny tale by award-winning Irish comedian SUN Aisling Bea, whose debut Fringe show sold out within days at SUN this year's Edinburgh Festival. SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Performer: Aisling Bea SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN Writer: Aisling Bea SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06pps93 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06pps95 (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06pps97 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06pps99 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06psb4t (Listen) SUN Church bells from Howden Minster, East Yorkshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b06ppkxl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06pps9c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06psb4w (Listen) SUN The Teen Within SUN SUN When you look back at your teenage years, what do you SUN remember most about them? Mercurial and angst-ridden? SUN Empowering and passionate? Samira Ahmed explores the ways SUN adolescence can resonate in later life, and reflects on SUN staying in touch with one's inner teen. SUN SUN Teenage years are for trying out different versions of our SUN selves - dipping a toe into adulthood, as childish things SUN are put away. It's the time for dreaming of the limitless SUN possibilities life might bring, while being simultaneously SUN daunted by them. SUN SUN Samira is joined by Alom Shaha who grew up on a tough South SUN London council estate in a strict Bangladeshi Muslim family. SUN After his mother died, Alom, aged just thirteen, took SUN responsibility for his younger siblings. Now a science SUN teacher, he wrote The Young Atheist's Handbook, to help SUN other teenagers who decide to leave the faith they were SUN raised in. SUN SUN All that angst and passion - the teenage spirit - where does SUN it go? Does it still glimmer within or does it dissipate SUN with adulthood? We hear from British poet Anthony Thwaite, SUN about the way his teenage years have come to inspire his SUN poetry in much later life. SUN SUN And Samira reflects on what we might say to our teenage self SUN - with some funny and moving insights from the pen of Peter SUN Capaldi. SUN SUN With readings of prose and poetry from writers including SUN John Steinbeck, Claude Tardat and Josephine Miles, and music SUN by artists including J S Bach, Nouvelle Vague and Laura SUN Marling. SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Hughes SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b06psb4y (Listen) SUN Gamekeepers: The Next Generation SUN SUN Caz Graham goes to Newton Rigg College in Cumbria to meet SUN the next generation of gamekeepers, who are being trained in SUN every aspect of a shoot. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06pps9f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06pps9h (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06psb50 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06psb52 (Listen) SUN Children Change Colombia SUN SUN Fernando Montaño presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN Children Change Colombia SUN Registered Charity No 1075037 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Children Change Colombia'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Children Change SUN Colombia'. SUN SUN Children Change Colombia SUN SUN Children Change Colombia is one of the UK’s largest SUN charities working exclusively in Colombia. It works with SUN children whose rights to a safe and happy childhood and a SUN fulfilling future are threatened by poverty, inequality, SUN violence and gang culture It does this through local SUN partnerships and by focusing on children most at risk, to SUN keep them safe and to defend their rights in the long term. SUN SUN Helping families SUN In the home of a family with a Children Change Colombia SUN project in Bogota. The project helps families improve SUN communication and defuse conflict at home. A safe and SUN nurturing family life is a crucially important way of SUN protecting children from gang violence. SUN SUN Music workshops SUN SUN A Children Change Colombia music workshop in Cazuca, near SUN Bogota. Music workshops give young people safe places to go. SUN They also develop young people’s communication skills and SUN self-confidence and produce insightful shows that bring SUN neighbours together and help rebuild community life. SUN SUN Reclaiming community spaces SUN SUN Children at the Children Change Colombia project in Cazuca SUN coming together to claim back their local sports field, SUN showing the world that it belongs to the whole community and SUN not to the armed groups. Children Change Colombia works in SUN many places like Cazuca where gangs make community spaces SUN unsafe to play in. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06pps9k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06pps9m (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06psb54 (Listen) SUN Sing to the Lord with Thanksgiving! SUN SUN As the United States prepares to mark Thanksgiving, Sunday SUN Worship comes from Virginia Theological Seminary, one of SUN American's leading theological training colleges, situated SUN just outside Washington DC. In their newly built and SUN recently dedicated Chapel, we join students and staff as SUN they reflect on how they felt called to ministry from a SUN variety of careers and backgrounds. The service is lead by SUN the Associate Dean of Chapel, the Rev Ruthanna Hooke and the SUN preacher is the Dean and President, the Very Rev Ian SUN Markham. The Choir of Virginia Theological Seminary will be SUN joined by the Chamber Singers of the neighbouring Episcopal SUN High School. The music is directed by William Bradley SUN Roberts and Brandon Straub and the organist is Thomas Smith. SUN Producer Andrew Earis. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06pdlgb (Listen) SUN Sarah Dunant: Crisis in Catholicism SUN SUN Sarah Dunant sees a new crisis in the Catholic church as a SUN result of unchanged policy over divorce, homosexuality, SUN celibacy and the role of women. SUN SUN "Men may truly believe in God but for most of them chastity SUN is too big an ask and if enforced leads, at worst, to abuse SUN and at best to a clergy and hierarchy ignorant of, and often SUN unsympathetic to, the problems of being human. From there SUN it's but a skip and a jump to the role of women and their SUN exclusion from the heart of the church." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sarah Dunant SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04syywl (Listen) SUN Blue Manakin SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Liz Bonnin presents the advancing, leaping and queuing male SUN blue manakin of Brazil. Male blue manakins are small, blue SUN and black birds with scarlet caps. They live in the forests SUN of south-east Brazil and neighbouring areas of Argentina and SUN Paraguay. Whilst their plumage is eye-catching, their mating SUN display is one of the strangest of any bird. A dominant male SUN Blue Manakin enlists the support of one or more subordinate SUN males. Calling loudly, all the males sidle along a branch SUN towards the female, taking turns to leap into the air and SUN then fly back down and take their place at the back of the SUN queue. This sequence of advancing, leaping and queuing SUN occurs at a frenetic pace, until, without warning, the SUN dominant male calls time on this avian dance-off, with a SUN piercing screech. SUN SUN Blue Manakin [aka Swallow-tailed manakin] (Chiroxiphia SUN caudata) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Luiz Claudio Marigo / SUN naturepl.com. SUN NPL Ref 01317997 SUN © Luiz Claudio Marigo / naturepl.com SUN SUN Recording of swallow-tailed manakin (blue manakin) by Paul A SUN Schwartz / Ref: ML 71592 SUN SUN This programme contains a SUN wildtrack recording of the swallow-tailed manakin SUN kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab SUN of Ornithology; recorded by Paul A Schwartz on 11 Nov 1971, SUN in Estacao Biologica de Boraceia, Sao Paulo, Brazil. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06pps9p (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b06psb56 (Listen) SUN Ruth feels left out, and Eddie faces a real dilemma. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Paul Brodrick SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Usha Franks: Souad Faress SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Hazel Woolley: Annette Badland SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06psb58 (Listen) SUN Gurinder Chadha SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is filmmaker Gurinder Chadha. SUN SUN Writer, director and producer behind the films Bend it like SUN Beckham, Bhaji on the Beach and Bride and Prejudice, she SUN began her career as a BBC news reporter. SUN SUN She was born in Kenya to Sikh parents and grew up in SUN Southall in West London. Her political awakening came in her SUN teens in the 1970s against the backdrop of the National SUN Front and race riots in the capital. The bands she listened SUN to, including the Clash, the Jam and the Specials, were SUN fixtures at the Rock Against Racism concerts which SUN galvanised her desire to make a difference. SUN SUN Bend it Like Beckham, which launched the career of Keira SUN Knightly, is now a hit musical on the West End stage. Her SUN next film, Viceroy's House, tackles the Partition of India SUN in 1947. SUN SUN She was awarded an OBE in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours SUN List for her services to the British Film Industry. SUN SUN Producer: Paula McGinley. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Gurinder Chadha SUN Producer: Paula McGinley SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06pps9r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b06p7cz0 (Listen) SUN Series 73, Episode 7 SUN SUN Swimming, clementines, and festive spirits are amongst the SUN subjects on the cards as Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, Josh SUN Widdicombe and Jenny Eclair try to avoid repetition, SUN hesitation and deviation in the fiendishly simple panel SUN game. Host Nicholas Parsons adjudicates. Hayley Sterling SUN blows the whistle. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN Josh Widdicombe's new sitcom Josh premiers on BBC3 this SUN week. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Sheila Hancock SUN Panellist: Josh Widdicombe SUN Panellist: Jenny Eclair SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06psb5b (Listen) SUN Chinatowns SUN SUN Nearly every major city in the world has one- a district SUN where Chinese immigrants have settled to live, work and eat. SUN This week Dan Saladino takes you on a tour of Chinatowns SUN around the world. SUN SUN From one of the oldest, in Manila, to one of the newest, in SUN Johannesburg, Chinatowns create a global trail of economic SUN and culinary influence. And the food that they serve SUN reflects not only the tastes of home, but of the adopted SUN countries. SUN SUN In this programme, made in collaboration with BBC World SUN Service programme, The Food Chain, we ask how these urban SUN communities reflect not only the history of Chinese SUN immigration, but the changing role of China as a global SUN power. SUN SUN Including visits to Havana, to look at the legacy of SUN communism in a Chinatown that rarely serves Chinese food, SUN and Shanghai, where the fortune cookie - a westernized SUN version of Chinese cuisine is finding a new market at home. SUN SUN Producers: Kent DePinto & Sarah Stolarz. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Kent DePinto SUN Producer: Sarah Stolarz SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06pps9t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06psb63 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b06pschf (Listen) SUN Series 4, Bradford SUN SUN While the news is dominated by stories of conflict between SUN Muslims and Jews, Hardeep travels to Bradford to tell the SUN story of a heart-warming and inspiring friendship across the SUN religious divide. The city's Muslim community has not only SUN raised money to save Bradford's last remaining synagogue SUN from closure, but as the ties have grown and trust and SUN friendship blossomed, a Muslim is now on the synagogue's SUN ruling council and another Muslim has been invited to preach SUN there. Hardeep meets Rudi Leavor who has been the synagogue SUN chairman for the past 40 years and finds out how, in spite SUN of global politics, the relationship between Jews and SUN Muslims in this part of Bradford is getting stronger. Rudi SUN introduces Hardeep to two of his biggest Muslim supporters; SUN Jani Rashid who recently became a member of the synagogue's SUN ruling council and Zulfi Karim, a local businessman who SUN raised money for repairs and is now not only Rudi's personal SUN friend, but who has also preached in the synagogue. Now the SUN urgent repairs have been completed, the work to secure a SUN future for the synagogue in the city is just the beginning. SUN Zulfi Karim found it a tough decision to begin working with SUN his Jewish neighbours and thought deeply before offering his SUN assistance - he wondered if he would be betraying his SUN religion but realised that he had a duty to his community, SUN regardless of race or creed. Jani took his position on the SUN Synagogue Council at the start of this year. He says he SUN looks at people of different faiths around the world, SUN struggling to live side by side and says, "Bradford can buck SUN that trend by its acts of friendship". SUN SUN Producer: Phil Pegum. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06pdjgm (Listen) SUN Westonbirt Arboretum SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts a tree special from Westonbirt Arboretum. SUN SUN Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Bob Flowerdew answer SUN the questions. SUN SUN This week the panellists delve into the postbag to catch up SUN on some queries about trees from GQT listeners in the UK and SUN abroad. SUN SUN Also, Chris Beardshaw meets with staff at Westonbirt to SUN discuss the 2050 Glade project which trials plants from SUN different provenances to see how they perform in a changing SUN climate. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q - We have a holly tree approximately 5metres (16.5ft) SUN high, however we never get to enjoy the berries. They start SUN to turn red at the end of August but by the end of September SUN squirrels have removed the lot. My main concern is the SUN damage to the tree as they bite off lengths from a few SUN centimetres to half a metre, just to remove one or two SUN berries and discard the rest. Is there any thing I can do to SUN stop this damage? I am considering a ultrasonic movement SUN detector to repel the squirrels but don't know if they are SUN effective. I am very happy for the birds to take the SUN berries after Christmas which is what used to happen until SUN the squirrels moved in. SUN SUN Anne – I have hollies and squirrels and I find the squirrels SUN don’t eat the berries. Maybe it’s because I have hazels SUN nearby – perhaps try planting hazels to divert them? SUN SUN Bob – Ultrasonics are ok but squirrels are persistent and SUN probably won’t be deterred long term. It could also be SUN Mistle Thrushes taking the berries. SUN SUN Chris – You could try an inverted collar around the tree SUN trunk – protruding about 50-60cm (20-24inches) – almost like SUN a dog’s veterinary collar, to stop the squirrels getting any SUN purchase. Will only work on an isolated tree. SUN SUN SUN Q - Potatoes accidentally left in the ground often grow the SUN following year. It's possible to buy early seed potatoes in SUN the autumn for a protected crop for Christmas. Can I just SUN plant them un-chitted (in late autumn) for an earliest SUN possible crop in spring? SUN In both cases, and recommendations for varieties? SUN My allotment is on a warm, south-facing slope, protected by SUN nearby trees, well-drained, well-supplied with farmyard muck SUN and "fertilised" by the grave-yard at the top of the hill. SUN SUN Bob – Yes – I plant half my potato crop in the autumn. It’s SUN a lighter crop because you don’t chit them and they don’t go SUN with the same speed as the spring. I would put them in a SUN bit deeper to protect from the cold. SUN SUN SUN Q - In 2011 - probably like many people - I bought a 'mini SUN orchard' of one Braeburn Apple; one Victoria plum; one SUN Cherry and one Conference pear. The first year I had one SUN apple, which I removed. No fruit from any tree the following SUN years. This year I had a good crop from the cherry and pear SUN but no apples or plums. How can I encourage the Apple and SUN the Plum to fruit? They are approximately 3mtrs (10ft) tall SUN and planted in south east facing plot with plenty of SUN home-produced compost mulch each year. SUN I live in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Should I give up on SUN them? SUN SUN Penny Jones (Westonbirt expert) – I think it’s good to SUN mulch, however, fruit trees need quite a lot of potassium to SUN produce good fruit. Add this in late January. Sometimes SUN apples need a cross-pollinator – a Crab Apple on a dwarf SUN rootstock would do if you don’t want a full apple tree – I SUN like Malus ‘Evereste’ SUN SUN Bob – re: the lack of flowering – it could be Bullfinches. SUN They will strip the buds from fruit trees, especially plums. SUN SUN Chris – These are young trees – the first few years are all SUN about setting the roots and pruning well and then the fruits SUN will follow. SUN SUN SUN Q - I want to buy a bare-root peach tree to grow in a pot so SUN that I can avoid leaf-curl by putting it in my 12’ x 8’ SUN (3.6m x 2.5m) greenhouse in early spring. I don't mind SUN pruning but I don't want to wait years for it to fruit. What SUN would you recommend? SUN I’m happy to prune/pollinate and place it out in my SUN sheltered South facing veg plot. However in order not to SUN have to wait even longer for my first peach, what do I need SUN to do in order to get it to fruit ASAP! SUN SUN Penny – Keeping it in the greenhouse in early spring will SUN prevent the onset of peach leaf curl but definitely move it SUN out for the summer months SUN SUN Anne – I use dwarf peach trees in pots to make them more SUN manageable. I’d get an apricot too SUN SUN Bob – Peento and Bonanza are good varieties. For England, SUN the most reliable, are Rochester and Peregrine peaches. Put SUN them in tubs, bring them in on January 1st, and put them SUN back out after the first fruits in June. SUN SUN SUN Q - We have plenty of earthworms in our plastic compost SUN bins. The bins have an open bottom and are regularly "fed" SUN with vegetable peelings, garden waste, plus torn up paper SUN bags, hoover dust etc. They stand in a spot that gets the SUN sun for part of the day and often become quite warm. SUN My question is this: every now and again the worms move up SUN to the top of the bin, often gathering in the lid in clumps. SUN In order not to crush them when replacing the lid, my SUN husband and I have the choice of either pushing the worms SUN back into the bin (from which they appear to be trying to SUN escape) or putting them in or on the soil. When we try the SUN