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SAT SATURDAY 09 JANUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06tl8jz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06vj1t0 (Listen) SAT Young Orson, Episode 5 SAT SAT Orson Welles, the defining wunderkind of modern SAT entertainment, gets his due in a new biography of his early SAT years - including his first forays in theatre and radio SAT before his groundbreaking move to Hollywood. SAT SAT Episode 5: SAT Welles and Houseman agree on a Halloween Eve adaptation of SAT The War Of The Worlds. What could possibly go wrong? SAT SAT Written by Patrick McGilligan SAT Read by Jack Klaff SAT Abridged and produced by Karen Rose SAT SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Jack Klaff SAT Author: Patrick McGilligan SAT Abridger: Karen Rose SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06tl8k1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06tl8k3 (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06tl8k5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06tl8k7 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06tvz6x (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Krish SAT Kandiah, President of the London School of Theology. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06tvz6z (Listen) SAT 'I'm disgusted with my appearance' SAT SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06tl8k9 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06tl8kc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06tvm6t (Listen) SAT River Tay SAT SAT The Tironesian monks of Lindores Abbey were forcibly removed SAT by Protestant firebrand John Knox in 1559 but they've left SAT an extraordinary legacy for Tayside. The orchards they SAT planted with native French varieties of pear, plum and apple SAT were subdivided as the nearby town of Newburgh took shape. SAT Every autumn the locals set out their stalls and sell purple SAT pyramids of unusual plums and cartloads of the apples that SAT can ripen on the trees beyond Christmas. SAT SAT The monks are also credited with the creation of the first SAT Scotch Whisky. There's certainly documentary evidence of SAT them supplying potent quantities of aquavitae to the SAT Scottish Court in 1494. SAT SAT Caz Graham follows the tracks of the Tayside monks and meets SAT the local man aiming to create the first Lindores whisky for SAT 500 years. SAT SAT Further up the River Tay Caz explores Britain's biggest reed SAT bed in search of the desperately shy Bearded Tit and meets SAT the last of the salmon net fisherwomen. Now 80, Nan Jarvis SAT spent decades dragging nets through the silvery Tay in SAT search of the King of Fish. SAT SAT photo courtesy of the RSPB. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06vdzhp (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Farming Entrepreneurs SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06tl8kf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06vdzhr (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b06vdzht (Listen) SAT Paul McKenna SAT SAT The hypnotist and self-help author, Paul McKenna, has sold SAT more than 10 million books worldwide. He describes his SAT career from 16 year old DJ at Radio Topshop to mainstream TV SAT entertainment and working with celebrity clients from Ellen SAT DeGeneres to David Walliams, and he reveals his latest work SAT on how to gain influence and charisma. SAT Dr. Irving Finkel began collecting diaries as a hobby, SAT before co-founding The Great Diary Project - a collection of SAT more than 6,000 unpublished diaries. He explains the SAT fascination and why he's on a mission to 'rescue' diaries. SAT JP meets Bernie Clifton, star of Saturday night television SAT in the 1970s and 1980s, to talk about the career, the SAT ostrich and... The Voice. SAT Sajeela Kershi was born in Pakistan but her parents moved to SAT Germany and then to Britain. She ended up on stage as a SAT comedian, drawing on her background, telling stories of SAT disastrous attempts to sing the Pakistani national anthem SAT and bringing pakoras to the school harvest festival. SAT Dr Mark Evans is the former RSPCA chief vet, an animal SAT expert and natural history front man. He describes how he SAT surgically removed the heart of a sperm whale and why he's SAT been trying to track down yeti DNA in Nepal. SAT And Patti Smith shares her Inheritance Tracks - Nightmare by SAT Artie Shaw, and After the Goldrush by Neil Young. SAT SAT Instant Influence and Charisma, by Paul McKenna, is SAT published by Bantam Press. SAT The Great Diary Project is at the Bishopsgate Institute in SAT London. SAT The Voice is on BBC One tonight at 7.30pm. SAT Sajeela Kershi will be performing The Immigrant Diaries at SAT the Leicester Square Theatre, on 22 January and Shallow SAT Halal on 23 January. SAT SAT Simon Lamb SAT Simon Lamb with his grandfather's diary. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul McKenna SAT Interviewed Guest: Irving Finkel SAT Interviewed Guest: Sajeela Kershi SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark Evans SAT Interviewed Guest: Patti Smith SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b06vdzhw (Listen) SAT Series 12, Reading SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel from Reading. SAT SAT This week's questions are answered by food scientist SAT Professor Peter Barham, the Japanese-influenced Masterchef SAT winner Tim Anderson, the award-winning food writer Lizzie SAT Mabbott, and singer-turned-chef Andi Oliver. SAT SAT They discuss their dream kitchen inventions, get to grips SAT with Umami, and delve into Reading's history as the 'City of SAT Three Bs' - Beers, Bulbs, and Biscuits. SAT SAT Produced by Darby Dorras 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 Week in Westminster b06vdzhy (Listen) SAT Helen Lewis Deputy Editor of The New Statesman looks behind SAT the Scenes at Westminster. SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06tl8kh (Listen) SAT Chairman Mao or Colonel Sanders SAT SAT The best in news and current affairs storytelling. Today, SAT after a troubled week for the Chinese economy, we wonder SAT who's more popular in China today, the author of that Little SAT Red Book, Chairman Mao, or the founder of Kentucky Fried SAT Chicken, Colonel Sanders. Violence continues to rain down on SAT Yemen. The Islamic State group has now become involved in SAT the civil war and is believed to have been behind a string SAT of suicide bombings. Our correspondent witnessed the SAT horrific aftermath of one such attack in the capital Sana'a. SAT Chancellor Merkel's ruling Christian Democrats in Germany SAT plan tougher action against migrants who commit crimes. SAT Their pledge follows the assaults on women in Cologne on New SAT Years Eve which have triggered further heated debate about SAT Mrs Merkel's welcoming policy towards migrants. Was the SAT recent election in Seychelles, those 'paradise islands' in SAT the Indian Ocean, rigged? While the people wait for a SAT court's verdict, we visit Seychelles and learn there have SAT recently been big changes in the way of life there. And SAT change is also the word employed to describe what's going on SAT in Cuba these days. We've been taking the temperature at the SAT seaside there, at a resort where Che Guevara, one of the SAT great heroes of the Cuban revolution, went on honeymoon. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06tl8kk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06vf0cb (Listen) SAT FCA's Tracey McDermott: 'We are not going soft on the banks' SAT SAT The body responsible for regulating the financial services SAT industry stands accused of softening its stance towards the SAT institutions it regulates. In an exclusive interview with SAT Money Box the Acting Head of the Financial Conduct Authority SAT Tracey McDermott defends her record, including recent SAT decisions not to publish evidence on the culture which SAT drives the behaviour of bankers, findings on incentives SAT still used to encourage sales and reveals that commission on SAT sales of some investment or pension products may return - SAT after being banned three years ago. SAT SAT It's been a dramatic week on global stock markets after SAT Chinese regulators were forced to halt trading, not once but SAT twice due to falling share prices - what does it all mean SAT for UK investors? SAT SAT Then this week we saw confirmation that December was the SAT wettest month on record. The intense rain left 16,000 homes SAT flooded in England alone with Cumbria, Lancashire and SAT Yorkshire worst affected. As the waters there recede, we SAT report on a new flood insurance scheme guaranteeing SAT affordable insurance for high risk properties. We ask SAT Brendan McCafferty, Chief Executive of Flood Re whether he SAT can deliver on this promise. SAT SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT FCA SAT For rmore information on Global Markets and China, visit BBC SAT Business Pages SAT Saving and Investing SAT The Future of Flood Insurance SAT FloodRe SAT Flood Warning Information Service SAT Know Your Flood Risk SAT SAT SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06tvwv5 (Listen) SAT Series 89, Episode 1 SAT SAT Series 89 of the satirical panel show. Miles Jupp is back in SAT the chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of SAT guests take on the big (and not so big) news events of the SAT week. For this, the first episode of the new series, Miles SAT is joined by Francis Wheen, Susan Calman, Nish Kumar and Zoe SAT Lyons. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Francis Wheen SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Nish Kumar SAT Panellist: Zoe Lyons SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06tl8km (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06tl8kp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06tvwvc (Listen) SAT Heidi Alexander MP, Jeremy Banx, Penny Mordaunt MP, Fraser SAT Nelson SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from St Mary's Church, Caterham in Surrey with the Shadow SAT Health Secretary Heidi Alexander MP, Financial Times SAT cartoonist Jeremy Banx, Armed Forces Minister Penny Mordaunt SAT MP, and the Editor of the Spectator magazine Fraser Nelson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06vf0cd (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b06vf1x6 (Listen) SAT How to Flee from Sorrow SAT SAT Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682) conjured music of sublime SAT formality out of a life of chaotic violence. At a time when SAT composers were expected to abase themselves before their SAT patrons, Stradella swindled his, and seduced their SAT mistresses before falling foul of hired assassins. Our SAT central characters are all real historical figures, brought SAT back to life by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. SAT SAT Stradella enjoys enormous success in Rome but has to flee to SAT Venice after he and his sidekick, the hunchback violinist SAT Lonati, get a rich man drunk and then con him into marrying SAT a poor, old woman of ill repute. Incapable of settling into SAT a comfortable life at court, Stradella becomes one of the SAT first truly freelance composers - juggling commissions, SAT scrabbling after money, fleeing from scandal. The number of SAT midnight flits he has to make give the story a comic tempo, SAT but one story gives the drama its heart, the love story SAT between Stradella and Agnese, the 'niece' of the Doge of SAT Venice. SAT SAT Frank Cottrell-Boyce (who includes the London Olympics SAT opening ceremony in his many credits) has researched the SAT original historical letters to create Stradella's fiery, SAT funny and charismatic voice and uses Stradella's beautiful SAT and innovative music to tell this story. The Director of SAT Music, Dr Alberto Sanna, is one of the leading interpreters SAT of Stradella and Corelli. How To Flee From Sorrow is based SAT on an original idea by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Dr Alberto SAT Sanna. SAT SAT Violin ..... Dr Alberto Sanna SAT Sound Designer...Gary Newman SAT SAT Written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce SAT Director of Music: Dr Alberto Sanna SAT Directed by Allegra McIlroy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Alessandro Stradella: Trystan Gravelle SAT Arcangelo Corelli: Harry Treadaway SAT Agnese Von Uffele: Alice St Clair SAT Lonati: Ralf Little SAT Cardinal Cibo: David Hounslow SAT Contarini, Doge of Venice: Chris Pavlo SAT Duchess Maria Giovanna: Amelia Lowdell SAT Stage Manager: George Watkins SAT Nun: Debra Baker SAT Nun: Rebecca Hamilton SAT Nun: Katie Redford SAT Domenico: Caolan McCarthy SAT Innkeeper: Stephen Critchlow SAT Damiano: Leo Wan SAT Writer: Frank Cottrell-Boyce SAT Director: Allegra McIlroy SAT SAT 15:30 From Mumbai to Machynlleth b06trys2 (Listen) SAT Ghazal, the love song of Indian Classical music, has its SAT roots in 7th century Arabic poetry. It carried to the SAT Medieval courts of Persia and later to the palaces of the SAT Mughal Emperors of India, was adopted by Sufi mystics along SAT the way, and came to be seen as the highest form of SAT expression of love, for subjects both divine and earthly. SAT SAT In its latest incarnation, Ghazal has met and been enmeshed SAT with a seemingly alien tradition - the anonymous 'hen SAT benillion' or old verses of rural Wales. While the poets of SAT Ghazal used only to be heard by Indian high society, the SAT Welsh poems, some of which also date back to Medieval times, SAT are nuggets of wisdom handed down by ordinary men and women. SAT But both deal in themes of longing and impossible love. The SAT project 'Ghazalaw', a collaboration between Indian and Welsh SAT musicians, searches for affinities between these SAT centuries-old poetic and musical forms, connects the SAT languages of Urdu and Welsh (which both have their roots in SAT Sanskrit), and attempts to bring communities together. SAT Ghazal still holds to the tenets of Sufism, calling for SAT acceptance, tolerance, and forgiveness - the call of the SAT hour, as the singer and composer Tauseef Akhtar points out: SAT the message is love. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06vf1x8 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved has SAT been our drama this week. We look at the influence it's had SAT on modern fiction over the past 27 years with playwright SAT Patricia Cumper, Dr Tessa Roynon who teaches at Oxford SAT University and is the author of Toni Morrison and the SAT Classical Tradition and writer Irenosen Okojie. SAT SAT We'll hear from 19 year old Alessia Cara, the Canadian R&B SAT Pop singer songwriter who has been named as one of BBC SAT Music's Sound of 2016 SAT SAT You tell us some of the changes you would like to make in SAT your lives, what's inspired you and what obstacles are in SAT your way. SAT SAT New guidelines have been published on much alcohol it's safe SAT to drink. And the message is that all drinking is deemed a SAT risk. So should a pregnant woman drink at all? We discuss SAT the issue with Dr Sally Marlow who researches addiction with SAT a focus on alcohol at Kings College in London and Linda SAT Geddes a freelance science and medical journalist and the SAT author of Bumpology. SAT SAT What are the best female-led podcast we should we be SAT listening too in 2016? We hear from the features writer for SAT the Observer and radio critic Miranda Sawyer and podcast SAT maker Helen Zaltzman on the best and the worst. SAT SAT The actress Jessica Raine discusses her new role in ITV's SAT period Drama Jericho set in an 1870s shantytown in the SAT Yorkshire Dales. SAT SAT And Nao, another BBC Music Sound of 2016 singer songwriter SAT from east London, performs her latest single It's You. SAT SAT Presented by Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Patricia Cumper SAT Interviewed Guest: Tessa Roynon SAT Interviewed Guest: Irenosen Okojie SAT Interviewed Guest: Alessia Cara SAT Interviewed Guest: Sally Marlow SAT Interviewed Guest: Linda Geddes SAT Interviewed Guest: Miranda Sawyer SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Zaltzman SAT Interviewed Guest: Jessica Raine SAT Performer: NAO SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06vf22s (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b06tvz6z (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06tl8kr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06tl8kt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06tl8kw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06vf48l (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Robert Thorogood, Eileen Atkins, Kurt SAT Jackson, Baaba Maal SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Danny Wallace are joined by Robert SAT Thorogood, Eileen Atkins and Kurt Jackson for an eclectic SAT mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Baaba SAT Maal. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Eileen Atkins SAT 'Ellen Terry with Elieen Atkins' opens at The Shakespeares SAT Globe on Monday 11 January to Saturday 13 February. SAT SAT Baaba Maal SAT SAT 'The Traveller' is available from the 15th January SAT on Marathon Artists. SAT SAT 'Television' is available now on Because Music. SAT SAT Baaba Maal is playing at London's Southbank Centre on SAT Wednesday 20th January. SAT SAT Kurt Jackson SAT 'Bestiary' is published by Lund Humphries and available now. SAT SAT Robert Thorogood SAT SAT ‘The Killing of Polly Carter’ is published by Harper Collins SAT and available now. SAT SAT The new series of 'Death in Paradise' is on Thursdays SAT at 21.00 on BBC One. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Danny Wallace SAT Interviewed Guest: Robert Thorogood SAT Interviewed Guest: Eileen Atkins SAT Interviewed Guest: Kurt Jackson SAT Performer: Baaba Maal SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b06vg15g (Listen) SAT Series 19, 09/01/2016 SAT SAT Writer Chris Dolan creates a dramatic response to a story in SAT the week's news. SAT SAT Synopsis: While the aftershock from the floods continue to SAT be felt at home and there are continuing troubles around the SAT world, a lonely figure is adrift in the waters between SAT England and Scotland. Surviving on mince pies and mulled SAT wine, supermarket worker Ricky is caught up in the floods, SAT and is now drifting in a dinghy on the Solway Firth. Out of SAT the waters comes Beanie - is she another flood victim? Or is SAT she an other worldly spirit come to sink or save him? SAT SAT Producer/director: David Ian Neville. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Chris Dolan SAT Beanie: Gerda Stevenson SAT Ricky: Simon Donaldson SAT Producer: David Neville SAT Director: David Neville SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06vg1bk (Listen) SAT Hateful Eight, Guys and Dolls, Maigret, Crime Museum, SAT Jericho SAT SAT Quentin Tarantino's film Hateful Eight - the work of a SAT genius at the top of his game or more of the same? SAT The Chichester Festival Theatre's revival of Guys and Dolls SAT has transferred to London's Savoy Theatre SAT George Simenon wrote 75 Maigret novels and they're all being SAT republished - how well do they stand up nowadays? SAT The Metropolitan Police's Crime Museum is usually closed to SAT the public but The Museum of London has a temporary SAT exhibition showing 600 of the 2000 items it contains; SAT fascinating and gruesome certainly... but is it distasteful? SAT ITV's historical drama Jericho looks at the lives of the SAT Victorian navvies who built the great engineering edifices SAT of the age SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are David Schneider, Sophie Hannah SAT and Dreda Say Mitchell. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: David Schneider SAT Interviewed Guest: Sophie Hannah SAT Interviewed Guest: Dreda Say Mitchell SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b045xqkf (Listen) SAT Imagining the Audience SAT SAT Imagine a world without polling and audience research - who SAT did the early BBC think it was talking to? SAT SAT Imagine too those early broadcasters, standing in front of SAT microphones, clearing their throats before they spoke to... SAT well, who? The unknown, unseen audience. If they were a SAT little unsure of themselves, it would be little surprise, SAT since they had only the vaguest sense of who was listening - SAT or if anyone was at all. And if they couldn't see the whites SAT of their listeners' eyes, how would they know, as MP Lady SAT Astor laments in 1937, whether they were "dozin' off"? SAT SAT Matthew Sweet unearths some of the earliest archive SAT recordings in existence and uncovers a complicated SAT relationship between the BBC and its vast, invisible SAT audience. From football by numbers to tap dancing on the SAT radio; from tips on how to plant your dahlias to the SAT aspirational fantasies of overwrought housewives. SAT SAT The new medium was excitingly and scarily new and it threw SAT up all sorts of unexpected questions. How should people SAT listen at home? ("Try turning out the lights, so that your SAT eye is not caught by familiar objects in the room" said the SAT BBC.) What should "listeners" be called? ("Radiauds" SAT suggested a correspondent to the Radio Times.) And how could SAT an organisation made up almost entirely of middle class SAT people in dinner jackets speak authentically to a flat SAT cap-wearing, working class audience? SAT SAT Matthew looks back at the first editions of the Radio Times, SAT rifles through the private memos of BBC staff and talks to SAT people who remember listening to the radio as children in SAT the 1930s. What he finds contradicts the stereotype of the SAT austere, Reithian BBC. SAT SAT Produced by Hannah Marshall SAT Executive Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06tq9r4 (Listen) SAT East of Eden, Episode 1 SAT SAT Episode 1 of 3 SAT SAT By John Steinbeck SAT Dramatised by Donna Franceschild SAT SAT An epic tale exploring the nature of good and evil, inspired SAT by the story of Cain and Abel. SAT SAT Cathy Ames is a young woman who has always filled her SAT parents with a deep sense of unease. SAT SAT Adam and Charles Trask are brothers whose relationship veers SAT dangerously between love and hate. SAT SAT Their lives are about to collide in a dark and febrile drama SAT about familial love. SAT SAT Starring Holliday Grainger, Robin Laing and David Yip. SAT SAT Director: Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT Credits SAT Cyrus: Jimmy Chisholm SAT Charles: Steven Duffy SAT Cathy: Holliday Grainger SAT Adam: Robin Laing SAT Mr Edwards: Gavin Mitchell SAT Mr Ames: Nick Underwood SAT Mrs Ames: Anita Vettesse SAT Narrator: David Yip SAT Director: Kirsty Williams SAT Author: John Steinbeck SAT Adaptor: Donna Franceschild SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06tl8ky (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b06vhvss (Listen) SAT A Boat of One's Own SAT SAT Michelle Madsen makes the case for the life of a continuous SAT cruiser on Britain's rivers and canals. Michelle is a poet SAT and journalist who has spent the last two years living SAT aboard a boat, and discusses how it has affected her poetry, SAT her prose, her friendships and her life. SAT SAT Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton. SAT SAT 22:30 Three Pounds in My Pocket b06419cw (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT SAT In the second series Kavita Puri picks up the story of the SAT early pioneers from the Indian subcontinent in 1968: the SAT year of a significant Race Relations Act and Enoch Powell. SAT She charts the years to 1976 when the make-up of the South SAT Asian community in Britain was changing. Young single men SAT came after the Second World War with as little as £3 because SAT of strict currency exchange rules. By the 1960s family SAT reunions had already taken place for many Sikh and Hindu SAT families. By the 70's, as Pakistani men became more settled, SAT their wives joined them too. Increased numbers of SAT Bangladeshi men came over following the war of Independence SAT in 1971, but most of their wives would not come over until SAT the following decade. Asians also came from East Africa in SAT the late 60's and early 70's. Against this new tide of SAT migration, this programme charts how the three pound SAT generation - many here for two decades - responded to the SAT new arrivals. With increased numbers, the community became SAT more visible. We see how the atmosphere on the street was SAT changing towards them - in contrast to the post-war years - SAT where many had been greeted with curiosity. Racist abuse SAT became commonplace as immigration became a charged political SAT issue. SAT SAT Producer: Smita Patel SAT SAT With help from Dr Florian Stadtler, University of Exeter. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b06tr5tk (Listen) SAT Programme 12, 2015 SAT SAT (12/12) SAT All of the questions in this closing contest of the current SAT series have been devised by listeners, with Tom Sutcliffe on SAT hand to guide the teams through them. The Midlands and Wales SAT clash for the last time this series, in a contest they both SAT need to win to clamber up the final Round Britain Quiz SAT league table. SAT SAT 'Can you convert old-style currency from Latin into Greek, SAT and then into bone, gut and muscle?' is just one of the SAT arcane teasers they'll have to unravel. With the teams SAT confined to the library of a country house and all SAT electronic devices confiscated, they have only their SAT knowledge and powers of deduction to rely on, along with the SAT odd helpful hint from the chairman, as the clock ticks down SAT towards the end of the series. The more clues and nudges SAT they need, the more points Tom will be deducting. SAT SAT Tom will also provide the answer to the question teasingly SAT left unanswered at the end of the previous edition, and will SAT be able to reveal who has taken the title of Round Britain SAT Quiz champions for the 2015 season. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Last week's teaser question SAT SAT Listener Mark Lester suggested the question: Why might a SAT forensic-sounding thespian, a leader of riparian culture and SAT a shady-sounding West Countryman all embrace hopeless SAT causes? SAT SAT Well done if you spotted that the common link here was the SAT name Jude, St Jude being (among other things) the patron SAT saint of hopeless causes. SAT SAT The 'forensic-sounding' actor is Jude Law. The leader of SAT riparian culture is Jude Kelly CBE, Artistic Director of the SAT South Bank Centre in London, the word 'riparian' relating to SAT the bank of a river. Finally the West Countryman who is SAT 'shady-sounding' is the fictional Jude Fawley, otherwise SAT known as Jude the Obscure, in the novel by Thomas Hardy. SAT SAT Rankings before today's contest SAT SAT The Round Britain Quiz 2015 league table after eleven SAT matches: SAT SAT South of England Played 4 Won 3 Drawn 1 Lost 0 Total SAT points 66 SAT SAT Scotland P4 W3 D0 L1 Pts 65 SAT SAT The Midlands P3 W2 D0 L1 Pts 57 SAT SAT Wales P3 W2 D0 L1 Pts 55 SAT SAT North of England P4 W0 D1 L3 Pts 63 SAT SAT Northern Ireland P4 W0 D0 L4 Pts 45 SAT SAT Questions in this programme SAT SAT Q1 (from Patricia Cleveland-Peck) Where might you find all SAT of the following: a device you now need wherever you go, a SAT hard worker more recently put to a nefarious use, a rounded SAT loaf, an auxiliary steam engine, and twenty-five pounds? SAT SAT Q2 (from Roland Howell) Why would your fruit bowl be likely SAT to attract a controlling group of Americans, a Greek comedy, SAT a motor scooter and a rugby team? SAT SAT Q3 (from Fred Robinson) I-D in Madrid; G-D in the Gironde; SAT L-R for a Londoner or a Limburger; and S-D for a Sardinian. SAT All might be helpful as military instructions. Why? SAT SAT Q4 (Music - from William Spencer) Which Jersey boys might SAT recognise these pieces, if not actually be able to perform SAT them? SAT SAT Q5 (from James Beattie) Can you explain why a man in the SAT best possible health, a coward and a debtor might all be SAT ahead, and in which countries? SAT SAT Q6 (from Dr Richard Brown) Can you convert old-style SAT currency from Latin into Greek, and then into bone, gut and SAT muscle? SAT SAT Q7 (Music/voices - from Ivan Whetton) Can you put these in SAT order of seniority? SAT SAT Q8 (from Keith York) Why would the creator of a street in SAT Los Angeles, a flat in New York, a clause in an insurance SAT policy and a set of keys be like Oscar, only more so? SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b06tq9r8 (Listen) SAT Series 6, Kathleen Jamie SAT SAT 2014 was a momentous year in Scotland. The poet Kathleen SAT Jamie decided to keep a poetic diary and wrote a poem each SAT week. The poems have just been published in a collection SAT called The Bonniest Companie. She shares some of them with SAT Paul Farley. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 JANUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06vjbtr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Four Bare Legs in a Bed b021n6s4 (Listen) SUN The Bed SUN SUN The first of three stories from Helen Simpson's collection, SUN Four Bare Legs in a Bed, read by Rosie Cavaliero. The Bed. SUN An impulse purchase in a department store changes a woman's SUN life. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Helen Simpson SUN Reader: Rosie Cavaliero SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06vjbtt (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06vjbtw (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06vjbty (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06vjbv0 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06vjfp2 (Listen) SUN Bells from St Peter's Church, Congleton. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b06vhvss (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 22:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06vjbv2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06vjh8z (Listen) SUN Sleeping on It SUN SUN John McCarthy investigates the weird and wonderful world of SUN sleep. SUN SUN Every day, for several hours, the mind dissolves and enters SUN a radically different realm where terrifying apparitions SUN might appear. If it were described to us as a disease then SUN the idea of sleep might be quite frightening! But sleep is SUN also a wonderful place of rest and fantasy that we all SUN frequently yearn for. SUN SUN Given we spend about a third of our lives asleep, you might SUN think that we would know a little more about it. Unless we SUN are having trouble with sleep, as millions around the world SUN do on a regular basis, it's a daily fact of life that we SUN rarely consider. SUN SUN John McCarthy explores the attractions and pitfalls of sleep SUN and the ways in which writers and poets - from John Donne to SUN Schopenhauer - have presented their ideas on sleep and SUN dreams. Why does the reality of sleep make so many of them SUN think about death? He talks to the physician and philosopher SUN Raymond Tallis about sleep and what it suggests about human SUN consciousness. SUN SUN John introduces sleep related music from Chopin, The Smiths SUN and The Incredible String Band, as well as an extract from SUN Max Richter's epic 8-hour lullaby on Sleep. SUN SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b06vjh91 (Listen) SUN The Wader with the Crest SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. In this programme recorded in 2000, Lionel SUN Kelleway is joined by Andy Wilson in Norfolk. There was a SUN time when lapwing, green-plover, pewit, call it what you SUN will, were a common sight over the British countryside. At SUN the time of recording Lionel Kelleway tries to discover why SUN lapwings - our only crested wader - are disappearing from SUN the British countryside. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06vjbv4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06vjbv6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06vjh93 (Listen) SUN 'Last roll of the dice' for the Anglican communion, The SUN pope's new book, The rising cost of kosher living SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06vjh95 (Listen) SUN The Gurkha Welfare Trust SUN SUN Joanna Lumley presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The SUN Gurkha Welfare Trust SUN Registered Charity No 1103669 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'The Gurkha Welfare Trust'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'The Gurkha Welfare SUN Trust'. SUN SUN The Gurkha Welfare Trust SUN The Gurkha Welfare Trust provides financial, medical and SUN development aid to Gurkha veterans, their families and SUN communities. We estimate that we’ll spend around £22 million SUN over the next five years as we help communities recover from SUN the devastating Nepal earthquakes. As part of our response, SUN we’ll be rehousing over 2,100 Gurkha veterans and their SUN widows, including… SUN SUN Baldhan & Budyani Ghale, Barpak, Nepal SUN Gurkha veteran Baldhan Ghale and his wife Budyani stand SUN among the ruins of their home in Barpak, at the epicentre of SUN the initial earthquake. SUN SUN Sankhabahadur & Bilmaya Ghale, Barpak, Nepal SUN Almost all of the houses in Barpak were destroyed, including SUN that of 93-year-old WW2 veteran Sankhabahadur Ghale and his SUN wife Bilmaya. SUN SUN Rifleman Shersing Gurung, Milim, Nepal SUN 97-year-old Shersing Gurung was almost killed by his SUN collapsing house. We found him living in a cattle shed, in SUN desperate need of our help. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06vjbv8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06vjbvb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06vjh97 (Listen) SUN The Baptism of the Lord SUN SUN The Archbishop of Cardiff, the Most Rev. George Stack SUN reflects on the Feast Day of the Baptism of our Lord. The SUN sung Mass, led by Canon Peter Collins in a live service from SUN the Metropolitan Cathedral of St David, includes the Kyrie SUN from William Byrd's Mass for Three Voices and Bruckner's Os SUN Justi. SUN Master of the Choristers Dominic Neville. Organist: Dr. SUN David Neville. SUN Producer: Karen Walker. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06tvwvg (Listen) SUN Peerless SUN SUN Tom Shakespeare argues the House of Lords should be SUN completely reformed and turned into a Senate of 300 members SUN (down from over 800). He suggests they should consist of 100 SUN politicians, selected in proportion to parties' showing in SUN the previous general election, 100 cross-benchers, chosen SUN for their expertise, and 100 members of the public, selected SUN from the electoral roll like juries. SUN SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tom Shakespeare SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04sv1s1 (Listen) SUN Greater Rhea SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Chris Packham presents the greater rhea roaming the South SUN American pampas. Greater rheas are the largest birds in SUN South America and look like small brown ostriches. They're SUN flightless, but can avoid danger by sprinting away on sturdy SUN legs reaching speeds of up to 60 kilometres per hour. SUN Gauchos, the horsemen of the pampas, used to hunt them on SUN horseback using a bolas; a well-aimed bolas would wrap SUN around the rhea's legs or neck and bring it down in a tangle SUN of feathers and limbs. In the breeding season males call SUN loudly to proclaim territories, and to woo potential mates SUN the male runs around erratically, spreading his wings and SUN booming. He mates with several females who lay their eggs in SUN the same nest. Then the females depart to mate with another SUN male leaving the first male to incubate the clutch and rear SUN the huge brood of chicks on his own. SUN SUN Greater Rhea (Rhea americana) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Luiz Claudio Marigo / SUN naturepl.com. SUN N SUN PL Ref 01131063 SUN © Luiz Claudio Marigo / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06vjbvd (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 b06vjhgq (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06vjhgs (Listen) SUN Alex Crawford SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the Sky TV news correspondent SUN Alex Crawford. SUN SUN She's won the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the SUN Year award an unprecedented four times - reporting from the SUN world's worst war zones and hot spots. SUN Where most people would do anything to stay well away from SUN trouble she seems drawn to danger , whether it's covering SUN the Ebola crisis in Liberia, hunting for Rhino poachers in SUN South Africa or being first on the scene as the drama of SUN Libya's revolution unfolded. SUN SUN She spent the first five years of her life in Nigeria, where SUN her family survived two political coups. After childhood in SUN Zambia and subsequently what was then Rhodesia, she came SUN back to Britain as a teenager to go to boarding school and SUN then got her first job as a trainee reporter on the SUN Wokingham Times. SUN SUN She's been shot at, arrested and interrogated. But it's a SUN job she loves and is still passionate to do. For her, there SUN should be no 'no-go' areas for journalists and journalism SUN remains an essential pillar of freedom and democracy. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Alex Crawford SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06vjbvg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06tr6ld (Listen) SUN Series 64, Episode 6 SUN SUN Back for a second week at the Grand Theatre in Blackpool, SUN regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined on the panel by Rob Brydon, with Jack Dee in the SUN chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio Comedy SUN production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Jack Dee SUN Panellist: Barry Cryer SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN Panellist: Rob Brydon SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06vjhl5 (Listen) SUN 2016 Food and Farming Awards Launch SUN SUN Sheila Dillon reveals this year's team of judges, and SUN launches the 2016 BBC Food and Farming Awards. Sheila will SUN be catching up with some of last year's winners and nominees SUN and explaining how you can send in your all-important SUN nominations. SUN SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN The Awards Website SUN Put forward a nomination or check out the latest news on the SUN 2016 Food & Farming Awards website SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06vjbvk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06vjjmz (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite... Laicite b06tr96c (Listen) SUN Catherine Guilyardi examines concerns about traditional SUN French Republican values. SUN SUN After the Charlie Hebdo killings and the extraordinary SUN demonstration of unity in the country, France discovered SUN that some of its young people did not want "to be Charlie". SUN A number of children refused to respect a minute of silence SUN in their schools, some even going so far as to say that they SUN agreed with the killers. SUN SUN They represented a tiny minority, but part of the French SUN political elite claimed that traditional Republican values SUN had been lost - including "la laïcité", the principle of the SUN separation of state and religious affairs. It was decided SUN that it was each school's role to make sure that these civic SUN and moral values were taught again. SUN SUN How are liberté, égalité, fraternité and la laïcité SUN explained and transmitted to a generation and demographic SUN that feels discriminated against and rejected by French SUN society? Is enforcing 'la laicité' by law - for example, by SUN banning religious symbols in school - a kind of SUN discrimination against the poorest and most vulnerable SUN sections of French society, those who feel least welcome in SUN France, Muslim and migrant families? SUN SUN Catherine Guilyardi meets school children, teachers, SUN academics and a member of the government. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06tvwtz (Listen) SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Monmouthshire in Wales. Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Wilson, and SUN Christine Walkden answer the questions from the audience. SUN SUN This week the panel discuss what to do about moss in SUN flowerbeds, how to deter animals from attacking your SUN strawberries, and whether to plant wild garlic or Lily of SUN the Valley in a shady bed. SUN SUN Also, Matthew Wilson takes a tour round one of SUN Monmouthshire's most successful vineyards. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – Should I plant wild garlic or ‘Lily of the Valley’ in my SUN shady bit of garden or am I asking for trouble? SUN SUN Matthew – Wild garlic is good out in the woods but I would SUN choose ‘Lily of the Valley’ for the garden. I would think SUN that together the garlic would overpower the aroma of the SUN ‘Lily of the Valley’. SUN SUN Pippa – You could try it – but I’d put the ‘Lily of the SUN Valley’ in the less shady bit if possible – the garlic will SUN be happier in the denser shade. SUN SUN SUN Q – Should I take the moss off flowerbeds or should I dig it SUN in? SUN SUN Christine – I would leave it there unless it is choking SUN plants. SUN SUN Matthew – It probably isn’t doing any harm but it is SUN probably indicative of poor drainage in the beds. I’d SUN disturb it and then put organic material on top of it to SUN break it down. SUN SUN Pippa – Not a priority. But if you are looking to get SUN plants to self seed eg Hellebores then I would clear it SUN because it’ll make seedling establishment difficult. SUN SUN SUN Q – Why can’t I grow Freesias? I’ve planted them in pots in SUN my greenhouse but they only grow leaves, no blooms. SUN SUN Pippa – They are made to sound easier on the packet than SUN they are in real life! I’ve pretty much given up now – but SUN you need to ensure you’re getting enough warmth and enough SUN sunshine at the right stage. SUN SUN Christine – In South Africa they use ethylene gas – which SUN you can buy pads of on the Internet – and then you pop your SUN bulb in the pad and that encourages growth of flowers. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’ve recently moved to a new house and I want to put a SUN greenhouse in. The plot is south-west to north-east – how SUN important is orientation of a greenhouse? SUN SUN Matthew – It’s important in order to maximise exposure to SUN the sun but it’s nothing to worry about. Certain plants will SUN do better than others in different parts of your greenhouse SUN depending on where the shade falls – but you can just play SUN around with it. SUN SUN SUN Q – I like growing different varieties of runner beans on my SUN allotment and I also collect the seeds from year-to-year. SUN For the past two years I’ve been collecting black beans – SUN have you ever seen this before and, if so, what variety SUN might they be? SUN SUN Christine – In the Heritage Seed Collection you’ll come SUN across a few black varieties. They’re not that common but SUN they’re not unheard of. I suspect you have some SUN cross-pollination going on with one of your neighbours. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’m very keen on growing my own strawberries but have SUN given up due to pests – I’ve kept the birds and the rabbits SUN away with fencing and netting but cannot deter squirrels and SUN mice. What can you recommend? SUN SUN Pippa – If you’ve got a good covering of netting and it’s SUN still not working then you might have voles. They’ll pop up SUN from underneath and then harvest your fruit! I haven’t found SUN a way to deter them yet but I am fond of voles. SUN SUN Matthew – You could try chilli powder – most mammals snuffle SUN and chilli powder can give them a bit of a shock! SUN SUN SUN Q – What are the panel’s views on using Eucalyptus as an SUN evergreen hedge and would it be suitable for hedge lane SUN practices as opposed to growing shrub-style? SUN SUN Matthew – Unfortunately Eucalyptus has a very open habit – SUN there’s a reason why you haven’t seen a Eucalyptus hedge! SUN They’re not going to respond well to being trained. They SUN also grow rapidly and become unstable quickly. If you want SUN a silvery hedge I would go for Eleagnus ‘Quicksilver’. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06f54rn (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about the joys and fears SUN of prospective parenthood - one of them recorded just hours SUN before the baby's arrival - and about not being parents, all SUN recorded during The Listening Project Booth's tour of the UK SUN and featuring in the Omnibus of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b06vjlbb (Listen) SUN East of Eden, Episode 2 SUN SUN Episode 2 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 Adam has fallen under the spell of the enigmatic Cathy - a SUN woman who has murdered her parents and now, on the run, has SUN married Adam. He's captivated by her. But on their wedding SUN night it was Adam's brother Cathy slept with. SUN SUN The newly-weds are about to start a new life in California, SUN but it's not the one Adam imagines in this dark and febrile SUN drama about familial love. SUN SUN Starring Holliday Grainger, Robin Laing and David Yip. SUN SUN Director: Kirsty Williams. SUN SUN Credits SUN Samuel: Jimmy Chisholm SUN Cathy: Holliday Grainger SUN Cal: Alasdair Hankinson SUN Faye: Kathryn Howden SUN Aron: Samuel Keefe SUN Adam: Robin Laing SUN Abra: Gemma McElhinney SUN Dr Tilson: Nick Underwood SUN Ethel: Anita Vettesse SUN Lee: David Yip SUN Director: Kirsty Williams SUN Author: John Steinbeck SUN Adaptor: Donna Franceschild SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b06vjlbd (Listen) SUN Francesca Kay on The Long Room SUN SUN On Open Book this week, Alex Clark talks to Francesca Kay SUN about her novel The Long Room which is set in London in the SUN 1980s, against the backdrop of the Cold War. Also on the SUN programme - the power of two: Francesca Haig and Ann Morgan SUN discuss twins in literature, in their own novels and beyond; SUN an editor recommends a book from a rival publishing house, SUN and as we begin a New Year, Open Book offers a new way to SUN read a little every day. SUN SUN Close Reading of Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons SUN SUN In the large kitchen, which occupied most of the middle of SUN the house, a sullen fire burned, the smoke of which wavered SUN up the blackened walls and over the deal table, darkened by SUN age and dirt, which was roughly set for a meal. A snood SUN full of coarse porridge hung over the fire, and standing SUN with one arm resting upon the high mantel, looking moodily SUN down into the heaving contents of the snood, was a tall SUN young man whose riding-boots were splashed with mud to the SUN thigh, and whose coarse linen shirt was open to his waist. SUN The firelight lit up his diaphragm muscles as they heaved SUN slowly in rough rhythm with the porridge. SUN SUN He looked up as Judith entered, and gave a short, defiant SUN laugh, but said nothing. Judith crossed slowly over until SUN she stood by his side. She was as tall as he. They stood SUN in silence, she staring at him, and he down into the secret SUN crevasses of the porridge. SUN SUN ̒ Well, mother mine, ̓ he said at last, ̒ here I am, you SUN see. I said I would be in time for breakfast, and I have SUN kept my word. ̓ SUN SUN His voice had a low, throaty, animal quality, a sneering SUN warmth that wound a velvet ribbon of sexuality over the SUN outward coarseness of the man. SUN SUN Judith’s breath came in long shudders. She thrust her arms SUN deeper into her shawl. The porridge gave an ominous leering SUN heave; it might almost have been endowed with life, so SUN uncannily did its movements keep pace with the human SUN passions that throbbed above it. SUN SUN ̒ Cur, ̓ said Judith, levelly, at last. ̒ Coward! Liar! SUN Libertine! Who were you with last night? Moll at the mill SUN or Violet at the vicarage? Or Ivy, perhaps, at the SUN ironmongery? Seth – my son… ̓ Her deep, dry voice SUN quivered, but she whipped it back, and her next words flew SUN out at him like a lash. SUN SUN ̒ Do you want to break my heart? ̓ SUN SUN ̒ Yes, ̓ said Seth, with an elemental simplicity. SUN SUN The porridge boiled over. SUN SUN SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of The Long Room by Francesca Kay SUN The Long Room: Chapter 1 SUN by Francesca Kay SUN SUN Journal Lists SUN Journal Lists SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Alex Clark SUN Interviewed Guest: Francesca Kay SUN Interviewed Guest: Francesca Haig SUN Interviewed Guest: Ann Morgan SUN SUN 16:30 Edinburgh at the Year's Midnight: A Winter Journey in SUN Poetry through Scotland's Capital City b06vjlbg (Listen) SUN A winter journey through Scotland's capital city by Stewart SUN Conn. The poetry is introduced and read by Stewart with the SUN acclaimed Scots actors Gordon Kennedy and Siobhan Redmond. SUN Music is arranged and played by Aly Macrae. SUN SUN Stewart Conn is one of Scotland's most highly-regarded SUN poets. He lives in Edinburgh and was, from 2002 to 2005, the SUN city's inaugural Makar - the Scots name for a poet or bard. SUN His Bloodaxe collections include The Breakfast Room (2011 SUN SMIT Scottish Poetry Book of the Year) and a new and SUN selected volume, The Touch of Time. SUN SUN "He stands among the indispensible poets of modern and SUN contemporary Scotland" - Douglas Dunn SUN SUN A fragment from Under The Ice by Stewart Conn, inspired by SUN Raeburn's portrait which hangs in the National Gallery in SUN Edinburgh: SUN "...Was Raeburn's skating parson SUN a man of God, poised SUN impeccably on the brink; SUN or his bland stare SUN no more than a decorous front? SUN If I could keep my cool SUN like that. Gazing straight ahead, SUN not at my feet. Giving SUN no sign of knowing SUN how deep the water, how thin the ice." SUN SUN Produced by Gordon Kennedy SUN Directed by Marilyn Imrie. SUN An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 How to Make a Brexit b06r5d0c (Listen) SUN Carolyn Quinn explores the practical process by which SUN Britain would exit the EU if UK voters opt to leave, and SUN looks at the experience of Greenland, which quit the EEC in SUN 1985. SUN SUN She meets Greenlandic politicians involved in the 'Out' SUN campaign there, and considers the lessons which can be SUN applied to the much more complex task of unravelling the web SUN of trade, treaties, regulations and directives that bind the SUN UK to Brussels and its institutions. The programme includes SUN contributions from the former Cabinet Secretary, Lord SUN O'Donnell, the economist Ruth Lea, as well as constitutional SUN and legal experts Martin Howe QC, Jean-Claude Piris and SUN Daniel Greenberg. Carolyn also travels to the European SUN Parliament to meet British MEPs contemplating redundancy, SUN and canvasses the views of European think tanks. SUN SUN Producer: John Beesley. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b06vg15g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06vjbvm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06vjbvp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06vjbvr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06vjlpd (Listen) SUN Sarfraz Manzoor SUN SUN Journalist Sarfraz Manzoor with the best of BBC Radio this SUN week. SUN SUN We have a globe-hopping programme this week: in China we SUN explore the popularity of academies teaching British SUN etiquette, in Rome we listen to a multi ethnic orchestra SUN hoping to bring different communities together, in India and SUN Wales there's a unique musical collaboration fusing two SUN ancient art forms and in Manchester a photographer's image SUN of drunk Mancunians on New Years' Eve has been compared to SUN the great works of art. SUN SUN The pick of the BBC Radio iPlayer is also Manchester themed SUN with an episode of Soul Music featuring The Smiths from SUN December 2014, and we also hear singer songwriter Bernard SUN Sumner discussing the Beatles and Rob Bryden duets with SUN Pavarotti. SUN SUN Produced by Stephen Garner SUN SUN The Pick Production team Kay Bishton and Elodie Chatelain SUN SUN e-mail your favourite radio highlights of the week to SUN potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06vjlv5 (Listen) SUN On Plough Sunday, Ed is feeling nervous. And Helen is SUN getting pampered. SUN SUN 19:15 So Wrong It's Right b01hkz2n (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 1 SUN SUN Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show celebrating one SUN of Britain's favourite subjects - failure. SUN SUN He plunders his guests' pasts and creativity over a series SUN of rounds in which panellists have to be wrong to be right. SUN In this episode, the guests joining him to try and out-wrong SUN each other with their ideas and stories are comedians Lee SUN Mack, Susan Calman and "Harry Hill's TV Burp" writer Daniel SUN Maier. SUN SUN In this edition the phrase 'keep calm and carry on' and SUN ridiculous things to get angry about both come under the SUN 'wrong' spotlight - as well as the best ideas for the worst SUN new concept albums. Will anyone beat Susan Calman's pitch SUN for an album based on her cat's bid to take part in the 2012 SUN Olympics? SUN SUN The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also SUN presents BBC2's How TV Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's You SUN Have Been Watching and 10 O'Clock Live, and writes for The SUN Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year' at the 2009 British SUN Press Awards for his column, and Best Newcomer at the SUN British Comedy Awards 2009. SUN SUN Produced by: Aled Evans SUN A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Joplin and Dickens b06vjm5d (Listen) SUN In this amusing story, the experimental author Padgett SUN Powell imagines the schooldays of singer Janis Joplin and SUN her rather weird classmate Charlie Dickens, who speaks in a SUN rarefied language that suggests he might be channelling his SUN 19th-century namesake. SUN SUN Padgett Powell is an award-winning American author who has SUN become renowned for his innovation and experimentation in SUN both style and content. His novel The Interrogative Mood is SUN a superb example of his work, consisting of nothing but SUN questions. SUN SUN Read by Jennifer Woodward and Thomas Judd. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Author: Padgett Powell SUN Reader: Jennifer Woodward SUN Reader: Thomas Judd SUN Producer: David Roper SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b06wbghr (Listen) SUN Flood Defence Spending SUN SUN Tim Harford and the team take a look at some of the numbers SUN in the news about flooding. What is a one hundred year SUN flood? And is there really a north-south divide in the SUN amount of money spent on flood defences in England? SUN SUN What is the total number of possible tweets that could be SUN created from 140 characters? In a recent programme Professor SUN John Allen-Paulos told us that when you take into account SUN all of the symbols available, the total number of possible SUN tweets is Googol2.8 (which is a 1 followed by 280 zeros.) SUN But has he missed some options? SUN SUN One of our listener's questions whether Christmas Eve is SUN really the busiest day on the roads. We take a look at the SUN figures. SUN SUN Plus - which is the bigger number? The total number of Storm SUN Trooper toys ever made, or the number of real life soldiers SUN serving in armies around the world? SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06vb42x (Listen) SUN Robert Stigwood, Patricia Torrens, Pierre Boulez, Lord Ezra, SUN Natalie Cole SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Robert Stigwood, the impresario who managed Eric Clapton and SUN The Bee Gees, produced Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita and SUN the movies Saturday Night Fever and Grease. SUN SUN Patricia Torrens the first adviser on diet to the Department SUN of Health. SUN SUN Pierre Boulez, the avant garde French composer and conductor SUN who pioneered serialism and the use of electronics. SUN SUN Lord Ezra who was chairman of the National Coal Board in the SUN 1970s. SUN SUN And Natalie Cole, the acclaimed singer who battled drug SUN addiction and sang a posthumous duet with her father Nat SUN King Cole. SUN SUN Robert Stigwood SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Music Producer, Simon Napier-Bell, SUN Lyricist, Sir Tim Rice and the Singer, Paul Jones. SUN SUN Born 16 April 1934; died 4 January 2016 aged 81 SUN SUN Patricia Torrens SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her goddaughter, Jane Carter. SUN SUN Born 1922; died 31 December 2015 aged 94 SUN SUN Pierre Boulez SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Former Controller of BBC Radio 3, Roger SUN Wright. SUN SUN Born 26 March 1925; died 5 January 2016 aged 90 SUN SUN Lord Ezra MBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to former BBC Industrial Correspondent, Nick SUN Jones. SUN SUN Born 23 February 1919; died 22 December 2015 aged 96 SUN SUN Natalie Cole SUN SUN Born 6 February 1950; died 31 December 2015 aged 65 SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06vf0cb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06vjh95 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b06tvm7c (Listen) SUN The Business of Trust SUN SUN The revelation that Volkswagen cheated emissions tests is SUN the latest in a line of scandals that have dented the SUN public's faith in business since 2008's financial crisis. SUN SUN It was seen as a betrayal of trust. But just what is trust SUN and how important is it in business? And, once it has been SUN lost, can it ever be won back? SUN SUN The editor of Management Today, Matthew Gwyther, interviews SUN Rupert Stadler, the chairman of Audi - which is part of the SUN VW group. SUN SUN He also speaks to the chairman of the John Lewis SUN Partnership, Charlie Mayfield, and former chief of Severn SUN Trent Water and Jaguar, Sir John Egan. SUN SUN The former EMEA head of public relations firm Edelman, SUN Robert Phillips, explores PR's influence on trust and Nobel SUN Prize winning economist and author Professor Robert Shiller SUN gives his thoughts. SUN SUN Amid all the negativity about business, Rachel Botsman - who SUN is an expert on the collaborative economy - offers some SUN hope. SUN SUN Producer: Keith Moore. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06vjbvt (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06vjm5g (Listen) SUN Kevin Maguire of The Mirror analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06tvm6x (Listen) SUN Eddie Redmayne SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Eddie Redmayne reveals the research he undertook for The SUN Danish Girl, a new drama about transgender pioneer Lili SUN Elbe, and what he observed about women's body language. SUN SUN Celia Johnson's daughter Lucy Fleming talks about her coda SUN to Brief Encounter, written exclusively for The Film SUN Programme. SUN SUN Borgen writer Tobias Lindholm discusses A War, his new SUN thriller about Danish troops serving in Afghanistan, and why SUN that conflict has defined his generation in Denmark. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Eddie Redmayne SUN Interviewed Guest: Lucy Fleming SUN Interviewed Guest: Tobias Lindholm SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06vjh8z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 JANUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06vjbx5 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06tvbpj (Listen) MON The end of 'careers', Humour at work MON MON Identity and work: Laurie Taylor explores selfhood in an era MON in which our working lives are becoming increasingly MON uncertain. He talks to Jesse Potter, lecturer in Sociology MON at Canterbury Christ Church University and author of a new MON study which interviewed people who'd undergone profound MON work-life changes. How do individuals achieve meaning and MON fulfilment when their productive lives fail to satisfy? MON Also, Paula Jarzabkowski, Professor of Strategic Management MON at City University London considers how employees use humour MON to cope with paradox and change. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Paula Jarzabkowski at City University, London MON Jesse Potter at the London School of Economics and Political MON Science MON MON MON MON Jesse Potter, *Crisis at Work: Identity and the End MON of Career*, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06vjfp2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06vjbx7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06vjbx9 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06vjbxc (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06vjbxf (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06w4rm8 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Krish MON Kandiah, President of the London School of Theology. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06vjstg (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06vjbxh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0sc8 (Listen) MON Kakapo MON MON Michael Palin presents the New Zealand Kakapo, high on the MON ferny slopes of its island fortress off the coast of New MON Zealand. Kakapos are flightless and the heaviest parrots in MON the world. They're also called owl-parrots from their MON nocturnal habits and open owlish expressions. Like owls MON their plumage is richly mottled although no owl shares their MON beautiful moss-green tones. MON MON Kakapos also have a curious mating strategy. The males MON gather at traditional "leks" or display areas to attract MON mates. At the top of a wooded ridge, the male digs one or MON more a bowl- like depressions in the ground which function MON as an amplifier. He then takes a deep breath, swells his MON throat-pouch like a balloon then releases the air with a MON soft booming call which can carry up to five kilometres. MON MON This sound can now only be heard on a handful of offshore MON islands. The kakapo story is tragically familiar. Flightless MON and ground-nesting, it was helpless in the face of settlers MON who logged its forests and introduced cats and rats which MON slaughtered the birds. Between 1987 and 1992 the last MON surviving kakapos were relocated to predator-free islands. MON Now following intensive care and a national conservation MON strategy, there are about 130 kakapos in the wild. MON MON Kakapo (Strigops habroptila) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of MON Kākāpō Recovery MON MON © MON Kākāpō Recovery MON MON 06:00 Today b06vjstj (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06vjstl (Listen) MON Russia: Tsars to Putin MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks at Russia from the MON heyday of the Soviet Empire to its transformation under MON Putin. The historian Simon Sebag Montefiore writes about the MON Romanovs, the most successful dynasty of modern times, while MON Amanda Vickery highlights a moment of defiance and triumph MON during WW2's siege of Leningrad. The journalist Arkady MON Ostrovsky charts the huge changes that have taken place, MON from Perestroika to corporate state. And David Aaronovitch MON explores the emotional pull of communism in Britain through MON the story of his family and their ties to The Party. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Simon Sebag Montefiore MON Interviewed Guest: Amanda Vickery MON Interviewed Guest: Arkady Ostrovsky MON Interviewed Guest: David Aaronovitch MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06x8vq2 (Listen) MON The Vanishing Man, Episode 1 MON MON Laura Cumming charts the obsession of a 19th century Reading MON bookseller with a portrait of Charles I - painted when the MON Monarch was a young man on a visit to Madrid. The Spanish MON genius Velasquez painted very few pictures, so did John MON Snare discover a long-lost treasure? And if so, where is it MON now? MON MON This is a story about the intense emotions that great art MON can provoke - passions that sometimes verge on the MON irrational and which transcend considerations of value. MON MON John Snare's conviction about the painting he bought evolved MON into a dispute with those who had more money, power and MON influence. In a sense, the missing Velasquez became a MON battleground for class war and the individual against the MON establishment. MON MON But at the heart of the story lies a work of art, created MON with such skill and delicacy that it inspired the fiercest MON of feelings and continues to exert its mysterious pull to MON this day. MON MON Read by Siobhan Redmond MON Written by Laura Cumming MON Abridged by Isobel Creed MON MON Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Siobhan Redmond MON Author: Laura Cumming MON Abridger: Isobel Creed MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06vjstq (Listen) MON Tracey Ullman, Tulip Siddiq MP on parliamentary voting, MON Burdening women with social care MON MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06vjsts (Listen) MON Beloved, Episode 6 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 When Sethe welcomed him into her house, Paul D. thought that MON life had thrown him a second chance. But then Beloved MON arrived and he was unable to resist her advances. Now he MON must steady himself to face the consequences. 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 Beloved: Gugu Mbatha-Raw MON Stamp Paid: Richard Pepple MON Baby Suggs: Alibe Parsons MON Director: Sasha Yevtushenko MON Author: Toni Morrison MON Adaptor: Patricia Cumper MON MON 11:00 The Untold b06vjstv (Listen) MON High Stakes MON MON Grace Dent presents a new series documenting the untold MON dramas of 21st century Britain. MON MON The stakes couldn't be higher for 26 year old Steve: he MON needs to prove he's quit gambling by Christmas in order to MON move back in with his partner and two kids. MON MON Steve and Stacey met as teenagers ten years ago but Stacey MON kicked him out when she discovered he was gambling away MON thousands of pounds on smartphone apps. Things came to a MON head when Steve blew his entire wage packet in just one hour MON - on payday - leading Stacey and their children facing MON eviction. MON MON Steve lost everything - can he win back Stacey's trust in MON time for a happy Christmas in the family home? MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b01p424k (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 2 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 Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, to MON discuss kid's TV-rage, underwear odysseys, and supercilious MON sea eagles. MON MON Additional material by Pete Sinclair. MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06vjbxk (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b06kvfr5 (Listen) MON 11 January 1916 - Dorothea Winwood MON MON On this day the Allies occupied the Kaiser's villa on Corfu, MON and Nell is shocked by news of a patient close to her heart. MON MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Directed by Allegra McIlroy MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley MON Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads MON Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair MON Dr Henry Streatfield: Chris Pavlo MON Len Reeves: Darren Swift MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Allegra McIlroy MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06wc6qp (Listen) MON Slimming clubs, Criminal record checks, Unicom MON MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06vjbxm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06wc449 (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 The Ever Widening War b06vjv0x (Listen) MON The War of Empires MON MON The First World War began as a local conflict between MON Austria-Hungary and its Serbian neighbour but, by the summer MON of 1918, more than 70 million military personnel were MON mobilised worldwide. In the first programme of his new MON series, Professor Sir Christopher Clark explores this MON transition from a continental war to a world war and shows MON how the imperial nature of the main belligerent powers MON ensured, from the outset, that this would be a war on a MON global scale. MON MON As a result, the First World War was fought by people of all MON races and nationalities. This multinational character was MON expressed most strongly on the Western Front where a MON constellation of different nations, cultures and races MON worked and fought together. At Brookwood Military Cemetery MON in Surrey, Chris visits the First World War graves of men MON from all over the British Empire and marvels at the power of MON imperialism to mobilise men from across the globe. MON MON With Margaret Macmillan, Hew Strachan, Tim Harper and Glynn MON Prysor. MON MON Sir Christopher Clark is Regius Professor of History at the MON University of Cambridge. He is the author of Kaiser Wilhelm MON II: A Life in Power, Iron Kingdom and - most recently - the MON highly acclaimed and award-winning The Sleepwalkers: How MON Europe Went To War. In 2014, he presented Month of Madness MON on BBC Radio 4 about the outbreak of the First World War. MON You can listen to that series online by visiting MON http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t7p27 or clicking on the MON related link below. MON MON Produced by Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06vjlv5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b036k3sc (Listen) MON James Lees-Milne, Sometimes into the Arms of God MON MON by Christopher William Hill MON MON Once described as 'the man who saved England', James MON Lees-Milne's work for the National Trust in the 1930s and MON 40s was instrumental in securing innumerable architectural MON gems for the nation. His waspish and witty diaries, which MON have inspired these three linked plays, chart the decline MON and fall of the English country house. MON It's 1942 and Lees-Milne is billeted with the National Trust MON at West Wycombe Park - a world away from Blitz-ridden MON London. Lees-Milne is a rising star of the Trust. Invalided MON out of the army, he's looking for his own battles to fight MON and is determined to save the house and preserve it for the MON nation. But times are hard and the Trust is reliant on a MON considerable endowment before they can acquire a property - MON an endowment which the incumbent inhabitants, Johnnie and MON Helen Dashwood, can ill-afford to pay. Helen is an imperious MON host, but is desperate for paying guests - so when Nancy MON Mitford comes to stay, she's welcomed with open arms. MON Lees-Milne is delighted for the distraction, but it's MON difficult for guests to throw themselves into the house MON party spirit in sub-zero conditions. Fortunately, Nancy is MON obsessed with the Antarctic explorers and Captain Scott, MON even nicknaming the upstairs lavatory 'The Beardmore' (after MON the glacier of the same name), much to Helen's chagrin. But MON it's a brittle peace, as cloistered together, all the guests MON attempt to block out the war for as long as possible. MON MON Produced & directed by Marion Nancarrow MON MON The three plays star Tobias Menzies (Rome; Game of Thrones ) MON as James Lees-Milne and Victoria Hamilton (Lark Rise to MON Candleford; Doctor Foster) as the novelist Nancy Mitford and MON chart four years during the war when Lees-Milne was at his MON most industrious, trying to save properties for the National MON Trust. In this first play, Samuel Barnett (The History Boys; MON Twenty Twelve) makes a guest appearance as Cecil Beaton. MON MON Credits MON James Lees-Milne: Tobias Menzies MON Nancy Mitford: Victoria Hamilton MON Eddy Sackville-West: David Seddon MON Cecil Beaton: Samuel Barnett MON Helen Dashwood: Joanna Brookes MON Miss Paterson: Joanna Brookes MON Johnnie Dashwood: Sean Murray MON Haines: Ben Crowe MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON Writer: Christopher William Hill MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b06vjv12 (Listen) MON Heat 1, 2016 MON MON (1/17) MON Russell Davies hosts the quiz that's been testing the MON general knowledge of the general public for longer than any MON other. Now in its 63rd season, Brain of Britain returns with MON another 48 quiz enthusiasts from around the UK competing for MON the title Brain of Britain 2016. MON MON The first heat of the new series draws together competitors MON from Cardiff, Shrewsbury, St Andrews and Haddenham in MON Buckinghamshire. At least one of them will be going forward MON to the semi-final stage in the spring. There are also MON semi-final places for the top-scoring runners-up, so those MON pipped in close contests can often get a second chance. MON MON Russell will also be selecting a pair of questions submitted MON by a listener in a bid to 'Beat the Brains'. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06vjhl5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b06vk6fm (Listen) MON Helen Baxendale MON MON Actress Helen Baxendale chooses favourite pieces of writing, MON including poems by WB Yeats, Seamus Heaney and Edward Lear. MON Readers are fellow-'Cuckoo' stars, Esther Wilson and the MON comedian Greg Davies. MON MON Star of 'Cold Feet', 'Friends' and 'An Unsuitable Job for a MON Woman', Helen reveals how she experienced love at first MON sight when she was introduced to fellow actor, David L MON Williams, at a rehearsal for one of her choices, 'La Ronde', MON by Arthur Schnitzler. On the preview night for the play, the MON director asked Helen and David to appear naked in one of the MON scenes together. This was Helen's parents' first MON introduction to the father of their grandchildren, naked on MON stage. MON MON Helen's other book choices include 'The Poisonwood Bible' by MON Barbara Kingsolver, 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' by John MON Irving, and the lyrics to 'The Whole of the Moon' by The MON Waterboys. MON MON Funny, touching and revealing about one of Britain's great MON comic actresses, Helen's 'With Great Pleasure' was recorded MON in her home and reflects a more intimate atmosphere. MON MON Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Helen Baxendale MON Reader: Esther Wilson MON Reader: Greg Davies MON Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b06vk6fp (Listen) MON France MON MON From the Charlie Hebdo shootings a year ago to the November MON terrorist atrocities in Paris, a string of Islamist attacks MON has left French society reeling in the face of home-grown MON terror. The events raise many issues, including the nature MON of religious and cultural integration in France. Secularism MON is a defining principle of the State. Faith is practiced in MON private and not in public. However, the way the French MON government is applying the concept of "Laïcité" has come MON under increasing criticism. MON MON Ernie Rea discusses religion in secular France with Kay MON Chadwick, Reader in French Historical Studies at Liverpool MON University; Mona Siddiqui, professor of Islamic and MON Inter-religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh; and MON Natasha Lehrer, writer and literary editor of the Jewish MON Quarterly. MON MON Producer: MON Dan Tierney MON MON Series producer: MON Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b06wc755 (Listen) MON News interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06vjbxp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b06vk8xv (Listen) MON Series 8, Walsh, Dubner, Bramwell MON MON This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his new MON curator Sarah Millican welcome Holly Walsh, comedian, MON would-be medieval scholar and host of Radio 4's hit panel MON show Best Behaviour; Stephen J. Dubner, the co-author of MON Freakonomics, a best-selling