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SAT SATURDAY 26 DECEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06s6xsk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:15 Christmas Meditation b06sdvww (Listen) SAT A reflection on the meaning of Christmas, with Tina Beattie, SAT theologian and writer. Tina looks back on 2015 and tells us SAT how events have influenced her Christmas. In her first year SAT as a Grandmother, she recalls the birth of her own son, on SAT Boxing Day. He is now a father and her memories reflect on SAT how generations of family cope with the fears and hopes of SAT the coming year. SAT SAT The music of Simon and Garfunkel, The sounds of Silence, SAT Christmas in the Holy Land: St Luke's Gospel 2:3-12, Monks SAT of the Syrian Church and Kim Andre Arnesen's Magnificat, SAT Tina Beattie's music choice for the Christmas meditation. SAT SAT Readers: Juliet Stevenson and Sir John Gielgud SAT SAT Tina Beattie is a member of the Catholic Women Speak who SAT have published "Catholic Women Speak: Bringing Our Gifts to SAT the Table" published by Paulist Press: SAT catholicwomenspeak.com. SAT SAT Producer: Carmel Lonergan. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06t4pw9 (Listen) SAT The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees, Episode 5 SAT SAT In 2012, Robert Penn felled (and replanted) a great ash from SAT a Welsh wood. He set out to explore the true value of the SAT tree of which we have made the greatest and most varied use SAT in human history. How many things can be made from one tree? SAT SAT Over the next two years he travelled across Britain, to SAT Europe and the USA, to the workshops and barns of a SAT generation of craftsmen committed to working in wood. He SAT watched them make over 45 artefacts and tools that have been SAT in continual use for centuries, if not millennia. SAT SAT For his final project, Rob wants to create a totem to embody SAT his reverence not just for his tree, but for all Ash trees - SAT a writing desk. It's an ambitious project. With his friend SAT Andy Dix, he selects the perfect piece of timber for each SAT component. The finished product and its distinctive smell SAT takes Rob back to the day his tree was felled. As his time SAT with the tree comes to an end, his new rapport with the ash SAT is just beginning. SAT SAT This is a tale about the joy of making things in wood, of SAT its touch and smell, its many uses, and the resonant, SAT calming effect of running our hands along a wooden surface. SAT It is a celebration of man's close relationship with this SAT greatest of natural materials and a reminder of the value of SAT things made by hand and made to last. SAT SAT Abridged by Jo Coombs SAT Produced by Hannah Marshall SAT A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Author: Robert Penn SAT Abridger: Jo Coombs SAT Producer: Hannah Marshall SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06s6xsm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06s6xsp (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06s6xsr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06s6xst (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06sdvwy (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Rev'd Mary Stallard, Director of the St Giles RE Centre, SAT Wrexham. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06sdvx0 (Listen) SAT Knit One, Heal One SAT SAT A listener on why knitting is a life saver, and another on SAT his photo of 2015. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06s6xsy (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06s6xt0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06sdxfb (Listen) SAT Tale Valley, Devon SAT SAT The Tale Valley is a little known corner of Devon that SAT tourists tend to bypass on their way down to Cornwall. SAT However it has a rich history, and as Helen Mark discovers, SAT man and nature have made an impact on the farming landscape SAT we see today. SAT SAT One night in May 1941 this quiet valley witnessed the horror SAT of war, when a German bomber crashed - scattering its four SAT airmen across four parishes. Farmer Derek Johns takes Helen SAT alongside the River Tale to the spot where his father came SAT across one of the bodies as he was due to milk the cows the SAT following morning. Helen also hears the stories of those who SAT were children at the time of the crash, to understand how SAT the event affected the landscape and its people. SAT SAT Theatre director and former drama lecturer John Somers tells SAT Helen how an ambitious production was developed out of this SAT true story, set in the field next to where one of the German SAT airmen fell. Involving hundreds of residents, the play by SAT Tale Valley Community Theatre is typical of the style of SAT production John puts on to bring the community together, and SAT give them an insight into their local area which they might SAT not have otherwise. SAT SAT Helen meets Caius Nicholas, a young aspiring actor who had a SAT lead role in one of the company's most recent productions, SAT which was based on a real life soldier named on the war SAT memorial in the village of Payhembury. Helen then heads to a SAT local landmark, Hembury Fort, where she volunteers to cut SAT back scrub and bracken which has overwhelmed this historic SAT site. Former Devon county archaeologist, Professor Frances SAT Griffith, and Carrel Jevons, who looks after this SAT privately-owned hill fort, outline the plans to clear the SAT vegetation which will allow them to find out more about the SAT Roman, Iron Age and Neolithic remains that lie below the SAT ground. SAT SAT Finally, Helen returns to the River Tale where she goes in SAT search of the elusive water vole on the Escot estate. Sarah SAT Hogg from the Tale Valley Trust and Derek Gow explain how SAT the animal was successfully reintroduced to the river, SAT continuing a tradition of bringing back species to encourage SAT man and nature to work hand in hand. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Fiona Clampin. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06sdxfd (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: A look back at farming in 2015 SAT SAT This programme looks back over the last twelve months. What SAT were the highs and lows of 2015 from the perspective of SAT farming and the countryside? SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06s6xt2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06sdxfg (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b06sdxfj (Listen) SAT Russell Grant SAT SAT Join Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein for a live Boxing Day SAT Saturday Live. SAT SAT Russell Grant has been synonymous with astrology ever since SAT he interpreted the stars on breakfast TV in the 1980s. But SAT if you remember his flamboyant outfits and presenting style, SAT it wasn't hard to see where his real love lay. In 2011 he SAT joined the cast of Strictly and it catapulted him back into SAT the world of theatre, a passion which had started some years SAT earlier at drama school. He joins Aasmah and Suzy to talk SAT about his glittering career and his new project, an SAT astrology themed colouring book. SAT SAT Bay City Rollers leader singer Les McKeown takes time out of SAT their revival tour to tell us about how different it is now SAT from their 1970's heyday. We'll check out if he's still SAT wearing tartan. SAT SAT Chinelo Bally's passion for sewing was fuelled when she SAT appeared on the BBC's Great British Sewing Bee programme in SAT 2014. Despite only being in sewing for a couple of years and SAT never having used a pattern, she was encouraged to make her SAT passion her profession. Four years on from starting sewing SAT she's made it her business as a designer and seamstress. SAT She'll join be talking about the Nigerian technique of free SAT sewing, outfit embellishment and the joy of African prints. SAT SAT In February this year, Sean O'Brien was body-shamed after SAT photos of him dancing were posted online. After his story SAT went viral, an LA woman launched a global online search to SAT find the person they dubbed "Dancing Man" in order to invite SAT him to a big dance party in California. He joins Aasmah and SAT Suzy to talk about his extraordinary year, and how he has SAT used the attention to support anti bullying charities. SAT SAT We'll touch base with the Coxless Crew, a team of women who SAT will be achieving a world first by rowing 8,446 miles SAT unsupported across the Pacific Ocean in 2015, from America SAT to Australia, and in the process aim to raise quarter of a SAT million pounds for their two charities Walking With the SAT Wounded and Breast Cancer Care. SAT SAT We've the inheritance tracks of Jon Culshaw. He chooses SAT Memories performed by Elvis Presley and The Boy with the SAT Thorn in his side by The Smiths. SAT SAT JP meets Ken Dodd to talk about Christmas's past and we have SAT your thank yous. SAT SAT Russell Grant's Art of Astrology is out on December 31st SAT Freehand Fashion by Chinelo Bally is out now SAT A Christmas Shang-A-Lang: The Bay City Rollers Album is out SAT now and their next gig is in Edinburgh on 27th December SAT Ken Dodd is doing two shows in his home city of Liverpool at SAT the Philharmonic Hall on December 28th and 29th SAT SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT The Coxless Crew SAT Credit: Sarah Moshman, *Losing Sight of Shore* SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Russell Grant SAT Interviewed Guest: Les McKeown SAT Interviewed Guest: Chinelo Bally SAT Interviewed Guest: Sean O'Brien SAT Interviewed Guest: Jon Culshaw SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Ken Dodd SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b06sdxfl (Listen) SAT Series 12, Audley End SAT SAT Jay Rayer hosts the culinary panel from Audley End House in SAT Essex. SAT SAT The audience questions are answered by food historian Dr SAT Annie Gray, DIY cooking expert Tim Hayward, London-born chef SAT to the elite Sophie Wright, and the Japanese-influenced SAT Masterchef winner Tim Anderson. SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b06vfwd0 (Listen) SAT Core: A Journey to the Centre of the Things SAT SAT How startling discoveries about the core of the earth and SAT the oldest star yet known help us understand our place in SAT the grand scheme of things. Tim Marlow and the SAT astrophysicist Arif Babul, the astronomer Anna Frebel and SAT the earth scientist Paul Savage go on a quest to find the SAT core or centre.(Photo: a split Earth showing a molten core). SAT SAT Arif Babul SAT SAT Professor Arif Babul is a Professor with the Department of SAT Physics & Astronomy at the University of Victoria Faculty of SAT Science in Canada. He is a specialist in theoretical SAT cosmology and studies the origins of structure in the SAT universe and how galaxies are formed. He develops theories SAT about how the universe evolved and tests them with computer SAT simulations. He also explores how our universe evolved from SAT an extremely smooth state into a rich network of galaxies. SAT SAT Anna Frebel SAT SAT Professor Anna Frebel is Assistant Professor in the SAT Astrophysics Division of the Department of Physics at the SAT Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. Anna SAT is credited with discovering several of the oldest and most SAT primitive stars using the world’s largest telescopes. As one SAT of the world’s leading researchers in this field, Anna SAT Frebel has “excavated” sections of the night sky in the SAT hunt for these extremely rare relic starssome of which have SAT been shining for more than 13 billion years. Her book SAT ‘Searching for the Oldest Stars: Ancient Relics from the SAT Early Universe’ examines these phenomena. SAT SAT Paul Savage SAT SAT Dr Paul Savage is the Marie Curie Research Fellow in the SAT Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University in the UK SAT as well as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of SAT St. Andrews. Dr Savage’s research has shown for the first SAT time there are vast amounts of sulphur in the earth’s core. SAT Dr Savage explains how solid geochemical evidence supports SAT this, lending weight to the theory that the Moon was formed SAT by a planet-sized body colliding with Earth. He says the key SAT to confirming this lay in measuring the isotope ratios of SAT elements (isotopes are atoms of the same element with SAT slightly different masses) in the mantle, and comparing SAT these to certain meteorites, which are believed to be the SAT best match to Earth's original composition. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06s6xt5 (Listen) SAT A Boxing Day Special Edition SAT SAT Looking back at some historic FOOC despatches: Allan Little, SAT Bridget Kendall, Emma Jane Kirby, Steve Evans and Gabriel SAT Gatehouse read pieces by Fergal Keane, Caroline Wyatt, SAT Charles Wheeler, John Crawley and Kevin Connolly. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06s6xt7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06sdxfn (Listen) SAT (Very) Personal Finance SAT SAT Money is at the heart of our most personal relationships, SAT like it or not. It's also the root of a large proportion of SAT relationship breakdowns. Being able to talk honestly and SAT openly about it is critical, and yet it can be hard to talk SAT about money. SAT SAT What happens if one's a spender, and the other's a saver? SAT One young couple talk to Relate counsellor Peter Saddington SAT about where their different attitudes to money come from, SAT and how they might begin to put their relationship on a SAT firmer financial footing. SAT SAT Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy from the Open University SAT shares research that reveals how our emotions affect our SAT relationship with money, and each other. SAT SAT And Joanne Edwards, chair of Resolution and partner at SAT Penningtons Manches, shares lessons from the divorce courts. SAT SAT Presenter: Ruth Alexander SAT Producer: Lesley McAlpine. SAT SAT Related links SAT SAT SAT Emotional Finance SAT The Open University SAT Money Advice Service SAT StepChange Debt Charity SAT Relate SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b06scz91 (Listen) SAT Christmas Special SAT SAT Politicians, media pundits and celebrities are given a SAT Christmas roasting, with lashings of satirical gravy. The SAT perfect antidote to all the tears you've shed over the SAT Christmas TV ads. SAT SAT Where can you experience the last ever episode of Downton SAT Abbey, a preview of The Archers, and the shock revelation SAT that none of the news on Radio 4's Today programme during SAT the Christmas season is real. It's all pre-recorded while SAT Sara, Jon and the rest of the team sun themselves in the SAT Bahamas. All that and more in the Christmas edition of Dead SAT Ringers. SAT SAT Starring Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, Jan Ravens, Debra SAT Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey. SAT Producer...Bill Dare SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Performer: Jon Culshaw SAT Performer: Debra Stephenson SAT Performer: Jan Ravens SAT Performer: Lewis Macleod SAT Performer: Duncan Wisbey SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06s6xt9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06s6xtc (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:15 Afternoon Drama b04tjdxx (Listen) SAT The Dog SAT SAT Richard Wilson stars as Fraser McDonald, a counsellor trying SAT to save a marriage on its last legs. SAT SAT Jon Canter's hilarious new comedy features Charlie and SAT Apples - two people who started off as boss and secretary SAT and have ended up as adversaries on the cusp of murder. With SAT over thirty years of experience, has Fraser finally come up SAT against the one couple in a million who couldn't be helped? SAT SAT When he's not trying to help people, Fraser likes to spend SAT time with the love of his life - Grace, a golden retriever. SAT Their relationship is as simple as it is loving, with a deep SAT understanding that seems to evade most humans. Fraser would SAT be lost without her. SAT SAT The theatre version was first performed at Frinton Summer SAT Theatre 2014. Richard Wilson talks about his appearance in SAT the play and 75 years of the Frinton Summer weekly rep SAT season in Frinton Forever, broadcast on 8th December 2014 at SAT 4pm on Radio 4. SAT SAT Directed by Edward Max SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT SAT A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Fraser: Richard Wilson SAT Apples: Jasmine Hyde SAT Charlie: Patrick Marlowe SAT Director: Edward Max SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Writer: Jon Canter SAT SAT 14:00 Let's Go Round Again - The Story of The Magic SAT Roundabout b06gqh8m (Listen) SAT In October 1965, a new version of the French children's SAT television programme Le Manège Enchanté was shown on the SAT BBC. Scripted and voiced by the Playschool presenter Eric SAT Thompson, and broadcast with its English title - The Magic SAT Roundabout, it soon became a firm favourite with viewers of SAT all ages. So much so, that when the transmission time was SAT changed to an earlier timeslot, there were so many SAT complaints to the BBC from outraged adults, that it was SAT moved back to its place just before the six o'clock news. SAT SAT To celebrate the programme's 50th anniversary, Sophie SAT Thompson, Eric's daughter, and his wife Phyllida Law tell us SAT the story behind the much-loved series. We'll hear tales of SAT Zebedee, Florence and Ermintrude, and how Dougal the dog SAT nearly caused international relations with France to break SAT down. SAT SAT With contributions from Fenella Fielding, Nigel Planer and SAT Mark Kermode, climb aboard for one more spin on the Magic SAT Roundabout. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Foster SAT Presenter: Sophie Thompson & Phyllida Law. SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b06sf10d (Listen) SAT The Bed-sitting Room SAT SAT Three years since the nuclear misunderstanding which led to SAT the third world war ("and it's no idle boast when I remind SAT you that this was the shortest world war on record... two SAT minutes twenty eight seconds... including the signing of the SAT Peace Treaty which is now on sale at Her Majesties SAT Stationary Office with a free T- shirt") survivors gather SAT together on the former-streets of London. In amongst the SAT rubble, Captain Kak and his fiancee Penelope find Lord SAT Fortnum, who is convinced he's turning into a Bed-sitting SAT room. With property prices what they are, Kak should be on SAT to a good thing. SAT SAT This atmospheric, surrealist play was originally written by SAT John Antrobus & Spike Milligan, and has been adapted for SAT radio by John Antrobus & Paul Merton. SAT SAT Music & FX by Jerry Peal. SAT Directed by Sam Michell. SAT Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT Credits SAT Captain Kak: Paul Merton SAT Lord Fortnum: Derek Jacobi SAT Mate: Bernard Cribbins SAT Penelope: Catherine Tate SAT The BBC: Corrie Corfield SAT Mrs Ethel Skroake: Suki Webster SAT The Vicar: John Antrobus SAT Captain: Sean Baker SAT Seaman: Richard Pepple SAT Director: Sam Michell SAT Producer: Victoria Lloyd SAT Writer: John Antrobus SAT Writer: Spike Milligan SAT Adaptor: John Antrobus SAT Adaptor: Paul Merton SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b06s9d1h (Listen) SAT Series 21, Fairytale of New York SAT SAT The tragi-comic tale of love gone sour and shattered dreams SAT eloquently depicted in the Christmas classic Fairytale of SAT New York is the focus of this edition of Soul Music. James SAT Fearnley, pianist with The Pogues recounts how the song SAT started off as a transatlantic love story between an Irish SAT seafarer missing his girl at Christmas before becoming the SAT bittersweet reminiscences of the Irish immigrant down on his SAT luck in the Big Apple, attempting to win back the woman he SAT wooed with promises of 'cars big as bars and rivers of SAT gold'. SAT SAT Gaelic footballer Alisha Jordan came to New York to play SAT football aged 17 from County Meath in Ireland. Despite being SAT dazzled by the glamour and pace of New York City, she missed SAT her family and friends and stencilled the words 'Fairytale SAT of New York' on her apartment wall as an affirmation of her SAT determination to make the most of her new life in the city. SAT When she was later attacked on the street by a stranger, the SAT words came to signify her battle to recover and not to SAT let the horrific facial injuries she suffered defeat her or SAT her ambition to captain her football team. SAT Rachel Burdett posted the video of the song onto her friend SAT Michelle's social media page to let her know she was SAT thinking of her and praying for her safe return when SAT Michelle went missing suddenly one December. Stories of SAT redemption and of a recognition that Christmas is often not SAT the fairytale we are sold, told through a seasonal SAT favourite. SAT SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06sf10g (Listen) SAT Christmas Day party, Preparing for panto, Is Lucy the real SAT star of the Peanuts movies? SAT SAT Highlights of our Radio 4 Christmas Day Party. Plus Dr Anna SAT Whale, a lecturer in psychology and memory explores why SAT Christmas is a time that lends itself to enduring memories. SAT Daisy-May Hudson, her mother Beverley, and her sister SAT Bronte, talk about being homeless. SAT SAT Retired Brigadier Nicky Moffat shares her thoughts on SAT whether now is the right time to open up ground combat roles SAT to women. SAT Hygge is the Danish concept of cosiness. Helen Russell, SAT British author of 'The Year of Living Danishly' and Susanne SAT Nilsson, a Danish teacher at Morley College who teaches SAT hygge in her lessons talk about the concept and why we Brits SAT need to have more hygge in our lives. SAT SAT As Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie opens, we ask; Who is SAT the the real star of Peanuts? Not soppy Charlie Brown but SAT feisty funny Lucy Van Pelt, who's the subject of a new SAT pocket book called How To Be a Grrrl. Journalist and fan SAT Hadley Freeman and writer Jenny Colgan sing her praises. SAT SAT And we follow 2013 X Factor winner Sam Bailey as she gets SAT ready to make her pantomime debut. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Sophie Powling. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Interviewed Guest: Anna Whale SAT Interviewed Guest: Daisy-May Hudson SAT Interviewed Guest: Beverley Hudson SAT Interviewed Guest: Bronte Hudson SAT Interviewed Guest: Nicky Moffat SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Russell SAT Interviewed Guest: Susanne Nilsson SAT Interviewed Guest: Hadley Freeman SAT Interviewed Guest: Jenny Colgan SAT Interviewed Guest: Sam Bailey SAT Producer: Sophie Powling SAT SAT 17:00 The Listening Project b06spqlk (Listen) SAT The Listening Project on the Road SAT SAT Fi Glover is joined by John Humphrys and Jon Snow to reflect SAT on conversations gathered during the booth's first summer on SAT the road, and by some of the producers who recorded them. SAT SAT The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SAT snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SAT UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SAT them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SAT before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SAT by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SAT who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SAT not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SAT lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SAT moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SAT unedited conversations are being archived by the British SAT Library and used to build up a collection of voices SAT capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SAT of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SAT Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SAT SAT Producer: Marya Burgess. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06s6xtf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06s6xth (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06s6xtk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06sf10j (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Arthur Smith, Martin Freeman, Idris Elba, SAT Jocelyn Jee Esien, Max Hastings, Black Peaches, Roo Panes SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Martin SAT Freeman, Idris Elba, Jocelyn Jee Esien and Max Hastings for SAT an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With SAT music from Black Peaches and Roo Panes. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Idris Elba SAT Idris Elba Presents ‘Murdah Loves John’ is available now. SAT SAT Max Hastings SAT 'The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945' is SAT published by William Collins and available now. SAT SAT Jocelyn Jee Esien SAT ‘It's Jocelyn’ starts on Wednesday 30th December at 1830 on SAT BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Martin Freeman SAT SAT 'Sherlock, The Abominable Bride' is on Friday 1st January at SAT 21.00 on BBC One. SAT 'Stick Man' is on Christmas Day at 16.45 on BBC One. SAT SAT SAT Black Peaches SAT ‘Get Down You Dirty Rascals’ is released on 4th March on SAT 1965 Records. SAT SAT Roo Panes SAT 'Paperweights'is available on 4th March on CRC Records. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Arthur Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Martin Freeman SAT Interviewed Guest: Idris Elba SAT Interviewed Guest: Jocelyn Jee Esien SAT Interviewed Guest: Max Hastings SAT Performer: Black Peaches SAT Performer: Roo Panes SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b06sf10l (Listen) SAT Maggie Smith SAT SAT Millions will miss Lady Violet's withering one-liners now SAT that Downton Abbey is over. Chris Bowlby profiles one of SAT Britain's most successful actors: Maggie Smith. Her SAT extraordinary career has spanned Shakespeare on stage, SAT Hollywood films and, of course, popular televison drama. SAT SAT Producer: Smita Patel SAT SAT Photo credit: "Downton Abbey" / Carnival Films. SAT SAT 19:15 Open Book b0629qxr (Listen) SAT Open Book: Why We Read SAT SAT Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss why we read, and the SAT pleasure that this strange and solitary activity has given SAT millions. Mariella and her guests John Mullan, Naomi SAT Alderman, Damian Barr and neuroscientist Joe Devlin, will be SAT investigating the history of reading, and the impact it has SAT on our brains and asking what would happen if we didn't read SAT fiction. Clive James will reveal the Book He'd Never Lend SAT and Sarah Dillon will be exploring the pleasures of close SAT reading. SAT SAT Why Our Listeners Love to Read SAT SAT "From the earliest age I found that books allowed me to be SAT in other places with other people. In my life I've been on SAT holiday in Bognor with the Stevens family in R.C. Sherriff's SAT The Fortnight; stood with the Aubreys watching the salt SAT supernaturally spill in their London Kitchen in Rebecca SAT West's The Fountain Overflows; shared an air raid with SAT Cassandra Swann in Barbara Pym's So Very Secret; and I still SAT spend an afternoon from time to time in One End Street with SAT the Ruggles family. SAT You can be in a book where you can never be in the real SAT world SAT ." SAT ..... SAT "The way I read has changed over time, and currently I am SAT reading less fiction than during other stages of my life, SAT being drawn to layman's science books and history in an SAT attempt SAT to develop a further understanding of a complex and SAT incomprehensible world SAT ." SAT ..... SAT SAT "As a child living in North London in the fifties in a SAT council flat with my alcoholic dad, mum and younger brother, SAT there were no books. The very first story I read was Little SAT Women by Louisa Alcott bought for me by an Aunt for SAT Christmas. I can still remember the SAT comfort and pleasure SAT I got from this book. To this day I have always read and SAT feel lost if I have not got another book waiting in the SAT wings. SAT SAT I will always, always, read SAT ." SAT ..... SAT SAT "One of my earliest memories is when, aged 4, I was taken to SAT join Barnes library by one of my brothers. I can recall the SAT huge sense of importance I felt as I was given my two buff SAT coloured library tickets with my name written on them. We SAT had books at home too - it was a large family, six of us, SAT and quite hard to get noticed among all the siblings. SAT SAT I think I retreated into the world of literature as SAT a way of finding a space for myself SAT ." SAT ..... SAT SAT "My love of reading came from my mother reading to all of us SAT every night - SAT SAT 4 children crammed into one bed. We started with Wind in SAT the Willows and went on to The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and SAT Watership Down - I will never forget SAT the excitement SAT every night waiting for the next chapter and I can never SAT thank Ma enough - I hope she is listening." SAT ..... SAT SAT "I have passed my love of reading and writing onto my SAT children and my four-year old grandson and hope to teach SAT creative writing to prisoners thanks to an MA in the SAT subject... SAT It brings so much pleasure, something I really want to pass SAT on SAT ." SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SAT Interviewed Guest: John Mullan SAT Interviewed Guest: Naomi Alderman SAT Interviewed Guest: Damian Barr SAT Interviewed Guest: Joe Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Clive James SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Dillon SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06sf10n (Listen) SAT Jay Rayner Pigs Out SAT SAT Jay Rayner gets serious and sybaritic about pigs - starting SAT with medieval Britain swarming with wild boars and ending SAT with 21st century pigs cannibalised for human spare parts. SAT SAT Jay muses on recent rumours surrounding a certain Prime SAT Minister and a pigs head. Does the pig-image make it all the SAT more taboo? This is the extraordinary and, at times, SAT shocking tale of our relationship with the allegedly filthy SAT animal. SAT SAT The archive groans and grunts with pig - much of it SAT anthropomorphic, some fact and some fiction. SAT SAT Remember the Tamworth Two who escaped a Wiltshire abattoir SAT in 1998 and went on the run? They were renamed Butch and SAT Sundance and their intelligence was celebrated by the SAT world's press. Rescued by a popular tabloid, they escaped SAT the slaughterhouse. Jay Rayner, on the other hand, has SAT dutifully been to see pigs killed and dealt with the SAT carcasses. SAT SAT Animal lovers beware - this portrait of our fellow omnivores SAT is controversial. Jay is a non-observant Jew who loves pork SAT - he cooks it, eats it, reviews it, reveres it. SAT SAT Jay also considers pig as man's best friend, delighting in SAT the poetry of Dylan Thomas and in another pig fancier, SAT Winston Churchill. The upper classes have always loved their SAT pigs. SAT SAT In the hands of George Orwell however, the intelligence of SAT the pig makes for some dark meat. And Jay hears from SAT comedian Aatif Nawaz who explains why his mother can't even SAT say the word 'p*g.' SAT SAT Plenty here about the pigs' fitness for cannibalizing human SAT spare parts too. Our porcine friends share some startling SAT similarities to humans, including the size and pumping SAT capacities of their hearts. SAT SAT Produced by Sarah Cuddon SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06s7ztr (Listen) SAT Memsahib Emma, Episode 1 SAT SAT Tanika Gupta's glorious adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma SAT is set in mid 19th Century India. SAT Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Bhattacharjee SAT sees SAT no need for love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her SAT more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But SAT her SAT plans soon lead her into all kinds of trouble. SAT SAT Directed by Tracey Neale. SAT SAT Credits SAT Emma Bhattacharjee: Manjinder Virk SAT Roy: Navin Chowdhry SAT Bhattacharjee: Silas Carson SAT Krishna: Maya Sondhi SAT Sumit Chowdhury: Raj Ghatak SAT Miss Bates: Meera Syal SAT Mrs Weston: Tracy Wiles SAT Mr Elton: Leo Wan SAT Author: Jane Austen SAT Adaptor: Tanika Gupta SAT Director: Tracey Neale SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06s6xtq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Drama b05s35wy (Listen) SAT 13A, 13B SAT SAT When Jess turns up in the seat next to Phil on a flight to SAT Rome, it soon becomes clear that it's not a coincidence. But SAT even the best-laid plans can be derailed by mysterious SAT strangers and a fear of flying. Romcom by award-winning SAT playwright Peter Souter. SAT SAT Director Alison Hindell SAT SAT Peter Souter's best-known radio play is Goldfish Girl which SAT won both the Sony Gold and the Tinniswood Award. He has SAT written extensively for Radio 4 and for ITV wrote Married, SAT Single, Other. His debut stageplay Hello/Goodbye was SAT produced at the Hampstead Theatre and was a development of a SAT radio play called That's Mine, This is Yours. SAT SAT Ruth Jones became a household name starring in Gavin and SAT Stacey which she co-wrote with James Corden. Previously she SAT had appeared in many radio and stage plays and featured in SAT Fat Friends on ITV for which she subsequently also wrote. SAT She is currently filming the fourth series of Stella which SAT she created, stars in and produces for Sky. SAT SAT Stephen Tompkinson began his acting career on radio and SAT rapidly became a well-known tv star in Ballykissangel. He SAT has rarely been absent from television since, most recently SAT starring in DCI Banks on ITV, as well as making frequent SAT radio and stage appearances including Spamalot and A Book by SAT Lester Tricklebank. SAT SAT BBC Cymru Wales production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Jess: Ruth Jones SAT Phil: Stephen Tompkinson SAT Mr Tuttopetto: John Rowe SAT Pilot: Simon Armstrong SAT Director: Alison Hindell SAT Writer: Peter Souter SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b06s89lx (Listen) SAT Programme 10, 2015 SAT SAT (10/12) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs a contest between the Scots (Val SAT McDermid and Roddy Lumsden) and Northern Ireland (Polly SAT Devlin and Brian Feeney). The last time they clashed, the SAT Scots claimed victory: can the tables be turned today? The SAT stakes are high, as this is the last appearance either team SAT will be making in the programme this year. SAT SAT The panellists might sigh with relief at seeing references SAT to crime fiction and popular music; but what about cricket, SAT 19th century art, Classical mythology and the geography of SAT Paris? They'll need knowledge of all of these to arrive at SAT the answers to today's impenetrable-sounding problems, with SAT Tom on hand to provide a gentle hint, or even just a raised SAT eyebrow, where necessary. SAT SAT Tom will also have the answer to the teaser puzzle which may SAT have kept you guessing since last week's contest. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Last week's teaser question SAT SAT Tom asked: Ten in 1901, twelve in 1948, seven in 1949 - what SAT might these numbers and dates have to do with reproduction? SAT SAT Well done if you spotted it was sound reproduction we were SAT talking about. These are the launch dates of three disc SAT formats which dominated the recording industry in the 20th SAT century. The numbers refer to their most common diameters, SAT in inches. SAT SAT The 78rpm disc was launched in 1901 with a typical (though SAT far from exclusive) diameter of 10 inches. In 1948 Decca SAT introduced the long-playing record, with a rotating speed of SAT 33 and a third rpm and a typical diameter of 12 inches. The SAT 7-inch 45rpm disc was commercially launched the following SAT year, and for many years popular songs were released on both SAT 78 and 45 formats concurrently. SAT SAT Rankings before today's contest SAT SAT The Round Britain Quiz 2016 league table after nine matches: SAT SAT South of England Played 3 Won 3 Drawn 0 Lost 0 Total SAT points 48 SAT SAT The Midlands P3 W2 D0 L1 Pts 57 SAT SAT Wales P3 W2 D0 L1 Pts 55 SAT SAT Scotland P3 W2 D0 L1 Pts 49 SAT SAT North of England P3 W0 D0 L3 Pts 45 SAT SAT Northern Ireland P3 W0 D0 L3 Pts 31 SAT SAT Questions in this programme SAT SAT Q1 Why might Joel Gray be happy to introduce one who leads SAT you endlessly up (or maybe down?), one who warned against SAT manual contact, and one who wrote about a dried grape and SAT someone possibly big in Glamis and Cawdor? SAT SAT Q2 (from Rob Butlin) The Queen of Soul, the cricketer who SAT has scored the most test centuries for England and the SAT author of After The Fall, are among a company of sundry SAT folk. Where might they be going? SAT SAT Q3 (Music) Where, and when, might you expect to find all of SAT these together? SAT SAT Q4 The creator of Jean Valjean, three revolutionary SAT generals, a man who should perhaps have been listened to SAT after the Great War, and the resting-place of Greek heroes. SAT Where in the world do they all converge around a star? SAT SAT Q5 Why would Fantin-Latour be attracted by Lord Wavell's SAT anthology, the third album by Public Image Ltd, and a novel SAT by Virginia Andrews? SAT SAT Q6 (Music & voices) What comes next? SAT SAT Q7 (from Peter Stockdale) What's the connection between: SAT Baron Renfrew and Harare's airport; the Dark Tower and a SAT civil war protagonist; and the father of Cesare and Lucrezia SAT Borgia and an English satirical poet? SAT SAT Q8 (from Mrs Chris Rogers) Which is the odd one out among SAT an Argonaut, a Wagnerian opera, and two Nobel prizes in SAT Physics during World War II? SAT SAT This week's teaser question SAT SAT One very speedy, one who made a bear-faced mess of things, SAT and the third in line to the throne, were all looked after SAT by a man from Monmouth: where, and when? SAT SAT It's just for fun so please don't write to us with the SAT answer - but you can find out if you're right when Tom SAT reveals the answer at the beginning of the next edition. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b06s8029 (Listen) SAT Series 6, Wendy Cope and Lachlan Mackinnon SAT SAT Paul Farley hears new poems from Wendy Cope and Lachlan SAT Mackinnon at their home in Ely. Since 'Making Cocoa for SAT Kingsley Amis', her first collection, was published in 1986, SAT Wendy Cope has been among the most popular of poets in SAT Britain and her poems have lent ideas to the national SAT imagination. Her husband, Lachlan Mackinnon, has published SAT four highly regarded collections too and is a great poet of SAT love and loss as well as being as funny as his wife. SAT Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 DECEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06sf2j8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:15 Writing a New Nigeria b06pxp37 (Listen) SUN Suffering and Smiling SUN SUN A portrait of Nigeria, seen through the eyes of a new SUN generation of writers and poets. SUN SUN In the first of two programmes spoken word poet Wana Udobang SUN introduces us to Lagos: her home city, a megacity, an SUN economic powerhouse and, according to its resident writers, SUN the craziest, most congested, most entrepreneurial, SUN hustling, joyful, energetic and creative space in Africa. SUN Fela Kuti captured the essence of Lagos in his song SUN Shuffering and Shmiling'. SUN SUN As she travels around Lagos, Wana considers how writers are SUN reflecting the issues and concerns of contemporary Nigeria. SUN When Boko Haram kidnapped 270 schoolgirls from Chibok in SUN northern Nigeria April 2014, poet Titilope Sonuga responded SUN with 'Hide and Seek', which captured the country's shock and SUN outrage. But the poem also asked the nation to take a long, SUN hard look at itself, asking how it created the conditions SUN which led to the kidnapping. SUN SUN Another issue for which Nigeria has achieved notoriety are SUN 419 scams. These were originally e-mails from fraudsters who SUN inveigled their victims into parting with their banks SUN details but now '419' has become shorthand for any fraud in SUN Nigeria. Writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani explains how 419 SUN scams became the subject of her humorous first novel 'I Do SUN Not Come to You by Chance'. SUN SUN In Balogun Market in the heart of Lagos, Wana Udobang SUN considers how Nigerians navigate by language, slipping in an SUN out of character, dialect and language according to the SUN circumstances. And this flexibility is reflected in poetry SUN too. Efe Paul Azino and Dike-Ogu Chukwumerije consider the SUN role of poets in holding politicians and society to account. SUN SUN Wana meets two writers who, in different ways, explore Lagos SUN in their work. Toni Kan's first memory of visiting the city SUN was of seeing a corpse by his front gate. Now, he says, he SUN couldn't live anywhere else and it's the setting for his SUN latest novel, 'Carnivorous City'. Meanwhile, at Yaba SUN Neuropsychiatric Hospital Wana meets doctor and poet Dami SUN Ajayi. In his day-to-day work he works with people who've SUN become casualties of the city's fevered, frenetic pace and, SUN in his poetry he reflects on those whose minds have become SUN fractured by life in Lagos. SUN SUN 'Writing a New Nigeria' is produced in partnership with the SUN British Council as part of UK/Nigeria 2015-16 SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Grange. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06sf2jb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06sf2jd (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06sf2jg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06sf2jj (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06sf42c (Listen) SUN Bells from the Church of St. Andrew, Stratton in North SUN Cornwall. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b06sf10l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06sf2jl (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06sf42f (Listen) SUN The Candle SUN SUN "Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the SUN darkness." SUN SUN Starting with these words from Anne Frank's diary, the SUN writer and radio producer Sarah Cuddon reflects on the SUN special qualities of candlelight, from celebration and SUN remembrance to romance. She draws on the poetry of Sylvia SUN Plath and Kathleen Jamie and writings by Jez Butterworth and SUN Angela Carter, as well as music by Anton Bruckner, Bill SUN Bruford and Willie Nelson. SUN SUN And she talks to the writer Matthew Engel about his recent SUN journey around England and the pull he felt to visit every SUN Cathedral on his route, lighting a candle. SUN SUN Readers: Joanna David and Henry Goodman SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: The Diary of a Young Girl SUN SUN Author: Anne Frank SUN SUN Publisher: Puffin SUN Poem: Nick and the Candlestick SUN SUN Author: Sylvia Plath SUN SUN Publisher: Faber & Faber SUN Poem: The Blue Boat (from The Tree House) SUN SUN Author: Kathleen Jamie SUN SUN Publisher: Picador SUN Title: The River SUN SUN Author: Jez Butterworth SUN SUN Publisher: Nick Hern Books SUN Title: Nights at the Circus SUN SUN Author: Angela Carter SUN SUN Publisher: Vintage Classics SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b06sf42h (Listen) SUN Winter Sheep SUN SUN In the far north of Scotland Joyce Campbell is preparing her SUN sheep for a hard winter. Nancy Nicholson pays a visit to SUN meet the Scottish Sheep Farmer of the Year and her prize SUN Cheviot ewes. SUN SUN Producer: Alasdair Cross. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06sf2jn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06sf2jq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06sf42k (Listen) SUN Maggi Hambling, Mohammed Ali's street art, Ghislaine Howard SUN on the Seven Acts of Mercy SUN SUN A Sunday programme special on the relationship between SUN Religion and Art presented by Cole Moreton. SUN SUN For centuries the visual medium was used extensively to tell SUN stories from key religious texts. It was a powerful and SUN effective way of communicating religion to the illiterate SUN masses. Today the masses are literate but biblical SUN illiteracy is at an all-time high. So whatis the SUN relationship between Religion and contemporary art in the SUN 21st Century? SUN SUN Aaron Rosen discusses three paintings, each of which shows a SUN different moment in the history of art and religion SUN SUN The artist and sculptor Maggi Hambling tells Cole why she SUN starts every Good Friday with a painting. SUN Her tapestries of waves hang in Winchester cathedral, SUN reflecting the enthusiasm of cathedrals generally to SUN commission and exhibit new art. SUN SUN Meanwhile, the painter Gilaine Howard is working on a SUN commission from Blackburn cathedral on the subject of the SUN Seven Acts of Mercy, a theme which grew out of her response SUN to the 7/7 bombings. SUN SUN Cole discusses the role of cathedral in bringing art to the SUN public with the curator Meryl Doney and the Dean of SUN Sheffield Cathedral, Peter Bradley. SUN SUN Mohammed Ali is sometimes called the Muslim Banksy. Back in SUN the Eighties, he was a pioneer of street art, fusing SUN graffiti styles with Islamic design and calligraphy. Trevor SUN Barnes went to meet him. SUN SUN Finally, what does the surge in the public interest in art SUN says about us? Cole Moreton discusses with SUN Nathaniel Hepburn, the director of Ditchling Museum of Art SUN and Craft, the sociologist Professor Linda Woodhead from SUN Lancaster University and Anglican priest Martin Poole. SUN SUN Producer: Rosie Dawson SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06sf42m (Listen) SUN ChildLine SUN SUN Esther Rantzen presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN ChildLine. SUN ChildLine is a service provided by the NSPCC. SUN Registered Charity No 216401 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'ChildLine. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'ChildLine'. SUN SUN CHILDLINE SUN SUN ChildLine is a free 24-hour counselling service for children SUN and young people provided by the NSPCC. ChildLine deals with SUN any issue which causes distress or concern, including child SUN abuse, bullying, mental illness, parental separation or SUN divorce, pregnancy and substance misuse. SUN ChildLine 0800 1111 SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06sf2js (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06sf2jv (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06sfb6p (Listen) SUN All Rank Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here: 100 years of Toc H, SUN spreading Peace and Goodwill to all. SUN SUN 'All Rank Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here' read the sign over the SUN door of Talbot House, a few miles behind the front line in SUN Great War Belgium. Founded by Army Padre, The Rev'd Philip SUN 'Tubby' Clayton, MC, in December 1915 when there was little SUN seasonal Peace and Goodwill at the Western Front, 'Toc H' SUN (as it was known in the wireless-operators' code of the day) SUN was a place of rest and refuge for soldiers, where SUN throughout the war, all ranks mixed as equals. In peacetime, SUN Toc H became an international Christian organisation which SUN has for 100 years promoted principles of Friendship, SUN Service, Fairmindedness and bringing about The Kingdom of SUN God. Worship is led by The Rev'd Bertrand Olivier, Clayton's SUN successor at the Toc H guild church of All SUN Hallows-by-the-Tower, and the preacher is the Deputy SUN Chaplain General & Archdeacon to the Army, The Venerable SUN Peter Eagles. Composer Bob Chilcott conducts the London SUN Oriana Choir who join the All Hallows' congregation to sing SUN hymns and carols, as well as some of his own seasonal music, SUN accompanied by organist Jonathan Melling. Producer: Rowan SUN Morton-Gledhill. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06sd27k (Listen) SUN Howard Jacobson: Sermons SUN SUN Howard Jacobson would sooner see Radio 4's Thought for the SUN Day more not less religious and argues that humanists and SUN the religious can meet in sermonizing when it's of the SUN majesty of a great preacher like John Donne. SUN SUN "I fall to wondering what exactly non-religious needs are, SUN and whether, by insisting on a distinction between the SUN religious and the non-religious, humanists aren't making an SUN unpardonably limiting assumption about both." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Howard Jacobson SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0vhm (Listen) SUN Asian Koel SUN SUN Michael Palin presents the Asian koel's arrival to an Indian SUN orchard. This long-tailed glossy blue-black bird, is a SUN well-known British harbinger of spring, and like it's SUN British counterpart, it is a cuckoo. SUN SUN The koel's plaintive call is heard from late March until SUN July around villages and in wooded countryside from Pakistan SUN east to Indonesia and southern China. In India, it SUN symbolises the birth of a new season, the flowering of SUN fruit-trees, the bloom of romance and all that's good about SUN spring. The koel's song can be heard in many Bollywood SUN movies and has inspired poems and folk songs; it's even SUN rumoured to help mangoes ripen faster. SUN SUN This almost universal feel-good factor doesn't extend to its SUN victims, because the koel is after all a cuckoo, and lays SUN its eggs in other birds' nests. Asian Koels are parasitic on SUN a wide range of birds, but in India especially, on House SUN Crows and Jungle Crows. SUN SUN Asian/Western/Common Koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Hanne and Jens Eriksen / SUN naturepl.com. SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01212812 SUN © Hanne and Jens Eriksen / naturepl.com SUN SUN Recording of Asian koel by Arnoud B van den Berg / Ref: ML SUN 70213 SUN SUN This programme contains a SUN wildtrack recording of the Asian koel SUN kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab SUN of Ornithology; recorded by Arnoud B va denBerg on 19 Mar SUN 1989, West of Ko Libong, Trang, Thailand. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06sf2jx (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b06sfh12 (Listen) SUN David feels vulnerable, and will Eddie's Christmas surprise SUN be a hit or a turkey? SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Alan Franks: John Telfer SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Matthew Holman: Michael Winder SUN Dr Richard Locke: William Gaminara SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Leonie Snell: Jasmine Hyde SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06sfh14 (Listen) SUN Patricia Greene SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Patricia Greene. SUN SUN For nearly sixty years she has played the role of Jill in SUN Radio 4's The Archers which celebrates its 65th anniversary SUN on January 1st 2016. Over the decades the storylines have SUN followed her character through one marriage, four children SUN and since 2010, widowhood. SUN SUN Born in Derby in 1931, Paddy's love of acting began early on SUN inspired by her father who was a keen amateur actor. As an SUN only and independent child she was surrounded by the adult SUN world and would often eavesdrop as she hid under the kitchen SUN table. Her parents loved entertainment and would take her to SUN the cinema every week to see Hollywood romances or comedies. SUN SUN After attending a grammar school she went to the Central SUN School of Speech and Drama in London in 1951. She wanted to SUN be a classical actress, but then a phone call from the SUN Archers production office changed her career path and she SUN joined the cast initially on a six week contract in 1957. SUN Her character Jill went onto marry the farmer Phil Archer, SUN and is still there with a recent storyline seeing her return SUN to Brookfield, the family farm. SUN SUN Patricia has been married twice and was widowed in 1986. She SUN was awarded an MBE in 2007. