Go to: SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI
SAT SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06ppsnk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06pxysp (Listen) SAT Living on Paper - Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995, SAT Episode 5 SAT SAT Iris Murdoch and Brigid Brophy had an intimate friendship SAT for many years, but Murdoch's letters reveal how volatile SAT the relationship could be. SAT SAT Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 to Hughes and Rene SAT Murdoch. While still a baby the family moved to west London. SAT In 1938, Murdoch won a place at Somerville College, Oxford, SAT where she read classics. After gaining her first-class SAT degree, wartime work in the Treasury ensued before, in 1944, SAT she joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation SAT Administration and was posted to Belgium and Austria, where SAT she worked helping those displaced by the war. SAT SAT Murdoch left UNRRA in 1946 and, after a year's postgraduate SAT studies at Newnham College, Cambridge, was appointed as a SAT philosophy tutor at At Anne's College, Oxford. In 1954, SAT while still at St Anne's, Murdoch debut novel Under The Net SAT was published. SAT SAT In a writing career that spanned over 40 years, Murdoch SAT published 26 novels, five books on philosophy, six plays and SAT two books of poetry. Her novel The Sea, The Sea won the 1978 SAT Booker Prize and, in 1987, she was made a Dame. She remains SAT one of the most celebrated British novelists of the 20th SAT century. SAT SAT The music used on this programme is Near Light by Ólafur SAT Arnalds SAT SAT Living On Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch 1935-1995 SAT Editors: Avril Horner and Anne Rowe SAT SAT Readers: Imogen Stubbs and Nigel Anthony SAT SAT Abridger: Pete Nichols SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Imogen Stubbs SAT Reader: Nigel Anthony SAT Author: Iris Murdoch SAT Abridger: Pete Nichols SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06ppsnm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06ppsnp (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06ppsnr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06ppsnt (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06py138 (Listen) SAT Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the SAT Rev Duncan MacLaren. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06py13d (Listen) SAT 'They tried to radicalise my son' SAT SAT 'They tried to radicalise my son.' iPM goes to Brussels' SAT Molenbeek, and asks if integration has failed there. Robert SAT Peston reads Your News. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06ppsnw (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06ppsny (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06pxt40 (Listen) SAT Pendle Hill, Lancashire SAT SAT Why do witches and radical pacifists haunt Pendle Hill, one SAT of Lancashire's best known landmarks? Helen Mark hears about SAT the witch trials of 400 years ago, and the visionary Quaker SAT founder, George Fox - all of whom are indelibly linked to SAT this strikingly whale-backed hill. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06q72px (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Week on a Dairy Farm SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally SAT Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06ppsp0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06q72pz (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 b06q72q3 (Listen) SAT Caroline Quentin SAT SAT Richard Coles and Aasmar Mir are joined by Caroline Quentin. SAT She became a national treasure as the long suffering Dorothy SAT on Men Behaving Badly, followed by lead roles in Jonathan SAT Creek, Blue Murder and Life of Riley. She has presented SAT documentary series on Cornwall and India, and Restoration SAT Home. More recently she's performed at Bristol Old Vic and SAT in the West End. She joins us ahead of a new BBC one drama SAT Dickensian in which she stars as Mrs Bumble, where an SAT assortment of Dickens' characters meet in a seasonal tale. SAT SAT Now the colder weather has finally come it seems a good time SAT to talk about wood, more precisely, firewood. Lars Mytting SAT has created a best seller with his book Norwegian Wood which SAT details the art of chopping, stacking, drying and burning SAT this ancient source of heat. He joins us to share his SAT technical know how and cultural folklore. SAT SAT Listener Alistair Kean wrote to us about his experience of SAT almost becoming a cosmonaught. He tell us how he has no SAT regrets... SAT SAT Caroline Taggart is a word obsessive who has produced 20 SAT books on the origin and meaning of words. She joins us to SAT talk about her latest which focuses on the evolution of SAT words and the phenomenon of the portmanteau. SAT SAT Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta CBE tells us about his SAT inheritance tracks. He chooses Ng la Banda's Echale Limon SAT and Polo Montanez's Un Millon de Estrellas. SAT SAT We have your Thank you's and our reporter Anna Bailey meets SAT Alan Ayckbourn. SAT SAT Dickensian, a drama in 20 parts for BBC1, begins over SAT Christmas. SAT Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting is out now. SAT New Words for Old by Caroline Taggart is out now. SAT Carlos Acosta returns to the London Coliseum for a limited SAT run from 8 - 13 December 2015, with A Classical Selection, SAT presenting highlights from Carlos' career in celebration of SAT his 26 years as a dancer on the international stage. SAT Alan Ayckbourn has two plays touring the UK currently: SAT Confusions and Hero's Welcome, until 5th March 2016. SAT SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Caroline Quentin SAT Interviewed Guest: Lars Mytting SAT Interviewed Guest: Alistair Kean SAT Interviewed Guest: Caroline Taggart SAT Interviewed Guest: Carlos Acosta SAT Interviewed Guest: Anna Bailey SAT Interviewed Guest: Alan Ayckbourn SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 In Pod We Trust b06q72q5 (Listen) SAT The Comedy Episode SAT SAT Miranda Sawyer explores the world of podcasting, rounding up SAT some of the best spoken word audio from around the world. SAT This week: The comedy episode. SAT SAT Richard Herring discusses the freedom the medium allows SAT comedians and ponders its impact on mainstream media. Adam SAT Buxton reflects on his new podcast and dreams of SAT interviewing David Bowie for it. Also featured are New SAT Zealand comedians Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery, whose podcast SAT The Worst Idea of All Time is about their experience of SAT watching the same tedious film every week for a year. The SAT podcast's reached cult status - but how have they managed to SAT get through it? SAT SAT Producer: Jim Frank SAT Researcher: Chris Pearson. SAT SAT Richard Herring SAT This week Miranda is joined by Richard Herring. Richard is SAT the creator of SAT Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast SAT and SAT Me1 vs Me2 Snooker with Richard Herring SAT We featured extracts from Richard's chat with SAT Bob Mortimer SAT SAT Adam Buxton SAT SAT Miranda talks to Adam Buxton this week. Adam recently SAT started the SAT Adam Buxton Podcast SAT and this week’s episode featured extracts from the episode SAT with SAT Louis Theroux SAT Photo taken by Matt Crockett. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b06q72q9 (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06ppsp2 (Listen) SAT Brussels on Edge SAT SAT Correspondents' stories. In the wake of the attacks in SAT Paris, nearby Belgium has been portrayed as a dysfunctional SAT place with failing state structures, a country where SAT terrorists can go about their business unchallenged. Tim SAT Whewell's been to Brussels to talk to some who feel SAT alienated and abandoned by the Belgian state. Eight months SAT of war in Yemen -- and Iona Craig has been finding out how a SAT city of two hundred thousand people is now relying on SAT smugglers to bring in vital supplies. Fifty-one thousand SAT refugees are now living in Berlin -- Chris Haslam's been SAT hearing that for some, their problems are only just SAT beginning. Tens of thousands of people are involved in SAT preparation for the big climate conference starting in Paris SAT next week. Some say global warming is a problem that's just SAT too difficult to solve. But David Shukman believes there's SAT reason for some guarded optimism. And Juliet Rix has been to SAT Malta, the scene of the Commonwealth heads of government SAT meeting. The Mediterranean island long ago ceased to be a SAT British colony but she finds some lasting affection for the SAT old motherland although a continuing fondness for the SAT traditional English breakfast might be doing more harm than SAT good! SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06ppsp4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06n14q4 (Listen) SAT Barclays Fined Over 'Elephant Deal' SAT SAT From April 2016 buy-to-let landlords and people buying SAT second homes will have to pay more in stamp duty. In England SAT and Wales they will have to pay a 3% surcharge on each stamp SAT duty band. For an average Buy-to-Let property of £184,000, SAT buyers will need to pay £5.5k more which is an increase of SAT 468%. Does this dampen the allure of buy-to-let? SAT SAT Also in Wednesday's Autumn Statement the chancellor SAT announced a freezing of the earnings threshold at which SAT student loan repayments begin. Critics say this will mean SAT student loan repayments will increase by £3,000 and hit SAT disadvantaged students hardest. Will these changes deter SAT young people from going to university? SAT SAT Barclays bank has just been fined more than £72m by the SAT Financial Conduct Authority for failing to properly carry SAT out anti-money laundering and financial crime checks on a SAT major transaction dubbed by the regulators as an 'elephant SAT deal'. Banks have substantial responsibilities in the fight SAT against financial crime so why did Barclays apply a lower SAT level of due diligence than its policies require for other SAT business relationships of a lower risk profile? SAT SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT SAT Related links SAT Gov.UK: Main tax announcements for Autumn Statement 2015 SAT Paul Lewis Money SAT Gov.UK: Help to Buy ISA: How does it work? SAT SAT Moneyfacts: The Help to Buy ISA – an overview SAT SAT SAT Barclays SAT SAT Global Witness: Corruption and Money-Laundering SAT SAT Financial Conduct Authority: Final Notice 2015: Barclays SAT Bank PLC - November 2015 SAT SAT Barclays announces settlement with the FCA SAT Gov.UK: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ SAT settlement at the Spending Review 2015 SAT University and College Union (UCU) SAT National Union of Students (NUS) SAT Sutton Trust SAT Sutton Trust: Unfair Deal SAT Gov.UK: Student finance SAT Institute for Fiscal Studies SAT SAT SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b06pxzdz (Listen) SAT Series 47, Episode 3 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Mitch SAT Benn, Sarah Kendall, Robert Peston and Gemma Arrowsmith for SAT a comic look at the week's news. SAT SAT Written by the cast with additional material from Jane SAT Lamacraft, Sarah Morgan, Liam Beirne and Marc Jones. SAT SAT Produced by Alexandra Smith. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: Jon Holmes SAT Performer: Mitch Benn SAT Performer: Sarah Kendall SAT Performer: Robert Peston SAT Performer: Gemma Arrowsmith SAT Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06ppsp6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06ppsp8 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06py0lm (Listen) SAT David Gauke MP, Bronwen Maddox, John McDonnell MP, Simon SAT Stevens SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Brooks Building at Manchester Metropolitan SAT University with Financial Secretary to the Treasury David SAT Gauke MP, the Editor of Prospect magazine Bronwen Maddox, SAT Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell MP, and SAT Simon Stevens the Chief Executive of NHS England. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06q72qk (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 b06q72qp (Listen) SAT Blood, Fury SAT SAT Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola, Season 1, Blood SAT Fury SAT by Martin Jameson SAT SAT The first season of 24 hours of drama inspired by the works SAT of literature's greatest whistle blower - Emile Zola. SAT Starring Glenda Jackson as Dide, 104 year old matriarch to a SAT family of wolves... SAT Dide follows her great-grandson Jacques, a train driver. SAT Jacques loves his train more than any woman he's ever met. SAT But Dide is aware of the terrifying, murderous desires that SAT Jacques harbours within. Continues in 'Trains'. SAT SAT Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dide: Glenda Jackson SAT Jacques: William Ash SAT Severine: Christine Bottomley SAT Roubaud: Sean Gallagher SAT Grandmorin: Seamus O'Neill SAT Lamotte: Seamus O'Neill SAT Misard: Ian Bartholomew SAT Denizet: Ian Bartholomew SAT Aunt Phasie: Olwen May SAT Flore: Rosie Fleeshman SAT Director: Pauline Harris SAT Producer: Pauline Harris SAT Author: Emile Zola SAT Adaptor: Martin Jameson SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b06pttqp (Listen) SAT Series 21, Mr Blue Sky SAT SAT ELO's brilliantly off-beam classic, Mr Blue Sky, is explored SAT in this week's Soul Music. SAT SAT It was released as a single in 1978, having first appeared SAT on the ELO album 'Out of the Blue' in 1977. Written by Jeff SAT Lynne, it was a no.6 hit in the UK, and has endured on the SAT radio airwaves ever since. SAT SAT Contributing to the programme: SAT SAT Tracey Collinson whose husband, Nigel, loved the track tells SAT of the meaning it has for her. SAT SAT Musicologist, Allan Moore, discusses the anomolous use of SAT the word 'blue': usually associated with downbeat emotions, SAT this is a peculiar subversion of that cultural norm with the SAT word 'blue' conjuring happiness and good weather. SAT SAT Tremayne Crossley and his friend, Jo Milne, tell the SAT extraordinary story of how Jo heard music for the first SAT time. This track played an important role in that event. SAT SAT For Dr. Sam Illingworth, Mr Blue Sky will always take him SAT back to the low-flying research-flights he made over the SAT wetlands, greenlands and seas of the Arctic Circle with the SAT shadow of the BAE146 plane beneath him and clear blue skies SAT above. SAT SAT The children of King's St. Albans in Worcester sang the SAT track that features at the end of the programme. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT Professor Allan Moore playing and discussing Mr. Blue Sky SAT SAT Tracey's son, Henry, singing Mr. Blue Sky (all school SAT pictures by JDA media) SAT SAT Tracey's son, Charlie, singing Mr. Blue Sky SAT SAT The classroom as studio... recording Mr. Blue Sky SAT SAT Boys singing the school version of Mr. Blue Sky SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06q73w2 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Jane Garvey gets a makeover, Black SAT women and their hair, Appearance and invisibility SAT SAT As part of our series looking at appearance - What's it like SAT to feel invisible - because you are old or disabled or SAT scarred or if you feel you are too visible - that people SAT stare at you because you stand out? Campaigner Katie Piper, SAT journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and philosopher Dr Mahlet SAT Zimeta discuss. SAT SAT Helen Steel talks about her relationship with an undercover SAT police officer and her reaction to an 'unreserved' apology SAT from the Metropolitan Police Service. SAT SAT Weave, cornrows, dreads, braids, natural. Reporter Ena SAT Miller talks to a group of black women about their hair. SAT SAT What happens when your appearance changes permanently SAT because of breast cancer treatment? Joanna Franks is a SAT Consultant Breast and Oncoplastic Surgeon at University SAT College Hospital in London. Judith Sanitt chose to have SAT breast reconstruction and Gilly Cant decided against it. SAT SAT The Singh Twins - Amrit and Rabindra Singh, identical SAT sisters who are two of Britain's leading contemporary SAT artists, but SAT prefer to be referred to as one. Their work is currently on SAT display at the Tate Britain as part of the Artist and Empire SAT exhibition. SAT SAT Your calls to our phone-in on appearance. SAT SAT It is 60 years since African American Rosa Parks refused to SAT give up her seat in the black section of a bus to a white SAT man. Crystal Sanders, assistant professor in history and SAT African American studies at Penn State University talks SAT about the other women from the movement who should be SAT remembered. SAT SAT Jane Garvey travels to a Liverpool salon for a makeover. SAT SAT Producer: Dianne McGregor. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Katie Piper SAT Interviewed Guest: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown SAT Interviewed Guest: Mahlet Zimeta SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Steel SAT Interviewed Guest: Gilly Cant SAT Interviewed Guest: Judith Sanitt SAT Interviewed Guest: Joanna Franks SAT Interviewed Guest: Amrit Singh SAT Interviewed Guest: Rabindra Singh SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Matthews SAT Interviewed Guest: Nicola Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Crystal Sanders SAT Producer: Dianne McGregor SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06q73w4 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b06py13d (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06ppspb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06ppspd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06ppspg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06q75jf (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Sara Cox, Priscilla Presley, Dara O'Briain, SAT Neil Innes, Gary Kemp, John Grant, Aidan Knight SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Priscilla Presley, SAT Gary Kemp, Dara O'Briain and Neil Innes for an eclectic mix SAT of conversation, music and comedy. With music from John SAT Grant and Aidan Knight. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Gary Kemp SAT 'The Homecoming' is at Trafalgar Studio 1, London until 13th SAT February 2016. SAT SAT Priscilla Presley SAT 'Aladdin' is at Milton Keynes Theatre from Friday 4th SAT December until Sunday 10th January 2016. SAT SAT Dara O'Briain SAT SAT 'Crowd Tickler' is available now on DVD. SAT SAT The second episode of 'Tomorrow's Food' is on Monday 30th SAT November at 21.00 on BBC One. SAT SAT Neil Innes SAT The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band 50th anniversary concert is on SAT 3rd December at at indigo at The O2, London. SAT SAT John Grant SAT ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure' from his album of the same SAT name out now on Bella Union. SAT SAT Aidan Knight SAT 'Each Other' is available on 22nd January on Full Time SAT Hobby. SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Sara Cox SAT Interviewed Guest: Priscilla Presley SAT Interviewed Guest: Gary Kemp SAT Interviewed Guest: Dara O Briain SAT Interviewed Guest: Neil Innes SAT Performer: John Grant SAT Performer: Aidan Knight SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b06q9xyc (Listen) SAT Mark Clarke SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06ppspj (Listen) SAT Bridge of Spies, Carol, Little Eyolf, Michael Craig-Martin, SAT Kenzaburo Oe SAT SAT Spielberg's latest film, Bridge of Spies, features Tom Hanks SAT as a lawyer in 1950s America, hired to defend a Soviet spy. SAT Does that combination of actor and director guarantee a SAT great film? SAT Todd Haynes' has adapted a Patricia Highsmith novel for SAT Carol. Cate Blanchett plays a woman trapped in a loveless SAT marriage of convenience who falls in love with a shop girl SAT Rooney Mara. Complications ensue. SAT Richard Eyre directs Ibsen's Little Eyolf at London's SAT Almeida Theatre - difficult play dealing with marriage and SAT grief. SAT A retrospective exhibition of more than 30 years of the work SAT of Irish artist Michael Craig-Martin has opened at The SAT Serpentine Gallery. SAT Nobel Winnner Kenzaburo Oe's latest novel is Death by Water; SAT a leisurely tale about family crises and family legends SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Joe Dunthorne, Damian Barr and SAT Susannah Clapp. