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SAT SATURDAY 05 DECEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06s6rhz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06qms9j (Listen) SAT Railways - Nation, Network and People, Episode 5 SAT SAT A magnificent account of Britain's railways and how track SAT and carriage united a nation. SAT SAT This series of readings includes an exploration of many SAT aspects of the railway revolution, such as the challenges of SAT 'railway time', the nuances of first, second and third SAT class, the dificulties of lighting and heating, passenger SAT comfort, what to eat when travelling and the history of SAT refreshment stops and the commercial opportunities they SAT brought - including the establishment of W.H.Smith and Son, SAT who became the nation's first high street bookstore. SAT Architecture and engineering are also covered, alongside the SAT impact on social classes and gender. SAT SAT Passengers may have a love-hate relationship with our SAT railways, but few of us know much about the journey taken to SAT get to where we are now. SAT SAT "Simon Bradley's The Railways is magisterial. It's both SAT authoritative and absorbing. A first class journey." Michael SAT Palin SAT SAT Episode 5: The enduring appeal of the railways - enthusiasts SAT are so much more than just trainspotters. And what do SAT trainspotters do anyway? SAT SAT Read by Stephen Tompkinson SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Author: Simon Bradley SAT Reader: Stephen Tompkinson SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06qv8mc (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06qv8mf (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06qv8mh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06qv8mk (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06qmz0r (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with SAT Orthodox Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. SAT This programme was pre-recorded. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06qmz0t (Listen) SAT 'I Hated Being a Mum' SAT SAT One listener hated being a mother, whilst another wishes he SAT was a father. Vanessa Feltz reads Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06qv8mm (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06qv8mp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06qml0k (Listen) SAT Welsh Valleys after Coal SAT SAT Felicity Evans asks how the valleys of south Wales near SAT Caerphilly have fared since the mines closed. She visits new SAT parklands that have been planted where the collieries once SAT stood. SAT SAT She begins at Senghenydd, site of two mining disasters just SAT one hundred years ago, one of them the worst ever SAT experienced at a UK mine. Former teacher in the village and SAT now a broadcaster, Roy Noble reflects on the legacy of the SAT disaster, and how it's still remembered even though a SAT primary school has been built on the site of the mine, since SAT the pit was closed nearly 50 years ago. SAT SAT Felicity also visits two other parks in the Caerphilly area SAT which have been created on the sites of former collieries: SAT Parc Cwm Darran which was planted in the 1980s, and Parc SAT Penallta, which has been developed since the Millennium. How SAT do residents relate now to their local landscape, and the SAT memorials to the industry that once defined the region? SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06qv3zd (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Agriculture and Climate Change SAT SAT Caz Graham hosts a debate about the impact of agriculture on SAT our climate, as world leaders meet in Paris. The UN's SAT Farming and Agriculture Organisation has said livestock SAT farming alone produces around a fifth of the world's SAT greenhouse gases - including methane which is produced in SAT cows' stomachs and released into the atmosphere. We hear SAT from one farmer who's working to reduce his carbon SAT emissions; from an American company which is producing a SAT food from plants that tastes like meat; and from a scientist SAT who believes we need more livestock to bring vast areas of SAT desert back into production. SAT The guests are deputy president of the NFU Minette Batters, SAT Emma Hockridge of the Soil Association and Nick Henry from SAT the organisation Climate Action. SAT The producer is Sally Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06qv8mr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06qv3zg (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 b06qv3zj (Listen) SAT Suzi Perry SAT SAT It's listener week on Saturday Live with Reverend Richard SAT Coles and Aasmah Mir. SAT SAT We've accepted Philip Farmer's invitation to come to his SAT house in Wolverhampton. Philip, his wife Sarah and daughter SAT Hannah discuss their city. SAT SAT BBC Formula 1 presenter Suzi Perry, recently nominated as SAT one of the Wolverhampton's Famous Daughters, will be talking SAT about her connection to the city, Wolverhampton Wanderers SAT and working behind the scenes at Wolverhampton Grand SAT Theatre. SAT SAT Sharing their undiscovered claims to fame will be Bob SAT Saunders the man who makes The Phantom of the Opera Masks. SAT Roy Perry reveals himself as the man who mapped Guernsey and SAT James Bond boat driver John Pleace talks about his SAT experiences. SAT SAT Listener Rob Hawkins wanted to swap Inheritance Tracks for SAT his Inheritance Snacks. He's chosen Spaghetti Carbonara and SAT Liver, Bacon and Mushrooms on Toast. SAT SAT Gemma Cairney will be talking to local people including SAT sculptor and medallist Ron Dutton. He's behind a 1999 £2 SAT coin design, the plaque for Wolverhampton's Famous Sons and SAT Daughters, and his portrait is about to be unveiled at City SAT Art Gallery. Gwen Sanchirico discusses her journey from New SAT York IT worker to Wolverhampton brewer. Sham Sharma explains SAT how locals helped him rebuild his business after the 2011 SAT riots and why he's now running a fusion café. SAT SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Inheritance Snacks SAT SAT For Listener Week on *Saturday Live*, Rob Hawkins cooks his SAT Inheritance Snacks - a meal he has inherited, and another he SAT would like to pass on. SAT SAT SAT SAT Inheritance Snacks - Spaghetti Carbonara SAT SAT *I know now that an 'authentic' carbonara has no cream in SAT it, but this version is the one my Mum used to make, and the SAT one that I've cooked hundreds of times since for friends. I SAT think I might have added the onion at some point… it's layer SAT upon layer of inauthenticity.* SAT One pot of soured cream SAT (normal cream or crème fraîche would do in adverse SAT circumstances) SAT A few rashers of bacon, SAT chopped SAT Eggs SAT (at least one per person) SAT An onion SAT Garlic SAT Parmesan SAT Spaghetti SAT Black Pepper SAT SAT - First, chop the onion. Fry very slowly and gently in a SAT splash of olive oil. Finely chop the garlic and add this to SAT the pan, making sure not to burn it. When the onion begins SAT to caramelise, add the bacon. SAT SAT - While the onion and bacon are cooking, bring a pan of SAT water to the boil. Salt the water and, once it is boiling, SAT add the spaghetti (100g per person). SAT SAT *While the spaghetti cooks: * SAT SAT - Mix one egg per person with a good dollop of soured cream. SAT Beat together with a fork. Add a good few twists of black SAT pepper. SAT SAT - Keep an eye on the onion mix. If it's ready (the bacon SAT should be slightly crispy; the onion should be soft and a SAT warm brown) then it can happily wait with the heat off. SAT SAT - Put your plates in a warm oven SAT SAT *Once the spaghetti has cooked: * SAT SAT - This meal is all about dishing up while keeping things SAT hot! SAT SAT - Drain the pasta, return it to the pan and stir in the SAT egg/cream and onion/bacon. I tend to put the whole lot over SAT a very low heat, stirring briskly, to just begin to cook the SAT egg. Again, I know that's unorthodox… SAT SAT - Plate up, and grate a generous amount of parmesan over it SAT before topping with more black pepper. SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Inheritance Snacks - Liver, Bacon and Mushrooms on Toast SAT SAT *I have always loved the rich taste of chicken liver and SAT have since found recipes that showcase it. This is delicious SAT as a lunch or, in a smaller serving, can make a good SAT starter. * SAT 400g chicken liver SAT (serves two as a hearty lunch) SAT Shallots SAT Garlic SAT Butter SAT Mushrooms SAT A few rashers of bacon SAT A splash of red wine if you have it SAT A slice of crusty bread, preferably a sourdough SAT SAT SAT - Heat a generous knob of butter in a frying pan. Meanwhile, SAT roughly chop the shallots, and finely chop the garlic. Add SAT both to the butter and fry gently. SAT SAT - Chop the bacon and mushrooms and add these to the SAT shallots. Stir it all together and fry gently for about ten SAT minutes, letting things brown nicely. SAT SAT - Roughly chop the liver and, once things in the pan are SAT brown and caramelising, add the liver and stir. It needs to SAT cook for about 3 minutes on a slightly higher heat than you SAT have been using. SAT SAT - Add a splash of red wine to 'de-glaze' the pan, picking up SAT all the lovely flavour. Everything should be looking a rich SAT brown. SAT SAT - Toast your slice of bread lightly then deposit a good SAT helping of the liver and mushrooms etc onto the toast. Best SAT enjoyed with a glass of wine! SAT SAT SAT SAT Listener Philip Farmer SAT SAT As part of Saturday Live Listener Week we accepted Philip SAT Farmer's invitation to take the programme to Wolverhampton. SAT SAT Philip Farmer's House SAT SAT Philip Farmer reveals the artwork he found in his loft. SAT SAT Bob Saunders – Phantom of the Opera Masks SAT Listener Bob Saunders shared his undiscovered claims to fame SAT as the man who makes The Phantom of the Opera Masks. SAT SAT Music SAT The music track used at the top of the programme is called SAT Do It Well by XY Constant which features local Wolverhampton SAT born artist Tom Aspaul. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Reporter: Gemma Cairney SAT Interviewed Guest: Suzi Perry SAT Interviewed Guest: Bob Saunders SAT Interviewed Guest: Roy Perry SAT Interviewed Guest: John Pleace SAT Interviewed Guest: Rob Hawkins SAT Interviewed Guest: Ron Dutton SAT Interviewed Guest: Gwen Sanchirico SAT Interviewed Guest: Sham Sharma SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 JFK: The Vinyl Reaction b06qv3zl (Listen) SAT Paul Gambaccini reveals how the American record industry, SAT songwriters and record buyers responded to the assassination SAT of President Kennedy in 1963. SAT SAT John F Kennedy's assassination was the first occasion when SAT the death of a famous person had a direct effect on record SAT sales. The sudden death of a pop star has often been SAT followed by a flood of their recordings in the charts - SAT Elvis Presley, John Lennon and Michael Jackson, for example. SAT SAT The assassination of JFK was the first time the public SAT sought solace in this way, but with spoken word rather than SAT musical recordings. SAT SAT Within weeks of the event, the US chart included three SAT albums featuring Kennedy's major speeches. Another LP SAT contained the audio from BBC TV's next-day tribute on That SAT Was The Week That Was. SAT SAT In JFK: The Vinyl Reaction, Joel Whitburn, the pioneer in SAT American chart books, recalls the phenomenon. SAT SAT Within hours of the news, Roger McGuinn of The Byrds adapted SAT the traditional song He Was A Friend Of Mine as a tribute. SAT He talks about writing it and performs a version specially SAT for this programme. Lyricist Herbert Kretzmer was SAT commissioned to write the words of a song that would be sung SAT live on TV the following night. He recalls how he wrote In SAT The Summer Of His Years, which was sung by Millicent Martin SAT in That Was The Week That Was. SAT SAT Within a matter of weeks, over fifty songs emerged from the SAT African-American genres of blues and gospel. The Day The SAT World Stood Still by The Sensational Six of Alabama and SAT Assassination by The Dixie Nightingales tell the story of SAT the fateful day. Historian Guido Van Rijn talks about his SAT study of such topical songs. SAT SAT A Howlett Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b06qv3zn (Listen) SAT Jim Waterson of Buzzfeed looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT This has been the most extraordinary parliamentary week in SAT recent history. The vote on whether to authorise air strikes SAT on Syria saw MPs of all persuasions grapple with a momentous SAT decision with potentially grave consequences. On the Labour SAT side a resounding victory in the Oldham West and Royton SAT by-election gave Jeremy Corbyn's leadership a boost, while SAT on the everyday matter of obesity in childhood MPs debated SAT the efficacy of a tax on sugary drinks. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06qv8mt (Listen) SAT In the Shadow of the Strong Men SAT SAT Colouring in the spaces between the headlines. In this SAT edition: the Front National is expected to do well in the SAT French regional elections - our correspondent goes for a SAT drive along the Cote d'Azure and asks why the party's SAT apparently finding favour with voters. 'We cannot allow our SAT revolution to be stolen!' The Venezuelan president has been SAT imploring the electorate to give his socialists another term SAT in office, but most observers feel the left's grip on this SAT nation will be severely weakened in this weekend's election. SAT Three and a half million and counting! We find out why so SAT many young Nepalis have decided to leave their country. And SAT is it the truth or is it just paranoia? We hear that the SAT influence of the long-dead dictator Enver Hoxha continues SAT even today in Albania. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06qv8mw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06qv3zq (Listen) SAT Insurance Transparency Delays SAT SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance, with SAT Paul Lewis. SAT SAT Related links SAT The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA): FCA to require SAT insurance firms to publish details of last year’s premium SAT Association of British Insurers (ABI) SAT BBC News: Insurance: FCA plan to make firms show former SAT premiums SAT BBC One: Spotlight SAT Action Fraud SAT The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) SAT National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) SAT StepChange Debt Charity SAT Bank of England SAT SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b06qmvkx (Listen) SAT Series 47, Episode 4 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by David Quantick, SAT Sofie Hagen, Luke Kempner, Georgie Bingham and Pippa Evans SAT for a comic look at the week's news. SAT SAT Written by the cast with additional material from Jane SAT Lamacraft, Andy Wolton, Sarah Campbell and Clare Wetton. SAT SAT Produced by Alexandra Smith. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: David Quantick SAT Performer: Sofie Hagen SAT Performer: Luke Kempner SAT Performer: Georgie Bingham SAT Performer: Pippa Evans SAT Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06qv8my (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06qv8n0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06qmyyl (Listen) SAT Jane Collins MEP, George Monbiot, Lord Willetts SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Leeds Trinity University with the UKIP MEP and SAT Employment spokesperson Jane Collins MEP, the environmental SAT and political campaigner George Monbiot and Lord Willetts, SAT the conservative peer who is also Executive Chair of the SAT Resolution Foundation. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06qv4kn (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b06qv4kq (Listen) SAT Inspector Chen Novels, Death of a Red Heroine SAT SAT Shanghai, May 1990. The body of a national model worker is SAT found in Baili Canal. So begins the first of Qiu Xiaolong's SAT Inspector Chen novels. Poet and translator turned detective SAT Chen Cao now heads the Special Case Squad, an assignment SAT that brings political scrutiny with every move. Dramatised SAT by Joy Wilkinson. SAT SAT Directed by Toby Swift SAT SAT Dramatisations of the second and third books in the SAT Inspector Chen series, A Loyal Character Dance and When Red SAT is Black, will follow. SAT SAT Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai, China. As well as writing SAT the award-winning Inspector Chen series of mystery novels, SAT he is also the author of two books of poetry translations, SAT Treasury of Chinese Love Poems (2003) and Evoking T'ang SAT (2007), and his own poetry collection, Lines Around China SAT (2003). Qiu's books have sold over a million copies and have SAT been published in twenty languages. He lives in St. Louis, SAT USA with his wife and daughter. SAT SAT "Death Of A Red Heroine grabbed my imagination, took me on a SAT slowly, intricately built journey that nevertheless felt SAT sexy and slick, and kept me turning the pages deep into the SAT night . . . A refreshingly brave exploration into political SAT China, woven around a tense thriller..." SAT Huffington Post. SAT SAT Credits SAT Chen: Jamie Zubairi SAT Yu: Dan Li SAT Peiqin: Sarah Lam SAT Commissar Zhang: David Yip SAT Wang Feng: Chipo Chung SAT Party Secretary Li: Daniel York SAT Old Hunter: David Hounslow SAT Wu: Chris Pavlo SAT Yaqing: Debra Baker SAT Yuan: Amelia Lowdell SAT Wei: Amelia Lowdell SAT Bao: Sam Dale SAT Xie Kun: Jessica Turner SAT Little Xie: Evie Killip SAT Guo: Richard Pepple SAT Lai Guojan: George Watkins SAT Ling: Rebecca Hamilton SAT Author: Qiu Xiaolong SAT Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson SAT Director: Toby Swift SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06qv5qj (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Listener Week, Being Vegan, Albinism SAT SAT Three listeners describe what it's like to grow up with the SAT genetic condition albinism that affects skin, hair and eye SAT colouring. Louise Taylor, Sarah Ballard and Sara Krishan SAT discuss their experiences. SAT SAT Dr Vicky Duckworth on teaching adults to read and write and SAT we hear from her former student Marie McNamara on the SAT literacy skills that allowed her to begin a career in SAT nursing. SAT SAT Anna discusses her fear of missing out on career SAT opportunities now she is pregnant. SAT SAT Virginia Prifti talks about the death of her eight-year old SAT son and what happened when she decided she wanted to keep SAT his body at home and manage the funeral arrangements SAT herself. SAT SAT Hannah Pheobe Brown and Lynda Kinnard share thoughts on SAT being vegan and the reasons for their choice. SAT SAT What's it like being the partner of a woman going through SAT the menopause? Paul Freeman describes living with his wife SAT who experienced severe menopause symptoms over a number of SAT years and Patrick Shervington from the British Menopause SAT Society discusses how a woman's partner can help. SAT SAT Lyndsey Carmichael, Kathy Hales and Karen Dobres discuss how SAT the size of their breasts have had an impact on their lives, SAT including their health, self-confidence and fashion sense. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Louise Taylor SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Ballard SAT Interviewed Guest: Sara Krishan SAT Interviewed Guest: Vicky Duckworth SAT Interviewed Guest: Marie McNamara SAT Interviewed Guest: Virginia Prifti SAT Interviewed Guest: Hannah Phoebe Bowen SAT Interviewed Guest: Lynda Kinnard SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Freeman SAT Interviewed Guest: Patrick Shervington SAT Interviewed Guest: Lyndsey Carmichael SAT Interviewed Guest: Kathy Hales SAT Interviewed Guest: Karen Dobres SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06qv5ql (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b06qmz0t (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06qv8n2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06qv8n4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06s6ps7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06qv6t1 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Sara Cox, Burt Reynolds, David Morrissey, SAT Peaches, Karla Crome, Samm Henshaw, Basia Bulat SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Burt Reynolds, SAT David Morrissey, Peaches and Karla Crome for an eclectic mix SAT of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Samm SAT Henshaw and Basia Bulat. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Burt Reynolds SAT 'But Enough About Me' is published by Blink and available SAT now. SAT SAT Karla Crome SAT SAT 'Linda' is at London's Royal Court until Saturday 9th SAT January 2016. SAT SAT Peaches SAT 'Rub ' is available now on I U She Music. SAT SAT David Morrissey SAT 'Hangmen' is at Wyndham's Theatre, London until 5th March SAT 2016. SAT SAT Samm Henshaw SAT ‘The Sound Experiment EP’ out now on Columbia. SAT SAT Basia Bulat SAT 'Good Advice', available on 12th February 2016 on Secret SAT City Records. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Sara Cox SAT Interviewed Guest: Burt Reynolds SAT Interviewed Guest: David Morrissey SAT Interviewed Guest: Peaches SAT Interviewed Guest: Karla Crome SAT Performer: Samm Henshaw SAT Performer: Basia Bulat SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b06qv5qn (Listen) SAT Hilary Benn SAT SAT Labour's shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn wowed the SAT House of Commons this week with an 'electrifying' speech SAT calling for airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria. For SAT some commentators it was the moment he finally stepped out SAT his famous father's shadow. SAT SAT He's worked his way up the party ranks from councillor in SAT Ealing, to MP for Leeds Central and then the Cabinet. But SAT this relatively quiet and unassuming politician has rarely, SAT till now, been thought of as leadership material. With his SAT speech this week, that's changed. SAT SAT Presenter: Mark Coles SAT Producers: Ben Crighton and Katie Inman. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06s6psf (Listen) SAT Sunset Song is Terence Davies' first film for a decade - SAT telling Lewis Grassic Gibbon's tale of northern Scottish SAT farming and family before and after the First World War. SAT Sheridan Smith takes the role of actress Fanny Brice in the SAT first London production of Funny Girl for 50 years. Made SAT famous by Barbra Streisand on stage and screen, they're big SAT shoes to fill and the current run of shows is already sold SAT out, is it any good? SAT Edna O'Brien's latest novel The Little Red Chairs places a SAT major war criminal in a small Irish village and ghastly SAT violence comes with him SAT Big Bang Data is an exhibition at London's Somerset House SAT which explores how artists are trying to depict the welter SAT of data that is out there, growing all the time. SAT Frank Skinner and Suzy Klein look at the world of popular SAT British entertainment before TV in the BBC4 series What a SAT Performance. SAT SAT Credits SAT Producer: Philip Sellars SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06qv5qq (Listen) SAT Racial Equality Enshrined SAT SAT On the 50th anniversary this month of Britain's first Race SAT Relations Act, Ritula Shah considers the role of legislation SAT in ending racial discrimination. She is joined by Lord SAT Lester of Herne Hill who helped draw up the original SAT legislation in 1965. SAT SAT We hear how a handful of determined and passionate liberals SAT gathered evidence of the need for anti-racist legislation in SAT Britain, while the newly-arrived immigrant communities in SAT London, Bristol and Birmingham campaigned unflinchingly for SAT their equal rights, pressing leaders to take action. SAT SAT But for all the jubilation when the law was enshrined, it SAT was, in Lester's words, 'pathetic'. The legislation applied SAT only to certain public places and excluded housing and SAT employment. Also, it was almost impossible to enforce. SAT SAT In 1968, the Act was refreshed and improved, and yet the SAT Commonwealth Immigrants Act of the same year revealed the SAT law's two faces-- repelling stateless East Africans with SAT British passports on the one hand and pushing for racial SAT equality on the other. SAT SAT In 1976, the Act was amended once again, addressing more SAT subtle forms of 'indirect' discrimination, but it would take SAT an inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 SAT before the law tackled its own enforcement- targeting racism SAT within the police force. SAT SAT Over the course of 50 years, the law has been polished and SAT refined to create a fairer and more equal society. But, SAT Ritula asks, with fears about immigration on the rise, will SAT the experience of the past half century help us navigate the SAT challenges ahead? SAT SAT A Cast Iron Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b06qgp5k (Listen) SAT Blood, Trains SAT SAT Jacques has finally fallen in love but his murderous desires SAT resurface, with terrible consequences. Dramatised by Dan SAT Rebellato, inspired by literature's greatest whistle blower SAT - Emile Zola. SAT SAT Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old, the matriarch SAT to a family of wolves - the Rougon-Macquarts - in this final SAT drama of the series. SAT SAT As society changes around her, Dide is still trapped in her SAT small room in the local asylum, but omniscient when it comes SAT to her extended family. As a young woman, she gave birth to SAT 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. Her family is a SAT turbulent mix of the good, the bad and the misguided. SAT SAT The brand new railway system was a powerful force. Dide's SAT great-grandson Jacques, a train driver, has fallen in love SAT with Sevrine, the first time a woman has come close to SAT challenging his love of trains. As her marriage collapses SAT under the weight of the murderous secret she and her husband SAT share, she seeks her freedom to be with her new love. The SAT pressure on Jacques becomes unbearable. SAT SAT Dan Rebellato is a Sony nominated writer and Professor of SAT Theatre at Royal Holloway. SAT SAT Produced and Directed by Polly Thomas SAT Executive Producer: Melanie Harris SAT Series Producer: Susan Roberts SAT A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dide: Glenda Jackson SAT Jacques: William Ash SAT Severine: Christine Bottomley SAT Roubaud: Sean Gallagher SAT Pecquex: Tachia Newall SAT Director: Polly Thomas SAT Producer: Polly Thomas SAT Author: Emile Zola SAT Adaptor: Dan Rebellato SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06s6psk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b06qkp8w (Listen) SAT Moral Certainty SAT SAT We live in a complex world where it's often hard to know SAT what's the right thing to do - the right thought to think. SAT But there are increasing sectors of our public discourse SAT where any sense of moral ambivalence or doubt will not be SAT tolerated. Race, homosexuality, child abuse are just some of SAT the touchstones where any expression of doubt is often SAT pounced on and hounded out, especially on social media. Our SAT Moral Maze this week isn't about freedom of speech, or SAT political correctness; it's about the moral value of SAT certainty. We prize and reward moral certainty and SAT consistency, especially in politics, but also business and SAT even sport. Any expression of doubt is seen as weakness - SAT even moral turpitude. Is this a good way of binding society SAT with a set of common values? Or is the public shaming that SAT follows the transgression of those boundaries not so much SAT about morality, but ensuring conformity that itself is a SAT kind of prejudice? Do we need a bit more humility about our SAT moral certainties? Or would that mean bowing thoughtlessly SAT to the latest fashionable cause? Bertold Brecht made the SAT point that doubt is a good servant but a bad master. In an SAT uncertain world if we don't stick to our values do we risk SAT indecisive moral paralysis? SAT Chaired by David Aaronovitch with Matthew Taylor, Claire SAT Fox, Michael Portillo and Anne McElvoy. Witnesses are Iain SAT McGilchrist, Katie Hopkins, Professor Andrew Samuels and Ben SAT Harris-Quinnery. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b06qhyv0 (Listen) SAT Programme 7, 2015 SAT SAT (7/12) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs a contest between the Welsh and the SAT Scots, in the first of this season's 'revenge' fixtures. SAT Last time these teams met, Wales beat Scotland by a single SAT point. Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards are the Welsh SAT team, while Scotland is represented by Val McDermid and SAT Roddy Lumsden. SAT SAT The challenge is thrown down from the off, as the teams are SAT asked: 'Why could Philip Pirrip, a short high-pitched cry, SAT and the Saint who decided how we should calculate Easter, SAT all have been seen by our grandparents in the mirror?' Tom SAT will be providing clues whenever the teams are getting too SAT bogged down or pursuing false trails, but they'll have SAT points deducted for every kindly nudge they need in the SAT right direction. SAT SAT As always, several of today's questions have been selected SAT from the many ideas submitted by listeners over the past SAT year or so. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Last week's teaser question SAT SAT Tom asked: If you subtract an Agatha Christie sleuth and a SAT musical based on H.G. Wells from a Lancashire folk group, SAT how much are you left with? SAT SAT The sleuth is Tuppence, of Agatha Christie's SAT husband-and-wife detective partnership Tommy & Tuppence SAT Beresford whose adventures were recently dramatised by BBC SAT TV. SAT SAT The musical Half A Sixpence, a vehicle for Tommy Steele and SAT first performed in 1963, was based on the H.G. Wells novel SAT Kipps. SAT SAT These add up to fivepence. The Lancashire group, winners of SAT New Faces, and subsequently prominent on the folk circuit SAT and on TV variety shows in the 1970s, was Fivepenny Piece. SAT SAT So the answer is that you're left with nothing. SAT SAT SAT SAT Questions in this programme SAT SAT Q1 (from Kieran Sidley) Why could Philip Pirrip, a short SAT high-pitched cry, and the saint who told us how we should SAT calculate Easter, all have been seen by our grandparents in SAT the mirror? SAT SAT Q2 Why would a wild dog, a game of numbers, a hillock in SAT permafrost, a foreign language and a drummer form a sequence SAT - and in which order should they come? SAT SAT Q3 (Music) Listen to these three songs: who is singing, SAT who are they singing to, and which is - very subtly - the SAT odd one out? SAT SAT Q4 Why could multiplying Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia SAT Marquez and J.R.R. Tolkien result in Jane Smiley? SAT SAT Q5 If you started your journey with a diesel engine on the SAT island of Sodor, you might encounter along the way a SAT politician with a wild hairstyle, an upper cut, and a SAT no-good inhabitant of Llareggub - and end up with an idiot. SAT How so? SAT SAT Q6 (Music) What might link these extracts with someone who SAT never lived, but whose death was nevertheless reported by SAT the New York Times? SAT SAT Q7 Why might you invoke Jefferson's disgraced SAT Vice-President if you asked: 'Did you get the messages? Are SAT you greeting? Do you want a piece?' SAT SAT Q8 (from Stephen Gore) In which apparently unproductive SAT source might you look for novels by Evelyn Waugh and Iain M. SAT Banks, and an orchestral work by George Benjamin? SAT SAT Rankings before today's programme SAT SAT The Round Britain Quiz league table at the half way stage in SAT the series: SAT SAT SAT SAT =Wales Played 2 Won 2 Drawn 0 Lost 0 Total points SAT scored 38 SAT SAT =South of England P2 W2 D0 L0 Pts 38 SAT SAT Midlands P2 W1 D0 L1 Pts 41 SAT SAT Scotland P2 W1 D0 L1 Pts 29 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 In which country of the world are Albert, George, Edward and SAT Victoria all physical features - and what are they? SAT SAT No need to contact us with the answer: it's just for fun, SAT and Tom will explain all at the beginning of next week's SAT edition. SAT SAT 23:30 Lynn Hill: Twenty-First Century War Poet b06qgp5p (Listen) SAT In recent years, the US Air Force has been training more SAT drone operators than aircraft pilots. BBC Radio 4 gets SAT inside the mind of poet Lynn Hill, Air Force veteran and SAT former drone operator whose poetry opens up the alien soul SAT of 21st century warfare. SAT SAT Lynn Hill was an active participant in both Iraq and SAT Afghanistan. She played a pivotal role in operations, but SAT hasn't set foot in either country. She spent much of her SAT military career flying Predator drones, gathering SAT intelligence and firing missiles remotely some 12,000 miles SAT away - from a central station in Las Vegas. SAT SAT Hill started her military career as an intelligence analyst. SAT But when she transitioned to the Predator Operations Unit, SAT her idea of what the military was started to change. SAT SAT She became an operator, directly involved in missions, SAT confronted with banks of screens showing live footage of SAT Iraq. During her lunch break she'd nip out for a sandwich, SAT then return to fight in Afghanistan. At the end of the day, SAT she'd get into her car and go home. SAT SAT Her brilliant poetry talks of the difficult task of SAT separating her real life from her war life. About hate and SAT insanity, violence and nihilism. About dreams and being SAT involved in war via a screen. About seeing yourself in the SAT third person. About some of the very serious problems faced SAT by her 21st century war colleagues - divorce, alcohol, SAT psychiatric illness, crises of identity. SAT SAT This is another world - a world drowning in radio chatter SAT and computer noises, a hermetically-sealed dome of virtual SAT warfare. The sound of Hill's spare, personal, razor-sharp SAT poetry illustrates life for her and other young women who've SAT played this uniquely modern combat role. SAT SAT Produced by Andrew Wilkie SAT A PRA production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 06 DECEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06r0d98 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. 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SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06r0d9q (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06r0rmk (Listen) SUN The Future of religious education, Sunday Programme Special SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b06r0rmm (Listen) SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal 2015 SUN SUN The Revd Dr Sam Wells makes the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal on SUN behalf of St Martin-in-the-Fields. SUN Reg Charity:261359 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 082 82 84. SUN - Send a cheque to FREEPOST St Martin's Christmas Appeal. SUN Cheques should be made payable to St Martin-in-the-Fields SUN Christmas Appeal. SUN - Or donate online via the Radio 4 website. SUN SUN The BBC Radio 4 St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal is SUN now in its 89th year. The money raised from this annual SUN appeal supports work with homeless and vulnerable people SUN across the UK, through the work of The Connection at St SUN Martin's and the Vicar's Relief Fund. SUN SUN (Photo credit: Marc Gascoigne). SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06r0d9s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06r0d9v (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06r0rmp (Listen) SUN Being a Seer SUN SUN At the beginning of Pope Francis's year-long Extraordinary SUN Jubilee of Mercy, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the SUN founding of the Taizé community in France, and the 100th SUN anniversary of the birth of it's founder, Brother Roger. SUN Second in an Advent series, 'Learning to See', from SUN Brentwood Cathedral in Essex - an ecumenical celebration in SUN the Taizé tradition. Leaders: Fr Martin Boland (Cathedral SUN Dean) and the Very Revd Nicholas Henshall (Dean of SUN Chelmsford). SUN Choir directed by Andrew Wright. Organist: Stephen King. SUN Producer: Andrew Earis. SUN SUN Script SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN SUN SUN It’s ten past eight. This morning’s Sunday Worship, the SUN second in an Advent Series, ‘Learning to See’, comes from SUN Brentwood Cathedral in Essex, It’s an ecumenical service SUN introduced by the Cathedral Dean, Father Martin Boland, and SUN begins with James MacMillan’s advent anthem, O Radiant Dawn. SUN SUN Choir O radiant dawn – James MacMillan (1st section) SUN SUN Welcome and Introduction SUN SUN Good morning. We often associate the season of Advent with SUN the prophet John the Baptist, who called people to prepare SUN themselves for the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. This SUN morning, we warmly welcome you as we celebrate two SUN contemporary prophets of mercy: Brother Roger of Taizé the SUN 75th anniversary of the founding of his Taize community we SUN celebrate this year, and Pope Francis, whose proclamation of SUN a year long Jubilee of Mercy beginning this Advent has so SUN impacted Christian communities across the world. Each in his SUN own way, calls us to prepare in the ordinary circumstances SUN of our lives for that time when Jesus Christ will return SUN again and all of creation will be taken up into Him. SUN SUN Brother Roger’s vision was of “a community where heartfelt SUN kindness and simplicity would be at the center of SUN everything.” If such a vision were to be more than mere SUN words and pious sentiment, then any community would need to SUN be ecumenical in its practice and commitment. It is with SUN this in mind that this service is jointly led by myself and SUN the Dean of Chelmsford Anglican Cathedral, the Reverend SUN Nicholas Henshall, a coming together with our respective SUN communities to bear witness to Brother Roger’s vision of SUN biblical community expressed in love and cooperation between SUN Christians of different denominations. SUN SUN Both Brother Roger and Pope Francis, give prophetic voice to SUN the fact that God is always waiting for us, that His Mercy SUN makes us more aware that we are children of God, brothers SUN and sisters in Jesus Christ, and that we will be more SUN credible Christian witnesses if we, too, become prophetic SUN heralds of God’s mercy. SUN SUN Let us pray. SUN SUN We come to you, O Lord, Father of all mercies, SUN in order that we may abandon ourselves more fully to your SUN Divine mercy. SUN Inspire us by the witness of your faithful servants, SUN Brother Roger and Pope Francis, SUN so that through them, we may appreciate more fully your SUN loving-kindness SUN and to be given the courage to live this in community with SUN our Christian brothers and sisters of every tradition and SUN all men and women who seek you with sincere hearts. SUN We ask you, during this Jubilee Year of Mercy, SUN to fill us with your graces so that we may enter through the SUN Door of Life, Jesus Christ, your Son, SUN and begin to live more fully the new life of mercy SUN that He has made real to us through His coming to the earth. SUN We make this prayer, through Christ our Lord. Amen. SUN Our first hymn was written in the fourth century by St SUN Ambrose, Come thou redeemer of the earth. SUN SUN Hymn: Come thou redeemer of the earth SUN Penitential rite SUN SUN As we prepare to celebrate the mystery of Christ’s love, let SUN us acknowledge our failures and ask the Lord for pardon and SUN strength. SUN SUN Sung Kyrie (Taize) SUN May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and SUN bring us to everlasting life. Amen. SUN [After our first reading the Dean of Chelmsford Nicholas SUN Henshall will speak about Brother Roger of Taize.] SUN SUN Bible reading (Reader 1) SUN SUN A reading from the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 55, beginning at SUN the sixth verse. SUN SUN Seek the Lord while the Lord may be found; call on God while SUN God is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the SUN unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn back to the Lord, SUN who will have mercy on them, to our God, who will freely SUN pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are SUN your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are SUN higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways SUN and my thoughts than your thoughts. SUN Music The truth from above – James Devor SUN SUN Nicholas Henshall SUN SUN This year, we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the SUN birth of Brother Roger, who founded the Taizé community. He SUN had a profound intuition that people living together in SUN community - mirroring the life of God: Father, Son and Holy SUN Spirit - could be a powerful and persuasive witness to God’s SUN love in our world. ( SUN Pre-recorded insert: SUN Reading: Brother Roger (actor) SUN Jesus Christ, Love of all loving, you were always in me and SUN I did not know it. You were there, and I kept on forgetting SUN you. You were in my heart of hearts and I was looking SUN elsewhere. Even when I remained far from you, you kept on SUN waiting for me. And the day is coming when I can tell you: SUN Risen Christ, you are my life: I belong to Christ, I am SUN Christ’s. SUN Choir Wait for the Lord (Taize) SUN SUN Nicholas Henshall SUN SUN Brother Roger chose Taizé because when he knocked on a door SUN in the village he was welcomed in. Hospitality to the SUN stranger was a key note from the beginning. The village was SUN mostly deserted in 1940 – the country ravaged by war and the SUN men all away fighting or working. Roger came to France SUN precisely because of the suffering: it seemed to him exactly SUN the right place to begin a life of prayer and service. SUN Indeed an early ministry was that of welcoming refugees and SUN displaced persons – a ministry still core to Taizé today. SUN When I was on the hill at Taize this summer a house had just SUN been made available to a newly arrived refugee family from SUN the Middle East. Burgundy itself remains one of the most SUN depopulated areas in western Europe. SUN SUN I met Brother Roger nearly 30 years ago on my first visit to SUN Taizé. We were a group of students, and found ourselves SUN ushered through to the monastery after one of the prayer SUN times, and sitting talking with Br Roger and some of the SUN other brothers. SUN SUN What I felt then is what I still feel now about the gift of SUN Taizé, its promise and its purpose: its fundamental SUN ordinariness. It is in so many ways an extraordinary place. SUN But at heart it is all about “ordinary Christianity” – a SUN group of people saying their prayers, building community and SUN seeking to serve their neighbour. Not rocket science but the SUN heart of what it means to be a follower of Jesus. SUN SUN Br Roger’s vision was founded in a profound understanding of SUN Christian community. From his doctoral research on the Rule SUN of St Benedict to the first community at Taizé, to the SUN thriving monastery today and indeed in his very pragmatic SUN practice of ecumenical Christianity. It was all rooted in SUN his understanding of community, ordinary community, SUN different people living, praying and serving together. SUN SUN Br Roger was not a great preacher or writer; he was not in SUN the academic sense a theologian or a systematic thinker. But SUN he was a man who simply refused to recognise boundaries. A SUN Protestant pastor who received the Eucharist daily at a SUN Catholic Mass. And the multi-lingual, trans-denominational SUN monastic community epitomises those values today – an SUN inclusive vision. SUN SUN And he knew therefore that the community had to live in a SUN very particular way, always pointing towards the other and SUN the God they were there to serve. Hence the refusal of all SUN financial donations and the insistence that the brothers SUN live by the work of their hands. SUN SUN And simply because we refer to Taizé as an “ecumenical” SUN community, we mustn’t be misled into thinking of Roger as an SUN ecclesiastical negotiator. The word “ecumenical” actually SUN means, after all, a concern for the whole inhabited world – SUN and that was ultimately the unity that Roger and the SUN community he founded sought to serve, particularly in the SUN person of the outcast and the stranger. The church lives to SUN serve that greater unity, and can even be a foretaste of it. SUN Indeed that is the experience of so many who go on SUN pilgrimage to Taizé itself. SUN Brother Roger and the community he founded have embedded a SUN simple yet powerful vocabulary of peace and trust. That SUN extraordinary word “mercy” lies at the heart of it – a whole SUN palette of words variously translated “loving kindness”, SUN “compassion”, “mercy”. The conviction that the God we know SUN in Jesus meets us in our human frailty and heals us by his SUN love. SUN SUN This summer, during the week that marked the 10th SUN anniversary of his death, the 100th anniversary of his birth SUN and the 75th anniversary of the community, I was again SUN sitting on the floor of the great Church of the SUN Reconciliation, with about 3,000 fellow pilgrims, most of SUN them less than half my age. Among them my eldest daughter SUN encountering Taizé for the first time in her 20s. Late into SUN the night we chanted a new song for this special year – a SUN special chant setting Brother Roger’s three-word SUN interpretation of the Beatitudes. “Joy, simplicity and SUN mercy”. That’s what it means to be a follower of Jesus. SUN Choir Heureux qui s’abandonne à toi (Taize) SUN SUN Prayers (1) SUN SUN Nicholas Henshall: Let us pray: SUN SUN Reader 1: For the ministry and mission of the Taizé SUN community: that its community life may always be deeply SUN anchored in the mercy of Christ through prayer, worship and SUN a special care for the poor and the hurting. SUN SUN Reader 2: For all those, like Brother Roger and Pope SUN Francis, who bear witness to the mercy of God: that they may SUN live as fearless and joyful heralds of His loving-kindness SUN to all men and women. SUN Choir: O Lord hear our prayer (Taize) SUN Fr Martin SUN SUN This week, throughout the Catholic