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Patricia Greene SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06sf2jz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06s8bpy (Listen) SUN Series 64, Episode 4 SUN SUN The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the Grand SUN Opera House in York. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and SUN Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Sandi Toksvig SUN with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell attempts piano SUN accompaniment. SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio Comedy SUN production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Jack Dee SUN Panellist: Barry Cryer SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN Panellist: Sandi Toksvig SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06sfh16 (Listen) SUN Yotam Ottolenghi: A Life Through Food SUN SUN Food writer, chef, restaurateur, philosopher...? SUN SUN Since 'Ottolenghi: the cookbook' was published in 2008, SUN Yotam Ottolenghi has become one of the UK's most followed SUN voices on food and cooking. Nearly eight years later, SUN Ottolenghi's cookbooks total five, the last written in SUN collaboration with head chef at his London Soho restaurant SUN NOPI, Ramael Scully. The restaurant is one of five in the SUN capital, which he runs with a small, loyal team. He's SUN appeared on our TV screens, exploring the foods of the SUN Mediterranean and his birthplace and childhood home, SUN Jerusalem. He's presented an ode to the Cauliflower on The SUN Food Programme on Radio 4 and in a weekly column for the SUN Guardian, has shed new light on cooking with vegetables, SUN paving the way for ingredients from the Middle East to enter SUN our kitchen store cupboards. No wonder that the rise of SUN sumac, za'atar and tahini in our supermarkets was dubbed SUN 'the Ottolenghi effect'. SUN SUN In an extended interview, Yotam Ottolenghi shares his life SUN through food with Sheila Dillon. She hears how a Jewish boy SUN from Jerusalem negotiated the world of academia, and winded SUN up as a pastry chef in chic restaurants in 90s London. How a SUN chance meeting with business partner Sami Tamimi led to one SUN of London's most successful string of deli restaurants SUN 'Ottolenghi', and on to Soho restaurant NOPI. SUN SUN Yotam explains how people in his life have shaped the food SUN he cooks. He tells Sheila about the effect of his brother's SUN untimely death in tragic circumstances, his own coming out SUN as gay and reflects on his connection with Jerusalem now SUN that he has adopted London as home for his own young family. SUN As 2015 draws to a close, he looks to the future. What will SUN the Philosophical food writer do next? SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon. Produced in Bristol by Clare SUN Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Yotam Ottolenghi SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06sf2k1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06swyfh (Listen) SUN Former party leaders Lord Howard, Dame Margaret Beckett and SUN Gordon Wilson chew over 2015 and look to 2016. Plus how SUN success on Broadway boosts UK theatre. Presented by Shaun SUN Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Listening Project b06sfh18 (Listen) SUN The Listening Project: Lebanon SUN SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations recorded in Beirut, with SUN the help of Oxfam, between refugees who have fled the war in SUN Syria to make a new life for themselves, in Lebanon or SUN elsewhere. SUN SUN All the conversations except one were recorded in Arabic and SUN have been translated into English, the words spoken by SUN actors Sirine Saba, Paul Chahidi, Suzanna Nour, Mariam SUN Haque, Nadia Albina, Farshid Rokey and Evie Killip. Conor SUN Garrett, of BBC Radio Ulster, recorded the conversations SUN which were sourced and facilitated by Oxfam in Beirut. SUN SUN These conversations in another language, recorded outside SUN the UK, are a new departure for The Listening Project, which SUN is a partnership with the British Library to build up a SUN collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK SUN in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more SUN about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06sfh1b (Listen) SUN Lincolnshire SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts a Christmas episode from Lincolnshire. SUN Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness, and Bob Flowerdew answer the SUN festive gardening questions. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06sfk92 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between children, SUN recorded at the CBBC Live and Digital Festival in Hull, SUN about sharing a room, playing rugby league, the benefits SUN that come from joining the Cub Scouts, and learning to live SUN in a new country. All in the Omnibus edition of the series SUN that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN These conversations can be seen, animated, on the CBBC SUN website. 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 b06sfk94 (Listen) SUN Memsahib Emma, Episode 2 SUN SUN Tanika Gupta's glorious adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma SUN set in mid 19th Century India. SUN Emma's plans for Krishna and Mr Elton have backfired SUN spectacularly and she is horrified when he declares his SUN love for her. But a chastened Emma is cheered by news SUN of Frank Churchill's arrival. Mr Roy, however, is wary of SUN this young English man with his airs and graces. SUN SUN Directed by Tracey Neale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Emma: Manjinder Virk SUN Roy: Navin Chowdhry SUN Bhattacharjee: Silas Carson SUN Krishna: Maya Sondhi SUN Sumit: Raj Ghatak SUN Miss Bates: Meera Syal SUN Mrs Weston: Tracy Wiles SUN Mr Weston: Stephen Critchlow SUN Frank Churchill: George Watkins SUN Jane Fairfax: Rina Mahoney SUN Mr Elton: Leo Wan SUN Mrs Elton: Evie Killip SUN Author: Jane Austen SUN Adaptor: Tanika Gupta SUN Director: Tracey Neale SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b06sfk96 (Listen) SUN Look Back at the Year in Books SUN SUN On Open Book this week, as the year draws to a close SUN Mariella Frostrup and her guests look back at some of SUN literary trends of the last twelve months - from colouring SUN books for grown ups to box set publishing - and try to SUN predict what next year will have in store for book lovers. SUN Also on the programme, we celebrate some of literature's SUN grande dames, hearing from Diana Athill, Edna O'Brien, Anne SUN Tyler, Judy Blume and Elizabeth Harrower, who have all SUN published acclaimed works this year. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b06sfk98 (Listen) SUN Series 6, Sam Riviere and Emily Berry SUN SUN Paul Farley hears new poems from two new poets, Sam Riviere SUN and Emily Berry. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 A Meaty Problem b06s9d26 (Listen) SUN Restaurateur Henry Dimbleby unravels the deep-seated SUN attachment of the British to eating meat. SUN SUN Henry wants to cut down on his meat consumption. Many SUN scientists and policy makers think this is a good idea - for SUN global food sustainability, climate change and health. In an SUN effort to understand why he is finding it so difficult, he SUN unpicks the cultural history of the British and their SUN relationship to eating meat. SUN SUN We join Henry as he hosts a vegetarian Sunday lunch for his SUN family, without his beloved joint of meat. He speaks to SUN cultural historian Ben Rogers, author of Beef and Liberty, SUN and learns that the British have long been identified with SUN their beef consumption - propaganda which sets them above SUN the French during the 18th century wars, the fashionably SUN obese John Bull character portrayed in start contrast to the SUN weak and feeble Frenchman existing on a diet of gruel and SUN snails. SUN SUN Dr Annie Gray recalls the popularity of the ditty O the SUN Roast Beef Of Old England, sung spontaneously by audiences SUN in the playhouses of 18th century England. SUN SUN With meat eating such a strong part of our cultural SUN identity, Henry asks how we might go about re-programming SUN ourselves so that we can reduce our intake? Like it or not, SUN meat-eating is still very much associated with masculinity SUN and psychotherapist Susie Orbach suggests reasons why men SUN find it more difficult to reduce meat-eating than women. SUN SUN Henry speaks to Professor of Food Policy at City University SUN London, Tim Lang about whether personal choice can be SUN enough, or whether governmental policy, taxes or rations are SUN needed to change eating habits and prevent a global food SUN crisis. SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b06sf10l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06sf2k3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06sf2k5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06sf2k7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06sfrkn (Listen) SUN Antonia Quirke chooses her BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06sfrkq (Listen) SUN Will all be alright on opening night? David has hopes of his SUN own. SUN SUN 19:15 Drama b06sggdp (Listen) SUN Calendar Girls SUN SUN Ambridge Queen of Am Dram, Lynda Snell, presents Tim Firth's SUN comedy drama about a group of WI members who make a naked SUN calendar in order to raise money for charity. Featuring SUN Archers regulars including Carole Boyd, (Lynda Snell), SUN Alison Dowling (Elizabeth Pargetter) and Charlotte Martin SUN (Susan Carter), this radio premiere of the smash hit comedy SUN drama also features Sian Phillips, star of the original West SUN End cast. SUN SUN The accompanying pianist was Simon Taranczuk SUN SUN A play by Tim Firth based on the motion picture CALENDAR SUN GIRLS written by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi SUN SUN Adapted and directed by Sean O'Connor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Susan Carter/Chris: Charlotte Martin SUN Elizabeth Pargetter/Annie: Alison Dowling SUN Kirsty Miller/Ruth: Annabelle Dowler SUN Lilian Bellamy/Celia: Sunny Ormonde SUN Jean Harvey/Jessie: Siân Phillips SUN Lynda Snell/Marie: Carole Boyd SUN Usha Franks/Brenda Hulse: Souad Faress SUN Alice Carter/Elaine: Hollie Chapman SUN Jennifer Aldridge/Lady Cravenshire: Angela Piper SUN Roy Tucker/John: Ian Pepperell SUN Neil Carter/Rod: Brian Hewlett SUN PC Harrison Burns/Lawrence: James Cartwright SUN Kenton Archer/Liam: Richard Attlee SUN Writer: Tim Firth SUN Adaptor: Sean O'Connor SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN SUN 20:45 From the Vineyard b06sfrkv (Listen) SUN Red Burgundy SUN SUN Red Burgundy by Peter Bradshaw: SUN SUN A crack wine consultant, who sold fine reds to the Chinese, SUN describes a sudden change of heart.. SUN SUN Read by Hugh Dennis SUN SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Peter Bradshaw SUN Reader: Hugh Dennis SUN Producer: Duncan Minshull SUN SUN 21:00 Last Word b06s6xq4 (Listen) SUN Some of the most memorable lives of the past twelve months SUN SUN Matthew Bannister and Economist Obituary Editor Ann Wroe SUN recall some of the most memorable lives of 2015, including a SUN diver, a scientist and a singer. SUN SUN Producer: Edwina Pitman. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Presenter: Ann Wroe SUN Producer: Edwina Pitman SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06sf42m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b06s9shq (Listen) SUN Christmas, Made in China SUN SUN Peter Day visits the Chinese city which makes most of the SUN world's Christmas decorations SUN SUN Producers: Charlotte Pritchard & David Rhodes. SUN SUN 22:00 News Review of the Year b06sfrkx (Listen) SUN 2015 SUN SUN What really stood out in the news of 2015 and will have SUN enduring significance? Paddy O'Connell considers the SUN stories, people and issues which have said most about the SUN last twelve months and evaluates the legacy which they have SUN left. He recalls the lighter moments of the year - as well SUN as discussing what we have discovered that we did not know a SUN year ago and how these developments will shape our lives. SUN SUN Producer Simon Coates. SUN SUN 23:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06tgd7g (Listen) SUN Tattoos and Two Southern Gothics SUN SUN True stories told live in the USA: Catherine Burns SUN introduces tales about family history, growing up and SUN surprises in prison. SUN SUN The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation SUN dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the SUN USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and SUN the storytelling novice, who has lived through something SUN extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by SUN the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of SUN friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in SUN through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New SUN York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce SUN immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New SUN York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts SUN of the world. SUN SUN The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live SUN and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. SUN The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. SUN SUN Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, SUN from the humorous to the heart-breaking. SUN SUN The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic SUN Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed SUN by the Public Radio Exchange. SUN SUN 23:50 A Point of View b06sd27k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:48 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 DECEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06sf2lg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06s9j7q (Listen) MON A Special Programme on Rituals MON MON Rituals at Christmas & beyond. Laurie Taylor presents a MON special programme on the place of rituals in everyday life. MON How have they changed over time and do we still need them? MON He's joined by Adam Kuper, Centennial Professor in MON Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political MON Science; Marina Warner, writer and mythographer and MON Elizabeth Pleck, Professor Emeritu of History and Human MON Development & Family Studies at the University of Illinois. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Adam Kuper at the London School of Economics MON Marina Warner at Birkbeck, University of London MON Elizabeth Pleck at the University of Illinois MON MON MON MON Elizabeth Pleck, *Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the MON Lavish Wedding *(co-author, Cele Otnes (2003) and MON *Celebrating the Family: Ritual, Consumer Culture and MON Ethnicity, *(2000) MON MON Marina Warner, *Once Upon A Time - A Short History of Fairy MON Tale*, (2014) MON MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06sf42c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06sf2lj (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06sf2ll (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06sf2ln (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06sf2lq (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06sg1ts (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Rev'd Mary Stallard, Director of the St Giles RE Centre, MON Wrexham. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06sg1tv (Listen) MON The Fergie at 70 MON MON The story of the little grey tractor which revolutionised MON farming. With Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06sf2ls (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0hjv (Listen) MON New Zealand Robin MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Sir David Attenborough begins Christmas week with the New MON Zealand robin. The toutouwai or New Zealand robin may share MON a name with the more familiar European robin, but it is a MON very different bird to the robin redbreast we know so well. MON Although about the same size with the same perky upright MON stance, the New Zealand robin, is appropriately enough MON nearly all-black, with a pale belly and a white splash just MON above the bill, but no trace of red. Three subspecies exist; MON one in north Island, one in South Island, and another in MON Stewart Island. And like their British counterparts, who MON they are not closely related to at all, can become quite MON tame and friendly to humans. The song is very varied and MON each male has a repertoire of around two dozen different MON notes. MON MON New Zealand robin (Petroica australis australis) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com. MON NPL Ref 01397402 MON © Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com MON MON Recording of New Zealand robin by William V Ward / Ref: ML MON 13916 MON MON This programme contains a MON wildtrack recording of the New Zealand robin MON kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab MON of Ornithology; recorded by William V Ward on 18 Dec 1968, MON at D'urville River, Nelson Lakes National Park, South MON Island, New Zealand. MON MON 06:00 Today b06sg1tx (Listen) MON Guest editor Michael Sheen takes charge of the programme. We MON look at what winter is like for Syrian refugees, the making MON of War of the Worlds and Christmas in Port Talbot. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06sg1tz (Listen) MON Shakespeare's Late Plays - recorded at the Globe's Playhouse MON MON Andrew Marr presents a special edition of Start the Week, MON celebrating the later life and works of William Shakespeare. MON Recorded at the Globe's candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, MON the actor Simon Russell Beale and Artistic Director Dominic MON Dromgoole discuss the late romances. The writer Jeanette MON Winterson explores her personal connection to The Winter's MON Tale, and the academic Katherine Duncan-Jones questions MON whether Shakespeare ever gave up on life in London to retire MON to Stratford-upon-Avon, and the relevance of his will that MON left his wife their 'second-best bed'. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Simon Russell Beale MON Interviewed Guest: Jeanette Winterson MON Interviewed Guest: Dominic Dromgoole MON Interviewed Guest: Katherine Duncan-Jones MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06sg2m9 (Listen) MON The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany, Episode 1 MON MON In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany MON with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the MON outskirts of Berlin. It had been her 'soul place' as a MON child, she said, a holiday home for her and her family, but MON much more - a sanctuary, a refuge. In the 1930s, she had MON been forced to leave the house, fleeing to England as the MON Nazis swept to power. The trip, she said, was a chance to MON see it one last time, to remember it as it was. MON MON But the house had changed. MON MON Nearly twenty years later, Thomas returned to the house. It MON was government property now, derelict, and soon to be MON demolished. It was his legacy, one that had been loved, MON abandoned, fought over - a house his grandmother had desired MON until her death. Could it be saved? And should it be saved? MON MON He began to make tentative enquiries - speaking to MON neighbours and villagers, visiting archives, unearthing MON secrets that had lain hidden for decades. Slowly he began to MON piece together the lives of the five families who had lived MON there - a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a MON renowned composer, a widower and her children, a Stasi MON informant. All had made the house their home, and all - bar MON one - had been forced out. MON MON The house had been the site of domestic bliss and of MON contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy. It had MON weathered storms, fires and abandonment, witnessed violence, MON betrayals and murders, had withstood the trauma of a world MON war, and the dividing of a nation. MON MON As the story of the house began to take shape, Thomas MON realized that there was a chance to save it - but in doing MON so, he would have to resolve his own family's feelings MON towards their former homeland, and a hatred handed down MON through the generations. MON MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06sg2mc (Listen) MON Woman's Hour Quiz MON MON Jane Garvey's joined by Sara Pascoe, Helen Lewis and Shappi MON Khorsandi for a quiz that takes a comic look at the year for MON women - and some of the funnier bits of Woman's Hour. MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey MON Produced by Jane Thurlow. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Panellist: Sara Pascoe MON Panellist: Helen Lewis MON Panellist: Shappi Khorsandi MON Producer: Jane Thurlow MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06sg2mf (Listen) MON Incredible Women, Kirstie Clarke MON MON Meet Kirstie Clarke. She tells it like it is. No holds MON barred, no matter who she offends. In fact the more people MON she offends, the better. The next booking will just come MON along faster. MON MON But when reporter Jeremy Front visits her to find out why MON she has just topped the new year polls, simultaneously as MON Britain's most hated AND most loved TV personality, he MON witnesses a revelation by her housekeeper which shows MON Kirstie's background may be more complicated than she'd MON always thought. MON MON Written by Jeremy Front with additional material by Rebecca MON Front. MON Cast: Rebecca Front and Jeremy Front, Ewan Bailey and Amelia MON Lowdell. Special guest appearance by Vanessa Feltz. MON Produced by Claire Jones. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Rebecca Front MON Actor: Jeremy Front MON Actor: Ewan Bailey MON Actor: Amelia Lowdell MON Actor: Vanessa Feltz MON Producer: Claire Jones MON Writer: Jeremy Front MON Writer: Rebecca Front MON MON 11:00 Pick of the Year b06sg2mk (Listen) MON Pick of the Year 2015 MON MON An eclectic mix of BBC radio programmes, across all MON networks, including listener requests and selections from MON radio personalities. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06sf2m1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b06kvclc (Listen) MON 28 December 1915 - Ruth Billings MON MON On this day the Evening Herald reported the return of 800 MON wounded soldiers to Plymouth, and Ruth Billings's temper MON gets her into trouble. MON MON Written by Richard Monks & Shaun McKenna MON Directed by Allegra McIlroy MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Ruth Billings: Katie Redford MON Timpson: David Hounslow MON Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone MON Margaret Bishop: Catherine Bailey MON Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro MON Sylvia Graham: Joanna David MON Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley MON Writer: Richard Monks MON Writer: Shaun McKenna MON Producer: Allegra McIlroy MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06sg2mp (Listen) MON Housing MON MON Home ownership has been falling for more than a decade from MON a peak of 71% of households in 2003 to below 63% today. In MON London, it is now below 50%. That figure has dropped much MON more steeply among the 25-34 year-old age group: down by MON nearly one quarter. For them - and many more on average to MON low incomes - renting is the only choice - it's all that's MON left for them MON MON Guests: Brandon Lewis, Minister of State for Housing and MON Planning at the Department for Communities and Local MON Government MON Ray Boulger is a mortgage broker with John Charcol MON Michaela Benson is a sociologist who has done a study of MON multi-generational living and sharing MON And we hear from some imaginative people on how they are MON solving their accommodation problems. MON MON Presented by Peter White MON Editor: Chas Watkin. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06sf2m3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06sggdh (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun MON Ley. MON MON 13:45 School of Thought b06sggdk (Listen) MON The Early Years MON MON Every day this week the former Conservative MP and MON universities minister, David Willetts, is examining our MON education system - stage by stage. MON MON Putting politics to one side, he's taking a long hard look MON at education to challenge some of the conventional wisdom MON we've all lived with for a long time - and which, he argues, MON shapes the debate without our even realising it. MON MON In today's programme, David suggests that a misunderstanding MON of neuroscience has led us to put far too much weight on the MON first three years of life. He says we should rebalance MON education spending away from the early years in favour of MON creating more opportunities to learn later in life. MON MON Producer: Charlotte McDonald. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06sfrkq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06sggdp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:15 on Sunday] MON MON 15:45 Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor by John Cheever MON b06sbl90 (Listen) MON Martin Freeman reads John Cheever's classic Christmas tale MON about the power of giving. On Christmas day Charlie, a down MON on his luck lift attendant, laments his lack of upward MON mobility. But the generosity of the residents in the wealthy MON New York apartment building where he works takes him by MON surprise. A cautionary tale of generosity, indulgence and MON the law of unintended consequences. MON MON 16:00 Round Britain Quiz b06sggdr (Listen) MON Programme 11, 2015 MON MON (11/12) MON The North of England take on the South of England in the MON penultimate bout in this year's series of the cryptic MON contest, with the outcome potentially crucial to the MON positions in which they finish in this year's league table. MON Jim Coulson and Adele Geras play for the North, against MON Simon Singh and Marcus Berkmann of the South. MON MON For today's questions they'll need to dredge their memory MON banks for details of fictional characters and their MON creators, historians of the early Christian church, great MON naval battles and British heavy metal bands, among other MON things. As always, the questions include a selection from MON those suggested recently by Round Britain Quiz listeners, MON and Tom will have details of how you can submit your own MON ideas for consideration in future editions. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b06sggdt (Listen) MON Heaven and the Afterlife MON MON The question of what happens after we die is central to the MON world's faith traditions. How has the belief in an afterlife MON developed across the religions? And what does Heaven mean to MON people of faith today? MON MON Ernie Rea discusses the concept of the afterlife with MON Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu MON Studies; Dr Shuruq Naguib, lecturer in Islamic Studies at MON Lancaster University; and the writer and broadcaster Peter MON Stanford. MON MON Producer: MON Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b06sggdw (Listen) MON News interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06sf2m7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:15 15 Minute Musical b06sggdy (Listen) MON Xmas 2015, Seven Bribes MON MON Sepp Blatter hasn't had the easiest of years, as he faces MON allegations of corruption 15 Minute Musical looks at what MON kind of backroom deals could have gone down in 'Seven MON Bribes'; performed by the outstanding Richie Webb, Dave Lamb MON and Pippa Evans. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Richie Webb MON Actor: Dave Lamb MON Actor: Pippa Evans MON Writer: Richie Webb MON Writer: Dave Cohen MON Writer: David Quantick MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06sgjr8 (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 5 MON MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the Grand MON Theatre in Blackpool. Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden MON and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Rob Brydon, MON with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the MON piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio Comedy MON production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Rob Brydon MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06sgynx (Listen) MON Elizabeth has fond memories, and Lynda hopes for a kind MON critique. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06sgjrb (Listen) MON Cultural Philanthropy MON MON Five years on from the launch of government plans to MON encourage more philanthropic funding of the Arts, Kirsty MON Lang speaks to key cultural philanthropists about the part MON they play in funding artistic endeavour. Speaking to Sir MON Paul Ruddock, Dame Vivien Duffield, Hannah Rothschild, David MON Speller, Lloyd Dorfman, Michael Oglesby and cultural MON historian Robert Hewison, Kirsty examines whether the plan MON is working and asks if more needs to be done to change MON attitudes. MON MON Image (Clockwise from top left): Dame Vivien Duffield, Lloyd MON Dorfman, David Speller, Hannah Rothschild (Credit: Harry MON Cory-Wright), Sir Paul Ruddock and Michael Oglesby (Credit: MON Joel C Fildes) MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Kirsty Lang MON Interviewed Guest: Paul Ruddock MON Interviewed Guest: Vivien Duffield MON Interviewed Guest: Hannah Rothschild MON Interviewed Guest: David Speller MON Interviewed Guest: Lloyd Dorfman MON Interviewed Guest: Michael Oglesby MON Interviewed Guest: Robert Hewison MON Producer: Jack Soper MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06sg2mf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Philosopher's Arms b06sgjrd (Listen) MON Series 5, Future People MON MON The Philosopher's Arms, presented by Matthew Sweet, asks MON what sort of people should we bring into the world. In the MON pub this week are, among others, Oxford University professor MON Jeff McMahan and disability studies expert Tom Shakespeare. MON Producer: David Edmonds. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b06s9rzh (Listen) MON Saving India's Parsis MON MON India's Parsis are one of the subcontinent's most successful MON communities. But their future looks precarious because their MON numbers have fallen dramatically. Some Parsis believe the MON answer could be to accept converts, and re-write the rules MON on who's deemed a Parsi. Others are resistant to change. Now MON the Indian government has stepped in to fund fertility MON treatment for couples who dream of parenthood. For Crossing MON Continents, Linda Pressly travels to Mumbai to meet them. MON MON 21:00 Putting Science to Work b06s9d1f (Listen) MON Infuriating Packaging MON MON Opening presents can be quite a challenge. Toys incarcerated MON in rigid transparent plastic cases can bring tears, not of MON joy. Not to mention vacuum-packed luxury foods that are just MON impossible to get into. So, can science save us from MON infuriating packaging? And, if so, which technology is most MON likely to deliver us from this irksome everyday problem? MON Three scientists battle it out in the studio, pitching for MON Jim's imaginary pot of research money. Dr Alaster Yoxall is MON determined to understand what makes things fiddly. Professor MON Mark Miodownik dreams of packages that can be opened by your MON mobile phone. While Professor Lynne Boddy believes mushrooms MON as the new polystyrene. Could the future of packaging be MON mouldable mould? MON MON Producer: Anna Buckley. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06sg1tz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06sf2m9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06sgjrg (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06sgjrj (Listen) MON The Provincial Lady Goes Further, Episode 1 MON MON E M Delafield was great friends with Margaret Mackworth, 2nd MON Viscountess Rhondda, and became a director of Time and Tide MON magazine. MON MON When the editor "wanted some light middles", preferably in MON serial form, she promised to "think of something". And so it MON was, in 1930, Delafield began writing her largely MON autobiographical novels detailing the day-to-day life of a MON Devonshire-dwelling upper-middle class lady and her attempts MON to keep her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into MON chaos. MON MON Substituting the names of Robin and Vicky for her own MON children, Lionel and Rosamund, The Diary of a Provincial MON Lady has never been out of print. MON MON In this second book, The Provincial Lady Goes Further, MON written in 1932, our Lady is now a published author. Success MON and a sizeable royalty cheque allow her to travel further MON afield. She attends a literary conference in Brussels, takes MON a lease on a small flat in London and the family goes on MON holiday to Brittany. MON MON But while she endeavours to embrace the London literary MON scene, things at home remain reassuring the same. MON Mademoiselle weeps on the sofa and refuses to eat when Vicky MON decides she'd like to go away to school, Robert is his usual MON monosyllabic self, snoozing behind a copy of the Times, and MON there's a seemingly endless stream of visitors arriving at MON the house. MON MON This second volume is just as appealing, charming and MON wickedly witty as the first. MON MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Author: EM Delafield MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b06sgjsc (Listen) MON Series 5, Squeeze (the A-Side) MON MON John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks MON to leading performers and songwriters about the album that MON made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live MON audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. MON MON Programme 3. Squeeze's 'East Side Story' with Glenn Tilbrook MON and Chris Difford. MON MON Originally intended as a four-sided double LP with each side MON using a different producer (Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Paul MON McCartney and Elvis Costello), East Side Story was released MON in 1981 as a single LP with 14 songs. With it Squeeze moved MON away from their traditional 'new wave' sound to a more MON varied mix of genres that took in rockabilly, R&B, blue-eyed MON soul, Merseybeat, and psychedelia. MON MON With tracks like Tempted, Is That Love, Messed Around and MON Labelled with Love (which was only on the album because MON eventual producer Elvis Costello persuaded Glenn Tilbrook it MON should be included) the album is packed with keen, precise, MON funny and sad lyrics about lovers, drunks, deadbeats and MON lonely working girls - or as Chris Difford describes them: MON 'suburban short stories'. MON MON Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme MON (as well as some that weren't) can be heard on the MON 'Mastertapes' pages on the Radio 4 website. MON MON The B-side of the programme, where it's the turn of the MON audience to ask the questions, can be heard on Tuesday 29th MON December at 3.30pm. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 23:30 Sounds Up There b055g9r2 (Listen) MON In late 2010, Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón presented MON Glenn Freemantle with a challenge - to create authentic MON sound design in the vacuum of space. In 2014, Glenn won an MON Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for his work on the MON film. Now, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the MON first-ever spacewalk, Glenn sonically recreates the stories MON of real-life spacewalkers. MON MON Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov completed a major Space Race hurdle MON by performing the first-ever spacewalk in March 1965. Alexey MON ran into serious problems with his suit pressure and was MON barely able to re-enter the airlock. Since Leonov's tense MON inaugural moments, there have been 175 successful spacewalks MON devoted to maintenance of the International Space Station MON alone. MON MON In this programme, we'll meet some of the spacewalkers and MON walk through what the experience is like floating in zero MON gravity above the earth. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield MON describes his awe at flying weightless above the earth. MON Record-holding astronaut Sunita Williams describes her MON spacewalking experiences accumulated over more than fifty MON hours. Steven Smith describes the enormous pressure helping MON repair the Hubble Space Telescope. And Italian astronaut MON Luca Parmitano describes his dramatic 2013 spacewalk, when MON he almost drowned in his helmet. MON MON Along the way, Glenn will use sound to help us feel the MON vacuum of space, punctuated by breaths, heartbeats, MON vibration, the radio crackle, the whoosh of the airlock. The MON thoughts and feelings of the spacewalkers describing the MON most awe-inspiring visions of their lives is dramatically MON contrasted with the odd sounds around them. MON MON Produced by Colin McNulty MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 DECEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06sf2n7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:15 Penguin Post Office b04fyz58 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE In October 2013, wildlife cameraman and director Andrew TUE Graham-Brown and assistant producer Ruth Peacey set sail for TUE Antarctica to film the lives of a colony of Gentoo penguins TUE for a BBC Natural World film. Every year the Gentoos return TUE to Port Lockroy which is on a tiny island called Goudier to TUE find a mate and raise their young in the shadow of world's TUE most southerly public Post Office. It was to be one of the TUE most challenging filming trips the team had ever undertaken. TUE Joining them in Antarctica was wildlife cameraman Doug Allan TUE who narrates this series of five programmes which follows TUE the team's adventures. In the first programme, we join them TUE as they board their yacht Pelagic, which with its 12mm steel TUE hull is designed for the glacial ice fields they encounter TUE on their journey south. But fields of ice and giant icebergs TUE are not their only challenge they also have to cross the TUE notorious Drake Passage. Here the unimpeded waves of the TUE vast Southern Ocean squeeze through the relatively narrow, TUE shallow bottleneck of the Drake Passage, resulting in often TUE unpredictable and brutal seas. It's a terrifying ordeal for TUE them all. Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE Picture of the Post Office TUE Webpage picture courtesy of TUE United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06sg2m9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06sf2n9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06sf2nc (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06sf2nf (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06sf2nh (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06t56bf (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Rev'd Mary Stallard, Director of the St Giles RE Centre, TUE Wrexham. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06sgwyl (Listen) TUE Hind Stalking in Sutherland TUE TUE David Allison is Head Stalker on the Duke of Westminster's TUE Reay Forest estate in Sutherland, in the north west of TUE Scotland, and the autumn and winter months - October to TUE February - are the hind-stalking season. What David TUE describes as 'grooming the herd' involves the culling of TUE hinds - female red deer - to keep numbers stable. While some TUE estates invite paying guests to involve themselves in the TUE cull, this estate does not, leaving the work to the seven TUE professional stalkers who, between them, aim to kill around TUE 200 hinds this season. TUE TUE The estate, covering 96,000 acres, maintains a deer TUE population of around 3,300 deer - that's eight deer per TUE square kilometre, which David says is a level that's good TUE for the environment, for the deer and for the estate. Moira TUE Hickey accompanies him as he sets out for a day's stalking, TUE in which he aims to identify weak hinds and any late-born TUE calves which he judges unlikely to survive the winter. His TUE knowledge of the terrain and his assessment of the weather TUE conditions soon lead them to a small group of deer, and the TUE day ends with two carcasses on their way to the estate game TUE larder, to be sold on as venison. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0htz (Listen) TUE Hyacinth Macaw TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Sir David Attenborough presents the hyacinth macaw of the TUE Brazilian Pantanal. Raucous ear-piercing screeches are TUE produced by one of the most beautiful parrots in the world, TUE flying high over the marshy wetlands of the Pantanal. As TUE their name suggests they are a rich cobalt blue, with TUE sulphur-yellow eye rings with a massive bill and long TUE elegant tail-feathers streaming behind them in flight, TUE making them our longest parrot. Popular as captive caged TUE birds, they are now endangered in the wild and legally TUE protected in Brazil. They feed on palm nuts, including those TUE of the acuri palm which are so hard that even the macaw's TUE powerful bill can't break into them, until they've first TUE passed through the digestive tracts of cattle. TUE TUE Hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) TUE TUE Webpage image taken by Miles Barton (BBC) © BBC TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06sgxg3 (Listen) TUE Guest editor Sir Bradley Wiggins takes the helm. Sir Bradley TUE talks suits with Paul Smith, the politics of cycling with TUE Jeremy Corybn and reflects on the legacy of London 2012. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b06sgxg5 (Listen) TUE Slave Labour and Consumer Power TUE TUE Jonathan Freedland examines current debates about ethical TUE shopping and production, in the light of early 19th century TUE campaigns to boycott goods which involved slave labour. TUE TUE Producer Clare Walker. TUE TUE 09:30 Four Thought b05sttjh (Listen) TUE John Williams: Unexpected Joy TUE TUE Comedian John Williams finds unexpected joy in his autistic TUE son's view of life, despite the inevitable struggles. TUE TUE "I have learnt far far more about the human condition, and TUE what it truly means to be alive from just being with those TUE with learning diabilities than I have from any eminent TUE teacher or book." TUE TUE Producer: Sheila Cook. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06sgxjc (Listen) TUE The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany, Episode 2 TUE TUE In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany TUE with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the TUE outskirts of Berlin. It had been her 'soul place' as a TUE child, she said, a holiday home for her and her family, but TUE much more - a sanctuary, a refuge. In the 1930s, she had TUE been forced to leave the house, fleeing to England as the TUE Nazis swept to power. The trip, she said, was a chance to TUE see it one last time, to remember it as it was. TUE TUE But the house had changed. TUE TUE Nearly twenty years later, Thomas returned to the house. It TUE was government property now, derelict, and soon to be TUE demolished. It was his legacy, one that had been loved, TUE abandoned, fought over - a house his grandmother had desired TUE until her death. Could it be saved? And should it be saved? TUE TUE He began to make tentative enquiries - speaking to TUE neighbours and villagers, visiting archives, unearthing TUE secrets that had lain hidden for decades. Slowly he began to TUE piece together the lives of the five families who had lived TUE there - a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a TUE renowned composer, a widower and her children, a Stasi TUE informant. All had made the house their home, and all - bar TUE one - had been forced out. TUE TUE The house had been the site of domestic bliss and of TUE contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy. It had TUE weathered storms, fires and abandonment, witnessed violence, TUE betrayals and murders, had withstood the trauma of a world TUE war, and the dividing of a nation. TUE TUE As the story of the house began to take shape, Thomas TUE realized that there was a chance to save it - but in doing TUE so, he would have to resolve his own family's feelings TUE towards their former homeland, and a hatred handed down TUE through the generations. TUE TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06sgxjf (Listen) TUE Was 2015 the year trans became mainstream? TUE TUE Was 2015 the year trans became mainstream? TUE TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE Producer: Kirsty Starkey. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE Interviewed Guest: Jack Monroe TUE Interviewed Guest: Paris Lees TUE Interviewed Guest: Lewis Hancox TUE Interviewed Guest: Natalie McDermott TUE Interviewed Guest: Alicia Vikander TUE Interviewed Guest: Yvonne Roberts TUE Interviewed Guest: Laurie Penny TUE Producer: Kirsty Starkey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06sgxjh (Listen) TUE Incredible Women, Maria Webber TUE TUE Meet Maria Webber. Newly-appointed as the government's new TUE special adviser for schools, Webber divides opinion. Some TUE admire her ability to get results. Others criticise her TUE corporate approach to education. TUE TUE Reporter Jeremy Front goes to meet her at the Leather TUE Village Academy and Knowledge Assimilation Facility (her TUE latest school in St Albans) and witnesses, first hand, the TUE style and ethos which has earned her the popular name the TUE 'Head Head'. TUE TUE Written by award-winning Jeremy Front with additional TUE material by Rebecca Front. TUE Cast: Rebecca Front, Jeremy Front, Ewan Bailey and Evie TUE Killip. TUE With special guest appearances by Michael Rosen and Charles TUE Carroll. TUE Produced by Claire Jones. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Rebecca Front TUE Actor: Jeremy Front TUE Actor: Ewan Bailey TUE Actor: Evie Killip TUE Actor: Michael Rosen TUE Actor: Charles Carroll TUE Writer: Jeremy Front TUE Writer: Rebecca Front TUE Producer: Claire Jones TUE TUE 11:00 Putting Science to Work b06sgxjk (Listen) TUE Crowd Safety TUE TUE A deadly crowd collapse at the Hajj pilgrimage in September TUE has brought public safety into the spotlight once again. TUE Here in the UK, the Hillsborough inquest has been TUE re-examining the tragic events of 1989 which led to the TUE death of 96 football fans at the Sheffield ground. TUE TUE Today we ask how science can prevent crowd disasters. Jim TUE Al-Khalili invites three scientists into the studio to TUE explain their strategy for improving crowd safety: TUE TUE - Dr Suzy Moat, from Warwick University's Business School, TUE is testing new technologies to monitor crowds TUE - Dr Cliff Stott, a psychologist from Leeds University, says TUE the answer lies in better crowd management TUE - Paul Townsend, Associate Director of 'Crowd Dynamics TUE International', would like more focus on how we design and TUE use public spaces TUE TUE The panel debates the pros and cons of each method and how TUE we can put science to work to keep crowds safe. TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin. TUE TUE 11:30 Tiny Tinkles b06sgxjp (Listen) TUE Comedian and conductor Rainer Hersch investigates how and TUE why 'tinkly' musical sounds are so evocative of childhood, TUE but can also have a creepier quality. TUE TUE Starting with the toy piano, is there something inherent in TUE the tinkly musical quality or is it just the kind of music TUE we think that very small children like to hear? TUE TUE The Schoenhut Piano Company still makes toy baby grands that TUE are played seriously by concert pianists such as Xenia TUE Pestova. She charts the history of the toy piano in serious TUE music to Rainer - one that began with John Cage in 1948 - TUE and explains the advantages and drawbacks over their grown TUE up versions. TUE TUE In Bristol, Rainer visits The Music Box Shop to talk to TUE Richard Dean. He tells Rainer that music boxes of the 18th TUE and 19th century were essentially portable mp3 players which TUE could fit into pocket watches - the very first time that TUE music could be 'recorded' and reproduced. TUE TUE Victoria Williamson, a researcher and lecturer at the TUE University of Sheffield whose research focuses on music and TUE memory, suggests that the simplicity of these instruments TUE means that the music available is in simple tonal forms, TUE with limited notes in particular key and a simple melody - TUE very similar to lullabies. TUE TUE Rainer asks why this 'tinkling' music can suddenly become TUE sinister. Richard Dean at the Music Box Shop - who have TUE supplied boxes for props to the horror classic The Woman in TUE Black - suggests it's the idea of a 'luddite technology' TUE where no one is obviously playing the instrument. Victoria TUE Williamson suggests that our emotional reaction is a battle TUE between the quality of the sound and a learned reaction TUE based on our memories. TUE TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4 TUE TUE 'Crazy Legs' TUE Ed Bennett TUE Played live by Xenia Pestova TUE TUE John Cage - Suite for Toy Piano TUE Music for Amplified Toy Pianos TUE Played by Pascal Meyer and Xenia Pestova TUE TUE 'Patience' TUE Toy Piano and Electronics TUE Lauren Sarah Hayes TUE Played live by Xenia Pestova TUE TUE 'Recollections' TUE Yfat Soul Zisso TUE Played live by Xenia Pestova. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06sf2nl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b06kvcv4 (Listen) TUE 29 December 1915 - Isabel Graham TUE TUE On this day France gifted the land holding British war TUE cemeteries to Great Britain, and the Grahams discover where TUE Adeline and Phyllis have gone. TUE TUE Written by Richard Monks TUE Directed by Allegra McIlroy TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford TUE Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro TUE Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready TUE Hilary Pearce: Craige Els TUE Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Sylvia Graham: Joanna David TUE Esme Macknade: Katie Angelou TUE Waiter: Richard Pepple TUE Writer: Richard Monks TUE Director: Allegra McIlroy TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06sgy15 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06sf2nn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06sgy17 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun TUE Ley. TUE TUE 13:45 School of Thought b06sgy19 (Listen) TUE A-Levels TUE TUE Every day this week the former Conservative MP and TUE universities minister, David Willetts, is examining our TUE education system - stage by stage. TUE TUE Putting politics to one side, he's taking a long hard look TUE at education to challenge some of the conventional wisdom TUE we've all lived with for a long time - and which, he argues, TUE shapes the debate without our even realising it. TUE TUE In this programme, David laments his own choice of A Levels TUE and argues that the current system forces school pupils to TUE specialise much too soon. As a result, he says, there is a TUE sudden and unhelpful parting of the ways between science and TUE the humanities. TUE TUE Producer: Charlotte McDonald. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06sgynx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b06sgy1c (Listen) TUE McLevy, The Night Walker TUE TUE 3 / 4. The Night Walker. Victorian detective drama starring TUE Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond. TUE TUE Written by David Ashton. TUE TUE A lodger dies in his room shortly after arriving from TUE London. McLevy finds a young woman unconscious in the TUE street. An old acquaintance reappears - and Jean is accused TUE of shoplifting. TUE TUE Other parts played by the cast. TUE Producer/Director: Bruce Young TUE BBC Scotland. TUE TUE Credits TUE McLevy: Brian Cox TUE Jean: Siobhan Redmond TUE Mulholland: Michael Perceval-Maxwell TUE Roach: David Ashton TUE Hannah: Colette O'Neil TUE Rev Gideon: Nicholas Tizzard TUE Charlotte: Lizzy Watts TUE Dunsmore: Forbes Masson TUE Miss Wilson: Tracy Wiles TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE Writer: David Ashton TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b06sdxfl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b06sgy7p (Listen) TUE Series 5, Squeeze (the B-Side) TUE TUE John Wilson continues with the fifth series of Mastertapes, TUE the programme in which he talks to leading performers and TUE songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. TUE Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic TUE Maida Vale Studios. TUE TUE Programme 4 (B-side): Having discussed the making of 'East TUE Side Story' (in the A-side of the programme, broadcast on TUE Monday 28th December and available online), Chris Difford TUE and Glenn Tilbrook respond to questions from the audience TUE and perform exclusive live versions of some of the tracks TUE from the album. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 Food Programme b06sfh16 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b06sgy7r (Listen) TUE Series 38, Scientist Precious Lunga chooses Wangari Maathai TUE TUE Matthew Parris's guest this week is the epidemiologst TUE Precious Lunga, who nominates for Great Life status that of TUE the Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Muta Maathai. In TUE the course of her life, Professor Maathai made a huge TUE contribution to re-establishing environmental integrity to TUE Kenya by working with the women who lived there. She founded TUE the Green Belt Movement and became a politician. In 2004 she TUE was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The expert witness is TUE Maggie Baxter from the Green Belt Movement. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Precious Lunga TUE Interviewed Guest: Maggie Baxter TUE Producer: Christine Hall TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06sgy7t (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06sf2nq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:15 15 Minute Musical b03m7pzp (Listen) TUE Series 8, Julian and the Assanging Technicolour Download TUE TUE A series of satirical, barbed, bittersweet fifteen-minute TUE comedy musicals. TUE TUE With over thirty musicals selling out in the West End night TUE after night - the British public (and the Radio 4 audience) TUE cannot get enough of them, therefore ... TUE TUE In true West End style, artistic licence is well and truly TUE taken and stretched, as easily identifiable public figures TUE are dressed up, gilded, fabricated and placed against a TUE random musical backdrop for sugar coated consumption. The TUE stories are simple and engaging but with an edge - allowing TUE the audience to enjoy all the conventions of a musical (huge TUE production numbers, tender ballads and emotional reprises) TUE whilst we completely re-interpret events in major TUE celebrities' lives. TUE TUE Beautifully crafted with astronomically high production TUE values 15 Minute Musical does for your ears what chocolate TUE does for your taste buds. All in fifteen minutes! TUE TUE Winner of the Writers Guild of Great Britain Radio Comedy TUE Award this series provides an energy boost and a seasonal TUE treat at 1815 over the Christmas week. TUE TUE Other episodes include: TUE TUE Ra Ra It's Puti TUE A camp look at Russia's greatest love machine. TUE TUE The Last Days of Farage TUE Nigel Farage goes to Europe with a Britpop soundtrack. TUE TUE Half A Sixth Form TUE Michael Gove has a licence to teach. TUE TUE It's A One-Hit-Wonderful Life TUE Simon Cowell contemplates ending his career until his TUE guardian angel Susan Boyle appears to show him life without TUE Cowell - It's A Wonderful Life. TUE TUE Heaven Knows I'm Middle-Aged Now TUE Morrissey looks for a new musical collaborator. TUE TUE Cast: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and Jess Robinson TUE Written by: Dave Cohen, David Quantick and Richie Webb TUE Music Composed, Performed and Arranged by: Richie Webb TUE Music Production: Matt Katz TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Richie Webb TUE Actor: Dave Lamb TUE Actor: Jess Robinson TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE Writer: Richie Webb TUE Writer: Dave Lamb TUE Writer: David Quantick TUE Writer: Richie Webb TUE TUE 18:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06sgygq (Listen) TUE Series 2, Financial Advisor TUE TUE This week, Milton Jones becomes a responsible sober-suited TUE Financial Adviser, and fights off a Swedish invasion with TUE the aid of his trusty hamster. TUE TUE Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they TUE think is 'Help!'. Because each week, Milton and his trusty TUE assistant Anton (played by Milton regular, Tom Goodman-Hill) TUE set out to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a TUE new adventure. Because when you're close to the edge, then TUE Milton can give you a push. TUE TUE "Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a TUE flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners" - The TUE Guardian. TUE TUE "King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times TUE TUE "If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The TUE Daily Mail TUE TUE Written by Milton with James Cary (Bluestone 42, Miranda) TUE and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 show House Of TUE Rooms), the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton" TUE returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a TUE shipload of new jokes. TUE TUE The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ( Spamalot, Mr. TUE Selfridge) as the ever-faithful Anton, Josie Lawrence and TUE Dan Tetsell (Newsjack). TUE TUE With music by Guy Jackson. TUE TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Himself: Milton Jones TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06sgyqd (Listen) TUE Helen and Rob have a proposition, and there is a welcome TUE face at Lower Loxley. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06shyr7 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: John Wilson TUE Interviewed Guest: Elvis Costello TUE Producer: Jerome Weatherald TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06sgxjh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Boat Children b06t42ff (Listen) TUE Among the vast number of migrants who crossed the TUE Mediterranean in summer 2015 were many unaccompanied TUE children. TUE TUE Presenter Hashi Mohamed, once a child migrant himself, TUE travels to Italy to meet young new arrivals heading north TUE from Sicily in search of a better life. TUE TUE "I had it easy really," says Hashi Mohamend, "I got on a TUE plane with some of my siblings from Nairobi to London via TUE Paris." TUE TUE By contrast many of the child migrants he meets from Egypt, TUE Gambia, Eritrea, Somalia, Afghanistan and Ethiopia have TUE suffered violence, extortion and life threatening danger en TUE route to Europe. TUE TUE Producer: Tim Mansel. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06shyr9 (Listen) TUE Book Review Programme TUE TUE Lyndall Bywater and Sean Randall join Peter White to talk TUE about their favourite books. Listen to a lively conversation TUE about three modern titles, which also includes debate about TUE the pros and cons of different audio versions. TUE TUE 21:00 The Listeners b06shyrk (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE Fiona Gameson has been blind since she was about 3 and half TUE years old, and since childhood has used echolocation to help TUE navigate her surroundings. Echolocation is used by bats and TUE dolphins and some other marine mammals to navigate and hunt TUE their prey. It involves producing a sonar emission (mouth TUE clicks in Fiona's case) and listening to the echoes to hear TUE and "see" their surroundings. Lore Thaler a lecturer at TUE Durham University has been studying human echolocation and TUE we hear about her work with individuals like Fiona. We also TUE hear from Christopher Wills Clark, a senior scientist and TUE Professor at Cornell University and in the Bioacoustics TUE Research Programme at Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology TUE where he studies the acoustic behaviour of birds, fish, TUE elephants and whales. He too is familiar with the notion of TUE 'seeing with sound', of creating 'maps' from sounds and TUE using these to navigate underwater. Above the waves, poet TUE Katrina Porteus discusses how listening to the soundscape of TUE places has influenced her work and Trevor Cox, Professor of TUE Acoustic Engineering at Salford University recalls some of TUE his favourite listening experiences in reverberant spaces TUE and explains how the acoustics in a badly designed lecture TUE hall in the late 1800's was the starting point for the study TUE of architectural acoustics along with some hand claps and a TUE saxophone in Trevor's case! Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE DR FIONA GAMESON AND DR LORE THALER TUE TUE Fiona Gameson has been blind since she was about 3½ years as TUE a result of a rare type of eye cancer, Retinoblastoma. She TUE uses echolocation to help navigate her surroundings. Human TUE Echolocation involves producing audible clicks, eg by TUE clicking the tongue on the roof of the mouth or clicking TUE with the fingers, and then listening to the echoes produced TUE when the sound bounces off nearby objects. People trained to TUE use echolocation can identify such things as the distance, TUE size, shape and material of objects. TUE TUE Lore Thaler is a lecturer at Durham University who studies TUE Human echolocation and has worked with Fiona Gameson. TUE TUE For more information: TUE http://community.dur.ac.uk/lore.thaler/ TUE TUE KATRINA PORTEUS TUE TUE Katrina Porteus is a poet, historian and broadcaster. She TUE has spent much of her life in County Durham and TUE Northumberland and much of her work has been inspired by the TUE inshore fishing community of the Northumberland coast and TUE the cultural and natural history of the area. TUE TUE For more information about her work: TUE http://www.katrinaporteous.co.uk/ TUE TUE The extracts of her TUE Radio Poems TUE used in TUE *The Listeners* TUE were taken from: TUE *Dunstanburgh Castle; a secret as old as the stones* TUE produced by Julian May. First broadcast BBC Radio 4, TUE 09/2/2004. The extract also features the actor Trevor Fox. TUE *Between the Ears - The Refuge Box* TUE produced by Julian May. First broadcast Radio 3, 08/12/2007 TUE TUE CHRISTOPHER WILLS CLARK TUE TUE Christopher Wills Clark is senior scientist and Professor at TUE Cornell University, and in the Bioacoustics Research TUE programme at Cornell’s Laboratory of Ornithology. TUE TUE The Bioacoustics Research Program develops and uses digital TUE technology, including equipment and software, to record and TUE analyze the sounds of wildlife around the globe. By TUE listening to wildlife, they advance the understanding of TUE animal communication and monitor the health of wildlife TUE populations. They help policy makers, industries, and TUE governments use this information to minimize the impact of TUE human activities on wildlife and natural environments. TUE TUE For more information TUE http://vivo.cornell.edu/display/individual5549 TUE http://www.birds.cornell.edu/Page.aspx?pid=1735&id=37 TUE TUE TREVOR COX TUE TUE Trevor Cox is Professor of Acoustic Engineering at Salford TUE University. He carries out research in performance room TUE acoustics, investigating how room conditions can be improved TUE for good speech communication, and quality music production TUE and reproduction. TUE TUE For more information: TUE http://www.salford.ac.uk/computing-science-engineering/cse-a TUE ademics/trevor-cox TUE TUE The saxophone piece, Syrinx by Debussey was recorded by TUE Angus McPake and performed by Trevor Cox. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b06sgxg5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06sf2ns (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06shz1f (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06t61ck (Listen) TUE The Provincial Lady Goes Further, Episode 2 TUE TUE E M Delafield was great friends with Margaret Mackworth, 2nd TUE Viscountess Rhondda, and became a director of Time and Tide TUE magazine. TUE TUE When the editor "wanted some light middles", preferably in TUE serial form, she promised to "think of something". And so it TUE was, in 1930, Delafield began writing her largely TUE autobiographical novels detailing the day-to-day life of a TUE Devonshire-dwelling upper-middle class lady and her attempts TUE to keep her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into TUE chaos. TUE TUE Substituting the names of Robin and Vicky for her own TUE children, Lionel and Rosamund, The Diary of a Provincial TUE Lady has never been out of print. TUE TUE In this second book, The Provincial Lady Goes Further, TUE written in 1932, our Lady is now a published author. Success TUE and a sizeable royalty cheque allow her to travel further TUE afield. She attends a literary conference in Brussels, takes TUE a lease on a small flat in London and the family goes on TUE holiday to Brittany. TUE TUE But while she endeavours to embrace the London literary TUE scene, things at home remain reassuring the same. TUE Mademoiselle weeps on the sofa and refuses to eat when Vicky TUE decides she'd like to go away to school, Robert is his usual TUE monosyllabic self, snoozing behind a copy of the Times, and TUE there's a seemingly endless stream of visitors arriving at TUE the house. TUE TUE This second volume is just as appealing, charming and TUE wickedly witty as the first. TUE TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Author: EM Delafield TUE TUE 23:00 The Show What You Wrote b06shz1h (Listen) TUE Series 3, The End 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 concludes TUE its 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 Aptly the series concludes with an episode themed around TUE "The End". It features Heaven's unexpectedly strict dress TUE code, the pitfalls of post-apocalyptic dating and someone's TUE dying wish... TUE TUE Written by: Owen Archlimb, Stefan Arif, Keith Carter, Aaron TUE Ferguson, Rob Gilroy, Matt Harvey, Oliver Ley, Ciaran TUE Murtagh and Andrew Jones, Matt Oakley, Lev Parikian, Rob TUE Smyth, and Chris Tindall. TUE TUE Script editor ... Jon Hunter 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 Notes From a Northern Irish Childhood b05wyq5y (Listen) TUE Amidst the violence and bloody conflict of the early 1970s, TUE youth orchestras sprang up across Northern Ireland. TUE TUE Aged 7, Marie-Louise Muir took a bus to orchestra practice TUE every Saturday morning, carrying her cello across a TUE landscape marred by bomb blasts, riots and civil unrest. TUE While the violence raged, she met children from other TUE religious backgrounds for the first time. She formed TUE friendships - and a love of music - that would endure long TUE after the sound of gunfire had faded. TUE TUE But life moved on for Marie-Louise. Her cello was set aside TUE in her attic where it languished for 25 years. Even her own TUE children never heard her play. TUE TUE Now Marie-Louise dusts down her cello and allows it to TUE reverberate with memories of a troubled but life-changing TUE period. TUE TUE She joins young musicians on stage for a grand concert in TUE her home town of Londonderry, a city once gripped by some of TUE the worst violence of the Troubles. In between lessons with TUE her cello teacher David, struggling to play John Williams' TUE classics, Marie-Louise meets old friends and tutors to TUE discover the true impact of music on their lives. In Omagh, TUE she revisits the school assembly hall where they used to TUE practice with Mary Scully, now one of the world's top double TUE bass players. Paul Cassidy, of the world famous Brodsky TUE Quartet, recalls carrying his violin through riots in Derry TUE and the impact of hearing Grieg's piano concerto for the TUE very first time. John, Frank and Gordon came from different TUE religious backgrounds but found a shared love of music amid TUE hormones and sneaky cigarettes on the bus to orchestra TUE practice. TUE TUE For Marie-Louise Muir, this is a personal and emotionally TUE charged journey, taking her back to a time when her cello, TUE the orchestra and music provided protection, friendship and TUE hope. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 DECEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06sf2pm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:15 Penguin Post Office b04fz6kr (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED In October 2013, wildlife cameraman and director Andrew WED Graham-Brown and assistant producer Ruth Peacey set sail for WED Antarctica to film a colony of Gentoo penguins for a BBC WED Natural World film which every year return to Port Lockroy WED on a tiny island called Goudier to find a mate and raise WED their young in the shadow of world's most southerly public WED Post Office. It was to be one of the most challenging WED filming trips they had ever undertaken. Joining them in WED Antarctica was wildlife cameraman Doug Allan who narrates WED this series of five programmes which follows the team's WED adventures. Having survived the notorious Drake Passage, the WED team have reached the southern oceans but their troubles WED aren't over. They are surrounded by sea ice and send the WED first mate up the mast to help navigate a safe journey WED through the maze. All goes well until a fierce storm takes WED them by surprise and once again they endure a terrifying WED journey until they reach Anvers island and sanctuary for the WED night. Next morning they set off on the last leg of their WED journey but instead of reaching Port Lockroy are forced to WED stop within a few hundred metres of Goudier island by yet WED more dense sea ice. Producer Sarah Blunt. WED WED Picture of Post Office WED WED Webpage images courtesy of WED United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06sgxjc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06sf2pp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06sf2pr (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06sf2pt (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06sf2pw (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06shzbt (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Rev'd Mary Stallard, Director of the St Giles RE Centre, WED Wrexham. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06shzbw (Listen) WED Fenland Celery WED WED Anna Hill celebrates the return of Fenland Celery in WED Cambridgeshire, a little-known Victorian winter speciality. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0lwc (Listen) WED House Wren WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Sir David Attenborough presents the house wren found across WED the New World. Having one of the largest ranges of any WED songbird in the New World, the migratory house wren occurs WED anywhere from their breeding grounds in Canada and North WED America, to their to wintering grounds from Central America WED to Chile. The male house wren's song is a torrent of trills WED delivered at full volume from his territory of shrubs, low WED trees and ferny banks. Diminutive he may be but he's feisty WED and is known to drag other birds' eggs or chicks from a WED nest-hole he wants for himself. In parts of North America, WED house wrens are a significant cause of nest failure in some WED other species of songbirds. WED WED House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Shattil and Rozinski / WED naturepl.com. WED NPL Ref 01295484 WED © Shattil and Rozinski / naturepl.com WED WED 06:00 Today b06shzh5 (Listen) WED Guest editor Miriam Gonzalez Durantez takes charge of the WED programme. Miriam talks children's food with Jamie Oliver WED and Bake Off champion Nadiya Hussain and interviews Home WED Secretary Theresa May and Manchester City footballer Vincent WED Kompany. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b06shzh7 (Listen) WED Si King and Dave Myers, Michael Foreman, Lady Alexandra WED Shackleton, George Hinchcliffe WED WED Libby Purves meets Si King and Dave Myers - also known as WED the Hairy Bikers; illustrator Michael Foreman; The Honorable WED Lady Alexandra Shackleton, granddaughter of Sir Ernest WED Shackleton and George Hinchcliffe with the Ukulele Orchestra WED of Great Britain. WED WED Lady Alexandra Shackleton is the granddaughter of Sir Ernest WED Shackleton. Sir Ernest set up the Imperial Trans-Antarctic WED Expedition, a cross-continent trek that came to be known as WED the Endurance mission. Endurance departed in August 1914 and WED by January 1915 it had already become trapped in the WED Antarctic ice. Two exhibitions document the story - Enduring WED Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank WED Hurley is at the Royal Geographical Society and By Endurance WED We Conquer: Shackleton and his Men is at the Polar Museum WED which is part of The Scott Polar Research Institute. The WED Royal Geographical Society is in Kensington, London and the WED Polar Museum is based in Cambridge. WED WED Michael Foreman is an illustrator and storyteller. His book WED A Life In Pictures contains previously unseen illustrations WED from his sketchbooks which give an insight into his WED inspiration and methodology. Beginning with his childhood in WED wartime Suffolk, through his early career as a young artist WED and culminating with his collaborations with authors WED including Terry Jones and Michael Morpurgo, the book WED celebrates the places, stories and people that inspired his WED output. A Life In Pictures is published by Pavilion WED Children's Books. Painting With Rainbows - A Michael Foreman WED Exhibition is at Seven Stories - the National Centre for WED Children's Books in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. WED WED Si King and Dave Myers are known as The Hairy Bikers. They WED have written 14 books and celebrated their love of food, WED travel and motorbikes in a number of TV series. Their latest WED book, Blood, Sweat and Tyres, tells how two lads from the WED North East had their childhood challenges and how they met WED over a curry and a pint on the set of a Catherine Cookson WED drama. Blood, Sweat and Tyres - The Autobiography is WED published by Orion Books. WED WED George Hinchcliffe is a founder member of the Ukulele WED Orchestra of Great Britain which celebrates its 30th WED anniversary this year. He is also its musical director and WED arranger. A multi-instrumentalist, he has been playing the WED ukulele since 1960 and WED has also played with Mary Wells, Michael Nyman and Brian WED Eno. The Orchestra has re-released the album (Ever Such) WED Pretty Girls: 20th Century Punk Classics. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Libby Purves WED Interviewed Guest: Si King WED Interviewed Guest: Dave Myers WED Interviewed Guest: Alexandra Shackleton WED Interviewed Guest: George Hinchcliffe WED Producer: Paula McGinley WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06shzh9 (Listen) WED The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany, Episode 3 WED WED In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany WED with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the WED outskirts of Berlin. It had been her 'soul place' as a WED child, she said, a holiday home for her and her family, but WED much more - a sanctuary, a refuge. In the 1930s, she had WED been forced to leave the house, fleeing to England as the WED Nazis swept to power. The trip, she said, was a chance to WED see it one last time, to remember it as it was. WED WED But the house had changed. WED WED Nearly twenty years later, Thomas returned to the house. It WED was government property now, derelict, and soon to be WED demolished. It was his legacy, one that had been loved, WED abandoned, fought over - a house his grandmother had desired WED until her death. Could it be saved? And should it be saved? WED WED He began to make tentative enquiries - speaking to WED neighbours and villagers, visiting archives, unearthing WED secrets that had lain hidden for decades. Slowly he began to WED piece together the lives of the five families who had lived WED there - a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a WED renowned composer, a widower and her children, a Stasi WED informant. All had made the house their home, and all - bar WED one - had been forced out. WED WED The house had been the site of domestic bliss and of WED contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy. It had WED weathered storms, fires and abandonment, witnessed violence, WED betrayals and murders, had withstood the trauma of a world WED war, and the dividing of a nation. WED WED As the story of the house began to take shape, Thomas WED realized that there was a chance to save it - but in doing WED so, he would have to resolve his own family's feelings WED towards their former homeland, and a hatred handed down WED through the generations. WED WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06shzhc (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06shzhf (Listen) WED Incredible Women, Mandy Fenwick WED WED Meet Mandy Fenwick. A huge child star in the 1980s, she WED inspired a new generation of young actors including WED Outnumbered's Tyger Drew-Honey. WED WED Thirty years on she has just written a warts and all memoir WED about her celebrity-filled childhood. WED WED On his visit to her home to record this episode of WED Incredible Women, Jeremy Front witnesses the effect the WED publication of the book is having on Mandy's mother and WED sister. WED WED Written by Jeremy Front, with additional material by Rebecca WED Front. WED Cast: Rebecca Front, Jeremy Front, Tyger Drew-Honey, Alison WED Steadman, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Brian Protheroe, Hugh Kermode WED and Nell Peachey Gudgin. WED Produced by Claire Jones. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Rebecca Front WED Actor: Jeremy Front WED Actor: Tyger Drew-Honey WED Actor: Alison Steadman WED Actor: Tracy-Ann Oberman WED Actor: Brian Protheroe WED Actor: Hugh Kermode WED Actor: Nell Peachey Gudgin WED Writer: Jeremy Front WED Writer: Rebecca Front WED Producer: Claire Jones WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06shzhh (Listen) WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple for WED whom the chemistry was instant, fuelled by foreign WED attraction - 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 How My Sister Said Goodbye b06shzhp (Listen) WED Jonathan Freedland tells the story of how his sister Fiona WED prepared a unique audio legacy for her family and friends in WED the weeks leading up to her death at the age of 50. WED WED After Fiona Freedland was diagnosed with cancer in her mid WED 40s, she resolved to leave behind a record of her life for WED her loved ones to remember her by. A lifelong listener to WED Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Fiona asked her brother WED Jonathan to make an unofficial version of the programme, WED interviewing her whilst she picked the music that would tell WED the story of her life. Over the course of one special WED afternoon not long before she died, Jonathan fulfilled WED Fiona's wish. WED WED Fiona's husband and daughters reflect on this unique piece WED of audio: a moving document of a life cut short, the story WED of a woman seeking to establish the terms by which she would WED be remembered. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 11:30 UK Confidential b06vjd73 (Listen) WED 1986 WED WED Martha Kearney reviews secret government files from 1986 - WED the year of US air strikes against Libya, the Chernobyl WED disaster and a Royal wedding between Prince Andrew and Sarah WED Ferguson. She discusses the annual release of official WED papers with three distinguished politicians from the time - WED former Health Secretary Lord Fowler, former Labour leader WED Lord Kinnock and former Liberal leader Lord Steel - as they WED look for new insights into some of the top political stories WED of that year. WED WED Early 1986 saw the Westland helicopter crisis and the WED resignation of two Senior Ministers, Michael Heseltine and WED Leon Brittan. On the opposition benches, Labour was engaged WED in a struggle with the Militant left wing of the party, but WED the popularity of the new SDP / Liberal Alliance failed to WED materialise into votes in the 1987 election. WED WED Meanwhile Britain was gripped by a fear of AIDS, and arms WED talks between the USSR and the United States faltered at WED Reykjavik, but led ultimately to a treaty between the WED superpowers just a year later, marking a significant thaw in WED Cold War relations. WED WED Producer: Deborah Dudgeon WED A Whistledown production in association with Takeaway Media WED for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06sf2py (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b06kvcxv (Listen) WED 30 December 1915 - Nell Kingsley WED WED On this day a British P&O liner was torpedoed killing 334, WED including women and children, and at the Bevan Hospital an WED injured soldier avoids returning to duty. WED WED Written by Richard Monks WED Directed by Allegra McIlroy WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair WED Max Davenport: Trevor White WED Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads WED Henry Streatfield: Chris Pavlo WED Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley WED Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone WED Strachan: Leo Wan WED Corporal: David Hounslow WED Orderly: Caolan McCarthy WED Writer: Richard Monks WED Director: Allegra McIlroy WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06shzyk (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06sf2q0 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06shzym (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun WED Ley. WED WED 13:45 School of Thought b06shzyp (Listen) WED Vocational Training WED WED Every day this week the former Conservative MP and WED universities minister, David Willetts, is examining our WED education system - stage by stage. WED WED Putting politics to one side, he's taking a long hard look WED at education to challenge some of the conventional wisdom WED we've all lived with for a long time - and which, he argues, WED shapes the debate without our even realising it. WED WED In this programme, David argues that universities should WED play a bigger role in vocational training. Apprenticeships, WED he says, have got far too much attention. WED WED Producer: Charlotte McDonald. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06sgyqd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Tumanbay b06shzzq (Listen) WED Strangle Hold WED WED Tumanbay, the beating heart of a vast empire, is threatened WED by a rebellion in a far-off province and a mysterious force WED devouring the city from within. WED WED Gregor (Rufus Wright), Master of the Palace Guard, is WED charged by Sultan Al-Ghuri (Raad Rawi) with the task of WED rooting out this insurgence and crushing it. WED WED Arriving in the provinces to gather the armies to fight WED rebel "queen" Maya, General Qulan (Christopher Fulford) WED finds the provincial governors less than enthusiastic about WED his arrival. In Tumanbay, Gregor is under pressure to find WED the spies but his investigations keep leading him back to WED Shajar the sultan's chief wife (Sarah Beck Mather) and a WED reliquary she has secreted away. WED WED An epic saga created by John Dryden and Mike Walker, WED inspired by the Mamluk slave-dynasty of Egypt. WED WED Music - Sacha Puttnam WED Sound Design - Steve Bond, Jon Ouin WED Editors - Ania Przygoda, James Morgan WED Producers - Emma Hearn, Nadir Khan, John Dryden WED WED Written and Directed by John Dryden WED WED A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Gregor: Rufus Wright WED Sarah: Nina Yndis WED Shajar: Sarah Beck Mather WED Cadali: Matthew Marsh WED Physician: Vivek Madan WED Wolf: Alexander Siddig WED The Hafiz: Antony Bunsee WED Bello: Albert Welling WED Ibn: Nabil Elouahabi WED Maya's Envoy: Nadir Khan WED Daniel: Gareth Kennerley WED Al-Ghuri: Raad Rawi WED General Qulan: Christopher Fulford WED Provincial Governor Usman: John Sessions WED Fatima: Sirine Saba WED Actor: Christian Hillborg WED Actor: Alec Utgoff WED Actor: Akbar Kurtha WED Writer: John Dryden WED Director: John Dryden WED Producer: Emma Hearn WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Producer: John Dryden WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06sj04y (Listen) WED Does money cause tension in your relationship? Have you lent WED money to a friend, only never to get it back? WED WED No one likes to talk about money, but sometimes you have to. WED So if you're having difficulty managing joint finances with WED your partner, or a dispute about money has arisen in your WED family, why not call Money Box Live to get some practical WED advice and tips on how to straighten out the matter. WED WED Ruth Alexander will be joined by a panel of experts, ready WED to answer your questions about relationships and money: WED WED Penny Mansfield: director at relationship guidance charity, WED One Plus One. WED Michelle Simpson: family lawyer, Chafes Solicitors and WED Resolution. WED Jonathan Chesterman: advice manager at debt charity, Step WED Change. WED WED You can email your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk or call WED 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday 30 December. WED Standard geographic charges from landlines and mobiles will WED apply. WED WED 15:30 The Listeners b06shyrk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06sj050 (Listen) WED Fashion and Beauty WED WED Fashion:pleasure and danger. Laurie Taylor considers the WED costs of 'keeping up appearances', then and now. From the WED flaming tutus of ballerinas to the deaths of garment WED workers: what perils have accompanied changes in dress, for WED the producers of clothing, as well as the wearers. How have WED our ideas of style and good looks shifted according to WED changing notions of masculinity & femininity? What WED relationship do beards and facial hair have to our WED understanding of what it means to be a man? And have the WED vagaries and demands of fashion invariably hurt women more WED than men, the poor more than the wealthy? WED WED Laurie is joined by Christopher Oldstone-Moore, Senior WED Lecturer in History at Wright State University, Alison WED Matthews David, Associate Professor in the School of Fashion WED at Ryerson University and Joanne Entwistle, Senior Lecturer WED in Culture and Creative Industries at King's College London. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED RELATED LINKS WED Alison Matthews David in the School of Fashion at Ryerson WED University, Toronto WED Christopher Oldstone Moore at Wright State University, USA WED Joanne Entwistle at King's College, London WED WED WED WED Alison Matthews David, *Fashion Victims: The Dangers of WED Dress Past and Present*, (Bloomsbury, 2015) WED WED Joanne Entwistle, *The Fashioned Body*, (Polity, 2000) WED WED Christopher Oldstone-Moore,* Of Beards and Men: The WED Revealing History of Facial Hair*, (University of Chicago WED Press, 2015) WED WED WED WED WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06snvwf (Listen) WED TV Remakes WED WED The number of remakes seems to be increasing - Cold Feet and WED the X Files are both returning to our TV screens next year. WED So is this lazy commissioning, or is it actually more risky WED than commissioning new original work because of the weight WED of audience expectation? Writer Debbie Horsfield, talks WED about her approach to the new Poldark series, and why she WED avoided being influenced by the very successful 1970s WED series. Steve Hewlett also hears from Jane Tranter, who WED brought back Dr Who and Auf Wiedersehen Pet to the BBC, when WED she was controller of drama commissioning. Maurice Gran who WED co-wrote the BBC classic series Birds of a Feather, which WED was remade sixteen years later for ITV and Lucy Lumsden, the WED former BBC controller of comedy commissioning, and latterly WED Head of Comedy at Sky, and Julia Raeside, TV critic at the WED Guardian. WED WED Presenter: Steve Hewlett WED Producer: Dianne McGregor WED Editor: Karen Dalziel. WED WED 17:00 PM b06snvwh (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06sf2q2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:15 Don't Start b06vc3sg (Listen) WED Series 3, Christmas WED WED What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new WED comedy from Frank Skinner returning for a third series. WED Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. WED WED In this episode, our loving couple, Neil and Kim, spend a WED harrowing Christmas Day together. WED WED The first and second series of Don't Start met with instant WED critical and audience acclaim: WED "That he can deliver such a heavy premise for a series with WED such a lightness of touch is testament to his skills as a WED writer and, given that the protagonists are both bookworms, WED he's also permitted to use a flourish of fine words that WED would be lost in his stand-up routines." Jane Anderson, WED Radio Times WED WED "Frank Skinner gives full rein to his sharp but splenetic WED comedy. He and his co-star Katherine Parkinson play a WED bickering couple exchanging acerbic ripostes in a cruelly WED precise dissection of a relationship." Daily Mail WED WED "...a lesson in relationship ping-pong..." Miranda Sawyer, WED The Observer WED WED Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a deceptively simple WED premise - an argument. Each week, our couple fall out over WED another apparently trivial flashpoint. Each week, the stakes WED mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these are no WED ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with WED increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references WED and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's weaknesses. WED Underneath the cutting wit, however, there is an WED unmistakable tenderness. WED WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Neil: Frank Skinner WED Kim: Katherine Parkinson WED Writer: Frank Skinner WED WED 18:30 It's Jocelyn b06snvwk (Listen) WED It's Jocelyn is the eagerly anticipated new series from WED comedian Jocelyn Jee Esien (3 Non Blondes and Little Miss WED Jocelyn). WED WED Back with a raft of brand new characters including the WED Overly Dramatic Family, a pair of terrible African Drummers WED and a bad-tempered couple who run a takeaway business, WED Jocelyn vents her frustrations at the world around her WED through sketches and stand-up. From pedantic dinner dates to WED coping with annoying friends, Jocelyn's life provides a rich WED seam of humour. WED WED Jocelyn is delighted to be joined in the cast by Curtis WED Walker, Ninia Benjamin and Kevin J. WED WED The producer is John Pocock WED WED It is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Ensemble: Curtis Walker WED Ensemble: Ninia Benjamin WED Ensemble: Kevin J WED Producer: John Pocock WED Writer: Jocelyn Jee Esien WED WED 19:00 The Archers b06snvwm (Listen) WED Brian can always be relied on for his discretion, and Phoebe WED seems to be on a roll. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06snvwp (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED Image (L-R): Jess Glynne, Daniel Craig and Sylvie Guillem WED (Credit: Bill Cooper). WED WED Credits WED Presenter: John Wilson WED Producer: Angie Nehring WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06shzhf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 A New Life in Europe b06tqjvr (Listen) WED The headlines tell of migrants drowning and of queues at WED borders and reception centres, but in a short news report WED it's impossible to capture the detail of the journey WED hundreds of thousands of Syrians have made. There's little WED detail of the nights spent sleeping rough, the reality of WED running out of money and the nagging question 'Is it worth WED it?' For 5 weeks this year reporter Manveen Rana travelled WED with the Dhnie family from Syria as the mother, father and WED their three children made their way to Germany. "A New Life WED in Europe" is an intimate account of that journey as it gets WED tougher and as the family begin to wonder whether they have WED made the right decision. WED WED Presenter: Manveen Rana WED Producers: Emma Rippon and Dixi Stewart. WED WED 21:00 Would You Eat an Alien? b06s5zjp (Listen) WED Alien Persons WED WED Jake the Spaceman (aka comedian Jake Yapp) has crash-landed WED on a remote planet and doesn't have much food to keep him WED going until he is rescued. Fortunately, the planet is WED teeming with alien life forms that are edible, but which WED ones should he eat? He wants to cause the minimum amount of WED pain and distress to the creatures, so what does he need to WED know about the nature of the beings on the planet? Can they WED feel pain? If so, how can he minimise suffering? Will eating WED an alien cause distress to others? Is the alien so aware and WED sensitive to its environment that Jake needs to consider WED whether it is a non-human person? 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. WED These big questions generate surprising and challenging WED insights into our attitudes to other life. When you know WED absolutely nothing about the alien in front of you, what do WED you need to know before eating it? WED WED Desiree Brucks WED Désirée Brucks a PhD student at the Messerli Research WED Institute carrying out research into the underlying WED emotional and cognitive mechanisms of inequity aversion in WED dogs. WED She has a background in Behavioral Biology and has worked WED with different animal species, ranging from mouse lemurs to WED dogs. WED WED Professor Nickie Charles WED Nickie Charles is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in WED the Sociology Department at the University of Warwick where WED she teaches courses on Human-Animal relations. She has WED worked with the WED Mass Observation Project WED to explore human-animal relations and has a particular WED interest in how it is that animals come to be regarded as WED family members. WED She is also beginning to explore the effects of introducing WED PAT dogs into universities so that students are able to WED interact with them. Among her most recent books are WED Families in Transition WED and WED Nature, Society and Environmental Crisis WED and WED Human and Other Animals WED which she co-edited with Bob Carter. WED She has set up an inter-disciplinary research network at the WED University of Warwick, WED Animals and post-human futures WED WED Professor Nicola Clayton WED Nicola Clayton is Professor of Comparative Cognition in the WED Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, a WED Fellow of Clare College and a Fellow of the Royal Society. WED Her expertise lies in the contemporary study of comparative WED cognition, integrating a knowledge of both biology and WED psychology to introduce new ways of thinking about the WED evolution and development of intelligence in non-verbal WED animals and pre-verbal children. WED She is also the first WED Scientist in Residence at Rambert WED She collaborates with Mark Baldwin, the Artistic Director, WED on new choreographic works inspired by science. WED WED Professor Carolyn Muessig WED Carolyn Muessig is Professor of Medieval Religion at the WED University of Bristol and has written extensively on the WED history of medieval preaching as well as Jacques de Vitry, WED Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena and female educators WED in the Middle Ages. WED Since 2002, she has been Co-Director of the Centre for WED Christianity and Culture. She is a member of the WED Centre for Medieval Studies WED at the University of Bristol. 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 Professor Roger Scruton WED Roger Scruton WED is a philosopher, public commentator and author of over 40 WED books. He has specialised in aesthetics with particular WED attention to music and architecture. WED He engages in contemporary political and cultural debates WED from the standpoint of a conservative thinker and is well WED known as a powerful polemicist. He is a fellow of the WED Royal Society of Literature WED and a fellow of the WED British Academy WED WED Steven Wise WED Steven Wise is President of the WED Nonhuman Rights Project WED He has practiced animal protection law for 30 years WED throughout the United States and is admitted to the WED Massachusetts Bar. WED The Nonhuman Rights Project is working to achieve legal WED rights for members of species other than humans. Its mission WED is to change the legal status of appropriate nonhuman WED animals from mere “things,” which lack the capacity to WED possess any legal right, to “persons,” who possess such WED fundamental rights as bodily integrity and bodily WED liberty. It filed its first cases in 2013 on behalf of WED captive chimpanzees. 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 b06shzh7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06snvwr (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06t5x73 (Listen) WED The Provincial Lady Goes Further, Episode 3 WED WED E M Delafield was great friends with Margaret Mackworth, 2nd WED Viscountess Rhondda, and became a director of Time and Tide WED magazine. WED WED When the editor "wanted some light middles", preferably in WED serial form, she promised to "think of something". And so it WED was, in 1930, Delafield began writing her largely WED autobiographical novels detailing the day-to-day life of a WED Devonshire-dwelling upper-middle class lady and her attempts WED to keep her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into WED chaos. WED WED Substituting the names of Robin and Vicky for her own WED children, Lionel and Rosamund, The Diary of a Provincial WED Lady has never been out of print. WED WED In this second book, The Provincial Lady Goes Further, WED written in 1932, our Lady is now a published author. Success WED and a sizeable royalty cheque allow her to travel further WED afield. She attends a literary conference in Brussels, takes WED a lease on a small flat in London and the family goes on WED holiday to Brittany. WED WED But while she endeavours to embrace the London literary WED scene, things at home remain reassuring the same. WED Mademoiselle weeps on the sofa and refuses to eat when Vicky WED decides she'd like to go away to school, Robert is his usual WED monosyllabic self, snoozing behind a copy of the Times, and WED there's a seemingly endless stream of visitors arriving at WED the house. WED WED This second volume is just as appealing, charming and WED wickedly witty as the first. WED WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Author: EM Delafield WED WED 23:00 Woman's Hour b06snvwt (Listen) WED Late Night Woman's Hour: Naked for New Year WED WED Lauren Laverne and guests discuss getting naked for New WED Year. Intimate, late night conversation on why the naked WED body still has the power to shock. With Inna Shevchenko, WED leader of the international feminist organisation FEMEN; WED Miss Glory Pearl , the naked stand-up comedian; Vikke Dark WED feminist academic and ex-model who now campaigns against the WED 'glamour' industry; Shahida Bari, lecturer in Romanticism at WED Queen Mary University in London, whose latest book is about WED the philosophy of clothes; and Natasha Porter - photographer WED and organiser of the World Naked Bike Ride. WED WED Presenter: Lauren Laverne WED Producer: Luke Mulhall. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Lauren Laverne WED Interviewed Guest: Inna Shevchenko WED Interviewed Guest: Glory Pearl WED Interviewed Guest: Vikke Dark WED Interviewed Guest: Shahidha Bari WED Interviewed Guest: Natasha Porter WED Producer: Luke Mulhall WED WED THU THURSDAY 31 DECEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06sf2r3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:15 Penguin Post Office b04fzd88 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU In October 2013, wildlife cameraman and director Andrew THU Graham-Brown and assistant producer Ruth Peacey set sail for THU Antarctica to film a colony of Gentoo penguins for a BBC THU Natural World film which every year return to Port Lockroy THU on a tiny island called Goudier to find a mate and raise THU their young in the shadow of world's most southerly public THU Post Office. It was to be one of the most challenging THU filming trips they had ever undertaken. Joining them in THU Antarctica was wildlife cameraman Doug Allan who narrates THU this series of five programmes which follows the team's THU adventures. Having survived the notorious Drake Passage , THU the team have reached the southern oceans but their troubles THU aren't over. They are surrounded by sea ice and so have to THU send the first mate up the mast to help navigate a safe THU journey through the maze. All goes well until a fierce storm THU takes them by surprise and once again they endure a THU terrifying journey until they reach Anvers island and THU sanctuary for the night. Next morning they set off on the THU last leg of their journey but instead of reaching Goudier THU are forced to stop within a few hundred metres by yet more THU sea ice. Producer Sarah Blunt. THU THU Picture of Post Office THU Webpage image courtesy of THU United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06shzh9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06sf2r5 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06sf2r7 (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06sf2r9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06sf2rc (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06snw9h (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Rev'd Mary Stallard, Director of the St Giles RE Centre, THU Wrexham. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06snw9k (Listen) THU Island Dairy THU THU Sarah Swadling visits Scilly's only dairy farm, a tiny herd THU of 10 cows on windswept St Agnes. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0ly5 (Listen) THU Christmas Shearwater THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU On Christmas Day, Sir David Attenborough presents the THU Christmas shearwater. 2000km south of Hawaii the highly THU marine Christmas shearwater is at home over the Central THU Pacific seas, tirelessly riding the air-currents, skimming THU wave-crests and hugging the contours of the sea looking for THU food. They rarely come to land as adults, but when they do, THU it is to return to their place of birth on remote oceanic THU islands to breed. Here they form loose colonies, laying a THU single white egg which is incubated for around 50 days. THU Inhabiting these far flung inaccessible islands means little THU is known about their biology, but that remoteness gives them THU protection from land based predators. THU THU Christmas shearwater (Puffinus nativitatis) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Yukihiro Fukuda / naturepl.com. THU NPL Ref 01405185 THU © Yukihiro Fukuda / naturepl.com THU THU Recording of Christmas shearwater by Alvaro Jaramillo / Ref: THU ML 134099 THU THU This programme contains a THU wildtrack recording of the Christmas shearwater THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Alvaro Jaramillo on 4 Mar 2004, THU in Motu Nui, Rapa Nui, Valparaiso, Chile. THU THU 06:00 Today b06sny86 (Listen) THU Guest editor David Adjaye takes charge of the programme. We THU talk to Uber about the changing city and explore the THU Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and THU Culture. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b06sny88 (Listen) THU Tristan and Iseult THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Tristan and Iseult, one of THU the most popular stories of the Middle Ages. From roots in THU Celtic myth, it passed into written form in Britain a THU century after the Norman Conquest and almost immediately THU spread throughout northern Europe. It tells of a Cornish THU knight and an Irish queen, Tristan and Iseult, who THU accidentally drink a love potion, at the same time, on the THU same boat, travelling to Cornwall. She is due to marry THU Tristan's king, Mark. Tristan and Iseult seemed ideally THU matched and their love was heroic, but could that excuse THU their adultery, in the minds of medieval listeners, THU particularly when the Church was so clear they were wrong? THU THU With THU THU Laura Ashe THU Associate Professor of English at Worcester College, THU University of Oxford THU THU Juliette Wood THU Associate Lecturer in the School of Welsh at Cardiff THU University THU THU And THU THU Mark Chinca THU Reader in Medieval German Literature at the University of THU Cambridge THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Laura Ashe THU Interviewed Guest: Juliette Wood THU Interviewed Guest: Mark Chinca THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06sny8c (Listen) THU The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany, Episode 4 THU THU In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany THU with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the THU outskirts of Berlin. It had been her 'soul place' as a THU child, she said, a holiday home for her and her family, but THU much more - a sanctuary, a refuge. In the 1930s, she had THU been forced to leave the house, fleeing to England as the THU Nazis swept to power. The trip, she said, was a chance to THU see it one last time, to remember it as it was. THU THU But the house had changed. THU THU Nearly twenty years later, Thomas returned to the house. It THU was government property now, derelict, and soon to be THU demolished. It was his legacy, one that had been loved, THU abandoned, fought over - a house his grandmother had desired THU until her death. Could it be saved? And should it be saved? THU THU He began to make tentative enquiries - speaking to THU neighbours and villagers, visiting archives, unearthing THU secrets that had lain hidden for decades. Slowly he began to THU piece together the lives of the five families who had lived THU there - a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a THU renowned composer, a widower and her children, a Stasi THU informant. All had made the house their home, and all - bar THU one - had been forced out. THU THU The house had been the site of domestic bliss and of THU contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy. It had THU weathered storms, fires and abandonment, witnessed violence, THU betrayals and murders, had withstood the trauma of a world THU war, and the dividing of a nation. THU THU As the story of the house began to take shape, Thomas THU realized that there was a chance to save it - but in doing THU so, he would have to resolve his own family's feelings THU towards their former homeland, and a hatred handed down THU through the generations. THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06sny8k (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 b06sny8q (Listen) THU Incredible Women, 31/12/2015 THU THU Meet Linda Ridley, crime writer. A prolific writer who draws THU on her East End background to create bestsellers full of THU hardened criminals and gruesome crimes. THU THU Reporter Jeremy Front travels to her manor house in rural THU Essex to find out what makes this incredible woman tick. THU THU There's a special appearance by Val McDermid who explains THU Linda's appeal as she sees it, as well as divulging what she THU feels are her weaknesses. THU THU But is Linda Ridley all that she seems? And is Val McDermid, THU for that matter? THU THU Written by Jeremy Front with additional material by Rebecca THU Front. THU THU Cast: Rebecca Front, Jeremy Front, Ewan Bailey and Debra THU Baker. Special guest appearance by Val McDermid. THU THU Produced by Claire Jones. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Rebecca Front THU Actor: Jeremy Front THU Actor: Ewan Bailey THU Actor: Debra Baker THU Actor: Val McDermid THU Producer: Claire Jones THU Writer: Jeremy Front THU Writer: Rebecca Front THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b06sny8s (Listen) THU The Battered Champions of Aleppo THU THU A fuzzy team photo from the 1980s sends Tim Whewell on a THU journey to track down football players from a small town in THU northern Syria who were once the champions of Aleppo THU province. In the last four years of war their hometown, THU Mare'a, has become a war zone - bombed by the Assad regime, THU besieged by Islamic State, subject even to a mustard gas THU attack. And the civil war has torn through what was once a THU band of friends - some now pro-rebel, some pro-regime. THU They're scattered across Syria and beyond, some fighting THU near Mare'a, some in refugee camps abroad. What have they THU gone through since they won that cup? And do they think they THU can ever be reunited? THU THU Shabnam Grewal producing. THU THU 11:30 Miles Jupp and the Plot Device b06sny8v (Listen) THU How many stories are there in the world? According to THU William Wallace Cook, dime novelist and prolific producer of THU American pulp, there were precisely 1,462 and in Plotto, his THU "Master Book of All Plots", he anatomised them all in the THU service of struggling writers everywhere. Plotto, published THU in 1928, was nothing less than a manual of fictional THU devices, intended to sit on a writer's shelf between the THU dictionary and the thesaurus. Any writer stuck for THU inspiration could leaf through Plotto to discover plots like THU "a ventriloquist, captured by savages and threatened with THU death, makes an animal talk-and is given his freedom" or "a THU reporter, writing up an imaginary interview as fact, quotes THU a man as being in town on a certain day. The man, THU subsequently accused of a crime, establishes an alibi THU through an interview innocently faked by the reporter." THU THU Cook hailed his own book as "an invention which reduces THU literature to an exact science." But it was weird science. THU Nevertheless it worked for Cook, who churned out up to 50 THU novels a year. It also worked for Perry Mason creator Earl THU Stanley Gardner who borrowed liberally from Plotto. Even the THU young Alfred Hitchcock had a copy. And if imitation is the THU sincerest form of flattery then Cook must have been THU delighted by the appearance of "The Plot Robot," whose name THU promised much but which, rather disappointingly was a THU cardboard circle with a pointer attached to it. THU THU Miles Jupp investigates the Plot Device that promises to THU make writing easy, with the help of crime writers Val THU McDermid and John Harvey. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06sf2rf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b06kvd35 (Listen) THU 31 December 1915 - Alec Poole THU THU On this day a man was sentenced to three months hard labour THU for buying a soldier a bottle of whisky, and at the Bevan THU Hospital patients prepare for New Year's Eve. THU THU Written by Richard Monks THU Directed by Allegra McIlroy THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Alec Poole: Tom Stuart THU Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy THU Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads THU Billy Barstow: David Hounslow THU Max Davenport: Trevor White THU Cannock: Caolan McCarthy THU Writer: Richard Monks THU Director: Allegra McIlroy THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06sny92 (Listen) THU Smoking THU THU Today's programme is for anyone who smokes and would like THU 2016 to be the year they stop. Please listen if that's you THU or if someone you love is a smoker and you're keen to help THU and encourage them to quit. Research on smoking cessation THU suggests that when you're giving up, the attitude of family THU and friends is the most important thing. It isn't easy - THU we'll hear from some people who are having to try, try THU again. THU THU Despite decades of health advice in the UK, smoking is still THU the main cause of preventable sickness and premature death. THU The Department for Health calculates that smoking kills more THU people each year than alcohol, obesity, road accidents and THU illegal drugs put together. Although smoking rates have THU halved in the last 40 years - in Britain today 22% of men THU and 17% of women are smokers. Two thirds start as children. THU THU We'll be in the company of Professor Robert West. He leads THU of a team of researchers investigating how best to encourage THU and help smokers to stop. His work includes large-scale THU surveys into what triggers attempts to quit, the methods THU people use when they try to stop and how successful they THU are. THU THU Presenter: Winifred Robinson THU Editor: Chas Watkin. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06sf2rh (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06sp41p (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 School of Thought b06sny94 (Listen) THU University THU THU Every day this week the former Conservative MP and THU universities minister, David Willetts, is examining our THU education system - stage by stage. THU THU Putting politics to one side, he's taking a long hard look THU at education to challenge some of the conventional wisdom THU we've all lived with for a long time - and which, he argues, THU shapes the debate without our even realising it. THU THU In this programme David argues that the controversial goal THU of getting 50% of school leavers into university is far too THU timid. University changes people for the better, he says, so THU why shouldn't 75% of school leavers go - and perhaps even THU more? THU THU Producer: Charlotte McDonald. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06snvwm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 North by Northamptonshire b06sny99 (Listen) THU North by Northamptonshire: Full Stop THU THU A heart-warming comedy drama with a stellar cast who come THU together, one last time, to bring the much-loved and THU critically acclaimed series to a close. THU THU It's New Year's Eve and the inhabitants of Wadenbrook, THU having recently performed their own amateur production of My THU Fair Lady are excited to be off to see a professional and THU starry production at Birmingham's Hippodrome. Former school THU teacher Mary has, of course, organised the trip, with a THU rather uncharacteristic ulterior motive at the end of it. THU The indefatigable Norman will come along too, spurred on at THU the thought of seeing Strictly dancer Favia Cacace in the THU flesh. Long suffering Jan's excited about the qualities THU Lionel Blair will bring to the role of Higgins, and gentle THU Jonathan follows wherever Jan goes. (As long as his ex-wife THU Esther and the cuckoo Orson don't object). At least they THU will have Ken and Keith there - Wadenbrook's most enduring THU couple and the cement that binds them all together and a THU badly kept secret that everyone's bursting to tell. THU THU Written by Katherine Jakeways. THU THU Script Editor...Richard Turner THU THU Producer...Julia Mckenzie THU THU A BBC Radio Comedy Production. THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Sheila Hancock THU Esther: Katherine Jakeways THU Radio DJ: Katherine Jakeways THU Jan: Felicity Montagu THU Keith: John Biggins THU Ken: Kevin Eldon THU Jonathan: Kevin Eldon THU Mary: Penelope Wilton THU Norman: Geoffrey Palmer THU Orson: Simon Kane THU Producer: Julia McKenzie THU Writer: Katherine Jakeways THU THU 15:00 Open Country b06sny9c (Listen) THU Balnakeil Craft Village THU THU Helen Mark meets the artists and artisans of Balnakeil Craft THU Village in Sutherland. THU THU Constructed as an early warning station in the Cold War THU period, the MOD camp reinvented itself as a place for THU creative people to live and work when nuclear attack did not THU come. Set against white sand beaches and the clearest blue THU seas, it's easy to see why the landscape inspires artists in THU this remote part of Scotland. THU THU Helen meets internationally-renowned ceramic artist Lotte THU Glob, one of the earliest inhabitants of Balnakeil. Her work THU can be found in the most isolated places in the hills around THU the village, carried there by Lotte on one of her long THU walks. THU THU There's South African painter Nicola Poole, who loves the THU simplicity of life here and the way it allows you the quiet THU space to be creative. She thinks it's 'paradise' and is THU inspired by the landscape in her paintings. Her husband Ludo THU Van Muysen repairs musical instruments for the whole THU Highland region, but he can turn his hand to many types of THU work, and originally trained as a nurse in his home country THU of Belgium. THU THU Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06sf42m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b06sfk96 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06snz24 (Listen) THU Women in Film THU THU Francine Stock hosts a discussion about the roles of women THU in the film industry and whether anything is getting better THU in terms of jobs, pay and opportunities. Joining her are THU producer Elizabeth Karlsen, director Carol Morley and THU writer/actor Justine Waddell. THU THU Women In Film And Television THU http://www.wftv.org.uk THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Elizabeth Karlsen THU Interviewed Guest: Carol Morley THU Interviewed Guest: Justine Waddell THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06snz8v (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford and guests oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski, THU astrophysicist Chris Lintott and zoologist Dr Tim Cockerill THU share their highlights of the science year and answer THU listeners' science questions. THU THU Producer: Adrian Washbourn. THU THU 17:00 PM b06sf2rk (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06sf2rm (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:15 15 Minute Musical b06sp2zd (Listen) THU Xmas 2015, Jeremy Corbyn Superstar! THU THU It's at this time of year thoughts turn to JC and the THU journey he went on to try and save humanity. Yes Jeremy THU Corbyn has gone from backbench obscurity to Leader of the THU Opposition in the past twelve months, but will his followers THU betray him? Find out in Jeremy Corbyn Superstar! THU THU Written by Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick and THU performed by the multi-talented Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and THU Pippa Evans. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Richie Webb THU Actor: Dave Lamb THU Actor: Pippa Evans THU Writer: Richie Webb THU Writer: Dave Cohen THU Writer: David Quantick THU THU 18:30 Intensive Carey b06sp2zg (Listen) THU Critically acclaimed comedian Carey Marx unexpectedly THU suffered a heart attack a few years ago. He survived. And THU turned his experience into a stand-up show. THU THU Presenting his debut half hour for Radio 4, this is the true THU story of Carey's brush with death. It turns out that cardiac THU failure can be funny. THU THU Written by and starring Carey Marx. THU THU Producer Alexandra Smith. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b06sp2zj (Listen) THU Pip is in hot demand on New Year's Eve, as the Grundys make THU plans for the future. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06sp2zl (Listen) THU Stories of 2015 - Part Two THU THU John Wilson continues his look at those who made the THU headlines in the arts in 2015. From award winners Marlon THU James, Ali Smith and Benjamine Clementine to Glenda Jackson THU who returned to acting in Radio 4's Zola season. Sir Anthony THU Hopkins and Sir Ian McKellan worked together for the first THU time this year, Ai Wei Wei had a major exhibition at the THU Royal Academy and Amy Poehler starred in hit children's THU animation Inside Out. Michel Houellebecq and Claudia Rankine THU both wrote about issues affecting their countries, Josie THU Rourke and James Graham enthuse about The Vote play, Hugh THU Quarshie and Lucian Msamarti played Othello and Iago in the THU RSC's groundbreaking production, and Kazuo Ishiguro and THU Keith Richards reflect on careers that might have been. THU THU Presenter: John Wilson THU Producer: Rebecca Armstrong. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: John Wilson THU Producer: Rebecca Armstrong THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06sny8q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Future of Leadership b06shyrh (Listen) THU Margaret Heffernan argues that existing models of command THU and control leadership have outlived their usefulness in the THU commercial world. So why are dynamic and aggressive CEOs THU still lionised? THU THU Margaret starts her mission sitting in on auditions for THU RADA. The academy's director, Edward Kemp, talks about how THU to identify stars for this highly competitive world. "It's THU never the supermen or superwomen...but people who can THU liberate the energy, imagination and momentum of the whole THU group," he says. The implications for the business world are THU clear. THU THU She talks to Patty McCord, one of the founding members of THU Netflix about "Netflix Culture". Workers decide when and how THU much holiday they want, they claim any travelling expenses THU they want...and Netflix has effectively abolished HR. THU Leadership has been devolved throughout the organisation and THU profits have soared. We hear how Microsoft is transforming THU the way it "does" leadership. For years it's been viewed by THU many as having a "dog eat dog" environment. Now the company THU is trying a very different way. Teams, helpfulness and THU empathy are - we are told - the new order of the day. THU THU Prof Rob Goffee from London Business School - the author of THU "Why should anyone be led by you?" argues that we're in the THU midst of a crisis of leadership which needs to be urgently THU addressed. He says commercial businesses need to look to the THU army for inspiration. Margaret interviews the former US Army THU General, Stan McCrystal, General Nick Carter, the head of THU the British army, and its former head, Lord David Richards. THU Command and control is long gone in the army ...so why are THU so many other organisations sticking with it? THU THU Producer: Adele Armstrong. THU THU 20:30 In Business b06sp2zt (Listen) THU Not So Small Beer THU THU Peter Day explores the rise of craft beer and how the big THU breweries are fighting back by buying up the competition THU THU Producer: Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06snz8v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06sny88 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06sp41t (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06t58qq (Listen) THU The Provincial Lady Goes Further, Episode 4 THU THU E M Delafield was great friends with Margaret Mackworth, 2nd THU Viscountess Rhondda, and became a director of Time and Tide THU magazine. THU THU When the editor "wanted some light middles", preferably in THU serial form, she promised to "think of something". And so it THU was, in 1930, Delafield began writing her largely THU autobiographical novels detailing the day-to-day life of a THU Devonshire-dwelling upper-middle class lady and her attempts THU to keep her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into THU chaos. THU THU Substituting the names of Robin and Vicky for her own THU children, Lionel and Rosamund, The Diary of a Provincial THU Lady has never been out of print. THU THU In this second book, The Provincial Lady Goes Further, THU written in 1932, our Lady is now a published author. Success THU and a sizeable royalty cheque allow her to travel further THU afield. She attends a literary conference in Brussels, takes THU a lease on a small flat in London and the family goes on THU holiday to Brittany. THU THU But while she endeavours to embrace the London literary THU scene, things at home remain reassuring the same. THU Mademoiselle weeps on the sofa and refuses to eat when Vicky THU decides she'd like to go away to school, Robert is his usual THU monosyllabic self, snoozing behind a copy of the Times, and THU there's a seemingly endless stream of visitors arriving at THU the house. THU THU This second volume is just as appealing, charming and THU wickedly witty as the first. THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Author: EM Delafield THU THU 23:00 Wireless Nights b06ptqf1 (Listen) THU Series 4, Underwater at the Proms THU THU Jarvis Cocker's nocturnal exploration of the human condition THU takes him beneath the waves in this special edition of THU Wireless Nights. THU THU Accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic at this year's Proms, as THU Jarvis drifts off to sleep he soon finds himself on an THU underwater voyage down to the endless night of the ocean THU bed. En route, he meets psychoanalyst Carl Jung, two THU submariners called Roger trapped in a tiny submersible and a THU free-diver experiencing "the rapture of the deep". THU THU The BBC Philharmonic creates a sonic seascape as Jarvis goes THU deeper and deeper - but will he make it back to the surface THU in time to wake up? THU THU Producers Laurence Grissell and Neil McCarthy. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 01 JANUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06sp48z (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:15 Penguin Post Office b04g13rf (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI FRI In October 2013, wildlife cameraman and director Andrew FRI Graham-Brown and assistant producer Ruth Peacey set sail for FRI Antarctica to film a colony of Gentoo penguins for a BBC FRI Natural World film which every year return to Port Lockroy FRI on a tiny island called Goudier to find a mate and raise FRI their young in the shadow of world's most southerly public FRI Post Office. It was to be one of the most challenging FRI filming trips they had ever undertaken. Joining them in FRI Antarctica was wildlife cameraman Doug Allan who narrates FRI this series of five programmes which follows the team's FRI adventures. Having finally arrived at Goudier island, the FRI film crew waste no time filming the lives of the Gentoo FRI penguins which return here every year to mate and raise a FRI family. Once they have found their mate, the penguins build FRI nests from small stones which resemble mini volcanoes - to FRI keep the eggs off the ground and keep them dry. Squabbles FRI break out when penguins steal stone from each other's nests. FRI The nesting parents also have to watch out for predators FRI like the skuas which nest on nearby islands and won't FRI hesitate to steal an egg or a chick to feed their own young. FRI As the weeks pass, the reality of life an island with no FRI running water and no electricity begins to take its toll on FRI the team. Producer Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI Picture of Post Office FRI Webpage image courtesy of FRI United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06sny8c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06sf2st (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06sf2sw (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06sf2sy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06sf2t0 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06sp491 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Rev'd Mary Stallard, Director of the St Giles RE Centre, FRI Wrexham. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06sp525 (Listen) FRI Wintering Birds in Lancashire FRI FRI The wetlands just inland from the Ribble Estuary in FRI Lancashire are one of Europe's most important wintering FRI grounds for geese, ducks and swans. Throughout the winter FRI months they're home to tens of thousands of pink footed FRI geese and nearly two thousand whooper swans. It's a terrific FRI spectacle but not always a welcome sight for local farmers FRI because birds like these can strip a field of grass or crop FRI overnight. Caz Graham visits the Martin Mere Wetlands and FRI Wildfowl Trust reserve at Martin Mere to meet the birdlife FRI and hear about the difficulties of farming adjacent to one FRI of Britain's biggest bird tables. FRI FRI Produced and presented by Caz Graham. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0lzb (Listen) FRI Wandering Albatross FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Sir David Attenborough presents the wandering albatross of FRI the South Atlantic Ocean. On the windswept South Georgian FRI Islands, a stiff breeze is ruffling the grass tussocks as a FRI wandering albatross is billing and cooing to its mate. These FRI huge seabirds, mate for life and can live for 50 years (or FRI more). Longevity is vital for a species which produces only FRI one chick every two years. The chocolate brown youngster FRI takes to the air nine months after hatching, the longest FRI pre-fledging period of any bird, but when it does, it breaks FRI another record, as adults have the longest wingspan of any FRI living bird, which can reach over 5 metres. FRI FRI Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Yukihiro Fukuda / naturepl.com. FRI NPL Ref 01238597 FRI © Yukihiro Fukuda / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06sp65d (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b06sfh14 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06sp7mb (Listen) FRI The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany FRI with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the FRI outskirts of Berlin. It had been her 'soul place' as a FRI child, she said, a holiday home for her and her family, but FRI much more - a sanctuary, a refuge. In the 1930s, she had FRI been forced to leave the house, fleeing to England as the FRI Nazis swept to power. The trip, she said, was a chance to FRI see it one last time, to remember it as it was. FRI FRI But the house had changed. FRI FRI Nearly twenty years later, Thomas returned to the house. It FRI was government property now, derelict, and soon to be FRI demolished. It was his legacy, one that had been loved, FRI abandoned, fought over - a house his grandmother had desired FRI until her death. Could it be saved? And should it be saved? FRI FRI He began to make tentative enquiries - speaking to FRI neighbours and villagers, visiting archives, unearthing FRI secrets that had lain hidden for decades. Slowly he began to FRI piece together the lives of the five families who had lived FRI there - a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a FRI renowned composer, a widower and her children, a Stasi FRI informant. All had made the house their home, and all - bar FRI one - had been forced out. FRI FRI The house had been the site of domestic bliss and of FRI contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy. It had FRI weathered storms, fires and abandonment, witnessed violence, FRI betrayals and murders, had withstood the trauma of a world FRI war, and the dividing of a nation. FRI FRI As the story of the house began to take shape, Thomas FRI realized that there was a chance to save it - but in doing FRI so, he would have to resolve his own family's feelings FRI towards their former homeland, and a hatred handed down FRI through the generations. FRI FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06sp7md (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 b06sp7mg (Listen) FRI Incredible Women, Judi Santos FRI FRI Meet Judi Santos. Famed for her 1960s anthem 'Big Beautiful FRI House', she has never sold out on her principles. FRI FRI Jeremy Front goes to San Francisco to interview this FRI 'incredible woman' as she releases her first new album for FRI twenty years. But is it all sunshine and flowers in the FRI Garden of Eden? FRI FRI Written by award winning writer Jeremy Front with additional FRI material by Rebecca Front. FRI Cast: Rebecca Front, Jeremy Front, Brian Protheroe, Evie FRI Killip, Ewan Bailey, Hugh Kermode. With special guest FRI appearance by Bob Harris. FRI Produced by Claire Jones. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Rebecca Front FRI Actor: Jeremy Front FRI Actor: Brian Protheroe FRI Actor: Evie Killip FRI Actor: Ewan Bailey FRI Actor: Hugh Kermode FRI Himself: Bob Harris FRI Producer: Claire Jones FRI Writer: Jeremy Front FRI Writer: Rebecca Front FRI FRI 11:00 This Is Me Totally Sausage b05pbwjp (Listen) FRI German comedian and broadcaster Henning Wehn explores the FRI fast-growing use of ELF - English as a lingua franca. Around FRI the world there are an estimated 800m non-native speakers of FRI English and the number is growing all the time. FRI FRI Through talking to French, German, Brazilian and even FRI American expats based in the UK, Henning discovers that just FRI having the English vocabulary and grasping of grammar FRI doesn't really help foreigners understand the nuanced, FRI elliptical way that the British speak their own language. FRI FRI From Japanese estate agents to French web entrepreneurs, FRI non-native English speakers are baffled by the way the FRI natives communicate using humour, obscure idioms based on FRI cricket or rugby, and the understated codes of class and FRI status. FRI FRI Henning talks to academics and consultants in the FRI fast-growing field of ELF and learns that it is rapidly FRI developing a grammar and structure of its own - often not FRI understood by those who have grown up speaking English. FRI FRI Producer: Keith Wheatley FRI A Terrier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Cold Swedish Winter b06sg2mm (Listen) FRI Series 2, Winter FRI FRI The second series of this sitcom from Danny Robins FRI (co-creator Lenny Henry comedy Rudy's Rare Records), set and FRI recorded in Sweden and starring Edinburgh Comedy FRI Award-winner Adam Riches, Danny Robins and a cast of FRI Sweden's most popular TV comedy actors. FRI FRI Geoff has moved to Yxsjö in northern Sweden, to start a new FRI life with his girlfriend Linda in the (frequently frosty) FRI bosom of her family. FRI FRI This year, new dad Geoff has plenty of fresh experiences to FRI contend with, including three varieties of pickled cabbage, FRI sinister Christmas elves and an unpleasant visit from FRI Sweden's answer to the BNP. It's all worth it though for FRI Linda (Sissela Benn, star of the Swedish version of The FRI Office) and baby John. FRI FRI While Geoff and Linda now have their own place, he still has FRI to deal with her disapproving Dad, Sten (comedian Thomas FRI Orredsson from Crimes of Passion), her alarmingly FRI flirtatious mother Gunilla (comedian Anna- Lena Bergelin) FRI and her apparently suicidal, arsonist brother, Anders FRI (award-winning stand upFredrik Andersson). FRI FRI Geoff is determined to be more Swedish than the Swedes as he FRI takes to his new country with renewed enthusiasm, and he has FRI help, in the form of fellow ex-pat, cynical Ian (Danny FRI Robins), an unending source of (slightly misleading) FRI information, and Soran (Farshad Kohlgi of The Killing), a FRI Danish Kurd with Swedophobia. FRI FRI Episode 1: FRI Geoff and the Anderssons celebrating baby John's first FRI Christmas, as Geoff unwisely volunteers to organise the FRI festivities for the whole family. FRI FRI Writer: Danny Robins FRI Director: Frank Stirling FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Geoff: Adam Riches FRI Sten: Thomas Oredsson FRI Linda: Sissela Benn FRI Gunilla: Anna-Lena Bergelin FRI Ian: Danny Robins FRI Soran: Farshad Kohlgi FRI Actor: Fredrik Andersson FRI Actor: Thomas Ericsson FRI Actor: Shanthi Rydwall FRI Director: Frank Stirling FRI Writer: Danny Robins FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06sf2t2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b06kvdgj (Listen) FRI 1 January 1916 - Hilary Pearce FRI FRI On this day the Home Secretary resigned as the first draft FRI of the Compulsory Military Service Bill was considered by FRI the Cabinet, and in Folkestone Hilary Pearce makes an FRI unexpected offer. FRI FRI Written by Richard Monks FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI FRI Credits FRI Hilary Pearce: Craige Els FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Roland Pemble: Jack Holden FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Sylvia Graham: Joanna David FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Esme Macknade: Katie Angelou FRI Writer: Richard Monks FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 12:15 15 Minute Musical b06sggdy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Monday] FRI FRI 12:30 June Whitfield: 90 Not Out b06sfrks (Listen) FRI Terry and June to Eastenders and Beyond FRI FRI In an age of instant celebrity, what does it take to FRI maintain a long career in entertainment? FRI FRI June Whitfield is one of our best-known faces and most FRI widely loved stars. She has recently turned 90 years old. FRI It's an ideal opportunity for BBC Radio 4 to wish her a FRI happy birthday and toast her long, successful career - a FRI career which is still ongoing. FRI FRI Joanna Lumley visited June at home in Wimbledon to re-live FRI some of her finest comedy moments and explore how the FRI entertainment industry has changed - most notably the FRI expanded roles for women as performers, writers and FRI producers - during her remarkable career. FRI FRI The second part of this extended interview with June covers FRI the latter part of her career, starting with the role that FRI brought June to a whole new audience - Mother in Jennifer FRI Saunders' 90s sitcom hit, Absolutely Fabulous. FRI FRI Joanna Lumley, a co-star with June in Absolutely Fabulous, FRI listens back to some selected gems from the archives and FRI discusses the highs and lows of her time in the FRI entertainment business. FRI FRI Presenter: Joanna Lumley FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06sp8dk (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun FRI Ley. FRI FRI 13:45 School of Thought b06sp9gm (Listen) FRI Late Learners FRI FRI Every day this week the former Conservative MP and FRI universities minister, David Willetts, is examining our FRI education system - stage by stage. FRI FRI Putting politics to one side, he's taking a long hard look FRI at education to challenge some of the conventional wisdom FRI we've all lived with for a long time - and which, he argues, FRI shapes the debate without our even realising it. FRI FRI In this programme David argues that we should make it easier FRI for people to come back to education later in life. Life is FRI messy, he says, and the education system should reflect FRI that. FRI FRI Producer: Charlotte McDonald. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06sp2zj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03m7p9z (Listen) FRI National Velvet, Episode 1 FRI FRI Fourteen year old Velvet is mad about horses. She knows FRI 'there are pleasures earlier than love. Earlier than love, FRI nearer heaven' in the form of horses. FRI FRI When she wins a piebald horse in a raffle, she recognises FRI he's something special. He can easily clear five-foot FRI fences, and he'll do anything for her. Soon, she and FRI butcher's assistant Mi have their sights set on the biggest FRI race in England. But how can a girl in 1930s England get FRI near Aintree? FRI FRI Peter Flannery rescues National Velvet from Hollywood, FRI returning 14 year old Velvet to her Sussex butcher's family FRI in the 1930s. A welcome return for Enid Bagnold's strange, FRI inventive fairytale about a young amateur girl rider who FRI takes an untrained horse over the stiffest course in the FRI world and wins. FRI FRI Sound design: Eloise Whitmore FRI FRI Author: Enid Bagnold FRI FRI Dramatised by Peter Flannery FRI Director/Producer: Melanie Harris FRI Executive Producer: Polly Thomas FRI FRI A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Velvet: Sophie Rundle FRI Mi Donald: John Sessions FRI Mrs Brown: Alison Steadman FRI Mr Brown: Jonathan Keeble FRI Young Donald: Dylan Issberner FRI Malvolia: Tamsin Topolski FRI Meredith: Charity Wakefield FRI Edwina: Charity Wakefield FRI Blacksmith: Sam Lupton FRI Groom: Sam Lupton FRI Steward: Sam Lupton FRI Director: Melanie Harris FRI Producer: Melanie Harris FRI Adaptor: Peter Flannery FRI Author: Enid Bagnold FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06spdm3 (Listen) FRI A panel of experts answer listeners' horticultural queries. FRI FRI Questions and Answers FRI Q – I planted some sweet corn, Edamame beans and pumpkins in FRI large pots and they all grew very well but they only FRI produced tiny items. Why is this? FRI FRI Bob – Growing in pots can confine these plants. You are FRI trying to grow very hungry crops in containers. For FRI example, last year I grew one pumpkin plant that produced FRI two decent pumpkins but that was in 1 cubic metre (35 cubic FRI feet) of compost. Butternut squashes might be better but it FRI sounds like you’ve got too much competition and not enough FRI feed. FRI FRI Chris – When you look at root space that plants take up, we FRI often underestimate how much room they need. Research has FRI suggested that the average root spread of a single tomato is FRI 1 cubic metre (35 cubic feet). So you need to allow them FRI room. FRI Q – I need to protect my peas from the frost – what are the FRI cheapest, most effective hoops, over which to put FRI horticultural fleece? FRI FRI Bob – You can use all sorts of things. Thin bamboo canes can FRI be good. If you cut a bicycle wheel (without spokes) than FRI makes a nice strong arch. Plastic tubing that electricians FRI use, too. FRI Q – Do you have a favourite architectural plant for a mixed FRI border other than a grass? FRI FRI Bob – Globe artichokes. You get a height of 6ft or 7ft FRI (1.8m or 2.1m) and they’re there most of the year. FRI FRI Pippa – Crambe or a good portion of Gysophila. Or, though I FRI find them a bit difficult, I always admire Cannas in a FRI border. FRI FRI Chris – Crambe is a fabulous plant that is hugely under FRI planted … but watch out because when it collapses in the FRI frost it does smell a bit cabbagey! For foliage I would FRI recommend Tetrapanax papyrifer. FRI Q – For this year’s London Marathon in April we would like FRI to grow some Schizanthus or ‘Poor Man’s Orchid’ – when would FRI you advise sowing those seeds? FRI FRI Pippa – A large part of this will have to be undertaken in FRI artificial conditions but I would suggest starting FRI yesterday! I would definitely start some as soon as possible FRI – get as much artificial light and warmth on them asap. FRI FRI Bob – I would think of them as more of an autumn plant than FRI a spring plant and they’re not very hardy so this might be FRI tricky. For April I’d be thinking about universal Pansies FRI and Primulas – just to be sure you’ll actually have things FRI that will be flowering. FRI FRI Chris – I’d go down the perennial route and try FRI Tradescantias or something like that FRI Q – Purple algae is appearing in my pond for the second year FRI running – what is causing it and should I get rid of it? FRI FRI Pippa – I doubt it’s doing any harm – it probably just looks FRI a bit unsightly. But I don’t think you can do much without FRI totally starting the pond again from scratch. FRI Q – Our Eucalyptus has to be removed and its stump ground FRI out – how soon can I replant in the hole and can you suggest FRI something fairly solid but exciting? FRI FRI Chris – You may require a mini-digger in to dig out a big FRI enough area to replant in. You really need to think of this FRI as starting from scratch as the soil will be undernourished. FRI Dig a big hole and then input good, loamy garden soil. FRI Enrich with organic matter and then leave it to settle. FRI Maybe plant an intermediate plant in that area for a season. FRI Then I’d put in something like the Cercidiphyllum japonicum FRI (the ‘Katsura Tree’). Betula utilis too. Prunus serrula. FRI Also, a summer flowering Clematis – something like a FRI jackmanii. Or Malus tschonoskii. Lots of options! FRI Q – What aspect of gardening would the panel miss if they FRI had to give it up? FRI FRI Bob – Just going round eating the different fruits as they FRI ripened. FRI FRI Pippa – Gardening always gives you a reason to go outside FRI and enjoy nature – that’s what I enjoy most about it. FRI FRI Chris – For many of us gardening is a physical act but I FRI think it’s more about experiencing plants so I don’t think FRI you can every truly give up gardening! FRI FRI 15:45 Shorts b06spdm7 (Listen) FRI New Irish Writing, Time Stands Still FRI FRI A new series of original stories from some of Ireland's most FRI exciting writers. FRI FRI In wintry Newry an elderly man embarks on a new adventure in FRI a story by Eugene O'Hare while Lisa McInerney brings us a FRI kid doing a bunk off school, and a man thinks fondly of his FRI glamorous new girlfriend in Kevin Maher's story of love and FRI leather jackets. FRI FRI Writer ..... Kevin Maher FRI Reader ..... Mikel Murfi FRI Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Kevin Maher FRI Reader: Mikel Murfi FRI Producer: Jenny Thompson FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06spffh (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b06spffr (Listen) FRI Tim Harford examines the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06spffv (Listen) FRI Jean and Georgina - It's Strictly Not Come Dancing FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother and FRI daughter for whom clog-dancing forms a supportive - and FRI unconventional - bond. Another in the series that proves FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b06spjqd (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06sf2td (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:15 Ed Reardon at Christmas b06spjqg (Listen) FRI It's time to celebrate the Christmas Week with Radio 4's FRI curmudgeonly author Ed Reardon, and his faithful companion FRI Elgar. Or is it? As we meet Ed on Christmas Eve he seems to FRI be abandoning his only friend at a cat refuge centre. It FRI seems that Ed must spend his Christmas day alone with only a FRI computer for company as he's been commissioned to write the FRI thirty thousand word long 'Great British Bake Off' novel and FRI Elgar isn't allowed in the agency office. FRI FRI Still, all is not lost as he's managed to scrape together FRI the means to buy some liquid refreshment to keep him going. FRI He also has the unexpected 'pleasure' of Jaz Milvain turning FRI up on Christmas Day to do some preparation work for his New FRI Years' Day appearance as guest editor on something called FRI the 'Today Programme'. Ed will most surely give his old FRI friend some helpful information... FRI FRI Ed Reardon...................Christopher Douglas FRI Jaz Milvain.....................Philip Jackson FRI Ping.............................Barunka O'Shaughnessy FRI Cat Woman..................Nicola Sanderson FRI John Humphrys..............Himself FRI FRI Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas FRI Produced by Dawn Ellis. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b06spjqj (Listen) FRI A Look Back at the Year 2020 FRI FRI The team take a retrospective look at the future as they FRI focus on the highlights of the year 2020. FRI FRI Will ISIS be replaced by something even more dangerous to FRI the people in the middle east - Tony Blair? Or will he have FRI joined UKIP by then? FRI How will England cope when the SNP win the general election FRI and move Parliament to Hollyrood? FRI Will Today's radio car be replaced with telepathic FRI communication (which still breaks down)? FRI What will the first political broadcast done entirely with FRI emojies sound like? FRI Will there be anyone left in Syria to drop bombs on? FRI Will the Queen have abdicated, how long before Prince FRI Charles does the same? FRI No promises, but Boris Jonson and Donald Trump MAY sing a FRI duet. FRI FRI Starring Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, Jan Ravens, Debra FRI Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey. FRI Producer...Bill Dare FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Jon Culshaw FRI Performer: Debra Stephenson FRI Performer: Jan Ravens FRI Performer: Lewis Macleod FRI Performer: Duncan Wisbey FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06spjql (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Caroline Harrington FRI Director ..... Sean O'Connor FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Daisy Badger FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer ..... William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI PC Harrison Burns ..... James Cartwright FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Justin Elliott ..... Simon Williams FRI Rex Fairbrother ..... Nick Barber FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI Matthew Holman ..... Michael Winder FRI Dr Richard Locke ..... William Gaminara FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Helen Titchener ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06t1c50 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06sp7mg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Correspondents Look Ahead b06spjqp (Listen) FRI 2016 FRI FRI Who and what will be making the global headlines in 2016? FRI Owen Bennett-Jones and leading BBC correspondents discuss FRI and give their predictions about what will shape the world FRI in the year ahead and assess its likely impact on the United FRI Kingdom. FRI FRI Owen is joined by Chief International Correspondent Lyse FRI Doucet who has spent the year reporting from across the FRI globe.North America Editor Jon Sopel looks ahead to next FRI year's US Presidential election. Who does he think will win FRI the race for the White House? Joining them are the BBC's FRI most experienced diplomatic correspondents, James Robbins FRI and Bridget Kendall. Last year she predicted that 2015 would FRI be a year of shocking terrorist activities in Europe and a FRI big year for the Pope. What will she and the other FRI correspondents predict for 2016? FRI FRI Producer: Jim Frank. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06spjqs (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06kvl04 (Listen) FRI 28 December 1915 - 1 January 1916 FRI FRI In the week that the Home Secretary resigned over the FRI Compulsory Military Service Bill, the Bevan Hospital FRI celebrates the new year. FRI FRI Adam Wilson ..... Billy Kennedy FRI Alec Poole ..... Tom Stuart FRI Billy Barstow ..... David Hounslow FRI Cannock ..... Caolan McCarthy FRI Cora Gidley ..... Joanna Monro FRI Dorothea Winwood ..... Rachel Shelley FRI Dr Henry Streatfield ..... Chris Pavlo FRI Esme Macknade ..... Katie Angelou FRI Gabriel Graham ..... Michael Bertenshaw FRI Hilary Pearce ..... Craige Els FRI Isabel Graham ..... Keely Beresford FRI Johnnie Marshall ..... Paul Ready FRI Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf FRI Margaret Bishop ..... Catherine Bailey FRI Marion Wardle ..... Laura Elphinstone FRI Max Davenport ..... Trevor White FRI Nell Kingsley ..... Alice St Clair FRI Olive Hargreaves ..... Rhiannon Neads FRI Roland Pemble ..... Jack Holden FRI Ruth Billings ..... Katie Redford FRI Strachan ..... Leo Wan FRI Sylvia Graham ..... Joanna David FRI Timpson ..... David Hounslow FRI Waiter ..... Richard Pepple FRI Corporal ..... David Hounslow FRI Orderly ..... Caolan McCarthy FRI FRI Written by Richard Monks FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06sf2tg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06spjqx (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06t608f (Listen) FRI The Provincial Lady Goes Further, Episode 5 FRI FRI An unnamed diarist chronicles the everyday details of her FRI life. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b06sgy7r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Donald Duck Gets Drafted b0680gts (Listen) FRI Marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, FRI illustrator and animator Gerald Scarfe tells the story of FRI Disney's fascinating on and off-screen contribution to the FRI war effort. FRI FRI The programme explores how the iconic Studio in California FRI became a war plant in the 1940s, churning out groundbreaking FRI military training films and propaganda shorts, educational FRI posters and leaflets, along with insignias for troops to FRI help boost morale on the frontline. FRI FRI Gerald, who worked as production designer on Disney's 1997's FRI big screen animation Hercules, examines what motivated Walt FRI to offer his artists' inkwells as weapons of war. He FRI uncovers why Donald Duck rather than Mickey Mouse became the FRI Studio's wartime mascot and reveals which film reportedly FRI put Walt on Hitler's own personal hit list. He also examines FRI Walt Disney's personal role as a Goodwill Ambassador in FRI South America, intended to help stem potential Nazi FRI influence. FRI FRI Produced by Kellie Redmond FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06spjr1 (Listen) FRI Saph and Milly - Agents of Burlesque FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between friends for whom FRI burlesque has provided a confidence-building outlet for FRI creativity, and an opportunity to prove that a walrus act FRI can be sexy. 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
26 December, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 26/12/2015 - 01/01/2016
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