latter the worms do not attempt to bury themselves. I SUN wonder if they will not thrive outside the warmth of the SUN bin. SUN So which should we do, keep them in the bin or add them to SUN the soil? SUN SUN Bob – These are different worms (called Brandling). In the SUN soil they will only go for topsoil, as they don’t like SUN digging. Keep them in the bin. SUN SUN Anne – You need to put in some semi-composted in material SUN for them to enjoy immediately… they are climbing to the top SUN because they can’t tuck into your fresh peelings straight SUN away. SUN SUN SUN Q - A large French bay tree has grown next to the stone wall SUN of my house and its roots have grown into the wall creating SUN a large damp patch on the lime plaster inside. What is the SUN safest way to remove the tree completely? SUN SUN Andy (Westonbirt expert) – A qualified tree surgeon should SUN be able to help quite easily and then I’d recommend getting SUN a builder in to advise on the remaining wall. And poison SUN the remaining stem to avoid those suckers coming back. SUN SUN Anne – It might not be the tree – get the builder in first SUN to see what is causing the damp for sure. SUN SUN SUN Q - I moved into my current property around five years ago. SUN The front garden has two very old oak trees and about 10 SUN conifers and shrubs. A tree had been felled shortly before I SUN moved in. I had noticed a lot of fungi around this but SUN thought nothing of it. Over the course of the past five SUN years I have noticed more and more fungi around the garden SUN and more things dying. I recently had a survey carried out SUN by a tree surgeon and he has advised me that it is actually SUN honey fungus and that it has also attacked the oak trees and SUN they will be dead within seven years. SUN I heard on one of your earlier programmes that there is very SUN little I can do to stop it. I have lost 50% of the conifers SUN over the past two years. SUN What I find daunting is the fact that once it has done its SUN worst, I cannot plant for two years! So if I built raised SUN beds and imported new topsoil, would the planting survive? SUN SUN Andy – Remove any of the old stumps and get rid of the SUN material completely to stop it spreading. Raised beds could SUN be a solution – as long as they are completely sealed off, SUN possibly with polythene. SUN SUN SUN Q - I live on the fourth story of a block of flats, in SUN Lahti, Finland. A semi sheltered balcony but open to the SUN elements. In summer it gets about six hours of good sun. SUN Unfortunately in winter that starts about October we start SUN to get sub-zero temperatures until April possibly May if a SUN bad night. I want grow plants in containers and just want SUN recommendations for plants for the summer months. I would SUN like a bit of colour, green is acceptable. Maybe a few herbs SUN for the kitchen would be nice. SUN Bob Flowerdew will say get started early, hardening of in a SUN cold frame and plant out on February. In Finland, cold is SUN possibly -10 to -20 at this time. SUN SUN Bob – Strawberries would do as they are dormant in winter SUN and get going quickly. Some of the annual herbs such as the SUN Chervil, Parsley and Basil, too. SUN SUN Anne – I might suggest a Birch in a pot and, herb-wise, SUN Marjoram and Lemon Balm. SUN SUN Chris – I agree with Anne with the Birch – though I’d go for SUN *Betula nana*, one of the Tundra plants. Also, the Korean SUN Pine. And, for ground covering I’d go for *Microbiota SUN decussata*. SUN SUN SUN Q - How do I grow a ginger plant from a piece of root SUN obtained from the supermarket? When I've either soaked a SUN piece developing shoots or planted it under compost it rots. SUN I have tried on several occasions to encourage sprouting SUN ginger roots to develop further into plants but have SUN failed). I have put sprouting roots into water and also SUN tried potting them using compost. But they just seem to rot SUN and don't develop into plants. What do I need to do? SUN SUN Anne – It’s being kept too wet. I’d be tempted to use two SUN parts compost to one part grit to aid airflow and drainage. SUN SUN Chris – Bottom heat is the most important thing. SUN SUN Bob – Supermarkets take the buds off if they can – so find SUN one with buds on for best results, then bottom heat, good SUN drainage, and dappled light. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06pschh (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about competition, SUN support, and understanding from Cumbria, Wales and Devon, in SUN the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject. SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b06pschk (Listen) SUN Blood, Fire SUN SUN An epic 24 hours of drama inspired by the works of SUN literature's greatest whistle blower, Emile Zola. SUN Passion, in every sense, is the theme of this episode, SUN dramatised by Dan Rebellato. SUN SUN Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old, the matriarch SUN to a family of wolves - the Rougon-Macquarts. SUN SUN She is trapped in her small room in the local asylum in SUN Plassans, southern France. Trapped, but omniscient as she SUN broods over her extended family. As a young woman, she gave SUN birth to two dynasties that exemplified French society. One SUN legitimate - rich, powerful, obsessive and corrupt. The SUN other illegitimate - poor, vulnerable, weak and depraved. SUN SUN France is on the brink of a new Empire. Dide's family is a SUN turbulent mix of the good, the bad and the misguided. This SUN episode, Fire, focuses on Francois and Martha who are SUN happily married, living a quiet, bourgeois life. Abbe SUN Faujas, a charismatic, sinister priest, arrives on their SUN doorstep and announces he has come to live in their spare SUN room. Black comedy and tension ensue as his scheming drives SUN a wedge between the couple, uncovering the darker side of SUN this sleepy provincial town. SUN SUN Dan Rebellato is a Sony nominated writer and Professor of SUN Theatre at Royal Holloway. SUN SUN Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore SUN SUN Produced and Directed by Polly Thomas SUN Executive Producer: Melanie Harris SUN Series Producer: Susan Roberts SUN SUN A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Dide: Glenda Jackson SUN Francois: Sam Troughton SUN Martha: Carla Henry SUN Felicite: Fenella Woolgar SUN Abbe Faujas: David Annen SUN Rose: Ursula Holden Gill SUN Mme Condamin: Ursula Holden Gill SUN Society Ladies: Ursula Holden Gill SUN Dr Porquier: Chris Jack SUN The Warder: Chris Jack SUN Director: Polly Thomas SUN Producer: Polly Thomas SUN Author: Emile Zola SUN Adaptor: Dan Rebellato SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b06psfz8 (Listen) SUN William Boyd on Sweet Caress SUN SUN Mariella is joined by William Boyd to discuss his novel SUN Sweet Caress which follows one remarkable woman, a SUN pioneering photographer, through notable events of the 20th SUN century. SUN SUN In her new book, London Fog, academic Christine Corton SUN chronicles the ways in which fog has been used in prose to SUN create atmosphere, a sense of foreboding and a secret world. SUN Today she shares some of her favourite foggy extracts. SUN SUN Diary of a Wimpy Kid creator Jeff Kinney on his adventure SUN into the world of bookselling. SUN SUN And writer Matt Haig shares his passion for a magical SUN children's book by Paul Gallico in "A Book I'd Never Lend". SUN SUN Read the opening chapter from Sweet Caress by William Boyd SUN Sweet Caress: Chapter 1 SUN by William Boyd SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: William Boyd SUN SUN 16:30 Particle Poets and Molecular Metaphors b06psfzb (Listen) SUN Anna McNamee explores "quantum poetics" and reveals that SUN poets and scientists have more than a language in common. SUN SUN From Einstein's theory of molecular relativity to the hunt SUN for the Higgs Boson, atomic science has influenced poetry SUN more than any other social, economic or political force over SUN the last century. With the help of the former Welsh SUN laureate, Gwyneth Lewis, Professor Peter Middleton, poet SUN Gitte Broeng, Nobel physicist Murray Gell-Man, and Thomas SUN Otto from CERN, and examples of poems by James Joyce, Arthur SUN Sze and David Ignatow, Anna McNamee explores the strong SUN connections between physics and poetry. SUN SUN 17:00 The Dictatorship of Data b06pb831 (Listen) SUN The big data revolution is here, with masses more personal SUN information available. And for authoritarian governments, SUN this information is another weapon to use against their SUN people. Gordon Corera discovers how agencies like the Stasi SUN always longed for such technological power, and explores SUN what might now be possible for politicians armed with masses SUN of data about everyone, and the means to analyse it. How SUN have Western companies been caught up in this world, and SUN what can be done in response? Big data promises huge SUN benefits in many areas - but can its darker side be SUN resisted? SUN SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby SUN Editor: Richard Vadon. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b06ppkxl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06pps9w (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06pps9y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06ppsb0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06psghq (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon SUN SUN Sheila McClennon picks her BBC Radio highlights from the SUN past week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06psghs (Listen) SUN Jill feels philosophical, and Helen gets out of the house. SUN SUN 19:15 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06s83jl (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN SUN A fun packed second series from comedy duo Lucy Trodd and SUN Ruth Bratt. Sketches and songs from a whole range of new SUN characters, with the occasional appearance from some old SUN favourites. SUN SUN The first series was nominated for Best Comedy at the BBC SUN Audio awards 2014, and all four performers have recently SUN been on the West End stage as part of the smash hit SUN Showstopper: The Improvised Musical - and were part of the SUN show when it graced the Radio 4 airwaves a few years ago. SUN SUN This week we meet the masseuses who might make your visit to SUN their spa more than a little stressful, we find out whether SUN Mary's embarrassing flatulence has got any better (I SUN wouldn't hold your breath - well, actually I might) and find SUN out who Julia is - or was. SUN SUN Performers: SUN Lucy Trodd SUN Ruth Bratt SUN Adam Meggido SUN Oliver Senton SUN SUN Written by: Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd SUN Script Editor: Jon Hunter SUN Original music: Duncan Walsh Atkins SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Performer: Ruth Bratt SUN Performer: Lucy Trodd SUN Performer: Adam Meggido SUN Performer: Oliver Senton SUN Writer: Ruth Bratt SUN Writer: Lucy Trodd SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN SUN 19:45 Natural Histories: Original Short Stories b06psk5q (Listen) SUN Fortifications SUN SUN AL Kennedy reads her story commissioned as part of the SUN collaboration between Radio 4 and the Natural History SUN Museum. She was taken behind the scenes at the museum, and SUN that inspired this story. A professor remembers her younger SUN self, and how she went diving underwater for coral. SUN Producer Beth O'Dea. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: AL Kennedy SUN Writer: AL Kennedy SUN Producer: Beth O'Dea SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b06pdjh3 (Listen) SUN Paris Attacks Coverage SUN SUN Radio 4's forum for listener comment. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06pdjh0 (Listen) SUN Roy Dommett, Warren Mitchell, Allen Toussaint, Cynthia Payne SUN and Jonah Lomu SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Roy Dommett, one of the UK's leading rocket scientists who SUN was also a well known morris dancer. SUN SUN Warren Mitchell, the actor best known for playing Alf SUN Garnett in the TV sit com "Till Death Us Do Part" SUN SUN Allen Toussaint, the New Orleans producer and musician who SUN worked with many of the great names in rock. SUN SUN Cynthia Payne, who ran a brothel at her home in Streatham SUN where men exchanged luncheon vouchers for sex. SUN SUN And Jonah Lomu, the rugby player who won 63 caps for the All SUN Blacks and scored 37 international tries. SUN SUN Roy Dommett CBE SUN SUN Born 25 June 1933; died 2 November 2015 aged 82. SUN SUN Warren Mitchell SUN SUN Born 14 January 1926; died 14 November 2015 aged 89. SUN SUN Allen Toussaint SUN SUN Born 14 January 1938; died 9 November 2015 aged 77. SUN SUN Cynthia Payne SUN SUN Born 24 December 1932; died 15 November 2015 aged 82. SUN SUN Jonah Lomu (Pictured) SUN SUN Born 12 May 12 1975, died 18 November 2015 aged 40. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06ppb2m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06psb52 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Paris: Could It Happen Here? b06rywqs (Listen) SUN David Cameron says seven terrorist plots have been thwarted SUN in the UK this year alone. Mass casualty attacks, like SUN those seen in Paris, are on the agenda too according to SUN the head of MI5. SUN SUN What is going on in the communities from which this SUN largely "homegrown" threat has emerged? In an attempt SUN to understand, Edward Stourton gathers a group of Muslim SUN journalists with grassroots knowledge. SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Sabbiyyah Pervez SUN Mobeen Azhar SUN Fayaz Rizvi SUN Secunder Kermani SUN Producer: Sally Abrahams. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06ppsb2 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06pskbr (Listen) SUN John Kampfner analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06pdcdy (Listen) SUN How I Pitched To Steven Spielberg, and Barbara Broccoli on SUN Life Beyond Bond SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli explains why she's just SUN produced a film called Radiator, about a middle-aged man SUN caring for his two elderly parents that was made for less SUN than one percent of the budget of Spectre, and why not all SUN films should be made for teenage boys. SUN SUN Bridge Of Spies scribe Matt Charman reveals why he took off SUN his clothes to pitch his Cold War spy thriller to Steven SUN Spielberg on the phone. SUN SUN A rare showing of a 13 hour French movie that was totally SUN improvised, Out 1, is playing soon in a West End cinema. SUN Francine is granted a private screening and reports back SUN from her marathon viewing session - was it all worth it and SUN more importantly, will she ever recover the feeling in her SUN legs ? SUN SUN And there's an opportunity for listeners to write their own SUN coda to Brief Encounter - what Alec did next... SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Barbara Broccoli SUN Interviewed Guest: Matt Charman SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06psb4w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06ppsc5 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06pbwb5 (Listen) MON Elite jobs, Hairdresser craft MON MON How elite students get elite jobs. Lauren Rivera, Associate MON Professor of Management and Organisation at Northwestern MON University's Kellog School of Management, discusses her MON study into the hiring practices of top investment banks, MON consultancies and law firms. Do America's elite keep the top MON jobs for people just like themselves? Louise Ashley, MON Lecturer in Management Studies at Royal Holloway, University MON of London, adds a British perspective. MON MON Also, hairdressing as craft. Dr Helen Holmes, Hallsworth MON Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, argues that MON the craft of such service work is obscured by the MON intangibility of the product, as well as the fact that it is MON a female dominated profession. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Helen Holmes at the University of Manchester MON Helen Holmes MON 'Make Do and Mend' Project MON at the University of Manchester MON Lauren Rivera at the Northwestern Kellogg School of MON Management MON Louise Ashley at Royal Holloway, University of London MON READING LIST: MON Lauren A. Rivera, *Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite MON Jobs *(Princeton University Press, 2015) MON The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission report: *A MON qualitative evaluation of non-educational barriers to the MON elite professions* (June 2015) MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06psb4t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06ppsc7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06ppsc9 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06ppscc (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06ppscf (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06qsjpz (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with author MON Rebecca Manley Pippert. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06psl8n (Listen) MON Farming Today on the Dairy Farm MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06ppsch (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlvwg (Listen) MON Rhinoceros Auklet 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 rhinoceros auklet found around MON the North American western seaboard. Rhinoceros auklets are MON auks. They look very different to their relatives the MON puffins or guillemots. They're dark grey-ish brown birds, MON and in the breeding season both male and female have flowing MON white plumes above their eyes and behind their orange bills. MON It is the white vertical plate at the base of its bill which MON has inspired the birds' common names of "horn-billed MON puffins" or "unicorn puffins". This horn is only grown in MON the breeding season; the birds shed it in autumn when they MON head out to sea. Rhinoceros auklets in burrows or cavities MON in grassy places or on forest floors: most colonies are MON small, but some contain a hundred thousand birds which MON produce a soothing chorus of mooing and grunting sounds, MON strange to hear in the blackness of a coastal wood. MON MON Rhinoceros auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Gerrit Vyn / naturepl.com MON MON NPL Ref MON 01308825 MON © Gerrit Vyn / naturepl.com MON MON Two recordings of rhinoceros auklet by Thomas G Sander / MON Ref: ML110904 & ML110911 MON MON This programme contains two wildtrack recording of the MON rhinoceros auklet kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at MON the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: both tracks were recorded by MON Thomas G Sander as follows... MON Track ML110904 MON - Recorded 26 Jul 1986, at Rabbit Cave, SE Farallon Islands, MON California, USA MON Track ML110911 MON - Recorded 27 Jul 1986, at Rabbit Cave, SE Farallon Islands, MON California, USA MON MON MON MON MON MON 06:00 Today b06psm20 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06psm22 (Listen) MON Jonathan Coe on Satire MON MON On Start the Week Mary Ann Sieghart takes a satirical look MON at the world with the novelist Jonathan Coe. His latest book MON is a state-of-the-nation satire which takes aim at politics, MON social media and inequality. It's the battle between ideals MON and pragmatism in the cynical world of the political elite MON of the 1920s which takes centre stage in the play Waste, MON famously banned when it was first written, now revived and MON directed by Roger Michell. The Times' political cartoonist, MON Peter Brookes, celebrates the power of the visual image to MON lampoon the country's leaders and the playwright Mia Chung MON explores whether satire can do justice to the questions MON raised by a regime like North Korea and talks about her MON latest play about two sisters fleeing the country. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Mary Ann Sieghart MON Interviewed Guest: Jonathan Coe MON Interviewed Guest: Roger Michell MON Interviewed Guest: Peter Brookes MON Interviewed Guest: Mia Chung MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06pssb5 (Listen) MON Living on Paper - Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995, MON Episode 1 MON MON Throughout her life, Iris Murdoch wrote thousands of MON letters. Mostly to friends and lovers. This episode focuses MON on her years as an Oxford undergraduate when she was full of MON hope and political idealism. MON MON Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 to Hughes and Rene MON Murdoch. While still a baby the family moved to west London. MON In 1938, Murdoch won a place at Somerville College, Oxford, MON where she read classics. After gaining her first-class MON degree, wartime work in the Treasury ensued before, in 1944, MON she joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation MON Administration and was posted to Belgium and Austria, where MON she worked helping those displaced by the war. MON MON Murdoch left UNRRA in 1946 and, after a year's postgraduate MON studies at Newnham College, Cambridge, was appointed as a MON philosophy tutor at At Anne's College, Oxford. In 1954, MON while still at St Anne's, Murdoch debut novel Under The Net MON was published. MON MON In a writing career that spanned over 40 years, Murdoch MON published 26 novels, five books on philosophy, six plays and MON two books of poetry. Her novel The Sea, The Sea won the 1978 MON Booker Prize and, in 1987, she was made a Dame. She remains MON one of the most celebrated British novelists of the 20th MON century. MON MON The music used on this programme is Near Light by Ólafur MON Arnalds MON MON Living On Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch 1935-1995 MON Editors: Avril Horner and Anne Rowe MON MON Readers: Imogen Stubbs and Nigel Anthony MON MON Abridger: Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Imogen Stubbs MON Reader: Nigel Anthony MON Author: Iris Murdoch MON Abridger: Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06pt0bf (Listen) MON Katie Piper, Appearance and invisibility, Agyness Deyn MON MON Katie Piper on the impact an acid attack had on her MON appearance and how people cope with being 'visibly MON different' whether due to birth or accident. Why some might MON feel invisible in mainstream culture because of age, MON ethnicity or disability with philosopher Mahlet Zimeta. MON MON Soprano Carmen Giannattasio on her success in lead roles in MON operas such as La Boheme, Requiem and Maria Stuarda despite MON not taking singing lessons until she was 18 years old. MON MON Former supermodel Agyness Deyn stars in a new film 'Sunset MON Song', adapted from one of the great works of Scottish MON literature, the 1932 novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. She MON plays the young heroine Chris Guthrie, whose passion for MON life and education is disrupted by family responsibilities, MON the hardships of rural Scottish life and the impact of the MON First World War. MON MON Short story writer Helen Simpson on why she's chosen to MON write about the positive side of the menopause and ageing. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Anne Peacock. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Katie Piper MON Interviewed Guest: Mahlet Zimeta MON Interviewed Guest: Carmen Giannattasio MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Simpson MON Producer: Anne Peacock MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06pt0bh (Listen) MON Welcome to Zaatari, Episode 1 MON MON Two ambitious young women in Jordan are living very MON different lives. MON MON Reem's Syrian family have fled to the sprawling Zaatari MON Refugee Camp. Jordanian Yara lives in the capital Amman, but MON is just starting as an aid worker at the camp. MON MON As Reem's brothers struggle to survive - in the camp itself, MON working illegally in Amman, under fire in Syria, or en route MON to Germany - both families' destinies will collide. And both MON will face impossible choices about their future. MON MON 1/5 Why would anyone plant a garden in Zaatari Refugee Camp? MON MON Welcome to Zaatari is adapted by Liz Rigbey from 'We Are All MON Refugees', an Arabic audio drama about Syrian refugees in MON Jordan, which was produced by William Stirling, Charlotte MON Eagar and Georgina Paget for Refuge Drama Productions, in MON conjunction with Radio SouriaLi and the UNHCR. It was MON written by Wael Qadour, Majd Hijjawi and Ahmad Ameen, and MON translated by Wael Qadour and Majd Hijjawi. MON MON The theme music for Welcome to Zaatari is 'El Mokhtalifeen', MON the new single from Jordanian group El Morabba3 MON (elmorabba3.com). MON MON Credits MON Yara: Sirine Saba MON Murad: Paul Chahidi MON Marwan: Paul Chahidi MON Reem: Raghad Chaar MON Fadi: Amir El-Masry MON Salma: Souad Faress MON Jamal: Farshid Rokey MON Sahar: Jalleh Alizadeh MON Nabil: Adam El Hagar MON Imad: Chris Pavlo MON Boss: Chris Pavlo MON Ghalia: Olivia Popica MON Ola: Susan Jameson MON Mr Rami: Ewan Bailey MON Writer: Majd Hijjawi MON Writer: Wael Qadour MON Writer: Ahmad Ameen MON Adaptor: Liz Rigbey MON MON 11:00 Numbers by Nature b06pt0bk (Listen) MON Lemurs and parrots accompany maths writer Alex Bellos as he MON explores the foundations of our ability to understand MON numbers. What are the fundamental numerical skills which we MON share with other animals? What accounts for our species' MON unique abilities to do complex calculations that others MON cannot? MON MON Alex seeks answers from psychologists and cognitive MON scientists who are studying the number senses of creatures MON as diverse as tropical fish, lemurs, monkeys and birds. MON MON Among others, he visits Professor Elisabeth Brannon at Duke MON University in North Carolina. At the Duke Lemur Center, she MON introduces him to Teres, a ring-tailed lemur. Teres sits at MON a computer screen and solves the number tests presented to MON him with his brain and his nose. Professor Brannon's work MON with lemurs, monkeys and humans shows that they all share MON one brain system which gives them a well-tuned sense of MON number - be they objects, symbols or sounds. The animals MON have an abstract concept of number, although it is a fuzzy MON and approximate one. MON MON Alex also visits the parrot lab of Professor Irene MON Pepperberg at Harvard University. As well as meeting and MON hearing from her latest parrot subjects, he talks to her MON about another Alex - her former star subject. This Alex was MON an African grey parrot who died prematurely in 2007, aged MON 30. MON MON Alex was also an acronym for Avian Learning Experiment. He MON learned the words and their meaning for dozens of objects, MON colours and materials as well as concepts such as bigger and MON smaller, and same and different. Irene also taught him to MON speak and count the numbers from one to six exactly, and MON recognise the Arabic symbols for those numbers. MON MON According to Irene Pepperberg and Harvard colleague Susan MON Carey, towards the end of his life, Alex was able to do MON something with his apparent understanding of numbers which MON no other non-human animal had ever done before. They say he MON made the same numerical mental leap which human children MON make at around the age of 4 or 5. This leap allows us to MON understand any number of any size exactly. MON MON 11:30 The Missing Hancocks b06pt0bm (Listen) MON How Hancock Won the War MON MON Between 1954 and 1959, BBC Radio recorded 102 episodes of MON Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's comedy classic Hancock's Half MON Hour. The first modern sitcom, it made stars of Tony MON Hancock, Sid James and Kenneth Williams, and launched Galton MON and Simpson on one of the most successful comedy-writing MON partnerships in history. But 20 episodes of the show are MON missing from the BBC archives, and have not been heard since MON their original transmission nearly sixty years ago. Now, MON after a highly successful first series, another five of MON those episodes have been lovingly re-recorded in front of a MON live audience at the BBC Radio Theatre, featuring a stellar MON cast led by Kevin McNally as The Lad Himself. MON MON Tonight's episode: How Hancock Won The War. Tony tells MON Andree how he got his war wound, which is a story you may MON find hard to believe... MON MON Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and with the classic MON score newly recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra, the show MON stars Kevin McNally, Kevin Eldon, Simon Greenall, Robin MON Sebastian and Susy Kane. How Hancock Won The War was last MON broadcast in February 1956. MON MON Produced by Ed Morrish and Neil Pearson MON MON Written by Ray Galton & Simpson MON MON A BBC Radio Comedy Production. MON MON Credits MON Tony Hancock: Kevin McNally MON Bill Kerr: Kevin Eldon MON Sid James: Simon Greenall MON Kenneth Williams: Robin Sebastian MON Andree Melly: Susy Kane MON Writer: Ray Galton MON Writer: Alan Simpson MON Producer: Ed Morrish MON Producer: Neil Pearson MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06ppsck (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Self Drives: Maxwell's Equations b06pt0bp (Listen) MON Maxwell's Edinburgh MON MON Will Self embarks on a road trip from Edinburgh to Cambridge MON on the trail of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell who MON 150 years ago pioneered the theory of the electromagnetic MON waves which made mobile phones, radio, radar and GPS all MON possible. MON MON In a bid to understand Maxwell and his achievements, Will MON plans to drive 600 miles in an electric car, stopping off at MON locations relevant to the much neglected 19th century MON physicist. MON MON Will's trip starts promisingly enough when he has a chance MON encounter with Nobel prize-winning physicist Sir Peter Higgs MON on an Edinburgh back street not far from Maxwell's MON birthplace. But things then start to go awry as Will has a MON rather less welcome run-in in a multi-storey car park... MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06pt0br (Listen) MON Invalid driving insurance, Panettone, The Open University MON MON Research from uSwitch suggests that up to 60% of UK drivers MON haven't told their insurer about a change in their work and MON could be driving without valid insurance as a result. MON MON The shops are full of panettone for Christmas. The packaging MON is lovely. Maybe that's why panettone has become a kind of MON 'go-to' gift. It's the thing you have in, for when someone MON turns up with something for you and you didn't get them MON anything. So what is it with panettone? And what should you MON do with it when Christmas is over? MON MON Later this week lecturers at the Open University will vote MON on when they will strike over the planned closures of seven MON regional centres. Things haven't been good at the OU for MON some time. The general decline in people studying part time MON has hit them hard - student numbers are declining, and MON they're running a persistent budget deficit. Lecturers argue MON that the closures will mean less time with students and less MON support MON MON And if Bill Gates was your secret santa - what do you think MON he would give you? MON MON 12:57 Weather b06ppscm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06qdckl (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 His Master's Voices b06ptdd6 (Listen) MON Beginnings MON MON Singer Cerys Matthews and music expert Tristram Penna go MON back to summer 1898 when The Gramophone Company opened MON offices in London's Covent Garden. MON MON This was the very first disc record company in the UK, later MON becoming well known as HMV and EMI, and was the London MON affiliate of inventor Emile Berliner's US National MON Gramophone Company. MON MON The first inventory consisted of imported parts for 3,000 MON gramophones and 150,000 American records. It was swiftly MON obvious that British tastes meant local repertoire was MON vital, so Berliner sent his top engineer and talent man Fred MON Gaisberg to London. On 9 Aug - the day of the very first MON gramophone recording session - Fred recorded Adam Umbach, MON clarinettist from the Trocadero, playing Mendelssohn's MON Spring Song. MON MON Close by, Rules Restaurant, London's oldest restaurant which MON opened in 1798, also played an important part as a place MON where artists and Gramophone Company staff could fraternise. MON Here Gaisberg heard Australian singer Syria Lamonte, leading MON to a legendary recording of Coming Through The Rye on the 2 MON September. MON MON Fred wanted to record everything and anything that he MON thought might sell and the very first gramophone record MON catalogue contains several thousand very diverse recordings. MON MON The early recording process may have been primitive, but MON many artists were persuaded to record by a pioneering MON spirit. By Christmas 1898 the company had sold out of all MON machines and records so the entire staff poured into Rules MON to celebrate. MON MON We hear from Christopher Proudfoot, CLPGS chairman, academic MON Peter Adamson, and music manager/author Simon Napier-Bell. MON The early recordings are courtesy of the EMI Archive Trust. MON MON A Sue Clark Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06psghs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b06ptdd8 (Listen) MON Blood, Food MON MON Blood Sex and Money, an epic 24 hours of drama inspired by MON the works of literature's greatest whistle blower, Emile MON Zola. MON MON Season 1. Blood. Episode 3. Food. MON MON Lisa Macquart's brother-in-law turns up on her doorstep and MON her entire future seems threatened. MON MON A story of love, jealousy and betrayal dramatised by Oliver MON Emanuel. MON MON Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old, the matriarch MON to a family of wolves - the Rougon- Macquarts. MON MON Directed by Kirsty Williams. MON MON Credits MON Dide: Glenda Jackson MON Lisa: Jodie McNee MON Florent: James Anthony Pearson MON Old Man: Jonathan Keeble MON Revolutionary: Jonathan Keeble MON Quenu: Graeme Hawley MON Pauline: Millie Kinsey MON Gervaise: Julie Hesmondhalgh MON Director: Kirsty Williams MON Author: Emile Zola MON Adaptor: Oliver Emanuel MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b06ptddb (Listen) MON Programme 6, 2015 MON MON (6/12) MON With victories already under their belt in the early MON contests of the series, both Wales and The Midlands will be MON aiming to add to their tally as they clash for the first MON time this season. MON MON David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander play for Wales, opposite MON Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock of the Midlands team. The MON competition promises to be keen, and the teams will have to MON trawl all of their arcane knowledge to deal with Tom MON Sutcliffe's puzzles, which include: 'Some unfortunate MON ancient women, a defunct City bank and a very shy pianist MON appear to have collaborated on Onward Christian Soldiers - MON how?' MON MON As always, Tom will be deducting points for every MON intervention he has to make to nudge them towards the MON solution. He'll also be revealing the answer to the teaser MON puzzle he set last time, and providing a new one to keep you MON guessing for a further week. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06psb5b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Burlesque Legends b06ptddh (Listen) MON Each year, hundreds of performers attend the Burlesque Hall MON of Fame Weekend in Las Vegas, where the guests of honour are MON The Living Legends. MON MON In the mid-20th century these women were shunned by society. MON Most were presumed prostitutes. But now their careers are MON celebrated, and their ground-breaking acts are revived, at MON the Titans of Tease Reunion. MON MON Mat Fraser is a British actor, cabaret star, and a former MON Best Male Striptease Artist. For BBC Radio 4 he embarks on a MON very personal journey to meet some of the legends, both on MON and off stage. MON MON Mat says: "As a disabled performer, I connect with these MON women in that we're all outsiders. We don't look mainstream. MON They don't judge me, and I don't judge them." MON MON Veteran performers in their 70s and 80s, including April MON March, Lottie "the Body" Graves and Melanie "Marinka" MON Hunter, discuss ageism, sexism, racism and feminism in their MON profession. How have attitudes towards Burlesque artists MON shifted since the 1950s? How do the legends inspire younger MON performers? MON MON And after three decades of retirement, how does it feel to MON finally get back on stage - and strip? MON MON Producer: Steve Urquhart MON A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b06sb42j (Listen) MON How Islamic is the So-Called Islamic State? MON MON In claiming responsibility for the Paris atrocities, the MON so-called Islamic State described the attacks as "a blessed MON battle whose causes of success were enabled by Allah". Last MON year, when the group's self-imposed Caliphate was declared, MON hundreds of Muslim leaders and scholars from across the MON world wrote an open letter to the self-professed Caliph, Abu MON Bakr al-Baghdadi, accusing him of heinous war crimes and a MON violation of the fundamental principles of Islam. So how MON Islamic is 'Islamic State'? Why have mainstream MON interpretations of Islam so far failed to provide an MON effective counter-narrative? What needs to happen for the MON group to be defeated? MON MON William Crawley discusses the beliefs which underpin the MON so-called Islamic State in the light of the Paris terrorist MON attacks with Sheikh Dr Salah Al Ansari, an Imam, theologian MON and academic; Haras Rafiq, Managing Director of the MON anti-extremism think tank, the Quilliam Foundation; and Dr MON Katherine Brown, an expert in Islamic Studies at King's MON College London. MON MON Producer: MON Dan Tierney MON MON Series producer: MON Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b06qdcf2 (Listen) MON News interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06ppscp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b0670gmc (Listen) MON Series 73, Episode 8 MON MON Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Susan Calman and Tom Allen MON find out just how hard it can be to talk for 60 seconds with MON no hesitation, repetition & deviation in this special MON episode recorded at the Edinburgh Festival. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Tom Allen MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06ptny5 (Listen) MON Kathy has to put business first, and Rob has a lovely MON surprise. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06qdcf4 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06pt0bh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Changing Climate b06ptny7 (Listen) MON The Solutions MON MON Tackling climate change is a global issue and in the run up MON to the UN climate change conference in Paris most of the MON world's countries have put forward proposals to do their MON bit. In the second of this series Roger Harrabin looks at MON the solutions to the emissions problem. How can the world MON meet the need for energy for a growing population without MON creating dangerous levels of CO2 emissions. Roger travels to MON Malawi, one of the world's poorest nations, where the energy MON crisis is about access to energy. How do you provide energy MON to people like these without adding to the climate problem MON caused by the rich getting rich? He looks at the solar MON revolution being driven by the falling costs of photovoltaic MON panels and he travels to Morocco to see a huge power plant MON at the cutting edge of solar technology. But will this all MON be enough, will we have to resort to removing CO2 from the MON atmosphere and is this even possible? MON You can find links to transcripts of the interview done for MON this series on the Open University website MON creativeclimate.org. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b06pd3bp (Listen) MON The Drugs Mules of the Andes MON MON Peru is the world's largest producer of cocaine. A MON staggering one-third of it travels on foot, on the backs of MON young men like Daniel. He is 18, full of bravado, and claims MON he does this work so he will be able to go to university and MON take care of his family. Daniel is one of thousands known as MON 'mochileros' - backpackers, in Spanish - who hike their MON illicit cargo from the tropical valley where most of Peru's MON coca is produced, up to Andean towns, out towards the border MON with Brazil, and to clandestine airstrips. MON MON For Crossing Continents Linda Pressly meets the 'mochileros' MON who are mostly young men from isolated, peasant villages. MON They have grown up in coca-growing communities that suffered MON some of the worst atrocities of Peru's dirty war with MON Shining Path rebels in the 1990s. All of them do it for the MON money - payments of hundreds of dollars in a region where MON the incidence of poverty is more than twice the national MON average. MON MON It is a perilous occupation. Armed gangs, a re-emerging MON Shining Path, the military and police all conspire to stop MON or control the trade. Daniel says that on every trip he MON makes, three or four young men will die. Highland prisons MON are bursting with mochileros who were caught, but in many MON ways they are the lucky ones - others die on the trails, MON their bodies devoured by wild animals. MON MON The Drug Mules of the Andes tells the story of the MON 'mochileros', their families and the Peruvian authorities MON charged with interdiction. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9ljp (Listen) MON Whales MON MON Brett Westwood explores our complex relationship with the MON giants of the sea, whales. These vast creatures of the sea MON have undergone a remarkable transformation. Once feared as MON sea monsters they then became a valuable resource for oil, MON food, blubber and bone. In the 20th century, as their MON numbers dwindled, they suddenly became an image of fragility MON - a victim of humanity's ruthlessness. They moved from MON roaring sea monsters to creatures that sing and represent MON peace, a transformation created by the media. MON MON Although there are many species of whale ranging in size and MON body shape, most people have one image in their minds, a MON kind of super-whale that amalgamates all that is good about MON nature. "Save the Whale" is a household slogan." This was MON demonstrated by the public reaction to the Thames Whale, a MON female Northern bottle-nosed whale that became stranded in MON London 10 years ago. People went into the water to try to MON save her, she was photographed, written about and sung about MON as people became entranced by her increasingly desperate MON plight. She was a wildlife media sensation. After her death MON popular newspapers even paid for the skeleton to be MON preserved in a glass case rather than broken up into MON drawers. MON MON The media defines our view of the whale as either a wonder MON to be protected or a traditional resource to be exploited. MON Here in the UK the removal of the national treasure that is MON "Dippy the dinosaur" from the foyer of the Natural History MON Museum, to be replaced by a blue whale skeleton, shows how MON much this animal means to the public today. MON MON Richard Sabin MON Richard Sabin is Principal Curator in the Department of Life MON Sciences at the MON Natural History Museum MON specialising in the study of the form and function of marine MON mammal skeletal anatomy. He is special advisor to the NHM’s MON UK Strandings Project MON carries out endangered species identification work for UK MON and international law enforcement, and develops MON internationally recognised protocols and techniques for the MON extraction of genetic material from the Museum's research MON specimens. MON MON Dr Niels Einarsson MON Niels Einarsson is Director of the MON Stefansson Arctic Institute MON in Akureyri. His main research and professional interests MON include the social and environmental impacts of fisheries MON management; whale watching, whaling and changes in MON worldviews in Iceland and Arctic and North Atlantic marine MON and mammal conservation controversies. MON He has led and participated in a number of international MON research and scientific assessment projects with a focus on MON the circumpolar region, including the first MON Arctic Human Development Report MON see co-produced with with Oran R. Young. MON MON Philip Hoare MON Philip Hoare MON 's book, Leviathan or, The Whale, won the MON 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction MON His latest book, The Sea Inside was published in 2013. He MON wrote and presented the BBC Arena film The Hunt for MON Moby-Dick, and directed three films for BBC’s Whale Night. MON He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of MON Southampton University. MON He is also co-curator, with Angela Cockayne, of the MON Moby-Dick Big Read MON featuring readings of Melville's book by Sir David MON Attenborough, Stephen Fry, Tilda Swinton and Benedict MON Cumberbatch. MON MON MON Michael McCarthy MON Michael McCarthy MON is one of Britain's leading writers on the environment and MON the natural world, and has won a number of awards for his MON work; formerly Environment Correspondent of The Times, and MON longstanding Environment Editor of The Independent, he is MON now The Independent's environment columnist. He is the MON author of Say Goodbye To The Cuckoo, a study of Britain's MON declining summer migrant birds, published in 2009, and The MON Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy, which was published this MON year. MON MON Professor Ralph Pite MON Ralph Pite is a professor of English Literature at the MON University of Bristol. His research is focused on the MON Romantic period, Thomas Hardy, ecocriticism, and MON 20th-century poetry. MON He is currently writing a book about the poets, Robert Frost MON and Edward Thomas. They were close friends in the three MON years before Thomas’s death in 1917, at the Battle of Arras. MON Both men shared a love of nature and an interest in ‘the MON simple life’ – in ways of living, which we would call MON sustainable. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06psm22 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06ppscr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06ptqdx (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ptqdz (Listen) MON The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains, Episode 1 MON MON Chilling revenge for a terrible crime is at the heart of MON Neil Gaiman's multi-award-winning novelette, inspired by a MON Hebridean myth and originally commissioned by the Sydney MON Opera House for the Graphic Festival with celebrated MON illustrator Eddie Campbell. MON MON 1/5. A dwarf seeks a guide to a certain cave on the Misty MON Isle. MON MON Reader: Bill Paterson MON Writer: Neil Gaiman MON MON Abridged and produced by Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Bill Paterson MON Author: Neil Gaiman MON Abridger: Karen Rose MON Producer: Karen Rose MON MON 23:00 Wireless Nights b06ptqf1 (Listen) MON Series 4, Underwater at the Proms MON MON Jarvis Cocker's nocturnal exploration of the human condition MON takes him beneath the waves in this special edition of MON Wireless Nights. MON MON Accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic at this year's Proms, as MON Jarvis drifts off to sleep he soon finds himself on an MON underwater voyage down to the endless night of the ocean MON bed. En route, he meets psychoanalyst Carl Jung, two MON submariners called Roger trapped in a tiny submersible and a MON free-diver experiencing "the rapture of the deep". MON MON The BBC Philharmonic creates a sonic seascape as Jarvis goes MON deeper and deeper - but will he make it back to the surface MON in time to wake up? MON MON Producers Laurence Grissell and Neil McCarthy. MON MON Credits MON Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic MON Conductor: Maxime Tortelier MON Musician: Yuri Torchinsky MON Choir: Manchester Chamber Choir MON Choir: Jonathan Lo MON Musician: Richard Hills MON Music Arranger: Fiona Brice MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06ptqf3 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06ppsf5 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06pssb5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06ppsf7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06ppsf9 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06ppsfc (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06ppsff (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06qsjr1 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with author TUE Rebecca Manley Pippert. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06ptqk2 (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 b04mlvwj (Listen) TUE Asian Crested Ibis 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 rare Asian crested Ibis formerly TUE common in Japan and China. The crested ibis is mainly white TUE with a shaggy white crest and a red face; but in the TUE breeding season its plumage is tinged with ash-grey. Under TUE its wings is a subtle peach tone, a colour known in Japan as TUE toki-iro. Unfortunately its beauty hasn't saved the crested TUE ibis from persecution in Japan, China or Siberia where it TUE used to breed. It was thought to be extinct in China, until TUE seven birds were found in 1981. In 2003 the crested ibis TUE became extinct in the wild in Japan. Now, crested ibis are TUE conservation symbols in the Far East. They are strictly TUE protected in China where they are being reintroduced to TUE increase the small wild population. In Japan the first wild TUE Japanese crested ibis chick flew from its nest in 2012. TUE TUE Asian / Japanese Crested Ibis (Nipponia nippon) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Aflo / naturepl.com TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01460084 TUE © Aflo / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06r8rx3 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Blood, Sex and Money: The Life and Work of Emile Zola TUE b06p7cyt (Listen) TUE Double Oscar winning actress, and former politician, Glenda TUE Jackson, presents an intriguing insight into the physical TUE and cultural landscape of one of France's most prolific and TUE influential writers- Emile Zola. She travels to Paris to get TUE a real flavour of the great writers work and life, and how TUE his experience and the life around him informed his great TUE commentary of novels on the Second Empire. Zola's TUE descendents describe how the reaction to J'Accuse and the TUE Dreyfus Affair, where Zola accused the French Army of a TUE cover up in an open letter to the press, still creates waves TUE and bad feelings for the family. It's a journey of discovery TUE for Jackson, right down to the fact that both Zola and she TUE befriended a mouse. TUE TUE Jackson plays the 100 year old matriarch and narrator of TUE Radio 4's ground breaking 24 hour drama serialisation of all TUE twenty novels in Zola's epic family Rougon-Macquart series, TUE with the first season, Blood, beginning November 21st. TUE TUE Blood, Sex and Money are the three major themes and title of TUE the dramas, and Glenda explores how these themes infiltrated TUE his work and life. She travels to his country home in Medan TUE and meets his great grand-daughter. This was the home where, TUE with his wife, he entertained his friends, such as Flaubert TUE and Cezanne, where he set up a home for his lover and two TUE children near by, and where he would cycle every afternoon TUE to visit them. TUE TUE Glenda also visits key areas in Paris where Zola lived in TUE dire poverty, and where he gathered with his artist TUE contemporaries - Manet, Monet, Cezanne at the height of the TUE impressionistic and naturalistic movement. We also travel to TUE Aix En Provence, in the South, where Zola and Cezanne grew TUE up. TUE Research consultant - Kate Griffiths TUE Producer- Pauline Harris. TUE TUE 09:30 The Misogyny Book Club b063zx16 (Listen) TUE The Price of an Apple TUE TUE Why was it Eve who was first tempted by the forbidden fruit TUE - often characterised as an apple? And why is the maggot of TUE misogyny still eating away at the core of society? TUE TUE In this series, Jo Fidgen and a selection of readers take a TUE fresh look at some of our most read books to discover how TUE writers have distilled and influenced the hatred of women TUE over centuries. TUE TUE From the Bible to Fifty Shades of Grey, via Hamlet, Sons and TUE Lovers, and fairytales, each episode takes as its starting TUE point a text which has informed our culture, and contains TUE misogynistic sentiments. Writers and other people with a TUE personal connection to the texts discuss how these ideas TUE have developed, and speak openly about how their own lives TUE have been affected. TUE TUE In the first episode, Jo and company read Genesis and TUE consider Eve's role in the Fall of Man. TUE Why did the Early Fathers of the church put all the blame on TUE her? And can a line be traced from their depiction of Eve TUE all the way to modern-day attitudes to women? They consider TUE the philosophical tradition of linking men with the mind and TUE women with the body; how we condemn women for dressing TUE seductively; and the resistance to women holding positions TUE of authority. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06pttqh (Listen) TUE Living on Paper - Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995, TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In this episode, which embraces the years 1942-1944 when TUE Murdoch was working at the Treasury, the letters to her TUE Oxford friend, Frank Thompson, are particularly poignant. TUE TUE Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 to Hughes and Rene TUE Murdoch. While still a baby the family moved to west London. TUE In 1938, Murdoch won a place at Somerville College, Oxford, TUE where she read classics. After gaining her first-class TUE degree, wartime work in the Treasury ensued before, in 1944, TUE she joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation TUE Administration and was posted to Belgium and Austria, where TUE she worked helping those displaced by the war. TUE TUE Murdoch left UNRRA in 1946 and, after a year's postgraduate TUE studies at Newnham College, Cambridge, was appointed as a TUE philosophy tutor at At Anne's College, Oxford. In 1954, TUE while still at St Anne's, Murdoch debut novel Under The Net TUE was published. TUE TUE In a writing career that spanned over 40 years, Murdoch TUE published 26 novels, five books on philosophy, six plays and TUE two books of poetry. Her novel The Sea, The Sea won the 1978 TUE Booker Prize and, in 1987, she was made a Dame. She remains TUE one of the most celebrated British novelists of the 20th TUE century. TUE TUE The music used on this programme is Near Light by Ólafur TUE Arnalds TUE TUE Living On Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch 1935-1995 TUE Editors: Avril Horner and Anne Rowe TUE TUE Readers: Imogen Stubbs and Nigel Anthony TUE Abridger: Pete Nichols TUE TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Imogen Stubbs TUE Reader: Nigel Anthony TUE Author: Iris Murdoch TUE Abridger: Pete Nichols TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06qhqxh (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 b06pttqk (Listen) TUE Welcome to Zaatari, Episode 2 TUE TUE Two ambitious young women in Jordan are living very TUE different lives. TUE TUE Reem's Syrian family have fled to the sprawling Zaatari TUE Refugee Camp. Jordanian Yara lives in the capital Amman, but TUE is just starting as an aid worker at the camp. TUE TUE As Reem's brothers struggle to survive - in the camp itself, TUE working illegally in Amman, under fire in Syria, or en route TUE to Germany - both families' destinies will collide. And both TUE will face impossible choices about their future. TUE TUE 2/5 They're partying in Amman tonight. And finding too many TUE ways to say goodbye. TUE TUE Welcome to Zaatari is adapted by Liz Rigbey from 'We Are All TUE Refugees', an Arabic audio drama about Syrian refugees in TUE Jordan, which was produced by William Stirling, Charlotte TUE Eagar and Georgina Paget for Refuge Drama Productions, in TUE conjunction with Radio SouriaLi and the UNHCR. It was TUE written by Wael Qadour, Majd Hijjawi and Ahmad Ameen, and TUE translated by Wael Qadour and Majd Hijjawi. TUE TUE The theme music for Welcome to Zaatari is 'El Mokhtalifeen', TUE the new single from Jordanian group El Morabba3 TUE (elmorabba3.com). TUE TUE Credits TUE Yara: Sirine Saba TUE Murad: Paul Chahidi TUE Marwan: Paul Chahidi TUE Reem: Raghad Chaar TUE Fadi: Amir El-Masry TUE Salma: Souad Faress TUE Jamal: Farshid Rokey TUE Sahar: Jalleh Alizadeh TUE Nabil: Adam El Hagar TUE Imad: Chris Pavlo TUE Boss: Chris Pavlo TUE Ghalia: Olivia Popica TUE Ola: Susan Jameson TUE Mr Rami: Ewan Bailey TUE Writer: Majd Hijjawi TUE Writer: Wael Qadour TUE Writer: Ahmad Ameen TUE Adaptor: Liz Rigbey TUE TUE 11:00 The Secret Lives of Carers b06pttqm (Listen) TUE There's a silent army of workers who look after Britain's TUE old and needy in their own homes. It's a rapidly growing TUE group...but we rarely hear their stories. TUE TUE In the first of two programmes, Sangita Myska follows the TUE day-to-day lives of three care workers. We talk to the TUE carers who do their jobs well and hear - in chilling detail TUE - about the ones who do it badly. TUE TUE "There was snow outside, the roads were bad. When I walked TUE into the house I was struck by how cold it was. And what I TUE saw next will stay with me forever. George was sitting, his TUE skin grey from the cold. He was wet - a doubly incontinent TUE man - and they hadn't put a pad on him. The blinds were TUE shut, the lights were off, the telly was off, just waiting TUE for someone to help". TUE TUE It's a frustrating, revolving-door service where some of the TUE visits last as little as 15 minutes. We hear of vulnerable TUE people having up to 24 different carers a week and stories TUE of basic care - and caring - being overlooked. TUE TUE Jane - not her real name - is fairly new to care. We go with TUE her on one of her visits - a lunchtime call to an elderly TUE woman. The woman wanted a sandwich - but her bread was green TUE with mould - despite the fact that she'd had a care worker TUE in to make her breakfast and had three carers the previous TUE day. Jane complains to her bosses - but she's not hopeful TUE anything will change. She says her complaints so far have TUE fallen on deaf ears. TUE TUE The care workers are mostly on the minimum wage - or below. TUE Staff turnover is twice that of any other industry. It's a TUE disturbing picture of the state of domiciliary care. TUE TUE Producer: Adele Armstrong. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b06pttqp (Listen) TUE Series 21, Mr Blue Sky TUE TUE ELO's brilliantly off-beam classic, Mr Blue Sky, is explored TUE in this week's Soul Music. TUE TUE It was released as a single in 1978, having first appeared TUE on the ELO album 'Out of the Blue' in 1977. Written by Jeff TUE Lynne, it was a no.6 hit in the UK, and has endured on the TUE radio airwaves ever since. TUE TUE Contributing to the programme: TUE TUE Tracey Collinson whose husband, Nigel, loved the track tells TUE of the meaning it has for her. TUE TUE Musicologist, Allan Moore, discusses the anomolous use of TUE the word 'blue': usually associated with downbeat emotions, TUE this is a peculiar subversion of that cultural norm with the TUE word 'blue' conjuring happiness and good weather. TUE TUE Tremayne Crossley and his friend, Jo Milne, tell the TUE extraordinary story of how Jo heard music for the first TUE time. This track played an important role in that event. TUE TUE For Dr. Sam Illingworth, Mr Blue Sky will always take him TUE back to the low-flying research-flights he made over the TUE wetlands, greenlands and seas of the Arctic Circle with the TUE shadow of the BAE146 plane beneath him and clear blue skies TUE above. TUE TUE The children of King's St. Albans in Worcester sang the TUE track that features at the end of the programme. There is a TUE link on the Radio 4 Soul Music webpage to the video that TUE accompanies their recording. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE Tracey's son, Henry, singing Mr. Blue Sky (all school TUE pictures by JDA media) TUE TUE Tracey's son, Charlie, singing Mr. Blue Sky TUE TUE The classroom as studio... recording Mr. Blue Sky TUE TUE Boys singing the school version of Mr. Blue Sky TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06ppsfh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Self Drives: Maxwell's Equations b06pttqr (Listen) TUE Maxwell at Glenlair TUE TUE Will Self continues his 600 mile road trip on the trail of TUE Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell who 150 years ago TUE pioneered the theory of the electromagnetic waves which made TUE mobile phones, radio, radar and GPS all possible. TUE TUE In a bid to understand Maxwell and his legacy, Will plans to TUE drive from Edinburgh to London in an electric car, stopping TUE off at locations relevant to the much neglected 19th century TUE physicist. TUE TUE Today Will's at Glenlair, Maxwell's country estate, where he TUE attempts to get to grips with what inspired the physicist's TUE scientific imagination. Will's electric car, on the other TUE hand, is proving somewhat less than inspirational... TUE TUE Producer: Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06pttqt (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06ppsfk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06qbllf (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 His Master's Voices b06qnx0l (Listen) TUE Laughter & Novelty TUE TUE Singer Cerys Matthews and music expert Tristram Penna TUE continue their investigation into the pioneering days of the TUE UK record industry with a programme dedicated to laughter TUE and novelty. TUE TUE The Gramophone Company's chief producer Fred Gaisberg was TUE enthusiastic to record all sorts of sounds, not just music, TUE and so he scoured the country for likeable talents. He TUE taught his friend, the Music Hall entertainer Burt Shephard, TUE The Laughing Song which was already a proven hit in America TUE and Shephard proved a natural to put it on record for TUE British audiences. TUE TUE Artists with robust hearty voices worked best on the TUE recording equipment they used, so we see that the technology TUE was beginning to dictate what would be ultimately captured TUE on disc. TUE TUE Laughter doesn't recognise international borders and TUE Gaisberg's original 1902 recording became a hit across the TUE world. Pursuing the laughing tradition on popular records, TUE we hear other examples where laughter on tracks has been a TUE requisite for success - including The Laughing Policeman TUE from the 1920s and David Bowie's The Laughing Gnome of the TUE late '60s. TUE TUE Fred's thirst for recording sounds also led him to create TUE 'novelty records', including the Chairman of the Gramophone TUE Company, Trevor Williams recording his party piece of TUE farmyard animal sounds. TUE TUE By the early 1900s the Gramophone was becoming a popular TUE machine people could buy to have in their homes which gave TUE them instant laughter, sounds and songs to entertain them. TUE TUE We also hear from academic and record collector Peter TUE Adamson, and music manager/author Simon Napier-Bell. The TUE early recordings are courtesy of the EMI Archive Trust. TUE TUE A Sue Clark production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06ptny5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b06ptw77 (Listen) TUE Blood, Politics TUE TUE Blood Sex and Money, an epic 24 hours of drama inspired by TUE the works of literature's greatest whistle blower, Emile TUE Zola. TUE TUE Season 1. Blood. Episode 4. Politics. TUE TUE Eugene Rougon was once at the heart of government. Now he's TUE just another member of the public, and it's killing him. TUE TUE When his cousin, Lisa Macquart turns up with proof that her TUE brother-in-law is embroiled in a plot to assassinate the TUE Emperor, a game of political chess begins. TUE TUE A story of power and the politics of silence dramatised by TUE Oliver Emanuel. TUE TUE Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old, the matriarch TUE to a family of wolves - the Rougon- Macquarts. TUE TUE Directed by Kirsty Williams. TUE TUE Credits TUE Dide: Glenda Jackson TUE Eugene: Robert Jack TUE Clorinde: Laura Dos Santos TUE Lisa: Jodie McNee TUE Merle: James Anthony Pearson TUE Quenu: Graeme Hawley TUE Gilquin: Jonathan Keeble TUE Director: Kirsty Williams TUE Author: Emile Zola TUE Adaptor: Oliver Emanuel TUE TUE 15:00 The Educators b06ptw79 (Listen) TUE Character Lessons TUE TUE The KIPP school movement began 20 years ago in the US. It TUE stands for Knowledge Is Power Program, and the schools focus TUE on two things; academic achievement and building strength of TUE character. TUE TUE They work in the most disadvantaged districts of New York, TUE Houston and Los Angeles, where children have less than a 1 TUE in 10 chance of completing a college degree, but their focus TUE on character skills like grit, empathy and determination, is TUE seen as the reason why half of KIPP students will graduate TUE from college. TUE TUE Sarah Montague speaks to KIPP co-founder Dave Levin about TUE how character is taught alongside traditional subjects, TUE visiting KIPP Infinity school in Harlem and hearing from TUE Kings Langley Academy - one of many schools in the UK that TUE are exploring character teaching. TUE TUE Presenter: Sarah Montague TUE Producer: Joel Moors. TUE TUE 15:30 Shared Experience b06ptylr (Listen) TUE Series 4, Living with Addiction TUE TUE People who are being treated for an addiction receive the TUE support of professional organisations as well as family and TUE friends. Many of them say they could not have beaten it TUE without their partner's help. But who recognises the role of TUE close family members in getting an addict through tough TUE times? Fi Glover hears from three people living with TUE partners in various stages of addiction about how they have TUE coped. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b06ptylt (Listen) TUE Mums Behind Bars TUE TUE Every year thousands of children see their mothers jailed, TUE typically for non-violent offences. Often the mother is the TUE child's primary carer. And in the vast majority of cases the TUE children of imprisoned mothers are placed in the care of TUE other relatives or foster parents. This week Law in Action TUE asks whether fewer mothers should be sent to prison, and TUE whether there are better alternatives. A mother and daughter TUE tell Joshua Rozenberg what it's like when childhood is TUE disrupted by a mother's imprisonment. And we hear from TUE Juliet Lyon of the Prison Reform Trust and Andrea Albutt, TUE the new president of the Prison Governors Association. Also TUE in the programme: Jeremy Wright, the Attorney General, on TUE contempt of court. TUE TUE Producers: Keith Moore and Tim Mansel. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b06ptylw (Listen) TUE Shirley Williams and Margaret Drabble TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert debates books with Shirley Williams and TUE Margaret Drabble. Shirley's favourite is South Riding, by TUE family friend Winifred Holtby, whom she describes as 'my TUE adopted aunt'. Margaret defends The Group by Mary McCarthy TUE against accusations of frivolity, and Harriett champions TUE James Joyce's book of short stories, Dubliners. Producer TUE Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Shirley Williams TUE Interviewed Guest: Margaret Drabble TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06qbllk (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06ppsfm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Gloomsbury b040hzz1 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Bonfire of the Jealousies TUE TUE Vera is consumed with jealousy, because Ginny has won a TUE literary prize and is going to be photographed for the front TUE cover of Vanity Fair by acclaimed Society photographer Manta TUE Ray. To make matters worse, Venus is getting a teeny crush TUE on Ginny. So, when Ginny asks for style advice in advance of TUE her photographic session, Vera's suggestions have an edge of TUE mockery. TUE TUE Vera, wracked with torment, breaks the habit of a lifetime TUE and unburdens herself to Mrs Gosling. But of course Mrs TUE Gosling's life has been an endless struggle to suppress her TUE jealousy of her employers' wealth and privilege. Even a TUE chance encounter with Sigmund Void on Hampstead Heath fails TUE to shake Vera from her melancholic mood. In the end it falls TUE to Henry and Lionel to try to boost Vera's confidence. 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 Manta Ray: John Sessions TUE Dog Owner: Nigel Planer TUE Sigmund Void: John Sessions TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE Writer: Sue Limb TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06ptyly (Listen) TUE Roy makes an offer, and David and Pip yield to a little TUE problem. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06qbllr (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06pttqk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 From Syria to Yorkshire b06ptym0 (Listen) TUE Under the UK government's Vulnerable Persons Relocation TUE Scheme over 200 Syrians - all judged to be particularly at TUE risk - were taken from refugee camps in the Middle East and TUE re-housed in Britain, many of them in Bradford. This summer, TUE as the migration crisis became ever-more acute, the TUE government agreed to help many more Syrians. Owen TUE Bennett-Jones travels to Bradford to meet some of those who TUE were first brought to Britain under the scheme. Their TUE remarkable stories paint a vivid picture of war-torn Syria - TUE and tell us a great deal about the UK too. TUE TUE Producer: Nina Robinson TUE Editor: Richard Knight. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06ptym2 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b06ptym4 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents a series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 Blood, Sex and Money: The Life and Work of Emile Zola TUE b06p7cyt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06ppsfp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06ptym6 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ptym8 (Listen) TUE The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains, Episode 2 TUE TUE Chilling revenge for a terrible crime is at the heart of TUE Neil Gaiman's multi-award-winning novelette, inspired by a TUE Hebridean myth and originally commissioned by Sydney Opera TUE House for the Graphic Festival with celebrated illustrator TUE Eddie Campbell. TUE TUE 2/5. The dwarf persuades Callum McInnes to take him to the TUE cave on the Misty Isle. TUE TUE Reader: Bill Paterson TUE Writer: Neil Gaiman TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Bill Paterson TUE Author: Neil Gaiman TUE Abridger: Karen Rose TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE TUE 23:00 Liam Williams: Ladhood b06ptymb (Listen) TUE Truants TUE TUE Liam Williams - Ladhood. TUE TUE From 27 year old Liam Williams, a two-time Edinburgh TUE Festival Award Nominated comedian, comes a rich new TUE storytelling Radio 4 series entitled "Ladhood", 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 teens from Yorkshire, with each TUE episode delving into Liam's memories of his first fight, TUE virginity loss, the best house party ever organised, and his TUE marvelous 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 This is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. TUE TUE Credits TUE Adult Liam: Liam Williams TUE Young Liam: Alfie Field TUE Bradley Dixon: Sam Shaw TUE Cranny: Matthew Hudson TUE Ralph Fletcher: George Richardson TUE Craig Cheng: Ken Cheng TUE Mrs Pallister: Amelia Lowdell TUE Liam's Mum: Debra Baker TUE Liam's Dad: Caolan McCarthy TUE Mr Draper: Ewan Bailey TUE Mr Bishop: Gerard McDermott TUE Teacher 1: Evie Killip TUE Writer: Liam Williams TUE Producer: Arnab Chanda TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06ptymd (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06ppshg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06pttqh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06ppshj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06ppshl (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06ppshn (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06ppshq (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06qskfb (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with author WED Rebecca Manley Pippert. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06ptyr5 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlvwz (Listen) WED Purple Martin 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 purple martin from eastern North WED America. Every spring, across the land from Chicago to St WED Louis, you can hear couples squabbling over the best real WED estate. But these aren't human house-buyers, they're purple WED martins. Purple Martins are the largest North American WED swallow, glossy blue-black rather than purple and much WED chunkier than the well-known barn swallow. They spend the WED winter in insect-rich places in South America and return to WED their North American breeding colonies each spring. In the WED west, they nest in holes in trees or even in giant saguaro WED cacti, but in the east where they're much more common, they WED almost exclusively rely on people to provide them with WED nest-sites. Visit almost any city, town or homestead and WED you'll see multi-story nest-boxes, the home of a score of WED purple martin families. Around 1 million people are thought WED to erect housing each year. Their human landlords take a WED personal pride in their martin colonies, listening each WED spring for those first pebbly calls which are a sign that WED their protégés have made it back from the tropics, once WED again. WED WED Purple Martin (Progne subis) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Tom Vezo / naturepl.com WED WED NPL Ref WED 01120655 WED © Tom Vezo / naturepl.com WED WED Radio 4: Shared Planet / 9 July 2013 WED WED Shared Planet is a series that looks at the crunch point WED between human population and the natural world. In WED this edition, the focus is towns and cities, with a WED report from North America about their largest Swallow, the WED Purple Martin WED Purple Martins are totally dependent on human habitation WED east of the Rockies for nest sites. West of the mountain WED range they largely nest in their ancestral way using WED abandoned woodpecker cavities. As we clear land to build the WED world's towns and cities what is the impact on the natural WED world and are there ideas to embrace wildlife in built WED environment planning? WED WED 06:00 Today b06pz3fw (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 b06ptzrt (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06ptzrw (Listen) WED Living on Paper - Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995, WED Episode 3 WED WED Iris Murdoch had not seen David Hicks since 1938 when they WED were both at Oxford, but she continued to write until, in WED November 1945, they finally met up again. This time in WED London and with dramatic consequences. WED Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 to Hughes and Rene WED Murdoch. While still a baby the family moved to west London. WED In 1938, Murdoch won a place at Somerville College, Oxford, WED where she read classics. After gaining her first-class WED degree, wartime work in the Treasury ensued before, in 1944, WED she joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation WED Administration and was posted to Belgium and Austria, where WED she worked helping those displaced by the war. WED WED Murdoch left UNRRA in 1946 and, after a year's postgraduate WED studies at Newnham College, Cambridge, was appointed as a WED philosophy tutor at At Anne's College, Oxford. In 1954, WED while still at St Anne's, Murdoch debut novel Under The Net WED was published. WED WED In a writing career that spanned over 40 years, Murdoch WED published 26 novels, five books on philosophy, six plays and WED two books of poetry. Her novel The Sea, The Sea won the 1978 WED Booker Prize and, in 1987, she was made a Dame. She remains WED one of the most celebrated British novelists of the 20th WED century. WED WED The music used on this programme is Near Light by Ólafur WED Arnalds WED WED Living On Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch 1935-1995 WED Editors: Avril Horner and Anne Rowe WED WED Readers: Imogen Stubbs and Nigel Anthony WED WED Abridger: Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Imogen Stubbs WED Reader: Nigel