world and beyond, Pope SUN Francis will formally open an extraordinary Jubilee Year of SUN Mercy. This time is for all people, men and women of all SUN shades of belief and none, to come to know something of the SUN transforming mercy of God, who calls us into a deeper SUN relationship with him and makes us ambassadors of mercy that SUN are sent to establish embassies of mercy for every man and SUN woman. Pope Francis is convinced that in a world that can be SUN so cold and unforgiving, God’s mercy has the power to thaw SUN human hearts and restore life to dry bones so that they can SUN sing. SUN SUN Pre-recorded insert: SUN Reading: Pope Francis (Actor) SUN Mercy is the very foundation of the Church’s life. All of SUN her pastoral activity should be caught up in the tenderness SUN she makes present to believers; The Church’s very SUN credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and SUN compassionate love. Perhaps we have long since forgotten how SUN to show and live the way of mercy. The temptation, on the SUN one hand, to focus exclusively on justice made us forget SUN that this is only the first, albeit necessary and SUN indispensable step. On the other hand, sad to say, we must SUN admit that the practice of mercy is waning in the wider SUN culture. Without a witness to mercy, life becomes fruitless SUN and sterile, as if sequestered in a barren desert. The time SUN has come for the Church to take up the joyful call to mercy SUN once more. It is time to return to the basics and to bear SUN the weaknesses and struggles of our brothers and sisters. SUN The Church’s first truth is the love of Christ. Wherever SUN there are Christians, everyone should find an oasis of SUN mercy. SUN SUN Music: Like a sea without a shore SUN SUN Homily (Fr Martin) SUN SUN It is time to grow up. It’s time to see and understand God SUN in a more complete light. Now is the moment to be merciful SUN like our Heavenly Father. It is not enough to admire the SUN concept of mercy from a safe distance, we have to take the SUN risk of experiencing it and being it, up close and personal. SUN We – the church - have to live it. This is the prophetic SUN call of Pope Francis that will resound throughout the SUN Jubilee year of Mercy which begins this coming Tuesday, just SUN as it was the call of Brother Roger of Taize. SUN SUN “Mercy”, says Pope Francis, “is the bridge that connects God SUN and man, opening our hearts to the hope of being loved SUN forever despite our sinfulness.” We are now just weeks away SUN from celebrating Christmas, the historical moment when God SUN was made flesh in Jesus Christ. He is the living bridge that SUN connects our earthly lives with the divine life of God. We SUN are no longer left to wander alone on a distant, cold planet SUN that is indifferent to our suffering and weakness. In the SUN birth of Jesus, God does not watch his creatures from afar SUN through a heavenly telescope, but rather he comes to us, SUN making his home with us and embracing us in His arms of SUN mercy. SUN SUN For Pope Francis, “mercy is the fundamental law that dwells SUN in the heart of every person who looks sincerely into the SUN eyes of his brothers and sisters on the path of life.” To SUN act mercifully is to see our brothers and sisters with a new SUN clarity - no longer viewing them as weak, as failures or as SUN scapegoats, or through the single lens of justice, but SUN rather with the added lens of mercy. Mercy makes justice, SUN binocular – we see with both eyes, full vision, recognising SUN that all men and women are flesh of my flesh, blood of my SUN blood. SUN I recently went to see an exhibition in London’s Jewish SUN Museum called “Blood”. It explored the idea of how blood, SUN the physical substance and the symbol, has the power to bind SUN people together and to divide them. In one room, there was a SUN recording of voices reciting Shylock’s speech to his SUN persecutors from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. SUN SUN Pre-recorded insert: SUN Reading: The Merchant of Venice (Actor) SUN I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, SUN organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with SUN the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the SUN same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled SUN by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you SUN prick us do we not bleed? SUN SUN This is Shylock’s plea for mercy, his plea to be seen in a SUN proper light and for his dignity to be recognised, a plea SUN the Christian church has always needed to act upon, and has SUN often lamentably failed to do. It is also a plea to awaken SUN that fundamental law of mercy that exists frozen in the SUN glacial hearts of his anti-Semitic persecutors. The quality SUN of Mercy is one of the hallmarks that distinguishes humans SUN from other animals and when we show mercy, we become more SUN human, more alive to the fragility of our fellow human SUN beings and to the loving kindness of God. The ability to SUN show mercy to others – to the stranger, the enemy, the SUN sinner, and in the case of Shylock, those who are our SUN neighbours but quite simply different – is a sure sign of SUN spiritual and emotional maturity. It’s a sign of growing up. SUN SUN SUN One of the great traditions of a Jubilee Year is to have a SUN Holy Door. The door symbolises Jesus who opens wide his SUN heart allowing us to pass through into communion with God. SUN Crossing this threshold, symbolises our passing from sin to SUN grace, slavery to freedom, darkness to light. St Peter’s SUN Basilica in Rome has a very ancient and grand Holy Door, SUN which Pope Francis will open this coming week. Our own Holy SUN Door here at Brentwood Cathedral may be a more humble SUN entrance, but its prophetic ambition is the same, calling SUN people – all people with organs, dimensions, senses, SUN passions, affections – to pass through into the presence of SUN God. SUN But, of course, doors are only useful if they are open and SUN we are welcomed in. Too many doors in the life of the Church SUN are locked, accessible only on payment of an entrance fee or SUN else to a handful of people who hold the secret entry code SUN of a particular kind of life or set of beliefs or social SUN status. It’s not surprising that so many people feel that SUN they dare not darken our doors. It reminds me of SUN J.K.Rowling’s description of Hogwarts in Harry Potter and SUN The Philosopher’s Stone SUN SUN Pre-recorded insert: SUN Reading: Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone (actor) SUN Then there were doors that wouldn’t open unless you asked SUN politely, or tickled them in exactly the right place, and SUN doors that weren’t really doors at all, but solid walls just SUN pretending. SUN SUN Pope Francis like some modern day Joshua is blowing his SUN horn; and those “solid walls just pretending” are beginning SUN to crack and crumble...leaving doors of mercy that are open SUN to every man and woman. This is a mercy that is not SUN abstract, opaque or general. This is a mercy that has a SUN name: Jesus Christ. A mercy that comes to us in the reality SUN and the concrete instances of our lives. A mercy that shines SUN its light into the darkest cellars of the human condition SUN and liberates men and women from all that degrades and SUN threatens to destroy them. This is a mercy that makes us SUN free men and women. SUN SUN It is now: SUN Time to grow up. SUN Time to open wide the doors of mercy. SUN Time to encounter the beauty of our all merciful God. SUN SUN Like Jesus, Mary, his mother is ‘full of grace,’ as this SUN setting of the Ave Maria by the English composer Colin Mawby SUN reminds us, SUN SUN Music: Ave Maria – Colin Mawby SUN SUN Prayers (2) SUN SUN Fr Martin: Let us pray. SUN SUN Reader 1: For the extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy: that SUN we may open all that is shut and locked within us to receive SUN God’s mercies and to share them with the men and women of SUN our own age. And for all who believe in the God of mercy: SUN that we may live in the awareness of God’s presence with us SUN during this season of Advent and look to the future with SUN childlike expectancy for the fulfilment of God’s promises. SUN SUN Reader 2: For Peace, particularly in the Middle East: that SUN God will guide all political leaders in the ways of justice SUN and mercy and confound the actions of tyrants and terrorists SUN alike. SUN SUN Music: O Lord, hear my prayer SUN SUN We pray in the words that Jesus taught us. SUN SUN Our Father who art in Heaven, SUN Hallowed be thy name; SUN Thy kingdom come SUN Thy will be done SUN On earth as it is in heaven. SUN Give us this day our daily bread; SUN And forgive us our trespasses SUN As we forgive those who trespass against us; SUN And lead us not into temptation, SUN But deliver us from evil. Amen. SUN SUN Link to final hymn SUN SUN Our final hymn is one of the earliest Christian songs of SUN worship. It can be traced back to the fourth century. Let SUN all mortal flesh keep silence. SUN Hymn: Let all mortal flesh keep silence SUN SUN Blessing SUN SUN May almighty God bless you, SUN the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. SUN Amen. SUN SUN Music (fade to continuity) Lord Jesus Christ (Taize) SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06qmyyn (Listen) SUN Sarah Dunant: Protest, Paris, Terror SUN SUN Sarah Dunant reflects on the nature of protest against the SUN threat of terrorism and the threat of climate change and SUN their coming together in the city of Paris. SUN SUN "How do we find a sense of potency in the face of terror, SUN how do we embrace life when threatened with death, how do we SUN champion our future against those who claim they will just SUN carry on dying until they win? Perhaps what is needed is SUN mental as much as military action." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sarah Dunant SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0m9x (Listen) SUN Laughing Kookaburra SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Sir David Attenborough presents Australia's laughing SUN kookaburra. At 45cm the laughing kookaburra is one of the SUN world's largest kingfishers. Native to south and eastern SUN Australia, they have now been introduced to Western SUN Australia and parts of New Zealand. Although they do catch SUN fish, they hunt mainly on land where they eat reptiles, SUN small mammals and invertebrates. The cacophony of loud SUN hooting laughs from which they get their Aboriginal name, is SUN often produced by several birds in chorus. The cackling call SUN is one of the few exotic bird sounds that is recognised SUN around the world: a captive kookaburra named Jacko became a SUN radio celebrity in Australia through his ability to break SUN into that laughing call on demand. By the time of his death SUN in 1939 he was one of the best known birds in the world. SUN SUN Laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Andrew Walmsley / naturepl.com. SUN NPL Ref 01301013 SUN © Andrew Walmsley / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06r0d9x (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 09:45 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b06r0v1s (Listen) SUN Making a Difference SUN SUN Aasmah Mir reports on how the money from last year's Radio 4 SUN Christmas Appeal with St Martin in-the-Fields has been spent SUN on changing the lives of homeless people through the work of SUN The Connection at St Martin's, and how crisis grants from SUN the Vicar's Relief Fund have helped secure housing or have SUN kept vulnerable people in accommodation all around the UK. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b06r0vsl (Listen) SUN What a pain for David. Charlie could use some advice. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Keri Davies 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 Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Will Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Matthew Holman: Michael Winder SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06r0vsn (Listen) SUN Atul Gawande SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the surgeon, author and former SUN Reith lecturer, Atul Gawande. SUN SUN A general and endocrine surgeon in Boston, he is professor SUN in both the Department of Health Policy & Management at the SUN Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of SUN Surgery at Harvard Medical School. SUN SUN Born in Brooklyn, he is the son of two doctors who came to SUN the US to study medicine. After graduating from Stanford and SUN studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, he SUN embarked on a brief political career, working for Bill SUN Clinton's presidential campaign and on his health and social SUN policy in the White House following his election. When SUN Clinton's health policy reform floundered, Atul returned to SUN Harvard to finish the medical degree he'd started after SUN Oxford. SUN SUN During his surgical residency he began writing for the SUN online magazine Slate and he's been writing for the New SUN Yorker since 1998. His 2009 article "The Cost Conundrum" was SUN cited by President Barack Obama during his attempt to get SUN the healthcare reform legislation through Congress. Atul has SUN published four books to date about the achievements, but SUN also the limitations, of medicine. SUN SUN In 2014 he presented the BBC's Reith Lectures, delivering a SUN series of four talks titled The Future of Medicine. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Atul Gawande SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06r0d9z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06qhyv4 (Listen) SUN Series 64, Episode 1 SUN SUN The 64th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote SUN to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based SUN entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run SUN at the Dorking Halls where regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme SUN Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Tony SUN Hawks, with Jack Dee as the programme's reluctant chairman. SUN Regular listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, SUN pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. Producer - SUN Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio Comedy production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Jack Dee SUN Panellist: Barry Cryer SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN Panellist: Tony Hawks SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06r0wh4 (Listen) SUN Food Museums SUN SUN If you were to create a museum telling the story of food and SUN drink what would you say or put on display? What about SUN interactivity - tastes and smells? Is it about flavour and SUN experience or the process of creating the ingredients from SUN the farmers to gastronomes? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon steps inside London's new British Museum of SUN Food (BMoF) created by 'jellymongers' Bompas and Parr to see SUN what their creative minds had in store. Meanwhile in New SUN York, the Museum of Food and Drink (MoFAD) also aims to SUN attract tourists and food enthusiasts...but how will they SUN tell their story? SUN SUN Celebrating food and making an exhibition of it is not new. SUN Many smaller venues aim to show off the delights of dishes - SUN from the kimchi museum in Korea to those celebrating Spam, SUN potatoes, nougat or butter. How keen or obsessed would you SUN need to be to visit? Sheila invtes you to take a tour and SUN see if they whet your appetite for more rather than leave SUN you fed-up. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon SUN Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. SUN SUN Links to Food Museums... SUN British Museum of Food in London SUN Museum of Food and Drink in New York SUN Science Museum Cravings Exhibition SUN The Online Food Museum SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06r0db1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06r19sg (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Bridging the Gulf with Tehran b06r19sj (Listen) SUN The former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw looks at the SUN evolution of the West's troubled encounters with Persia, and SUN then Iran, from "Great Game" imperialism, through the 20th SUN century politics of oil, to the recent stand-off over Iran's SUN nuclear ambitions. SUN SUN While in office Straw visited Iran and negotiated with its SUN leaders. In this programme he explores the roots of the SUN tension between the UK and Iran, and what can and should be SUN done about it. SUN SUN Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, relations with Iran SUN have moved seemingly from crisis to crisis: the taking of SUN hostages at the American embassy; the Satanic Verses affair; SUN President Ahmadinejad's rhetoric, and suspicions about SUN Tehran's nuclear programme. From the West there have been SUN diplomatic and economic sanctions, accusations of SUN international terrorism, talk of an "Axis of Evil" and SUN threats of military action. In between, occasionally SUN fruitful negotiations and common cause over ISIL and SUN Al-Qaeda have brought moments of detente. SUN SUN But do Western political leaders truly understand Iran and SUN its current incarnation, the Islamic Republic? Can Iran ever SUN come to deal cooperatively with the West? Can the Islamic SUN Republic go from being pariah to partner? SUN SUN Can this gulf of understanding with Tehran ever be bridged? SUN SUN Contributors include Lord William Hague, Seyed Hossein SUN Mousavian, Amir Taheri, David Frum and Sir Richard Dalton SUN SUN Producer: Adam Bowen. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06qmtzy (Listen) SUN Usk, Monmouthshire SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultuual panel programme from Usk SUN in Monmouthshire. SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Wilson and Christine Walkden answer SUN this week's gardening queries. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – How do I deter snakes from coming into my back garden? SUN Matthew – Grass Snakes are completely harmless to humans and SUN they are very shy so I wouldn’t worry too much about them. SUN Christine – There are many ways of deterring them though – SUN highly coloured bits of coiled pipe scare them off. A dog SUN too will chase them. SUN Q – We’re currently restoring a copse that was full of SUN Himalayan balsam, bramble, and nettles – we’ve cleared the SUN balsam but where do we start with the nettles? It’s the SUN size of a football pitch. SUN Eric – Pigs will take everything out efficiently and they’ll SUN manure the patch for you too. 4-6 pigs in that space would SUN take about 3 months.Matthew – Pigs get down to a depth that SUN you couldn’t hope to – they’ll get the bramble and nettle SUN root out completely. SUN Q – Why are my quinces brown on the inside? SUN Pippa – It seems like bitter pit with apples – and I would SUN treat it as that. So you could use seaweed extract, but SUN most importantly make sure it isn’t getting too much high SUN nitrogen material nor any nitrogen robbing material. So SUN don’t use straw or woodchip as a mulch. I would concentrate SUN on thinning the fruits out a bit and make sure it’s SUN adequately moist at all times. SUN Q – We live on a common and would like to grow flowers and SUN small shrubs around an electricity pylon – we have SUN permission from the electricity board to develop the area SUN but not to plant large shrubs or trees. What can you suggest SUN for year-round colour? SUN Pippa – You could plant a lot of sun-loving, low-growing SUN Alpine plants or even some of the Thymes if it doesn’t get SUN too soggy and damp.Christine – Smaller shrubs like ‘sacred SUN bamboo’ will give you good flowers. Herbaceous and woody SUN Potentillas would be good. Pittosporums. Prunus tenella. SUN Look at all year round colour, keep it simple, multiple SUN plants of each too – to make a bold effect.Matthew – Go for SUN Dogwoods – Cornus alba ‘Sibirica’ for winter colour. SUN Daffodils would be good – ‘Tete-a-Tete’ or orbicularis. A SUN backbone of trimmed Holly would be good. Or things like SUN Geraniums. SUN Q – About 12 years ago we bought a ‘Lord Lambourne’ apple SUN tree - this year it seems to have sprung rootlets – do we SUN need to cut it down? SUN Pippa – They look like raised brown, barkish, bobbly bits – SUN about the size of a 50p piece… I think this is the tree SUN forming some root/shoot material which sometimes happens SUN when a tree is stressed. You need to work out why it’s SUN stressed – too wet, accidentally had some roots chopped? And SUN then sort that out. But don’t saw it off or cut it down! SUN Q – Could you please suggest a novel Mediterranean plant to SUN remind us of Usk’s heritage as the wild North Western reach SUN of the Roman Empire? SUN Christine – Euphorbia acanthothamnos – the barbed-wire SUN nettle plantPippa – I’d love to have an Olive – but it may SUN not like it hereMatthew – Cork oak is a wonderfully graceful SUN tree. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06r19sl (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations which reflect changes SUN between generations and the importance of childhood SUN experiences in making us who we are. All in the Omnibus SUN edition of the series that proves it's surprising what you SUN hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b06r1b2h (Listen) SUN The Arabian Nights, Episode 1 SUN SUN The immortal stories of The Arabian Nights are brought to SUN life in an inventive new adaptation by Glen Neath, reviving SUN favourites such as Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves and The SUN Fisherman and The Demon along with lesser known tales. SUN SUN This is a world of wonder, magic and comedy - but also of SUN contemporary realism. Successive generations in the east and SUN the west have reinterpreted these tales, recognising the SUN inept rulers, the resourceful slaves and the wondrous SUN magicians. That's why this is one of the most enduring and SUN influential books in literature. SUN SUN In this first of two parts, we join Ata Madri (Indira Varma) SUN as she heads to modern day Cairo to track down an elusive SUN medieval copy of The Nights - one that is said to contain SUN the original ending. A sea of stories awaits her. SUN SUN An extraordinary ensemble of actors from east and west come SUN together to tell the tales. SUN SUN Sound design by Alisdair McGregor SUN Music by Michael Ward with David Lewin and Peter Rophone SUN Directed by Boz Temple-Morris SUN A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Narrator: Nadim Sawalha SUN Madri: Indira Varma SUN Clive: Ewan Bailey SUN King Yunan: Ewan Bailey SUN Taxi Driver: Nayef Rashed SUN Hasan: Nayef Rashed SUN Ali Baba: Muzz Khan SUN Ali Baba's Wife: Noa Bodner SUN Cassim: Noof McEwan SUN King of the City's Vizier: Noof McEwan SUN Cassim's Wife: Kyria Alyssa SUN Marjaneh: Laura Hanna SUN Cobbler: Niall Ashdown SUN Vizier: Niall Ashdown SUN Robber: Waleed Elgadi SUN Captain: Alexei Sayle SUN Ali Baba's Son: Amir El-Masry SUN Young Man: Amir El-Masry SUN Shopkeeper: Nabil Elouahabi SUN Fisherman: Nabil Elouahabi SUN Professor: Stewart Scudamore SUN Demon: Stewart Scudamore SUN Sage Duban: Renu Setna SUN King of the City: Bhasker Patel SUN Evil Wife: Sharlit Deyzac SUN Director: Boz Temple-Morris SUN Adaptor: Glen Neath SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b06r1bh5 (Listen) SUN Colum McCann - TransAtlantic SUN SUN The Irish writer Colum McCann discusses his novel SUN TransAtlantic, which was longlisted for the Man Booker SUN Prize. SUN SUN The first non-stop intercontinental flight from Canada to SUN the West of Ireland in 1919 by Alcock and Brown is a pivotal SUN point in McCann's book. Featuring both fictional characters SUN and real people, the novel is set across almost two SUN centuries. SUN SUN It explores the key moments in Irish/ US history, from the SUN potato famine, the American civil war to the Good Friday SUN agreement and examines the links and differences between SUN these two countries separated by the vast Atlantic Ocean. SUN SUN Presented by James Naughtie and including a group of readers SUN who join in the discussion. SUN SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Interviewed guest : Colum McCann SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN January's Bookclub choice : The Narrow Road to the Deep SUN North by Richard Flanagan. SUN SUN 16:30 Postcards from the Village: An East-West Dialogue SUN b06r1bqd (Listen) SUN An exchange of two villages at the margins of Europe - one SUN in Transylvania, one in Oxfordshire - inspires new poems SUN from Romanian poet Ioana Ieronim and UK poet Fiona Sampson. SUN SUN Both poets have written extensively about their own villages SUN - Rasnov and Coleshill - so what happens when they visit SUN each other's 'great good place'? Ioana and Fiona find some SUN curious parallels between two villages that on first SUN encounter seem very different. SUN SUN Produced by Emma Harding. SUN SUN 17:00 The Nervous Breakdown of the Internet b06qjzv2 (Listen) SUN Modern life relies on internet security. But cyber-criminals SUN have rocked confidence and revealed shocking complacency. SUN Edward Lucas explores how trust can be restored. SUN SUN Breaches of computer networks at TalkTalk and Ashley Madison SUN have highlighted the dangers we face on the internet. SUN Cyber-crime will cost the global economy an annual $500bn. SUN And our plight is set to worsen. The internet was never SUN designed to be the central nervous system of modern life. SUN Nobody foresaw its role in the media, e-commerce, e-banking, SUN infrastructure, and entertainment. SUN SUN The prize for attackers is data - they can steal, degrade or SUN destroy, in order to blackmail, impersonate or bankrupt us. SUN SUN At every stage of the internet's development, cost and SUN convenience trumped security. Now we have to deal with a SUN legacy of out-of-date systems and ingrained complacency, at SUN a time when our dependence is growing. Our attackers have SUN the advantage - they feed on a huge and lucrative criminal SUN economy, they buy the weapons they need in sophisticated SUN markets and launder their proceeds with anonymous electronic SUN money. SUN SUN Edward Lucas considers the problem with security experts and SUN shows the shocking ease with which hackers can steal data. SUN He examines where responsibility lies - with the government, SUN companies and individuals - and discusses potential SUN solutions - from Estonian-style biometric identity cards to SUN "bug bounties" for those who find errors in hardware and SUN software. SUN SUN Legislation, commercial pressure, education and changing SUN social norms can all help secure the internet and, with it, SUN our modern way of life. SUN SUN Presenter: Edward Lucas SUN Producer: Kate Dixon SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b06r0v1s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06r0db5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06r0db9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06r0dbc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06r1c2c (Listen) SUN Adrian Goldberg SUN SUN This week we traverse the Second Century Via Egnatia, hear SUN about the emotional journey of parents with premature babies SUN and get a first-hand account of a night tour in Afghanistan. SUN SUN We're also treated to 'Sorted For E's And Whizz' sung to the SUN tune of I Vow To Thee My Country. SUN SUN Adrian's Pick of the BBC iPlayer is Landmark Moment's in SUN Mandela's Life first broadcast on the World Service in 2013. SUN SUN Produced by Stephen Garner. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06r1c2f (Listen) SUN Debating David is down in the dumps. And no touching, SUN please, we're British. SUN SUN 19:15 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06r1cvy (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 3 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 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: Lucy Trodd SUN Performer: Ruth Bratt 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 b06r1cw0 (Listen) SUN The Naked Eye SUN SUN Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine, reads his specially SUN commissioned short story inspired by the Natural History SUN Museum. It's about the world's most powerful microscope and SUN what it can see...and what it can't. Producer Beth O'Dea. SUN Micro-CT Scan image of the cross section of a Bostryx Snail SUN provided by the Natural History Museum. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Joe Dunthorne SUN Reader: Joe Dunthorne SUN Producer: Beth O'Dea SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b06qv7rb (Listen) SUN BBC World Service Soft Power SUN SUN The British Government has just allocated £289 million to SUN the World Service for the next five years, in a bid to SUN promote UK soft power. But where will this money go, and SUN what does this mean for the BBC's independence? Roger Bolton SUN talks to the Director of the BBC World Service Group SUN Francesca Unsworth. SUN SUN With the arrival of Advent came a Radio 3 Carol Service, SUN performed by the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge. Some SUN listeners were impressed by the new compositions alongside SUN traditional favourites, but others were put off by some of SUN the more modern works. Should advent be a time for SUN challenging new music or comforting classics? Roger asks the SUN series producer of Radio 3's Choral Evensong, Philip SUN Billson. SUN SUN Radio 2's Friday Night is Music Night has been broadcasting SUN for over 60 years, offering listeners a weekly programme of SUN popular music performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and a SUN myriad of stars. But can a programme from the 1950s pull in SUN a wide age-range of listeners and can it justify the expense SUN of a full orchestra? Roger Bolton goes behind the scenes, SUN speaking to Strictly Come Dancing judge and guest presenter SUN Craig Revel Horwood and the production team, to find out SUN what goes into making the world's longest-running live SUN orchestral music programme on radio. SUN SUN Last week Glenda Jackson returned to acting, after a 23 year SUN absence, playing Dide in the first season of Blood, Sex and SUN Money on Radio 4. The series is a 'mash-up' of 20 of Zola's SUN novels. Many listeners lapped up the drama. Roger Bolton SUN speaks to Commissioning Editor Jeremy Howe about whether you SUN have to follow the text word-for-word to be faithful to the SUN spirit of the author. SUN SUN Producer: Katherine Godfrey SUN A WhistledownpProduction for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06qmv02 (Listen) SUN General Sir Robert Ford, Hazel Adair, Jane Wardle, Gerry SUN Byrne and P.F Sloan SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN General Sir Robert Ford who was Commander Land Forces SUN Northern Ireland at the time of the Bloody Sunday shootings. SUN SUN Hazel Adair, the TV scriptwriter behind hit series like SUN Compact, Emergency Ward 10 and Crossroads. SUN SUN Professor Jane Wardle, the behavioural scientist who SUN transformed our understanding of cancer screening and SUN prevention. SUN SUN Gerry Byrne, the Liverpool left back who was part of the SUN England World Cup winning squad in 1966. SUN SUN And PF Sloan, the enigmatic musician who wrote the number SUN one hit "Eve of Destruction" SUN SUN General Sir Robert Ford GCB CBE SUN SUN Last Word spoke to General Sir Mike Jackson. SUN SUN Born 29 December 1923; died 24 November 2015 aged 91 SUN SUN Hazel Adair SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Dick Fiddy and granddaughters Cate and SUN Georgia Mackenzie. SUN SUN Born 9 July 1920; died 22 November 2015 aged 95 SUN SUN Jane Wardle FBA SUN SUN Matthew spoke to colleague and friend Dr Jo Waller. SUN SUN Born 30 October 1950; died 20 October 2015 aged 64 SUN SUN Gerry Byrne SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Journalist and Broadcaster John Keith. SUN SUN Born 29 August 1938; died 28 November 2015 aged 77 SUN SUN P.F Sloan SUN SUN Born 18 September 1945; died 15 November 2015 aged 70 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06qv3zq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b06r0rmm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b06qmpr2 (Listen) SUN Antony Jenkins Talks to Kamal Ahmed SUN SUN In his first interview since being ousted as Chief Executive SUN of Barclays, Antony Jenkins talks to the BBC's Business SUN Editor, Kamal Ahmed. He discusses the challenges he faced at SUN the troubled bank as he sought to change the culture and SUN behaviour of its staff. And he predicts a worrying future SUN for the banking sector, which he says could see staffing SUN levels halved as technology and financial start-ups SUN transform the industry. SUN SUN Producer Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06r0dbf (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06r1cw4 (Listen) SUN Sam Coates of The Times analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06qml0n (Listen) SUN Terence Davies on Sunset Song, Chris Milk on Virtual Reality SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN Terence Davies talks about Sunset Song, which has been 18 SUN years in the making SUN SUN Virtual reality guru Chris Milk discusses the future of SUN making feature films in the new medium. SUN SUN Mike Kelt reveals how to make it rain in the movies. SUN SUN Documentary-maker Mark Burman explains why he transcribed SUN the script of Star Wars at the age of 13, after watching it SUN 21 times. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Terence Davies SUN Interviewed Guest: Chris Milk SUN Interviewed Guest: Mike Kelt SUN Interviewed Guest: Mark Burman SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06r0rmf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 07 DECEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06r0dcj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06qkp8j (Listen) MON Everyday life, Cafe society MON MON Everyday life: Laurie Taylor talks to Les Back, Professor of MON Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, about his MON study into those seemingly unimportant aspects of life which MON throw a spotlight on the relationship between history, MON culture and biography. Returning to the council estate in MON Croydon where he grew up, and where his extended family MON still live - it tells a story about community formation, MON housing crisis and the geography of class through Christmas MON decorations. They're joined by Bev Skeggs, fellow Professor MON of Sociology at Goldsmiths. MON MON Also, Sarah Neal, Reader in Sociology at the University of MON Surrey, discusses multicultural conviviality in coffee MON shops. MON MON Producer: Natalia Fernandez. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Sarah Neal at the University of Surrey MON Les Back at Goldsmiths, University of London MON Bev Skeggs at Goldsmiths, University of London MON The Open University 'Living Multiculture' Project website MON Video illustrating Les Back's paper 'Why Everyday Life MON Matters: Class Community and Making Life Livable.' MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06r0rmc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06r0dcl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06r0dcn (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06r0dcs (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06r0dcv (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06s2rtk (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with MON Orthodox Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. MON This programme was pre-recorded. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06r477x (Listen) MON Livestock rustling, The beauty queens of dairy MON MON We begin a week-long look at livestock rustling as thieves MON are target farm animals. Ten thousand cattle have bee stolen MON in Northern Ireland in the last three years and only last MON week two men from County Durham were found guilty of MON stealing sheep from their neighbours. In 2014, it's MON estimated that livestock theft cost famers £6.6 million MON pounds. MON MON We're in Scotland to meet the beauty queens of the dairy MON industry - the Holstein cows - the Holstein is the cow that MON puts milk on your table. The breed first arrived in the UK MON after the Second World War and has become the super cow of MON the milking parlour. MON MON And deck the halls with boughs of holly! We're in MON Birmingham's Sutton Park to see how holly is being turned MON into fuel. MON MON Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Sybil Ruscoe. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06r0dcx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0nhb (Listen) MON Spoon-billed Sandpiper MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Liz Bonnin presents the diminutive spoon-billed sandpiper of MON the high Russian tundra. Spoon-billed sandpipers are wading MON birds, no bigger than a house sparrow. They have MON rust-coloured feathers and a black, spoon-shaped bill for MON sifting tiny creatures from the mud or catching insects on MON the tundra of eastern Russia, where they breed. In winter MON they fly down to south-east Asian estuaries. Here they are MON increasingly threatened by the reclamation of mudflats for MON development and by local people who trap the waders in fine MON nests to eat. Today, there may be fewer than a thousand MON birds left. Now conservationists have taken some birds into MON captivity to establish a breeding stock, but others are MON being helped on their breeding grounds by headstarting, MON whereby adults are encouraged to lay a second clutch of eggs MON after the first are removed. Its hope that this work, plus MON encouraging local hunters in Asia to release any sandpipers MON caught in nets, will secure the spoon-billed sandpiper for MON future generations. MON MON Spoon-billed sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Wildfowl & Wetland Trust. MON MON © MON Wildfowl & Wetland Trust MON MON Spoon-billed sandpiper conservation breeding programme MON MON The spoon-billed sandpiper conservation breeding programme MON is a collaboration between MON WWT MON Birds Russia, Moscow Zoo and the RSPB working with MON colleagues from the BTO, BirdLife International, ArcCona and MON the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force. MON MON The project is supported by MON WWT MON RSPB, Darwin Initiative and Save our Species, with MON additional financial contributions and support from BirdLife MON International, the East-Asian Australasian Flyway MON Partnership, the Convention on Migratory Species, Heritage MON Expeditions, the Australasian Wader Study Group of Birds MON Australia, the BBC Wildlife Fund, Avios, the Olive Herbert MON Charitable Trust, the Oriental Bird Club, British Airways MON Communities & Conservation Scheme, Leica Camera AG MON (exclusive optic partner for the spoon-billed sandpiper MON project) and many generous individuals. MON MON More information about WWT's involvement in the project can MON be found MON here MON MON Recording of spoon-billed sandpiper provided by WWT MON This programme contains some wildtrack recordings of the MON spoon-billed sandpiper MON kindly provided by WWT (Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust). MON MON 06:00 Today b06r49d5 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06r49d7 (Listen) MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks at the fortunes of Saudi MON Arabia. The academic Madawi Al-Rasheed challenges MON pre-conceived ideas about divine politics and uncovers the MON religious leaders, intellectuals and activists who are MON looking at modernising the country. William Patey is the MON former UK ambassador in the region and argues that although MON the House of Saud is resilient, strains are starting to MON appear. The American economist Deirdre McCloskey sees fault MON lines elsewhere in the country's failure to promote and MON encourage innovation; she believes that although Saudi MON Arabia has capital accumulation and oil, without creativity MON and ideas it will not flourish. The historian Ian Morris MON takes the long view as he studies 20,000 years of MON international relations and argues that each age and region MON gets the great powers it needs, and what that means for MON Saudi Arabia. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Madawi al-Rasheed MON Interviewed Guest: Deirdre McCloskey MON Interviewed Guest: Ian Morris MON Interviewed Guest: William Patey MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06r4byz (Listen) MON Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter, Post War MON MON Stephanie Cole reads from the new collection of essays by MON acclaimed writer Diana Athill, which is being published to MON mark the author's 98th birthday later on this month. MON MON Written from the vantage point of her late nineties, MON Athill's essays are wise, cheering and thought-provoking. MON They range from gentle (her love of beautiful clothes), MON heartbreaking (the miscarriage of a much-wanted child) to MON salutary (her difficult decision to relinquish her MON independence and move into a care home). MON MON In this first essay, "Post-War", Athill delights in MON debunking the myth that Britain in the 1940s and 1950s was a MON mire of dreariness. A young woman when the war broke out, MON peace and its aftermath was a time of joy, freedom and MON optimism. MON MON Photo credit: Mark Crick MON MON Written by Diana Athill MON MON Read by Stephanie Cole MON MON Abridged and Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Stephanie Cole MON Author: Diana Athill MON Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06s2rtm (Listen) MON Lily Tomlin, The Chain with Samantha Morton, Mmabatho MON Montsho, Jackie Ashley MON MON Lily Tomlin US actress and comedienne, on her new film MON Grandma in which she plays an abortion-funding grandmother. MON She looks back at four decades as a gay woman on screen and MON her experience of the Hollywood gender pay gap. MON MON Mmabatho Montsho is a film director and her online series MON 'Women On Sex' is challenging stereotypes and myths about MON how black South African women feel about sex. MON MON The Chain: Samantha Morton begins our chain of inspirational MON women by talking to Jane about the woman who inspires her MON most. Samantha also discusses why she decided to speak MON publicly about the abuse she says she suffered as a child in MON a care home in Nottingham MON MON Jackie Ashley on becoming the new President of Lucy MON Cavendish College, Cambridge which is Europe's only college MON for women aged 21 and over. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Caroline Donne MON Interviewed Guest: Lily Tomlin MON Interviewed Guest: Mmabatho Montsho MON Interviewed Guest: Samantha Morton MON Interviewed Guest: Jackie Ashley MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06r4bz1 (Listen) MON Heat and Dust, Journeys MON MON by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, dramatised by Shelley Silas. MON MON A beguiling story of two English women living in India more MON than fifty years apart. In 1923, Olivia is unhappily married MON to a civil servant. Her step-granddaughter travels to the MON subcontinent years later to investigate Olivia's life, which MON her family regarded as 'something dark and terrible'. MON MON The story centres on the experiences of two very different MON women in pre- and post- Independence India. One is MON circumscribed by English mores and the formal social MON structures of the Raj while the other is free to fall in MON love, live among Indian people, feel part of the culture. MON So, it is the story of social change as well as a potent MON love story. MON MON Today, Olivia meets the Nawab while, fifty years later, her MON step-granddaughter settles into her new room. MON MON Pianist ..... Laurie O'Brien MON MON Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON Credits MON Olivia: Pippa Bennett-Warner MON Narrator: Abby Ford MON Douglas: Simon Harrison MON The Nawab: Ronny Jhutti MON Harry: David Seddon MON Inder Lal: Neet Mohan MON Chid: Will Howard MON Maji: Thusitha Jayasundera MON Beth Crawford: Debra Baker MON Dr Saunders: Sam Dale MON Major Minnies: Chris Pavlo MON Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala MON Adaptor: Shelley Silas MON Director: Gaynor Macfarlane MON MON 11:00 The Art of StarCraft b06r4gpd (Listen) MON Stephen Evans goes deep into the Milky Way to look at the MON phenomenon of StarCraft and reveals how, in South Korea, it MON is more than just a computer game and is a key part of the MON rapidly growing multi-billion dollar world of esports. MON MON Worth over $620 million globally, with a worldwide audience MON of over 135 million people, esports are now big business, MON and in South Korea much of this thanks to the impact of MON certain computer game called StarCraft. MON MON StarCraft is essentially a sci-fi, military-based real-time MON strategy (RTS) game developed and published by Blizzard MON Entertainment. It was released in 1998 and in the years MON since has become one of the world's most popular computer MON game titles shifting over 11 million copies and spawning a MON mainstream cultural sensation in South Korea where thousands MON of fans pack into stadiums across the country to watch the MON best StarCraft players in the world battle it out for big MON money stakes. MON MON From the importance of PC Bangs - the ubiquitous street MON corner hubs for gaming fans - to the multi-million dollar MON world of professional StarCraft and esports Soul-based MON journalist and broadcaster Stephen Evans joins the dots of MON how this game took root in a South Korean society that MON embraced super fast broadband and was thirsty for a MON multi-scenario, multi-player and multi-layered challenge. MON MON Socially inclusive, cheap and available to everyone, since MON the late 1990s online gaming has taken this nation of 50 MON million people by storm, and StarCraft is central to this MON way of life. This way of life has brought dizzying successes MON and change, but with it the issue of addiction and related MON health problems the South Korean government have been forced MON to regulate this brave new world to tackle issues that are MON becoming increasingly relevant to policy makers outside of MON the Korean peninsular. MON MON 11:30 The Missing Hancocks b06r4gpg (Listen) MON The Marriage Bureau 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 Marriage Bureau. Tony needs a job, MON but can't get one as an unmarried man. Luckily, Sidney James MON has a proposal... 