book that turned our MON understanding of economics on its head; and Dr David MON Bramwell, the author, comedian, and adventurer whose book MON The No. 9 Bus To Utopia recounts his year-long pilgrimage in MON search of a Better Life. MON MON This week, the Museum's Guest Committee speculate on what MON drove medieval monks to draw obscene doodles on sacred MON manuscripts; why a mind-reading microchip could see the end MON of civilisation as we know it; and an interesting theory MON about who all those streakers were at 1970 sports events. MON MON The show was researched by Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of MON QI. MON MON The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Lloyd MON Presenter: Sarah Millican MON Interviewed Guest: Holly Walsh MON Interviewed Guest: Stephen Dubner MON Interviewed Guest: David Bramwell MON Producer: Richard Turner MON Producer: James Harkin MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06vk8xz (Listen) MON Matthew the milker is making his mark. And what is the MON crisis at Bridge Farm? MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06wc64p (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06vjsts (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Abuse Trial b06vk8y1 (Listen) MON Historical sex abuse cases have been widely covered in the MON media during recent years, but what really happens inside a MON police investigation into such a case? Journalist David MON Nolan tells a very personal story of the biggest historical MON sex abuse case ever mounted by Greater Manchester Police. MON MON For nearly 20 years, a teacher called Alan Morris abused MON boys at St Ambrose College, a school in south Manchester. MON Decades later, a group of ex-pupils came together and MON brought him to justice. MON MON David Nolan is a journalist and author. He was also a boy at MON St Ambrose College during Morris' reign of terror. MON MON David was due to give evidence in court but withdrew it in MON order to follow the case as a journalist. With the support MON of the investigating officers and the Crown Prosecution MON Service, not to mention the dozens of former-pupils who came MON forward, David followed every detail of the investigation MON and the court cases that followed. MON MON How do the victims deal with their experiences as they go MON through the court process? How do officers deal with the raw MON emotions of the victims, and with the revulsion they feel MON about the crimes they are investigating? MON MON On 4th August 2014 Alan Morris was found guilty of all of MON the 19 counts he was facing. He was sentenced to nine years MON in prison. MON MON Hearing from the victims, the police, prosecutors and police MON interviews with the perpetrator himself, this programme MON tells the inside story of that investigation and the process MON of trying to achieve justice for victims. MON MON A PRA production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b06tvgnz (Listen) MON Brazil Versus Sleaze MON MON Brazil is in crisis. Confronted with a massive downturn in MON the economy, its currency has crashed, while its political MON class sinks in a quagmire of corruption allegations linked MON to the state oil company, Petrobras. In the northern state MON of Maranhao - dominated for decades by the powerful Sarney MON family - a new governor from the Communist Party of Brazil MON is attempting to bring a fresh broom to one of the country's MON most undeveloped states. Already he claims to have cut MON expenses by millions of Reals just by removing seafood and MON champagne from state banquet menus. But the malaise runs MON deep in Maranhao. In the small community of Bom Jardim, a MON 25-year-old mayor is under house arrest accused of skimming MON the education budget and running council business remotely MON using WhatsApp. And with the cancelling of a project to MON build a huge Petrobras refinery, Maranhao is feeling the MON economic pressure. Linda Pressly reports from one of MON Brazil's least known regions. MON MON 21:00 Putting Science to Work b06trd1z (Listen) MON Sugar MON MON The recent Public Health England report on sugar reduction MON recommended that we slash the amount of sugar we eat to just MON seven teaspoons a day. MON MON Diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity have all been MON linked to high sugar intake. Treating obesity and its MON consequences alone costs the NHS £5.1m per year. MON MON Jim Al-Khalili invites three scientific experts from MON different disciplines into the studio to present the MON evidence behind their strategy to reduce our sugar intake: MON MON - Dr Peter Scarborough, a mathematician from the Nuffield MON Department of Public Health at Oxford has been analysing MON sugar taxes MON - Prof Theresa Marteau, a behavioural psychologist from the MON University of Cambridge, studies the effects of portion MON sizes MON - Jenny Arthur, Director of Innovation and Nutrition at MON Leatherhead Food Research is experimenting with the MON microscopic structure of sugar particles MON MON Producer: Michelle Martin. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06vjstl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06vjbxy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06vk8y5 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06vk8y7 (Listen) MON The Beach, Episode 6 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 b06vk8yc (Listen) MON Series 5, Donovan (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 7. DONOVAN talks to John Wilson about 'Sunshine MON Superman', which according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame MON "ignited the psychedelic revolution virtually MON single-handedly" when it was released in the summer of 1966. MON MON 'Sunshine Superman' is Donovan's breakthrough third album MON and a radical departure from his previous work. Born in MON Glasgow, Donovan Phillips Leitch grew up listening to his MON father reading him poetry and his family singing Scots Irish MON folk music. He began playing guitar when he was 14 and was MON 18 when he had his first hit, 'Catch the Wind'. A year later MON he began work on the album that first introduced meditation, MON Celtic mythology and Flower Power to the world. MON MON Creating a unique fusion of classical, jazz, folk, pop, MON Celtic, Latin and Indian music, the album veered from the MON LA-influenced 'The Trip' and 'The Fat Angel' (written for MON Mama Cass) to the medieval tinged 'Guinevere' and 'Legend of MON a Girl Child Linda' (written for Brian Jones' ex-girlfriend MON Linda Lawrence who became Donovan's life-long muse and MON wife). Linda is also the Sunshine Super-Girl of the song MON 'Sunshine Superman' which topped the charts on both sides of MON the Atlantic and featured a young Jimmy Page on lead guitar. 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 12th MON January at 3.30pm. MON MON Producer: Clare Walker. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06vk8yh (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 JANUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06vjbzm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06x8vq2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06vjbzp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06vjbzr (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06vjbzt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06vjbzw (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06wcvch (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Krish TUE Kandiah, President of the London School of Theology. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06vkcdy (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 b04t0skg (Listen) TUE Horned Screamer TUE TUE Michael Palin presents the Venezuelan horned screamer. TUE Sounding as if someone is using a giant plunger in the TUE Venezuelan marshes, these are the mating calls of the Horned TUE Screamer. They're sounds that only another Horned Screamer TUE could love, but then screamers are very odd birds. Over the TUE years ornithologists have struggled to classify them, modern TUE thinking puts their closest living relatives as the TUE primitive Australian Magpie Goose. TUE TUE Protruding from its head is a long wiry horn made of TUE cartilage, which could rightfully earn it the title of TUE "unicorn of the bird world" Usually seen as pairs or, TUE outside the breeding season in small groups in the marshes TUE and savannas of the northern half of South America, as you'd TUE expect from their name , they are very vocal and these TUE primeval bellows which sound more cow like than bird like TUE and can be heard up to 3 kilometers away. TUE TUE Horned screamer (Anhima cornuta) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Mark Bowler / naturepl.com. TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01257345 TUE © Mark Bowler / naturepl.com TUE TUE Recording of horned screamer by Paul A Schwartz / Ref: ML TUE 58929 TUE TUE This programme contains a TUE wildtrack recording of the horned screamer TUE kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab TUE of Ornithology; recorded by Paul A Schwartz in Sept 1964; at TUE Hato El Milago, Cojedes, Venezuela. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06vkcf0 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b06vkcf2 (Listen) TUE Online Dating and the Lonely Hearts Ad TUE TUE With the annual surge in registrations to online dating TUE sites at the start of the New Year, Jonathan Freedland takes TUE the Long View of internet dating by looking at a social TUE network devised in 1898 aimed at bringing strangers together TUE in marriage or companionship. TUE TUE The 'Round About', set up by newspaper editor and TUE philanthropist WT Stead, encouraged subscribers to submit a TUE profile and a photo and an album of users would be sent out TUE monthly to other subscribers. Potential suitors could then TUE correspond via the "Conductor" at the Central Office of the TUE publication. TUE TUE The Lonely Hearts Classified Ad was born and took off in TUE popularity at a time when the middle classes in London, TUE living increasingly in suburbia, found it difficult to make TUE romantic acquaintances. It was, however, not without TUE controversy as allegations of moral corruption flew about TUE when it was suspected that illicit liaisons were being TUE sought through the adverts. TUE TUE Producer Neil McCarthy. TUE TUE 09:30 Hidden Histories of the Information Age b04m3jcy (Listen) TUE GPS TUE TUE Soldiers traditionally learned to find their way around with TUE a compass and a map. Aleks Krotoski explores how GPS TUE transformed navigation during the first Gulf War in 1991. TUE TUE An early brick sized GPS device is on display in the TUE 'Information Age' gallery at the Science Museum in London. TUE This gallery tells the story of the evolution in how we TUE communicate with with each other. The objects in the TUE exhibition represent cultural moments from the last 200 TUE years - not just technological innovations. TUE TUE Aleks Krotoski tells the story of the development of GPS, TUE from its first use by the US military to now being a part of TUE every modern mobile phone, with Dr Tilly Blyth and Dan Green TUE of the Science Museum, historian Professor Jeremy Black of TUE Exeter University and a British soldier whose life was saved TUE by it in the first Gulf War. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06x8xqp (Listen) TUE The Vanishing Man, Episode 2 TUE TUE Laura Cumming charts the obsession of a 19th century Reading TUE bookseller with a portrait of Charles I - painted when the TUE Monarch was a young man on a visit to Madrid. The Spanish TUE genius Velasquez painted very few pictures, so did John TUE Snare discover a long-lost treasure? And if so, where is it TUE now? TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE The portrait is set before the public and the press in the TUE spring of 1847. Snare is determined that his discovery TUE should be recognised as a work by the great Spanish court TUE painter, but not everybody is willing to agree with him. TUE TUE This is a story about the intense emotions that great art TUE can provoke - passions that sometimes verge on the TUE irrational and which transcend considerations of value. TUE TUE John Snare's conviction about the painting he bought evolved TUE into a dispute with those who had more money, power and TUE influence. In a sense, the missing Velasquez became a TUE battleground for class war and the individual against the TUE establishment. TUE TUE But at the heart of the story lies a work of art, created TUE with such skill and delicacy that it inspired the fiercest TUE of feelings and continues to exert its mysterious pull to TUE this day. TUE TUE Read by Siobhan Redmond TUE Abridged by Isobel Creed TUE Produced by Jill Waters TUE TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Siobhan Redmond TUE Author: Laura Cumming TUE Abridger: Isobel Creed TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06wc86x (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 b06vkcf4 (Listen) TUE Beloved, Episode 7 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 Paul D. learns about what happened eighteen years ago when TUE Schoolteacher, the man who ran the farm where Sethe was a TUE slave, arrived at 124 Bluestone Road and attempted to TUE reclaim Sethe and her children. TUE TUE The drama is true to the novel's uncompromising depiction of TUE this event, portraying the violent horror and brutality of TUE slavery. TUE TUE Original music by Jon Nicholls TUE Singing arranged by Dominique Le Gendre TUE Sound design by Caleb Knightley TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Adjoa Andoh TUE Sethe: Nadine Marshall TUE Paul D: Danny Sapani TUE Stamp Paid: Richard Pepple TUE Baby Suggs: Alibe Parsons TUE Schoolteacher: Brian Protheroe TUE Nephew: George Watkins TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Author: Toni Morrison TUE Adaptor: Patricia Cumper TUE TUE 11:00 Is Ignorance Bliss? b0639xsw (Listen) TUE In an age where we are saturated with information are we TUE ever better off just 'not knowing'? Could 'not knowing' TUE improve our memory, enhance our learning and even making us TUE happier? TUE TUE As someone who is occupationally immersed in information, TUE author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera sets out to discover TUE if ignorance really is bliss. TUE TUE Leading us gently through a journey of the 'unknown', TUE Sathnam meets scientists and psychologists who are TUE investigating the realms of ignorance. TUE TUE James Carse, Professor Emeritus at NYU has identified three TUE types of ignorance - ordinary, wilful and higher, and says TUE that this is a subject area he just can't resist talking TUE about. Carse's research takes us back to a small group of TUE medieval monks who dedicated their life to 'not knowing'. TUE TUE Jumping back into the 21st Century Sathnam will join Lisa TUE Son of Columbia University. She has conducted recent studies TUE into the virtues of ignorance and how the process of TUE ignorance can actually enhance our memory and learning. TUE TUE Talking about education, Professor of Biology Stuart TUE Firestein runs a course on