Anthony WED Author: Iris Murdoch WED Abridger: Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06pz3fy (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 b06ptzry (Listen) WED Welcome to Zaatari, Episode 3 WED WED Two ambitious young women in Jordan are living very WED different lives. WED WED Reem's Syrian family have fled to the sprawling Zaatari WED Refugee Camp. Jordanian Yara lives in the capital Amman, but WED is just starting as an aid worker at the camp. WED WED As Reem's brothers struggle to survive - in the camp itself, WED working illegally in Amman, under fire in Syria, or en route WED to Germany - both families' destinies will collide. And both WED will face impossible choices about their future. WED WED 3/5 Marwan's 'friends' know all the routes West. All you WED need is plenty of money. WED WED Welcome to Zaatari is adapted by Liz Rigbey from 'We Are All WED Refugees', an Arabic audio drama about Syrian refugees in WED Jordan, which was produced by William Stirling, Charlotte WED Eagar and Georgina Paget for Refuge Drama Productions, in WED conjunction with Radio SouriaLi and the UNHCR. It was WED written by Wael Qadour, Majd Hijjawi and Ahmad Ameen, and WED translated by Wael Qadour and Majd Hijjawi. WED WED The theme music for Welcome to Zaatari is 'El Mokhtalifeen', WED the new single from Jordanian group El Morabba3 WED (elmorabba3.com). WED WED Credits WED Yara: Sirine Saba WED Murad: Paul Chahidi WED Marwan: Paul Chahidi WED Reem: Raghad Chaar WED Fadi: Amir El-Masry WED Salma: Souad Faress WED Jamal: Farshid Rokey WED Sahar: Jalleh Alizadeh WED Nabil: Adam El Hagar WED Imad: Chris Pavlo WED Boss: Chris Pavlo WED Ghalia: Olivia Popica WED Ola: Susan Jameson WED Mr Rami: Ewan Bailey WED Writer: Majd Hijjawi WED Writer: Wael Qadour WED Writer: Ahmad Ameen WED Adaptor: Liz Rigbey WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06ptzs0 (Listen) WED Manwar and Ivan - From One Extreme to Another WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation between a former jihadist and WED a former English Defence League member, sharing memories of WED their divided pasts and plans for their more united futures. WED Another conversation in the series that proves it's WED surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 The Joy of 9 to 5 b06pv02c (Listen) WED They're overworked, under appreciated, and mostly not very WED good at their jobs. Lucy Kellaway asks do we really need WED managers? WED WED In part two of her series on modern work culture, Lucy WED Kellaway, columnist for the Financial Times, looks at the WED much-maligned manager. Wouldn't it be better if we just got WED rid of them altogether? WED WED Lucy explores the extent to which we workers need structure WED from the top, or would rather have the freedom to get on WED with our jobs without constant interference. WED WED We hear from the frontline why it's so tough to manage. WED Could an Al-Qaeda memo prove the key to why hierarchy is WED necessary to get things done? WED WED From 17th century pirates to 21st century tech-start ups, WED Lucy looks at alternative ways of managing organisations and WED asks whether work would be a happier, more grown-up place if WED we put them into practice. WED WED Written and presented by Lucy Kellaway WED WED Producer: Gemma Newby WED Executive Producer: Russell Finch WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Lentil Sorters b06qkkzp (Listen) WED False Positives 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, a stag do, a stats conference and a blood WED test combine to make Graham's life substantially worse. 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 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 The Corporate Manager: Paul Shearer WED The Doctor: Catriona Knox WED The Stage Manager: Tom Crowley WED The Graham Gal: Tessa Coates WED Narrator: Jo Unwin WED Writer: Jack Bernhardt WED Producer: David Tyler WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06ppshs (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Self Drives: Maxwell's Equations b06pv0gz (Listen) WED Maxwell and a Chinese Dinner WED WED Will Self continues his 600 mile road trip on the trail of WED Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell who 150 years ago WED pioneered the theory of the electromagnetic waves which made WED mobile phones, radio, radar and GPS possible. WED WED In a bid to understand Maxwell and his legacy, Will is WED driving from Edinburgh to London in an electric car, WED accompanied by Akram Khan, professor of particle physics at WED Brunel University. WED WED Over a Chinese meal in Manchester, Will expresses WED fundamental concerns about the nature and value of WED scientific progress. Akram is troubled by Will's misgivings. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 12:15 World at One b06pz3g0 (Listen) WED Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 WED WED Analysis of the government's Spending Review and Autumn WED Statement. Presented by Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:56 Weather b06ppshv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06ptyly (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b06pv1g2 (Listen) WED Blood, Drink WED WED Blood Sex and Money, an epic 24 hours of drama inspired by WED the works of literature's greatest whistle blower, Emile WED Zola. WED WED Season 1. Blood. Episode 5. Drink. WED WED Gervaise Macquart has spent her life chasing happiness. Now, WED as she sits across the table from a bottle of brandy and a WED quiet, handsome man, she realises just how priceless that WED feeling is. WED WED A story of how other people's addictions have shaped one WED woman's life, dramatised by Oliver Emanuel. WED WED Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old, the matriarch WED to a family of wolves - the Rougon- Macquarts. WED WED Directed by Kirsty Williams. WED WED Credits WED Dide: Glenda Jackson WED Gervaise: Julie Hesmondhalgh WED Goujet: Mark Holgate WED Director: Kirsty Williams WED Author: Emile Zola WED Adaptor: Oliver Emanuel WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06pv1g4 (Listen) WED Do you have a question about the 2015 Autumn Statement? Call WED 03700 100 444 from noon to 3.30pm on Wednesday 25 November WED or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now with your questions. WED WED You may want to know more about the expected revamp of WED George Osborne's tax credit cuts which were defeated in the WED House of Lords, or how further cuts to the annual wefare WED budget will impact on benefit payments. WED WED Will there be changes to the funding of Pensionwise or how WED it's run? This is the Government advice service set up to WED help people make the best decision about what to do with WED their pension following pensions freedom changes brought in WED last spring. WED WED What about the Chancellor's 'making tax easier' initiative - WED can we expect more detail? WED WED Presenter Paul Lewis and expert guests will be ready to WED answer your tax, benefits and pension questions. WED WED Alan Higham, Pensions Champ; Jane Moore, ICAEW; and Will WED Hadwen, Working Families, join the programme. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic WED charges from landlines and mobiles will apply. WED WED Presenter: Paul Lewis WED Producer: Lesley McAlpine WED Editor: Andrew Smith. WED WED 15:30 The Listening Project b06np7nv (Listen) WED Fi Glover with three conversations between parents and their WED sons, about having a disabled twin, having a disabled WED father, and the joys of Lego, all in the Omnibus edition of WED the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when WED you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 15:45 His Master's Voices b06r3pmf (Listen) WED British Ethnic WED WED Singer Cerys Matthews and music expert Tristram Penna WED continue their investigation into the early days of the WED recording industry in the UK. They are in Cecil Sharp House, WED the home of English Folk Dance and Song Society, and are WED joined by Steve Roud, creator of the Roud Folk Song Index. WED WED In the first few years of the Gramophone Company's history, WED they were making records of many popular songs rooted in the WED folk tradition including many old work songs, and producer WED Fred Gaisberg first travelled the British Isles in 1899 to WED find and record them. He began in Scotland with pipers and WED singers, then going to Wales to record choirs including the WED Rhondda Royal Glee Society, and lastly to Dublin to record WED the very best of the local talents. WED WED These discs captured local folk songs and melodies but, with WED an ear for what might sell, Gaisberg nearly always added a WED piano accompaniment and gentrified them for the Gramophone's WED targeted genteel audience. WED WED The portable recording equipment they needed consisted of at WED least six crate loads and involved an interesting mixture of WED zinc plate, wax and toxic chemicals as well as an WED electrically driven recording machine. WED WED We end with a recording of English Music Hall artist Gus WED Elen and an English hit song which points to the future of WED the popular recording industry in the UK - pop songs leading WED us all the way from Gus to The Beatles. WED WED We also hear from academic Peter Adamson and Christopher WED Proudfoot, CLPGS President. The early recordings are WED courtesy of the EMI Archive Trust. WED WED A Sue Clark production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06pv1g6 (Listen) WED Frauds of the left, Siblings WED WED 'Frauds' of the Left: Laurie Taylor examines the WED intellectual credibility of key thinkers of the New Left. WED Roger Scruton, Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the WED University of Oxford, argues that the modern academy is WED gripped by a form of 'group think' which fails to challenge WED the positions of theorists such as Michel Foucault and WED Antonio Gramsci. Has left wing fashion trumped credible WED argument? They're joined by Mark Fisher, Lecturer in Visual WED Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London. WED WED Also, the significance of siblings in constructing a sense WED of self. Katherine Davies, Lecturer in Sociology at the WED University of Sheffield, discusses a study which suggests WED that the stories people tell about their similarity, or WED difference, from siblings have a critical role in shaping WED past, present and future identities. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06pv1g8 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06qbt36 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06ppshx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06pxm45 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Madman in the Attic WED WED Episode 2, 'The Madman in the Attic'. With Tom's Dad WED advocating some rather drastic "rationalizing", Tom realises WED that it might be time for him to have a clear-out himself. WED WED Series 3 of the sitcom where Tom Wrigglesworth phones home WED for his weekly check-in with his Mum, Dad and Gran, giving WED listeners a glimpse into his family background and the WED influences that have shaped his temperament, opinions and WED hang-ups. WED WED Starring Tom Wrigglesworth, Paul Copley, Kate Anthony and WED Elizabeth Bennett. WED Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle with WED additional material by Miles Jupp WED Produced by Richard Morris WED WED A BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Actor: Paul Copley WED Actor: Kate Anthony WED Actor: Eliza Bennett WED Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Writer: James Kettle WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED Producer: Richard Morris WED WED 19:00 The Archers b06pxm47 (Listen) WED Will has had a sleepless night as shoot day dawns, and WED Justin Elliot wants the truth. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06qbt38 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06ptzry (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b06pxm49 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Giles Fraser, Michael WED Portillo and Melanie Phillips. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06pxm4c (Listen) WED Stories of Terrorism WED WED Benedict Wilkinson challenges how we think about terrorism WED and uses stories of two very different terrorists to make WED the case for a different approach. WED WED Benedict is a senior research fellow at the Policy Institute WED at King's College, London, and researches the strategies of WED different terrorist groups. He argues that terrorists' WED embrace of violence always comes from a position of WED weakness, and that it frequently fails to achieve their own WED political objectives. WED WED As a result, he argues that the way in which we confront WED terrorists needs serious reconsideration. WED WED Producer: Katie Langton. WED WED 21:00 Too Old to Be a Genius b06pxm4f (Listen) WED Jim Al-Khalili is old. Well, not that old. He's 53. But when WED you consider that the average age to win a Nobel Prize in WED physics is 55, he hasn't got long to make his big discovery. WED WED Albert Einstein said a person who's not made their great WED contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do WED so. WED WED So is there a link between scientists' age and their ability WED to make great breakthroughs? Jim calls together his WED colleagues at the University of Surrey to form a senior WED scientists support group and to try and find an answer. WED WED Jim talks to Nobel Prize winning researchers, including WED Harry Kroto and Roald Hoffman, as well as other innovators WED who made great leaps forward at a young age. He learns what WED fuelled their early success and whether they could do the WED same today. WED WED Producer: Kate Lamble WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06ptzrt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06qbt3b (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06pxm4h (Listen) WED The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains, Episode 3 WED WED Chilling revenge for a terrible crime is at the heart of WED Neil Gaiman's multi-award-winning novelette, inspired by a WED Hebridean myth and originally commissioned by Sydney Opera WED House for the Graphic Festival with celebrated illustrator WED Eddie Campbell. WED WED 3/5. The reaver realises the dwarf is not all that he seems. WED WED Reader: tbc WED Writer: Neil Gaiman WED WED Abridged and produced by Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Bill Paterson WED Author: Neil Gaiman WED Abridger: Karen Rose WED Producer: Karen Rose WED WED 23:00 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair b06pxm4k (Listen) WED Series 2, Christine Paints WED WED by Jenny Eclair WED WED Christine ..... Rosie Cavaliero WED WED Producer ..... Sally Avens WED WED When Christine and Tony move to the country so Tony can WED write Christine takes up watercolours and as she tells us WED inspiration can be found in the most unexpected places and WED with surprising consequences. WED WED Credits WED Christine: Rosie Cavaliero WED Producer: Sally Avens WED Writer: Jenny Eclair WED WED 23:15 Warhorses of Letters b03srddp (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 WED WED The last in the series of the epistolary equine love story WED starring Stephen Fry as Napoleon's horse Marengo and Daniel WED Rigby as the Duke of Wellington's mount Copenhagen, with an WED introduction by Tamsin Greig. WED WED Old age has come to our horses, and Marengo is sick. WED Copenhagen is determined that he and his true love will be WED truly together just once before Marengo quits this earthly WED life for a new paddock in the sky. WED WED In perhaps the most moving exchange of letters ever sent by WED one horse to another the final act of this tragic love story WED unfolds. WED WED Written by Robbie Hudson and Marie Phillips 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 b06pxm4m (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06ppsjr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06ptzrw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06ppsjt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06ppsjw (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06ppsjy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06ppsk0 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06qsksk (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with author THU Rebecca Manley Pippert. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06pz24w (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlpfd (Listen) THU Wild Turkey 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 wild turkey of North American THU woodlands. We are so used to seeing mass-produced captive THU turkeys (the centrepiece for many a Thanksgiving meal in the THU United States and Canada) that the sight and sound of a THU displaying male wild turkey is a real surprise. With his THU tail fanned and red wattles a-quiver; he struts-his-stuff in THU a woodland clearing to win the favours of the less THU flamboyant hens. There are now around 7 million wild turkeys THU in the USA. But it wasn't always so. Wild turkeys were THU nearly wiped out in many states by over-shooting and THU woodland clearance. Their numbers fell from tens of millions THU in pre-Columbus days, to about thirty thousand by the last THU Century. Land which had been previously cleared for farming THU was allowed to return to woodland. Wild turkeys were THU released back into areas where they'd been wiped out. This THU along with hunting controls and behavioural research allowed THU their numbers to increase and their spectacular displays are THU once again a common sight in many areas of the USA. THU THU Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Rolf Nussbaumer / naturepl.com THU THU NPL Ref THU 01157932 THU © Rolf Nussbaumer / naturepl.com THU THU Recording of wild turkey by Geoffrey A Keller / Ref: ML THU 50137 THU THU This programme contains a wildtrack THU recording of wild turkey THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Geoffrey A Keller on 14 Apr THU 1990, at Valentine, Cherry County, Nebraska, USA THU THU Recording of wild turkey by Gregory F Budney / Ref: ML THU 129251 THU THU This programme contains a wildtrack THU recording of wild turkey THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Gregory F Budney on 16 Apr 2002, THU at Hakalau Forest, Hawaii County, Hawaii, USA THU THU 06:00 Today b06pz24y (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 b06pxp2z (Listen) THU The Salem Witch Trials THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the outbreak of witch trials THU in Massachusetts in 1692-3, centred on Salem, which led to THU the execution of twenty people, with more dying in prison THU before or after trial. Some were men, including Giles Corey THU who died after being pressed with heavy rocks, but the THU majority were women. At its peak, around 150 people were THU suspected of witchcraft, including the wife of the governor THU who had established the trials. Many of the claims of THU witchcraft arose from personal rivalries in an area known THU for unrest, but were examined and upheld by the courts at a THU time of mass hysteria, belief in the devil, fear of attack THU by Native Americans and religious divisions. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06pxp31 (Listen) THU Living on Paper - Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995, THU Episode 4 THU THU For 30 years, the French writer Raymond Queneau and Iris THU Murdoch exchanged letters. The Frenchman was her muse and, THU in Murdoch's chaotic private life, perhaps the one constant. THU THU Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 to Hughes and Rene THU Murdoch. While still a baby the family moved to west London. THU In 1938, Murdoch won a place at Somerville College, Oxford, THU where she read classics. After gaining her first-class THU degree, wartime work in the Treasury ensued before, in 1944, THU she joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation THU Administration and was posted to Belgium and Austria, where THU she worked helping those displaced by the war. THU THU Murdoch left UNRRA in 1946 and, after a year's postgraduate THU studies at Newnham College, Cambridge, was appointed as a THU philosophy tutor at At Anne's College, Oxford. In 1954, THU while still at St Anne's, Murdoch debut novel Under The Net THU was published. THU THU In a writing career that spanned over 40 years, Murdoch THU published 26 novels, five books on philosophy, six plays and THU two books of poetry. Her novel The Sea, The Sea won the 1978 THU Booker Prize and, in 1987, she was made a Dame. She remains THU one of the most celebrated British novelists of the 20th THU century. THU THU The music used on this programme is Near Light by Ólafur THU Arnalds THU THU Living On Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch 1935-1995 THU Editors: Avril Horner and Anne Rowe THU THU Readers: Imogen Stubbs and Nigel Anthony THU THU Abridger: Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Imogen Stubbs THU Reader: Nigel Anthony THU Author: Iris Murdoch THU Abridger: Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06pz2m8 (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 b06pxp33 (Listen) THU Welcome to Zaatari, Episode 4 THU THU Two ambitious young women in Jordan are living very THU different lives. THU THU Reem's Syrian family have fled to the sprawling Zaatari THU Refugee Camp. Jordanian Yara lives in the capital Amman, but THU is just starting as an aid worker at the camp. THU THU As Reem's brothers struggle to survive - in the camp itself, THU working illegally in Amman, under fire in Syria, or en route THU to Germany - both families' destinies will collide. And both THU will face impossible choices about their future. THU THU 4/5 Yara wants to talk marriage. Reem doesn't. THU THU Welcome to Zaatari is adapted by Liz Rigbey from 'We Are All THU Refugees', an Arabic audio drama about Syrian refugees in THU Jordan, which was produced by William Stirling, Charlotte THU Eagar and Georgina Paget for Refuge Drama Productions, in THU conjunction with Radio SouriaLi and the UNHCR. It was THU written by Wael Qadour, Majd Hijjawi and Ahmad Ameen, and THU translated by Wael Qadour and Majd Hijjawi. THU THU The theme music for Welcome to Zaatari is 'El Mokhtalifeen', THU the new single from Jordanian group El Morabba3 THU (elmorabba3.com). THU THU Credits THU Yara: Sirine Saba THU Murad: Paul Chahidi THU Marwan: Paul Chahidi THU Reem: Raghad Chaar THU Fadi: Amir El-Masry THU Salma: Souad Faress THU Jamal: Farshid Rokey THU Sahar: Jalleh Alizadeh THU Nabil: Adam El Hagar THU Imad: Chris Pavlo THU Boss: Chris Pavlo THU Ghalia: Olivia Popica THU Ola: Susan Jameson THU Mr Rami: Ewan Bailey THU Writer: Majd Hijjawi THU Writer: Wael Qadour THU Writer: Ahmad Ameen THU Adaptor: Liz Rigbey THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b06pxp35 (Listen) THU Greece: No Place to Die THU THU They say you can't take it with you but if you live in THU Greece how much money you have at the end of your life makes THU a big difference. Permanent plots in the country's packed THU cemeteries can cost as much as a small flat so most graves THU are rented for a three year period and once that time is up THU the dead are exhumed and their bones collapsed into a small THU box to be kept at the cemetery. Those relatives who can't THU afford the cost of the exhumation or the storage charge for THU the box of bones will have their loved one's remains thrown THU in a so called 'digestion' pit with countless others' where THU they are dissolved with chemicals. In the current economic THU climate and with continued capital controls, Greeks are THU struggling to pay for the burial costs and unclaimed bodies THU are piling up at mortuaries. But there are few cost THU effective alternatives because Greece happens to be the only THU EU country without a crematorium - each time plans have been THU made to build one it has been blocked by the Greek Orthodox THU Church. Instead Greeks are forced to send their relatives' THU bodies to Bulgaria for cremation. For Crossing Continents, THU Chloe Hadjimatheou reports on the business of dying in THU Greece. THU THU Producer: David Edmonds. THU THU 11:30 Writing a New Nigeria b06pxp37 (Listen) THU Suffering and Smiling THU THU A portrait of Nigeria, seen through the eyes of a new THU generation of writers and poets. THU THU In the first of two programmes spoken word poet Wana Udobang THU introduces us to Lagos: her home city, a megacity, an THU economic powerhouse and, according to its resident writers, THU the craziest, most congested, most entrepreneurial, THU hustling, joyful, energetic and creative space in Africa. THU Fela Kuti captured the essence of Lagos in his song THU Shuffering and Shmiling'. THU THU As she travels around Lagos, Wana considers how writers are THU reflecting the issues and concerns of contemporary Nigeria. THU When Boko Haram kidnapped 270 schoolgirls from Chibok in THU northern Nigeria April 2014, poet Titilope Sonuga responded THU with 'Hide and Seek', which captured the country's shock and THU outrage. But the poem also asked the nation to take a long, THU hard look at itself, asking how it created the conditions THU which led to the kidnapping. THU THU Another issue for which Nigeria has achieved notoriety are THU 419 scams. These were originally e-mails from fraudsters who THU inveigled their victims into parting with their banks THU details but now '419' has become shorthand for any fraud in THU Nigeria. Writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani explains how 419 THU scams became the subject of her humorous first novel 'I Do THU Not Come to You by Chance'. THU THU In Balogun Market in the heart of Lagos, Wana Udobang THU considers how Nigerians navigate by language, slipping in an THU out of character, dialect and language according to the THU circumstances. And this flexibility is reflected in poetry THU too. Efe Paul Azino and Dike-Ogu Chukwumerije consider the THU role of poets in holding politicians and society to account. THU THU Wana meets two writers who, in different ways, explore Lagos THU in their work. Toni Kan's first memory of visiting the city THU was of seeing a corpse by his front gate. Now, he says, he THU couldn't live anywhere else and it's the setting for his THU latest novel, 'Carnivorous City'. Meanwhile, at Yaba THU Neuropsychiatric Hospital Wana meets doctor and poet Dami THU Ajayi. In his day-to-day work he works with people who've THU become casualties of the city's fevered, frenetic pace and, THU in his poetry he reflects on those whose minds have become THU fractured by life in Lagos. THU THU 'Writing a New Nigeria' is produced in partnership with the THU British Council as part of UK/Nigeria 2015-16 THU THU Producer: Jeremy Grange. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06ppsk2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Self Drives: Maxwell's Equations b06pxp39 (Listen) THU Maxwell in Space THU THU Will Self continues his 600 mile road trip on the trail of THU much neglected Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell who THU 150 years ago pioneered the theory of the electromagnetic THU waves which made mobile phones, radio, radar and GPS THU possible. THU THU In a bid to feel the wonder of Maxwell's work and legacy, THU Will is driving from Edinburgh to London in an electric car, THU accompanied by Akram Khan, professor of particle physics at THU Brunel University. THU THU Following a clash of views about the value of scientific THU progress, Will & Akram drive to Jodrell Bank Observatory in THU a bid to understand more about the application of Maxwell's THU equations. THU THU Producer: Laurence Grissell. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06pz2mb (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06ppsk4 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06pz2md (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 His Master's Voices b06r3q5t (Listen) THU The Theatre/EMI Archive THU THU Singer Cerys Matthews and music expert Tristram Penna THU continue their investigation into the very earliest days of THU the recording industry in the UK. THU THU Tristram with Christopher Proudfoot, CLPGS chairman, visits THU the EMI Archive Trust in Hayes, which houses Fred Gaisberg's THU own collection of over 14,000 7 inch discs dating from 1898 THU as well as an amazing collection of early gramophones. THU THU Cerys and Tristram visit Wyndham's Theatre in London's West THU End where they meet actor Kenneth Cranham. Charles Wyndham THU was a famous actor/impresario who built this theatre in 1899 THU and a disc of Wyndham's voice reciting a poem recorded in THU December 1898 is played on the stage - probably the first THU time his voice has been heard there for over 100 years. This THU disc has not been previously broadcast. THU THU As an actor himself, Wyndham had this theatre built to his THU own specifications so the acoustics are incredibly good - THU and even today actors require no amplification. THU THU The recording process of the Gramophone Company back in 1898 THU had certain technological limitations and so they needed the THU right voices to put on disc, and famous actors of the day THU were an obvious choice. The people with Gramophones in their THU own home would be incredibly proud to have the latest speech THU from actors like Charles Wyndham to impress their peers. For THU those less fortunate who couldn't afford a Gramophone in THU their own home, there were Gramophone evenings in theatres THU across the country where they could go along and pay a THU shilling or so and hear the latest speeches. THU THU It was also at this point the Victorians realised that THU recording famous people of the day would be good for their THU future legacy. The early recordings are courtesy of the EMI THU Archive Trust. THU THU A Sue Clark production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06pxm47 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b06pxt3y (Listen) THU Blood, Art THU THU Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola, Season 1 - Blood THU Art by Martin Jameson THU Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old, and the THU matriarch to a family of wolves. THU Dide secretly set aside money to support her great-grandson, THU Claude Lantier, in his pursuit of becoming a great artist. THU She's hopeful that the bad blood in the family line won't THU taint his talent. Claude, as one of the pioneers of THU impressionist art, is determined to paint the truth around THU him, contrary to popular fashion. At the same time he's THU desperate to be accepted by the national salon, but when THU this happens, it's devastating. Continues in Masterpiece. THU THU Produced and directed by Pauline Harris THU THU Further Info: THU THU Georgina Campbell won a BAFTA for Leading Actress for her THU role in Murdered by My Boyfriend for BBC 3. THU THU Art and episode 7 - Masterpiece, are a re-versioning of THU Emile Zola's His Masterpiece, and a fictional account of THU Zola's friendship with several artists of the period, THU including Manet, Monet and Cézanne and the novel is an THU accurate and vivid portrayal of the Parisian art world in THU the mid 19th century. Pierre, in the story, is widely THU acknowledged to be Zola himself. THU THU First season of 24 hours of dramas inspired by the works of THU literature's greatest whistle blower - Emile Zola. THU THU Credits THU Dide: Glenda Jackson THU Claude: Bryan Dick THU Christine: Georgina Campbell THU Pierre: Richard Hand THU Fagerolles: Stephen Fletcher THU Bongrand: David Fleeshman THU Director: Pauline Harris THU Producer: Pauline Harris THU Author: Emile Zola THU Adaptor: Martin Jameson THU THU 15:00 Open Country b06pxt40 (Listen) THU Pendle Hill, Lancashire THU THU Why do witches and radical pacifists haunt Pendle Hill, one THU of Lancashire's best known landmarks? Helen Mark hears about THU the witch trials of 400 years ago, and the visionary Quaker THU founder, George Fox - all of whom are indelibly linked to THU this strikingly whale-backed hill. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06psb52 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b06psfz8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06pxt42 (Listen) THU Todd Haynes on Carol THU THU Francine Stock talks to director Todd Haynes about his THU 50s-set drama Carol with Cate Blanchett. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Todd Haynes THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06pxt44 (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06pz2mg (Listen) THU PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and THU analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06ppsk6 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01rl1y3 (Listen) THU Series 2, With guests Matt Lucas and Liane Carroll 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 sixth episode explores the theme of the four seasons. THU Guest starring Matt Lucas who performs some songs with the THU band and jazz singer Liane Carroll who is conducted by Alex THU with the aid of a ping pong ball. 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 .... Matt Lucas and Liane Carroll THU Producer .... Julia McKenzie. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b06pxt46 (Listen) THU Here's to Helen Titchener! But Joe doesn't feel like THU celebrating. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06pxt48 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06pxp33 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b06ptylt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 In Business b06pxt4c (Listen) THU Can Internet Shopping Transform Rural China? THU THU In some areas of rural China, traditional farming THU communities are transforming into something very 21st THU Century: internet shopping hubs. THU THU Leading the way is the village of Qing Yan Liu where, four THU hours south of Shanghai, local residents have created a THU world of bubble wrap and sticky tape. THU THU In the eyes of the Chinese Premier Xi Jinping this could be THU the future of rural China. He hopes that more and more small THU communities will copy what's happened in Qing Yan Liu - now THU dubbed 'China's No. 1 E-Commerce village'. It's hoped this THU will halt the flow of young people from rural China to the THU nation's cities, as they go in search of employment. THU THU Turning more small towns and villages into online shopping THU hubs would provide much needed jobs, and a reason for young THU people to stay at home, ensuring communities continue to THU survive rather than disappear. THU THU Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06pxt44 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06pxp2z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06pz2mj (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06pxt4f (Listen) THU The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains, Episode 4 THU THU Chilling revenge for a terrible crime is at the heart of THU Neil Gaiman's multi-award-winning novelette, inspired by a THU Hebridean myth and originally commissioned by Sydney Opera THU House for the Graphic Festival with celebrated illustrator THU Eddie Campbell. THU THU 4/5. The dwarf and the reaver reach the cave, where THU something is waiting. THU THU Reader: Bill Paterson THU Writer: Neil Gaiman THU THU Abridged and produced by Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Bill Paterson THU Author: Neil Gaiman THU Abridger: Karen Rose THU Producer: Karen Rose THU THU 23:00 Jon Ronson On b01rr7zq (Listen) THU Series 7, Brainstorming THU THU Brainstorming. THU THU Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for the THU second episode of his latest series of fascinating stories THU shedding light on the human condition. THU THU In this programme, he looks at brainstorming and asks THU whether it really works. THU THU He travels to Latvia to investigate the story of how media THU PR agency Inspired came up with a bizarre idea after a THU mobile phone company asked them for a concept to advertise THU their new tariff. Their brief was that it had to have a THU superhero theme. The agency decided then to fake a meteorite THU landing in a field outside Riga by digging a giant hole in THU the middle of the night and setting fire to it. THU THU Jon finds out what happened when the stunt backfired. THU THU He also speaks to the author Susan Cain who says forty years THU of research into brainstorming in groups has shown it THU doesn't work. THU THU And Jon considers other brainstormed ideas that have gone THU wrong - such as the decision by the American restaurant THU chain Hooters, known for its young waitresses dressed in THU revealing outfits, THU to go into the airline business. THU THU Finally Jon asks whether we should listen more to quiet, THU thoughtful introverts who say little in brainstorming THU meetings, rather than the extroverts who shout loudest? THU THU Producer: Lucy Greenwell THU THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b06pxt4h (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06ppsl4 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06pxp31 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06ppsl6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06ppsl8 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06ppslb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06ppsld (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06qskv4 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with author FRI Rebecca Manley Pippert. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06pz1yl (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally FRI Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlvz1 (Listen) FRI Madagascan Harrier-Hawk FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Chris Packham presents the Madagascan Harrier-hawk from FRI Madagascar. Among the branches of a Madagascan forest, FRI there's a flutter of wings and a flash of double-jointed FRI feet. The Madagascan harrier-hawk is a striking bird, FRI uniform grey above and finely-barred beneath with black FRI wing-tips and a white-banded black tail. There's a patch of FRI sulphurous skin around its bill and eyes: and its long legs FRI are also bright yellow. Those long legs help the FRI harrier-hawk hunt for food that's beyond the reach of most FRI other birds of prey. Using its wings for balance and FRI twisting its flexibly-jointed legs at seemingly impossible FRI angles, the harrier-hawk inserts its talons into tiny holes, FRI relying on its sense of touch to locate its prey. Madagascar FRI harrier-hawks do hunt more conventionally by gliding over FRI the forest, seizing small birds, reptiles and mammals such FRI as the Verreaux's sifaka. FRI FRI Madagascar Harrier-hawk (Polyboroides radiatus) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Pete Oxford / naturepl.com FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01163651 FRI © Pete Oxford / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06pz1yn (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b06psb58 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06pxysp (Listen) FRI Living on Paper - Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995, FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Iris Murdoch and Brigid Brophy had an intimate friendship FRI for many years, but Murdoch's letters reveal how volatile FRI the relationship could be. FRI FRI Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 to Hughes and Rene FRI Murdoch. While still a baby the family moved to west London. FRI In 1938, Murdoch won a place at Somerville College, Oxford, FRI where she read classics. After gaining her first-class FRI degree, wartime work in the Treasury ensued before, in 1944, FRI she joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation FRI Administration and was posted to Belgium and Austria, where FRI she worked helping those displaced by the war. FRI FRI Murdoch left UNRRA in 1946 and, after a year's postgraduate FRI studies at Newnham College, Cambridge, was appointed as a FRI philosophy tutor at At Anne's College, Oxford. In 1954, FRI while still at St Anne's, Murdoch debut novel Under The Net FRI was published. FRI FRI In a writing career that spanned over 40 years, Murdoch FRI published 26 novels, five books on philosophy, six plays and FRI two books of poetry. Her novel The Sea, The Sea won the 1978 FRI Booker Prize and, in 1987, she was made a Dame. She remains FRI one of the most celebrated British novelists of the 20th FRI century. FRI FRI The music used on this programme is Near Light by Ólafur FRI Arnalds FRI FRI Living On Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch 1935-1995 FRI Editors: Avril Horner and Anne Rowe FRI FRI Readers: Imogen Stubbs and Nigel Anthony FRI FRI Abridger: Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Imogen Stubbs FRI Reader: Nigel Anthony FRI Author: Iris Murdoch FRI Abridger: Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06pz1yq (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 b06pxysr (Listen) FRI Welcome to Zaatari, Episode 5 FRI FRI Two ambitious young women in Jordan are living very FRI different lives. FRI FRI Reem's Syrian family have fled to the sprawling Zaatari FRI Refugee Camp. Jordanian Yara lives in the capital Amman, but FRI is just starting as an aid worker at the camp. FRI FRI As Reem's brothers struggle to survive - in the camp itself, FRI working illegally in Amman, under fire in Syria, or en route FRI to Germany - both families' destinies will collide. And both FRI will face impossible choices about their future. FRI FRI 5/5 Imad crossed the water two days ago. There is still no FRI news. FRI FRI Welcome to Zaatari is adapted by Liz Rigbey from 'We Are All FRI Refugees', an Arabic audio drama about Syrian refugees in FRI Jordan, which was produced by William Stirling, Charlotte FRI Eagar and Georgina Paget for Refuge Drama Productions, in FRI conjunction with Radio SouriaLi and the UNHCR. It was FRI written by Wael Qadour, Majd Hijjawi and Ahmad Ameen, and FRI translated by Wael Qadour and Majd Hijjawi. FRI FRI The theme music for Welcome to Zaatari is 'El Mokhtalifeen', FRI the new single from Jordanian group El Morabba3 FRI (elmorabba3.com). FRI FRI Credits FRI Yara: Sirine Saba FRI Murad: Paul Chahidi FRI Marwan: Paul Chahidi FRI Reem: Raghad Chaar FRI Fadi: Amir El-Masry FRI Salma: Souad Faress FRI Jamal: Farshid Rokey FRI Sahar: Jalleh Alizadeh FRI Nabil: Adam El Hagar FRI Imad: Chris Pavlo FRI Boss: Chris Pavlo FRI Ghalia: Olivia Popica FRI Ola: Susan Jameson FRI Mr Rami: Ewan Bailey FRI Writer: Majd Hijjawi FRI Writer: Wael Qadour FRI Writer: Ahmad Ameen FRI Adaptor: Liz Rigbey FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b06pxysw (Listen) FRI Series 21, RIP FRI FRI Alan Dein travels to Nottingham to meet with the 4th & 5th FRI generations of a family firm of Funeral Directors (with a FRI 6th generation already on the horizon). When furniture maker FRI and dealer Arthur William Lymn started 'undertaking' FRI funerals with his son Harold Percy in 1907, their first FRI premises were on Goosegate - next door to a man selling FRI potions and lotions. Although Arthur and Harold could not FRI match the subsequent success of their next-door-neighbours, FRI the Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd, AW Lymn did have to move to FRI larger premises in 1915. And in the hundred years since they FRI have continued to grow, now operating out of 25 offices, FRI employing 130 staff and conducting 3,500 funeral every year. FRI FRI Last year a brain tumour forced Harold's grandson, Nigel FRI Lymn Rose to hand over the reins of the company to his son FRI Matthew while he underwent brain surgery and recuperated. FRI This summer, fully recovered and back at work, this FRI temporary arrangement was made permanent. As Matthew and FRI Nigel work out the parameters of their new roles within the FRI company (alongside Matthew's aunt, Jackie, and sister Chloe FRI - all also involved in the family firm), Alan Dein goes FRI behind the scenes with them to discover what goes on beyond FRI the formal funeral attire of top hats and tails and Roll FRI Royce hearses. With them he visits the hospital morgue to FRI pick up recently deceased 'patients', enters the world of FRI the firm's embalmers and observes them in the chapels of FRI rest - to find out what it's like to deal with death on a FRI daily basis. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 11:30 Michael Frayn's Matchbox Theatre b06pxyt0 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Michael Frayn: the most comic philosophical writer of our FRI time. An all-star cast has great fun with Frayn's hilarious FRI view of us all. And of how we attempt to communicate. FRI FRI In this opening episode, we hear Joanna Lumley and Roger FRI Allam as stone effigies in a cathedral talking to each other FRI like an old married couple. (Well, they've been together FRI several hundred years. Nothing much changes.) FRI FRI Then there's the younger couples - Charles Edwards and FRI Sophie Winkleman bickering over who should finish who's FRI sentences, and Lisa Dillon and Alex Jennings on the FRI irritations that occur when discussing an apparently simple FRI decision - whether or not to accept a kind invitation. FRI FRI Martin Jarvis has trouble with a rarefied type of FRI cold-calling - how to tell someone they've won a Nobel FRI Prize. And we have an excerpt from a documentary on a FRI species of creature that scurries and scuttles in the FRI darkness. The wild life narrator sounds suspiciously like FRI Sir David Attenborough. (It is.) FRI FRI This four-part series is Theatre in miniature. Short FRI entertainments based on Frayn's recently acclaimed book, FRI Matchbox Theatre. His brand new collection, now on the radio FRI - the theatre of the listener's imagination. Set design, FRI ice-cream sales, packet of nuts, where to sit - it's up to FRI you. Just sit back and enjoy. FRI FRI Episode 1 cast: Charles Edwards, Sophie Winkleman, Joanna FRI Lumley, Roger Allam, Lisa Dillon, Alex Jennings, David FRI Attenborough, Martin Jarvis FRI FRI Written by Michael Frayn FRI FRI Producer: Rosalind Ayres FRI Director: Martin Jarvis FRI A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Charles Edwards FRI Actor: Sophie Winkleman FRI Actor: Joanna Lumley FRI Actor: Roger Allam FRI Actor: Lisa Dillon FRI Actor: Alex Jennings FRI Actor: David Attenborough FRI Actor: Martin Jarvis FRI Writer: Michael Frayn FRI Director: Martin Jarvis FRI Producer: Rosalind Ayres FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06ppslg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Self Drives: Maxwell's Equations b06pxyt2 (Listen) FRI Maxwell's Genius FRI FRI Will Self concludes his 600 mile road trip on the trail of FRI much neglected Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell who FRI 150 years ago pioneered the theory of the electromagnetic FRI waves which made mobile phones, radio, radar and GPS FRI possible. FRI FRI In a bid to feel the wonder of Maxwell's work and legacy, FRI Will is driving from Edinburgh to London in an electric car, FRI accompanied by Akram Khan, professor of particle physics at FRI Brunel University. FRI FRI Will ends his journey in Cambridge posing the question: was FRI Maxwell really a genius? FRI FRI Producer: Laurence Grissell. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06pz1ys (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06ppslj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06pz1yv (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 His Master's Voices b06r3slv (Listen) FRI The First Superstars FRI FRI Singer Cerys Matthews and music expert Tristram Penna FRI conclude their investigation into the very earliest days of FRI the recording industry in the UK. FRI FRI 1902 was the year that changed everything for the Gramophone FRI Company and was the real starting point for the record FRI industry of the 20th Century. Fred Gaisberg was on his way FRI to Rome to record the Pope when he stopped in Milan to hear FRI an acclaimed new tenor. His name was Caruso. FRI FRI He wanted Caruso to record ten songs, but he asked for a FRI payment of £100 - an exorbitant sum. The Company Chairman FRI telegraphed back forbidding Gaisberg to go ahead, but Fred FRI decided that this new tenor was too good to miss. The tenor FRI voice was uniquely well suited to early disc recording FRI machines and one of earliest records of Caruso was the first FRI to sell over a million copies. The success of Caruso as a FRI recording artist led directly to bookings at the New York FRI Met and London's Covent Garden - the first time that being a FRI recording artist had a major impact on a singer's career. FRI FRI Another popular classical singer was Nellie Melba, the Queen FRI of Song, who negotiated and popularised the idea of a FRI royalty being paid to the artist for each disc sold. FRI FRI Over the next few decades, recording innovations and the FRI invention of the electric microphone meant that tenor and FRI strident voices no longer held the upper hand, as singers of FRI both sexes could purr and be heard. FRI FRI We also hear from manager Simon Napier-Bell and music FRI journalist Peter Doggett. The early recordings are courtesy FRI of the EMI Archive Trust. FRI FRI A Sue Clark production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06pxt46 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b06pxyt8 (Listen) FRI Blood, Masterpiece FRI FRI Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola, Season 1 - Blood FRI Masterpiece by Martin Jameson FRI FRI Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old, the matriarch FRI to a family of wolves. Only she had high hopes for Claude. FRI Dide has invested her only last bit of money in her FRI great-grandson, hopeful that his talent as an artist will FRI pull him out of the dregs of 'bad blood' that have cursed FRI the family. Claude suffered a terrible humiliation when his FRI painting was exhibited in the National Salon gallery. He and FRI Christine now have a son and he feels rejuvenated, but his FRI obsession to create 'the' masterpiece wreaks havoc. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Pauline Harris FRI FRI Further info - First season of 24 hours of drama inspired by FRI the works of literature's greatest whistle blower - Emile FRI Zola. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dide: Glenda Jackson FRI Claude: Bryan Dick FRI Christine: Georgina Campbell FRI Young Jacques: Talia Barnett FRI Pierre: Richard Hand FRI Fagerolles: Stephen Fletcher FRI Bongrand: David Fleeshman FRI Jacques: William Ash FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI Author: Emile Zola FRI Adaptor: Martin Jameson FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06pxzdq (Listen) FRI Louth FRI FRI Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme. FRI FRI 15:45 e=mc2 b06pxzdv (Listen) FRI An End to Steady State Theory FRI FRI 2015 marks the centenary of the publication of Einstein's FRI General Theory of Relativity changing our understanding of FRI space and time forever. Turning to science for inspiration, FRI three writers explore the notion of relativity from their FRI own unique viewpoint in this specially commissioned series FRI for Radio 4. FRI FRI Taking Einstein's theory as their inspiration, three writers FRI explore the notion of relativity, taking us to the very FRI edges of space and time, through the prism of sibling FRI rivalry, a flight from war and the daydreams of a lost FRI little boy. FRI FRI In Jo Baker's 'An End to Steady State Theory' a young FRI physicist clings to scientific rigour as the world he knows FRI collapses and contracts. FRI FRI Writer ..... Jo Baker FRI Reader ..... Amir El-Masry FRI Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Jo Baker FRI Reader: Amir El-Masry FRI Producer: Jenny Thompson FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06pz1yx (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b06pz1yz (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06pxzdx (Listen) FRI Sharon - Time to Let Go FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces one side of a conversation: eleven FRI years after the death of her ex-husband, Sharon tells him FRI she now wants to move on and needs him to let her go. FRI Another conversation in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b06pz1z1 (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06ppsll (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b06pxzdz (Listen) FRI Series 47, Episode 3 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Mitch FRI Benn, Sarah Kendall and Gemma Arrowsmith for a comic look at FRI the week's news. FRI FRI Written by the cast with additional material from Jane FRI Lamacraft, Sarah Morgan, Sarah Campbell and Marc Jones. FRI FRI Produced by Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Performer: Jon Holmes FRI Performer: Mitch Benn FRI Performer: Sarah Kendall FRI Performer: Gemma Arrowsmith FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06py0lk (Listen) FRI More than a canape is shared at the ball - and speaking of FRI startling revelations... FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Gwenda Hughes FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Justin Elliot: Simon Williams FRI Usha Franks: Souad Faress FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Nic Grundy: Becky Wright FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06pz1z3 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06pxysr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06py0lm (Listen) FRI John McDonnell MP, Simon Stevens FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Brooks Building at Manchester Metropolitan FRI University with a panel including Shadow Chancellor of the FRI Exchequer John McDonnell MP, and Simon Stevens the chief FRI executive of NHS England. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06py0lp (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Drama b06py0lr (Listen) FRI The Saudi Prince and the Pauper FRI FRI A story about modern-day slavery that becomes a blow for FRI British justice, by leading television dramatist Neil McKay. FRI FRI On 20 October 2010, Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud, a FRI grandson of the King of Saudi Arabia, was sentenced to 20 FRI years for strangling and beating Bandar Abdulaziz to death. FRI Bandar was his servant, his lover, his punch-bag and his FRI slave. FRI FRI The drama takes place in the police station and courtroom, FRI with commentary by Omar, an anonymous Saudi blogger. FRI FRI During his time in London, Prince al Saud indulged in a FRI two-week hedonistic spree with Bandar in tow, during which FRI they dined at the best restaurants, left £50 tips, drank FRI champagne and cocktails, and entertained gay masseurs. At FRI the end of the fortnight, on Valentine's Day, the prince FRI murdered Bandar. He spent the next 12 hours on the phone to FRI Saudi Arabia, working out how to cover up his crime. When FRI the police arrived, he tried to claim diplomatic immunity. FRI FRI Bandar died from heavy blows to his head and neck and with FRI bite marks on his face and arms. The postmortem revealed FRI internal injuries and scarring commensurate with long-term FRI physical abuse. The jury took less than 90 minutes to find FRI the prince guilty of murder and grievous bodily harm. The FRI prince is the most senior member of the Saudi Royal Family FRI ever to be convicted and jailed for a serious crime. Outside FRI the Old Bailey, DCI John McFarlane pronounced, "No man, not FRI even a prince, is above the law." FRI FRI Neil McKay is a Bafta award winning television dramatist FRI (Appropriate Adult, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Mo, See No FRI Evil, Dunkirk, Innocents, The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper) FRI who specialises in stories about real lives. The script was FRI co-written by Neil McKay and Melanie Harris. FRI FRI Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore FRI Director/Producer: Melanie Harris FRI A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Neil McKay FRI Fletcher: Ralph Ineson FRI Omar: Youssef Kerkour FRI Prince: Youssef Kerkour FRI Rob: Lloyd Thomas FRI Sandy: Mary Doherty FRI Custody Sergeant: Mary Doherty FRI Director: Melanie Harris FRI Producer: Melanie Harris FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06ppsln (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06pz1z5 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06py0lt (Listen) FRI The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains, Episode 5 FRI FRI Chilling revenge for a terrible crime is at the heart of FRI Neil Gaiman's multi-award-winning novelette, inspired by a FRI Hebridean myth and originally commissioned by Sydney Opera FRI House for the Graphic Festival with celebrated illustrator FRI Eddie Campbell. FRI FRI 5/5. The dwarf's terrible secret is finally revealed. FRI FRI Reader: tbc FRI Writer: Neil Gaiman FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Bill Paterson FRI Author: Neil Gaiman FRI Abridger: Karen Rose FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b06ptylw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06py0lw (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06py0ly (Listen) FRI Jayne and Richard - Finding a Space for God FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a vicar and a FRI non-believer from his parish, who share a love of the church FRI building and the community it houses. Another in the series FRI that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
20 November, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 21/11/2015 - 27/11/2015
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