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SAT SATURDAY 02 JANUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06sf2wb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:15 Penguin Post Office b04g1b96 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT SAT In October 2013, wildlife cameraman and director Andrew SAT Graham-Brown and assistant producer Ruth Peacey set sail for SAT Antarctica to film a colony of Gentoo penguins for a BBC SAT Natural World film which every year return to Port Lockroy SAT on a tiny island called Goudier to find a mate and raise SAT their young in the shadow of world's most southerly public SAT Post Office. It was to be one of the most challenging SAT filming trips they had ever undertaken. Joining them in SAT Antarctica was wildlife cameraman Doug Allan who narrates SAT this series of five programmes which follows the team's SAT adventures. As the young Gentoo penguins prepare to enter SAT the water for the first time - they face another of life's SAT challenges - leopard seals. These fearsome predators patrol SAT the shores waiting for the young penguins to take their SAT first dive. Doug Allan joins the team to film the hunt that SAT is likely to follow - but Antarctica is an unpredictable SAT place; the bay is filling with ice which deters the seals, SAT the weather becomes worse and time is fast running out SAT before the team must leave Antarctica and head for home. SAT Producer Sarah Blunt. SAT SAT Picture of Post Office SAT Webpage image courtesy of SAT United Kindgom Antarctic Heritage Trust SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06sp7mb (Listen) SAT The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany, Episode 5 SAT SAT In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany SAT with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the SAT outskirts of Berlin. It had been her 'soul place' as a SAT child, she said, a holiday home for her and her family, but SAT much more - a sanctuary, a refuge. In the 1930s, she had SAT been forced to leave the house, fleeing to England as the SAT Nazis swept to power. The trip, she said, was a chance to SAT see it one last time, to remember it as it was. SAT SAT But the house had changed. SAT SAT Nearly twenty years later, Thomas returned to the house. It SAT was government property now, derelict, and soon to be SAT demolished. It was his legacy, one that had been loved, SAT abandoned, fought over - a house his grandmother had desired SAT until her death. Could it be saved? And should it be saved? SAT SAT He began to make tentative enquiries - speaking to SAT neighbours and villagers, visiting archives, unearthing SAT secrets that had lain hidden for decades. Slowly he began to SAT piece together the lives of the five families who had lived SAT there - a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a SAT renowned composer, a widower and her children, a Stasi SAT informant. All had made the house their home, and all - bar SAT one - had been forced out. SAT SAT The house had been the site of domestic bliss and of SAT contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy. It had SAT weathered storms, fires and abandonment, witnessed violence, SAT betrayals and murders, had withstood the trauma of a world SAT war, and the dividing of a nation. SAT SAT As the story of the house began to take shape, Thomas SAT realized that there was a chance to save it - but in doing SAT so, he would have to resolve his own family's feelings SAT towards their former homeland, and a hatred handed down SAT through the generations. SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06sf2wd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06sf2wg (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06sf2wj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06sf2wl (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06spm7h (Listen) SAT Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the SAT Rev Neil Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06spm7k (Listen) SAT Your Photos of 2015 SAT SAT We take a closer look at some of the photos you've sent in, SAT and have a Your News 2015 montage. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Eddie Mair SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06sf2wq (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06sf2wt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06sny9c (Listen) SAT Balnakeil Craft Village SAT SAT Helen Mark meets the artists and artisans of Balnakeil Craft SAT Village in Sutherland. SAT SAT Constructed as an early warning station in the Cold War SAT period, the MOD camp reinvented itself as a place for SAT creative people to live and work when nuclear attack did not SAT come. Set against white sand beaches and the clearest blue SAT seas, it's easy to see why the landscape inspires artists in SAT this remote part of Scotland. SAT SAT Helen meets internationally-renowned ceramic artist Lotte SAT Glob, one of the earliest inhabitants of Balnakeil. Her work SAT can be found in the most isolated places in the hills around SAT the village, carried there by Lotte on one of her long SAT walks. SAT SAT There's South African painter Nicola Poole, who loves the SAT simplicity of life here and the way it allows you the quiet SAT space to be creative. She thinks it's 'paradise' and is SAT inspired by the landscape in her paintings. Her husband Ludo SAT Van Muysen repairs musical instruments for the whole SAT Highland region, but he can turn his hand to many types of SAT work, and originally trained as a nurse in his home country SAT of Belgium. SAT SAT Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06tkv23 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Looking Ahead to 2016 SAT SAT Charlotte Smith looks ahead to what 2016 has in store for SAT farmers with a panel of experts: Patrick Holden, CEO of the SAT Sustainable Food Trust; Meurig Raymond, President of the NFU SAT in England and Wales; Farming advocate Milly Fyfe and SAT Independent agricultural economist Sean Rickard. Among the SAT topics - volatility, climate change and the implications of SAT a Brexit. The producer is Sally Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06sf2x6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06tkx5c (Listen) SAT Guest editor Lord Browne takes charge of the programme. Lord SAT Browne discusses coming out at work, talks engineering with SAT Prince Philip and we get a tour of the new Tate Modern SAT project. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b06tkx5f (Listen) SAT Pauline McLynn SAT SAT Actress and author Pauline McLynn talks about her varied SAT career which includes Mrs Doyle in Father Ted and Nasty Nick SAT Cotton's ex-wife in EastEnders. She also discusses being SAT attracted to playing baddies and explains why she's knitting SAT for chickens. SAT SAT Hollywood trainer Dalton Wong has worked with Oscar winner SAT Jennifer Lawrence and got Kit Harington into shape for Game SAT of Thrones. Dalton talks about why he made a career out of SAT fitness. SAT SAT Listener Teresa Verney-Brookes who used her redundancy money SAT to become a Punch and Judy performer 'Professor Queen Bee'. SAT SAT JP Devlin meets former politician Lembit Opik who reflects SAT on the impact of losing his seat as MP for Montgomeryshire SAT and why he's determined to live life in the present and take SAT opportunities. SAT SAT Natalie Imbruglia shares her Inheritance Tracks: Close to SAT you by The Carpenters and Nick Cave: Into My Arms. SAT SAT Sportswriter Tony Evans talks about the significance of SAT football as he was growing up in Liverpool, his time in the SAT band 'The Farm,' and how he came to journalism late, leaving SAT England for America after being in the crowds at SAT Hillsborough. SAT SAT Cymbeline starring Pauline McLynn is at the Sam Wanamaker SAT Playhouse, London, until 21 April. SAT SAT The Feel Good Plan by Dalton Wong and Kate SAT Faithfull-Williams is out on the 7th January. SAT SAT Natalie Imbruglia's latest album Male is out now. SAT SAT Two Tribes: Liverpool, Everton and a City on the Brink by SAT Tony Evans is published in April. SAT SAT Producer Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Louise Corley. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Kate Silverton SAT Presenter: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Pauline McLynn SAT Interviewed Guest: Dalton Wong SAT Interviewed Guest: Teresa Verney-Brookes SAT Interviewed Guest: Lembit Opik SAT Interviewed Guest: Natalie Imbruglia SAT Interviewed Guest: Tony Evans SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Louise Corley SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b06tkx5h (Listen) SAT Series 12, Chepstow SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from Chepstow, SAT Monmouthshire. SAT SAT The audience questions are answered by food historian Dr SAT Annie Gray, master of DIY cooking Tim Hayward, Middle SAT Eastern chef Itamar Srulovich and Catalan cook Rachel SAT McCormack. SAT SAT The panellists tackle subjects including the Monmouthshire SAT Stew and the sticky topic of marmalade. They also discuss SAT and sample some of the regions finest wines. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Shepherd SAT Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b06tkx5k (Listen) SAT Being Cold SAT SAT Does the experience of coping with bitter cold affect the SAT way people think and feel? And what happens to culture and SAT identity when climate begins to change? To explore these SAT questions the Forum this week comes from Canada, one of the SAT world's most northern countries, with some 40 % of it in the SAT Arctic. Joining Bridget Kendall are Nobel-nominated Inuit SAT activist and former International Chair of the Inuit SAT Circumpolar Council Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Arctic spatial SAT ecologist David Atkinson and "Ice Huts" architectural SAT photographer Richard Johnson. Recorded in the auditorium of SAT the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, as part of the Spur SAT Festival of Ideas.(Photo: Ice Hut #530 by Richard Johnson. SAT Joussard, Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, 2011). SAT SAT Sheila Watt-Cloutier SAT SAT Former Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Sheila SAT Watt-Cloutier tackles the many issues indigenous peoples are SAT facing today, including environmental pollution and SAT sustainable development. Her early experience as an SAT Inuktitut interpreter for the Ungava Hospital in Nunavik led SAT to a lifetime commitment to improving health conditions and SAT education in indigenous communities. The key theme of her SAT latest book, The Right to Be Cold, is how climate change SAT poses an existential threat to cultures that are embedded in SAT ice and snow. Ms. Watt-Cloutier’s numerous awards and 13 SAT honorary doctorates include being made an Officer of the SAT Order of Canada and one of the four 2015 Right Livelihood SAT Awards the so-called ‘alternative Nobels’. SAT SAT David Atkinson SAT SAT Arctic spatial ecologist David Atkinson is an Assistant SAT Professor at Ryerson University with over 16 years of SAT experience in the Canadian North and many field seasons SAT undertaking remote mid- and high-Arctic field research. Dr. SAT Atkinson focuses on examining biophysical properties of SAT terrestrial Arctic ecosystems and how satellite imagery can SAT help to better understand Arctic change and disturbance. SAT Most recently, Dr. Atkinson has been examining perennial SAT snow packs and how they impact adjacent wetlands in terms of SAT carbon dynamics and water resources. SAT SAT Richard Johnson SAT SAT With a background as an architectural photographer, Richard SAT Johnson has spent a career in studying and photographing SAT buildings. The Ice Huts project is a natural extension of SAT this, an examination of a particular type of vernacular SAT architecture unique to the northern regions of Canada. He SAT set out to record the particular styles and cultures of ice SAT fishing in each province, with a goal of travelling to a SAT province a year. Over time, he has noted the particular SAT variations of each region, influenced as they are by SAT climate, landscape and culture. These huts are joyful SAT expressions of people making the best of the grey landscape SAT of Canadian winters. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06sf2xw (Listen) SAT New Year Questions SAT SAT Your window on the wider world. The Iraqi forces claimed SAT victory over IS fighters when they swept into the city of SAT Ramadi - but the place has been devastated, it will be SAT months before residents can return to their homes. Thomas SAT Fessy, who's been there, explains why this is being viewed SAT as a significant achievement by the Iraqi security forces. SAT On the Greek island of Lesbos, bad weather has slowed the SAT tide of human migrants sweeping into the EU but Paul Adams SAT says the new year will see European leaders trying again to SAT come up with a coherent response to what's been one of the SAT great human migrations of recent times. The new Argentine SAT president is trying to breathe life into the country's SAT moribund economy -- in Buenos Aires, as Petroc Trelawny's SAT been finding out, some dare to dream this could bring the SAT glamour back to the once-smart shopping streets of the SAT capital. We're amazed to learn from Carolyn Browne in SAT Brittany that it's possible to drive a car quite legally on SAT the roads of France -- even if you've lost your driving SAT licence after being convicted of drink/driving! And Kota SAT Bharu in Malaysia is a city which few westerners get to - SAT but Gareth Armstrong was a recent visitor and talks to us SAT about a harmonious place where people of different faiths SAT live happily side by side. He points out though that it pays SAT to carry an umbrella there! SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06sf2y7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06tkx5p (Listen) SAT Can We Live Without Cash? SAT SAT Last year, for the first time, the majority of payments in SAT the UK were not made using cash. In countries like Sweden, SAT Denmark and Finland, they rely on cash for less than 6% of SAT all payments. SAT SAT In this special edition of Money Box we investigate what SAT this move towards a cashless society means. SAT SAT We look at how Sweden has done away with the need for small SAT change, take a ride with the man who has turned Transport SAT for London into the largest contactless merchant in the SAT world, and discuss the impact of the electronification of SAT our spending on people without access to a bank account. We SAT also find out what the issuer of our bank notes thinks of it SAT all. SAT SAT With Victoria Cleland, Chief Cashier at the Bank of England; SAT Anna Ellison, Director of Research at think-tank Policis; SAT Niklas Ardvisson from the Royal Institute of Technology, SAT Stockholm; Shashi Verma, Director of Customer Experience at SAT Transport for London and Kebbie Sebastian, Managing Director SAT of Penser Consulting. SAT SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b06spjqj (Listen) SAT A Look Back at the Year 2020 SAT SAT The New Years edition of Dead Ringers is a little different SAT as the whole team have gone into the future and then taken a SAT look back at at the year 2020. Who will be Prime Minister, SAT who will be President and will anyone have decided about SAT London's extra runway by then? SAT SAT Will ISIS be replaced by something even more dangerous to SAT the people in the middle east - Tony Blair? Or will he have SAT joined UKIP by then? SAT How will England cope when the SNP win the general election SAT and move Parliament to Hollyrood? SAT Will Today's radio car be replaced with telepathic SAT communication (which still breaks down)? SAT What will the first political broadcast done entirely with SAT emojis sound like? SAT Will there be anyone left in Syria to drop bombs on? SAT Will the Queen have abdicated, how long before Prince SAT Charles does the same? SAT No promises, but Boris Jonson and Donald Trump MAY sing a SAT duet. 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 b06sf2yl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06sf2ys (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Correspondents Look Ahead b06spjqp (Listen) SAT 2016 SAT SAT Who and what will be making the global headlines in 2016? SAT Owen Bennett-Jones and leading BBC correspondents discuss SAT and give their predictions about what will shape the world SAT in the year ahead and assess its likely impact on the United SAT Kingdom. SAT SAT Owen is joined by Chief International Correspondent Lyse SAT Doucet who has spent the year reporting from across the SAT globe.North America Editor Jon Sopel looks ahead to next SAT year's US Presidential election. Who does he think will win SAT the race for the White House? Joining them are the BBC's SAT most experienced diplomatic correspondents, James Robbins SAT and Bridget Kendall. Last year she predicted that 2015 would SAT be a year of shocking terrorist activities in Europe and a SAT big year for the Pope. What will she and the other SAT correspondents predict for 2016? SAT SAT Producer: Jim Frank. SAT SAT 14:00 In the Moment b061tfmw (Listen) SAT Comedian Stewart Lee has a great private passion - musical, SAT free improvisation. For over twenty years in diverse attics SAT and cellars below pubs, hired rooms, concert halls and gig SAT venues, Stewart has been immersing himself in this unique SAT musical experience. SAT SAT Now he sets out to answer a deceptively simple question: SAT "What does it mean to play free - completely in the SAT moment?". SAT SAT Beloved by its fans and baffling to its detractors, free SAT improvisation has grown from a group of disaffected 1960s SAT jazz musicians playing to three men and a dog to a globally SAT respected and influential form heard regularly at SAT international concert halls and festivals. SAT SAT Through encounters with some of the scene's most influential SAT exponents - including Evan Parker, Maggie Nicols, Sarah Gail SAT Brand, Steve Noble and John Edwards - Stewart Lee explores SAT the remarkable reality of performing music without rules, SAT without preparation, with no safety net and no idea of SAT what's going to happen next. SAT SAT A Resonance production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b06tvzqr (Listen) SAT The Continuing Adventures of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid SAT (Deceased) SAT SAT An original western by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. SAT SAT It's 1904. New Mexico. Legendary lawman Pat Garrett has SAT grown weary and old. An altercation with President Roosevelt SAT has left his future looking bleak, his present is awash with SAT whisky, blood and bullets, and all the while he's haunted by SAT a ghost from his past. SAT SAT This is the story of how the myth of the Wild West was SAT created and how outlaws were forged into great American SAT heroes. SAT SAT Directed by Helen Perry SAT A BBC Cymru Wales Production SAT SAT Sean Gilder is best known for his portrayal of Paddy Maguire SAT in hit TV show Shameless. He's also recently played Bosola SAT in The Duchess of Malfi at The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse SAT Theatre, and starred in Chimerica (winner of 5 Oliviers) and SAT the multi award winning film The Selfish Giant. SAT SAT Credits SAT Pat Garrett: Sean Gilder SAT Billy the Kid: Sam Swann SAT Nancy: Madeline Appiah SAT Benjy: Edward Hogg SAT Clayton Claypole: Nathan Osgood SAT President Roosevelt: Rolf Saxon SAT Stubbenfield: John Guerrasio SAT Maxwell: Caolan McCarthy SAT Director: Helen Perry SAT Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz SAT SAT 15:30 Tiny Tinkles b06sgxjp (Listen) SAT Comedian and conductor Rainer Hersch investigates how and SAT why 'tinkly' musical sounds are so evocative of childhood, SAT but can also have a creepier quality. SAT SAT Starting with the toy piano, is there something inherent in SAT the tinkly musical quality or is it just the kind of music SAT we think that very small children like to hear? SAT SAT The Schoenhut Piano Company still makes toy baby grands that SAT are played seriously by concert pianists such as Xenia SAT Pestova. She charts the history of the toy piano in serious SAT music to Rainer - one that began with John Cage in 1948 - SAT and explains the advantages and drawbacks over their grown SAT up versions. SAT SAT In Bristol, Rainer visits The Music Box Shop to talk to SAT Richard Dean. He tells Rainer that music boxes of the 18th SAT and 19th century were essentially portable mp3 players which SAT could fit into pocket watches - the very first time that SAT music could be 'recorded' and reproduced. SAT SAT Victoria Williamson, a researcher and lecturer at the SAT University of Sheffield whose research focuses on music and SAT memory, suggests that the simplicity of these instruments SAT means that the music available is in simple tonal forms, SAT with limited notes in particular key and a simple melody - SAT very similar to lullabies. SAT SAT Rainer asks why this 'tinkling' music can suddenly become SAT sinister. Richard Dean at the Music Box Shop - who have SAT supplied boxes for props to the horror classic The Woman in SAT Black - suggests it's the idea of a 'luddite technology' SAT where no one is obviously playing the instrument. Victoria SAT Williamson suggests that our emotional reaction is a battle SAT between the quality of the sound and a learned reaction SAT based on our memories. SAT SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4 SAT SAT 'Crazy Legs' SAT Ed Bennett SAT Played live by Xenia Pestova SAT SAT John Cage - Suite for Toy Piano SAT Music for Amplified Toy Pianos SAT Played by Pascal Meyer and Xenia Pestova SAT SAT 'Patience' SAT Toy Piano and Electronics SAT Lauren Sarah Hayes SAT Played live by Xenia Pestova SAT SAT 'Recollections' SAT Yfat Soul Zisso SAT Played live by Xenia Pestova. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06tkxn6 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Shappi Khorsandi, Sara Pascoe and Helen Lewis take part in SAT our first quiz. SAT As Woman's Hour prepares to celebrate its 70th year we SAT discuss how the programme came about with historians Juliet SAT Gardiner and Kate Murphy. SAT SAT Lauren Laverne and Late Night Woman's Hour explore the power SAT of public nudity. How does it feel, what does it mean and SAT why do women do it? Inna Shevchenko leader of FEMEN, naked SAT stand-up comic Miss Glory Pearl, Natasha Porter who SAT organises the World Naked Bike Ride and Shahida Bari a SAT lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University in London SAT discuss. SAT SAT Was 2015 the year transgender became mainstream? Jack SAT Monroe, Paris Lees and journalist, Natalie McDermott talk SAT about some of the issues. SAT SAT Last year the Church of England welcomed its first female SAT Bishops. How likely are similar developments in the Catholic SAT Church? Christina Rees campaigner for Women Bishops, Tina SAT Beattie Professor of Catholic Studies and Religious Affairs SAT Correspondent Caroline Wyatt discuss. SAT SAT And what is the best way to make and embrace change? We hear SAT from Adele Tilley who will graduate in Business and SAT Management in July and from the author of The Art of the SAT Possible Kate Tojeiro. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Juliet Gardiner SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Murphy SAT Interviewed Guest: Inna Shevchenko SAT Interviewed Guest: Glory Pearl SAT Interviewed Guest: Natasha Porter SAT Interviewed Guest: Shahidha Bari SAT Interviewed Guest: Shappi Khorsandi SAT Interviewed Guest: Sara Pascoe SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Lewis SAT Interviewed Guest: Jack Monroe SAT Interviewed Guest: Paris Lees SAT Interviewed Guest: Nathalie McDermott SAT Interviewed Guest: Christina Rees SAT Interviewed Guest: Tina Beattie SAT Interviewed Guest: Caroline Wyatt SAT Interviewed Guest: Adele Tilley SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Tojeiro SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06tkxn8 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b06spm7k (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06sf2yx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06sf2yz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06sf2z3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06tkxxh (Listen) SAT John Cleese, Juliette Binoche, Chrisopher Eccleston, Maxine SAT Peake and Mark Rylance SAT SAT Clive Anderson with a sparkling array of some of the best SAT guests and music from Loose Ends in 2015, including John SAT Cleese, Juliette Binoche, Christopher Eccleston, Maxine SAT Peake, Mark Rylance, Catherine Tate, Paul O'Grady, Mick SAT Hucknall and Simply Red, Noel Fielding, Squeeze, Benjamin SAT Clementine & Jimmy Somerville. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: John Cleese SAT Interviewed Guest: Juliette Binoche SAT Interviewed Guest: Christopher Eccleston SAT Interviewed Guest: Maxine Peake SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark Rylance SAT Interviewed Guest: Catherine Tate SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul O'Grady SAT Interviewed Guest: Mick Hucknall SAT Interviewed Guest: Simply Red SAT Interviewed Guest: Noel Fielding SAT Interviewed Guest: Squeeze SAT Interviewed Guest: Benjamin Clementine SAT Interviewed Guest: Jimmy Somerville SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b06tkxxl (Listen) SAT Hartwig Fischer SAT SAT Chris Bowlby profiles the German art historian and curator SAT Dr Hartwig Fischer, who this year takes over one of the most SAT important jobs in UK culture: director of the British SAT Museum. What can the museum's visitors - and its staff - SAT expect from the new man in charge? SAT SAT Producer: Smita Patel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06tkxxn (Listen) SAT The Danish Girl, War and Peace, Deutschland 83, Angela SAT Clarke Follow Me, Fallout 4 and Her Story SAT SAT The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the SAT lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, portrayed in the film SAT respectively by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The SAT Theory of Everything) and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), and SAT directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King's SAT Speech, Les Misérables). Lili Elbe defied convention and SAT pushed the boundaries of medical science to become the first SAT transgendered woman. How will 21st century audiences react SAT to this telling of her story? SAT SAT Andrew Davies's new adaptation of Tolstoy's epic novel War SAT and Peace - into only six episodes on BBC One - features a SAT cast of stars including Lily James, Paul Dano, James Norton, SAT Rebecca Front, Stephen Rea and Jim Broadbent. Davies says he SAT abridges by picking out the "best bits" - but will SAT television audiences agree with his choice? SAT SAT Deutschland 83 is an eight-episode German television series SAT starring Jonas Nay as a 24-year-old native of East Germany SAT who in 1983 is sent to the West as an undercover spy for the SAT Stasi secret police. The first German language series to be SAT screened in the US - how will British audiences react? SAT SAT Follow Me is a thriller by Angela Clarke in which a murderer SAT tweets his crimes. In What She Left, T R Richmond looks at SAT the victim's digital footprint in order to piece together SAT what has happened to her. How are writers responding to SAT trends in social media? SAT SAT And a look at 2015 computer games. Fallout 4 (a sequel to SAT Fallout 3) is high tech, spectacular and epic. Her Story, a SAT surprise hit on the gaming circuit, is low tech and almost SAT entirely narrative driven. SAT SAT Book 2: What She Left by TR Richmond (Michael Joseph) SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06tky20 (Listen) SAT Work Is a Four Letter Word SAT SAT Many of us have grown up with the belief that a strong work SAT ethic is a positive thing, and that by contrast idle hands SAT are the devil's playthings. According to Professor Andrew SAT Hussey, that argument makes very little sense. Starting off SAT with a line from the Cilla Black song 'Work is a Four Letter SAT Word' he offers a powerful counter-argument by navigating SAT the ideas of, among others, Bertrand Russell, John Ruskin SAT and the Situationists in France, whose graffiti slogan 'Ne SAT Travaillez Jamais' - never work - still appears regularly on SAT Parisian streets. Hussey argues that the corporate culture SAT in particular, born out of mid-20th Century America and SAT built upon ideologies of work developed during the SAT industrial revolution and on through to the development of SAT the assembly line, can have a hugely corrosive impact on SAT people's lives. The programme features the voices of workers SAT from the 1930s through to the present day, describing SAT working life in call centres where even a trip to the toilet SAT is timed by management. Hussey doesn't however suggest that SAT we all take to the sofa to watch TV and eat crisps, though; SAT instead he argues that by taking control of the work we do SAT and the way we do it, work can actually become a positive SAT force in our lives, once stripped of what he regards as the SAT caustic power of modern managerialism. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06sfk94 (Listen) SAT Memsahib Emma, Episode 2 SAT SAT Tanika Gupta's glorious adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma SAT set in mid 19th Century India. SAT Emma's plans for Krishna and Mr Elton have backfired SAT spectacularly and she is horrified when he declares his SAT love for her. But a chastened Emma is cheered by news SAT of Frank Churchill's arrival. Mr Roy, however, is wary of SAT this young English man with his airs and graces. SAT SAT Directed by Tracey Neale. SAT SAT Credits SAT Emma: Manjinder Virk SAT Roy: Navin Chowdhry SAT Bhattacharjee: Silas Carson SAT Krishna: Maya Sondhi SAT Sumit: Raj Ghatak SAT Miss Bates: Meera Syal SAT Mrs Weston: Tracy Wiles SAT Mr Weston: Stephen Critchlow SAT Frank Churchill: George Watkins SAT Jane Fairfax: Rina Mahoney SAT Mr Elton: Leo Wan SAT Mrs Elton: Evie Killip SAT Author: Jane Austen SAT Adaptor: Tanika Gupta SAT Director: Tracey Neale SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06sf2z7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Reflections with Peter Hennessy b061q92b (Listen) SAT Series 3, David Owen SAT SAT In this series, Peter Hennessy, the historian of modern SAT Britain, asks senior politicians to reflect on their life SAT and times. Each week, he invites his guest to explore their SAT early influences, their experiences of events and their SAT impressions of people they've known. SAT SAT In the first episode of this series, David Owen, the former SAT Foreign Secretary and SDP Leader, discusses the transition SAT from his early days as the son of a Welsh doctor in Plymouth SAT to his election as a Labour MP while still in his twenties, SAT and his meteoric rise in politics. His appointment as SAT Foreign Secretary in 1977, aged only 38, marked him out as a SAT possible future Labour leader. SAT SAT After Labour's defeat in 1979 Owen and other leading social SAT democrats became increasingly frustrated by the party's SAT left-wing stance. With other senior figures he broke from SAT Labour and formed the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In SAT alliance with the Liberals it took 25 per cent of the vote SAT in the 1983 election, but only 23 seats. SAT SAT After Owen succeeded Roy Jenkins as leader, he maintained SAT its distinctive, radical stance. However, policy divisions SAT between the SDP and the Liberals undermined the Alliance's SAT credibility. It won 23 per cent of the vote at the 1987 SAT election, but again failed to break through in seats. The SAT tensions between Owen and his colleagues became evident. SAT Owen stood aside from a merger of the SDP with the Liberals SAT and soldiered on with a rump of social democrats until 1990. SAT He stood down as an MP in 1992. Owen continues to speak on SAT foreign affairs. He also writes on diplomacy and the SAT relationship between illness and politics. SAT SAT Peter's other guests in the series are Nigel Lawson, the SAT former Chancellor, and Clare Short, the former International SAT Development Secretary. SAT SAT Producer: Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b06sggdr (Listen) SAT Programme 11, 2015 SAT SAT (11/12) SAT The North of England take on the South of England in the SAT penultimate bout in this year's series of the cryptic SAT contest, with the outcome potentially crucial to the SAT positions in which they finish in this year's league table. SAT Jim Coulson and Adele Geras play for the North, against SAT Simon Singh and Marcus Berkmann of the South. SAT SAT For today's questions they'll need to dredge their memory SAT banks for details of fictional characters and their SAT creators, historians of the early Christian church, great SAT naval battles and British heavy metal bands, among other SAT things. As always, the questions include a selection from SAT those suggested recently by Round Britain Quiz listeners, SAT and Tom will have details of how you can submit your own SAT ideas for consideration in future editions. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Last week's teaser question SAT SAT Tom asked: one who was very speedy, one who made a SAT bare-faced mess of things, and the third in line to the SAT throne, were all looked after by a man from Monmouth - SAT where, and when? SAT SAT These were clues to characters and participants in the SAT children's TV series Rainbow, which ran from 1972-92 and was SAT hosted in its most successful years by Geoffrey Hayes. (The SAT 'man from Monmouth' may have led you to Geoffrey of SAT Monmouth, suggesting the presenter's name.) SAT SAT Alongside Geoffrey were the puppet characters Zippy (very SAT speedy) and George (third in line to the throne), and the SAT man-sized teddy bear Bungle (making a 'bare-faced' or SAT 'bear-faced' mess of things). SAT SAT Rankings before today's programme SAT SAT The Round Britain Quiz 2015 league table after 10 matches: SAT SAT Scotland Played 4 Won 3 Drawn 0 Lost 1 Total points 65 SAT SAT South of England P3 W3 D0 L0 Pts 48 SAT SAT The Midlands P3 W2 D0 L1 Pts 57 SAT SAT Wales P3 W2 D0 L1 Pts 55 SAT SAT North of England P3 W0 D0 L3 Pts 45 SAT SAT Northern Ireland P4 W0 D0 L4 Pts 45 SAT SAT Questions in this programme SAT SAT Q1 (from Bob Salmon) Can you soundly connect: a passage to SAT a small island; Herge's inept detectives; the Russian SAT parliament and the author of The Count of Monte Cristo; and SAT a double either side of Douglas? SAT SAT Q2 The hero of Cape St Vincent, a Canadian press baron, SAT four Prime Ministers, a heavyweight with an 'ammer, and the SAT mother of the second in line: why and when were their young SAT men subjected to a 'juling'? SAT SAT Q3 (Music) Why might these make you think of someone whose SAT murder is always on the cards? SAT SAT Q4 Where in the world might the Father of Geometry, the SAT mathematician whom Frederick the Great called Cyclops, and a SAT prolific historian of the early Christian church, claim a SAT common origin? SAT SAT Q5 (from Charles Gilman) Why might the same kind of mistake SAT result in attributing: A Bear Called Paddington to Ian SAT Fleming; The DaVinci Code to G.K. Chesterton; 'The Quangle SAT Wangle's Hat' to William Shakespeare; The Jew Of Malta to SAT Raymond Chandler; and The Tale of Jeremy Fisher to SAT J.K. Rowling? SAT SAT Q6 (Music/voices) Please arrange these in increasing order SAT of grandeur. SAT SAT Q7 How might a small increase in number turn a Roman SAT governor into an exercise regime, a gallic friend into a SAT literary father and son, and a former Commissioner of the SAT Metropolitan Police into a convicted drug dealer? SAT SAT Q8 (from Mike Ainsley) Who are these four villains? One SAT took tea with Maggie Smith and Judi Dench; another stole SAT Alexei Sayle's homework; the third purportedly played vibes SAT with the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band; and the fourth is still SAT dead, according to Chevy Chase? SAT SAT This week's teaser question SAT SAT This week's teaser has been supplied by Mark Lester in south SAT west London. SAT SAT Why might a forensic-sounding thespian, a leader of riparian SAT culture and a shady-sounding West Countryman all embrace SAT hopeless causes? SAT SAT Tom will provide the answer at the beginning of the final SAT programme, in which all of the questions will be drawn from SAT listeners' suggestions. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b06sfk98 (Listen) SAT Series 6, Sam Riviere and Emily Berry SAT SAT Paul Farley hears new poems from two new poets, Sam Riviere SAT and Emily Berry. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 03 JANUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06tl726 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:15 Writing a New Nigeria b06qm3mk (Listen) SUN Ideas of Identity SUN SUN A portrait of Nigeria, seen through the eyes of a new SUN generation of writers and poets. In the second programme of SUN the series, Wana Udobang meets the writers who are exploring SUN Nigerian ideas of identity. SUN SUN The protagonist in Igoni Barrett's latest novel is a black SUN Nigerian who, one morning, wakes up white. Barrett uses this SUN scenario to explore Nigerians' sense of themselves in SUN relation to other nationalities - particularly Europeans and SUN Americans. SUN SUN Wana also considers Nigerian geographical and ethnic SUN identities. The north of Nigeria is under-represented in SUN Nigerian English-language literature. Novelists Abubakar SUN Adam Ibrahim and Elnathan John are addressing this SUN imbalance: both have written books which are set in the SUN North but which give a more nuanced portrayal, beyond Boko SUN Haram and communal conflict. Elnathan's novel is a SUN coming-of-age story and Abubakar's is a romance between a SUN widow and a young gangster. We also hear from poet and SUN novelist Lola Shoneyin who takes on the sensitive subject of SUN polygamy in her story The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives. SUN SUN Nigeria is a country of many languages. Alongside English - SUN and Pidgin English - there's Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and many SUN others. Writers Kola Tubosun and Jumoke Verissimo consider SUN the influence of these on writing in English - and the way SUN that both fiction and social media can promote the survival SUN of minority languages. SUN SUN But if fiction is to flourish, it needs an infrastructure. SUN Many established novelists have had to look outside Nigeria SUN to achieve recognition and success. Publishers Eghosa SUN Imasuen and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf discuss the challenges of SUN popularising poetry and fiction in a market where self-help SUN and inspirational books completely outsell every other SUN genre. 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 b06tl72c (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06tl72f (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06tl72h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06tl72m (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06tpxw9 (Listen) SUN Church bells from St. Mary Magdalene, Ditcheat in Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b06tkxxl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06tl732 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06tpxwc (Listen) SUN Fear Not SUN SUN The last words of the poet Seamus Heaney were 'Noli Timere', SUN sent in a text to his wife. They translate as "Do not be SUN Afraid". SUN SUN The broadcaster Marie-Louise Muir speculates on what Heaney SUN might have meant by this advice to a loved one and reflects SUN on how a calm confidence and moral strength can be developed SUN to keep the noisy external world and its accompanying fears SUN at bay. SUN SUN With reference to the writings of Keats and JK Rowling, and SUN the music of Talking Heads and JS Bach. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: The Graveyard Book SUN Author: Neil Gaiman SUN Publisher: Bloomsbury SUN Title: Fear (Selected Poems) SUN Author: Ciaran Carson SUN Publisher: Wake Forest University Press SUN Title: Room SUN Author: Emma Donoghue SUN Publisher: Picador SUN Title: House Fear (from Robert Frost’s Poems) SUN Author: Robert Frost SUN Publisher: St Martin’s Press SUN Title: Sonnet: When I have fears that I may cease to be SUN (Complete Poems) SUN Author: John Keats SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN Title: You Will Not Have My Hatred SUN Author: Antoine Leiris SUN Publisher: Open letter on Facebook SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b06tpxwh (Listen) SUN A Life in Forestry SUN SUN Bun Burrows has dedicated his life to forestry, planting SUN thousands of trees on Exmoor. He takes Ruth Sanderson for a SUN walk through the woodlands of the Haddeo valley, to see his SUN legacy of over 40 years' work. Bun has been managing the SUN ancient semi-natural woodland on the Bury Estate since 1975 SUN together with owner Bernard Dru. Now, to celebrate his 80th SUN birthday and to mark the contribution he has made to the SUN forests of Exmoor National Park, a path is being named after SUN him and included in the Ordnance Survey map of the area. SUN SUN Produced by Beatrice Fenton. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06tl73v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06tl74b (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06tpxwk (Listen) SUN The theology of New Year's resolutions, and do they make us SUN happy? SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06tpxwp (Listen) SUN Room to Read SUN SUN Jonathan Self presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Room SUN to Read SUN Registered Charity No 1125803 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Room to Read'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Room to Read'. SUN SUN Room to Read SUN SUN Room to Read is a global non-profit organisation focused on SUN improving literacy and gender equality in education in SUN low-income countries. We believe that every child deserves a SUN quality education, no matter the situation they were born SUN into. Yet in many parts of Asia and Africa, especially in SUN rural communities, many children are still denied this basic SUN human right. SUN In the communities where Room to Read works, a relatively SUN small investment can have a major impact on the lives of SUN hundreds and thousands of children. Room to Read develops SUN literacy skills and the habit of reading among primary SUN school children, and supports girls in completing secondary SUN school with the relevant life skills to succeed in school SUN and beyond. SUN SUN Meet Esther SUN Esther is from Zambia and comes from a family of nine in an SUN overcrowded township in Lusaka. She had to drop out of SUN school because her family could no longer afford to continue SUN her education, leaving her with little hope for a better SUN life. SUN SUN Esther and Room to Read SUN But Esther got a second chance. Room to Read helped Esther SUN continue her education by paying her school fees and SUN introducing her to a female mentor who provided her with the SUN life skills she needed to build her confidence and SUN assertiveness. SUN SUN Esther is determined to never stop learning SUN After graduating from secondary school, Esther worked as a SUN counsellor for prisoners and was able to save up and fund SUN her future studies. Esther is now pursuing a degree in SUN Public Administration and is a role model for her younger SUN siblings. She hopes that more children around the world will SUN benefit from Room to Read in the way that she has. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06tl76b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06tl76r (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06tpxx4 (Listen) SUN Ceremony of Carols SUN SUN 'Welcome be thou heavenly King' - a seasonal meditation on SUN the Incarnation based around Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of SUN Carols and led by Canon Stephen Shipley with the Winchester SUN College Quiristers and harpist Eleanor Hudson directed by SUN Malcolm Archer. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06spjqs (Listen) SUN Howard Jacobson: Wisdom SUN SUN Howard Jacobson does not feel complimented when someone SUN describes him as "wise". He would sooner have understanding, SUN akin to that of Shakespeare. SUN SUN "What's wrong with wisdom is it implies stasis, as though SUN our greatest faculties of cognition and intuition are at SUN their journey's end, have attained a peak of complacency SUN from which they gaze down imperturbably on the small SUN vanities of man.". SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Howard Jacobson SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0hjv (Listen) SUN New Zealand Robin SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Sir David Attenborough begins Christmas week with the New SUN Zealand robin. The toutouwai or New Zealand robin may share SUN a name with the more familiar European robin, but it is a SUN very different bird to the robin redbreast we know so well. SUN Although about the same size with the same perky upright SUN stance, the New Zealand robin, is appropriately enough SUN nearly all-black, with a pale belly and a white splash just SUN above the bill, but no trace of red. Three subspecies exist; SUN one in north Island, one in South Island, and another in SUN Stewart Island. And like their British counterparts, who SUN they are not closely related to at all, can become quite SUN tame and friendly to humans. The song is very varied and SUN each male has a repertoire of around two dozen different SUN notes. SUN SUN New Zealand robin (Petroica australis australis) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com. SUN NPL Ref 01397402 SUN © Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com SUN SUN Recording of New Zealand robin by William V Ward / Ref: ML SUN 13916 SUN SUN This programme contains a SUN wildtrack recording of the New Zealand robin SUN kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab SUN of Ornithology; recorded by William V Ward on 18 Dec 1968, SUN at D'urville River, Nelson Lakes National Park, South SUN Island, New Zealand. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06tl77q (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 b06tq1sj (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Caroline Harrington SUN Director ..... Sean O'Connor SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Daisy Badger SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN PC Harrison Burns ..... James Cartwright SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Justin Elliott ..... Simon Williams SUN Rex Fairbrother ..... Nick Barber SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN Matthew Holman ..... Michael Winder SUN Dr Richard Locke ..... William Gaminara SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Helen Titchener ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Caroline Harrington SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Matthew Holman: Michael Winder SUN Dr Richard Locke: William Gaminara SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06tq3th (Listen) SUN Colm Toibin SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Colm Toibin. SUN SUN Best-known for his novels "Brooklyn" - now made into a film SUN - "Nora Webster" and "The Master," he has been nominated for SUN the Booker Prize three times. SUN SUN Born in 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, the second SUN youngest of five children, Colm's life changed suddenly when SUN his father died after a long illness when he was twelve. He SUN says he has been dealing with the trauma which resulted in SUN his writing ever since. After attending St Peter's College SUN in Wexford and University College Dublin, he spent three SUN years in Barcelona teaching English before returning to SUN Ireland. He worked as a journalist until his books began to SUN get published. SUN SUN He once told a class he was teaching that "you have to be a SUN terrible monster to write. I said, 'Someone might have told SUN you something they shouldn't have told you, and you have to SUN be prepared to use it because it will make a great story. SUN You have to use it even though the person is identifiable. SUN If you can't do it then writing isn't for you. You've no SUN right to be here. If there is any way I can help you get SUN into law school then I will. Your morality will be more SUN useful in a courtroom.'" SUN SUN Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Colm Toibin SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06tl77s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06sgjr8 (Listen) SUN Series 64, Episode 5 SUN SUN The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the Grand SUN Theatre in Blackpool. Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden SUN and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Rob Brydon, SUN with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the SUN piano. 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: Rob Brydon SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06tq3tk (Listen) SUN Can You Eat to Run? SUN SUN How important is diet to running performance? It's a SUN question Food Programme listener and runner Nicole Marais SUN wanted answers to and so she emailed the programme's SUN production team. This programme explains what happened SUN next.... SUN SUN When Dan Saladino went to meet (and run with) Nicole she SUN explained she had tried lots of different diets, from one SUN based on meat, to a vegetarian diet and onto veganism. She SUN was keen to hear the experience of other runners and SUN athletes and how they eat to run. SUN SUN Dan hears from Kevin Currell, Head of Performance Nutrition SUN at the English Institute of Sport, to find out about the SUN dietary advice given to Britain's elite athletes. Adharanand SUN Finn, author of "Running With the Kenyans", shares his SUN insights into running, racing and eating in Iten, the town SUN where many the world's most successful distance runners live SUN and train. Kenyan runners eat a lot of ugali, a carbohydrate SUN rich porridge made of maize flour and water. SUN SUN Elsewhere however, others are arguing that a low-carb, SUN high-fat diet will help runners reach peak performance. SUN Author of Born to Run and Natural Born Heroes, Christopher SUN McDougall, profiles diets based on this principle, that SUN fuelled long runs by resistance fighters during the Second SUN World War and early Iron Man events in the 1980's. It's a SUN controversial approach and many believe it's just the latest SUN food fad to be picked up people by people in the running SUN world. SUN SUN The programme also features Scott Jurek who eats a SUN carbohydrate rich, vegan diet. It's enabled him to dominate SUN runs like Badwater, a 135 mile race through America's Death SUN Valley. SUN SUN Will these athletes and running writers give listener Nicole SUN Marais the information she needs to break her own record in SUN this year's London Marathon. Listen, find out and perhaps go SUN on a run afterwards. SUN SUN Produced and presented by Dan Saladino. SUN Researcher: Camellia Sinclair. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Interviewed Guest: Nicole Marais SUN Interviewed Guest: Kevin Currell SUN Interviewed Guest: Adharanand Finn SUN Interviewed Guest: Christopher McDougall SUN Interviewed Guest: Scott Jurek SUN Producer: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06tl787 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06tq3tm (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 13:30 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b06p56yz (Listen) SUN Series 4, Journeymen Boxers SUN SUN Hardeep cooks up a meal that packs a protein fuelled punch SUN when he enters the world of the boxing journeymen - the men SUN who are paid to show young hopefuls the ropes and not to SUN win. Hardeep meets Johnny Greaves, one of the best in the SUN business - 100 fights, 96 defeats, 4 wins. As Johnny says SUN "turn up, fight, lose, get paid. Happy days." Johnny Greaves SUN is refreshingly honest about the realities of being a SUN mid-ranking professional boxer. Johnny makes losing look SUN like an art form and is very proud of his craft. He first SUN started boxing as a 9 year old against his older brother SUN Frank in the family's back garden in London's East End. When SUN he turned pro, brother Frank became his trainer and manager SUN and Johnny spent the next six years getting beaten up for SUN the pleasure of a baying, paying public. Hardeep discovers SUN what keeps people like Johnny fighting and gets an insight SUN in to the tight-knit world of boxing that's a very long way SUN from the glamour of big money title fights. SUN SUN Journeymen are the life-blood of boxing and many have skills SUN that belie the stats in their losses columns. They accept SUN fights against ambitious, highly trained fighters and must SUN always put on a show to make sure fans have a good night, SUN whilst making sure they don't hurt them too much - or get SUN hurt themselves. It takes enormous physical skill and SUN courage, but the journeyman also has to be mentally tough; SUN there's a stigma to being a journeyman and no one relishes SUN being labelled a loser even if they're getting well paid for SUN it. Now though, the tables have turned. Frank Greaves, at SUN the veteran age of 37 and despite his wife's concerns, has SUN decided that it's time he stepped into the ring and his SUN brother Johnny has become his trainer. Can Frank make it as SUN a journeyman boxer? SUN SUN Producer: Phil Pegum. SUN SUN Come and get me SUN SUN Ducking and diving SUN SUN Frank pulls his punches SUN SUN Getting some tips SUN SUN Hardeep lands a punch SUN SUN I could have been a contender SUN SUN Johnny, Frank and their mum Jackie SUN SUN Johnny and Frank Greaves SUN SUN Johnny and Vicky SUN SUN Over here SUN SUN Stick to the day job - Hardeep on the receiving end SUN SUN Taking a breather SUN SUN The day after a fight - Frank with his wife Leanne SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06spdm3 (Listen) SUN Old Royal Naval College SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from the SUN Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. Chris Beardshaw, Bob SUN Flowerdew, and Pippa Greenwood join him to see in the new SUN year. SUN SUN The panel tackle questions about growing pumpkins in pots, SUN replacing a recently departed Eucalyptus, and alternatives SUN to grasses in a mixed border. SUN SUN Also, Chris Beardshaw returns for his annual inspection of SUN the herbaceous border that he planted in Greenwich Park. SUN SUN Producer: Darby Dorras SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – I planted some sweet corn, Edamame beans and pumpkins in SUN large pots and they all grew very well but they only SUN produced tiny items. Why is this? SUN SUN Bob – Growing in pots can confine these plants. You are SUN trying to grow very hungry crops in containers. For SUN example, last year I grew one pumpkin plant that produced SUN two decent pumpkins but that was in 1 cubic metre (35 cubic SUN feet) of compost. Butternut squashes might be better but it SUN sounds like you’ve got too much competition and not enough SUN feed. SUN SUN Chris – When you look at root space that plants take up, we SUN often underestimate how much room they need. Research has SUN suggested that the average root spread of a single tomato is SUN 1 cubic metre (35 cubic feet). So you need to allow them SUN room. SUN Q – I need to protect my peas from the frost – what are the SUN cheapest, most effective hoops, over which to put SUN horticultural fleece? SUN SUN Bob – You can use all sorts of things. Thin bamboo canes can SUN be good. If you cut a bicycle wheel (without spokes) than SUN makes a nice strong arch. Plastic tubing that electricians SUN use, too. SUN Q – Do you have a favourite architectural plant for a mixed SUN border other than a grass? SUN SUN Bob – Globe artichokes. You get a height of 6ft or 7ft SUN (1.8m or 2.1m) and they’re there most of the year. SUN SUN Pippa – Crambe or a good portion of Gysophila. Or, though I SUN find them a bit difficult, I always admire Cannas in a SUN border. SUN SUN Chris – Crambe is a fabulous plant that is hugely under SUN planted … but watch out because when it collapses in the SUN frost it does smell a bit cabbagey! For foliage I would SUN recommend Tetrapanax papyrifer. SUN Q – For this year’s London Marathon in April we would like SUN to grow some Schizanthus or ‘Poor Man’s Orchid’ – when would SUN you advise sowing those seeds? SUN SUN Pippa – A large part of this will have to be undertaken in SUN artificial conditions but I would suggest starting SUN yesterday! I would definitely start some as soon as possible SUN – get as much artificial light and warmth on them asap. SUN SUN Bob – I would think of them as more of an autumn plant than SUN a spring plant and they’re not very hardy so this might be SUN tricky. For April I’d be thinking about universal Pansies SUN and Primulas – just to be sure you’ll actually have things SUN that will be flowering. SUN SUN Chris – I’d go down the perennial route and try SUN Tradescantias or something like that SUN Q – Purple algae is appearing in my pond for the second year SUN running – what is causing it and should I get rid of it? SUN SUN Pippa – I doubt it’s doing any harm – it probably just looks SUN a bit unsightly. But I don’t think you can do much without SUN totally starting the pond again from scratch. SUN Q – Our Eucalyptus has to be removed and its stump ground SUN out – how soon can I replant in the hole and can you suggest SUN something fairly solid but exciting? SUN SUN Chris – You may require a mini-digger in to dig out a big SUN enough area to replant in. You really need to think of this SUN as starting from scratch as the soil will be undernourished. SUN Dig a big hole and then input good, loamy garden soil. SUN Enrich with organic matter and then leave it to settle. SUN Maybe plant an intermediate plant in that area for a season. SUN Then I’d put in something like the Cercidiphyllum japonicum SUN (the ‘Katsura Tree’). Betula utilis too. Prunus serrula. SUN Also, a summer flowering Clematis – something like a SUN jackmanii. Or Malus tschonoskii. Lots of options! SUN Q – What aspect of gardening would the panel miss if they SUN had to give it up? SUN SUN Bob – Just going round eating the different fruits as they SUN ripened. SUN SUN Pippa – Gardening always gives you a reason to go outside SUN and enjoy nature – that’s what I enjoy most about it. SUN SUN Chris – For many of us gardening is a physical act but I SUN think it’s more about experiencing plants so I don’t think SUN you can every truly give up gardening! SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06tq9r0 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about clog-dancing, burlesque SUN performance, and the allure of the European male. All in the SUN Omnibus of the series that proves it's surprising what you SUN hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b06tq9r4 (Listen) SUN East of Eden, Episode 1 SUN SUN Episode 1 of 3 SUN SUN By John Steinbeck SUN Dramatised by Donna Franceschild SUN SUN An epic tale exploring the nature of good and evil, inspired SUN by the story of Cain and Abel. SUN SUN Cathy Ames is a young woman who has always filled her SUN parents with a deep sense of unease. SUN SUN Adam and Charles Trask are brothers whose relationship veers SUN dangerously between love and hate. SUN SUN Their lives are about to collide in a dark and febrile drama SUN about familial love. SUN SUN Starring Holliday Grainger, Robin Laing and David Yip. SUN SUN Director: Kirsty Williams. SUN SUN Credits SUN Cyrus: Jimmy Chisholm SUN Charles: Steven Duffy SUN Cathy: Holliday Grainger SUN Adam: Robin Laing SUN Mr Edwards: Gavin Mitchell SUN Mr Ames: Nick Underwood SUN Mrs Ames: Anita Vettesse SUN Narrator: David Yip SUN Director: Kirsty Williams SUN Author: John Steinbeck SUN Adaptor: Donna Franceschild SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b06tq9r6 (Listen) SUN Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North SUN SUN Richard Flanagan discusses his 2014 Man Booker Prize winning SUN novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North set among prisoners SUN of war who were forced by the Japanese to work on the SUN notorious Thai-Burma railway. SUN SUN Flanagan, a Tasmanian, wrote the book in tribute to his late SUN father, who survived the horrors of "The Line". Thousands SUN more did not, and in the programme Flanagan describes how he SUN and his siblings were children of the Death Railway as they SUN grew up listening to their father's stories, which included SUN witnessing the violent murder of his friend Micky Hallam at SUN the hands of Japanese guards. SUN SUN Flanagan also talks how he set out to write a SUN non-judgemental novel about the camps, and how he used SUN Japanese poetry to open himself up to what is best in the SUN Japanese character, with the poet Basho's Narrow Road to the SUN Deep North as his inspiration. The beauty of the poetry SUN allowed him to write the novel that set him free from his SUN father's past. SUN SUN His father died on the very day Richard Flanagan finished SUN the novel. SUN SUN Presented by James Naughtie and recorded with a group of SUN readers. SUN SUN February's Bookclub choice : Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie SUN (2009) SUN SUN Interviewed Guest : Richard Flanagan SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: James Naughtie SUN Interviewed Guest: Richard Flanagan SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b06tq9r8 (Listen) SUN Series 6, Kathleen Jamie SUN SUN 2014 was a momentous year in Scotland. The poet Kathleen SUN Jamie decided to keep a poetic diary and wrote a poem each SUN week. The poems have just been published in a collection SUN called The Bonniest Companie. She shares some of them with SUN Paul Farley. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 The Boat Children b06t42ff (Listen) SUN Among the vast number of migrants who crossed the SUN Mediterranean in summer 2015 were many unaccompanied SUN children. SUN SUN Presenter Hashi Mohamed, once a child migrant himself, SUN travels to Italy to meet young new arrivals heading north SUN from Sicily in search of a better life. SUN SUN "I had it easy really," says Hashi Mohamend, "I got on a SUN plane with some of my siblings from Nairobi to London via SUN Paris." SUN SUN By contrast many of the child migrants he meets from Egypt, SUN Gambia, Eritrea, Somalia, Afghanistan and Ethiopia have SUN suffered violence, extortion and life threatening danger en SUN route to Europe. SUN SUN Producer: Tim Mansel. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b06tkxxl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06tl790 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06tl793 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06tl79r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06tq9rc (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay SUN SUN Liz Barclay presents the first pick of the New Year. SUN SUN If music be the food of love then we have some lovely radio SUN highlights for you this week.... with three musical greats SUN and few not so greats....ear plugs might come in handy. The SUN women of Ambridge disrobe - in the best possible taste of SUN course - and we meet the Battered Champions of Aleppo and SUN some of the Boat Children who've travelled alone to Europe SUN from war torn Syria.... SUN SUN Liz's choice from the BBC Radio iPlayer is Tony Benn on SUN Desert Island Discs. SUN SUN Produced by Stephen Garner SUN SUN The Pick Production team: Kay Bishton and Elodie Chatelain. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06tq9rg (Listen) SUN Jill is feeling excited, and Jennifer has Oxford on the SUN brain. SUN SUN 19:15 June Whitfield: 90 Not Out b06sfrks (Listen) SUN Terry and June to Eastenders and Beyond SUN SUN In an age of instant celebrity, what does it take to SUN maintain a long career in entertainment? SUN SUN June Whitfield is one of our best-known faces and most SUN widely loved stars. She has recently turned 90 years old. SUN It's an ideal opportunity for BBC Radio 4 to wish her a SUN happy birthday and toast her long, successful career - a SUN career which is still ongoing. SUN SUN Joanna Lumley visited June at home in Wimbledon to re-live SUN some of her finest comedy moments and explore how the SUN entertainment industry has changed - most notably the SUN expanded roles for women as performers, writers and SUN producers - during her remarkable career. SUN SUN The second part of this extended interview with June covers SUN the latter part of her career, starting with the role that SUN brought June to a whole new audience - Mother in Jennifer SUN Saunders' 90s sitcom hit, Absolutely Fabulous. SUN SUN Joanna Lumley, a co-star with June in Absolutely Fabulous, SUN listens back to some selected gems from the archives and SUN discusses the highs and lows of her time in the SUN entertainment business. SUN SUN Presenter: Joanna Lumley SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 From the Vineyard b06tq9rm (Listen) SUN Muscadet SUN SUN Muscadet by Michele Roberts SUN SUN Some chefs and waiters play a guessing game that conjures up SUN aromas of this wine, recalled from the narrator's SUN childhood.. SUN SUN Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman SUN SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Michele Roberts SUN Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman SUN Producer: Duncan Minshull SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b06spffr (Listen) SUN Numbers of the Year 2015 SUN SUN Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting SUN numbers behind the news in 2015, from the migrant crisis to SUN social media messages. SUN SUN Contributors include: Professor Jane Green, Helen Arney, SUN Paul Lewis, Andrew Samson, Leonard Doyle , Peter SUN Cunliffe-Jones, Farai Chideya, Claire Melamed and Professor SUN John Allen Paulos. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06spffh (Listen) SUN Eric Tomlinson, Elsie Tu, Peter Dickinson, Lillian Vernon SUN and Lemmy SUN SUN Recording engineer, Eric Tomlinson, who worked on the score SUN for Star Wars and added music to Charlie Chaplin's silent SUN films. SUN SUN Elsie Tu, social campaigner, legislator and educationalist SUN in Hong Kong. SUN SUN Author, Peter Dickinson, who twice received the prestigious SUN Carnegie medal for his work. SUN SUN Entrepreneur, Lillian Vernon, whose catalogue business was SUN the first company owned by a woman to be listed on the US SUN Stock Exchange. SUN SUN Motorhead frontman, Lemmy, who's credited with introducing SUN punk sounds into heavy metal. SUN SUN Producer: Maire Devine SUN SUN Eric Tomlinson SUN Julian spoke to friends and fellow recording engineers; Alan SUN Snelling and Chris Malone. SUN Born 8 January 1931, died 24 November 2015 aged 84 SUN SUN Elsie Tu CBE SUN Julian spoke to Senior Policy Advisor to World Health SUN Organization; Judith Mackay. SUN Born 2 June 1913; died 8 December 2015 aged 102 SUN SUN Peter Dickinson OBE SUN SUN Julian spoke to his son John Dickinson and Children's Books SUN editor for The Guardian; Julia Eccleshare. SUN SUN Born 16 December 1927; died 16 December 2015 aged 88 SUN SUN Lillian Vernon SUN Julian spoke to her son Fred Hochberg. SUN Born 18 March 1927; died 14 December 2015 aged 88 SUN SUN Lemmy SUN SUN Julian spoke to friend and Hawkwind founder; Dave Brock and SUN Editor of Metal Hammer magazine; Alexander Milas. SUN SUN Born 24 December 1945; died 28 December 2015 aged 70 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Worricker, Julian SUN Interviewed Guest: Alan Snelling SUN Interviewed Guest: Chris Malone SUN Interviewed Guest: Judith Mackay SUN Interviewed Guest: John Dickinson SUN Interviewed Guest: Julia Eccleshare SUN Interviewed Guest: Fred Hochberg SUN Interviewed Guest: Dave Brock SUN Interviewed Guest: Alexander Milas SUN Producer: Maire Devine SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06tkx5p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06tpxwp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b06sp2zt (Listen) SUN Not So Small Beer SUN SUN Peter Day explores the rise of craft beer and how the big SUN breweries are fighting back by buying up the competition SUN SUN Producer: Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06tq9rp (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06tq9rt (Listen) SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06snz24 (Listen) SUN Women in Film SUN SUN Francine Stock hosts a discussion about the roles of women SUN in the film industry and whether anything is getting better SUN in terms of jobs, pay and opportunities. Joining her are SUN producer Elizabeth Karlsen, director Carol Morley and SUN writer/actor Justine Waddell. SUN SUN Women In Film And Television SUN http://www.wftv.org.uk SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Elizabeth Karlsen SUN Interviewed Guest: Carol Morley SUN Interviewed Guest: Justine Waddell SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06tpxwc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 JANUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06tl7bx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06sj050 (Listen) MON Fashion and Beauty MON MON Fashion:pleasure and danger. Laurie Taylor considers the MON costs of 'keeping up appearances', then and now. From the MON flaming tutus of ballerinas to the deaths of garment MON workers: what perils have accompanied changes in dress, for MON the producers of clothing, as well as the wearers. How have MON our ideas of style and good looks shifted according to MON changing notions of masculinity & femininity? What MON relationship do beards and facial hair have to our MON understanding of what it means to be a man? And have the MON vagaries and demands of fashion invariably hurt women more MON than men, the poor more than the wealthy? MON MON Laurie is joined by Christopher Oldstone-Moore, Senior MON Lecturer in History at Wright State University, Alison MON Matthews David, Associate Professor in the School of Fashion MON at Ryerson University and Joanne Entwistle, Senior Lecturer MON in Culture and Creative Industries at King's College London. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Alison Matthews David in the School of Fashion at Ryerson MON University, Toronto MON Christopher Oldstone Moore at Wright State University, USA MON Joanne Entwistle at King's College, London MON MON MON MON Alison Matthews David, *Fashion Victims: The Dangers of MON Dress Past and Present*, (Bloomsbury, 2015) MON MON Joanne Entwistle, *The Fashioned Body*, (Polity, 2000) MON MON Christopher Oldstone-Moore,* Of Beards and Men: The MON Revealing History of Facial Hair*, (University of Chicago MON Press, 2015) MON MON MON MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06tpxw9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06tl7bz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06tl7c1 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06tl7c3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06tl7c5 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06v9yj4 (Listen) MON Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the MON Rev Neil Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06tqr28 (Listen) MON Oxford Farming Conference and the Oxford Real Farming MON Conference MON MON Anna Hill previews the Oxford Farming Conference and the MON Oxford Real Farming Conference with Dr Tina Barsby and Colin MON Tudge. MON MON There are two farming conferences that take place in Oxford MON in the first week of January. In today's programme Anna Hill MON talks to Dr Tina Barsby from the Oxford Farming Conference MON and Colin Tudge, founder of the Oxford Real farming MON Conference to discuss similarities and differences between MON the two events and if two contrasting styles of farming can MON find common ground. MON MON Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Martin MON Poyntz-Roberts. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06tl7c8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04sv1s1 (Listen) MON Greater Rhea MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Chris Packham presents the greater rhea roaming the South MON American pampas. Greater rheas are the largest birds in MON South America and look like small brown ostriches. They're MON flightless, but can avoid danger by sprinting away on sturdy MON legs reaching speeds of up to 60 kilometres per hour. MON Gauchos, the horsemen of the pampas, used to hunt them on MON horseback using a bolas; a well-aimed bolas would wrap MON around the rhea's legs or neck and bring it down in a tangle MON of feathers and limbs. In the breeding season males call MON loudly to proclaim territories, and to woo potential mates MON the male runs around erratically, spreading his wings and MON booming. He mates with several females who lay their eggs in MON the same nest. Then the females depart to mate with another MON male leaving the first male to incubate the clutch and rear MON the huge brood of chicks on his own. MON MON Greater Rhea (Rhea americana) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Luiz Claudio Marigo / MON naturepl.com. MON N MON PL Ref 01131063 MON © Luiz Claudio Marigo / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b06tqsbx (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Behaving Ourselves: Mitchell on Manners b06tqt1p (Listen) MON A Bit of History MON MON David Mitchell sets out on a vigorous but impeccably polite MON investigation into the confusing world of manners. Are they MON really in decline, as many would have us believe? Or are we MON just throwing off the shackles of the Victorian obsession MON with etiquette? MON MON In the first of four episodes, David eats his lunchtime MON sandwiches with children in a primary school, and later goes MON to a street market to see manners - good and bad - in MON action. And he explores where our manners come from with MON Professors Steven Pinker from Harvard University and Stephen MON Mennell from University College, Dublin, and with the author MON Henry Hitchings. MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 09:30 Hidden Histories of the Information Age b04lpxx3 (Listen) MON Enfield Exchange MON MON "Hello Girls" MON MON In 1960 the women telephonists of the Enfield exchange said MON goodbye to the last manual telephone exchange in Greater MON London. For decades they had put through calls using this MON plugboard machine, providing a polite and friendly voice to MON any caller. With the expertise of the Science Museum's MON Keeper of Technology, Dr Tilly Blyth, and Curator of MON Communication, John Liffen, Aleks Krotoski uncovers the MON hidden histories of the life of the exchange and how it MON provided a new kind of employment for young women. MON MON Part of the Enfield Exchange is on display in the new MON Information Age gallery at the Science Museum. The gallery MON tells the story of the evolution in how we communicate with MON each other. The objects in the exhibition represent cultural MON moments from the last 200 years - not just technological MON innovations. MON MON We also hear from the women who worked as telephonists about MON the relationship between the supervisors and operators, some MON of whom were only 15 years old, the aches and pains the MON plugboard caused and the prestige brought by a job with the MON GPO. MON MON Images courtesy of BT and the Science Museum MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06tqsbz (Listen) MON Young Orson, Episode 1 MON MON Orson Welles, the defining wunderkind of modern MON entertainment, gets his due in a new biography of his early MON years - including his first forays in theatre and radio MON before his groundbreaking move to Hollywood. MON MON Episode 1: MON A star is born - in Kenosha. MON MON Written by Patrick McGilligan MON Read by Jack Klaff MON Abridged and produced by Karen Rose MON MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Jack Klaff MON Author: Patrick McGilligan MON Abridger: Karen Rose MON Producer: Karen Rose MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06tqsc1 (Listen) MON The New Year is upon us again, as can the urge to make life MON changes whether small or significant. On Monday 4th MON January/Today Woman's Hour is hosting a phone-in. How would MON you like to change your life? What are the obstacles in your MON way? Have you made alterations? What inspired you? What MON difference does it make when change is forced upon you? Let MON us know your story, your approach, your hurdles. E-mail us MON through our website or tweet us @bbcwomanshour or call us on MON 03700 100 444. Lines open at 7.30am. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Alice Feinstein MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06tr5t3 (Listen) MON Beloved, Episode 1 MON MON By Toni Morrison MON Adapted by Patricia Cumper MON MON Toni Morrison's seminal 1987 novel about a haunted house in MON the era that followed the abolition of slavery in the United MON States is adapted for radio for the first time. Toni MON Morrison's masterpiece melds horror and poetry as it tells MON the story of Sethe, a woman who escaped slavery by crossing MON the Ohio river, but who, eighteen years later, is still not MON free. MON MON Cast: MON MON Original music by Jon Nicholls MON Sound design by Caleb Knightley MON MON Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Adjoa Andoh MON Sethe: Nadine Marshall MON Denver: Pippa Bennett-Warner MON Paul D: Danny Sapani MON Director: Sasha Yevtushenko MON Author: Toni Morrison MON Adaptor: Patricia Cumper MON MON 11:00 After Ebola b06tr5t5 (Listen) MON Dr Wright, Director of the Bradford Institute for Health MON Research, recorded his experiences at the height of the MON epidemic from the point of his arrival in Sierra Leone: one MON of the first wave of thirty NHS volunteers. Recording as he MON went, he documented the struggles to reconcile the safe MON opening and staffing of the centres with the need to meet MON the huge demand as cases spread in the community. He was MON based at the Moyamba centre, which was built by the British MON army in just six weeks and was run by a consortium of local MON and international doctors and nurses. In the country as a MON whole there were 14,089 cases of Ebola, with 10,134 people MON surviving: Dr Wright is keen to track what is happening to MON these survivors. MON MON Twelve months on he is back in Moyamba, recording as MON decontamination teams move in to safely shut the clinic he MON helped open. It will mean the end of employment for nurses MON like Janet and Rose, who worked alongside him when the MON centre opened: "The contrast is unsettling. I go out for a MON few weeks and get feted with undeserved glory," he tells MON listeners: "They put their lives at risk during the entire MON epidemic and get made redundant." He is also concerned about MON how the local Moyamba hospital will cope, particularly given MON the rudimentary state of equipment there. They have run out MON of basic supplies and have a generator that is from the MON 1960's. Their pharmacy cupboards are bare - in stark MON contrast to those at the Ebola Treatment Centre. MON MON It is with some trepidation that he returns to Sierra Leone: MON "coming back to the battlefield one year on and after the MON war has been won." One of his roles is to look at how to MON strengthen local health care systems and he takes listeners MON into schools and clinics to see what is happening. A study MON involving 100 survivors is underway locally and meets some MON of those who are being monitored, including a few that came MON through the clinic for treatment when he was originally MON there. About half of them are showing ongoing eye and joint MON problems, along with other symptoms - Ebola has even been MON found to live in semen for up to nine months after exposure. MON MON In these recordings he takes listeners with him along the MON streets as he is welcomed back by groups chanting "Dr John, MON Dr John," in sing-song voices. They are happy to see him MON return and keen to explain what has changed since he left. MON But their optimism does little to hide the worrying fall in MON childhood immunization rates, the rise in unplanned MON pregnancies and the spread of other infectious diseases: MON "The gulf in resources between our Ebola Treatment Centre MON and the hospital is disturbing. Their labs have run out of MON even the basic equipment, like needles to take blood MON samples. We need to be aware that the end of Ebola does not MON mean the end of our work in Sierra Leone.". MON MON 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b01p0rpj (Listen) MON Series 4, Whitehaven MON MON Comedian Mark Steel returns with a new series, looking under MON the surface of some of the UK's more distinctive towns to MON shed some light on the people, history, rivalries, slang, MON traditions, and eccentricities that makes them unique. MON MON Creating a bespoke stand-up set for each town, Mark performs MON the show in front of a local audience. MON MON As well as examining the less visited areas of Britain, Mark MON uncovers stories and experiences that resonate with us all MON as we recognise the quirkiness of the British way of life MON and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and people who MON have shaped where we live. MON MON During this 4th series of 'Mark Steel's In Town', Mark will MON visit Tobermory, Whitehaven, Handsworth, Ottery St Mary, MON Corby, and Chipping Norton. MON MON This week, Mark visits Whitehaven, to discuss surrealist MON pirates, the dubious origins of rum butter, and the MON unreassuring link between rugby and nuclear power. MON MON Additional material by Pete Sinclair. MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06tl7cf (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b06kvdtc (Listen) MON 4 January 1916 - Dorothea Winwood MON MON On this day, Lord Derby published a report that over 650,000 MON fit single men hadn't offered themselves for service, and MON Dorothea Winwood is getting into the rhythm of work at the MON Bevan. MON MON Written by Mike Walker MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley MON Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair MON Max Davenport: Trevor White MON Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads MON Alec Poole: Tom Stuart MON Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook MON Bob Capeling: Joe Sims MON Margaret Bishop: Catherine Bailey MON Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont MON Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone MON Pigman: Sean Murray MON Writer: Mike Walker MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06tr5t7 (Listen) MON Personal health budgets, Funding circle, Talking ATMs MON MON People entitled personal care budgets are missing out MON because no one is telling them there's a pot of cash they MON can access to help them pay for services to manage their MON care. The revelation comes from a freedom of information MON request submitted by former care minister Norman Lamb. He MON says in some parts of the country 99 per cent of patients MON who are entitled to claim a personal care payment aren't MON because they don't know that they can. MON MON In the financial world a Unicorn is slang for a web based MON company that is worth a Billion pounds. There are 40 MON Unicorns in Europe and 17 in the UK. This week we will be MON looking at four unicorns who have harnessed the power of the MON web to change the consumer experience. Today its Funding MON Circle who match savers with businesses in need of loans. MON MON The NHS could soon introduce a new pre natal screening test MON for Down's Syndrome. Expectant Mums would have the option of MON a blood test, rather than taking fluid from around the MON foetus, which can lead to miscarriage.Some experts say the MON new test is much safer, and helps families to make better MON informed decisions. But some Down's Syndrome campaign groups MON argue that if the move goes ahead, it will inevitably lead MON to more terminations, and that there needs to be a wider MON ethical debate before it's introduced. MON MON Last year the people who run RBS banks promised this MON programme it would install Talking ATMs by the end of 2015. MON Talking ATMs are useful for people who are visually MON impaired, because they allow you to follow cash machine MON prompts through headphones instead of having to memorise the MON prompts, or asking a member of the public to help. But RBS MON are yet to make good on their promise. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06tl7cl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06tr5t9 (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Etiquette Guide b06tr5tc (Listen) MON The Ancients MON MON The mark of a civilised country is to know what it is to be MON civil. But what if you don't know? Across the ages, social MON commentators have written guide books to tell the MON uninitiated how to do the right thing at the right time in MON the right way. MON MON And it's not just snobs that have published guides - the MON great Renaissance theologian Erasmus took time out from MON arguing with Luther to instruct children how to behave in MON company. MON MON Nor is it yet another invention of Victorian England. Five MON thousand years ago, Ptah-Hotep set down on papyrus the rules MON of behaviour that all wise men should convey to their sons. MON MON Episode 1: The Ancients MON In the 3rd Millennium BC, Ptah-Hotep wrote the Maxims of MON Ptah-Hotep. He addressed such crucial issues as rules for MON courteous debate, proper etiquette for a guest and advised MON strongly against gossip. MON MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06tq9rg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06tr5tf (Listen) MON Where This Service Will Terminate MON MON By Katherine Jakeways MON MON Suzie's never been to Cornwall before, but somehow she finds MON herself on the Cornish Riviera Express, hurtling from MON Paddington to Penzance. She sits next to David and over the MON course of an eventful five hour journey an intense MON relationship develops. MON MON A romantic comedy from writer Katherine Jakeways. The Radio MON Times has described Katherine as 'new Victoria Wood' saying MON "her character comedy is so acutely observed and so sharp MON that it's in danger of causing permanent injury." Starring MON Rosie Cavaliero (Prey) and Justin Edwards (The Thick of It). MON MON Directed by James Robinson MON A BBC Cymru Wales Production. MON MON Credits MON Suzie: Rosie Cavaliero MON David: Justin Edwards MON Guard: James MacCallum MON Angry Woman: Katherine Jakeways MON Director: James Robinson MON Writer: Katherine Jakeways MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b06tr5tk (Listen) MON Programme 12, 2015 MON MON (12/12) MON All of the questions in this closing contest of the current MON series have been devised by listeners, with Tom Sutcliffe on MON hand to guide the teams through them. The Midlands and Wales MON clash for the last time this series, in a contest they both MON need to win to clamber up the final Round Britain Quiz MON league table. MON MON 'Can you convert old-style currency from Latin into Greek, MON and then into bone, gut and muscle?' is just one of the MON arcane teasers they'll have to unravel. With the teams MON confined to the library of a country house and all MON electronic devices confiscated, they have only their MON knowledge and powers of deduction to rely on, along with the MON odd helpful hint from the chairman, as the clock ticks down MON towards the end of the series. The more clues and nudges MON they need, the more points Tom will be deducting. MON MON Tom will also provide the answer to the question teasingly MON left unanswered at the end of the previous edition, and will MON be able to reveal who has taken the title of Round Britain MON Quiz champions for the 2015 season. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06tq3tk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b06vk6nf (Listen) MON Phill Jupitus MON MON Comedian Phill Jupitus takes us through his life in books, MON comedy, poetry and songs, from the Sex Pistols to Steve MON Martin and the speech that has changed his life. With MON readers Thom Tuck and Cariad Lloyd, and live music by Boo MON Hewerdine. Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC's MON Maida Vale studios. MON Phill's readings are from Clothes Music Boys by Viv MON Albertine, Born Standing Up by Steve Martin, Genesis by MON Billy Collins, Bossypants by Tina Fey and The House at Pooh MON Corner by AA Milne. MON Sound archive is of Professor Richard Demarco accepting his MON honorary degree as Doctor of Arts from Southampton Solent MON University. MON Live song is Bell Book and Candle by Boo Hewerdine. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Phill Jupitus MON Reader: Thom Tuck MON Reader: Cariad Lloyd MON Performer: Boo Hewerdine MON Producer: Beth O'Dea MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b06tr5tp (Listen) MON Religion and Psychotherapy MON MON There is a long Christian history of exploring the self. MON Some of the greatest Christian theologians wrote about the MON importance of the inner life; and in times of distress and MON suffering it was the Church people turned to for both MON confession and counsel. Things began to change in the 20th MON century with the emergence of psychoanalysis and the MON writings of Sigmund Freud. No longer were ideas about the MON inner life the preserve of the Church. Psychotherapy was MON seen as a threat by the Institution; and religion, MON conversely, was viewed with suspicion among many MON psychotherapists. Are religion and psychotherapy at war with MON one another? Or are they more compatible than we might MON think? Can they be reconciled? MON MON Ernie Rea discusses whether Christianity or psychotherapy MON provides the more reliable guide to the inner life with Mark MON Vernon, a psychotherapist and writer; psychoanalyst Anouchka MON Grose; and Reverend Dr Andrew Walker, Director of the St MON Marylebone Healing and Counselling Centre. MON MON Producer: MON Dan Tierney MON MON Series producer: MON Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b06tr5tr (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06tl7d1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06tr6ld (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 6 MON MON Back for a second week at the Grand Theatre in Blackpool, MON regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined on the panel by Rob Brydon, with Jack Dee in the MON chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. MON 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 b06tr6lg (Listen) MON There is much praise for Brian, and Eddie has big ideas. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06tr6lj (Listen) MON Tarantino on The Hateful Eight, Costa Book Awards category MON winners MON MON Samira Ahmed talks to director Quentin Tarantino about his MON new Western, The Hateful Eight, which stars Samuel L. MON Jackson, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth and Jennifer Jason Leigh and MON is scored Ennio Morricone. Tarantino explains why he sees MON contemporary resonances in this period piece. MON And we announce the category winners for the Costa Book MON Awards and hear from the winner of the novelist category. MON MON Presenter: Samira Ahmed MON Producer: Elaine Lester. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Samira Ahmed MON Interviewed Guest: Quentin Tarantino MON Producer: Elaine Lester MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06tr5t3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite... Laicite b06tr96c (Listen) MON Catherine Guilyardi examines concerns about traditional MON French Republican values. MON MON After the Charlie Hebdo killings and the extraordinary MON demonstration of unity in the country, France discovered MON that some of its young people did not want "to be Charlie". MON A number of children refused to respect a minute of silence MON in their schools, some even going so far as to say that they MON agreed with the killers. MON MON They represented a tiny minority, but part of the French MON political elite claimed that traditional Republican values MON had been lost - including "la laïcité", the principle of the MON separation of state and religious affairs. It was decided MON that it was each school's role to make sure that these civic MON and moral values were taught again. MON MON How are liberté, égalité, fraternité and la laïcité MON explained and transmitted to a generation and demographic MON that feels discriminated against and rejected by French MON society? Is enforcing 'la laicité' by law - for example, by MON banning religious symbols in school - a kind of MON discrimination against the poorest and most vulnerable MON sections of French society, those who feel least welcome in MON France, Muslim and migrant families? MON MON Catherine Guilyardi meets school children, teachers, MON academics and a member of the government. MON MON Produced by Alan Hall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b06sny8s (Listen) MON The Battered Champions of Aleppo MON MON A fuzzy team photo from the 1980s sends Tim Whewell on a MON journey to track down football players from a small town in MON northern Syria who were once the champions of Aleppo MON province. In the last four years of war their hometown, MON Mare'a, has become a war zone - bombed by the Assad regime, MON besieged by Islamic State, subject even to a mustard gas MON attack. And the civil war has torn through what was once a MON band of friends - some now pro-rebel, some pro-regime. MON They're scattered across Syria and beyond, some fighting MON near Mare'a, some in refugee camps abroad. What have they MON gone through since they won that cup? And do they think they MON can ever be reunited? MON MON Shabnam Grewal producing. MON MON 21:00 Putting Science to Work b06sgxjk (Listen) MON Crowd Safety MON MON A deadly crowd collapse at the Hajj pilgrimage in September MON has brought public safety into the spotlight once again. MON Here in the UK, the Hillsborough inquest has been MON re-examining the tragic events of 1989 which led to the MON death of 96 football fans at the Sheffield ground. MON MON Today we ask how science can prevent crowd disasters. Jim MON Al-Khalili invites three scientists into the studio to MON explain their strategy for improving crowd safety: MON MON - Dr Suzy Moat, from Warwick University's Business School, MON is testing new technologies to monitor crowds MON - Dr Cliff Stott, a psychologist from Leeds University, says MON the answer lies in better crowd management MON - Paul Townsend, Associate Director of 'Crowd Dynamics MON International', would like more focus on how we design and MON use public spaces MON MON The panel debates the pros and cons of each method and how MON we can put science to work to keep crowds safe. MON MON Producer: Michelle Martin. MON MON 21:30 Behaving Ourselves: Mitchell on Manners b06tqt1p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06tl7dh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06tr96f (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06tr96h (Listen) MON The Beach, Episode 1 MON MON Our first Book of Bedtime of 2016 celebrates twenty years MON since the publication of Alex Garland's cult novel, The MON Beach. Joe Dempsie reads this thrilling tale of paradise MON sought and lost. MON MON Jaded young backpacker Richard is in Thailand looking for a MON place unspoilt by tourism. An encounter with a dead man MON leaves him with a map for 'the beach', a select traveller MON community cut off from the degradations of vacationing MON westerners. He joins the commune, but his breadcrumb trail, MON fantasies of Vietnam War films, and very real armed drug MON guards risks turning Eden into hell on earth. MON MON 'Lord of the Flies' meets 'Heart of Darkness' among the MON beautiful, young drop-outs, dreamers and drug-takers of the MON mid-1990s. MON MON Abridged by ..... Sara Davies MON MON Produced by ..... Jenny Thompson MON MON Read by ..... Joe Dempsie MON MON Music ..... Narayan by The Prodigy. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Joe Dempsie MON Author: Alex Garland MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Jenny Thompson MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b06tr96k (Listen) MON Series 5, Steel Pulse (the A-Side) MON MON John Wilson continues with the fifth series of Mastertapes, MON the programme in which he talks to leading performers and MON songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. MON Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic MON Maida Vale Studios. MON MON Programme 5. Steel Pulse's 'Handsworth Revolution' with MON David Hinds and Selwyn Brown. MON MON Originally formed at Handsworth Wood Boys School in 1975, MON Steel Pulse were initially refused live dates in MON Birmingham's Caribbean venues because of their Rastafarian MON ideals. Instead they aligned themselves With Rock Against MON Racism and appeared alongside the likes of the Clash, XTC, MON the Stranglers, Tom Robinson and X-Ray Specs. MON MON It was Burning Spear who brought the group to the attention MON of Island Records who in February 1978 first released Ku MON Klux Klan as a single - a full five months before the album MON itself, which also included Prodigal Son, Prediction and the MON title track, Handsworth Revolution. MON MON Here David Hinds and Selwyn Brown talk about the album that MON is widely regarded a milestone in the development of British MON Reggae, but also perform exclusive acoustic versions of some MON of the key tracks. 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 Orpheus Underground b06cw171 (Listen) MON Novelist Neil Gaiman explores the intricacies of the Orpheus MON myth, the timeless story of art's place in trying to recover MON the dead. MON MON With contributions from writers Margaret Atwood, Jonathan MON Carroll, the late Russell Hoban and his daughter Phoebe MON Hoban, songwriter and cartoonist Peter Blegvad, and composer MON and conceptual artist Hannah Catherine Jones. MON MON Produced by Michael Umney MON A Resonance production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 JANUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06tl7m4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06tqsbz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06tl7md (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06tl7mk (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06tl7mr (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06tl7my (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06v9ypx (Listen) TUE Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the TUE Rev Neil Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06trbjy (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04svjxg (Listen) TUE Atlantic (Island) Canary TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Chris Packham presents the Atlantic canary singing in the TUE Tenerife treetops. The ancestor of our cage-bird canaries is TUE the Island or Atlantic Canary, a finch which is native to TUE the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands which include TUE Tenerife. The Canary Islands were named by early travellers TUE "the islands of dogs from 'canis', the Latin for dogs, TUE because of the many large dogs reputedly found there. And so TUE the common and popular song-bird which is now a symbol of TUE the islands became known as the canary. Unlike their TUE domestic siblings, wild Island canaries are streaky, TUE greenish yellow finches: males have golden- yellow TUE foreheads, females a head of more subtle ash-grey tone. But TUE it's the song, a pulsating series of vibrant whistles, TUE trills and tinkling sounds; that has made the canary so TUE popular. They were almost compulsory in Victorian and TUE Edwardian parlours; a far cry from the sunny palm -fringed TUE beaches of the Atlantic islands. TUE TUE Atlantic (or Island) Canary (Serinus canaria) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Wild Wonders of Europe Relanzon / TUE naturepl.com. TUE NPL Ref 01257843 TUE © Wild Wonders of Europe Relanzon / naturepl.com TUE TUE Recording of island canary by Andrea L Priori / Ref: ML TUE 79093 TUE TUE This programme contains a TUE wildtrack recording of the island canary TUE kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab TUE of Ornithology; recorded by Andrea L Priori on 2 Jul 1992 , TUE in Tompkins County, New York, USA. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06trcg0 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Behaving Ourselves: Mitchell on Manners b06trcg2 (Listen) TUE Manners in Public Places TUE TUE David Mitchell continues his inquiry into modern behaviour, TUE exploring what we mean by 'civility' and good manners in TUE public places. He meets the vicar of the churches of Blyth, TUE Scrooby and Ranskill, the Reverend Kate Bottley (aka the TUE 'Gogglebox vicar'), and Tony Blair's former head of policy, TUE Geoff Mulgan. Why are people still pinching vicars' bottoms, TUE and what can the state do to improve standards of public TUE behaviour? And, David asks, how is the digital age changing TUE our sense of public space? TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 09:30 Hidden Histories of the Information Age b04m3bcc (Listen) TUE Tat-1 TUE TUE In 1957 the singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul TUE Robeson in 1957 performed a concert to an audience sitting TUE in St Pancras Town Hall in London. Astonishingly, Paul TUE Robeson was in New York at the time, and he was performing TUE live over a transatlantic phone line. TUE TUE Robeson was an outspoken critic of lynching laws and TUE anti-fascism. Because of his support of these causes, he was TUE a victim of early attempts by the US FBI to quash civil TUE rights activism, and was blacklisted by the State TUE Department. His passport was cancelled so he could not leave TUE the US. TUE TUE But Robeson was also an innovator, who used the latest tools TUE to go around the restrictions that were imposed upon him. TUE When the authorities increasingly tried to silence him, he TUE used technology to make his voice heard. TUE TUE Aleks Krotoski tells the story of how Paul Robeson came to TUE perform for his British fans using the new transatlantic TUE telephone cable, called TAT-1, It was laid between 1955 and TUE 1956, and it linked Newfoundland, Canada and Oban on the TUE West Coast of Scotland. TUE TUE TAT-1 is one of the objects on display in the Information TUE Age Gallery at the Science Museum in London. This new TUE gallery features the evolution in how we communicate with TUE one another. The objects in the gallery represent cultural TUE moments from the last 200 years, not just technological TUE innovations. TUE TUE Image courtesy of BT Heritage and Archives TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06vhpqt (Listen) TUE Young Orson, Episode 2 TUE TUE Orson Welles, the defining wunderkind of modern TUE entertainment, gets his due in a new biography of his early TUE years - including his first forays in theatre and radio TUE before his groundbreaking move to Hollywood. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE Orson gets his first professional acting job at the Gate TUE Theatre, Dublin. TUE TUE Written by Patrick McGilligan TUE Read by Jack Klaff TUE Abridged and produced by Karen Rose TUE TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Jack Klaff TUE Author: Patrick McGilligan TUE Abridger: Karen Rose TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06trcg4 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06trd1x (Listen) TUE Beloved, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Toni Morrison TUE Adapted by Patricia Cumper TUE TUE Toni Morrison's seminal 1987 novel about a haunted house in TUE the era that followed the abolition of slavery in the United TUE States is adapted for radio for the first time. Toni TUE Morrison's masterpiece melds horror and poetry as it tells TUE the story of Sethe, a woman who escaped slavery by crossing TUE the Ohio river, but who, eighteen years later, is still not TUE free. TUE TUE 124 Bluestone Road, the house Sethe has lived in with her TUE daughter Denver since she escaped slavery, has long been TUE haunted by a baby ghost. For years, both mother and daughter TUE have tried to discover what it wants. TUE TUE Cast: TUE TUE Original music by Jon Nicholls TUE Sound design by Caleb Knightley TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Adjoa Andoh TUE Sethe: Nadine Marshall TUE Denver: Pippa Bennett-Warner TUE Paul D: Danny Sapani TUE Amy: Rebecca Hamilton TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Author: Toni Morrison TUE Adaptor: Patricia Cumper TUE TUE 11:00 Putting Science to Work b06trd1z (Listen) TUE Sugar TUE TUE The recent Public Health England report on sugar reduction TUE recommended that we slash the amount of sugar we eat to just TUE seven teaspoons a day. TUE TUE Diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity have all been TUE linked to high sugar intake. Treating obesity and its TUE consequences alone costs the NHS £5.1m per year. TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili invites three scientific experts from TUE different disciplines into the studio to present the TUE evidence behind their strategy to reduce our sugar intake: TUE TUE - Dr Peter Scarborough, a mathematician from the Nuffield TUE Department of Public Health at Oxford has been analysing TUE sugar taxes TUE - Prof Theresa Marteau, a behavioural psychologist from the TUE University of Cambridge, studies the effects of portion TUE sizes TUE - Jenny Arthur, Director of Innovation and Nutrition at TUE Leatherhead Food Research is experimenting with the TUE microscopic structure of sugar particles TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin. TUE TUE 11:30 From Mumbai to Machynlleth b06trys2 (Listen) TUE Ghazal, the love song of Indian Classical music, has its TUE roots in 7th century Arabic poetry. It carried to the TUE Medieval courts of Persia and later to the palaces of the TUE Mughal Emperors of India, was adopted by Sufi mystics along TUE the way, and came to be seen as the highest form of TUE expression of love, for subjects both divine and earthly. TUE TUE In its latest incarnation, Ghazal has met and been enmeshed TUE with a seemingly alien tradition - the anonymous 'hen TUE benillion' or old verses of rural Wales. While the poets of TUE Ghazal used only to be heard by Indian high society, the TUE Welsh poems, some of which also date back to Medieval times, TUE are nuggets of wisdom handed down by ordinary men and women. TUE But both deal in themes of longing and impossible love. The TUE project 'Ghazalaw', a collaboration between Indian and Welsh TUE musicians, searches for affinities between these TUE centuries-old poetic and musical forms, connects the TUE languages of Urdu and Welsh (which both have their roots in TUE Sanskrit), and attempts to bring communities together. TUE Ghazal still holds to the tenets of Sufism, calling for TUE acceptance, tolerance, and forgiveness - the call of the TUE hour, as the singer and composer Tauseef Akhtar points out: TUE the message is love. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06tl7ng (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b06kvdwn (Listen) TUE 5 January 1916 - Adeline Lumley TUE TUE On this day, parliament had its first reading of the TUE Compulsory Military Service Bill, and Adeline brings her son TUE home. TUE TUE Written by Mike Walker TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger TUE Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom TUE Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack TUE Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford TUE Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads TUE Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley TUE Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Esme Macknade: Katie Angelou TUE Nurse Ratched: Debra Baker TUE Steward: George Watkins TUE Driver: Caolan McCarthy TUE Canadian Soldier: Owen Clarke TUE Writer: Mike Walker TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06ts0gw (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06tl7nn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06ts0gy (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Etiquette Guide b06vhpr3 (Listen) TUE The Elizabethans TUE TUE The mark of a civilised country is to know what it is to be TUE civil. But what if you don't know? Across the ages, social TUE commentators have written guide books to tell the TUE uninitiated how to do the right thing at the right time in TUE the right way. TUE TUE And it's not just snobs that have published guides - the TUE great Renaissance theologian Erasmus took time out from TUE arguing with Luther to instruct children how to behave in TUE company. TUE TUE Nor is it yet another invention of Victorian England. Five TUE thousand years ago, Ptah-Hotep set down on papyrus the rules TUE of behaviour that all wise men should convey to their sons. TUE TUE Episode 2: The Elizabethans TUE Fabritio Caroso's Nobilita di Dame (1600) tells us all we TUE need to know about to how behave at court. Caroso writes TUE about the right way for gentlemen to approach the King or TUE how a lady should greet a superior. TUE TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06tr6lg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b06ts0h0 (Listen) TUE McLevy, The Devil Makes a Move TUE TUE 4/ 4. Victorian detective drama starring Brian Cox and TUE Siobhan Redmond. TUE TUE Written by David Ashton. TUE TUE McLevy keeps a young woman in hiding while the Rev Gideon TUE searches anxiously for her. TUE Jean Brash's life lies in the balance when she is poisoned TUE by a mystery assailant. 