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 Margaret Cabourn-Smith. The Marriage Bureau MON was last broadcast in February 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 Moira Lister: Margaret Cabourn-Smith MON Writer: Ray Galton MON Writer: Alan Simpson MON Producer: Ed Morrish MON Producer: Neil Pearson MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06r0dcz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 One to One b01lsyj8 (Listen) MON Razia Iqbal talks to Hilal Sezgin MON MON Razia Iqbal explores what it means to be a Muslim in modern MON Europe. Here she talks to the German writer and journalist, MON Hilal Sezgin, at her small farm just outside Hamburg. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06s2rtp (Listen) MON Solar panel tariffs, Train vouchers, Peacocks MON MON The government is planning to cut the Feed-in Tariff by 87% MON early next year. What will that mean for people who put MON energy back into the national grid? MON MON Are you the type of person who likes to start things on a MON specific day? You & Yours is doing a special programme MON devoted to all things smoking on New Year's Eve and we want MON to hear from our listeners who are planning to quit the MON habit. Have you tried before and failed? Maybe you think you MON never will. John Waite joins us on Monday to tell us what MON has happened since he gave up in 2013 MON MON A massive 88 per cent of those apparently eligible for MON compensation when their train was delayed did not apply. The MON main reasons given were down to a lack of awareness: 44 per MON cent did not even consider it - 30 per cent considered it, MON but did not think they would be entitled. Some thought it MON just too bothersome. MON MON Forget the latest weight-loss fad - science may already have MON worked out what diet is best for you. Experts say a MON personalised approach could transform the way people lose MON weight. MON MON Proud as a Peacock! As the temperature drops pest control MON firms normally see a 30-40 percent rise in call outs for MON rodent infestations. It's because pests look for the MON opportunity to find themselves some warmth which usually MON means a nice cosy house to dwell. However a short distance MON from our studios here in Salford we came across a rather MON unique pest that's too big to go unnoticed. Rajeev Gupta MON found some ruffled feathers... MON MON And MON MON We have all heard of WiFi but what the dickens is LiFi? MON MON Presenter: Louise Minchin MON Editor: Chas Watkin. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06r0dd1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06s2rtr (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark MON Mardell. MON MON 13:45 British Liberalism: The Grand Tour b06r4gpj (Listen) MON John Locke v Arbitrary Power MON MON Anne McElvoy tours 300 years of British liberalism. MON MON Anne starts in Oxford in 1683, with the story of the last MON large-scale book burning in Britain. She traces how MON dissident philosopher John Locke took on the whole principle MON of the arbitrary power of the monarchy. MON MON As Anne discovers with the help of Justin Champion and MON Hannah Dawson, dissident texts were burned and Locke was MON repeatedly driven out of the country and hunted by the MON King's agents. Yet all the time he was developing his ideas MON on the proper limits of power, and on religious toleration. MON MON When James II was ousted in 1688, Locke returned to London MON in triumph, and his ideas have helped to shape how we live MON ever since. MON MON But, as Anne explores in later episodes, the story of MON British liberalism is not one of straightforward victories. MON Locke explicitly excluded non-Anglicans from his vision of MON liberty. And what about black people, or women? MON MON Over the course of the first five programmes, Anne traces MON the development of the ideas we now call liberalism through MON the lives and works of Adam Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, MON Thomas Clarkson, John Bright and John Stuart Mill. MON MON She explores how a rebellion led by black Jamaicans led to a MON massacre - and how demands that the British Governor of MON Jamaica be put on trial divided Victorian intellectuals MON against each other. MON MON And she ends the first week of programmes with the MON apotheosis of one kind of liberalism in the era of William MON Gladstone, even as a different version of his creed was MON taking shape. MON MON In the second week, Anne takes us from the non-violent MON Suffragist campaign for votes for women, onto the triumph of MON an elite liberalism in the 1960s - and explores how, ever MON since, the idea of liberalism has grown more and more MON complicated. MON MON Producer: Phil Tinline. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06r1c2f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06r4gpl (Listen) MON Further from Heaven MON MON Drama: Further From Heaven by James O'Neill MON Rural Ireland. Reckless and feckless Danny survives a MON serious car crash. His partner Catherine thinks he's very MON lucky. Maybe there's someone looking after him. Then an MON enigmatic old man knocks on the door and life for the couple MON will never be the same. MON MON Director/Producer Gary Brown. MON MON Credits MON Old Man: Dermot Crowley MON Danny: Conor Moloney MON Catherine: Fiona Clarke MON Narrator: Jonathan Keeble MON Director: Gary Brown MON Producer: Gary Brown MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b06r4gpn (Listen) MON Programme 8, 2015 MON MON (8/12) MON The North of England take on The Midlands in the latest MON clash of cryptic clues and convoluted connections, with Tom MON Sutcliffe in the questionmaster's chair. Jim Coulson and MON Adele Geras are the North of England team, playing opposite MON Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock of the Midlands. MON MON The Midlands will be on their mettle, having been narrowly MON beaten by Wales in their last appearance a couple of weeks MON ago, while the North will be looking for their first victory MON of the 2015 season. MON MON Without wishing to give the teams too much of a leg up, it MON would help if they knew a little bit about Shakespeare, MON strange rural place names of England, vampire novels and the MON history of football in Manchester. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06r0wh4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Tales From the Stave b0540trm (Listen) MON Series 11, Smetana - Ma Vlast MON MON When the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana set about his famous MON symphonic cycle Ma Vlast - My Country or My Land, in the MON early 1870s, he was tapping into a national tradition MON surviving under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His MON evocations of historic landmarks like the rocky fortress of MON Vysehrad which overlooks another subject, the Vltava MON (Moldau) river have become familiar far beyond his Bohemian MON homeland. MON Frances Fyfield is joined by the leading young Czech MON conductor Jakub Hrusa and the Czech Philharmonic orchestra MON violinist Magdalena Maslanova to unpick the handwritten MON manuscripts of his tone poems. They tell a story of a MON brilliant orchestral imagination which was still making MON alterations in this final version of one of his most MON celebrated works. But the autographs, with their agonisingly MON personal marginal notes also tell of a man who was losing MON his hearing. MON To what extent this new isolation unleashed a passionate and MON vivid musical imagination is open to debate. Be that as it MON may the scores are treated with reverence by all Czech MON musicians for whom Smetana was an immense figure. The music MON sweeps all nationalities along in its familiar currents. MON MON Producer: Tom Alban. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b06r4gpq (Listen) MON 50 Years of Nostra Aetate MON MON It is 50 years since the publication of the Vatican document MON 'Nostra Aetate' which transformed relations between the MON Roman Catholic Church and other religions, most notably MON Judaism. At only a few paragraphs in length, this short text MON has been widely seen as one of the most remarkable moments MON in the turbulent history of interfaith relations. How did it MON come about? What can we say it has really achieved? And how MON does it fit into the world in which we now live? MON MON Ernie Rea explores the impact of 'Nostra Aetate' with MON Archbishop Kevin McDonald, Emeritus Catholic Archbishop of MON Southwark and chair of the Bishops' Conference Committee for MON Other Faiths and of the Committee for Catholic-Jewish MON Relations; Dr Ed Kessler, Founder-Director of the interfaith MON organisation, the Woolf Institute; and Oliver McTernan, MON Director of the conflict-resolution charity 'Forward MON Thinking', which works among communities in the UK and the MON Middle East. MON MON Producer: MON Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b06s2rtt (Listen) MON News interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06r0dd3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06r4gps (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 2 MON MON The 64th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a MON return visit to the Dorking Halls. Regulars Graeme Garden, MON Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on MON the panel by Tony Hawks with Jack Dee in the chair. At the MON piano - Colin Sell. Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC MON 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 b06r4gpv (Listen) MON Helen is paid a special visit, and Emma dances away the MON heartache. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06r4gpx (Listen) MON Jim Broadbent and Patrick Barlow; V&A new galleries; By the MON Sea MON MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06r4bz1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Philosopher's Arms b06r4gpz (Listen) MON Series 5, Lying and Misleading MON MON The Philosopher's Arms, presented by Matthew Sweet, asks MON whether there's a moral difference between lying and MON misleading. In the pub, to help us reach an answer, we have MON a philosopher, psychologist and political spin-doctor. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b06qm3mh (Listen) MON Albania: Shadows of the Past MON MON Maria Margaronis explores the debris of Albania's painful MON past-the prison labour camps, concrete bunkers and secret MON police headquarters--as archives are unlocked and new MON monuments put up in an effort to redefine who Albanians are. MON The country's citizens are trying to come to terms with MON history and move on from Enver Hoxha's dictatorial regime, MON the pyramid schemes and the political and economic collapse MON that followed. Instead of moving on, though, many are moving MON out of the country altogether. Do their leaders' efforts MON represent real change, or are they just an attempt to MON plaster over the cracks and reinforce Albania's plan to MON enter the EU? MON MON 21:00 The Secret Lives of Carers b06qjqcv (Listen) MON There's a silent army of workers who look after the MON vulnerable in their own homes. This is the story of four MON care workers whose employers are pioneering new ways of MON running care services. MON MON They are a world away from the experience most people have MON of home care workers. But - we ask - is it possible for the MON state sector to provide this kind of care without costs MON going through the roof. MON MON We hear about the Wiltshire scheme which allows care workers MON to decide how long visits should be, and lets the elderly MON person decide how they want to spend the time with their MON care worker. It's seen some dramatic results - with elderly MON people signed off their books within weeks. MON MON We meet Rochelle who - after 20 years in the care industry - MON and having seen some shocking care, has now found a company MON where she feels she really can care. She talks about the MON small but significant changes that make a world of MON difference. MON MON Perrine works for a private care company which "matches" MON very closely the personality and interests of the care MON worker with the person being cared for. MON MON And we talk to Ashleigh, a 24 year old who does end of life MON care. She works for the charity Leonard Cheshire. She earns MON little above the minimum wage - but she's totally committed MON to her job and to the people she looks after. MON MON These carers and the organisations they work for are MON determined to change the state of home care. But what chance MON do they have with constantly diminishing budgets? MON MON Producer: Adele Armstrong. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06r49d7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06r0dd5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06s2rtw (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06s2rty (Listen) MON Dark Corners, Episode 6 MON MON The final novel by Ruth Rendell, read by Patricia Hodge. MON MON For a while, all was looking rosy for budding crime writer MON Carl. He'd inherited a house in Maida Vale from his late MON father, published his first novel, Death's Door, to mild MON acclaim and his lovely girlfriend Nicola had accepted his MON invitation to come and live with him. But a series of MON unfortunately events has led to the unravelling of this MON almost perfect life. MON MON Carl's first mistake was to rent the top floor of his house MON to the first person who answered his advert, Dermot. Second MON was selling slimming pills, found in his late father's MON bathroom cabinet, to his actress friend Stacey who died as a MON result of their nasty side effects. Dermot witnessed the MON 'transaction' and has used this knowledge to blackmail Carl MON and live rent free ever since. As the weeks have passed, MON Dermot has placed more and more pressure upon Carl - so MON much, in fact, that he's almost reached breaking point. MON MON In a career that spanned fifty years and over sixty novels, MON Ruth Rendell was acclaimed by her literary peers and beloved MON by her readers. She received numerous awards, including the MON Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's Best Crime MON Novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger Award for Live MON Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. MON 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 b06r4gq1 (Listen) MON Series 4, Snowbound MON MON Jarvis Cocker is snowed in for tonight's nocturnal MON exploration of the human condition. With the snow piling MON high outside his farmhouse and long hours to kill, Jarvis's MON mind drifts to other snowbound dramas and dilemmas as he MON tries to distract himself from a creeping solitude. But as MON night draws on, can he be sure he's really alone? MON MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06r4gq3 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 08 DECEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06r0df5 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06r4byz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06r0df7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06r0df9 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06r0dfc (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06r0dff (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06s304c (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with TUE Orthodox Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. TUE This programme was pre-recorded. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06r4vq7 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0nw9 (Listen) TUE Blue Rock Thrush TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Liz Bonnin presents the blue rock thrush, perched high on a TUE Spanish castle. The blue rock thrush has a slim silhouette, TUE rather like that of a blackbird, but these largely TUE sedentary, elusive and sun-loving birds are a rare sight in TUE northern Europe. They are widespread in summer across TUE southern Europe and also occur in the Arabian Peninsula and TUE across most of south-east Asia. The male lives up to his TUE name, as in sunlight his deep indigo body feathers contrast TUE with his darker wings and tail. His mate is a more muted mid TUE brown, and barred beneath. Blue rock thrushes often nest in TUE old ruins, but can also be found in houses in villages and TUE on the edge of towns. Here in sunny spots they feed on large TUE insects like grasshoppers and will even take small reptiles TUE in their long thrush-like bills. TUE TUE Blue Rock Thrush (Monticola solitarius) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Hans and Jens Eriksen / TUE naturepl.com. TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01150189 TUE © Hans and Jens Eriksen / naturepl.com. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06r8s35 (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 Infinite Monkey Cage b06r4wg9 (Listen) TUE An Infinite Monkey's Guide to General Relativity, Episode 1 TUE TUE It's 100 years since the publication of Einstein's great TUE theory, and arguably one of the greatest scientific theories TUE of all time. To mark the occasion, Brian Cox takes Robin TUE Ince on a guided tour of General Relativity. With the help TUE of some of the world's leading cosmologists, and a comedian TUE or two, they explore the notions of space time, falling TUE elevators, trampolines and bowling balls, and what was wrong TUE with Newton's apple. It's a whistle stop tour of all you'll TUE ever need to know about gravity and how a mathematical TUE equation written 100 years ago predicted everything from TUE black holes to the Big Bang, to our expanding universe, long TUE before there was any proof that these extraordinary TUE phenomena existed. TUE TUE 09:30 The Misogyny Book Club b064kjm4 (Listen) TUE Unhappily Ever After TUE TUE What do fairy tales teach girls about what a woman should TUE be? TUE TUE In the third in a series of programmes exploring misogyny in TUE some of our most read books, a young primary school teacher TUE and an Oxford professor who specialises in fairy stories TUE join Jo Fidgen to discuss the messages encoded in these TUE well-loved morality tales, and the effect they can have on TUE women's sense of worth. TUE TUE They engage in a revealing discussion about their depiction TUE of violence against women. In the witch hunts of the 17th TUE century, women were targeted for resembling the witches of TUE fairy tales. Today, one woman talks about her experience of TUE tolerating abuse in the hope of living happily ever after. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06r4wgc (Listen) TUE Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter, Alive, Alive TUE Oh! TUE TUE The new collection of essays by acclaimed editor and author TUE Diana Athill, which is being published to mark the author's TUE 98th birthday later on this month. TUE TUE Written from the vantage point of her great age, Athill's TUE writing is honest and thought-provoking. In this second TUE essay, "Alive Alive Oh!", she describes with total candour TUE her miscarriage in 1960, aged 43, when she nearly lost her TUE life. TUE TUE Diana Athill's books include Stet: An Editor's Life (2000) TUE and Yesterday Morning (2002). For fifty years she was the TUE editorial director of André Deutsch, where she worked with TUE such authors as Jean Rhys, Gitta Sereny and V. S. Naipaul. TUE Her Costa Award-winning memoir, Somewhere Towards the End, TUE was published in January 2008. TUE TUE Photo credit: Mark Crick TUE TUE Written by Diana Athill TUE TUE Read by Stephanie Cole TUE TUE Abridged by Claire Simpson TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Stephanie Cole TUE Author: Diana Athill TUE Abridger: Claire Simpson TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06r4wgf (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 b06r4xwt (Listen) TUE Heat and Dust, The Husbands' Wedding Day TUE TUE by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, dramatised by Shelley Silas. TUE TUE A beguiling story of two English women living in India more TUE than fifty years apart. In 1923, Olivia is unhappily married TUE to a civil servant. Her step-granddaughter travels to the TUE subcontinent years later to investigate Olivia's life, which TUE her family regarded as 'something dark and terrible'. TUE TUE The story centres on the experiences of two very different TUE women in pre- and post- Independence India. One is TUE circumscribed by English mores and the formal social TUE structures of the Raj while the other is free to fall in TUE love, live among Indian people, feel part of the culture. TUE So, it is the story of social change as well as a potent TUE love story. TUE TUE Today, Harry comes to stay with the Rivers in an attempt to TUE break free of the Nawab while the narrator visits the Baba TUE Firdaus shrine on the Husbands' Wedding Day. TUE TUE Pianist ..... Laurie O'Brien TUE TUE Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE Credits TUE Olivia: Pippa Bennett-Warner TUE Narrator: Abby Ford TUE Douglas: Simon Harrison TUE The Nawab: Ronny Jhutti TUE Harry: David Seddon TUE Inder Lal: Neet Mohan TUE Chid: Will Howard TUE Maji: Thusitha Jayasundera TUE Beth Crawford: Debra Baker TUE Dr Saunders: Sam Dale TUE Major Minnies: Chris Pavlo TUE Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala TUE Adaptor: Shelley Silas TUE Director: Gaynor Macfarlane TUE TUE 11:00 The Singing Fish of Batticaloa b04bn086 (Listen) TUE "It is said to be heard the clearest on a full moon night... TUE One has to go by boat, plunge an oar into the water, put the TUE other end of the oar to one's ear, and listen..." TUE TUE Since the 18th century, Tamil fishermen have claimed to TUE navigate by the mysterious music of the singing fish of the TUE Batticaloa lagoon in eastern Sri Lanka. The fishermen's TUE ancient name for the creature is oorie coolooroo cradoo TUE (crying shells); scientists believe that the underwater TUE choristers are some kind of fish. But, after thirty years of TUE civil war and the ravages of the tsunami, does any evidence TUE of this strange nocturnal chorus remain? TUE TUE Restrictions and curfews made it impossible to visit the TUE lagoon at night and locals, suffering the deprivation of a TUE bitter conflict, had other priorities. The people of TUE Batticaloa became disconnected from this ancient cultural TUE symbol. Very few have heard the aquatic music, and many TUE believe it's a myth. TUE TUE But for Father Lorio, a Jesuit priest present at one of the TUE earliest recordings of the phenomenon made using a homemade TUE hyrdophone in the 1950s, the singing fish are the soundtrack TUE to sixty years of profound turmoil and change he's witnessed TUE in the region. And for Prince Casinader, a Tamil journalist TUE in his eighties, there's the belief that they could bring a TUE sense of community and hope to his hometown. TUE TUE Now a group of young Tamil scientists have joined the effort TUE to rediscover this lost symbol. Guided by local fishermen, TUE they embark on an unusual odyssey into the muddy lagoon to TUE capture a new recording and establish if this elusive watery TUE wonder has survived to enchant another generation with its TUE song. TUE TUE With music composed by Adam Nicholas. TUE TUE Produced by Cicely Fell and Kannan Arunasalam TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b06r50wk (Listen) TUE Series 21, Mack the Knife TUE TUE The Brecht/Weill song, 'Mack The Knife' first appeared in TUE 'The Threepenny Opera' in Berlin in 1928. Sung about the TUE criminal MacHeath, the 'play with music' is based on John TUE Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera', who was inspired by the TUE real-life English highwayman, Jack Sheppard. TUE TUE The song became a hit when performed in 1959 by Bobby Darin. TUE Ella Fitzgerald famously forgot the words when performing TUE live in Berlin in 1960 and her improvised version won a TUE Grammy. TUE TUE Suzi Quatro talks about how she performed it with her father TUE as a child, playing bongos to accompany him, and Lenny Kaye TUE from the Patti Smith Group recalls how he and Patti did a TUE version of 'Mack The Knife' at their first ever performance TUE together at St Marks Church in New York on 10th February TUE 1971, as it was Brecht's birthday. TUE Film-maker Malcolm Clark tells the story of the song's first TUE public performer, Kurt Gerron, an actor and director, who TUE took the song into the darkest places of the Third Reich. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06r0dfh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 One to One b06gqx6j (Listen) TUE Steve Backshall meets Leo Houlding TUE TUE Steve Backshall is one of our leading natural history TUE broadcasters. He's also an extreme sportsman who has TUE conquered some of the world's most dangerous mountains. TUE Despite suffering a severe rock-climbing injury in 2008 he TUE continues to set himself extraordinary challenges. TUE TUE In this programme, he meets Leo Houlding. Leo is one of our TUE greatest rock-climbers. He has free-climbed the world's most TUE challenging peaks and is an experienced base-jumper. One of TUE his greatest achievements was a successful expedition to TUE tackle an unclimbed route on Ulvetanna - a fearsome tower of TUE granite in eastern Antarctica. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06r8tlk (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06r0dfk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06r8tlm (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark TUE Mardell. TUE TUE 13:45 British Liberalism: The Grand Tour b06r50wn (Listen) TUE Adam Smith and the Whigs TUE TUE Anne McElvoy explores the history of British liberalism. TUE Today she revisits the innovative ideas of the Scottish TUE philosopher Adam Smith and the wider influence of the Whig TUE aristocracy. TUE TUE With Amanda Foreman and Keith Tribe TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06r4gpv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03w2yn4 (Listen) TUE Pixie Juice TUE TUE by Ed Harris. TUE TUE Indira Varma stars in a wickedly twisted fairytale - with TUE real fairy. TUE TUE Anya is struggling to run her Dad's tattoo parlour, as well TUE as cope with her Dad's failing sight. When she gets a TUE nocturnal visit from a tiny, magical creature, it seems, TUE like all good fairytales, as though her luck will change. TUE But Anya's not really the fairytale type. And pixies hire TUE good lawyers. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE Credits TUE Anya: Indira Varma TUE Ken: Peter Polycarpou TUE Moss: Paul Bazely TUE Hattie: Louise Brealey TUE Tom: Will Howard TUE Hugh: Will Howard TUE Bella: Priyanga Burford TUE Nurse: Carolyn Pickles TUE Writer: Ed Harris TUE Director: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE TUE 15:00 The Educators b06r5d01 (Listen) TUE Turning Schools Around TUE TUE Schools in England have been warned that if they coast, TUE rather than improve, they risk being closed down. TUE TUE Sarah Montague meets the new head teachers of a Birmingham TUE secondary school involved in the so-called Trojan Horse TUE scandal. Golden Hillock School re-opened in September with TUE new leadership, and became Ark Boulton Academy , where some TUE of the students have seen four different head teachers in TUE four years. TUE TUE Now, principals David Gould and Herminder Channa plan to TUE take the school out of special measures and introduce higher TUE expectations for students, staff and parents. TUE TUE Their promise to students is that they will learn everything TUE they need to go on to university or a career of their TUE choice, but it will require focus, discipline and hard work TUE from students, staff and parents. TUE TUE Presenter: Sarah Montague TUE Producer: Joel Moors. TUE TUE 15:30 Shared Experience b06r5d03 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Was University the Right Choice? TUE TUE Faced with spiralling debt, few job prospects and having to TUE return to the parental home because they can't afford to TUE rent, a growing number of students question whether TUE university is really the key to success. Would they have TUE been better doing apprenticeships for instance? Fi Glover TUE meets Fran, Jake and Ben to hear their experiences of TUE academic life. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 16:00 The Human Zoo b06r5d05 (Listen) TUE Series 7, 08/12/2015 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 Michael Blastland investigates, with resident Zoo TUE psychologist Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science TUE at Warwick Business School, and roving reporter Timandra TUE Harkness. TUE TUE Producers: Dom Byrne and Eve Streeter TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b06r5d07 (Listen) TUE Series 38, Dickie Bird on the life of Sir Leonard Hutton TUE TUE Harold 'Dickie' Bird, now retired but one of our best known TUE cricket umpires champions the life of Sir Leonard Hutton. TUE According to Dickie, this Yorkshireman is one of the TUE greatest opening batsmen of all time, who made history by TUE becoming the first professional England captain. Joining TUE him, the Sunday Times cricket correspondent and author Simon TUE Wilde. TUE Matthew Parris is the presenter. The producer is Perminder TUE Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Dickie Bird TUE Interviewed Guest: Simon Wilde TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06r8tlp (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06r0dfm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Gloomsbury b041xyk6 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Theory and Practice of Hanky Panky TUE TUE Vera and Henry are undecided about whether it is time for TUE their Eton-educated sons, Charlie and Fred, to be told the TUE facts of life. Neither parent feels that they are TUE sufficiently qualified to discuss the birds and bees with TUE their sons, so they go in search of somebody who is. Ginny TUE and Lionel, conveniently staying, are invited to contribute, TUE but it soon becomes clear that they are urgently in need of TUE sex education themselves. TUE TUE The Goslings deliver conflicting opinions: Mrs Gosling is TUE affronted by the very mention of the facts of life, whilst TUE Gosling, dealing with pollination on a daily basis, would TUE happily talk of nothing else all year. TUE TUE Finally a willing educator is found. Venus, deeply broody TUE for her first child, volunteers to rush down to Eton and TUE enlighten Charlie and Fred over ginger beer and crumpets. TUE Worried lest they should suddenly become grandparents before TUE their time, Henry and Vera swiftly call a halt to the whole TUE scheme and pack Venus off to climb Everest instead. 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 TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE A Little 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 b06r5d09 (Listen) TUE Phoebe is under the spotlight, and Adam is concerned about TUE Charlie. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06r8v3z (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06r4xwt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 What Should We Teach Our Kids? b06rjr01 (Listen) TUE What will the world economy look like 30 years from now? And TUE how should we be preparing British schoolchildren today to TUE find employment in it? Robert Peston travels to three TUE cutting edge schools that claim to provide the way forwards TUE for secondary education. TUE TUE Should the focus be on languages and cultural knowhow for an TUE increasingly globalised world? Should we be striving to TUE create more of the engineers and programmers that so many TUE employers are crying out for? Or - with the unstoppable TUE march of the robots gobbling up ever more human jobs - TUE should we be preparing kids with the social skills to be TUE future entrepreneurs, employing their own personal fleets of TUE automatons? Or is a traditional academic education the TUE answer. TUE TUE Robert Peston poses the questions, and a host of educators, TUE analysts and business people have a stab at answering them. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06r5d0f (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b06r5d0h (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents a series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b06r4wg9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06r0dfp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06r5d0k (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06s6qcz (Listen) TUE Dark Corners, Episode 7 TUE TUE The final novel by Ruth Rendell, read by Patricia Hodge. TUE TUE For a while, all was looking rosy for budding crime writer TUE Carl. He'd inherited a house in Maida Vale from his late TUE father, published his first novel, Death's Door, to mild TUE acclaim and his lovely girlfriend Nicola had accepted his TUE invitation to live with him. But a series of unfortunately TUE events has led to the unravelling of this almost perfect TUE life. TUE TUE Carl's first mistake was to rent the top floor of his house TUE to the first person who answered his advert, Dermot. Second TUE was selling slimming pills, found in his late father's TUE bathroom cabinet, to his actress friend Stacey who died as a TUE result of their nasty side effects. Dermot witnessed the TUE 'transaction' and has used this knowledge to blackmail Carl TUE and live rent free ever since. At breaking point, penniless TUE and desperate, Carl killed Dermot on one of Maida Vale's TUE side streets and is now waiting to see whether he has 'got TUE away' with the murder. TUE TUE Reader Patricia Hodge. TUE TUE Abridger Robin Brooks. TUE TUE Producer 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 The Show What You Wrote b06r5d0m (Listen) TUE Series 3, Work and Play TUE TUE Jason Manford, Janice Connolly, Gavin Webster, Fiona Clarke TUE and Darren Kuppan star, as Radio 4's themed sketch show made TUE entirely from contributions sent in by the public returns TUE for a third series. The best ideas have been chosen from TUE thousands of submissions from new writers resulting in a TUE show like no other. TUE TUE This first episode of the series takes the theme of "Work TUE and Play". It features someone being really challenged about TUE their age, a club that doesn't play anything so clichéd as TUE music, and some naughty fun... TUE TUE Written by: Ben Behrens, Dave Bibby, James Bugg, Keith TUE Carter, Lou Conran, Stu Cooper, Rob Gilroy, Dan Hobson & Jon TUE Bridle, Daniel Hooper, Scott Kingsnorth, Steve Nelson, TUE Christopher Stanners and Claire Wetton. TUE TUE Producers ... Ed Morrish and Paul Sheehan. TUE TUE A BBC Radio Comedy Production. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ensemble: Jason Manford TUE Ensemble: Janice Connolly TUE Ensemble: Gavin Webster TUE Ensemble: Fiona Clarke TUE Ensemble: Darren Kuppan TUE Producer: Ed Morrish TUE Producer: Paul Sheehan TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06r5d0p (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 09 DECEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06r0dgp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06r4wgc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06r0dgr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06r0dgt (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06r0dgw (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06r0dgy (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06rjgjh (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with WED Orthodox Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. WED This programme was pre-recorded. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06r5w2q (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0p28 (Listen) WED Brown Skua WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Liz Bonnin presents brown skua hunting over an Antarctic WED landscape. These bulky brown birds with their hooked death WED dealing bills are often cast as villains alongside the WED apparently helpless and lovable penguins. But skuas are WED highly efficient predators, their skills honed to find the WED maximum food they can in a largely barren landscape. They're WED resourceful pirates, forcing other birds to drop or disgorge WED their catches. They also scavenge around fishing boats or WED loiter at seal colonies where carcases are easy meat. But a WED penguin rookery which may have hundreds of pairs of birds WED provides a real bounty, where waiting for an opportunity, WED the keen-eyed skua swoops to seize its next victim which if WED it is small enough, will even swallow it whole. WED WED Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus / Catharacta WED antarctica) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Ole Jorgen Liodden / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01409333 WED © Ole Jorgen Liodden / naturepl.com. WED WED Recording of brown skua by Theodore A Parker, III / Ref: ML WED 42308 WED WED This programme contains a WED wildtrack recording of the brown skua WED kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab WED of Ornithology; recorded by Theodore A Parker, III; on 1 Feb WED 1988 in Albatross Island, South Georgia, South Georgia and WED South Sandwich Islands. WED WED 06:00 Today b06r8svy (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 b06r5wl8 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06r5wlb (Listen) WED Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter, The Decision WED WED Stephanie Cole reads from the new collection of essays by WED the acclaimed editor and writer Diana Athill, which is being WED published to mark the author's ninety-eighth birthday later WED this month. WED WED Written from the vantage point of her great age, Athill's WED writing is cheering and thought-provoking. In this third WED essay, "The Decision", she explains the process by which she WED relinquished her independence and moved into a residential WED care home in north London. WED WED Photo credit: Mark Crick. WED WED Written by Diana Athill WED WED Read by Stephanie Cole WED WED Abridged and Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Stephanie Cole WED Author: Diana Athill WED Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06r5wld (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06r5wlg (Listen) WED Heat and Dust, Olivia WED WED by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, dramatised by Shelley Silas. WED WED A beguiling story of two English women living in India more WED than fifty years apart. In 1923, Olivia is unhappily married WED to a civil servant. Her step-granddaughter travels to the WED subcontinent years later to investigate Olivia's life, which WED her family regarded as 'something dark and terrible'. WED WED The story centres on the experiences of two very different WED women in pre- and post- Independence India. One is WED circumscribed by English mores and the formal social WED structures of the Raj while the other is free to fall in WED love, live among Indian people, feel part of the culture. WED So, it is the story of social change as well as a potent WED love story. WED WED Today, Olivia and Douglas hope for a baby. WED WED Pianist ..... Laurie O'Brien WED WED Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED Credits WED Olivia: Pippa Bennett-Warner WED Narrator: Abby Ford WED Douglas: Simon Harrison WED The Nawab: Ronny Jhutti WED Harry: David Seddon WED Inder Lal: Neet Mohan WED Chid: Will Howard WED Maji: Thusitha Jayasundera WED Beth Crawford: Debra Baker WED Dr Saunders: Sam Dale WED Major Minnies: Chris Pavlo WED Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala WED Adaptor: Shelley Silas WED Director: Gaynor Macfarlane WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06r5wlj (Listen) WED Wayne and Gregory - Small Steps WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation about overcoming the legacy of WED the Troubles, after growing up with a father in the RUC, WED always feeling anxious whether he would come home again. WED Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you WED 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 Emperor of the Glen b06r5wll (Listen) WED Sanjeev Kohli travels to Blairqhuan, a stunning castle set WED in the Scottish glens of Ayrshire, to find out what has WED happened since a Chinese company bought up the property in WED 2012. WED WED Blairqhuan castle belonged to the same family for WED generations, and portraits of family members still hang on WED its grandiose walls. But today it is owned by a Chinese WED company whose managing director fell in love with the place WED on sight. WED WED Sanjeev finds out what impact a change in ownership had on WED the local community, and how the Chinese are taking charge WED of a significant piece of Scottish heritage. WED WED Producer Mark Rickards. WED WED 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b06r5xx2 (Listen) WED Series 7, The Leaving of Barra WED WED Stanley Baxter's first story in his new Playhouse season WED goes back in time to 1949, when a young man, an assistant WED director on Whisky Galore, falls in love with a local girl WED on the Hebridean island of Barra where filming is taking WED place. WED WED Sixty six years later, his memories of that golden time come WED flooding back. WED WED Stanley Baxter plays the old man who abandoned a career in WED film to stay on the island with the woman he loved, and now WED faces a sad farewell. The other members of the company are WED June Watson, Scott Hoatson, Samara Maclaren and Tracy Wiles. WED WED Written by Michael Chaplin WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie WED WED A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED John Anderson: Stanley Baxter WED Peggy Anderson: June Watson WED Young John: Scott Hoatson WED PC Macrae: Scott Hoatson WED Young Peggy: Samara MacLaren WED Mary: Tracy Wiles WED Director: Marilyn Imrie WED Producer: Catherine Bailey WED Writer: Michael Chaplin WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06r0dh0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 One to One b04kbjhj (Listen) WED Victoria Derbyshire meets Alastair Campbell WED WED The broadcaster Victoria Derbyshire has kept a diary since WED she was a child. She talks to Alastair Campbell about the WED habit of diary writing, and why he keeps a diary. She finds WED out why he started writing them, and whether, now he is so WED well known for them, the decision to publish affected the WED people close to him. WED WED Alastair Campbell talks frankly about the two occasions when WED his diary was read by others in circumstances beyond his WED control - one when he had a nervous breakdown and a police WED psychiatrist used his diary entries to help him see the part WED drink played in his problems; and the other when Lord Hutton WED asked to see his diaries as part of the inquiry into the WED death of David Kelly. WED WED Producer: Isobel Eaton. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06rfsvm (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06r0dh2 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06rfsvp (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark WED Mardell. WED WED 13:45 British Liberalism: The Grand Tour b06r5xx4 (Listen) WED Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Clarkson - Expanding the WED Charmed Circle WED WED Anne McElvoy returns to the late 18th century to explore two WED efforts to extend liberty and basic rights beyond white men. WED WED Barbara Taylor explains how young 'radical democrat' Mary WED Wollstonecraft came to write her Vindication of the Rights WED of Woman. WED WED And Anne travels to Liverpool to meet Richard Huzzey, who WED tells the story of Thomas Clarkson, who endlessly toured WED England in his campaign against the slave trade. WED WED With Barbara Taylor and Richard Huzzey. WED WED Producer: Phil Tinline. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06r5d09 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Tumanbay b06r5y76 (Listen) WED Ship of the Dead 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 the spies within. WED WED But there is another threat making its way by sea. As slave WED merchant Ibn (Nabil Elouahabi) awaits for his family to WED arrive in Tumanbay, sickness has broken out on the ship WED carrying them. WED WED An epic saga created by John Dryden and Mike Walker, WED inspired by the Mamluk slave-dynasty of Egypt. 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 Ship Captain: Albert Welling WED Cadali: Matthew Marsh WED Sarah: Nina Yndis WED Ibn: Nabil Elouahabi WED Shajar: Sarah Beck Mather WED Madu: Danny Ashok WED Sultan Al-Ghuri: Raad Rawi WED The Hafiz: Antony Bunsee WED General Qulan: Christopher Fulford WED Head Eunuch: John Sessions WED Slave: Akin Gazi WED Physician: Vivek Madan WED Daniel: Gareth Kennerley WED Actor: Christian Hillborg WED Actor: Alec Utgoff WED Actor: Stefano Braschi WED Actor: Albert Welling WED Producer: Emma Hearn WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Producer: John Dryden WED Writer: John Dryden WED Director: John Dryden WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06r5y78 (Listen) WED Your calls, queries and views on all aspects of personal WED credit, loans, cards, credit reports and debt. Call 03700 WED 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED Historically low interest rates on personal loans, looser WED credit scoring criteria and increasing consumer confidence WED are driving up household borrowing levels say the Bank of WED England. WED WED Personal borrowing increased by £1.2 billion in October with WED consumer credit growth rising by 8.2% over the last year. WED WED Consumers are also being tempted by ever longer introductory WED offers, some lenders offering 0% balance transfers for up to WED 37 or 40 months. WED WED Debt advice charity National Debtline say that while many WED will be able to service this extra borrowing, they are WED concerned that a minority are turning to credit to make ends WED meet and that higher interest rates or a change in personal WED circumstances could lead to debt problems. WED WED The Financial Conduct Authority warned earlier this month WED that around 1.6 million people only manage to make the WED minimum monthly payments on their credit cards and that as WED such customers are seen as profitable, firms have fewer WED incentives to help them. WED WED So on Wednesday we're taking your calls, queries and views WED on all aspects of personal credit. WED WED Kevin Mountford from MoneySuperMarket will have the best WED rates on loans, cards and overdrafts. WED WED James Jones from Experian can answer questions about your WED credit report and score. WED WED Dennis Hussey from National Debtline can help you to manage WED your borrowing or deal with debt. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic charges from WED landlines and mobiles will apply. WED WED Presenter: Paul Lewis WED Producer: Diane Richardson WED Editor: Andrew Smith. WED StepChange WED StepChange Scotland WED Debt Action Northern Ireland WED National Debltine WED Money Advice Service WED Citizens Advice WED Moneyfacts WED Moneysupermarket WED WED WED WED WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b06r5d0h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06r5y7b (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06r81v1 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06rfsvt (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06r0dh4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06r81v3 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Animal Lovers WED WED Episode 4, 'The Animal Lovers'. Mr and Mrs Wrigglesworth WED think about getting a pet while Tom plans a weekend getaway. 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 b06r81v5 (Listen) WED Old news is big news for Kirsty, and Clarrie rues her fate. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06rfsvw (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06r5wlg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b06r81v7 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Giles Fraser, Anne WED McElvoy and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06r81v9 (Listen) WED Lessons in Development WED WED Alpa Shah argues that tribal people need a better WED development model. WED WED Alpa is an anthropologist who has spent years with tribal WED Adivasi people, in Jharkhand, in eastern India. In recent WED years their lands have been identified as some of the most WED mineral-rich on earth and are being eagerly eyed by mining WED companies. There are many potential benefits, but Alpa asks WED whether the world has learned lessons in how to ensure that WED everyone can share in them. WED WED Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton. WED WED 21:00 Would You Eat an Alien? b06r82mz (Listen) WED Pain or No Pain? WED WED In this 4 part series Christine Nicol, professor of Animal WED Welfare at the University of Bristol, explores the WED fascinating and challenging subject of animal sentience and WED welfare. To help delve into the nuances we set up an WED intriguing scenario, Jake the Spaceman (aka comedian Jake WED Yapp) has crash-landed on a remote planet and doesn't have WED much food to keep him going until he is rescued. WED Fortunately, the planet is teeming with alien life forms WED that are edible, but which ones should he eat? WED WED He wants to cause the minimum amount of pain and distress to WED the creatures, so what does he need to know about the nature WED of the beings on the planet? Can they feel pain? If so, how WED can he minimise suffering? Will eating an alien cause WED distress to others? Is the alien so aware and sensitive to WED its environment that Jake needs to consider whether it is a WED non-human person? WED WED Christine will interview animal welfare scientists, WED philosophers and wildlife biologists to get under the skin WED of animal sentience and the potential consequences of WED accepting that animals are conscious, aware creatures. These WED big questions generate surprising and challenging insights WED into our attitudes to other life. When you know absolutely WED nothing about the alien in front of you, what do you need to WED know before eating it? WED WED Professor Brian Key WED Brian Key is the Head of the Brain Growth and Regeneration WED Lab at the University of Queensland. The lab is dedicated to WED understanding the principles of stem cell biology, WED differentiation, axon guidance, plasticity, regeneration and WED development of the brain. WED In addition, he oversees the teaching of Developmental WED Biology in the Science curriculum at the University of WED Queensland. Brian teaches developmental biology at all WED levels of the undergraduate experience. WED WED Professor Georgia Mason WED Georgia Mason is a Professor in the Department of Animal WED Biosciences at the University of Guelph in Ontario, WED Canada. She is widely recognised as a world authority on WED stereotypic behaviour, such as repetitive or ritualistic WED movements such as body rocking, and was the first to use a WED multi-species, comparative approach to addressing animal WED welfare questions. She is interested in how scientists can WED ascertain what, if anything, animals are feeling. WED In 2015, she received a WED Medal for Outstanding Contributions from the Universities WED Federation for Animal Welfare WED for her research across a range of species; for increasing WED understanding of the relationships between animal husbandry WED and animal welfare; and for being a role model and mentor to WED the next generation of animal welfare scientists. WED WED WED Professor David Mellor WED Professor David Mellor is from the Institute of Veterinary, WED Animal and Biomedical Sciences at Massey University in WED Palmerston North, New Zealand. He has led the development WED and subsequent refinement of the Five Domains model of WED animal welfare – a model that covers all aspects of animal WED welfare including nutrition, environment, health, behaviour WED and the animal’s mental state, both negative and positive. WED The model has recently been adopted as a key element of the WED Zoo and Aquarium Animal Welfare strategies across the world. WED Along with Professor Georgia Mason, Mellor was awarded the WED Universities Federation for Animal Welfare medal in 2015 – WED becoming one of only nine scientists in the world to receive WED the award. WED WED WED Professor Mike Mendl WED Mike Mendl, Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare at the WED University of Bristol, is a leading animal welfare WED researcher and has studied a wide range of species including WED companion, farm and laboratory animals. He is a pioneer in WED the study of ‘cognitive bias’, investigating the links WED between cognition, consciousness and emotion in animals. His WED applied work, for example on factors affecting aggression WED and tail-biting in pigs, has also yielded knowledge of WED practical benefit to improving welfare. WED His exceptional achievements in the advancement of animal WED welfare over many years were when he was awarded the WED Universities Federation for Animal Welfare WED for outstanding contributions to animal welfare science in WED 2014, and the 2015 WED RSPCA/BSAS award for Innovative Developments in Animal WED Welfare WED WED Professor Peter Singer WED Peter Singer is often described as the world’s most WED influential living philosopher. In 2005, Time magazine named WED him WED one of the 100 most influential people in the world WED and in 2013 he was third in the WED Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute’s ranking of Global Thought WED Leaders WED He is known especially for his work on the ethics of our WED treatment of animals, for his controversial critique of the WED sanctity of life ethics in bioethics, and for his writing on WED the obligations of the affluent to aid those living in WED extreme poverty. He first became well-known internationally WED after the publication of WED Animal Liberation in 1975 WED In 2011, Time included Animal Liberation on its “All-TIME” WED list of the 100 best non-fiction books published in English WED since the magazine began, in 1923. WED Picture: Denise Applewhite - Princeton University WED WED Dr Lynne Sneddon WED Dr Lynne Sneddon is Director of Bioveterinary Science at the WED University of Liverpool. She works to understand mechanisms WED of behaviour by addressing questions around aggression, WED dominance-subordinate relationships and WED nociception - WED the encoding and processing of harmful stimuli in the WED nervous system - WED and the way these are influenced by environmental stress WED and adaptation. WED Her studies are aimed at enhancing our understanding of the WED genes involved in the mechanisms of aggressive behaviour. WED WED Dr James Yeates WED James is WED RSPCA WED Chief Veterinary Officer. He undertook a PhD at Bristol WED University in animal welfare and ethics and was previously WED chair of the WED British Veterinary Association Ethics and Welfare Group WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06r5wl8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06r81vc (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06s6qjb (Listen) WED Dark Corners, Episode 8 WED WED A dark and atmospheric psychological thriller, Ruth WED Rendell's final novel is read by Patricia Hodge. WED WED Carl's relief at getting rid of Dermot is short-lived, when WED Dermot's girlfriend, Sybil, takes his place in the top floor WED of the house in Maida Vale. Nicola can't understand why Carl WED is letting this happen, but he can't tell her about the hold WED Sybil has over him; that she saw him kill Dermot in the WED street outside her parent's house in Jerome Crescent. 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 Author: Ruth Rendell WED Abridger: Robin Brooks WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 23:00 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair b06r81vf (Listen) WED Series 2, Points WED WED by Jenny Eclair WED WED Gail ..... Sarah Hadland WED Produced by Sally Avens WED WED When Gail takes her husband's car she embarks upon a journey WED that has a very surprising destination. WED WED Credits WED Gail: Sarah Hadland WED Producer: Sally Avens WED Writer: Jenny Eclair WED WED 23:15 Before They Were Famous b03dv6cp (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 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 A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Bret Easton Ellis: David Armand WED Ian Fleming: David Armand WED Roald Dahl: John Finnemore WED Dostoyevsky: John Finnemore WED WH Auden: John Finnemore WED Presenter: Ian Leslie WED Germaine Greer: Katy Wix WED Welfare Officer: Fenella Woolgar WED Producer: Anna Silver WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b06rfsvy (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 10 DECEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06r0dhz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06r5wlb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06r0dj1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06r0dj3 (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06r0dj5 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06r0dj7 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06s30fg (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with THU Orthodox Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. THU This programme was pre-recorded. THU THU Script THU THU Good morning. When trying to turn around a bad situation THU should one’s focus be on eradicating the negative or THU introducing the positive? THU Should changing the negative culture of an organisation THU concentrate on punishing bad behaviour, or accentuating good THU behaviour? In my personal life should my focus be on THU refraining from bad habits or on introducing good ones? THU Both perspectives are symbolised in the Hanukah lights which THU can represent either fire or light. THU Fire signifies eradication; it consumes and reduces to ash. THU It is often used to symbolise the eradication of evil as the THU passage in our High Holiday liturgy proclaims “All THU wickedness will dissipate like smoke.” THU But the Hanukah flames can also signify light and light THU represents the power of good, as Isaiah declared: “The THU people that walked in darkness have seen a brilliant light” THU which refers to a new world order of goodness. THU So which is it? Fire or light? THU Like so much in Judaism it is the subject of an argument, THU which is underpinned by two opposing philosophical THU viewpoints. THU According to the school of Shamai we kindle eight flames on THU the first night of Hanukah and reduce one flame each night. THU The school of Hillel holds the opposite; we start with one THU flame on the first night and work our way up to eight. THU Shamai sees the kindling as representing the consumption of THU evil by fire and so each successive night there is THU symbolically less evil and so less fire is required. Hillel THU however sees the ritual in terms of adding positive light THU and the more one accentuates the positive the greater its THU influence and the darkness dissipates on its own. And this THU is the view we follow in our family. THU Father in heaven; help us to change for the better by simply THU bringing a little more light into our lives each day. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06r84qw (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 b04t0p9q (Listen) THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Liz Bonnin presents Montserrat oriole from the Caribbean THU island of Montserrat. In 1995, after being dormant for over THU 300 years, a volcano erupted. The eruption not only THU destroyed Montserrat's capital but much of the wildlife THU couldn't escape, and one bird, the Montserrat oriole was THU almost silenced forever. The male is a colourful bird with THU coal-black head, wings and tail and underparts the colour of THU egg-yolk. It is one of the most endangered birds in the THU world, a bird caught between a rock and a hard place. Its THU forest home had already been reduced by cultivation and THU introduced predators. It was reduced to living in fragmented THU pockets of forest, two thirds of which were destroyed in the THU 1995 and later eruptions. This threatened to wipe out an THU already endangered bird. So, conservationists from Jersey THU Zoo moved 8 orioles into captivity to avoid natural THU extinction and now a captive breeding programme is THU successfully underway, such as this oriole specially THU recorded for Tweet of the Day at Chester Zoo. THU THU Montserrat oriole (Icterus oberi) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of THU Chester Zoo THU THU © THU Chester Zoo THU THU Montserrat oriole conversation project THU THU More information about the Montserrat oriole convervation THU work by THU Chester Zoo THU in partnership with THU Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust THU THU Specially captured recording of Montserrat oriole THU THU The sound recordings of the Montserrat oriole featured in THU this programme where specielly recorded by Andrew Dawes for THU BBC Natural History Unit THU ; with the kind permission of THU Chester Zoo THU THU 06:00 Today b06r8sd7 (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 b06r84qy (Listen) THU Chinese Legalism THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and rise of THU Legalism in China, from the Warring States Period (c475-221 THU BC) to the time of The First Emperor Qin Shi Huang THU (pictured) down to the present day. Blended together by Han THU Fei, the three main aspects of Legalism were the firm THU implementation of laws, use of techniques such as THU responsibility and inscrutability, and taking advantage of THU the ruler's position. The Han dynasty that replaced the Qin THU discredited this philosophy for its apparent THU authoritarianism, but its influence continued, re-emerging THU throughout Chinese history. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06r84r0 (Listen) THU Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter, Dead Right THU THU Stephanie Cole reads from the new collection of essays by THU the acclaimed editor and writer Diana Athill, which is being THU published to mark the author's ninety-eighth birthday later THU this month. THU THU Written from the vantage point of her great age, Athill's THU writing is honest, cheering and thought-provoking. In this THU fourth essay, "Dead Right", she examines her thoughts and THU feelings about death. THU THU Photo credit: Mark Crick. THU THU Read by Stephanie Cole THU THU Written by Diana Athill THU THU Abridged and Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Stephanie Cole THU Author: Diana Athill THU Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06rfsfb (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 b06r84r2 (Listen) THU Heat and Dust, Pieces of Red String THU THU by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, dramatised by Shelley Silas. THU THU A beguiling story of two English women living in India more THU than fifty years apart. In 1923, Olivia is unhappily married THU to a civil servant. Her step-granddaughter travels to the THU subcontinent years later to investigate Olivia's life, which THU her family regarded as 'something dark and terrible'. THU THU The story centres on the experiences of two very different THU women in pre- and post- Independence India. One is THU circumscribed by English mores and the formal social THU structures of the Raj while the other is free to fall in THU love, live among Indian people, feel part of the culture. THU So, it is the story of social change as well as a potent THU love story. THU THU Today, both women visit the Baba Firdaus shrine and make a THU wish. THU THU Pianist ..... Laurie O'Brien THU THU Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU Credits THU Olivia: Pippa Bennett-Warner THU Narrator: Abby Ford THU Douglas: Simon Harrison THU The Nawab: Ronny Jhutti THU Harry: David Seddon THU Inder Lal: Neet Mohan THU Chid: Will Howard THU Maji: Thusitha Jayasundera THU Beth Crawford: Debra Baker THU Dr Saunders: Sam Dale THU Major Minnies: Chris Pavlo THU Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala THU Adaptor: Shelley Silas THU Director: Gaynor Macfarlane THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b06r84r4 (Listen) THU Malaysia's Indigenous Underclass THU THU The deaths of five school children in Malaysia have provoked THU an anguished debate about education and what it means to be THU Malay. The children ran away from their boarding school in THU Kelantan State and died of starvation in the jungle. They THU were afraid of harsh punishment from their teachers. Two THU girls survived eating grass and wild fruits but were found THU emaciated and close to death 47 days later. The children THU came from the Orang Asli community, one of the poorest and THU most marginalised in the country. For Crossing Continents, THU Lucy Ash travels to the remote region where the children THU came from and talks to their bereaved parents. Many families THU are now refusing to send their children to school and THU campaigners accuse the government of not doing enough to THU protect rights of the Orang Asli community. Jane Beresford THU producing. THU THU 11:30 The Ghetto Inglese b05vx4dz (Listen) THU Rome's famous landmark the Piazza di Spagna has a secret THU British history that still reverberates today. Novelist THU Matthew Kneale discovers the hidden Ghetto Inglese. THU THU Piazza di Spagna was once the heart of the English Quarter. THU Today it's famous for its luxury boutiques, and for the THU Spanish Steps. Thronged with tourists photographing each THU other, it's alive with noise and colour and Italian style. THU You'd never notice the British influence of the past. But THU away from the gleaming shop fronts of Prada and the like, THU the English speaking community still quietly clings on. THU THU The imposing building which towers above Versace belongs to THU the oldest English speaking order of nuns ever to be THU established in Rome. The Mater Dei were once a thriving THU community of nuns, teaching British girls in the school they THU founded on the premises. Today, there are only five sisters THU left. Their life of prayer and meditation continues, in THU stark contrast to the consumerist bustle outside their THU walls. THU THU Matthew Kneale goes beneath the surface trappings of this THU famous landmark to meet the Piazza's discreet 21st century THU Anglophones. Those who came before them speak to us from THU across the centuries through the vivid impressions they THU recorded in letters and notes and Matthew retraces their THU footsteps across the ancient stones. THU THU As we accompany him we learn that, while the square may have THU been named after the C17th Spanish embassy to the Holy See THU and briefly have been considered Spanish territory, it can THU be argued that it is to the English language's great writers THU and artists that it owes much of its eternal appeal. THU THU Matthew Kneale, author of English Passengers, has lived in THU Rome since 2000. THU THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06r0djb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 One to One b05nv23y (Listen) THU Christina Lamb talks to Ziauddin Yousafzai - Malala's dad. THU THU Christina Lamb is an author and foreign correspondent for THU the Sunday Times and in this series of One to One she THU explores the issues around family legacies. THU THU Christina looks at what can happen when you build a legacy THU only to find it overshadowed by your child's fame. Ziauddin THU is father of the schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, whose name THU became known around the world after she was shot dead by the THU Taleban in October 2012. THU THU Malala was standing up for her rights to an education. While THU extremely proud of his daughter's bravery and her THU campaigning, he tells Christina where her passion stems from THU and that for him it's important to return to his home THU village and continue with his own work. THU THU Other programmes from Christina's series can be found on the THU BBC iPlayer THU THU Producer : Perminder Khatkar. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06rfsfd (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06r0djd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06rfsfg (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark THU Mardell. THU THU 13:45 British Liberalism: The Grand Tour b06r84r6 (Listen) THU John Stuart Mill, John Bright and the Morant Bay Massacre THU THU Anne McElvoy explores the ideas of two high Victorian THU liberals - John Stuart Mill, and, via a visit to Manchester, THU John Bright. THU THU She explores how a Jamaican rebellion and its bloody THU suppression roused them against state violence. THU THU With Eugenio Biagini, Stuart Jones, Ben Griffin, Edmund THU Fawcett and Richard Huzzey. THU THU Producer: Phil Tinline. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06r81v5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b06r857z (Listen) THU Bright Spark THU THU Drama: Bright Spark by Eve Davies THU Janine is a witness in a court case. She has persuaded her THU friend Mel to testify as well. The events happened over THU twenty five years ago. Can they persuade the jury their THU teacher abused them? Powerful drama about historical child THU abuse. THU THU Director/Producer Gary Brown. THU THU Credits THU Janine: Sally Carman THU Mel: Sue Kelly THU Joe: Stephen Fletcher THU Coal: Malcolm Raeburn THU Ryland: Drew Cain THU Meredith: Emily Pithon THU Judge: Roger Morlidge THU Director: Gary Brown THU Producer: Gary Brown THU Writer: Eve Davies THU THU 15:00 Open Country b06r8583 (Listen) THU Lincolnshire Coast Revival THU THU On the 5th of December 2013 the Lincolnshire community saw THU the worst flooding in 60 years. A tidal surge two metres THU above normal levels flooded coastal nature reserves and THU Gibraltar Point visitor centre was severely damaged. Two THU years on and Helen Mark finds a remarkable transformation THU taking place here and along the coastline with a series of THU iconic buildings and art installations including a new THU marine observatory, a cloud watching bar and a new visitor THU centre built on stilts to protect it from future floods. THU The impact on wildlife and habitat is still being assessed, THU local farmers have lost productive land but there are signs THU of hope. At Donna Nook the seal colony continue to thrive THU and Helen visits as the last of this year's pups are being THU born. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b06r0rmm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b06r1bh5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06r885c (Listen) THU The star of Fallen Idol seven decades later THU THU Francine Stock talks to the child star of one of the THU masterpieces of British cinema, Carol Reed's Fallen Idol, THU Bobby Henrey, who explains how he got the job and why he THU only ever appeared in other movie. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Robert Henrey THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06r885f (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06r885h (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06r0djg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Tina C: Herstory b06r885k (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU 1999 sees Tina C established as a global icon, and exploring THU her feminist side. Jenni Murray quizzes Tina about the highs THU and lows of finding your feet as a woman in Nashville. THU THU Written & performed by Christopher Green. THU Additional voices: Susan Jameson & Leo Wan. THU The Band: Duncan Walsh-Atkins, Mark Hardisty & Phil Wraith. THU Special guest interviewer: Jenni Murray. THU Produced by Victoria Lloyd. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b06r885m (Listen) THU Will someone help restore some Grundy 'pluck'? David has a THU gift for Ruth. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06r885p (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06r84r2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b06r885r (Listen) THU Conservative Future THU THU Jon Manel investigates bullying allegations in the THU conservative youth movement. THU THU 20:30 In Business b06r885t (Listen) THU Truckers: Women behind the Big Wheel THU THU A global industry is facing a staffing crisis, with tens of THU thousands of new recruits needed across Europe and the THU United States - yet many people would never consider the THU job, or even believe it's a job they could do. Why? Because THU it's truck-driving - an industry with an image problem, THU where the work is still very much seen as men-only. THU THU Could the solution to this staffing crisis lie in attracting THU more women to get behind the wheel? Caroline Bayley hits the THU road with some of the female drivers already heading up and THU down roads of the UK. She speaks to Pakistan's first and THU only female truck driver, and asks why aren't there more of THU them? THU THU Producer Nina Robinson. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06r885f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06r84qy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06rfsfj (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06s6qk8 (Listen) THU Dark Corners, Episode 9 THU THU The final novel by Ruth Rendell - who died, aged THU eighty-five, in May this year - read by Patricia Hodge. THU THU Once again, Carl finds himself blackmailed and placed in a THU desperate situation. He can't afford to let Sybil to live THU rent-free in the top floor of his house in Maida Vale, but THU neither can he allow her to go to the police and tell them THU that he killed Dermot. And so, he begins to formulate a plan THU to rid himself of Sybil... 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 b01s0r54 (Listen) THU Series 7, Undeserved Rewards THU THU We like to think we live in a fair world - but writer and THU documentary-maker Jon Ronson investigates the way in which THU the least deserving often win the greatest rewards. THU THU Writer Helen Keen opens the programme, describing how she THU won an award for comedy she wrote about working class life THU in a gritty northern town - but, when she met the judges, THU she sensed that her 'poshness' disappointed them and made THU her less deserving of the award. THU THU Jon meets comedian Bob Mortimer who admits that, when he was THU a criminal barrister in Peckham, he couldn't resist asking THU his clients if they were guilty. Astonishingly, he says, all THU fifteen hundred admitted their guilt. Nevertheless, he THU fought their cases in court and a huge proportion of them THU walked free. He was rewarded for his success but it cost him THU dear on other more profound levels. THU THU South Hampstead Synagogue sounds like an unlikely site for THU misplaced rewards. Jon travels there to meet a charismatic THU young rabbi who had a novel idea to increase youth THU attendance. Kids won raffle tickets for turning up and THU joining in. The competition ran over a year, culminating in THU a grand draw. The prizes were massive. Emotions were running THU high. But things went drastically wrong, leaving the THU children asking "how could God let this happen?". THU THU Finally, Jon talks to ex-New York Times reporter Jayson THU Blair, who added fictitious flourishes to his news stories. THU He embellished details, put words in people's mouths and THU created poignant touches about his interviewees' lives. He THU knew it was wrong but his lies started earning him huge THU respect from his bosses and readers - until the whole façade THU dramatically unravelled. THU THU Producer: Lucy Greenwell THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b06r885w (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 11 DECEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06r0dkg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06r84r0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06r0dkj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06r0dkl (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06r0dkn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06r0dkq (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06rjwbf (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with FRI Orthodox Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. FRI This programme was pre-recorded. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06r88ph (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0n4w (Listen) FRI Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Liz Bonnin presents the displaying Raggiana bird-of-paradise FRI from Papua New Guinea. An explosion of colour flashes across FRI the tree canopy of a rainforest: male Raggiana FRI birds-of-paradise, one of the most spectacularly coloured FRI birds in the world, are displaying to one another. The FRI Raggiana or Count Raggi's bird-of-paradise is Papua New FRI Guinea's national bird and it's easy to see why. His yellow FRI head and green throat are eye-catching enough but even more FRI flamboyant are the long tufted flank feathers which he can FRI raise into a fan of fine reddish-orange plumes. Males gather FRI at traditional display sites quivering these enormous FRI flaming plumes like cabaret dancers as they cling to an FRI advantageous branch. The urgency of their display is FRI underlined by frantic calls which echo through the canopy, FRI in the hope he can impress the much plainer female to mate FRI with him. FRI FRI Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisaea raggiana) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of David Tipling / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01460919 FRI © David Tipling / naturepl.com. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06r88pm (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 b06r0vsn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06r88pp (Listen) FRI Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter, A Life of FRI Luxuries FRI FRI Stephanie Cole reads from Diana Athill's new essay FRI collection, which is being published to mark the author's FRI ninety-eighth birthday later this month. FRI FRI Written from the vantage point of her great age, Athill's FRI writing is honest, cheering and thought-provoking. In "A FRI Life of Luxuries", she looks back on the things that have FRI brought her simple pleasure through the different stages of FRI her long life. FRI FRI Photo credit: Mark Crick. FRI FRI Read by Stephanie Cole FRI FRI Written by Diana Athill FRI FRI Abridged and Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Stephanie Cole FRI Author: Diana Athill FRI Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06rfrfb (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 b06r8bnf (Listen) FRI Heat and Dust, Staying On FRI FRI by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, dramatised by Shelley Silas. FRI FRI A beguiling story of two English women living in India more FRI than fifty years apart. In 1923, Olivia is unhappily married FRI to a civil servant. Her step-granddaughter travels to the FRI subcontinent years later to investigate Olivia's life, which FRI her family regarded as 'something dark and terrible'. FRI FRI The story centres on the experiences of two very different FRI women in pre- and post- Independence India. One is FRI circumscribed by English mores and the formal social FRI structures of the Raj while the other is free to fall in FRI love, live among Indian people, feel part of the culture. FRI So, it is the story of social change as well as a potent FRI love story. FRI FRI Today, finding themselves in the same situation, both women FRI must make life-changing decisions. FRI FRI Pianist ..... Laurie O'Brien FRI FRI Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI Credits FRI Olivia: Pippa Bennett-Warner FRI Narrator: Abby Ford FRI Douglas: Simon Harrison FRI The Nawab: Ronny Jhutti FRI Harry: David Seddon FRI Inder Lal: Neet Mohan FRI Chid: Will Howard FRI Maji: Thusitha Jayasundera FRI Beth Crawford: Debra Baker FRI Dr Saunders: Sam Dale FRI Major Minnies: Chris Pavlo FRI Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala FRI Adaptor: Shelley Silas FRI Director: Gaynor Macfarlane FRI FRI 11:00 Ancient Ways with Bettany Hughes b06r8bnh (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Bettany Hughes follows the ancient road from Rome to FRI Istanbul. Tracing its route through Albania, Macedonia and FRI Greece, she explores how the Egnatian Way helped to shape FRI Europe and the 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 second episode, Bettany journeys from Thessaloniki FRI into Thrace, tracking the movement of ideas along the road FRI and discovering the long history of refugees on the route FRI from ancient times to the present day. FRI FRI Written and presented by Bettany Hughes FRI FRI Producer: Russell Finch FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Michael Frayn's Matchbox Theatre b06r8cjk (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI Michael Frayn: the most comic philosophical writer of our FRI time. An all-star cast has great fun with his hilarious view FRI of us all. People talking. To each other, to themselves. To FRI no one. Trying to communicate. To explain. FRI FRI In Episode 3, a controlling theatre director (Alex Jennings) FRI thinks he can direct anything. Lloyd Owen and Rosalind Ayres FRI talk to each other on their mobiles, yards apart. Patricia FRI Hodge and Roger Allam can't agree on how to deal with FRI household repairs. And Matthew Wolf decides to take a short FRI break from this very programme. Ian Ogilvy, Julia McKenzie, FRI Julian Sands and Sophie Winkleman attend an unusual FRI Memorial, and Janie Dee and Richard Sisson enjoy a musical FRI invitation list. Martin Jarvis lectures on being 'quite FRI clear'. FRI FRI So no worries about queuing up to get a drink in the FRI interval or finding the loo. We're on the radio - the FRI theatre of the listener's imagination. Sit back and enjoy. FRI FRI Episode 3 cast: Alex Jennings, Patricia Hodge, Roger Allam, FRI Rosalind Ayres, Mathew Wolf, Ian Ogilvy, Julia McKenzie, FRI Sophie Winkleman, Julian Sands, Janie Dee, Richard Sisson, FRI 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: Alex Jennings FRI Actor: Patricia Hodge FRI Actor: Roger Allam FRI Actor: Rosalind Ayres FRI Actor: Matthew Wolf FRI Actor: Ian Ogilvy FRI Actor: Julia McKenzie FRI Actor: Sophie Winkleman FRI Actor: Julian Sands FRI Actor: Janie Dee FRI Actor: Richard Sisson FRI Actor: Martin Jarvis FRI Writer: Michael Frayn FRI Director: Martin Jarvis FRI Producer: Rosalind Ayres FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06r0dks (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 One to One b06nnqlj (Listen) FRI David Schneider talks to palliative care consultant Kathryn FRI Mannix FRI FRI David Schneider is terrified of death. In his two editions FRI of One to One, he wants to try to overcome his fear by FRI talking to those who have first-hand understanding of dying. FRI In this programme, he talks to Palliative Care consultant, FRI Kathryn Mannix. With almost forty years of clinical FRI experience and witnessing over twelve thousand deaths, she FRI believes that a 'good death' is possible even when you are FRI seriously ill. She explains the process of dying to David. FRI This, she believes, if accepted by the patient, removes much FRI of the anxiety and fear surrounding the end of life. FRI To hear an extended version of this programme please visit FRI the programme page. FRI The second programme in David's series in which he talks to FRI writer and journalist, Jenny Diski, who has been diagnosed FRI with terminal cancer, can still be found on the BBC iplayer. FRI Producer: Lucy Lunt. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06rfrkx (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06r0dkv (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06rfrfd (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun FRI Ley. FRI FRI 13:45 British Liberalism: The Grand Tour b06r8cjm (Listen) FRI William Gladstone FRI FRI Anne McElvoy explores how 'Gladstonian' liberalism came to FRI dominate Victorian Britain - and how it formed a bridge from FRI a liberalism that tried to push the state back, to one that FRI tried to take it over and use it to improve society. FRI FRI With Eugenio Biagini, Edmund Fawcett, Ben Griffin, Stuart FRI Jones, Jon Lawrence. FRI FRI Producer: Phil Tinline. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06r885m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03h6yrv (Listen) FRI Sorry, Boys, You Failed the Audition FRI FRI Sorry Boys You Failed The Audition by Ray Connolly FRI FRI In the summer of 1962 the Beatles auditioned for producer FRI George Martin at Parlophone Records. Having been rejected by FRI every other record company, it was their last chance to get FRI a recording contract. As the world soon found out, they FRI passed the audition. FRI But what if they'd been turned down? Seen through the eyes FRI of Freda, their teenage Liverpool fan club secretary, this FRI is an affectionate comedy drama about what might have FRI happened to the Beatles if George Martin had said, 'No'. FRI FRI Producer/Director Gary Brown FRI FRI Ray Connolly is a celebrated journalist and author. He is FRI perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for the films FRI 'That'll Be the Day' and the sequel 'Stardust' for which he FRI won a Writers Guild of Great Britain best screenplay award, FRI and for his many interviews with the Beatles. He was due to FRI interview John Lennon on the day the ex-Beatle was murdered, FRI an event he wrote about in the BBC radio play FRI 'Unimaginable'. In addition to the biography John Lennon FRI 1940-1980, he wrote the introduction to The Beatles Complete FRI songbook. FRI FRI Credits FRI Freda: Sara Bahadori FRI John: Andrew Knott FRI Paul: Stephen Fletcher FRI George: Luke Broughton FRI Ringo: Daniel Crossley FRI Epstein: Jonathan Keeble FRI George Martin: Jonathan Keeble FRI Stepmother: Ruth Alexander-Rubin FRI Mrs Harrison: Ruth Alexander-Rubin FRI Cynthia: Hope Brownhill FRI Writer: Ray Connolly FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06r8gmv (Listen) FRI New North London Synagogue FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from the FRI New North London Synagogue. FRI FRI Chris Beardshaw, Matt Biggs and Anne Swithinbank answer this FRI week's gardening questions. FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b06r0v1s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Sunday] FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06r8gmx (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b06r8gmz (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06r8gn1 (Listen) FRI Stuart and Emma - Wellies Are Worth It FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple who FRI have been farming for four years, following his dream, but FRI is it now hers, too? Another in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b06rfrfj (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06r0dkx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b06r8gn3 (Listen) FRI Series 47, Episode 5 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Mitch FRI Benn, Andy Zaltzman, Tez Ilyas and Pippa Evans for a comic FRI look at the week's news. FRI FRI Written by the cast with additional material from Jon FRI Hunter, Max Davies, Sarah Campbell and Tom Whalley. FRI FRI Produced by Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Performer: Jon Holmes FRI Performer: Mitch Benn FRI Performer: Tez Ilyas FRI Performer: Pippa Evans FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06r8gn5 (Listen) FRI Ian and Adam have a wedding to plan, and what has got Ruth FRI feeling inspired? FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson 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 Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Matthew Holman: Michael Winder FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Dr Richard Locke: William Gaminara FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06r8gn7 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06r8bnf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06r8gn9 (Listen) FRI Dominic Grieve MP, Isabel Oakeshott, Chuka Umunna MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Cardinal Wiseman School in Middlesex with a panel FRI including the Chair of the Intelligence and Security FRI Committee Dominic Grieve MP, the political commentator and FRI author Isabel Oakeshott and Labour MP Chuka Umunna. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06r8gnc (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 British Liberalism: The Grand Tour b06r8hr9 (Listen) FRI Omnibus, From John Locke to New Liberalism FRI FRI Anne McElvoy tours British liberalism from the 'Glorious' FRI Revolution to the Edwardian era. FRI FRI Anne starts in Oxford in 1683, with the story of the last FRI large-scale book burning in Britain. She traces how FRI dissident philosopher John Locke took on the whole principle FRI of the arbitrary power of the monarchy. FRI FRI As Anne discovers with the help of Justin Champion and FRI Hannah Dawson, dissident texts were burned and Locke was FRI repeatedly driven out of the country and hunted by the FRI King's agents. Yet all the time he was developing his ideas FRI on the proper limits of power, and on religious toleration. FRI FRI When James II was ousted in 1688, Locke returned to London FRI in triumph, and his ideas have helped to shape how we live FRI ever since. FRI FRI But, as Anne explores in later episodes, the story of FRI British liberalism is not one of straightforward victories. FRI Locke explicitly excluded non-Anglicans from his vision of FRI liberty. And what about black people, or women? FRI FRI Over the course of the first five programmes, Anne traces FRI the development of the ideas we now call liberalism through FRI the lives and works of Adam Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, FRI Thomas Clarkson, John Bright and John Stuart Mill. FRI FRI She explores how a rebellion led by black Jamaicans led to a FRI massacre - and how demands that the British Governor of FRI Jamaica be put on trial divided Victorian intellectuals FRI against each other. FRI FRI And she ends the first week of programmes with the FRI apotheosis of one kind of liberalism in the era of William FRI Gladstone, even as a different version of his creed was FRI taking shape. FRI FRI Producer: Phil Tinline. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06r0dkz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06r8hrd (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06s6qsw (Listen) FRI Dark Corners, Episode 10 FRI FRI The concluding episode of the final novel by Ruth Rendell, FRI read by Patricia Hodge. FRI FRI Fate intervenes once again and Carl is forced to face up to FRI what he has done. FRI FRI In a career that spanned fifty years and over sixty novels, FRI Ruth Rendell was acclaimed by her literary peers and beloved FRI by her readers. She received numerous awards, including the FRI Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's Best Crime FRI Novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger Award for Live FRI Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. FRI In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association FRI Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime FRI writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became FRI a Life Peer. She died in May 2015, aged eighty-five. 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 Great Lives b06r5d07 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06r8hrg (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06r8hrj (Listen) FRI Nirmal and Vijay - Time on Our Hands FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between two retired FRI ladies who describe themselves as British Indian Sikhs and FRI who find huge satisfaction in raising money for charitable FRI work. Another in the series that proves it's surprising what FRI you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
05 December, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 05/12/2015 - 11/12/2015
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