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Joe Dunthorne SAT Interviewed Guest: Damian Barr SAT Interviewed Guest: Susannah Clapp SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06q9xyh (Listen) SAT Lives in a Landscape SAT SAT In 2005, Radio 4 broadcast the first in a series of SAT observational documentaries about contemporary Britain. It SAT was called Lives in a Landscape. It would focus on stories SAT of individuals facing challenges, excitements and big SAT changes in their lives, and those of their families and SAT communities. SAT SAT Using the programme's archive, Alan Dein looks at what's SAT changed - and unchanging - about Britain's social and SAT physical landscape, from the lonely, depopulating island of SAT Canna in Scotland, to the Cornish village that was about to SAT be sold, lock, stock and barrel. SAT SAT The first ever Lives featured two very different sets of SAT people: on one hand was Brian, ex-miner from Barnsley turned SAT ratcatcher; on the other, a group of wealthy Londoners who'd SAT met Brian on a Countryside Alliance march. They would go SAT ratting together, they promised each other. And so they did; SAT but what emerged were revelations that had nothing to do SAT with long-tailed rodents. SAT SAT From the wealthy suburb of Clapham, just a few months before SAT the financial crash, to the Hackney riots of 2011, Lives in SAT a Landscape has observed changes on the streets of the SAT capital. It's tracked the controversial installation of wind SAT turbines in a Welsh beauty spot, the passionate SAT pigeon-racers of inner-city Edinburgh and the fortunes of a SAT Zimbabwean refugee musician trying to rebuild his formerly SAT starry career in downtown Belfast. Other enthusiastic SAT performers include the teenage schoolboy band Socio from SAT Grimsby who face an uncertain future as the close friends SAT prepare for their grown-up lives, and the Bath pub-crooner SAT whose livelihood is threatened by heart disease... SAT SAT Alan Dein sets out to explore ten years of change as charted SAT by one hundred editions of Lives in a Landscape. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Elmes. SAT SAT 21:00 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b06pschk (Listen) SAT Blood, Fire SAT SAT An epic 24 hours of drama inspired by the works of SAT literature's greatest whistle blower, Emile Zola. SAT Passion, in every sense, is the theme of this episode, SAT dramatised by Dan Rebellato. SAT SAT Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old, the matriarch SAT to a family of wolves - the Rougon-Macquarts. SAT SAT She is trapped in her small room in the local asylum in SAT Plassans, southern France. Trapped, but omniscient as she SAT broods over her extended family. As a young woman, she gave SAT birth to two dynasties that exemplified French society. One SAT legitimate - rich, powerful, obsessive and corrupt. The SAT other illegitimate - poor, vulnerable, weak and depraved. SAT SAT France is on the brink of a new Empire. Dide's family is a SAT turbulent mix of the good, the bad and the misguided. This SAT episode, Fire, focuses on Francois and Martha who are SAT happily married, living a quiet, bourgeois life. Abbe SAT Faujas, a charismatic, sinister priest, arrives on their SAT doorstep and announces he has come to live in their spare SAT room. Black comedy and tension ensue as his scheming drives SAT a wedge between the couple, uncovering the darker side of SAT this sleepy provincial town. SAT SAT Dan Rebellato is a Sony nominated writer and Professor of SAT Theatre at Royal Holloway. SAT SAT Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore SAT SAT Produced and Directed by Polly Thomas SAT Executive Producer: Melanie Harris SAT Series Producer: Susan Roberts SAT SAT A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dide: Glenda Jackson SAT Francois: Sam Troughton SAT Martha: Carla Henry SAT Felicite: Fenella Woolgar SAT Abbe Faujas: David Annen SAT Rose: Ursula Holden Gill SAT Mme Condamin: Ursula Holden Gill SAT Society Ladies: Ursula Holden Gill SAT Dr Porquier: Chris Jack SAT The Warder: Chris Jack SAT Director: Polly Thomas SAT Producer: Polly Thomas SAT Author: Emile Zola SAT Adaptor: Dan Rebellato SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06ppspl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b06pxm49 (Listen) SAT Just War and Syria SAT SAT The Prime Minister, David Cameron, will make his case for SAT bombing ISIL in Syria this week. Some commentators are SAT predicting that, if parliament votes in favour, the raids SAT could start as early as next week. This will mean our going SAT into a coalition not only with France and America but also SAT with Russia - a country that has been a long-standing ally SAT of the Syrian leader President Assad, the man whom we wanted SAT to bomb only two years ago. The adage "my enemy's enemy is SAT my friend" dates back at least to the 4th century BC. It SAT might be harsh to say that we're basing our foreign policy SAT on an ancient proverb from a Sanskrit treatise on SAT statecraft, but it's hard to avoid the parallels. Is it, SAT though, a moral justification for going to war? On the Moral SAT Maze this week we discuss what is meant by the phrase "just SAT war" and the morality of pacifism. Has the pacifist case SAT been heard enough? Chaired by Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, SAT Giles Fraser, Michael Portillo and Melanie Phillips. SAT Witnesses are Dr Alexander Moseley, Richard Norman, Helen SAT Drewery and Richard Streatfield. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b06ptddb (Listen) SAT Programme 6, 2015 SAT SAT (6/12) SAT With victories already under their belt in the early SAT contests of the series, both Wales and The Midlands will be SAT aiming to add to their tally as they clash for the first SAT time this season. SAT SAT David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander play for Wales, opposite SAT Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock of the Midlands team. The SAT competition promises to be keen, and the teams will have to SAT trawl all of their arcane knowledge to deal with Tom SAT Sutcliffe's puzzles, which include: 'Some unfortunate SAT ancient women, a defunct City bank and a very shy pianist SAT appear to have collaborated on Onward Christian Soldiers - SAT how?' SAT SAT As always, Tom will be deducting points for every SAT intervention he has to make to nudge them towards the SAT solution. He'll also be revealing the answer to the teaser SAT puzzle he set last time, and providing a new one to keep you SAT guessing for a further week. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Last week's teaser question SAT SAT We asked what this sequence of places refers to: Ulm in SAT Germany; Philadelphia, New York, Chicago; Kuala Lumpur, SAT Tapiei, Dubai. SAT SAT Well done if you realised that these are the locations of SAT the world's tallest buildings, progressively, since 1900. SAT SAT Ulm Minster in Germany (161m, 530 feet) was the tallest SAT building in the world at the turn of the twentieth century, SAT until superseded by SAT SAT Philadelphia City Hall in 1901, which at 167m (548 feet) SAT retained the record until 1908. SAT SAT Then New York skyscrapers the Singer Building (1908-09), the SAT Metropolitan Life Tower (1909-13), the Woolworth Building SAT (1913-30), the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building (briefly in SAT 1930), the Chrysler Building (1930-31), the Empire State SAT Building (1931-72) and the World Trade Center (1972-74) kept SAT the record in New York City for the more than six decades. SAT SAT In 1974 the Sears Tower in Chicago overtook them all, at SAT 442m (1450 feet). SAT SAT Since 1998 the title has moved eastward and away from the SAT US, with the successive supremacy of the Petronas Towers in SAT Kuala Lumpur (1998-2003), the Taipei 101 Tower (2003-10) and SAT the current record holder the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, at a SAT dizzying 828m (2717 feet). SAT SAT Questions in today's programme SAT SAT Q1 (from James Eisner) Why might the dark area between two SAT rainbows, Israel Beilin's first hit, and what Roxana SAT presumably wore on her finger, all sound forbidden? SAT SAT Q2 Some unfortunate ancient women, a defunct City bank and SAT a very shy pianist appear to have collaborated on 'Onward SAT Christian Soldiers'. How so? SAT SAT Q3 (from Virginia Lavender) What came between a mountain SAT range on the French-Swiss border and a city in the Urals? SAT Between that city and an English county? And between the SAT English county and some Welsh mountains? SAT SAT Q4 (Music) Why might you expect these to sign off with SAT affection? SAT SAT Q5 How could you get from Only Connect to one of the Seven SAT Wise Men of Greece, by way of Vitruvius Britannicus and the SAT large intestine? SAT SAT Q6 Why could 3.14159, and zero, produce a Pastoral Symphony SAT when added together? SAT SAT Q7 (Music) What might make Mitford shiver, Marquez call SAT the doctor, or Woody Allen the undertaker - and what does SAT this music have to do with it? SAT SAT Q8 Why might a friend of Basil Brush, a British tennis SAT player and Batman all be considered temporary replacements SAT for Zayn Malik? SAT SAT Rankings before today's contest SAT SAT The 2015 Round Britain Quiz league table after five matches: SAT SAT South of England Played 2 Won 1 Drawn 0 Lost 1 Total points SAT 38 SAT SAT Scotland P2 W1 D0 L1 Pts 29 SAT SAT The Midlands P1 W1 D0 L0 Pts 20 SAT SAT Wales P1 W1 D0 L0 Pts 16 SAT SAT North of England P2 W0 D0 L2 Pts 31 SAT SAT Northern Ireland P2 W0 D0 L2 Pts 23 SAT SAT This week's teaser question SAT SAT If you subtract an Agatha Christie sleuth, and a musical SAT based on H.G. Wells, from a Lancashire folk group, how much SAT are you left with? SAT SAT No need to contact us with the answer, it's just for fun: SAT Tom will reveal the solution at the beginning of the next SAT edition. SAT SAT 23:30 Particle Poets and Molecular Metaphors b06psfzb (Listen) SAT Anna McNamee explores "quantum poetics" and reveals that SAT poets and scientists have more than a language in common. SAT SAT From Einstein's theory of molecular relativity to the hunt SAT for the Higgs Boson, atomic science has influenced poetry SAT more than any other social, economic or political force over SAT the last century. With the help of the former Welsh SAT laureate, Gwyneth Lewis, Professor Peter Middleton, poet SAT Gitte Broeng, Nobel physicist Murray Gell-Man, and Thomas SAT Otto from CERN, and examples of poems by James Joyce, Arthur SAT Sze and David Ignatow, Anna McNamee explores the strong SAT connections between physics and poetry. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06qv8bg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Comic Fringes b039dbk4 (Listen) SUN Series 9, I Bought a Monkey to Stand Out in the New York Art SUN Scene 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 A man goes to great lengths to put his hometown of SUN Bishopbriggs on the map. The title says all. Brilliantly SUN absurd story written and read by actor, writer and comedian SUN Sanjeev Kohli. SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Performer: Sanjeev Kohli SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN Writer: Sanjeev Kohli SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06s0vqh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06s0ylx (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06s10bd (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06s10bg (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06qg0nd (Listen) SUN Church bells from Crediton Parish Church, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b06q9xyc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06s10bj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06qg0ng (Listen) SUN The Court of Public Opinion SUN SUN Mark Tully examines the rise in influence of the court of SUN public opinion in the era of social media. SUN SUN In the company of the journalist and ex Editor of the SUN Guardian Alan Rusbridger, he discusses the growing power of SUN public opinion and its future potential for good and for SUN ill. SUN SUN There are readings from writers including the American SUN security specialist Bruce Schneier and poets John Dryden and SUN Brian Patten, with music from J.S. Bach, the Cambodian SUN musician Sinn Sissamouth and gospel singer Gwen Macrae. SUN SUN A Unique Broadcasting Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind SUN SUN Author: Gustave Le Bon SUN SUN Published by Dover Publications SUN Title: The Court of Public Opinion Is About Mob Justice and SUN Reputation as Revenue SUN SUN Author: Bruce Schneier SUN SUN Published by www.wired.com/2013/02/court-of-public-opinion SUN Title: Metamorphoses SUN SUN Author: Ovid SUN SUN Published by Harcourt Brace SUN Title: We’re Really Dancing Well SUN SUN Sinn Sisamouth SUN SUN Label: Nascente SUN SUN Album: Beginner's Guide To Asia CD2: Asia Idols- The Legends SUN Title: How I Was Hounded SUN SUN Author: Christopher Jefferies SUN SUN Published by BBC News Magazine Online SUN Title: Let Them Talk SUN SUN Gwen Macrae SUN SUN Label: Collectables SUN SUN Album: Rockin Chair SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b06qg0nj (Listen) SUN Bath City Farm SUN SUN Bath City Farm is celebrating twenty years of bringing the SUN countryside into the heart of the Georgian City. Sarah SUN Swadling meets the workers, volunteers and animals that give SUN city children a taste of rural life. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06s10kk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06s10km (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06qg0nl (Listen) SUN God and Mr Churchill, COP21 and the critics of Operation SUN Christmas Child. SUN SUN It's become as much a ritual as putting out sherry and mince SUN pies for Santa. Every year thousands of school pupils up and SUN down the country fill shoe boxes with Christmas gifts for SUN needy children overseas. But, as Trevor Barnes discovers, SUN questions have been raised about the agenda and ethos of the SUN organisation, Samartians Purse, behind this philanthropic SUN endeavour. SUN SUN The Rev Val Bexton set off on foot for Paris a fortnight ago SUN with a group of Christian campaigners concerned about SUN climate change. Within hours they learned of the terrorist SUN attacks and the city they arrived in this weekend was a far SUN more sober one than they had anticipated. She sends us her SUN audio diary. Meanwhile Christoph Nuttall, director of the SUN R20 Regions of Climate Action, set up by Arnold SUN Schwarzenegger, tells Sunday what he thinks can and cannot SUN be achieved at COP21. SUN SUN The Pope's trip to Africa draws to a close with a visit to a SUN mosque in the troubled Central African Republic. The BBC's SUN Religious Affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt is with him. SUN SUN The Pope recently appealed for the end of the Death Penalty SUN in America. Journey of Hope is a group of Americans who have SUN been victims of the most horrendous crimes. Our reporter SUN Siobahn Tighe recently met SUN Marietta Jaeger-Lane in Texas whose child was abducted and SUN killed, and heard from her how she reached a place where she SUN could forgive the murderer. SUN SUN Churchill historians have tended to paint a picture of the SUN Wartime Leader as an agnostic, even atheist. A new book SUN written by his great grandson and a former White House aide SUN tells a different story. SUN SUN Producers: Rosie Dawson SUN Zaffar Iqbal SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06qg0nn (Listen) SUN Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability SUN SUN Michael Ball presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability SUN Registered Charity No 205907 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'R H N'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'R H N'. SUN SUN The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability SUN SUN The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability (RHN) is a national SUN medical charity, which works to improve the lives of adults SUN affected by severe neurological disability through SUN specialist care and rehabilitation. Founded in 1854, the RHN SUN finds ability in disability and seeks to advance the science SUN of care through its research and education, helping to SUN achieve the best possible quality of life for everyone SUN living with neurological disability. SUN SUN Aquability SUN SUN During an Aquability session, which are funded by voluntary SUN donations, people who are usually in wheelchairs can move SUN more freely. SUN SUN Technology enables communication SUN SUN Compass is the RHN’s augmentative and alternative SUN communication service. It provides the expertise and SUN equipment to find the right technology for patients, who SUN have only limited movement, to communicate. Steve is using SUN Eye Gaze technology to write on his screen. SUN SUN Music therapy is engaging and addresses rehabilitation goals SUN SUN Music therapy sessions address a wide range of physical, SUN communication and cognitive rehabilitation goals. Peter is SUN using tone bars with music therapist, Bernice Chu, to SUN improve his visual problems which followed a brain injury. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06s10kp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06s10kr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06qg0tx (Listen) SUN Seeing the Glory SUN SUN The first in an Advent series, 'Learning to See', on the eve SUN of St Andrew's Day. SUN Live from Glasgow Cathedral. SUN Preacher: The Revd Laurence Whitley SUN Anthems: Hosanna to the Son of David (Weelkes) SUN Prepare Ye The Way of the Lord (Wise) SUN Round from the Wode (St Andrew) Psalter SUN With the Cathedral Choir directed by Andrew Forbes. SUN Organist: Malcolm Sim SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06py0lp (Listen) SUN From Pot to Profit SUN SUN Sarah Dunant welcomes Canada's plans to fully legalise SUN marijuana and sees the benefits of a booming cannabis SUN products industry in the American states where it's already SUN legal. SUN SUN "It costs society too much, in all senses, to criminalise so SUN many people - and disproportionately young black or Latino SUN men - for doing something, which legalised could create jobs SUN and help balance the budget." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sarah Dunant SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlvwg (Listen) SUN Rhinoceros Auklet SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Chris Packham presents the rhinoceros auklet found around SUN the North American western seaboard. Rhinoceros auklets are SUN auks. They look very different to their relatives the SUN puffins or guillemots. They're dark grey-ish brown birds, SUN and in the breeding season both male and female have flowing SUN white plumes above their eyes and behind their orange bills. SUN It is the white vertical plate at the base of its bill which SUN has inspired the birds' common names of "horn-billed SUN puffins" or "unicorn puffins". This horn is only grown in SUN the breeding season; the birds shed it in autumn when they SUN head out to sea. Rhinoceros auklets in burrows or cavities SUN in grassy places or on forest floors: most colonies are SUN small, but some contain a hundred thousand birds which SUN produce a soothing chorus of mooing and grunting sounds, SUN strange to hear in the blackness of a coastal wood. SUN SUN Rhinoceros auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Gerrit Vyn / naturepl.com SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01308825 SUN © Gerrit Vyn / naturepl.com SUN SUN Two recordings of rhinoceros auklet by Thomas G Sander / SUN Ref: ML110904 & ML110911 SUN SUN This programme contains two wildtrack recording of the SUN rhinoceros auklet kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at SUN the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: both tracks were recorded by SUN Thomas G Sander as follows... SUN Track ML110904 SUN - Recorded 26 Jul 1986, at Rabbit Cave, SE Farallon Islands, SUN California, USA SUN Track ML110911 SUN - Recorded 27 Jul 1986, at Rabbit Cave, SE Farallon Islands, SUN California, USA SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06s10kt (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 b06qg1lq (Listen) SUN Jill feels philosophical, and here's to Helen Titchener! SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN Director: Gwenda Hughes SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Justin Elliot: Simon Williams SUN Usha Franks: Souad Faress SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Will Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06qg1ls (Listen) SUN Sandi Toksvig SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Sandi Toksvig. SUN SUN Host of BBC Radio 4's News Quiz until June 2015, she is also SUN a writer and comedian and recently entered the world of SUN politics, helping to found the Women's Equality Party. SUN SUN Her parents were both broadcasters: her mother worked as a SUN studio manager and announcer before she married, her Danish SUN father's job as a foreign correspondent took the family SUN around the world. Sandi and her siblings spent much of their SUN childhood in the United States and when she was "asked to SUN leave" yet another American school, her parents sent her to SUN boarding school in England. She soon decided to lose her SUN strong American accent and went on to Cambridge, where she SUN performed in the Footlights. SUN SUN In addition to writing, her most recent acting role was in SUN Call the Midwife and she continues to appear regularly on TV SUN and radio shows as a panelist: she is to start as the next SUN host of QI, taking over from Stephen Fry. She's also SUN Chancellor of Portsmouth University. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Sandi Toksvig SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06s10kw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b0670gmc (Listen) SUN Series 73, Episode 8 SUN SUN Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Susan Calman and Tom Allen SUN find out just how hard it can be to talk for 60 seconds with SUN no hesitation, repetition & deviation in this special SUN episode recorded at the Edinburgh Festival. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Gyles Brandreth SUN Panellist: Susan Calman SUN Panellist: Tom Allen SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06qg1lv (Listen) SUN Cookbooks of 2015 SUN SUN Sheila Dillon and guests reflect on a year of cookery and SUN food books. SUN SUN Sheila is joined in the studio by Bee Wilson, historian and SUN food writer who's about to publish First Bite: How We Learn SUN to Eat, journalist and food writer Alex Renton, and Features SUN Editor at trade magazine The Bookseller, Tom Tivnan. SUN SUN Tim Hayward meets chef Magnus Nilsson - who has just SUN completed a nearly 800-page work called The Nordic Cook SUN Book, the result of an almost Herculean effort to tell the SUN food stories of a vast region. SUN SUN Sharing some of their standout books of the year are Xanthe SUN Clay, Joanna Blythman, Gillian Carter and Diana Henry. SUN SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Bee Wilson SUN Interviewed Guest: Alex Renton SUN Interviewed Guest: Tom Tivnan SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Hayward SUN Interviewed Guest: Magnus Nilsson SUN Interviewed Guest: Xanthe Clay SUN Interviewed Guest: Joanna Blythman SUN Interviewed Guest: Gillian Carter SUN Interviewed Guest: Diana Henry SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06s10ky (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06qg1lx (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b06qg1lz (Listen) SUN Series 4, Dartmoor Hill Ponies SUN SUN In this last episode in the series Hardeep travels to SUN Dartmoor for a taste of the iconic ponies that roam the SUN moor. He meets the woman who's made it her life's mission to SUN protect these semi wild ponies whose genes have been shaped SUN by the harsh landscape in which they survive. Dartmoor hill SUN ponies are wonderfully adapted to their environment, SUN surviving by crushing the gorse with their feet so it can be SUN eaten. It was said you could tell where you were on Dartmoor SUN by the colour of the coats of the ponies around you, which SUN was easy just over a hundred years ago when there were SUN thirty thousand ponies on the moor. This rugged pony SUN flourished for centuries because they could also be used for SUN agricultural work. As farming has become mechanised the SUN numbers of ponies have dwindled and today a little over one SUN thousand remain. The presence of ponies on the moor helps SUN maintain biodiversity and accessibility for visitors like SUN Hardeep to enjoy. Now some conservationists have come up SUN with a radical and controversial plan to save Dartmoor's SUN hill ponies. Hardeep is cooking lunch for Charlotte Faulkner SUN who lives on a farm in an ancient Dartmoor longhouse. SUN Charlotte is worried that without intervention the Dartmoor SUN hill ponies will disappear altogether. She has begun SUN developing a range of pony meat called 'Taffety'. It is SUN organic, low in fat and high in omega 3. Charlotte says it's SUN delicious and by putting pony on the menu, she is hoping to SUN give more value to the lives of animals otherwise destined SUN for the slaughterhouse and she hopes it will help make the SUN maintenance of herds viable again for farmers. But her plans SUN have split her family. SUN SUN Producer: Phil Pegum. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06pxzdq (Listen) SUN Louth SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Louth in Lincolnshire SUN SUN Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew are on the SUN panel and answer questions about artificial grass, tree SUN peonies, thyme, and winter flowers. SUN SUN Also, Pippa Greenwood visits the legendary horticulturalist SUN Roy Lancaster in his garden at home, and Bob Flowerdew SUN comprehensively covers everything you need to know about SUN potatoes. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood and Roy Lancaster SUN Pippa catches up with the plantsman, gardener, author, and SUN former GQT panellist Roy Lancaster. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06qgp5h (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about friendship between SUN former opposing extremists, the church rising above SUN differences in belief, and letting go of a loved one. All in SUN the 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 b06qgp5k (Listen) SUN Blood, Trains SUN SUN Jacques has finally fallen in love but his murderous desires SUN resurface, with terrible consequences. Dramatised by Dan SUN Rebellato, inspired by literature's greatest whistle blower SUN - Emile Zola. SUN SUN Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old, the matriarch SUN to a family of wolves - the Rougon-Macquarts - in this final SUN drama of the series. SUN SUN As society changes around her, Dide is still trapped in her SUN small room in the local asylum, but omniscient when it comes SUN to her extended family. As a young woman, she gave birth to SUN 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. Her family is a SUN turbulent mix of the good, the bad and the misguided. SUN SUN The brand new railway system was a powerful force. Dide's SUN great-grandson Jacques, a train driver, has fallen in love SUN with Sevrine, the first time a woman has come close to SUN challenging his love of trains. As her marriage collapses SUN under the weight of the murderous secret she and her husband SUN share, she seeks her freedom to be with her new love. The SUN pressure on Jacques becomes unbearable. SUN SUN Dan Rebellato is a Sony nominated writer and Professor of SUN Theatre at Royal Holloway. SUN SUN Produced and Directed by Polly Thomas SUN Executive Producer: Melanie Harris SUN Series Producer: Susan Roberts SUN A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Dide: Glenda Jackson SUN Jacques: William Ash SUN Severine: Christine Bottomley SUN Roubaud: Sean Gallagher SUN Pecquex: Tachia Newall SUN Director: Polly Thomas SUN Producer: Polly Thomas SUN Author: Emile Zola SUN Adaptor: Dan Rebellato SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b06qgp5m (Listen) SUN Diana Athill on Alive, Alive Oh! SUN SUN Diana Athill, who was born in 1917, had a long and SUN successful career in publishing before turning her hand to SUN writing herself. As she publishes a new book of essays at SUN the age of 97 she talks to Mariella about the moments in her SUN life she remembers and treasures, the continuing importance SUN of reading for her and the pleasures of being pushed in a SUN wheelchair. SUN SUN Also on the programme, thriller writer Lee Child and Dr Andy SUN Martin from Cambridge University talk about the time they SUN spent together as Lee Child wrote his latest Reacher novel - SUN an experience which Andy Martin has now turned into a book. SUN Hisham Matar discusses a forgotten Italian prize winner, SUN just translated into English, which chronicles early 20th SUN century Libya and we hear from three aspiring novelists SUN attempting to complete a book in a month. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Diana Athill SUN Interviewed Guest: Lee Child SUN Interviewed Guest: Andy Martin SUN Interviewed Guest: Hisham Matar SUN SUN 16:30 Lynn Hill: Twenty-First Century War Poet b06qgp5p (Listen) SUN In recent years, the US Air Force has been training more SUN drone operators than aircraft pilots. BBC Radio 4 gets SUN inside the mind of poet Lynn Hill, Air Force veteran and SUN former drone operator whose poetry opens up the alien soul SUN of 21st century warfare. SUN SUN Lynn Hill was an active participant in both Iraq and SUN Afghanistan. She played a pivotal role in operations, but SUN hasn't set foot in either country. She spent much of her SUN military career flying Predator drones, gathering SUN intelligence and firing missiles remotely some 12,000 miles SUN away - from a central station in Las Vegas. SUN SUN Hill started her military career as an intelligence analyst. SUN But when she transitioned to the Predator Operations Unit, SUN her idea of what the military was started to change. SUN SUN She became an operator, directly involved in missions, SUN confronted with banks of screens showing live footage of SUN Iraq. During her lunch break she'd nip out for a sandwich, SUN then return to fight in Afghanistan. At the end of the day, SUN she'd get into her car and go home. SUN SUN Her brilliant poetry talks of the difficult task of SUN separating her real life from her war life. About hate and SUN insanity, violence and nihilism. About dreams and being SUN involved in war via a screen. About seeing yourself in the SUN third person. About some of the very serious problems faced SUN by her 21st century war colleagues - divorce, alcohol, SUN psychiatric illness, crises of identity. SUN SUN This is another world - a world drowning in radio chatter SUN and computer noises, a hermetically-sealed dome of virtual SUN warfare. The sound of Hill's spare, personal, razor-sharp SUN poetry illustrates life for her and other young women who've SUN played this uniquely modern combat role. SUN SUN Produced by Andrew Wilkie SUN A PRA production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 From Syria to Yorkshire b06ptym0 (Listen) SUN Under the UK government's Vulnerable Persons Relocation SUN Scheme over 200 Syrians - all judged to be particularly at SUN risk - were taken from refugee camps in the Middle East and SUN re-housed in Britain, many of them in Bradford. This summer, SUN as the migration crisis became ever-more acute, the SUN government agreed to help many more Syrians. Owen SUN Bennett-Jones travels to Bradford to meet some of those who SUN were first brought to Britain under the scheme. Their SUN remarkable stories paint a vivid picture of war-torn Syria - SUN and tell us a great deal about the UK too. SUN SUN Image: Syrian refugees settling in Yorkshire, Ayham and SUN Mohammed attend an archetypically British event – SUN Remembrance Sunday in Bradford. They didn’t know about it SUN beforehand but when it was explained that this was a service SUN to remember those killed in war, they wanted to come and SUN felt the relevance to their own lives. But did the other SUN people attending want them there? SUN SUN Producer: Nina Robinson SUN Editor: Richard Knight SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b06q9xyc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06s10l0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06s125r (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06s10l4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06qh4vv (Listen) SUN Mary Anne Hobbs SUN SUN Mary Anne Hobbs chooses her BBC Radio highlights from the SUN past week. SUN SUN This week we explore happiness and blue skies; a woman hears SUN music for the very first time; the Belgian public enjoy the SUN delights of the city in spite of high security alerts and SUN singer-songwriter Patti Smith and artist Grayson Perry bring SUN joy to The Verb. SUN SUN What kind of licence are girls given to break the rules? SUN Sheila Hancock has some strong views to share. Alan Bennett SUN brings alive the story of Alice In Wonderland, and there are SUN bells, tweets and jazz in the mix too... SUN SUN Produced by Stephen Garner. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06qh4vx (Listen) SUN What a pain for David. Helen cannot believe her ears. SUN SUN 19:15 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06qh4vz (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 2 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 find out what voguish new venture Huxley and SUN Gulliver have got themselves wrapped up in, we meet the SUN busiest ladies in town and, direct from Paris, a rare SUN appearance by The Centipede Sisters. 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 b06qh4w1 (Listen) SUN Dodo Diary SUN SUN Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now, reads her specially SUN commissioned short story inspired by a visit to the Natural SUN History Museum. She imagines that the Museum has used SUN extracted DNA from its dodo skeletons to make a brand new SUN living breathing dodo, which a kindly volunteer takes home SUN to stay in a suburban semi in Wembley... Producer Beth SUN O'Dea. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Meg Rosoff SUN Writer: Meg Rosoff SUN Producer: Beth O'Dea SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b06pz1yz (Listen) SUN Local Radio controversy, BBC World Service funding, New SUN comedy double act The Pin SUN SUN Roger Bolton airs audience views on BBC radio output, SUN including a controversy in local radio, new funding for the SUN World Service, and the fresh comedy duo The Pin. SUN SUN Earlier this month, presenter Iain Lee hosted a SUN controversial discussion about Christianity and LGBT rights SUN on his BBC Three Counties radio breakfast show. The heated SUN interviews divided listeners and Iain Lee has now left the SUN station. Campaigns across social media, led by fans and LGBT SUN rights groups, have since demanded Iain Lee's reinstatement, SUN but to what extent should a BBC presenter be allowed to take SUN sides in a debate? SUN SUN The Government has announced that it will provide the BBC SUN World Service with an additional £85 million a year, as part SUN of the National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and SUN Security Review. In the review, the World Service is cited SUN as a way to expand UK 'soft power' and will be required to SUN spend the money expanding services in key global regions. SUN While this additional funding is welcomed by many World SUN Service listeners, others question whether the BBC is SUN becoming an arm of British foreign policy. SUN SUN After ten years on air, Radio 4's Lives in a Landscape is SUN coming to an end. Roger Bolton speaks to the Presenter Alan SUN Dein to look back a decade of remarkable stories told by SUN seemingly everyday people. SUN SUN And BBC Radio has been home to a long line of comedy double SUN acts, from Morecambe and Wise to Mitchell and Webb. SUN Following in that tradition is a new comedy duo called The SUN Pin. Their debut Radio 4 series has just drawn to a close SUN and was enjoyed by many listeners. Roger Bolton speaks to SUN The Pin, aka Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen, to talk double SUN acts and radio influences. SUN SUN Producer: Katherine Godfrey SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06pz1yx (Listen) SUN Peter Dimmock, Alix d'Unienville, Yolanda Sonnabend, Maggie SUN Eales and George Barris SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN TV pioneer Peter Dimmock. An accomplished presenter and also SUN a BBC executive, he directed the coverage of the Queen's SUN coronation in 1953. SUN SUN Also SOE agent Alix d'Unienville. In the days before D Day SUN she was parachuted into occupied France with a suitcase SUN containing forty million francs. SUN SUN Yolanda Sonnabend who designed some of the UK's best loved SUN ballets SUN SUN Maggie Eales who rose from the secretarial pool at ITN to SUN become the company's Foreign Editor. Jon Snow pays tribute. SUN SUN And George Barris who created some of the most exotic SUN vehicles in TV and film, including the Batmobile, the SUN Munsters' Koach and the intelligent car in Knight Rider. SUN SUN Peter Dimmock CBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to BBC Historian, Professor Jean Seaton. SUN Friends and colleagues, Former Controller of BBC 1, Sir Paul SUN Fox CBE and Journalist, Michael Carlson. SUN SUN Born 6 December 1920; died 20 November 2015 aged 94 SUN SUN Alix d'Unienville MBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to SOE Expert and author of “The Women Who SUN Lived for Danger”, Marcus Binney. SUN SUN Born May 8 1918; died 10 November 2015 aged 97 SUN SUN Yolanda Sonnabend SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Former Royal Ballet principal, Deborah SUN Bull CBE. SUN SUN Born 26 March 1935; died 9 November 2015 aged 80 SUN SUN Maggie Eales SUN SUN Last Word spoke to broadcaster Jon Snow and to Edward SUN Boateng, Founder of the CNNMultichoice African Journalist SUN Awards. SUN SUN Born 23 January 1948; died 12 October 2015 aged 67 SUN SUN George Barris SUN SUN Born 20 November 1925; died 5 November 2015 aged 89 SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06n14q4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06qg0nn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b06pxt4c (Listen) SUN Can Internet Shopping Transform Rural China? SUN SUN In some areas of rural China, traditional farming SUN communities are transforming into something very 21st SUN Century: internet shopping hubs. SUN SUN Leading the way is the village of Qing Yan Liu where, four SUN hours south of Shanghai, local residents have created a SUN world of bubble wrap and sticky tape. SUN SUN In the eyes of the Chinese Premier Xi Jinping this could be SUN the future of rural China. He hopes that more and more small SUN communities will copy what's happened in Qing Yan Liu - now SUN dubbed 'China's No. 1 E-Commerce village'. It's hoped this SUN will halt the flow of young people from rural China to the SUN nation's cities, as they go in search of employment. SUN SUN Turning more small towns and villages into online shopping SUN hubs would provide much needed jobs, and a reason for young SUN people to stay at home, ensuring communities continue to SUN survive rather than disappear. SUN SUN Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06s10l6 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06qh4w3 (Listen) SUN Agnès Poirier of Marianne analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06r02j9 (Listen) SUN Gang Initiations, My Way and the KKK SUN SUN True stories told live in the USA. Catherine Burns SUN introduces tales about caring, confrontation and comedic SUN calamity. SUN SUN 23:50 A Point of View b06py0lp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:48 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06qv8bl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06pv1g6 (Listen) MON Frauds of the left, Siblings MON MON 'Frauds' of the Left: Laurie Taylor examines the MON intellectual credibility of key thinkers of the New Left. MON Roger Scruton, Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the MON University of Oxford, argues that the modern academy is MON gripped by a form of 'group think' which fails to challenge MON the positions of theorists such as Michel Foucault and MON Antonio Gramsci. Has left wing fashion trumped credible MON argument? They're joined by Mark Fisher, Lecturer in Visual MON Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London. MON MON Also, the significance of siblings in constructing a sense MON of self. Katherine Davies, Lecturer in Sociology at the MON University of Sheffield, discusses a study which suggests MON that the stories people tell about their similarity, or MON difference, from siblings have a critical role in shaping MON past, present and future identities. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Katherine Davies at the University of Sheffield MON Professor Roger Scruton MON Mark Fisher at Goldsmiths, University of London MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06qg0nd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06qv8cr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06qv8ct (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06qv8cw (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06qv8cy (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06rfg3t (Listen) MON Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the MON Rev Duncan MacLaren. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06qhdp8 (Listen) MON Climate Change Talks and Agriculture MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06qv8d0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0m9x (Listen) MON Laughing Kookaburra MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Sir David Attenborough presents Australia's laughing MON kookaburra. At 45cm the laughing kookaburra is one of the MON world's largest kingfishers. Native to south and eastern MON Australia, they have now been introduced to Western MON Australia and parts of New Zealand. Although they do catch MON fish, they hunt mainly on land where they eat reptiles, MON small mammals and invertebrates. The cacophony of loud MON hooting laughs from which they get their Aboriginal name, is MON often produced by several birds in chorus. The cackling call MON is one of the few exotic bird sounds that is recognised MON around the world: a captive kookaburra named Jacko became a MON radio celebrity in Australia through his ability to break MON into that laughing call on demand. By the time of his death MON in 1939 he was one of the best known birds in the world. MON MON Laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Andrew Walmsley / naturepl.com. MON NPL Ref 01301013 MON © Andrew Walmsley / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b06qhlhs (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06qhlhv (Listen) MON Augustine, Desire, Doing good MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr explores goodness and its MON uneasy relationship with pleasure. The historian Robin Lane MON Fox looks to the work of Augustine and what is thought to be MON the first autobiography detailing the sinful excitement of MON youth before his anguished and hesitant conversion to MON Christianity. The philosopher Clare Carlisle explores MON Augustine's views on the link between desire and habit, MON while the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips asks why pleasure is MON more highly prized when it's perceived to be forbidden and MON guilty. Larissa MacFarquhar looks at the lives of those who MON have dedicated themselves to others and asks why do-gooders MON provoke deep suspicion in Western culture. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Robin Lane Fox MON Interviewed Guest: Clare Carlisle MON Interviewed Guest: Adam Phillips MON Interviewed Guest: Larissa MacFarquhar MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06qhlhx (Listen) MON Railways - Nation, Network and People, Episode 1 MON MON A magnificent account of Britain's railways and how track MON and carriage united a nation. MON MON This series of readings includes an exploration of many MON aspects of the railway revolution, such as the challenges of MON 'railway time', the nuances of first, second and third MON class, the dificulties of lighting and heating, passenger MON comfort, what to eat when travelling and the history of MON refreshment stops and the commercial opportunities they MON brought - including the establishment of W.H.Smith and Son, MON who became the nation's first high street bookstore. MON Architecture and engineering are also covered, alongside the MON impact on social classes and gender. MON MON Passengers may have a love-hate relationship with our MON railways, but few of us know much about the journey taken to MON get to where we are now. MON MON "Simon Bradley's The Railways is magisterial. It's both MON authoritative and absorbing. A first class journey." Michael MON Palin MON MON Episode 1: The coming of the trains shunted our vocabulary MON onto new tracks, and also did some odd things to time. MON MON Reader: Stephen Tompkinson MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Author: Simon Bradley MON Reader: Stephen Tompkinson MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06qhlhz (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06qhlj1 (Listen) MON Greater Love, Episode 1 MON MON Greater Love - ep.1/5 MON by Don Shaw MON MON The true story of the Derbyshire village of Eyam during The MON Plague of 1665-66 in which characters and their values MON change as tragedy unfolds, as the whole village effectively MON agrees to stay in the village in order for the Plague not to MON spread. A new young Rector battles for authority with the MON puritanical former rector. William announces the betrothal MON of Emmy and Rowland but then he and Stanley are called to MON tend to a sick villager who dies before they arrive. Stanley MON identifies plague from experience. William, shocked, fails MON to anoint the tailor. Stanley suspects the cause is cloth MON brought from London. It must be burnt and a quick burial to MON keep secrecy, prevent panic. MON MON Producer Pauline Harris MON MON Further Info:- MON There are strong parallels between the Ebola crises today, MON and the Plague in Eyam in1665. In both cases ignorance MON spread the disease. MON MON SUMMARY: William Mompesson, a Cambridge graduate, arrives MON with wife Catherine as replacement for the sacked Puritan MON Thomas Stanley. Embittered, Stanley lives on village charity MON while William lives finely in the rectory on money donated MON by the squire. Stanley, having been rector for 17 years MON naturally has most of the men on his side. William believes MON that fleeing the village is the answer. Stanley insists on MON incarceration. This incredible true story charts how the MON whole village, with the exception of the richest - squires MON etc. decided to stay inside the village boundaries in order MON not to spread the Plague. So effective no-one is allowed out MON of the village, nor anyone new allowed in. The greatest MON compassion arises from the story of two young lovers, Emmy MON Sydall and her fiancé Rowland. MON MON Credits MON William: Al Weaver MON Catherine: Emily Pithon MON Thomas Stanley: David Calder MON Emmy Sydall: Charlie May-Clark MON Rowland: Gerard Kearns MON Alice Sydall: Daryl Fishwick MON Mary Cooper: Melissa Sinden MON Writer: Don Shaw MON Producer: Pauline Harris MON MON 11:00 The Incubator b06qhlj3 (Listen) MON Clare Jenkins presents a personal insight into the world of MON premature babies. MON MON It's something she knew nothing about until Christmas 2013, MON when her twin nephews were born, four months premature, at MON King's College Hospital in London. MON MON They were immediately transferred to the neonatal intensive MON care unit. One twin, Harry, died three weeks later. The MON other, Jack, survived, with long-term health problems. Their MON parents - Clare's brother and sister-in-law - spent months MON by Jack's bedside. From knowing nothing about incubators, MON CPAPs, canulas and high dependency units, they found MON themselves plunged into a very different, and very intense MON world. They moved house and careers, and their 'normal' life MON turned upside down. MON MON Of course, they're far from being the only ones. Every year, MON the KCH neonatal unit admits around 700 babies. Some are MON premature, others are full-term but with a variety of health MON problems. Some babies stay for just a few days, others for MON over a year. MON MON Clare talks to parents whose everyday lives have been put on MON hold as their baby's struggle becomes all-consuming. As well MON as talking to her brother and sister-in-law, she hears from MON a mother whose son has a rare liver condition and a couple MON whose daughter - born at 23 weeks - is now at home after MON spending her first four months among bright lights and MON ever-bleeping monitors. MON MON All these children owe their survival to the dedication and MON extraordinary high-tech skills of the doctors, surgeons and MON nurses, and to the care and expertise of a whole team of MON people, including ophthalmologists, radiographers, speech MON and language therapists, physiotherapists. MON MON How do people in this immensely stressful situation - both MON parents and staff - cope? MON MON A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 The Missing Hancocks b06qht29 (Listen) MON The Red Planet 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: The Red Planet. Tony takes up astronomy, MON and discovers something terrible among the stars. 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. The Red Planet was first broadcast MON on the 30th November, 1955. MON MON Produced be Ed Morrish & 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 b06qv8d2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 One to One b06rkc60 (Listen) MON John Harris Talks to Penny Andrews about Autism MON MON John Harris from the Guardian talks to university MON researcher, Penny Andrews, who, after a difficult childhood MON and adolescence, was finally diagnosed as autistic in her MON early thirties. MON John is known for having two consuming passions music, and MON politics - and luckily he's developed a career that revolves MON around both. But around five years ago, he acquired a third MON area of expertise and curiosity: autism. MON MON His son James was born in 2006 and, when he was 3, it was MON discovered he was autistic. For John and his partner, the MON next two or three years passed in a blur of educational MON therapy, tussles with officialdom, James's successful entry MON to a mainstream school, and reading: lots and lots of it. MON MON In his first edition of One to One, John talked to Simon MON Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at MON Cambridge University and Director of the University's Autism MON Research Centre. MON MON Today he talks to Penny about how the condition has affected MON her life and how she has learnt to live with it, holding MON down an intellectually challenging job and married life. MON MON They discuss how schools and employers can help those on the MON autistic spectrum to make the most of the gifts and talents MON they have, and to understand better the more challenging MON aspects of the condition. MON MON Producer: Lucy Lunt. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06qhvrj (Listen) MON Energy Bills, Microchipping Pets, Rental Fraud MON MON George Osborne announced some changes in the Autumn MON statement that will have an impact on our energy bills. MON Industry that is energy intensive will be permanently exempt MON from the environmental levies added to our bills by MON government. But it means that households will be paying MON extra - another £5 each a year. However Osborne claims will MON be seeing a £30 reduction on our bills thanks to the new, MON less ambitious Energy Company Obligation that will take MON effect in 2017. So is he right? MON MON According to Blue Cross pet charity there has been an MON increase in stolen pets of almost 40% compared to 2012. Now MON owners are backing the charity's call for tougher sentences MON for those who commit the crime, which Blue Cross hopes will MON act as a deterrent. Almost half of pet owners believe pets MON are being stolen to sell. And, as many stolen pets are MON already microchipped, why are more of them not found when MON the new owner brings them to the vets for the first check MON up. MON MON Fraud involving rooms to rent rose by a third over the last MON year. That's according to Action Fraud - the UK's national MON fraud reporting centre. There were two and half thousand MON cases of fraud involving rooms to rent reported in England MON and Wales in the year to July 2014. This year there were MON more than three thousand three hundred reported cases. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06qv8d4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06qhvrl (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 A Walk of One's Own: Virginia Woolf on Foot b064yjm6 (Listen) MON In Spain MON MON Virginia Woolf, sun hat firmly in place, scrambling along MON the dusty footpaths of Southern Spain - an unexpected image MON of the very English, upright writer more commonly associated MON with Bloomsbury. But in 1923 Woolf and her husband Leonard MON made an adventurous journey by boat, train, bus and mule to MON the remote mountain village of Yegen, where the British MON writer Gerald Brenan had made his home. MON MON In a burst of intense, exploratory friendship, Woolf walked MON with Brenan through a landscape of goats and asphodels, MON opening up to him, and opening herself to the allure of MON Spain. "The mind's contents break into short sentences. It MON is hot; the old man; the frying pan; the bottle of wine". MON MON She wrote about riding mules, about village sounds, and as MON she got into the rhythm of rural Spain fantasised about a MON new life abroad. MON MON Virginia Woolf was the perfect exponent of the belief that MON walking clears the mind, expands the soul and strengthens MON the leg. On the centenary of Woolf's first published novel, MON Woolf biographer. Alexandra Harris takes us on four walks MON which inspired her, shaped her writing and character, and MON tell her story. MON MON In part one Harris seeks out the paths where the determined MON walker would have tramped - through olive groves, past MON tangled vines, in thrall to the smell of orange blossom. She MON is accompanied in this Spanish sojourn by another writer, MON also seduced by the beauty of the Alpujarras, Chris Stewart, MON of "Driving Over Lemons" fame. Stewart was inspired 27 years MON ago to move to the area described in 'South From Granada', MON Gerald Brenan's classic portrait of Andalucía, in which MON Virginia Woolf's visit is also described. MON MON They scramble up hillsides, leap into pools of icy water, MON and are deafened by the sound of cicadas, contemplating MON Virginia Woolf's time, walking and writing under the Spanish MON sun. MON MON Producer: Sara Jane Hall. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06qh4vx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06qhvrn (Listen) MON When Last I Saw You MON MON When Last I Saw You MON by Peter Whalley MON MON Psychological thriller. When the law has failed, is it ever MON morally acceptable to impose your own justice? Jane, by MON chance, says she has found the man who violently attacked MON her five years ago. MON But Jane, a few years ago, mistakenly identified a man who MON she thought attacked her. MON So who is this man she's accusing, and has she got it right MON this time? MON MON Produced and directed by Pauline Harris MON MON Further Info MON MON Lyndsey Marshall - is best known for her performance in The MON Hours, and as the recurring character Cleopatra on HBO's MON Rome, and as Lady Sarah Hill in BBC period drama Garrow's MON Law MON MON Peter Whalley has written many taut psychological radio MON dramas for Radio 4, including The Longest Journey, The MON Missing Wife and The Trial. He was a long standing writer of MON Coronation Street before retiring, and is the author of ten MON thriller novels. MON MON Credits MON Jane: Lyndsey Marshal MON Mike: Graeme Hawley MON Neil: Will Ash MON Cath: Nicola Ferguson MON Detective: Kate Coogan MON Director: Pauline Harris MON Producer: Pauline Harris MON Writer: Peter Whalley MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b06qhyv0 (Listen) MON Programme 7, 2015 MON MON (7/12) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs a contest between the Welsh and the MON Scots, in the first of this season's 'revenge' fixtures. MON Last time these teams met, Wales beat Scotland by a single MON point. Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards are the Welsh MON team, while Scotland is represented by Val McDermid and MON Roddy Lumsden. MON MON The challenge is thrown down from the off, as the teams are MON asked: 'Why could Philip Pirrip, a short high-pitched cry, MON and the Saint who decided how we should calculate Easter, MON all have been seen by our grandparents in the mirror?' Tom MON will be providing clues whenever the teams are getting too MON bogged down or pursuing false trails, but they'll have MON points deducted for every kindly nudge they need in the MON right direction. MON MON As always, several of today's questions have been selected MON from the many ideas submitted by listeners over the past MON year or so. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06qg1lv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Tales From the Stave b053749d (Listen) MON Series 11, Der Rosenkavalier MON MON When Der Rosenkavalier made its British premier in 1913 MON there was heated debate about the appearance of the on-stage MON bed in the first scene, not to mention the hot-blooded music MON that accompanied the antics thereupon! However the MON manuscript of Richard Strauss' most popular opera is more MON about extraordinary precision and detail than passionate MON abandon. MON The huge volumes held by the Austrian National Library were MON actually a part payment for a Viennese house Strauss was in MON the process of acquiring but their appeal to one of the MON world's leading Strauss conductors, Simone Young is the MON discipline and imagination of the score's contents. Also MON joining Frances Fyfield to see this huge work is the MON Viennese Baritone Clemens Unterreiner who, as the elderly MON Faninal finds himself performing the part of a character who MON comes from the same area of the city has he does. MON The opera is perhaps most famous for its three central MON female characters, the Marschallin, her lover Octavian, MON usually sung by a Mezzo-soprano, and Sophie who eventually MON tears Octavian away from his initial relationship. Simone's MON Young's insights into this triangle and how Strauss evokes MON it in the score in some of the most visceral romantic music MON of the 20th century is a highlight of this quintessentially MON Viennese edition of Tales from the Stave. MON MON Producer: Tom Alban. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b06ptddk (Listen) MON Interfaith Marriage MON MON There are big challenges faced by interfaith couples today; MON where to get married, how to bring up the children and where MON to be laid to rest. They are the concern of all faiths. As MON British society becomes more multicultural, are these MON challenges becoming greater for those who chose to marry MON someone of a different faith? MON MON Ernie Rea discusses the pros and cons of interfaith marriage MON with Asad Zaman, an Imam for over 20 years who leads the MON Friday prayers at several mosques across Manchester; Dr MON Jonathan Romain, a Reform Rabbi who has written extensively MON on interfaith marriage; and Rosalind Birtwistle, Co-Founder MON of the Interfaith Marriage Network, who is a Christian MON married to a Jew. MON MON Producer: MON Dan Tierney MON MON Series producer: MON Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b06qj88b (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06qv8d6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06qhyv4 (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 1 MON MON The 64th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote MON to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based MON entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run MON at the Dorking Halls where regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme MON Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Tony MON Hawks, with Jack Dee as the programme's reluctant chairman. MON Regular listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, MON pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. Producer - MON Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio Comedy production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Tony Hawks MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06qhyv6 (Listen) MON Joe is hunting for his lost youth, and Eddie feels MON pessimistic. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06qj2yx (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06qhlj1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Changing Climate b06qhyv8 (Listen) MON The Politics MON MON In the final programme of this series Roger Harrabin asks MON whether politicians will strike a deal in Paris? So often MON climate conferences have ended in chaos and dispute but in MON the run up to Paris there has been something alien to MON climate talks - hope. Amongst all the tension, a remarkable MON number of governments have agreed plans to cut emissions. MON China and the USA appear to be walking hand in hand. The MON signs look good but do they add up to an agreement? MON MON Producer: Wesley Stephenson MON 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 b06pxp35 (Listen) MON Greece: No Place to Die MON MON They say you can't take it with you but if you live in MON Greece how much money you have at the end of your life makes MON a big difference. Permanent plots in the country's packed MON cemeteries can cost as much as a small flat so most graves MON are rented for a three year period and once that time is up MON the dead are exhumed and their bones collapsed into a small MON box to be kept at the cemetery. Those relatives who can't MON afford the cost of the exhumation or the storage charge for MON the box of bones will have their loved one's remains thrown MON in a so called 'digestion' pit with countless others' where MON they are dissolved with chemicals. In the current economic MON climate and with continued capital controls, Greeks are MON struggling to pay for the burial costs and unclaimed bodies MON are piling up at mortuaries. But there are few cost MON effective alternatives because Greece happens to be one of MON the few EU countries without a crematorium - each time plans MON have been made to build one it has been blocked by the Greek MON Orthodox Church. Instead Greeks are forced to send their MON relatives' bodies to Bulgaria for cremation. For Crossing MON Continents, Chloe Hadjimatheou reports on the business of MON dying in Greece. MON MON Producer: David Edmonds. MON MON 21:00 The Secret Lives of Carers b06pttqm (Listen) MON There's a silent army of workers who look after Britain's MON old and needy in their own homes. It's a rapidly growing MON group...but we rarely hear their stories. MON MON In the first of two programmes, Sangita Myska follows the MON day-to-day lives of three care workers. We talk to the MON carers who do their jobs well and hear - in chilling detail MON - about the ones who do it badly. MON MON "There was snow outside, the roads were bad. When I walked MON into the house I was struck by how cold it was. And what I MON saw next will stay with me forever. George was sitting, his MON skin grey from the cold. He was wet - a doubly incontinent MON man - and they hadn't put a pad on him. The blinds were MON shut, the lights were off, the telly was off, just waiting MON for someone to help". MON MON It's a frustrating, revolving-door service where some of the MON visits last as little as 15 minutes. We hear of vulnerable MON people having up to 24 different carers a week and stories MON of basic care - and caring - being overlooked. MON MON Jane - not her real name - is fairly new to care. We go with MON her on one of her visits - a lunchtime call to an elderly MON woman. The woman wanted a sandwich - but her bread was green MON with mould - despite the fact that she'd had a care worker MON in to make her breakfast and had three carers the previous MON day. Jane complains to her bosses - but she's not hopeful MON anything will change. She says her complaints so far have MON fallen on deaf ears. MON MON The care workers are mostly on the minimum wage - or below. MON Staff turnover is twice that of any other industry. It's a MON disturbing picture of the state of domiciliary care. MON MON Producer: Adele Armstrong. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06qhlhv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06qv8d8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06qhzny (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06qhzp0 (Listen) MON Dark Corners, Episode 1 MON MON Ruth Rendell's final novel is a dark and atmospheric tale of MON psychological suspense read by Patricia Hodge. MON MON Budding crime writer Carl could do with some extra cash. MON Renting out the top part of his house in Maida Vale - newly MON inherited from his father - will help his cash flow MON immensely. And what harm could it do to sell some slimming MON pills from his late father's stash of 'alternative MON medicines' to his actress friend Stacey, who's been putting MON on weight in the wake of a relationship break up? MON MON Acclaimed by her literary peers and beloved by her readers, MON Ruth Rendell wrote over sixty novels in a career that MON spanned fifty years. She received numerous awards, including MON the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best MON crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for MON Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in MON 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association MON Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime MON writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became MON a Life Peer. She died in May 2015, aged eighty-five. MON MON Reader Patricia Hodge. MON MON Abridger Robin Brooks. MON MON Producer Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Patricia Hodge MON Author: Ruth Rendell MON Abridger: Robin Brooks MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 23:00 Wireless Nights b06qj74f (Listen) MON Series 4, Keep on Truckin' MON MON Jarvis Cocker continues his nocturnal exploration of the MON human condition. MON MON Tonight: an unlucky trucker, a hopeful hitch-hiker and a MON host of Scottish ghostbusters. MON MON As Jarvis climbs up into the Wireless Nights monster truck, MON he hears from a long distance lorry driver who received a MON nasty surprise, a hitcher trying to make it to Liverpool and MON he travels along the most haunted stretch of road in MON Scotland. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06qj74j (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 01 DECEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06qv8f6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06qhlhx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06qv8f8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06qv8fb (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06qv8fd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06qv8fg (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06rfg92 (Listen) TUE Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the TUE Rev Duncan MacLaren. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06qjqcj (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0mj0 (Listen) TUE Greater Hill Mynah TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Sir David Attenborough presents the mimic specialist Greater TUE Hill Mynah from Asia. Like many members of the starling TUE family, Greater Hill Mynah's are superb mimics with a TUE remarkable ability to reproduce the tones of the human TUE voice. This makes them popular as cage and now some wild TUE populations have been severely reduced by collecting. Hill TUE mynahs are not just vocally outstanding. They're dapper TUE looking birds too; glossy purplish-black with a white TUE wing-patch and wattles of bright yellow skin under their TUE eyes and around the back of their necks. The wild birds TUE don't impersonate people though; it's only those captive TUE birds which are amongst some of the best mimics of the human TUE voice. TUE TUE Greater Hill Mynah (Gracula religiosa intermedia) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Rod Williams / naturepl.com. TUE NPL Ref 01178072 TUE © Rod Williams / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06qjqcl (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Beauty of Equations b06r50wh (Listen) TUE Jim al-Khalili was sitting in a lecture at the University of TUE Surrey when he suddenly understood the power of equations to TUE describe and predict the physical world. He recalls that TUE sadly his enthusiasm was lost on many of his fellow TUE students. TUE TUE Jim wants to persuade the listeners that equations have a TUE beauty. In conversation with fellow scientists he reveals TUE the surprising femotions they feel when describing the TUE behaviour of matter in the universe in mathematical terms. TUE TUE For Carlos Frenk, Professor of Computational Cosmology at TUE Durham University, one of the most beautiful equations is TUE the one that is at the heart of Einstein's theory of general TUE relativity. A century ago, Einstein wrote down his now TUE famous field equations that linked the shape of the universe TUE to the matter in it. TUE TUE For Jim, it's Dirac's equation that explains how the TUE electron behaves. TUE TUE And Jim discovers that although mathematics goes back TUE centuries it was only in the 17th century that it was TUE applied to the real world. Historian of science at Cambridge TUE University, Dr Patricia Fara, explains that before Newton TUE scientific observations were described in words not algebra. TUE TUE 09:30 The Misogyny Book Club b064khpq (Listen) TUE Sex and Silence TUE TUE Are men afraid of women's sexuality? And if so, why? TUE TUE Jo Fidgen and company look for clues in Shakespeare's TUE Hamlet, in the second in a series of programmes exploring TUE misogyny in some of our most read books. When the young TUE prince attacks his mother over starting a new relationship TUE in middle age, he reveals an age-old fear that women have TUE insatiable sexual appetites, and a patriarch's urge to TUE control them. TUE TUE Actor Charlotte Cornwell, who played Gertrude in the RSC TUE production of Hamlet, talks about how she identifies with TUE the character and how it felt to be on the receiving end of TUE Hamlet's insults. TUE TUE The contributors discuss how women gained a reputation for TUE licentiousness and whether they have ever shaken it off. TUE Their conversation takes in the invisibility of older women TUE in society; the subtle ways in which women are silenced; and TUE the way women police themselves. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06qjqcn (Listen) TUE Railways - Nation, Network and People, Episode 2 TUE TUE A magnificent account of Britain's railways and how track TUE and carriage united a nation. TUE TUE This series of readings includes an exploration of many TUE aspects of the railway revolution, such as the challenges of TUE 'railway time', the nuances of first, second and third TUE class, the dificulties of lighting and heating, passenger TUE comfort, what to eat when travelling and the history of TUE refreshment stops and the commercial opportunities they TUE brought - including the establishment of W.H.Smith and Son, TUE who became the nation's first high street bookstore. TUE Architecture and engineering are also covered, alongside the TUE impact on social classes and gender. TUE TUE Passengers may have a love-hate relationship with our TUE railways, but few of us know much about the journey taken to TUE get to where we are now. TUE TUE "Simon Bradley's The Railways is magisterial. It's both TUE authoritative and absorbing. A first class journey." Michael TUE Palin TUE TUE Episode 2. The nuances of the classes - the difference a TUE seat makes. TUE TUE Read by Stephen Tompkinson TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Author: Simon Bradley TUE Reader: Stephen Tompkinson TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06qjqcq (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 b06qjqcs (Listen) TUE Greater Love, Episode 2 TUE TUE Greater Love - ep2/5 TUE by Don Shaw TUE TUE Drama series charting the true story of the Plague in Eyam, TUE Derbyshire in 1665. TUE Emmy's sister, Sarah has died, and the secret is out in the TUE village. Stanley and William quell panic by assuring the TUE villagers everything is under control. TUE TUE Produced by Pauline Harris. TUE TUE Credits TUE William: Al Weaver TUE Catherine: Emily Pithon TUE Thomas Stanley: David Calder TUE Emmy: Charlie May-Clark TUE Rowland: Gerard Kearns TUE Alice Sydall: Daryl Fishwick TUE William: Roger Morlidge TUE Writer: Don Shaw TUE Director: Pauline Harris TUE Producer: Pauline Harris TUE TUE 11:00 The Secret Lives of Carers b06qjqcv (Listen) TUE There's a silent army of workers who look after the TUE vulnerable in their own homes. This is the story of four TUE care workers whose employers are pioneering new ways of TUE running care services. TUE TUE They are a world away from the experience most people have TUE of home care workers. But - we ask - is it possible for the TUE state sector to provide this kind of care without costs TUE going through the roof. TUE TUE We hear about the Wiltshire scheme which allows care workers TUE to decide how long visits should be, and lets the elderly TUE person decide how they want to spend the time with their TUE care worker. It's seen some dramatic results - with elderly TUE people signed off their books within weeks. TUE TUE We meet Rochelle who - after 20 years in the care industry - TUE and having seen some shocking care, has now found a company TUE where she feels she really can care. She talks about the TUE small but significant changes that make a world of TUE difference. TUE TUE Perrine works for a private care company which "matches" TUE very closely the personality and interests of the care TUE worker with the person being cared for. TUE TUE And we talk to Ashleigh, a 24 year old who does end of life TUE care. She works for the charity Leonard Cheshire. She earns TUE little above the minimum wage - but she's totally committed TUE to her job and to the people she looks after. TUE TUE These carers and the organisations they work for are TUE determined to change the state of home care. But what chance TUE do they have with constantly diminishing budgets? TUE TUE Producer: Adele Armstrong. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b06qjtqs (Listen) TUE Series 21, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika TUE TUE Nkosi Sikelel iAfrica (Lord Bless Africa) is a song that TUE runs through the very soul of South African life. TUE TUE It was originally composed in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga, a TUE Xhosa clergyman at a Methodist mission school near TUE Johannesburg who is said to have been inspired by the melody TUE of John Parry's 'Aberystwyth', a hymn that would've been TUE shared by Welsh missionary's at that time. It went on to TUE travel the African continent but most significantly it TUE became one of the defining symbols of a united South Africa TUE - a country that still holds this song at it's heart. TUE TUE Having travelled through the country's Christian TUE congregations it soon rang out from meetings and protest TUE rallies throughout the apartheid era eventually becoming the TUE unofficial anthem of the ANC (African National Congress TUE Party). At a time of great hardship and pain, it was a song TUE that offered hope and encouragement to millions of South TUE Africans. TUE TUE Having being sentenced to life imprisonment, Nkosi Sikelel TUE iAfrica was the song that Nelson Mandela will have heard TUE being sung out by his supporters as he and his fellow ANC TUE members were driven away to Robben Island. Decades later it TUE was the hymn that he would use to unify his country as it TUE was adapted into the South African National Anthem. TUE TUE Featuring interviews with: Albert Mazibuko of Ladysmith TUE Black Mambazo, Lord Joel Joffe, author TUE TUE Sindiwe Magona, Edward Griffiths - former CEO of South TUE African Rugby during the 1995 World Cup, music journalist TUE Robin Denslow and the Za Foundation's Zakhele Choir. TUE TUE **We're sorry that due to copyright restrictions, if you are TUE listening abroad, you will not be able to listen to this TUE programme.** TUE TUE Produced in Bristol by Nicola Humphries. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06qv8fj (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 One to One b06rkc2l (Listen) TUE Frank Gardner talks to Tim Rushby-Smith TUE TUE After a life changing injury or incident, one of the things TUE that makes a huge difference on how you then move on with TUE the rest of your life is what you can still do and can't do. TUE TUE The BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner regards TUE himself lucky that he was able to carry on doing journalism TUE after being shot 9 years ago in Saudi Arabia by terrorists. TUE Some of those bullets hit the core of his body and damaged TUE his spinal nerve - he can no longer use his legs and is in a TUE wheelchair for the rest of his life. However, being able to TUE return to work and continue with his profession has been one TUE of the biggest factors in his own recovery. TUE TUE Frank meets Tim Rushby-Smith who fell from a tree and had to TUE face the fact he would no longer be able to carry on with TUE his profession and livelihood. TUE TUE Other editions of Frank Gardner's series can be found on the TUE BBC iplayer TUE TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06qjtr0 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06qv8fl (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06qjtr7 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 A Walk of One's Own: Virginia Woolf on Foot b065tqys (Listen) TUE Kensington Gardens TUE TUE A hundred years since the publication of Virginia Woolf's TUE first novel, author Alexandra Harris wonders at the link TUE between her writing and her passion for walking - this week TUE exploring where it all began, in Kensington Gardens. TUE Accompanied by Woolf biographer Dame Hermione Lee - the pair TUE set out on a walk which Virginia and would have done TUE probably 20,000 times - from 22 Hyde Park Gate, across the TUE busy traffic and into the park. TUE TUE Re-enacting the scene, Hermione and Alex recall how - TUE 'calling for his dog and his daughter' - Leslie Stephen, TUE father to Virginia Woolf, set off twice daily for a TUE constitutional walk around the park. TUE TUE Passing the woman selling her "balloon of quivering TUE airballs", the young girl entered a public world and set her TUE imagination to work on all she encountered: people talking TUE and shouting, skaters, statues, ranks of uniformed nannies. TUE TUE All her life she would remember in vivid detail the early TUE routines of sailing boats on the Round Pond, touching the TUE bark of the 'Crocodile Tree', reading in the grass and TUE starting to match words to experience. TUE TUE Mike Fitt, the Royal Parks honorary historian joins them, to TUE add his particular knowledge of Kensington Gardens to the TUE mix. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06qhyv6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b06qjyrp (Listen) TUE Oh You Pretty Things TUE TUE When Ellie's ex gets in touch after 25 years, her husband TUE Dave can't resist doing the same thing and gets in touch TUE with his ex too. These exes are, for both partners, like TUE roads not taken. Is there still time to go down those roads? TUE TUE Written by Jon Canter TUE Produced and Directed by Clive Brill TUE A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ellie: Sarah Alexander TUE Dave: Will Adamsdale TUE Charlie: Lynden Edwards TUE Tash: Monica Dolan TUE Shop Girl: Alana Ramsey TUE Receptionist: Alana Ramsey TUE Writer: Jon Canter TUE Director: Clive Brill TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE TUE 15:00 The Educators b06qjyrr (Listen) TUE What Finland Did Next TUE TUE Since the first international comparisons in 2000, Finland TUE has been at or near the top of league tables for the TUE abilities of its teenagers in reading, maths and science. TUE Experts and politicians flocked to its schools to discover TUE what was leading to its success, and came away with a TUE picture of autonomous schools, children starting school much TUE later than in the UK, and having no tests until their final TUE year. TUE TUE What developed was seen by many as a myth surrounding TUE Finnish education success, while the reality could be TUE attributed to extensive teacher training, high quality TUE lessons and a culture of literacy. But now, Finland is TUE overhauling the way it teaches through 'phenomenon learning' TUE - periods of the school year where learning isn't confined TUE to single subjects, but students take on a broad topic and TUE decide what, and how, they will learn. From 2016, it will be TUE compulsory for all schools to teach with phenomenon TUE projects, but Helsinki has already adopted it in the TUE capital's schools. Sarah Montague interviews the city's TUE Education Manager Marjo Kyllonen and visits a Helsinki TUE school, to see the changes being made to a world-leading TUE education system. TUE TUE Presenter: Sarah Montague TUE Producer: Joel Moors. TUE TUE 15:30 Shared Experience b06qjyrv (Listen) TUE Series 4, What Does Home Mean? TUE TUE What happens to your idea of home when you're forced to TUE leave your country and resettle in another? Fi Glover meets TUE three people who had to do that to explore the concept of TUE home. TUE TUE Fran was a teenager when her father was made persona non TUE grata by the Hastings Banda regime in Malawi. The family TUE fled back 'home' to Britain, but Fran says she has not been TUE able to settle in England in a culture she finds alien. TUE Dragana left suddenly when war broke out in Bosnia, leaving TUE her family in Banja Luka. The Netherlands became home for TUE her as she lived with a host family, learnt Dutch, finished TUE school and did a degree. She still lives there with her TUE husband and children, but is it really home? Abiyot left TUE Ethiopia when his life was in danger because of his TUE political activism. He settled in Britain, took a degree and TUE set up his own business. Britain, he says, is home for him, TUE a place of safety and tolerance. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 16:00 The Human Zoo b06qjztq (Listen) TUE Series 7, The Tide Is With Us TUE TUE The series that looks at current events through the lens of TUE psychology. From scandals to markets, elections to traffic TUE jams, discover the nuts and bolts of human behaviour that TUE link public life to our most private thoughts and TUE motivations. TUE TUE Are people led by the head or by the heart? How rational are TUE we? And how do we perceive the world? All human behaviour TUE could turn up in The Human Zoo - including yours. TUE TUE In this episode, Michael Blastland explores why so many TUE people - be they the leaders of political parties, or people TUE who drink too much - think other people share their beliefs TUE and choices. All political parties tell us that the tide is TUE going their way. But it's a strange tide that flows in all TUE directions. Even extremists and revolutionaries, it seems, TUE are likely to think that there are many other supporters TUE eager to join them. TUE TUE Why do we think so many more people are like us? Even when TUE we're asked to describe the typical height of people we see TUE around us, we're more likely to estimate too low if we're TUE short and too high if we're tall. TUE TUE How far does this tendency go, why do we do it, and what are TUE its implications for politics, public health or extremists? TUE Find out in The Human Zoo, recorded before an audience at TUE Warwick University's Festival of the Imagination, featuring TUE the latest psychological research, and the author AL Kennedy TUE on how she goes about becoming someone else in fiction. TUE TUE Michael Blastland is joined by resident Zoo psychologist TUE Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick TUE Business School, and roving reporter Timandra Harkness. TUE TUE Producer: Dom Byrne TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b06qjzts (Listen) TUE Dr Christian Jessen and James Wong TUE TUE Dr Christian Jessen, James Wong, and presenter Harriett TUE Gilbert nominate their favourite books. Under discussion are TUE Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, Louis Begley's novel TUE Wartime Lies, and The Same Sea by Amos Oz. Producer Sally TUE Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Christian Jessen TUE Interviewed Guest: James Wong TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06qjztv (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06qv8fn (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Gloomsbury b0418p77 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Ever Decreasing Literary Circles TUE TUE Flushed with her recent success, Ginny is to hold a literary TUE salon, but she wants Vera to co-host it. They argue about TUE where to have it, whom to invite and what kind of TUE refreshments should be offered. Mrs Gosling is obstructive TUE about the possibility of vegetarianism. TUE TUE Meanwhile, Henry can't decide whether to carry on working TUE for the Foreign Office or write a biography of Byron or TUE Tennyson, and follows Vera round the castle unsuccessfully TUE trying to elicit her advice. TUE TUE When the great day arrives, Henry is banished from the TUE castle lest he gets in the way. Instead of the longed-for TUE literary celebrities, however, the only arrival at TUE Sizzlinghurst that day is a snowstorm of apologetic TUE telegrams. Hurt and aghast that nobody loves them, Vera and TUE Ginny blame each other. TUE TUE The only person who turns up is Venus, who wasn't invited TUE and has never read a book in her life. Only as the day draws TUE to a close does Vera remember with horror that today was TUE Henry's birthday and that she has neglected him without so TUE much as a card, a gift or a kiss. Wracked with guilt, Vera TUE makes up to Henry on a pile of dusty sacks in Gosling's TUE shed. TUE TUE GLOOMSBURY - THE SERIES TUE Green-fingered Sapphist Vera Sackcloth-Vest shares a bijou TUE castle in Kent with her devoted husband Henry, but longs for TUE exotic adventures with nervy novelist Ginny Fox and wilful TUE beauty Venus Traduces. It's 1921, the dawn of modern love, TUE life and lingerie, but Vera still hasn't learnt how to boil TUE a kettle. TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE A ittle Brother Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Vera Sackcloth-Vest: Miriam Margolyes TUE Henry Mickleton: Jonathan Coy TUE Mrs Ginny Fox: Alison Steadman TUE Lionel Fox: Roger Lloyd Pack TUE Mrs Gosling, Vera's Housekeeper: Alison Steadman TUE Gosling, Vera's Gardener: Roger Lloyd Pack TUE Venus Traduces: Morwenna Banks TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE Writer: Sue Limb TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06qjztx (Listen) TUE Who is that at the Brookfield door? The Calendar Girls are TUE getting nervous. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06qjzv0 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06qjqcs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Nervous Breakdown of the Internet b06qjzv2 (Listen) TUE Modern life relies on internet security. But cyber-criminals TUE have rocked confidence and revealed shocking complacency. TUE Edward Lucas explores how trust can be restored. TUE TUE Breaches of computer networks at TalkTalk and Ashley Madison TUE have highlighted the dangers we face on the internet. TUE Cyber-crime is set to cost the global economy an annual TUE $500bn. And our plight is set to worsen. The internet was TUE never designed to be the central nervous system of modern TUE life. Nobody foresaw its role in the media, e-commerce, TUE e-banking, infrastructure, and entertainment. TUE TUE The prize for attackers is data - they can steal, degrade or TUE destroy, in order to blackmail, impersonate or bankrupt us. TUE TUE At every stage of the internet's development, cost and TUE convenience trumped security. Now we have to deal with a TUE legacy of out-of-date systems and ingrained complacency, at TUE a time when our dependence is growing. Our attackers have TUE the advantage - they feed on a huge and lucrative criminal TUE economy, they buy the weapons they need in sophisticated TUE markets and launder their proceeds with anonymous electronic TUE money. TUE TUE Edward Lucas considers the problem with security experts and TUE shows the shocking ease with which hackers can steal data. TUE He examines where responsibility lies - with the government, TUE companies and individuals - and discusses potential TUE solutions - from Estonian-style biometric identity cards to TUE "bug bounties" for those who find errors in hardware and TUE software. TUE TUE Legislation, commercial pressure, education and changing TUE social norms can all help secure the internet and, with it, TUE our modern way of life. TUE TUE Presenter: Edward Lucas TUE Producer: Kate Dixon TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06qjzv4 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b06qjzv6 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents a series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Beauty of Equations b06r50wh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06qv8fq (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06qjzys (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06s2j93 (Listen) TUE Dark Corners, Episode 2 TUE TUE Patricia Hodge reads from the final novel by Ruth Rendell, a TUE dark and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense. TUE TUE In Maida Vale, London, Carl struggles to accept his part in TUE the untimely death of his actress friend Stacey. The TUE slimming pills he sold her are perfectly legal, after all. TUE Carl also doesn't like the way his new lodger, Dermot, is TUE taking an interest in the case, even going so far as to TUE attend the coroner's inquest. TUE TUE Read by Patricia Hodge. TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Patricia Hodge TUE Author: Ruth Rendell TUE Abridger: Robin Brooks TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 23:00 Liam Williams: Ladhood b06qk005 (Listen) TUE House Party 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 marvellous outwitting of an entire teaching staff. This is TUE the New Labour, post-mining, aspirational heartland, meeting TUE 50 Cent and Generation Y ennui, represented in a bourgeois TUE radio format - by one of Britain's most exciting comedians. TUE TUE Written By: Liam Williams TUE TUE Produced By: Arnab Chanda TUE TUE This is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. TUE TUE Cast: 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 Dale McIllroy - Oliver Gower TUE Batty - Lee Rockley TUE Roy - Caolon McCarthy TUE Bad Lad - Jacob Clarke TUE Girl at Party - Hannah Waring. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06qk007 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 02 DECEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06qv8gk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06qjqcn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06qv8gm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06qv8gp (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06qv8gr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06qv8gt (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06rfg7m (Listen) WED Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the WED Rev Duncan MacLaren. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06qkf75 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0mqf (Listen) WED White Tern WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Sir David Attenborough presents the widespread marine WED species, the white tern. Also known as fairy terns or angel WED terns, these are very slender, long-winged birds, brilliant WED white except for a black, slightly-upturned bill, dark eyes WED and very short blue-grey legs. In flight, their wings appear WED almost translucent. For such a delicate-looking bird, they WED have rather harsh calls. Unusually they lay their eggs on a WED bare branch. The female tern selects a small groove in the WED bark or on the leaf-stalks of palms where her single egg WED will be most secure. Here, on its tropical tightrope, the WED egg is safer from ground predators like rats and because WED there's no nesting material, there's less chance of WED parasites. WED WED White Tern (Gygis alba) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Dave Watts / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01091950 WED © Dave Watts / naturepl.com. WED WED 06:00 Today b06qkfdk (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 b06qkfdm (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06qkglh (Listen) WED Railways - Nation, Network and People, Episode 3 WED WED A magnificent account of Britain's railways and how track WED and carriage united a nation. WED WED This series of readings includes an exploration of many WED aspects of the railway revolution, such as the challenges of WED 'railway time', the nuances of first, second and third WED class, the dificulties of lighting and heating, passenger WED comfort, what to eat when travelling and the history of WED refreshment stops and the commercial opportunities they WED brought - including the establishment of W.H.Smith and Son, WED who became the nation's first high street bookstore. WED Architecture and engineering are also covered, alongside the WED impact on social classes and gender. WED WED Passengers may have a love-hate relationship with our WED railways, but few of us know much about the journey taken to WED get to where we are now. WED WED "Simon Bradley's The Railways is magisterial. It's both WED authoritative and absorbing. A first class journey." Michael WED Palin WED WED Episode 3. The great sweep of social and economic change WED initiated by the railways meant that not only could we now WED move faster, but things were different when we stopped. WED WED Read by Stephen Tompkinson WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Author: Simon Bradley WED Reader: Stephen Tompkinson WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06qkglk (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06qkglm (Listen) WED Greater Love, Episode 3 WED WED Greater Love ep 3/5 WED by Don Shaw WED WED Drama series charting the true story of the Plague in Eyam, WED Derbyshire. Villagers are trying to flee, and Stanley tries WED to persuade them to stay. As Emmy loses more of her family, WED her mother is losing her mind. Marshall Howe volunteers to WED bury the dead if he can keep their belongings. WED WED Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. WED WED Credits WED William: Al Weaver WED Catherine: Emily Pithon WED Thomas Stanley: David Calder WED Emmy: Charlie May-Clark WED Rowland: Gerard Kearns WED Alice Sydall: Daryl Fishwick WED Thornley: Roger Morlidge WED Marshall Howe: Ian Bartholomew WED Writer: Don Shaw WED Director: Pauline Harris WED Producer: Pauline Harris WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06qkkzk (Listen) WED Michaela and Mary - With Lots of Sparkle WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a Salvation Army WED chaplain and a young women with a troubled past, who is now WED forging ahead on her own. Arranged via the Vicar's Relief WED Fund, one of the beneficiaries of the Radio 4 Christmas WED appeal, this is another conversation in the series that WED proves it's 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 b06qkkzm (Listen) WED Lucy Kellaway investigates the persistent taboo over WED salaries, and asks who benefits from this secrecy. WED WED What we are paid is rarely a meritocracy. Studies show that WED if you are taller, more attractive, have better hair, you're WED likely to take home a bigger pay packet. Even the most WED popular way of rewarding extra effort at work - performance WED related pay - has been shown to demotivate and demoralise WED workers. WED WED Lucy steps inside at a broad range of offices to investigate WED - from Suma Wholefoods in Halifax where all 200 employees, WED whether driving a forklift or trading commodities, earns WED exactly the same amount, to Gravity Payments, where the CEO WED has just cut his million dollar salary to fund his promise WED that no employee will earn less than $70,000. WED WED Speaking to workers and business leaders, Lucy asks whether WED there is a fairer way of cutting up the cake. WED WED Written and presented by Lucy Kellaway WED Producer: Lucy Greenwell WED Executive Producer: Russell Finch WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Lentil Sorters b06pbw9x (Listen) WED Multi-Parameter Database Search 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 database linking of Ribena and MI5 makes WED Graham reach for his Stress Cardigan. Also, Jane Austen and WED a brick. WED WED Meet the team: WED Graham Quicks (Vincent Franklin), Head of the People and WED Places Department of the LNS. There are three things in the WED world that Graham will always have faith in - statistics, WED the supremacy of filofaxes over computers and the idea that WED cardigans will never go out of style. WED WED Audrey Carr (Rebekah Staton) is the Survey Researcher for WED the department. She believes passionately that statistics WED should be used as a tool to help the man on the street. WED Fortunately for her, she's never actually met "the man in WED the street". She's also passionate about Jane Austen, Les WED Miserables and pretending that she doesn't work in an office WED with Daniel. WED WED Daniel Porter (Kieran Hodgson) is the department's Data WED Analyst. He used to work in the City, until the City WED realised he was a colossal waste of space. Daniel divides WED his time between manipulating statistics to further his WED vision of capitalism, necking energy drinks and telling WED people his thighs are really, really strong. He's terrible. WED WED Mrs. Wilkins (Julia Deakin) has worked as tea lady, WED archivist and maintenance guru for fifteen years. She knows WED where the bodies are buried. We must stress that that is a WED figure of speech. WED WED Special guests: WED Akif..............................Ray Panthaki WED Black Firebird X............ Matt Green 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 Akif: Ray Panthaki WED Black Firebird X: Matt Green WED Narrator: Jo Unwin WED Writer: Jack Bernhardt WED Producer: David Tyler WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06qv8gw (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 One to One b06rkbzy (Listen) WED Mary Ann Sieghart talks to Charles Hanson WED WED Mary Ann Sieghart talks to Charles Hanson who was convicted WED for the murder of his third wife, Julie, seventeen years WED ago. WED Now in his sixties, Charles has spent over half his life in WED prison for a string of violence related crimes; violence WED being the only way he knew, to resolve conflict. When Julie WED ran off with his son from his first marriage,Charles decided WED the only course of action left open to him, was to resort to WED murder. He explains to Mary Ann why he came to this WED conclusion, why even the threat of the death penalty would WED not have deterred him, how it took him eight years to feel WED remorse and how the event still haunts him. WED The two previous editions of this series, in which Mary WED talked to those who for very different reasons had taken WED someone else's life, can be found on the BBC iplayer. WED Producer: Lucy Lunt. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06qklpd (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06qv8gy (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06qkl13 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 A Walk of One's Own: Virginia Woolf on Foot b066vwsd (Listen) WED Cornwall WED WED When a new steam train connected Paddington to St Ives, WED Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf's father, decided that taking WED a family house at the tip of England would benefit the whole WED family. So, packing up the entire household - children, WED dogs, servants and books - the Stephens travelled West. WED Talland House would be their deeply loved holiday home for 3 WED months every year. WED WED From Gurnard's Head to Zennor, the young Virginia learnt to WED stride out on ambitiously long walks over rugged gorsy cliff WED paths and lonely granite-strewn moors. She would never stop WED re-writing these landscapes of early happiness - in her WED novels, her diaries, her memoirs; and she would keep coming WED back - alone or with family and friends - 'bringing the WED sheaves' of her adult life back to the places of her WED childhood. WED WED Woolf's walking was the counterpart to her imaginative WED roaming, and the rhythm of her steps would often set the WED pace of her prose. Alexandra Harris sets out to follow some WED of her paths by the sea with writer Michael Bird. WED WED Producer: Sara Jane Hall. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06qjztx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Tumanbay b06qcs6w (Listen) WED A Head Start WED WED Tumanbay, the beating heart of a vast empire, is threatened WED by a rebellion in a far-off province and a mysterious force WED devouring the city from within. WED WED Gregor (Rufus Wright), Master of the Palace Guard, is WED charged by Sultan Al-Ghuri (Raad Rawi) with the task of WED rooting out this insurgence and crushing it. WED WED Epic saga inspired by the Mamluk slave-dynasty of Egypt. WED WED Music - Sacha Putnam WED Sound Design - Steve Bond, Jon Ouin WED Editors - Ania Przygoda, James Morgan WED Producers - Emma Hearn, Nadir Khan, John Dryden WED WED Written and Directed by John Dryden WED WED A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Gregor: Rufus Wright WED The Girl on the Ship: Olivia Popica WED Her Mother: Nathalie Armin WED The Slave Merchant: Nabil Elouahabi WED Cadali: Matthew Marsh WED Frog: Deeivya Meir WED Frog's Mother: Sirine Saba WED Basim: Alexander Siddig WED Sarah: Nina Yndis WED Envoy: Nadir Khan WED Shajar: Sarah Beck Mather WED Madu: Danny Ashok WED Sultan Al-Ghuri: Raad Rawi WED General Qulan: Christopher Fulford WED Physician: Vivek Madan WED Daniel: Gareth Kennerley WED Maid: Laure Stockley WED Ship Captain: Albert Welling WED Actor: Christian Hillborg WED Actor: Stefano Braschi WED Actor: Alec Utgoff WED Writer: John Dryden WED Director: John Dryden WED Producer: Emma Hearn WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Producer: John Dryden WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06qklxt (Listen) WED Join Paul Lewis and an expert panel for the latest renting WED and letting issues. What will the impact be on landlords and WED tenants from the stamp duty increase on buy-to-lets WED announced by The Chancellor in the Autumn Statement? Plus: WED plans for rent controls in Scotland and a new licensing WED scheme for landlords in Wales. And of course advice from the WED panel on your legal rights either as a tenant or a landlord. WED WED The panel: WED WED Chris Town, Residential Landlords Association WED Marie Parris, George Ellis Property Services WED Stephen O'Neill, Newton Property WED Giles Peaker, Solicitor; Anthony Gold WED WED E-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now or call 03700 100 444 from 1pm WED to 3.30pm on Wednesday. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b06qjzv6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06qkp8j (Listen) WED Everyday life, Cafe society WED WED Everyday life: Laurie Taylor talks to Les Back, Professor of WED Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, about his WED study into those seemingly unimportant aspects of life which WED throw a spotlight on the relationship between history, WED culture and biography. Returning to the council estate in WED Croydon where he grew up, and where his extended family WED still live - it tells a story about community formation, WED housing crisis and the geography of class through Christmas WED decorations. They're joined by Bev Skeggs, fellow Professor WED of Sociology at Goldsmiths. WED WED Also, Sarah Neal, Reader in Sociology at the University of WED Surrey, discusses multicultural conviviality in coffee WED shops. WED WED Producer: Natalia Fernandez. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06qkp8l (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06r8qxp (Listen) WED PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and WED analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06qv8h0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06qkp8n (Listen) WED Series 3, Profit and Loss WED WED Episode 3, 'Profit and Loss'. Mr and Mrs Wrigglesworth WED receive some bad news about a friend while Granny helps Tom WED with a "gambling situation". 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: Elizabeth Bennett WED Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Writer: James Kettle WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED Producer: Richard Morris WED WED 19:00 The Archers b06qkp8q (Listen) WED Bert gets his hands dirty for Freda, and Lynda is careful WED with her composition. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06qkp8s (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06qkglm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b06qkp8w (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, Michael WED Portillo and Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06qkp8y (Listen) WED D Is for Diagnosis WED WED Ann York discusses diagnoses - and how receiving one of her WED own has made her think differently about giving them to WED others. WED WED Ann is a world-renowned child and adolescent psychiatrist, WED whose expertise is sought far and wide. In this intimate and WED fascinating talk she discusses the difficulties of giving a WED diagnosis, describing the benefits and the disadvantages, WED and how the young people in her care, and their parents, WED respond when diagnosed. And in front of an audience at WED Somerset House she describes how her own experiences with an WED unexpected diagnosis have affected how she thinks about her WED own work. WED WED Producer: Katie Langton. WED WED 21:00 The Incubator b06qhlj3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06qkfdm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06qkp90 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06s2jhq (Listen) WED Dark Corners, Episode 3 WED WED In this, her final novel, Ruth Rendell returns to a WED favourite theme: investigating the dark places reached by WED humans when psychological pressure is brought to bear upon WED them. WED WED Debut crime novelist, Carl, struggling to make ends meet, WED bitterly regrets accepting the first person to apply to rent WED the top part of his house. Dermot has proven to be a WED slippery and manipulative tenant, making much of his WED knowledge that Carl sold slimming pills to a friend who WED subsequently died. Indeed, Dermot has now stopped paying WED rent altogether. Almost broke, Carl reluctantly faces the WED prospect of having to confess all to Nicola, his girlfriend. WED WED Read by Patricia Hodge. WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Patricia Hodge WED Abridger: Robin Brooks WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 23:00 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair b06qkq9l (Listen) WED Series 2, Beverley in Shoes WED WED by Jenny Eclair WED WED Beverley ..... Samantha Spiro WED WED Produced by Sally Avens WED WED Beverley might have once travelled the world but now she WED prefers watching programmes about baking. Beverley wants WED security and safety, but why? WED WED Credits WED Beverley: Samantha Spiro WED Producer: Sally Avens WED Writer: Jenny Eclair WED WED 23:15 Before They Were Famous b03cnjpq (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Even the most successful of writers have, at some point, had WED to take day jobs to pay the bills. WED WED Ian Leslie presents the second series of this Radio 4 spoof WED documentary, which sheds light on the often surprising jobs WED done by the world's best known writers in the days before WED they were able to make a living from their art. WED WED In a project of literary archaeology, Leslie unearths WED archive examples of early work by great writers, including WED Fortune Cookie messages written by Germaine Greer, a WED political manifesto by the young JK Rowling, and a car WED manual written by Dan Brown. In newspaper articles, WED advertising copy, and company correspondence, we get a WED fascinating glimpse into the embryonic development of our WED best-loved literary voices. WED WED We may know them today for their novels, plays or poems but, WED once upon a time, they were just people with a dream - and a WED rent bill looming at the end of the month. WED WED Producers: Anna Silver and Claire Broughton WED WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Shipton: David Armand WED Studio Exec for Samuel Beckett: David Armand WED Shakespeare: John Finnemore WED Presenter: Ian Leslie WED Germaine Greer: Katy Wix WED Simone De Beauvoir: Fenella Woolgar WED Producer: Anna Silver WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b06qkpcb (Listen) WED Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 03 DECEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06qv8hv (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06qkglh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06qv8hx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06qv8hz (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06qv8j1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06qv8j3 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06rfgn7 (Listen) THU Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the THU Rev Duncan MacLaren. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06qkr4j (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 b04t0msp (Listen) THU Black Swan THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Sir David Attenborough presents a widely regarded symbol of THU Australia, the black swan. These stately looking birds are THU native to the wetlands of south-western and eastern THU Australia. The New Zealand population was hunted to THU extinction but has now been reintroduced there. Their THU plumage is charcoal grey rather than black and beautifully THU ruched along their lower back, hiding the white primary THU feathers which are fully revealed in flight. Their only THU colour is a raspberry- coloured bill. Black swans behave THU like nomads, tracking local rains and breeding when they THU can. In Britain as a collection bird, a few have even THU cross-bred with mute swans to produce a greyish hybrid THU nick-named the 'Blute Swan'. THU THU Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Inaki Relanzon / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01369090 THU © Inaki Relanzon / naturepl.com. THU THU 06:00 Today b06qkr6d (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 b06qkrks (Listen) THU Listener Week THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a topic drawn from a list of THU around a thousand different ideas, all suggested by THU listeners in September and October. The subject will be THU revealed at 8.30am on Thursday 3rd December. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06qkrkv (Listen) THU Railways - Nation, Network and People, Episode 4 THU THU A magnificent account of Britain's railways and how track THU and carriage united a nation. THU THU This series of readings includes an exploration of many THU aspects of the railway revolution, such as the challenges of THU 'railway time', the nuances of first, second and third THU class, the dificulties of lighting and heating, passenger THU comfort, what to eat when travelling and the history of THU refreshment stops and the commercial opportunities they THU brought - including the establishment of W.H.Smith and Son, THU who became the nation's first high street bookstore. THU Architecture and engineering are also covered, alongside the THU impact on social classes and gender. THU THU Passengers may have a love-hate relationship with our THU railways, but few of us know much about the journey taken to THU get to where we are now. THU THU "Simon Bradley's The Railways is magisterial. It's both THU authoritative and absorbing. A first class journey." Michael THU Palin THU THU Episode 4. The railways altered the shape and character of THU the landscape, as well as giving us access to all corners of THU the country. Feats of engineering created bridges that have THU stood the test of time. THU THU Read by Stephen Tompkinson THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Author: Simon Bradley THU Reader: Stephen Tompkinson THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06qkrkx (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 b06qm3mf (Listen) THU Greater Love, Episode 4 THU THU Greater Love - ep4/5 THU by Don Shaw THU THU Drama series charting the true story of the Plague in the THU Derbyshire Village of Eyam. Emmy has the fever herself, and THU William and Catherine have taken her into the rectory. THU Marshall Howe, the official burier of the dead, discovers a THU lone child, who is traumatised and unable to speak. THU THU Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU Credits THU William: Al Weaver THU Catherine: Emily Pithon THU Thomas Stanley: David Calder THU Emmy: Charlie May-Clark THU Rowland: Gerard Kearns THU Alice Sydall: Daryl Fishwick THU Thornley: Roger Morlidge THU Marshall Howe: Ian Bartholomew THU Writer: Don Shaw THU Director: Pauline Harris THU Producer: Pauline Harris THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b06qm3mh (Listen) THU Albania: Shadows of the Past THU THU Maria Margaronis explores the debris of Albania's painful THU past-the prison labour camps, concrete bunkers and secret THU police headquarters--as archives are unlocked and new THU monuments put up in an effort to redefine who Albanians are. THU The country's citizens are trying to come to terms with THU history and move on from Enver Hoxha's dictatorial regime, THU the pyramid schemes and the political and economic collapse THU that followed. Instead of moving on, though, many are moving THU out of the country altogether. Do their leaders' efforts THU represent real change, or are they just an attempt to THU plaster over the cracks and reinforce Albania's plan to THU enter the EU? THU THU 11:30 Writing a New Nigeria b06qm3mk (Listen) THU Ideas of Identity THU THU A portrait of Nigeria, seen through the eyes of a new THU generation of writers and poets. In the second programme of THU the series, Wana Udobang meets the writers who are exploring THU Nigerian ideas of identity. THU THU The protagonist in Igoni Barrett's latest novel is a black THU Nigerian who, one morning, wakes up white. Barrett uses this THU scenario to explore Nigerians' sense of themselves in THU relation to other nationalities - particularly Europeans and THU Americans. THU THU Wana also considers Nigerian geographical and ethnic THU identities. The north of Nigeria is under-represented in THU Nigerian English-language literature. Novelists Abubakar THU Adam Ibrahim and Elnathan John are addressing this THU imbalance: both have written books which are set in the THU North but which give a more nuanced portrayal, beyond Boko THU Haram and communal conflict. Elnathan's novel is a THU coming-of-age story and Abubakar's is a romance between a THU widow and a young gangster. We also hear from poet and THU novelist Lola Shoneyin who takes on the sensitive subject of THU polygamy in her story The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives. THU THU Nigeria is a country of many languages. Alongside English - THU and Pidgin English - there's Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and many THU others. Writers Kola Tubosun and Jumoke Verissimo consider THU the influence of these on writing in English - and the way THU that both fiction and social media can promote the survival THU of minority languages. THU THU But if fiction is to flourish, it needs an infrastructure. THU Many established novelists have had to look outside Nigeria THU to achieve recognition and success. Publishers Eghosa THU Imasuen and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf discuss the challenges of THU popularising poetry and fiction in a market where self-help THU and inspirational books completely outsell every other THU genre. 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 b06qv8j5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 One to One b06rk9lc (Listen) THU Emma Barnett THU THU Emma Barnett is 29 and Women's Editor of the Daily THU Telegraph. She regards herself as a feminist: she demands THU equality in the workplace and in all aspects of her secular THU life. But she has a secret. As an orthodox Jew, when THU attending synagogue, she is happy to sit separately from the THU men, not to take part in the service and finds it hard to THU embrace the concept of women rabbis. THU THU Emma tries to resolve this contradiction by talking to THU Sarah,who also wrestles with this dilemma - the values she THU holds in her secular life are not the same as those she THU holds onto in her religious one. THU Sarah is a highly successful barrister, a feminist and THU orthodox jew, she explains how she relieves the tensions THU raised by her contradictory life. THU THU Producer: Lucy Lunt. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06r0b4b (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06qv8j7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06r0b4g (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 A Walk of One's Own: Virginia Woolf on Foot b067wnnd (Listen) THU Sussex THU THU Alexandra Harris visits East Sussex, where Virginia Woolf THU lived and walked from 1911 until her death. THU Asham, was the Woolf's first home - re-named 'Little Talland THU House' - making it the descendent of the Cornish holiday THU home she had loved as a child. Virginia and Leonard lived THU through the first world war here, and left with great THU sadness when the lease was up. THU THU Their next home, Monks House was small and basic, but it was THU theirs. The garden was vast, with a view on to the fields THU and hills beyond, where Woolf loved to roam alone for hours, THU reciting her words to herself after a morning writing. There THU were almost too many possible paths: towards Charleston - THU the home of Woolf's sister Vanessa, or across Iford Down, or THU along the river to Piddinghoe. THU THU In the company of Scarlett Baron, Alexandra Harris steps out THU in Woolf's footsteps to the river Ouse and Southease, the THU route she would have taken most often, to the post office. THU THU Producers: Sarah Bowen and Sara Jane Hall. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06qkp8q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b06r8gms (Listen) THU 1977 THU THU by Sarah Wooley THU THU In 1977 the bestselling children's novel Watership Down was THU made into an animated film. Malcolm Williamson, Master of THU the Queens music, had been hired as the film's composer. But THU all was not well. Williamson, a notoriously difficult and THU complicated man, was under extreme pressure; it was the THU Queens jubilee year and he was over commissioned. When the THU film's conductor, Marcus Dods, arrived looking for the THU film's score he found to his horror that all that existed THU were two small sketches of music which amounted to no more THU than seven minutes of screen time. With an expensive THU orchestra and recording studio booked for the following THU week, the film's future looked to be in jeopardy. In THU desperation he turned to the one person he knew could help; THU composer and arranger Angela Morley. But she, for her own THU reasons, was going to need some persuading... THU THU Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU Credits THU Angela Morley: Rebecca Root THU Christine Parker: Debra Baker THU Marcus Dods: William Gaminara THU Terry Rawlings: Bryan Dick THU Malcolm Williamson: Chris Pavlo THU John Sanders: David Seddon THU Larry Ashmore: David Seddon THU All other parts: Evie Killip THU Writer: Sarah Wooley THU Director: Gaynor Macfarlane THU THU 15:00 Open Country b06qml0k (Listen) THU Welsh Valleys after Coal THU THU Felicity Evans asks how the valleys of south Wales near THU Caerphilly have fared since the mines closed. She visits new THU parklands that have been planted where the collieries once THU stood. THU THU She begins at Senghenydd, site of two mining disasters just THU one hundred years ago, one of them the worst ever THU experienced at a UK mine. Former teacher in the village and THU now a broadcaster, Roy Noble reflects on the legacy of the THU disaster, and how it's still remembered even though a THU primary school has been built on the site of the mine, since THU the pit was closed nearly 50 years ago. THU THU Felicity also visits two other parks in the Caerphilly area THU which have been created on the sites of former collieries: THU Parc Cwm Darran which was planted in the 1980s, and Parc THU Penallta, which has been developed since the Millennium. How THU do residents relate now to their local landscape, and the THU memorials to the industry that once defined the region? THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06qg0nn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b06qgp5m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06qml0n (Listen) THU Terence Davies on Sunset Song, Chris Milk on Virtual Reality THU THU With Francine Stock THU THU Terence Davies talks about Sunset Song, which has been 18 THU years in the making THU THU Virtual reality guru Chris Milk discusses the future of THU making feature films in the new medium. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Terence Davies THU Interviewed Guest: Chris Milk THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06qml0r (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06r0b4n (Listen) THU PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and THU analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06qv8j9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Tina C: Herstory b06qmpqw (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Country music star Tina C is bringing her life story to THU Radio 4, starting right at the beginning with her humble THU origins in deepest Tennessee and taking us all the way to THU where she stands today - a global feminist icon, and THU political powerhouse. And she can still knock out a tune or THU two too. THU THU Tina will be joined on stage by a three-piece band who will THU help her recreate her biggest hits, and a special guest THU interviewer who will talk to her about her struggles. THU THU In this first episode of the series, Tina looks back at her THU childhood in rural Tennessee. Her humble start in life THU provides a rich seam of stories which fed into her early THU work. Family has always been important to Tina - as tracks THU like Hard Times, Don't Be Afraid to Start Crying, and Tramp THU on a Trampoline show. THU THU From the moment her second album No Dick's As Hard As My THU Life was released, the world took notice of country music THU singer Tina C. Since then she has become a global brand. THU Following 9/11 she has been travelling the world 24/11 THU working for peace and being a poster girl for American THU democracy, selling that unique vision of hope to the rest of THU the world whether they want it or not. Seductive and THU persuasive, she is here to recruit you to her world view. THU She is the living embodiment (and what a body) of soft THU power. Tina C. has performed in venues all over the world THU from London's Albert Hall to Sydney's Opera House. She has THU had her own TV show and five series on BBC Radio. You can THU run but you can't hide from Tina C. THU THU Tina is the creation of Christopher Green, a multi-award THU winning writer and performer. THU THU "Tina C is one of my favourite performers. She is witty, THU often outrageous and always in tune! I can't wait to see THU what Chris Green comes up with next" THU Sir Ian McKellan THU THU "Working on a script by Christopher Green is as good as it THU gets. His writing is funny, insightful and has a delicacy THU that puts it in a class of its own. His work is rather like THU the man himself, very funny and really rather beautiful". THU Caroline Quentin THU THU "Christopher Green's Tina C is one of the great comic THU creations of the age. A genuinely fine country singer, but THU with a twist of satire and insight which is rare and to be THU highly prized". THU Stephen Fry THU THU Written & performed by Christopher Green. THU Additional voices: Debra Baker & Leo Wan. THU The Band: Duncan Walsh-Atkins, Mark Hardisty & Phil Wraith. THU Special guest interviewer: Dr Raj Persaud. THU Produced by Victoria Lloyd. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b06qmpqy (Listen) THU Too much information for Helen? Kate gets a boost. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06qv764 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06qm3mf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b06qmpr0 (Listen) THU Changing Jihadi Minds THU THU How do you go about trying to change a person's fundamental THU beliefs? And how do you decide who is need of state THU intervention to do so? THU THU Public sector workers now have a legal obligation to refer THU suspected Islamist and far right extremists to a local body THU known as a Channel panel. Referees deemed to hold extremist THU views are offered ideological mentoring, usually on a THU voluntary basis. THU THU The government says its Channel deradicalisation programme THU is a success, helping prevent vulnerable people from being THU drawn into terrorism. But some British Muslims see it as a THU Big Brotherish state spying operation, wreathed in secrecy THU and suspicion. John Ware enters the "pre-criminal space" to THU find out - from the inside - how Channel works. THU THU Producer: Simon Maybin THU Researcher: Kirsteen Knight. THU THU 20:30 In Business b06qmpr2 (Listen) THU Antony Jenkins talks to Kamal Ahmed THU THU Anthony Jenkins, who was sacked as CEO of Barclays in July, THU talks to the BBC's Business Editor, Kamal Ahmed. They THU discuss the future of banking, bonuses and the global THU economy. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06qml0r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06qkrks (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06qmq75 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06s2kq3 (Listen) THU Dark Corners, Episode 4 THU THU The final novel by Ruth Rendell, read by Patricia Hodge. THU THU Dermot's threatening presence in the house in Maida Vale has THU become all-pervasive. After Carl reveals the hold Dermot has THU over him, Nicola decides to confront him herself. But Dermot THU refuses to be cowed and instead turns the focus upon her, THU describing how abhorrent he finds it that she and Carl are THU living in sin. A dark and atmospheric tale of suspense by a THU doyenne of the form. THU THU Read by Patricia Hodge. THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks. THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Patricia Hodge THU Author: Ruth Rendell THU Abridger: Robin Brooks THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 23:00 Jon Ronson On b01rw4q3 (Listen) THU Series 7, Being Normal THU THU As a new edition of the American Diagnostic and Statistical THU Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published this year, THU writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson travels around the THU UK meeting people whose behaviour might be considered THU normal, but may soon fall under the criteria of some brand THU new disorders. THU THU He goes to a competitive eating competition in Bristol to THU speak to a man who has been obsessed with his weight. And he THU visits Adam Buxton, who may be a candidate for "intermittent THU explosive disorder" as he is prone to losing his temper in THU an explosive way. THU THU Psychiatrist Dr Joanna Moncrieff says she believes the DSM THU is amplifying a tendency to label more and more people as THU having health problems. While Dr Jeffrey Lieberman, THU president elect of the American Psychiatric Association, THU which publishes the DSM, defends the manual saying it does THU not attempt to pathologise normal behaviour such as anger THU but look at repeated behaviour. THU THU Jon also hears from David Aaronovitch who was sent to a THU psychiatrist by his parents for being a shouty teenager and THU he wonders if, these days, he would be misdiagnosed? Finally THU Jon speaks to Alex Trenchard who tells his story for the THU first time of how his obsession with his music festival THU resulted in a prison sentence. THU THU Producer: Lucy Greenwell THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b06qmq79 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 04 DECEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06qv8zs (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06qkrkv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06qv8k4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06qv8k6 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06qv8k8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06qv8kb (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06rfh6q (Listen) FRI Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the FRI Rev Duncan MacLaren. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06qmqyx (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Sally Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0m7p (Listen) FRI Red-Throated Caracara FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Sir David Attenborough presents the red-throated caracara FRI from the Amazonian rainforest. The size of buzzards, FRI red-throated Caracaras are black- and -white birds of prey FRI that travel together when searching for paper wasp nests FRI among the leaves. While some birds search for food, others FRI act as sentinels on the lookout for predators. If a monkey FRI or a spotted cat approaches, the sentinel will alert the FRI flock and together they will mob the intruder with loud FRI calls. They specialise in bee and wasp grubs, but seem FRI impervious to stings and it was once thought that they may FRI possess a special repellent which deters the adult insects. FRI Latest research now shows that when they are disturbed by FRI the caracaras, paper wasps keep away from their damaged nest FRI to avoid further danger and so the birds simply take FRI advantage of the wasp's absence. FRI FRI Red-throated carcara (Ibycter americanus) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Tim Laman / naturepl.com. FRI NPL Ref 01471601 FRI © Tim Laman / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06qrmt7 (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 b06qg1ls (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06qms9j (Listen) FRI Railways - Nation, Network and People, Episode 5 FRI FRI A magnificent account of Britain's railways and how track FRI and carriage united a nation. FRI FRI This series of readings includes an exploration of many FRI aspects of the railway revolution, such as the challenges of FRI 'railway time', the nuances of first, second and third FRI class, the dificulties of lighting and heating, passenger FRI comfort, what to eat when travelling and the history of FRI refreshment stops and the commercial opportunities they FRI brought - including the establishment of W.H.Smith and Son, FRI who became the nation's first high street bookstore. FRI Architecture and engineering are also covered, alongside the FRI impact on social classes and gender. FRI FRI Passengers may have a love-hate relationship with our FRI railways, but few of us know much about the journey taken to FRI get to where we are now. FRI FRI "Simon Bradley's The Railways is magisterial. It's both FRI authoritative and absorbing. A first class journey." Michael FRI Palin FRI FRI Episode 5: The enduring appeal of the railways - enthusiasts FRI are so much more than just trainspotters. And what do FRI trainspotters do anyway? FRI FRI Read by Stephen Tompkinson FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Author: Simon Bradley FRI Reader: Stephen Tompkinson FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06qv7nd (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 b06qms9m (Listen) FRI Greater Love, Episode 5 FRI FRI Greater Love ep5/5 FRI by Don Shaw FRI FRI The true and tragic story of the plague in Eyam, Derbyshire. FRI Rowland tries desperately to find a way for he, Emmy and the FRI boy to flee the village, but it's too late. FRI As the loss increases in the village, William and Stanley FRI reconcile their differences. FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI Credits FRI William: Al Weaver FRI Catherine: Emily Pithon FRI Thomas Stanley: David Calder FRI Emmy: Charlie May-Clark FRI Rowland: Gerard Kearns FRI Writer: Don Shaw FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI FRI 11:00 Ancient Ways with Bettany Hughes b06qms9p (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Bettany Hughes follows the ancient Roman road to Istanbul. FRI Tracing its route through Albania, Macedonia and Greece, she FRI explores how the Egnatian Way helped to shape Europe and the FRI Middle East. FRI FRI Founded in the second century BC, the Via Egnatia was a FRI critical axis of the Roman Empire. It joined Rome to the FRI riches of the east, and became the site of some of the most FRI significant turning points of its history - the place where FRI the forces of the Roman republic lost to the heirs of Julius FRI Caesar, and the route on which St Paul brought Christianity FRI to Europe. Later it was the route the Crusaders took to the FRI holy land, a vital Byzantine communication link and the base FRI from which the Ottoman Turks controlled their vast European FRI holdings. FRI FRI In the first episode, Bettany journeys from Adriatic shores FRI of Albania to the Macedonian plain where Alexander The Great FRI grew up. FRI FRI Written and presented by Bettany Hughes FRI Producer: Russell Finch FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Michael Frayn's Matchbox Theatre b06qms9t (Listen) FRI Episode 2 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. People talking. To each other, to the world FRI at large, to themselves. Explaining. Heard, overheard, FRI half-heard. FRI In Episode 2, we eavesdrop on two strangers in a café. FRI Patricia Hodge is the women who can't get names right. FRI Joanna Lumley, listening in at the next table, longs to FRI correct her. Adam Godley becomes increasingly obsessive in a FRI doctor's surgery. Matthew Wolf, attending a lecture on FRI words, doesn't care for the phrase 'if you like'. Sophie FRI Winkleman and Charles Edwards, trying to find their FRI destination, have 'WIC' - that's 'Words in Car'. Stephen Fry FRI is a politician who believes he has mastered the intricacies FRI of his mobile phone. Tom Hollander and Nigel Anthony share FRI confidences in their own mathematically precise language. FRI And Julian Sands suffers at the hands of Martin Jarvis' FRI Pinteresque writer-tormentor. 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 2 cast: Patricia Hodge, Joanna Lumley, Adam Godley, FRI Mathew Wolf, Sophie Winkleman, Charles Edwards. Stephen Fry, FRI Tom Hollander, Nigel Anthony, Julian Sands, 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: Patricia Hodge FRI Actor: Joanna Lumley FRI Actor: Adam Godley FRI Actor: Matthew Wolf FRI Actor: Sophie Winkleman FRI Actor: Charles Edwards FRI Actor: Stephen Fry FRI Actor: Tom Hollander FRI Actor: Nigel Anthony FRI Actor: Julian Sands FRI Actor: Martin Jarvis FRI Writer: Michael Frayn FRI Director: Martin Jarvis FRI Producer: Rosalind Ayres FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06qv8kd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 One to One b06rk8zp (Listen) FRI Michael Grade speaks to Juno Roche FRI FRI Michael Grade has always been fascinated by those who choose FRI to take great risks. Michael was born into an immigrant FRI family who risked everything to find a new life in an FRI unknown country. FRI FRI In this programme for the interview series One to One, he FRI talks to Juno Roche who also took the same leap of faith FRI into a new world when she transitioned two years ago. FRI FRI Juno says that in choosing to change sex the risk is all FRI encompassing: 'You have no idea what awaits you on the other FRI side. Will you be able to walk down the street without being FRI labelled a freak? Will you have any friends or family who FRI will accept you?' FRI FRI Producer: Lucy Lunt. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06qv7ng (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06qv8kg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06qv7nj (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 The Light b05y4f96 (Listen) FRI The author Bernard Hare recalls the day, forty years ago, FRI his dad took him on a terrifying trip down a coal mine - and FRI how that day changed his life. This is a story of FRI fatherhood, fear and learning. FRI Writer & Presenter: Bernard Hare. FRI Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06qmpqy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b06qmtzr (Listen) FRI Tess in Winter FRI FRI Inspired by the novel 'Winter' by Christopher Nicholson and FRI dramatised by Sara Davies. FRI FRI The most famous writer of his day is living in chilly FRI seclusion in Dorset with his second wife and former FRI secretary, Florence. Between these two frozen hearts comes FRI the talented amateur actress Gertrude Bugler, playing Tess FRI in the first production of Hardy's play, provoking local and FRI national fascination. FRI FRI Florence determines to put a stop to what she sees as FRI Hardy's ludicrous infatuation with the young woman. Gertie FRI is caught in the middle, longing to play Tess on the London FRI stage. FRI FRI Florence Hardy often found herself dealing with the many FRI journalists and admirers who wanted access to her celebrated FRI husband. Caught off-guard, Thomas has agreed to be the FRI subject of a fly-on-the- wall documentary, but he hands the FRI interviewer on to his wife, who reveals more than she FRI intends about her husband's fascination with Gertrude. FRI FRI Vibrant performances and a sensitive, unusual treatment FRI bring new light to a story that continues to fascinate. FRI FRI Dramatist...Sara Davies FRI FRI Music...Jon Nicholls FRI Production Manager...Sarah Goodman FRI Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Christopher Nicholson FRI Writer: Sara Davies FRI Florence Hardy: Pippa Haywood FRI Gertude Bugler: Katy Sobey FRI Thomas Hardy: Nicholas Farrell FRI Elsie: Alex Tregear FRI Wessex: Bella FRI Director: Mary Ward-Lowery FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06qmtzy (Listen) FRI Usk, Monmouthshire FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultuual panel programme from Usk FRI in Monmouthshire. FRI FRI Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Wilson and Christine Walkden answer FRI this week's gardening queries. FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 e=mc2 b06qmv00 (Listen) FRI Thoughts while Plummeting 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 Robin Ince's 'Thoughts While Plummeting' an unusual FRI schoolboy becomes engrossed by the science he sees all FRI around him and goes off in pursuit of 'the happiest FRI thought'. FRI FRI Writer ..... Robin Ince FRI Reader ..... Carolyn Pickles FRI Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Robin Ince FRI Reader: Carolyn Pickles FRI Producer: Jenny Thompson FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06qmv02 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b06qv7rb (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06qmvks (Listen) FRI Leanne and Eloise - Dyslexia is a Superpower FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between relatives a FRI generation apart, who both have dyslexia but whose childhood FRI experiences with the condition have little in common. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI 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 b06qv7rd (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06qv8kj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b06qmvkx (Listen) FRI Series 47, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by David Quantick and FRI Pippa Evans for a comic look at the week's news. FRI FRI Written by the cast with additional material from Jane FRI Lamacraft, Andy Wolton, Liam Beirne and Clare Wetton. FRI FRI Produced by Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Performer: David Quantick FRI Performer: Pippa Evans FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06qmyyj (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Keri Davies FRI Director ..... Gwenda Hughes FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor FRI FRI Jill Archer ......Patricia Greene FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI PC Harrison Burns ..... James Cartwright FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Rex Fairbrother ..... Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother ..... Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI Will Grundy ...... Philip Molloy FRI Matthew Holman ..... Michael Winder FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Charlie Thomas ..... Felix Scott FRI Helen Titchener ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran ..... Eleanor Bron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Keri Davies 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 Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Matthew Holman: Michael Winder FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06qv7rg (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06qms9m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06qmyyl (Listen) FRI Jane Collins MEP, George Monbiot, Lord Willetts FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Leeds Trinity University with the UKIP MEP and FRI Employment spokesperson Jane Collins MEP, the environmental FRI and political campaigner George Monbiot and Lord Willetts, FRI the conservative peer who is also Executive Chair of the FRI Resolution Foundation. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06qmyyn (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Archive on 4 b04y6mw8 (Listen) FRI Mustn't Grumble: The Noble British Art of Complaining FRI FRI Complaining is a vital component of British life, whether FRI it's formal letters to a utility company, bank or broadband FRI provider, or it's an ice-breaker at a bus stop, bemoaning FRI the dreary weather. In 'Mustn't Grumble', writer and FRI broadcaster Bidisha sets out to identify why complaining is FRI so important to us, and also precisely how we go about it. FRI She visits an international language school to hear how FRI students learning English react to lessons in 'hedging' (the FRI art of introducing a complaint with apology - "I'm terribly FRI sorry but..", "Forgive me for mentioning it but.."); she FRI also meets literary professor Phil Davis to track complaint FRI through the fictional pages of history, former comedian and FRI classicist Natalie Haynes to found out how the Ancients did FRI it, and journalist Lynne Truss to find out why we never FRI complain to a hairdresser. Along the way she also meets a FRI professional complainer, Jasper Griegson, who's sent FRI thousands of letters of complaint over the years, sometimes FRI in verse, sometimes in medieval script, to find out the best FRI methods of complaining. Bidisha also wonders, finally, FRI whether complaining is actually good for us - whether the FRI occasional gains we may achieve are worth so much of our FRI energy and spirit. The programme will make use of the ample FRI archive of complaint, from Juvenal to 'Points of View', FRI Samuel Pepys' diaries to Alf Garnett and Tom Wrigglesworth. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06qv8kl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06qv7rj (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06s2l28 (Listen) FRI Dark Corners, Episode 5 FRI FRI Patricia Hodge reads the final novel by Ruth Rendell, who FRI died in May this year aged eighty-five. FRI FRI Miserable and desperate, Carl is placed under further FRI pressure by Dermot, his blackmailing tenant. A dark tale of FRI suspense by a doyenne of the form. FRI FRI Read by Patricia Hodge FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Patricia Hodge FRI Author: Ruth Rendell FRI Abridger: Robin Brooks FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b06qjzts (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06qmyyq (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06qmyys (Listen) FRI Sharon and Rita - Keeping It in the Family FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between an 84 year old great FRI grandmother to seventeen children and her eldest daughter, FRI about child-rearing and memories of childhood. Another in FRI the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
27 November, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 28/11/2015 - 04/12/2015
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)