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: Collette O'Neil TUE Rev Gideon: Nicholas Tizzard TUE Charlotte: Lizzy Watts TUE Teenie: Tracy Wiles TUE Cummins: Tony McGeever TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE Writer: David Ashton TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b06tkx5h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b06ts0kv (Listen) TUE Series 5, Steel Pulse (the B-Side) TUE TUE John Wilson continues with his fifth series of Mastertapes, TUE in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters TUE about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in TUE front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale TUE Studios. TUE TUE Programme 6 (B-side): Having discussed the making of TUE 'Handsworth Revolution' (in the A-side of the programme, TUE broadcast on Monday 4th January and available online), David TUE Hind and Selwyn Brown respond to questions from the audience TUE and perform exclusive live acoustic versions of some of the TUE key tracks from the album. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 A Man's a Man for a' That: Frederick Douglass in TUE Scotland b06kb0g2 (Listen) TUE Opera singer Andrea Baker explores the impact of Frederick TUE Douglass and the time he spent in Scotland, the country TUE which she's made her home. As the great-granddaughter of TUE slaves, she's always been inspired by Douglass, who escaped TUE slavery to become an abolitionist and social reformer but, TUE until now, was unaware of the impact he'd had on Scotland TUE and vice versa. TUE TUE In this feature, which features Parker Sawyers as the voice TUE of Frederick Douglass, she discovers how Scotland got deep TUE into the veins of Frederick Douglass. When he visited in TUE 1846, he found an expression of freedom denied him in the TUE United States: "in (no) class of society, have I found any TUE curled lip of scorn ... on account of my complexion; not TUE once". He famously stated: "I would unite with anybody to do TUE right and with nobody to do wrong." Is it any wonder then, TUE that he felt a connection with the country that produced the TUE immortal poem 'A Man's a Man for A' That'? Indeed, TUE addressing a white audience at a Burns Supper two years TUE after his visit, Douglass said "if any think me out of my TUE place on this occasion (pointing at the picture of Burns), I TUE beg that the blame may be laid at the door of him who taught TUE me that 'a man's a man for a' that." TUE TUE It could be said that Douglass' influence on Scotland was TUE equally dramatic. He spearheaded the 'Send Back the Money' TUE campaign - what we'd now call a boycott movement aimed at TUE cutting respectable ties with the American South. The idea TUE was to shame the Free Church of Scotland into giving back TUE Southern donations that came from the blood of slaves. TUE Douglass lectured across Scotland - putting fire in the TUE belly of the Scottish anti-slavery movement at a time when TUE the cause was wilting elsewhere in Britain. Andrea Baker TUE investigates if the money was ever sent back. TUE TUE What was it about Scotland which so 'freed' Douglass? And TUE did the anti-racist sentiment he espoused seed later TUE Scottish campaigns against slavery and apartheid. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b06ts10b (Listen) TUE Series 38, Martin Jennings on Charles Sargeant Jagger TUE TUE In this episode, you might not know the name of the Great TUE Life but you have probably walked past his work. At London's TUE Hyde Park Corner - the 'Royal Artillery Memorial' stands - a TUE huge stone monument. TUE TUE Charles Sargeant Jagger was arguably the first British TUE sculptor to try to capture the horror of war. A full-sized TUE gun - a 9.2 howitzer protrudes from the top; four masculine TUE soldiers surround the base - one a corpse. TUE TUE Martin Jennings also a British sculptor, nominates Jagger as TUE his Great Life. Along with the expert, art historian Ann TUE Compton, they tell Matthew Parris how the First World War TUE shaped and made Jagger. The producer is Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Martin Jennings TUE Interviewed Guest: Ann Compton TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06ts10d (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06tl7pc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06ts1kz (Listen) TUE Series 2, Winemaker TUE TUE When Milton finally decides to empty his bins he TUE accidentally makes both a delicious sparkling wine and a TUE deadly enemy. 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 Ben Willbond (Horrible Histories). 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 b06ts1w8 (Listen) TUE Helen is hanging on the telephone, and Rob comes to the TUE rescue. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06ts1wb (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06trd1x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 How to Make a Brexit b06r5d0c (Listen) TUE Carolyn Quinn explores the practical process by which TUE Britain would exit the EU if UK voters opt to leave, and TUE looks at the experience of Greenland, which quit the EEC in TUE 1985. TUE TUE She meets Greenlandic politicians involved in the 'Out' TUE campaign there, and considers the lessons which can be TUE applied to the much more complex task of unravelling the web TUE of trade, treaties, regulations and directives that bind the TUE UK to Brussels and its institutions. The programme includes TUE contributions from the former Cabinet Secretary, Lord TUE O'Donnell, the economist Ruth Lea, as well as constitutional TUE and legal experts Martin Howe QC, Jean-Claude Piris and TUE Daniel Greenberg. Carolyn also travels to the European TUE Parliament to meet British MEPs contemplating redundancy, TUE and canvasses the views of European think tanks. TUE TUE Producer: John Beesley. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06tl7pf (Listen) TUE Body Language When You're Blind TUE TUE Peter White talks about body language with 3 guests, all of TUE them blind or partially sighted. They talk about how to TUE manage in professional and social situations when you can't TUE read other people's non-verbal signs. They also talk about TUE their OWN body language, and what it may be telling others. TUE TUE 21:00 The Listeners b06t0rnl (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE TUE A Musician, a Poet and a Quaker share their listening TUE experiences; discuss the difference between hearing and TUE listening and reveal how listening is more than just an TUE aural experience; it's something much deeper motivating TUE their work and their lives. The musician is Dame Evelyn TUE Glennie, whose vision is to teach the world to listen by TUE encouraging everyone to discover new ways of listening. As a TUE result of hearing problems when she was a child, Evelyn TUE learned to 'feel ' sounds, not just hear them. Using TUE different instruments she demonstrates how sounds and TUE reverberations can affect us; emotionally and physically. TUE Katrina Porteus's earliest memory is the sound of a TUE blackbird singing whilst she was in her pram. Since then TUE listening has had a huge influence on her work as a poet; TUE much of her work is about the fishing communities and TUE landscape of County Durham and Northumberland. Like Evelyn, TUE Katrina feels sounds; they are "the heartbeat of a place". TUE On the written page, there is silence between the words of a TUE poem. "If we get it right we can find silence where we can TUE really listen" says Hermione Legg, who has been a Quaker TUE since she was child and regularly attends meetings which are TUE opportunities for a community to come together in worship. TUE There is no creed and much of the meeting is silent. The TUE silence offers an opportunity to listen. Listening is also TUE about communication. "If I'm listened to, I feel I have TUE worth" says Hermione "Why speak if no one's going to listen TUE ... Life would have no meaning without us listening." TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE DAME EVELYN GLENNIE TUE TUE Dame Evelyn Glennie is a musician whose vision is to Teach TUE the World to Listen by encouraging everyone to discover new TUE ways of listening. TUE TUE For more information: TUE https://www.evelyn.co.uk/ 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 HERMIONE LEGG TUE TUE Hermione Legg is a Quaker and discusses the value of TUE listening in meetings and in life. TUE TUE For more information about Quakers: TUE http://www.quaker.org.uk/ TUE TUE 21:30 Behaving Ourselves: Mitchell on Manners b06trcg2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06tl7ph (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06ts22f (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ts24j (Listen) TUE The Beach, Episode 2 TUE TUE Our first Book of Bedtime of 2016 celebrates twenty years TUE since the publication of Alex Garland's cult novel, The TUE Beach. Joe Dempsie reads this thrilling tale of paradise TUE sought and lost. TUE TUE Jaded young backpacker Richard is in Thailand looking for a TUE place unspoilt by tourism. An encounter with a dead man TUE leaves him with a map for 'the beach', a select traveller TUE community cut off from the degradations of vacationing TUE westerners. He joins the commune, but his breadcrumb trail, TUE fantasies of Vietnam War films, and very real armed drug TUE guards risks turning Eden into hell on earth. TUE TUE 'Lord of the Flies' meets 'Heart of Darkness' among the TUE beautiful, young drop-outs, dreamers and drug-takers of the TUE mid-1990s. TUE TUE Abridged by ..... Sara Davies TUE TUE Produced by ..... Jenny Thompson TUE TUE Read by ..... Joe Dempsie TUE TUE Music ..... Narayan by The Prodigy. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Joe Dempsie TUE Author: Alex Garland TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Jenny Thompson TUE TUE 23:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01r51fb (Listen) TUE Series 2, With guest Charlie Baker TUE TUE New series of the comedy show hosted by Alex Horne and his TUE five piece band and specially written, original music. TUE Guests across this series include Phill Jupitus, Charlie TUE Baker, Nick Mohammed, Doc Brown, Matt Lucas and Danny Baker. TUE TUE This third episode explores the theme of love including TUE songs on chat up lines and romance in Bognor as well as a TUE foray into drum and bass and a look at the history of the TUE flute. Guest starring Charlie Baker who deconstructs a TUE classic love song. TUE TUE Host .... Alex Horne TUE Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland TUE Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown TUE Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier TUE Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds TUE Piano/keyboard .... Ed Sheldrake TUE Guest performer .... Charlie Baker TUE Producer .... Julia McKenzie. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06ts26n (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 JANUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06tl7xc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06vhpqt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06tl7xq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06tl7xv (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06tl7y2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06tl7y9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06v9yt4 (Listen) WED Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the WED Rev Neil Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06ts2d2 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04sxv25 (Listen) WED Red-Necked Nightjar WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Chris Packham presents the nocturnal red-necked nightjar of WED the Spanish countryside. Like others in the family, WED red-necked nightjars are nocturnal birds which feed on large WED insects, snapping them up with huge bristle-lined mouths. A WED summer migrant, the red-necked nightjar breeds mainly in WED Spain, Portugal and North Africa. It is closely related to WED the common European nightjar, but it sounds very different. WED By day they hide on the ground among scrub where their WED cryptic patterns provide excellent camouflage. They're the WED colour of mottled bark and as you'd expect from their name, WED have a rusty-red collar. As the sun sets, they emerge from WED their hiding places to glide and turn on slender wings WED through scrub and pinewoods, occasionally warning rivals by WED clapping their wings together over their backs with a sound WED like a pistol-shot. Between bouts of moth-chasing, they WED settle on a pine branch and pour forth their repetitive, but WED atmospheric song. WED WED Red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Roland Seitre / naturepl.com. WED NPL Ref 01469770 WED © Roland Seitre / naturepl.com WED WED 06:00 Today b06ts2gj (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Behaving Ourselves: Mitchell on Manners b06ts3xr (Listen) WED Looking at Your Phone WED WED David Mitchell says sorry when other people bump into him. WED He doesn't like inconveniencing anyone. And he hates rows. WED So, in part three of his inquiry into the state of modern WED manners, he goes to an assertiveness class to explore his WED own behaviour. Is it wrong? And he talks to Professor Sherry WED Turkle about the dying art of conversation. WED Producer: Chris Ledgard. WED WED 09:30 Hidden Histories of the Information Age b04m3gc6 (Listen) WED Our World WED WED On June 25th 1967, 400 million people across the globe WED watched a ground-breaking TV show. It was called, in WED English, OUR WORLD and it was a feat beyond technological WED imagination: it was the first programme that linked up WED countries live by satellite. So everyone was watching what WED was happening on the other side of the world - or possibly WED next door - at the exact moment in time when it was actually WED happening. WED In our modern, 24-hour news world, it's hard to understand WED just how monumental this was, both technologically and WED politically. It was the golden age of television. Youth WED culture had a voice that was about to get much louder. WED International diplomacy was stretched to breaking point. And WED our world was rapidly shrinking. WED WED Aleks Krotoski tells the story of how the programme came WED about. She talks to curators from the Science Museum. WED WED The yellowing pages of Our World's original script is one of WED the exhibits in the new Information Age gallery at the WED Science Museum. It tells the story of the evolution in how WED we communicate with one another. The objects in the WED exhibition represent cultural moments from the last 200 WED years - not just technological innovations. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06vhv6t (Listen) WED Young Orson, Episode 3 WED WED Orson Welles, the defining wunderkind of modern WED entertainment, gets his due in a new biography of his early WED years - including his first forays in theatre and radio WED before his groundbreaking move to Hollywood. WED WED Episode 3: WED A 20 year old white actor from the Midwest is the surprise WED appointment to direct Macbeth for the Negro Unit. WED WED Written by Patrick McGilligan WED Read by Jack Klaff WED Abridged and produced by Karen Rose WED WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Author: Patrick McGilligan WED Abridger: Karen Rose WED Producer: Karen Rose WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06ts3xt (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06ts3xw (Listen) WED Beloved, Episode 3 WED WED By Toni Morrison WED Adapted by Patricia Cumper WED WED Toni Morrison's seminal 1987 novel about a haunted house in WED the era that followed the abolition of slavery in the United WED States is adapted for radio for the first time. Toni WED Morrison's masterpiece melds horror and poetry as it tells WED the story of Sethe, a woman who escaped slavery by crossing WED the Ohio river, but who, eighteen years later, is still not WED free. WED WED Paul D's arrival at 124 Bluestone Road had the effect of WED ridding the house of the ghost that had haunted it for WED years. But he's about to discover that any sense of victory WED he might have, will be short-lived. WED WED Original music by Jon Nicholls WED Sound design by Caleb Knightley WED WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Adjoa Andoh WED Sethe: Nadine Marshall WED Denver: Pippa Bennett-Warner WED Paul D: Danny Sapani WED Beloved: Gugu Mbatha-Raw WED Barker: Brian Protheroe WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko WED Author: Toni Morrison WED Adaptor: Patricia Cumper WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06d9rlv (Listen) WED David and Mairead - A Pregnant Pause WED WED Fi Glover introduces a first for the Project, a conversation WED about the forthcoming birth between the prospective parents, WED recorded when the Booth was in Suffolk, only hours before WED their baby arrived... Another conversation in the series WED that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Road Stories b06ts5l9 (Listen) WED Stonehenge WED WED "People talk about the power of the internet, the WED information super-highway; but sometimes a highway is all WED you need." WED WED Miles Warde sets off on three eye-opening journeys, on foot, WED by bus and all other means to discover the importance of the WED highway to everyday life. In Nepal he travels north to WED south, from Tibet to India, across the mighty Himalaya. Here WED he meets people for whom a blacktopped highway is a source WED of astonishment. Fifty years ago there were only footpaths WED in these high mountains, but as the Chinese say, "To get WED rich quick first you build a road." WED WED In Kenya a newly upgraded route from Nairobi through the WED badlands to Ethiopia promises to transform a region of WED tribal fighting and banditry. This is the road of 'terror WED and death', so Miles takes local reporter Michael Koloki WED along for the ride. Together they meet nomadic people who WED say Kenya starts at the road; and you'll hear perhaps the WED first ever recording of a border crossing intimate search. WED WED And closer to home in Wiltshire, the Prime Minister's WED promise of a new tunnel past Stonehenge kicks up a hornet's WED nest of local and international uproar. WED WED Miles Warde is the producer of The Invention of ... Germany, WED Brazil, Italy and France; and winner of the Royal Mail WED International travel writer award. WED WED 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b06shzjj (Listen) WED Series 7, The Pool WED WED Set on one of Scotland's most famous salmon fishing rivers, WED we meet two old men with a shared love of the art of fishing WED and a shared past which haunts them both. Geoffrey Palmer WED joins Stanley Baxter on the edge of a famous salmon pool in WED Scotland, on a cold wintry day. WED WED Written by Michael Chaplin WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie WED WED A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Tam: Stanley Baxter WED Jolyon: Geoffrey Palmer WED Director: Marilyn Imrie WED Producer: Catherine Bailey WED Writer: Michael Chaplin WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06tl7z2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b06kvf7r (Listen) WED 6 January 1916 - Hilary Pearce WED WED On this day, General Aylmer led the first relief attempt in WED the Siege of Kut, and Hilary is caught up in the WED arrangements for celebrating the Derby Scheme. WED WED Written by Mike Walker WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Hilary Pearce: Craige Els WED Ruby Tulliver: Martine McCutcheon WED Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw WED Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf WED Lilian Frost: Alex Tregear WED Roland Pemble: Jack Holden WED Harry Pankhurst: Sean Murray WED Ivy Layton: Lizzy Watts WED Jessie Moore: Lucy Hutchinson WED Writer: Mike Walker WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06ts76s (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06tl7zd (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06ts76v (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Etiquette Guide b06vhv6y (Listen) WED The Middling Classes WED WED The mark of a civilised country is to know what it is to be WED civil. But what if you don't know? Across the ages, social WED commentators have written guide books to tell the WED uninitiated how to do the right thing at the right time in WED the right way. WED WED And it's not just snobs that have published guides - the WED great Renaissance theologian Erasmus took time out from WED arguing with Luther to instruct children how to behave in WED company. WED WED Nor is it yet another invention of Victorian England. Five WED thousand years ago, Ptah-Hotep set down on papyrus the rules WED of behaviour that all wise men should convey to their sons. WED WED Episode 3: The Middling Classes WED During the 18th century the growing middle classes needed a WED guide to behaviour. The Rudiments of Genteel Behaviour WED defined much of our modern understanding of politeness WED including maintaining restraint around overt opulence. WED WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06ts1w8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Tumanbay b06ts76x (Listen) WED In the Beginning 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 With Tumanbay in chaos after the murder of a highly placed WED individual, Heaven and her slave companion find themselves WED prisoners of a nomadic tribe in the desert. Having failed in WED his duty of keeping the palace safe, Gregor attempts to WED unlock the secret of the missing reliquary and find out why WED it is worth killing for. WED WED Epic saga created by John Dryden and Mike Walker inspired by WED 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 WED A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Gregor: Rufus Wright WED Heaven: Olivia Popica WED Wolf: Alexander Siddig WED Cadali: Matthew Marsh WED Ibn: Nabil Elouahabi WED Maya's Envoy: Nadir Khan WED Madu: Danny Ashok WED Daniel: Gareth Kennerley WED Slave: Akin Gazi WED Boy: Darwin Brokenbro WED Al-Ghuri: Raad Rawi WED General Qulan: Christopher Fulford WED The Hafiz: Antony Bunsee WED Bello: Albert Welling WED Manel: Aiysha Hart WED Shamsi: Laure Stockley WED Maid: Laure Stockley WED Sabira: Laure Stockley WED Rajik: Akbar Kurtha WED Pamira: Nathalie Armin WED Writer: Mike Walker WED Director: John Dryden WED Producer: Emma Hearn WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Producer: John Dryden WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06ts7jq (Listen) WED Lesley Curwen and guests answer calls on tax and WED self-assessment. WED WED Have you got questions about the January 31st online filing WED and payment deadline? Or how the new digital tax accounts WED will work? WED WED Other issues you may want advice on: the tax changes for buy WED to let landlords announced last year. Or the tax-free WED Personal Savings Allowance of £1,000 (or £500 for higher WED rate taxpayers) on the interest that you earn on your WED savings which starts in April 2016. WED WED On the panel: WED WED Anita Monteith, Tax Faculty, The Institute of Chartered WED Accountants in England and Wales WED WED Elaine Clark, Managing Director, Chartered Accountant, Cheap WED Accounting WED WED Nimesh Shah, Partner, Blick Rothenberg. WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday 6th WED January or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard WED geographic charges from landlines and mobiles will apply. WED WED 15:30 The Listeners b06t0rnl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06tvbpj (Listen) WED The end of 'careers', Humour at work WED WED Identity and work: Laurie Taylor explores selfhood in an era WED in which our working lives are becoming increasingly WED uncertain. He talks to Jesse Potter, Postdoctoral Fellow in WED Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political WED Science and author of a new study which interviewed people WED who'd undergone profound work-life changes. How do WED individuals achieve meaning and fulfillment when their WED productive lives fail to satisfy? Also, Paula Jarzabkowski, WED Professor of Strategic Management at City University London WED considers how employees use humour to cope with paradox and WED change. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06tvbpl (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06twbz8 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06tl7zx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 It's Jocelyn b06tvbz1 (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 Episode 2 features a raft of brand new characters including WED a terrible shop assistant, a pair of terrible bedroom DJ's WED and an old lady obsessed with dying. WED WED Jocelyn vents her frustration 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 b06tvbz3 (Listen) WED Phoebe calls for moral support, and Helen feels hopeful. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06vhvsq (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06ts3xw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b06tvbz5 (Listen) WED Series 5, 06/01/2016 WED WED Andrew Rawnsley presents a new series of the live debate WED programme which takes the form of a newspaper leader WED conference that decides the editorials which will appear the WED next day. He is joined by five prominent journalists who WED write leading articles for major newspapers across the WED United Kingdom. Three subjects in the news will be chosen WED and the panel will then determine - after lively argument - WED what should be said about them. Two of the subjects debated WED will reflect current events and prompt strong - and witty - WED exchanges. The third topic will be in a lighter vein. WED Following the discussion of each subject in the programme, WED Andrew will invite one of his guests - different in each WED case - to draw up on air, without prior notice, what the WED leader for that subject and to set out what it will say. The WED written leading articles appear on the Radio 4 website the WED following day. WED WED Taking part this week: Bronwen Maddox, Ben Chacko, Mary WED Riddell, Kevin Maguire and Caroline Wheeler. WED WED Producer: Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06vhvss (Listen) WED A Boat of One's Own WED WED Michelle Madsen makes the case for the life of a continuous WED cruiser on Britain's rivers and canals. Michelle is a poet WED and journalist who has spent the last two years living WED aboard a boat, and discusses how it has affected her poetry, WED her prose, her friendships and her life. WED WED Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton. WED WED 21:00 Science Stories b06tvc2f (Listen) WED Series 2, Submarine for a Stuart King WED WED Philip Ball dives into the magical world of Cornelis Drebbel WED , inventor of the world's first submarine in 1621. WED WED How did the crew of this remarkable vessel manage to breathe WED underwater, completely cut off from the surface, 150 years WED before oxygen was officially discovered? WED WED King James I of England and thousands of his subjects lined WED the banks of the River Thames in London to watch the first WED demonstration. The strangest boat they had ever seen sank WED beneath the waves and stayed there for three hours. WED WED Did Drebbel know how to make oxygen? Historian Andrew WED Szydlow reveals that Drebbel did have secret knowledge of WED how to keep the air fresh. WED WED In his day, Drebbel was a pioneer of exploring uninhabitable WED places. Today's equivalent is to make oxygen on the Moon and WED as scientists grapple with this ultimate challenge, their WED work is being used under the waves where Drebbel began. WED WED 21:30 Behaving Ourselves: Mitchell on Manners b06ts3xr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06vhw1l (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06tvc2k (Listen) WED The Beach, Episode 3 WED WED Our first Book of Bedtime of 2016 celebrates twenty years WED since the publication of Alex Garland's cult novel, The WED Beach. Joe Dempsie reads this thrilling tale of paradise WED sought and lost. WED WED Jaded young backpacker Richard is in Thailand looking for a WED place unspoilt by tourism. An encounter with a dead man WED leaves him with a map for 'the beach', a select traveller WED community cut off from the degradations of vacationing WED westerners. He joins the commune, but his breadcrumb trail, WED fantasies of Vietnam War films, and very real armed drug WED guards risks turning Eden into hell on earth. WED WED 'Lord of the Flies' meets 'Heart of Darkness' among the WED beautiful, young drop-outs, dreamers and drug-takers of the WED mid-1990s. WED WED Abridged by ..... Sara Davies WED WED Produced by ..... Jenny Thompson WED WED Read by ..... Joe Dempsie WED WED Music ..... Narayan by The Prodigy. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Joe Dempsie WED Author: Alex Garland WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Jenny Thompson WED WED 23:00 Don't Start b06tvc3t (Listen) WED Series 3, The Bath 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 episode 2, The Bath, cardamom scented candles, kumquats WED and a debate over the virtues of shared bathing compared to WED shared showering occupy Neil and Kim. WED WED The first and second series of Don't Start met with instant WED critical and audience acclaim: WED 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 23:15 Before They Were Famous b03h429n (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED WED Even the most successful of writers have, at some point, had WED to take day jobs to pay the bills. WED WED Ian Leslie presents the second series of this Radio 4 spoof WED documentary, which sheds light on the often surprising jobs WED done by the world's best known writers in the days before WED they were able to make a living from their art. WED WED In a project of literary archaeology, Leslie unearths WED archive examples of early work by great writers, including WED Fortune Cookie messages written by Germaine Greer, a WED political manifesto by the young JK Rowling, and a car WED manual written by Dan Brown. In newspaper articles, WED advertising copy, and company correspondence, we get a WED fascinating glimpse into the embryonic development of our WED best-loved literary voices. WED WED We may know them today for their novels, plays or poems but, WED once upon a time, they were just people with a dream - and a WED rent bill looming at the end of the month. WED WED Producers: Anna Silver and Claire Broughton WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Ian Leslie WED Government Official: David Armand WED Edgar Allan Poe: John Finnemore WED The Broker: Katy Wix WED Germaine Greer: Katy Wix WED Barbara Cartland: Fenella Woolgar WED Producer: Anna Silver WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b06tvcm0 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 JANUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06tl85c (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06vhv6t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06tl85h (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06tl85k (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06tl85m (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06tl85p (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06vrsbk (Listen) THU Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the THU Rev Neil Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06tvgnq (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04sy3qh (Listen) THU Brown Thrasher THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Chris Packham presents the brown thrasher, usually seen in THU North America. Brown thrashers are related to mockingbirds THU which breed across most of eastern and central North THU America. They're famous for their vast repertoire which can THU include over 1000 song types. They spend much of their time THU skulking in dense shrubs at woodland edges and in parks and THU gardens. They're russet on top, white below and heavily THU streaked like a large thrush but with much longer tails and THU stout curved bills. Their name comes from the noisy THU thrashing sound they make as they search the leaf litter for THU food. Normally, brown thrashers are short distance migrants THU within North America but in 1966, in November of that year, THU in Dorset, birdwatchers almost dropped their binoculars in THU disbelief when they heard the call of a brown thrasher THU coming from a coastal thicket. It remained here until THU February 1967 and is the only British record. THU THU Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Larry Michael / naturepl.com. THU NPL Ref 01041284 THU © Larry Michael / naturepl.com THU THU 06:00 Today b06tvgns (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Behaving Ourselves: Mitchell on Manners b06tvgnv (Listen) THU The Golf Club THU THU David Mitchell ends his look at the state of modern manners THU in the bar at Chipping Sodbury golf club. The older members THU reflect ruefully on the demise of the jacket and tie. It is, THU they argue, all about standards - and they're falling. So THU has everything really gone wrong with our manners? David THU returns to Henry Hitchings, Kate Bottley, Steven Pinker and THU some of his other series' guests and gets an altogether more THU optimistic view. THU Producer: Chris Ledgard. THU THU 09:30 Hidden Histories of the Information Age b04m3ftg (Listen) THU Leo Computer THU THU The company that brought computers into business was Lyons, THU known for its cakes and teashops. Aleks Krotoski tells the THU story of how this technology transformed office work. THU THU One element of the first Lyons Electronic Office, or LEO, THU computer is on display in the 'Information Age' gallery at THU the Science Museum in London. This new gallery tells the THU story of the evolution in how we communicate with with each THU other. The objects in the exhibition represent cultural THU moments from the last 200 years - not just technological THU innovations. THU THU Aleks Krotoski talks to Dr Tilly Blyth and Jessica Bradford THU of the Science Museum about how Lyons brought computers to THU its business and hears from one of the first programmers. A THU tea shop manager recalls how LEO changed her working life. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06vj05s (Listen) THU Young Orson, Episode 4 THU THU Orson Welles, the defining wunderkind of modern THU entertainment, gets his due in a new biography of his early THU years - including his first forays in theatre and radio THU before his groundbreaking move to Hollywood. THU THU Episode 4: THU Until Orson, no one wanted to produce Marc Bernstein's THU pro-labour opera The Cradle Will Rock, with its clear THU left-wing union sympathies. Enthralled with Bernstein, Orson THU with his partner John Houseman, commit to a Broadway run. THU But as the hot subject of unionisation rages across the THU nation, the Federal Theatre Project is made to take drastic THU action. THU THU Written by Patrick McGilligan THU Read by Jack Klaff THU Abridged and produced by Karen Rose THU THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Jack Klaff THU Author: Patrick McGilligan THU Abridger: Karen Rose THU Producer: Karen Rose THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06vj05v (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 b06tvgnx (Listen) THU Beloved, Episode 4 THU THU By Toni Morrison THU Adapted by Patricia Cumper THU THU Toni Morrison's seminal 1987 novel about a haunted house in THU the era that followed the abolition of slavery in the United THU States is adapted for radio for the first time. Toni THU Morrison's masterpiece melds horror and poetry as it tells THU the story of Sethe, a woman who escaped slavery by crossing THU the Ohio river, but who, eighteen years later, is still not THU free. THU THU The residents of 124 Bluestone Road return from a day trip THU to the Cincinnati fair to discover a young woman collapsed THU outside their home. They feed her and allow her to THU convalesce and yet the mysterious visitor reveals very THU little about herself, other than her name, Beloved. THU THU Original music by Jon Nicholls THU Sound design by Caleb Knightley THU THU Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Adjoa Andoh THU Sethe: Nadine Marshall THU Denver: Pippa Bennett-Warner THU Paul D: Danny Sapani THU Beloved: Gugu Mbatha-Raw THU Director: Sasha Yevtushenko THU Author: Toni Morrison THU Adaptor: Patricia Cumper THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b06tvgnz (Listen) THU Brazil Versus Sleaze THU THU Brazil is in crisis. Confronted with a massive downturn in THU the economy, its currency has crashed, while its political THU class sinks in a quagmire of corruption allegations linked THU to the state oil company, Petrobras. In the northern state THU of Maranhao - dominated for decades by the powerful Sarney THU family - a new governor from the Communist Party of Brazil THU is attempting to bring a fresh broom to one of the country's THU most undeveloped states. Already he claims to have cut THU expenses by millions of Reals just by removing seafood and THU champagne from state banquet menus. But the malaise runs THU deep in Maranhao. In the small community of Bom Jardim, a THU 25-year-old mayor is under house arrest accused of skimming THU the education budget and running council business remotely THU using WhatsApp. And with the cancelling of a project to THU build a huge Petrobras refinery, Maranhao is feeling the THU economic pressure. Linda Pressly reports from one of THU Brazil's least known regions. THU THU 11:30 Compression versus Art b06tvgp1 (Listen) THU Trevor Cox asks whether compression can detract from our THU enjoyment of recorded music - does it matter that what we THU hear may not be the same as what the musicians heard in the THU studio? How important is high quality reproduction? He looks THU at attempts to make music recordings sound louder and louder THU (the so-called Loudness Wars) and asks whether anything is THU lost in the process. And he considers whether making audio THU file sizes smaller, so that they take up less space on THU portable devices, means that some of the musical detail is THU lost. He talks to record producer Steve Levine (who produced THU Culture Club among many others) mastering engineer Ian THU Shepherd, the musician Steven Wilson, members of the BBC THU Philharmonic, and Dr Bruno Fazenda, Senior Lecturer in Audio THU Technology. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06tl864 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b06kvfjt (Listen) THU 7 January 1916 - Victor Lumley THU THU On this day, Lord Selbourne made an appeal for more game to THU be donated to hospitals, before the end of the shooting THU season, and Victor feels more hunted than hunter. THU THU Written by Mike Walker THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack THU Giles Herrin: Luke Thompson THU Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger THU Alec Poole: Tom Stuart THU Max Davenport: Trevor White THU Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom THU Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair THU Writer: Mike Walker THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06vj05z (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06tl86f (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06vj063 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Etiquette Guide b06vj065 (Listen) THU The Americans THU THU The mark of a civilised country is to know what it is to be THU civil. But what if you don't know? Across the ages, social THU commentators have written guide books to tell the THU uninitiated how to do the right thing at the right time in THU the right way. THU THU And it's not just snobs that have published guides - the THU great Renaissance theologian Erasmus took time out from THU arguing with Luther to instruct children how to behave in THU company. THU THU Nor is it yet another invention of Victorian England. Five THU thousand years ago, Ptah-Hotep set down on papyrus the rules THU of behaviour that all wise men should convey to their sons. THU THU Episode 4: The Americans THU Britain and America aren't just divided by a common THU language, but also by manners. In 1883, Walter R. Houghton THU published American Etiquette and Rules of Politeness, THU defining the way modern America behaves. THU THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06tvbz3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b06tvhnj (Listen) THU 79 Birthdays THU THU One of the first pieces of radio drama was broadcast in 1928 THU under the title 'Kaleidoscope'. It told the story of one THU 'ordinary' British man's life - then 70 years - in sound. No THU recording or script of that original broadcast now exists, THU but the idea has always intrigued poet Michael Symmons THU Roberts. Now, as the average male lifespan in Britain THU reaches 79, this drama takes up the challenge, telling the THU story of Jimmy through significant birthdays on the road to THU his 79th. THU THU Jimmy loses his life before it begins when he's being born. THU A guardian angel, Leila is waiting for him. Jimmy is THU desperate to know what would have happened to him had he THU been born . After a lot of persuasion, Leila grants Jimmy THU his wish, showing him his life as he spools through his THU birthdays, playing out the key moments in full . THU THU Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. THU THU Behind the Scenes with BBC Radio Drama THU Archive image: BBC broadcasting a Shakespeare play in a THU radio studio, 1928 THU THU THU Broadcasting live THU How things used to be done in 1928 when the THU Kaleidoscope play that inspired 79 Birthdays was broadcast. THU THU Credits THU Jimmy: Nico Mirallegero THU Leila: David Calder THU Marie: Kate Coogan THU Helen: Emily Pithon THU Psychiatrist: Russell Dixon THU Pit Boss: William Ash THU Producer: Susan Roberts THU Writer: Michael Symmons Roberts THU THU 15:00 Open Country b06tvm6t (Listen) THU River Tay THU THU The Tironesian monks of Lindores Abbey were forcibly removed THU by Protestant firebrand John Knox in 1559 but they've left THU an extraordinary legacy for Tayside. The orchards they THU planted with native French varieties of pear, plum and apple THU were subdivided as the nearby town of Newburgh took shape. THU Every autumn the locals set out their stalls and sell purple THU pyramids of unusual plums and cartloads of the apples that THU can ripen on the trees beyond Christmas. THU THU The monks are also credited with the creation of the first THU Scotch Whisky. There's certainly documentary evidence of THU them supplying potent quantities of aquavitae to the THU Scottish Court in 1494. THU THU Caz Graham follows the tracks of the Tayside monks and meets THU the local man aiming to create the first Lindores whisky for THU 500 years. THU THU Further up the River Tay Caz explores Britain's biggest reed THU bed in search of the desperately shy Bearded Tit and meets THU the last of the salmon net fisherwomen. Now 80, Nan Jarvis THU spent decades dragging nets through the silvery Tay in THU search of the King of Fish. THU THU photo courtesy of the RSPB. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06tpxwp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b06tq9r6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06tvm6x (Listen) THU Eddie Redmayne THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Eddie Redmayne discusses The Danish Girl. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Eddie Redmayne THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06tvm70 (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06twhfq (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06tl87c (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06tvm72 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 1 THU THU John Finnemore - writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John THU Finnemore's Double Acts, regular guest on The Now Show and THU The Unbelievable Truth - returns for a fifth series of his THU multi-award-winning sketch show, joined as ever by a cast of THU Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie THU Quinlan. THU THU This first episode sees an unlikely wager, a troubled THU bluesman, and, well - since you ask him for a rip-roaring THU adventure on the high seas... THU THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme won the BBC Audio Drama THU Award for 'Best Scripted Comedy with Live Audience' in 2015; THU and a Radio Academy Silver Award for Comedy in 2014. THU THU "One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite THU some time" - The Guardian THU "The best sketch show in years, on television or radio" - THU The Radio Times THU "The inventive sketch show ... continues to deliver the THU goods" - The Daily Mail THU "Superior comedy" - The Observer THU THU Written by and starring ... John Finnemore THU Ensemble ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble ... Simon Kane THU Ensemble ... Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble ... Carrie Quinlan THU Original music composed by ... Susannah Pearse THU Original music performed by ... Jason Hazeley THU THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is a BBC Radio Comedy THU production. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: John Finnemore THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: Simon Kane THU Ensemble: Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU Writer: John Finnemore THU THU 19:00 The Archers b06tvm74 (Listen) THU Is David having doubts? The Fairbrothers have a proposal. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06vrs2p (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06tvgnx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b06tvm79 (Listen) THU Afghanistan: Time for Truth? THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b06tvm7c (Listen) THU The Business of Trust THU THU The revelation that Volkswagen cheated emissions tests is THU the latest in a line of scandals that have dented the THU public's faith in business since 2008's financial crisis. THU THU It was seen as a betrayal of trust. But just what is trust THU and how important is it in business? And, once it has been THU lost, can it ever be won back? THU THU The editor of Management Today, Matthew Gwyther, interviews THU Rupert Stadler, the chairman of Audi - which is part of the THU VW group. THU THU He also speaks to the chairman of the John Lewis THU Partnership, Charlie Mayfield, and former chief of Severn THU Trent Water and Jaguar, Sir John Egan. THU THU The former EMEA head of public relations firm Edelman, THU Robert Phillips, explores PR's influence on trust and Nobel THU Prize winning economist and author Professor Robert Shiller THU gives his thoughts. THU THU Amid all the negativity about business, Rachel Botsman - who THU is an expert on the collaborative economy - offers some THU hope. THU THU Producer: Keith Moore. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06tvm70 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Behaving Ourselves: Mitchell on Manners b06tvgnv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06vrs2r (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06tvm7g (Listen) THU The Beach, Episode 4 THU THU Our first Book of Bedtime of 2016 celebrates twenty years THU since the publication of Alex Garland's cult novel, The THU Beach. Joe Dempsie reads this thrilling tale of paradise THU sought and lost. THU THU Jaded young backpacker Richard is in Thailand looking for a THU place unspoilt by tourism. An encounter with a dead man THU leaves him with a map for 'the beach', a select traveller THU community cut off from the degradations of vacationing THU westerners. He joins the commune, but his breadcrumb trail, THU fantasies of Vietnam War films, and very real armed drug THU guards risks turning Eden into hell on earth. THU THU 'Lord of the Flies' meets 'Heart of Darkness' among the THU beautiful, young drop-outs, dreamers and drug-takers of the THU mid-1990s. THU THU Abridged by ..... Sara Davies THU THU Produced by ..... Jenny Thompson THU THU Read by ..... Joe Dempsie THU THU Music: Narayan by ..... The Prodigy. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Joe Dempsie THU Author: Alex Garland THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Jenny Thompson THU THU 23:00 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01bm0pr (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 1 THU THU Comedian-activist Mark Thomas and his studio audience THU consider policy proposals for a People's Manifesto. THU This week's agenda: THU THU 1) Excluding Non-Doms from free access to the NHS THU 2) Every citizen to be given £10,000 in quantitative easing THU vouchers, to be spent in the next 6 months THU And THU 3) Proportional voting rights for MPs based on the size of THU their majorities THU THU "Any Other Business" policies are also taken from the studio THU audience throughout the show. THU THU Written and presented by Mark Thomas THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b06tvm7l (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 JANUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06tl8g5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06vj05s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06tl8g7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06tl8g9 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06tl8gc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06tl8gf (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06vb42q (Listen) FRI Spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the FRI Rev Neil Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06tvswc (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04sttd3 (Listen) FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Chris Packham presents the wedge-tailed shearwater of the FRI Indian and Pacific oceans. Wedge-tailed shearwaters are FRI large sepia brown seabirds with long wings and streamlined FRI bodies. They feed mainly on fish and squid which they scoop FRI from the surface or catch by diving. While the parents are FRI careering over the open seas, their solitary chick squats FRI alone in its island burrow. The return of the adults means a FRI welcome feast for the chick. Its reward is a mouthful of FRI warm and waxy stomach oil, the digested remains of the FRI adults prey. It may sound revolting to us, but this oil is FRI rich in energy and allows the chick to grow even bigger than FRI its parents before losing weight again prior to its first FRI flight, which happens a few weeks after the adult birds have FRI abandoned it to its fate. FRI FRI Wedge-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Yukihiro Fukuda / naturepl.com. FRI NPL Ref 01405075 FRI © Yukihiro Fukuda / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06twjtk (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b06tq3th (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06vj1t0 (Listen) FRI Young Orson, Episode 5 FRI FRI Orson Welles, the defining wunderkind of modern FRI entertainment, gets his due in a new biography of his early FRI years - including his first forays in theatre and radio FRI before his groundbreaking move to Hollywood. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI Welles and Houseman agree on a Halloween Eve adaptation of FRI The War Of The Worlds. What could possibly go wrong? FRI FRI Written by Patrick McGilligan FRI Read by Jack Klaff FRI Abridged and produced by Karen Rose FRI FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Jack Klaff FRI Author: Patrick McGilligan FRI Abridger: Karen Rose FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06vj1t4 (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 b06tvswh (Listen) FRI Beloved, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Toni Morrison FRI Adapted by Patricia Cumper FRI FRI Toni Morrison's seminal 1987 novel about a haunted house in FRI the era that followed the abolition of slavery in the United FRI States is adapted for radio for the first time. Toni FRI Morrison's masterpiece melds horror and poetry as it tells FRI the story of Sethe, a woman who escaped slavery by crossing FRI the Ohio river, but who, eighteen years later, is still not FRI free. FRI FRI A young woman calling herself Beloved has arrived and stayed FRI at One Twenty-Four Bluestone Road, and her hold, on each of FRI its residents, has strengthened day by day. FRI FRI Original music by Jon Nicholls FRI Sound design by Caleb Knightley FRI FRI Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. FRI FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Adjoa Andoh FRI Sethe: Nadine Marshall FRI Denver: Pippa Bennett-Warner FRI Paul D: Danny Sapani FRI Beloved: Gugu Mbatha-Raw FRI Stamp Paid: Richard Pepple FRI Baby Suggs: Alibe Parsons FRI Director: Sasha Yevtushenko FRI Author: Toni Morrison FRI Adaptor: Patricia Cumper FRI FRI 11:00 The Best Exotic Etiquette Academy b06tvswr (Listen) FRI Author, broadcaster and etiquette coach William Hanson FRI explores why there's such a demand for British politesse FRI around the world. FRI FRI We join William at the Wasan Knowledge Hub in Mumbai where FRI he teaches classes in business protocol and social FRI etiquette. William asks Ekta Wasan why she set up the FRI academy two years ago, and students explain why they have a FRI desire to learn these very British skills. FRI FRI William also speaks to Nisha JamVwal, a well known socialite FRI and author who is married to a member of the Indian royal FRI family. Yet, even with classes about tiaras and table FRI manners, Nisha admits that few members of the Indian upper FRI classes would enrol in such classes, and challenges the FRI needs for British traditions in an age where the country is FRI truly embracing its own cultural identity. FRI FRI Then to Shanghai, another city where William's knowledge is FRI craved. Three years ago, Chinese men and women had no idea FRI what etiquette training was. So why the sudden demand? FRI FRI Angelina Du talks openly about why she launched her exotic FRI etiquette academy and we explore how the growth of high end FRI goods has turned classes in British manners into a luxury FRI commodity. FRI FRI An Audio Always production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Cold Swedish Winter b06tvswt (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 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 2: Geoff is feeling threatened by the perfection of FRI life in Sweden. Then an ex of Linda's shows up. How can he FRI cope with the perfect Swedish man? FRI FRI Writer: Danny Robins FRI Director: Frank Stirling FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Danny Robins FRI Geoff: Adam Riches FRI Sten: Thomas Oredsson FRI Linda: Sissela Benn FRI Gunilla: Anna-Lena Bergelin FRI Johan: Andre Wickstrom FRI Ian: Danny Robins FRI Soran: Farshad Kohlgi FRI Female Steward: Shanthi Rydwall FRI Ice Hockey Announcer: Fredrik Andersson FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06tl8gh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b06kvfmm (Listen) FRI 8 January 1916 - Ruth Billings FRI FRI This day marked the ending of the Dardanelles campaign, as FRI the last troops evacuated Gallipoli, and finds Ruth Billings FRI cold and hungry, and unsure how to survive. FRI FRI Written by Mike Walker FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ruth Billings: Katie Redford FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Bob Capeling: Joe Sims FRI Max Davenport: Trevor White FRI Margaret Bishop: Catherine Bailey FRI Norman Harris: Norman Baker FRI Alec Poole: Tom Stuart FRI Madam: Debra Baker FRI Soldier: Caolan McCarthy FRI Soldier: George Watkins FRI Writer: Mike Walker FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06tvswy (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06tvyxs (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06tvsx0 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Etiquette Guide b06vj1tb (Listen) FRI Modern Manners FRI FRI The mark of a civilised country is to know what it is to be FRI civil. But what if you don't know? Across the ages, social FRI commentators have written guide books to tell the FRI uninitiated how to do the right thing at the right time in FRI the right way. FRI FRI And it's not just snobs that have published guides - the FRI great Renaissance theologian Erasmus took time out from FRI arguing with Luther to instruct children how to behave in FRI company. FRI FRI Nor is it yet another invention of Victorian England. Five FRI thousand years ago, Ptah-Hotep set down on papyrus the rules FRI of behaviour that all wise men should convey to their sons. FRI FRI Episode 5: Modern Manners FRI The making of manners in cyberspace. How to respond to FRI emails without causing offence, and what is acceptable on FRI social media. In the world of "netiquette", we don't have FRI facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice to help, so FRI rules need to be applied. FRI FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06tvm74 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03mtfrl (Listen) FRI National Velvet, Episode 2 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 Author: Enid Bagnold FRI Dramatised by Peter Flannery FRI FRI Director/Producer: Melanie Harris FRI Executive Producer: Polly Thomas 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 b06tvwtz (Listen) FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Monmouthshire in Wales. Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Wilson, and FRI Christine Walkden answer the questions from the audience. FRI FRI Producer: Dan Cocker FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Shorts b06tvwv1 (Listen) FRI The Time Being, How to Conduct a Rishta Meeting FRI FRI The eighth season of the showcase for previously FRI un-broadcast writers. FRI FRI Past series have brought new talent to a wider audience and FRI provided a stepping stone for writers who have since gone on FRI to enjoy further success on radio and in print - such as FRI Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe, Joe FRI Dunthorne and Rebecca F. John. FRI FRI Episode 1: How To Conduct A Rishta Meeting by Nafisa Muhtadi FRI A woman shares her considerable experience of Rishta FRI meetings, having by now met one or two potential husbands FRI too many. FRI FRI Nafisa Muhtadi is a writer based in the Black Country. She FRI is part of the current cohort of Writing West Midlands' Room FRI 204 Writers Development Scheme. Last year she graduated with FRI a Masters in Creative Writing (Distinction) at Birmingham FRI City University. FRI FRI Reader: Sohm Kapila FRI Writer: Nafisa Muhtadi FRI FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Nafisa Muhtadi FRI Reader: Sohm Kapila FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06vb42x (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b06wbghr (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06d9t3l (Listen) FRI Sophie and Monica - Leaving a Legacy FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who have FRI reached their 40s without having children, about how the FRI outside world judges them. recorded when the Booth was in FRI Moseley Park in Birmingham. Another in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b06vyddj (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06tl8gk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06tvwv5 (Listen) FRI Series 89, Episode 1 FRI FRI Series 89 of the satirical panel show. Miles Jupp is back in FRI the chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of FRI guests take on the big (and not so big) news events of the FRI week. For this, the first episode of the new series, Miles FRI is joined by Francis Wheen, Susan Calman, Nish Kumar and Zoe FRI Lyons. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Francis Wheen FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Nish Kumar FRI Panellist: Zoe Lyons FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06tvwv9 (Listen) FRI Who fancies a race up Lakey Hill? Jennifer reflects on the FRI past. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Gillian Richmond FRI Director: Gwenda Hughes FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Tichener: Louiza Patikas FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06vb42z (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06tvswh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06tvwvc (Listen) FRI Heidi Alexander MP, Penny Mordant MP, Alex Salmond MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Kingston Hospital in Surrey with a panel including the FRI Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander MP, Armed Forces FRI Minister Penny Mordaunt MP and the former Scottish First FRI Minister Alex Salmond MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06tvwvg (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06kvlgq (Listen) FRI 4-8 January 1916 FRI FRI In a week when compulsory Military service became almost FRI inevitable, the Bevan hospital becomes a welcome alternative FRI to home for Dorothea. FRI FRI Written by Mike Walker FRI Directed by 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 Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger FRI Alec Poole: Tom Stuart FRI Bob Capeling: Joe Sims FRI Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Esme Macknade: Katie Angelou FRI Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Giles Herrin: Luke Thompson FRI Harry Pankhurst: Sean Murray FRI Hilary Pearce: Craige Els FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Ivy Layton: Lizzy Watts FRI Jessie Moore: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Lilian Frost: Alex Tregear FRI Margaret Bishop: Catherine Bailey FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Max Davenport: Trevor White FRI Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair FRI Norman Harris: Norman Baker FRI Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads FRI Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom FRI Roland Pemble: Jack Holden FRI Ruby Tulliver: Martine McCutcheon FRI Ruth Billings: Katie Redford FRI Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack FRI Pigman: Sean Murray FRI Nurse Ratched: Debra Baker FRI Steward: George Watkins FRI Soldier: George Watkins FRI Driver: Caolan McCarthy FRI Soldier: Caolan McCarthy FRI Madam: Debra Baker FRI Canadian Soldier: Owen Clarke FRI Writer: Mike Walker FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06tl8gp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06w29qd (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06tvyxv (Listen) FRI The Beach, Episode 5 FRI FRI Our first Book of Bedtime of 2016 celebrates twenty years FRI since the publication of Alex Garland's cult novel, The FRI Beach. Joe Dempsie reads this thrilling tale of paradise FRI sought and lost. FRI FRI Jaded young backpacker Richard is in Thailand looking for a FRI place unspoilt by tourism. An encounter with a dead man FRI leaves him with a map for 'the beach', a select traveller FRI community cut off from the degradations of vacationing FRI westerners. He joins the commune, but his breadcrumb trail, FRI fantasies of Vietnam War films, and very real armed drug FRI guards risks turning Eden into hell on earth. FRI FRI 'Lord of the Flies' meets 'Heart of Darkness' among the FRI beautiful, young drop-outs, dreamers and drug-takers of the FRI mid-1990s. FRI FRI Abridged by ..... Sara Davies FRI FRI Produced by ..... Jenny Thompson FRI FRI Read by ..... Joe Dempsie FRI FRI Music ..... Narayan by The Prodigy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Joe Dempsie FRI Author: Alex Garland FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Jenny Thompson FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b06ts10b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06tvyxx (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06d8h0l (Listen) FRI Alex and Josh - First-Time Fathers FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between old school friends who FRI are now facing fatherhood for the first time and share their FRI hopes and fears, recorded in the Booth at the Hay Festival, FRI another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
01 January, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 02/01/2016 - 08/01/2016
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