ignorance - it's one of his most TUE popular classes and basically involves a group of very smart TUE people talking about what they don't know. TUE TUE Alongside the 'science of ignorance' will be a healthy dose TUE of personal reflection from those who have chosen ignorance TUE as a way of life, including musician Johnny Borrell who TUE boycotted the news as he believes you can find out more TUE truth by walking down the street with a guitar. TUE TUE Produced in Bristol by Nicola Humphries. TUE TUE 11:30 Syrena Songs b06vkcf6 (Listen) TUE Syrena Records was created in 1904. Selling millions of TUE discs to new audiences hungry for shellac delights. Opera TUE singers, cantors, novelty songs. Success allowed founder TUE Juliusz Fejgenbaum to invest in state of the art recording TUE technology. By the time independent Poland was reborn in TUE 1918 Syrena was well placed to shape the sound of a nation. TUE Hot tango and jazz were performed by superb musicians and TUE singers, mostly Jewish, mostly of a generation breaking away TUE from the old world and facing the new. Adam Aston, Hanka TUE Ordonka, Henryk Wars, Micheslaw Fogg and others cut disc TUE after disc before playing in the elite night clubs of TUE Warsaw. Some 14,000 records by artists at the top of their TUE game, along with attempts to capture the social life of a TUE Polish nation in troubling times. Speeches, comedy skits, TUE significant moments in national life were added to the TUE outpourings of Yiddish tango, slinky foxtrots, romantic TUE ballads. Records in Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish & Russian. Songs TUE such as Gloomy Sunday and Donna Clara went international. In TUE 1939 invasion & war ended Syrena and the Polish nation. Its TUE factory and archives destroyed, its artists murdered or TUE scattered in exile. But there was one last tune to play. TUE Henryk Wars, musical director at Syrena formed an orchestra TUE that became the soundtrack of a nation in exile and in TUE uniform. From Tehran to Palestine to the rock of Monte TUE Casino ,those musicians and singers that had once been the TUE heart of Syrena now played songs of a lost nation before TUE creating the anthemic The Red Poppies of Monte Casino. TUE Monica Whitlock tells Syrena's story and travels to Warsaw TUE to hear from a 102 year old who can remember the label's TUE founder & from a new generation of musicians recreating TUE Syrena's sound. TUE TUE Producer-Mark Burman. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06vjbzy (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b06kvfsw (Listen) TUE 12 January 1916 - Sylvia Graham TUE TUE On this day the South Wales Miners voted to oppose TUE conscription, and in Folkestone Sylvia Graham has a change TUE of heart. TUE TUE Written by Sarah Daniels TUE Directed by Allegra McIlroy TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sylvia Graham: Joanna David TUE Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Hilary Pearce: Craige Els TUE Ruth Billings: Katie Redford TUE Alec Poole: Tom Stuart TUE Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy TUE Esme Macknade: Katie Angelou TUE Nancy Parker: Jane Whittenshaw TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Allegra McIlroy TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06vkdyx (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06vjc00 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06wc86z (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 The Ever Widening War b06wc871 (Listen) TUE Holy War TUE TUE In November 1914 the Ottoman Empire formally declared 'holy TUE war' against Britain, France and Russia. In the second TUE programme of his new series, Professor Sir Christopher Clark TUE explores how the entry of the Ottoman Empire into the First TUE World War brought the Middle East into the conflict, with TUE consequences that are still felt today. TUE TUE Chris travels to Gallipoli to visit the battlefields where TUE thousands of allied troops, including Australian and New TUE Zealanders, encountered a forceful foe in the Ottoman TUE Turkish army, under the command of Mustafa Kamal, later TUE known as Atatürk. As an Australian, Chris remarks on how the TUE memory of the doomed Gallipoli campaign became a unifying TUE legend for the young Australian nation. He is accompanied in TUE Gallipoli by Professor Mustafa Aksakal, who explains how TUE Gallipoli was also birthplace of the new Turkish republic TUE and has a special significance in modern day Turkey. TUE TUE Sir Christopher Clark is Regius Professor of History at the TUE University of Cambridge. He is the author of Kaiser Wilhelm TUE II: A Life in Power, Iron Kingdom and - most recently - the TUE highly acclaimed and award-winning The Sleepwalkers: How TUE Europe Went To War. In 2014, he presented Month of Madness TUE on BBC Radio 4 about the outbreak of the First World War. TUE You can listen to that series online by visiting TUE http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t7p27 or clicking on the TUE related link below. TUE TUE Produced by Melissa FitzGerald TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06vk8xz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b06vkdyz (Listen) TUE Original Death Rabbit TUE TUE By Rose Heiney TUE TUE The girl who started a meme, the girl behind the 'death TUE rabbiting' internet sensation wants to tell you her story. TUE The tale of how she became a global online brand and how the TUE rest of the her life simultaneously came crashing down. TUE TUE Jessie Cave stars as 'the Death Rabbit' in this modern tale TUE of narcissism, mental health and internet addiction. TUE TUE Directed by Helen Perry TUE A BBC Cymru Wales Production TUE TUE Jessie Cave is an actress, writer, comedian and cartoonist TUE who is best known for her role as Lavender Brown in the TUE Harry Potter film series. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Rose Heiney TUE Original Death Rabbit: Jessie Cave TUE Lisa: Jaimi Barbakoff TUE Deven: Ranjit Krishnamma TUE Therapist: Luke MacGregor TUE Director: Helen Perry TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b06vdzhw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b06vkdz1 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Donovan (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 'Sunshine Superman' (in the A-side of the programme, TUE broadcast on Monday 11th January and available online), TUE Donovan responds to questions from the audience and performs TUE exclusive live acoustic versions of some of the key tracks TUE from the album. TUE TUE Producer:. TUE TUE 16:00 The Jazz Ambassadors of the Cold War b06j6lh3 (Listen) TUE Julian Joseph tells the story of how some of the biggest TUE jazz musicians toured the world in the name of democracy, TUE only to turn the tables on the US government that had sent TUE them. TUE TUE During the Cold War, jazz was used as an instrument of TUE global diplomacy. In an attempt to improve America's image TUE abroad, a US State Department cultural programme sent out TUE such jazz masters as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and TUE Dizzy Gillespie. TUE TUE Jazz pianist, composer and broadcaster Julian Joseph TUE recounts how, between 1954 and 1968, these 'jazz TUE ambassadors' performed unlikely concerts in countries such TUE as Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, the TUE Congo, Yugoslavia and Russia. TUE TUE But soon.,the contradictions began to occur to the musicians TUE - they represented a liberal America, yet at home they still TUE lived in a segregated society, with the Civil Rights TUE Movement in full flow. The project exposed the often TUE complicated and sometimes conflicted politics of the US TUE government. TUE TUE As the tours continued, the State Department's master plan TUE had unanticipated consequences. The jazz luminaries did not TUE always play ball and, in some cases, used their position to TUE express their own politics. TUE TUE Contributors include: Dizzy Gillespie's drummer, Charli TUE Persip; jazz impresario George Wein; Penny Von Eschen, TUE Professor of History at the University of Michigan; and TUE Louis Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi. TUE TUE Producer: Dom Byrne TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b06vkdz3 (Listen) TUE Series 38, Susan Calman on Molly Weir TUE TUE Matthew Parris invites his guests to nominate the person who TUE they feel is a great life. Comedian Susan Calman chooses the TUE Scottish actress Molly Weir who began her long career on TUE radio before moving into television and becoming one of the TUE first Scottish female voices on national media in the 1950s. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Susan Calman TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06wcvck (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06vjc02 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06vkg1w (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Swimsman TUE TUE When Milton discovers the local lido is under threat of TUE closure he unwisely decides to organise a sit-in. But his TUE dreams for a state-of-the-art aquacentre are sunk when his TUE trunks are declared a biohazard. TUE TUE Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they TUE think is 'Help!'. Because each week, Milton and his trusty TUE assistant Anton (played by Milton regular, Tom Goodman-Hill) TUE set out to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a TUE new adventure. Because when you're close to the edge, then TUE Milton can give you a push. TUE TUE "Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a TUE flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners" - The TUE Guardian. TUE TUE "King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times TUE TUE "If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The TUE Daily Mail TUE TUE Written by Milton with James Cary (Bluestone 42, Miranda), TUE and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 show House Of TUE Rooms) the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton", TUE returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a TUE shipload of new jokes. TUE TUE The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ( Spamalot, Mr. TUE Selfridge) as the ever-faithful Anton, Josie Lawrence and TUE Dan Tetsell. 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 Anton: Tom Goodman-Hill TUE Actor: Josie Lawrence TUE Actor: Dan Tetsell TUE Director: David Tyler TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06vkg1y (Listen) TUE Jennifer has a party to organise. And Phoebe faces a TUE dilemma. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06vkg20 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06vkcf4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b06vkg22 (Listen) TUE In the first of a new series, Allan Urry investigates claims TUE by former officers from one of Britain's biggest police TUE forces that they've been the victims of crimes committed by TUE their own colleagues. He hears claims of dirty tricks by a TUE secretive police unit within Greater Manchester Police which TUE some officers say have led to criminal charges against them. TUE Others say they've been unfairly targeted through the TUE internal disciplinary process, with evidence distorted and TUE statements changed. TUE TUE Are they bad cops with an axe to grind or victims of corrupt TUE practices and institutional cover up? TUE TUE Producers: Sally Chesworth and Neil Morrow. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06vjc04 (Listen) TUE Retinal implants, Pip payments TUE TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b06vkg24 (Listen) TUE Health and Exercise Inside Health Special TUE TUE We're getting fatter, living longer and doing less exercise. TUE No surprise then that osteoarthritis has increased four fold TUE over the past 50 years. TUE But in this Inside Health special Dr Mark Porter discovers TUE that most of us who suffer joint pain could transform our TUE lives, simply by building up muscle strength. TUE If you struggle to screw the top off a jar, or use your arms TUE to push yourself up out of a chair, that's a sure fire sign, TUE according to Dr Philip Conaghan, consultant rheumatologist TUE and Professor of Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University TUE of Leeds, that your muscles are weak. And the good news is TUE that building muscle strength will protect your joints, not TUE damage them, as well as reducing joint pain. TUE The bad news is that apparently age is no excuse! You can TUE (and should) keep strong, however old you are. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b06vkcf2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06vjc08 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06vkg26 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06vkg28 (Listen) TUE The Beach, Episode 7 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 b01r961y (Listen) TUE Series 2, With guest Nick Mohammed 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 fourth episode explores the theme of destiny including TUE songs on allergies and chance meetings as well as showcasing TUE Alex Horne's skills as a dream interpreter. Guest starring TUE comedian Nick Mohammed who plays with the band and has a TUE trick up his sleeve. 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 .... Nick Mohammed and The Middle School TUE Choir from Hall School, Hampstead TUE Producer .... Julia McKenzie. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06vkg2b (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 JANUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06vjc13 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06x8xqp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06vjc15 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06vjc17 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06vjc19 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06vjc1c (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06wcvdh (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Krish WED Kandiah, President of the London School of Theology. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06vkg9y (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0sqd (Listen) WED Greater Roadrunner WED WED Michael Palin presents the greater roadrunner of south WED western North America. A cuckoo that can run at 20 miles per WED hour and snap up venomous reptiles might not seem destined WED for cartoon fame, but that's exactly what happened to the WED Greater Roadrunner. WED WED The loud "beep-beep" call of the Warner Brothers cartoon WED creation, always out-foxing his arch-enemy Wile-E. Coyote WED brought this very odd member of the cuckoo family racing WED into the living rooms of the western world from 1949 onwards WED . Greater roadrunners live in dry sunny places in the south WED western states of North America, where their long-tailed, WED bushy--crested, streaky forms are a common sight. They will WED eat almost anything from scorpions to rats, outrunning small WED rodents and lizards and even leaping into the air to catch WED flying insects. WED WED As it runs across the desert, the roadrunner's footprints WED show two toes pointing forward and two backwards. The "X" WED shape this forms was considered a sacred symbol by Pueblo WED tribes and believed to confound evil spirits because it WED gives no clues as to which way the bird went. WED WED Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Mark Heuclin / WED naturepl.com. WED "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> WED WED NPL Ref WED 01419969 WED © Mark Heuclin / naturepl.com WED WED Recording of greater roadrunner by Nigel Tucker / Ref: ML WED 44763 WED WED This programme contains a WED wildtrack recording of the greater roadrunner WED kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab WED of Ornithology; recorded by Nigel Tucker on 14 Apr 1988, WED Arizona, United States. WED WED 06:00 Today b06vkgqy (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b06vkgr0 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06x8y06 (Listen) WED The Vanishing Man, Episode 3 WED WED Laura Cumming charts the obsession of a 19th century Reading WED bookseller with a portrait of Charles I - painted when the WED Monarch was a young man on a visit to Madrid. The Spanish WED genius Velasquez painted very few pictures, so did John WED Snare discover a long-lost treasure? And if so, where is it WED now? WED WED Episode 3: WED The Lost Velasquez is put on show in Edinburgh at the WED beginning of 1849. But soon Snare finds himself having to WED fend off not just challenges over the portrait's WED authenticity,but also overownership. WED WED This is a story about the intense emotions that great art WED can provoke - passions that sometimes verge on the WED irrational and which transcend considerations of value. WED WED John Snare's conviction about the painting he bought evolved WED into a dispute with those who had more money, power and WED influence. In a sense, the missing Velasquez became a WED battleground for class war and the individual against the WED establishment. WED WED But at the heart of the story lies a work of art, created WED with such skill and delicacy that it inspired the fiercest WED of feelings and continues to exert its mysterious pull to WED this day. WED WED Read by Siobhan Redmond WED Abridged by Isobel Creed WED Produced by Jill Waters WED WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Siobhan Redmond WED Author: Laura Cumming WED Abridger: Isobel Creed WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06vkgr2 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06vkgr4 (Listen) WED Beloved, Episode 8 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. left 124 Bluestone Road after learning about the WED terrible events of Sethe's past. Now only the women remain WED in the house, and Sethe is not the only one about to WED discover the nature of the bond that binds them together. 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 Beloved: Gugu Mbatha-Raw WED Stamp Paid: Richard Pepple WED Ella: Sharon D Clarke WED Sawyer: Brian Protheroe WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko WED Author: Toni Morrison WED Adaptor: Patricia Cumper WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04brvjf (Listen) WED William and Elizabeth - Finding Love in Orkney WED WED Fi Glover introduces a couple who moved to Orkney as WED business partners and now reflect on how they fell in love WED with the remote islands and with each other, proving again WED that 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 upload your own conversations or WED just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting WED bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Road Stories b06vkgvw (Listen) WED The Road of Terror and Death 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 Bad Salsa b06ts66c (Listen) WED Series 2, What Happens at Salsa... WED WED A second series of the sitcom about three women who meet WED during cancer treatment and start going to salsa class WED together to maintain their friendship. As they adjust to WED life after cancer they realise that they've all changed. WED This second series begins as Jill has left her husband and WED son to live at her new boyfriends' parent's house, Camille WED is planning a huge life change and Chippy has a new live-in WED wannabe step-father in the shape of Gordon from their salsa WED class. WED WED In the first episode Camille is still with Marco and reveals WED their plan to start a new life together, Jill is struggling WED with jealousy and living with Tim's parents, Chippy WED discovers what Tinder can bring and Gordon takes advantage WED of the opportunities his new salsa role offers. WED WED The series is not about cancer, but about life after cancer, WED how you cope the changes in your outlook, your desires and WED your expectations. It's also about how other people cope WED with the change in you. WED WED Written by Kay Stonham WED WED Produced and directed by Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED Credits WED Chippy: Sharon Rooney WED Jill: Natasha Little WED Terri: Camille Coduri WED Marco: Derek Elroy WED Gordon: Andrew Obeney WED Georgie: Emily Chase WED Joel: Joe Johnsey WED Marnie: Jessica Turner WED Writer: Kay Stonham WED Director: Alison Vernon-Smith WED Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06vjc1f (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b06kvfzj (Listen) WED 13 January 1916 WED WED Epic drama series set in Great War Britain. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06vkj1y (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06vjc1h (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06wc8fb (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 The Ever Widening War b06wc8fd (Listen) WED The White War WED WED Professor Sir Christopher Clark travels to the Julian Alps WED in Slovenia on the 1914 border between Austria-Hungary and WED Italy. This was the scene of some of the harshest fighting WED to take place during the war. He examines why Italy entered WED the war on the side of Britain, France and Russia and traces WED Mussolini's post-war rise to power back to Italy's WED involvement in the First World War. WED WED Chris explores how the mountainous landscape shaped the WED nature of fighting on this front, where troops fought at WED altitudes of up to 12,000 feet in temperatures as low as WED -30ºC. Even today, warmer summers are releasing corpses and WED other material from their icy tombs. The river Soca, or WED Isonzo as it is known in Italian, has a similar burden of WED associations that the Somme does to the British because the WED Italians lost half of their entire war casualty here. WED WED With Mark Thompson and Željko Cimpric. WED WED Sir Christopher Clark is Regius Professor of History at the WED University of Cambridge. He is the author of Kaiser Wilhelm WED II: A Life in Power, Iron Kingdom and - most recently - the WED highly acclaimed and award-winning The Sleepwalkers: How WED Europe Went To War. In 2014, he presented Month of Madness WED on BBC Radio 4 about the outbreak of the First World War. WED You can listen to that series online by visiting WED http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t7p27 or clicking on the WED related link below. WED WED Produced by Melissa FitzGerald WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06vkg1y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Tumanbay b06vkj20 (Listen) WED A Tale of Two Cities 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 While the sultan dreams of victory against rebellious WED provincial leader Maya, Gregor is in pursuit of missing WED slave-girl Sarah (Nina Yndis) and must venture into the WED catacombs beneath the city, haven to those who wish to WED escape the brutality of the city above. 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 Producers - Emma Hearn, Nadir Khan, John Dryden WED WED Written by Mike Walker WED Directed by John Dryden 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 Frog: Deeivya Meir WED Frog's Mother: Sirine Saba WED Sarah: Nina Yndis WED Ibn: Nabil Elouahabi WED Maya's Envoy: Nadir Khan WED Madu: Danny Ashok WED Daniel: Gareth Kennerley WED Slave: Akin Gazi WED Al-Ghuri: Raad Rawi WED General Qulan: Christopher Fulford WED Manel: Aiysha Hart WED Grassic: John Sessions WED Physician: Vivek Madan WED Boy: Darwin Brokenbro WED Actor: Laure Stockley WED Actor: Vivek Madan WED Actor: Stefano Braschi 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 b06vkj22 (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b06vkg24 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06vkj24 (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06vkj3p (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06vkjby (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06vjc1k (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 It's Jocelyn b06vkjc0 (Listen) WED New sketch show from comedian Jocelyn Jee Esien. Characters WED include Dionne Button MP, a power hungry traffic warden and WED a bad-tempered couple running a takeaway. 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 b06vkjc2 (Listen) WED Wassail, wassail all over the town! (Our Queen needs advice WED - parents, don't let her down.). WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06vkjc4 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06vkgr4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b06vkjg6 (Listen) WED Series 5, 13/01/2016 WED WED Andrew Rawnsley presents the live debate programme which WED emulates a newspaper leader conference that decides the WED editorials which will appear in its pages the next day. He WED is joined by five prominent journalists who write leading WED articles for major newspapers across the United Kingdom. WED Three subjects in the news will be chosen for debate and the WED panel will then determine - after lively argument - what WED should be said about them. Two of the subjects debated will WED 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, Andrew will invite WED one of his guests - different in each case - to draw up on WED air, without notice, the leader for that subject and to set WED out what it will say. All three leading articles will be WED published on the Radio 4 website the following day. WED WED Those taking part this week: Ruth Sunderland (Daily Mail), WED Ben Chacko (Morning Star), Caroline Daniel (FT Weekend), WED Callum Baird (The National) and Ed Carr (The Economist). WED WED Producer: Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06vkktf (Listen) WED Positively Medieval WED WED Lucy Allen argues that the way in which medieval society is WED often presented - as indifferent to sexual violence against WED women - is wrong. WED WED Lucy is an academic at Cambridge University, and she WED recounts a disagreement with a colleague about the realism WED of violence depicted in the TV show Game of Thrones. In WED fact, she says, medieval monarchs were passing laws against WED sexual violence in wartime, and some medieval literature WED reflects a nuanced understanding of trauma caused by rape. WED WED Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton. WED WED 21:00 Science Stories b06vkkth (Listen) WED Series 2, How an Eel Sparked Our Interest in Electricity WED WED Naomi Alderman presents an alternate history of electricity. WED This is not a story of power stations, motors and wires. WED It's a story of how the electric eel and its cousin the WED torpedo fish, led to the invention of the first battery; and WED how, in time, the shocking properties of these slippery WED creatures gave birth to modern neuroscience.Our fascination WED with electric fish and their ability to deliver an almighty WED shock - enough to kill a horse - goes back to ancient times. WED And when Alessandro Volta invented the first battery in WED 1800, the electric eel was a vital source of inspiration. In WED inventing the battery, Volta claimed to have disproved the WED idea of 'animal electricity' but 200 years later, scientists WED studying our brains revealed that it's thanks to the WED electricity in our nerve cells that we are able to move, WED think and feel. So, it seems, an idea that was pushed out of WED science and into fiction, when Mary Shelley invented WED Frankenstein, is now alive and well and delivering insight WED once again into what it means to be alive. WED WED Producer: Anna Buckley. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06vkgr0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06vkktk (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06vnmy7 (Listen) WED The Beach, Episode 8 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 b06vnmy9 (Listen) WED Series 3, Medical WED WED What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new WED comedy from Frank Skinner returning for a third series. WED Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. WED WED In this episode, Kim is not happy when a theoretical debate WED about her demise reveals Neil's yearning for an accordion. 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 b03hwd2h (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 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 JK Rowling: Abigail Burdess WED Wayne Tibley Bell: Mark Evans WED Dan Brown: Simon Kane WED William Burroughs: Simon Kane WED Sylvia Plath: Katy Wix WED Germaine Greer: Katy Wix WED Producer: Anna Silver WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b06vkl57 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 JANUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06vjc2g (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06x8y06 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06vjc2j (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06vjc2l (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06vjc2n (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06vjc2q (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06wqz81 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Krish THU Kandiah, President of the London School of Theology. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06vmpyj (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0sry (Listen) THU Snail Kite THU THU Michael Palin presents the snail kite from the Florida THU Everglades. Unlike many birds of prey which are known for THU their speed and agility, the snail kite hunts at a leisurely THU pace, one which matches its prey; and here in Florida's THU swamps, it is on the lookout for the apple snail. THU THU To pick them out of floating vegetation the kite has evolved THU long needle-like claws, and its slender, viciously - hooked THU bill is perfect for snipping the snails' muscles and THU winkling them out of their shells. Snail kites are common THU across wetlands in South and Central America, but rare in THU Florida where there are around one thousand birds. Drainage THU of these marshes has made them scarce, but popular with bird THU watchers. THU THU It's easy to see why, because snail kites are striking birds THU with their orange feet and black and red bill. The males are THU ash-grey apart from a white band at the base of their tails. THU Females and young birds are browner and more mottled. In THU times of drought, they will eat turtles, crabs or rodents, THU but these avian gourmets always return to their favourite THU dish of, escargots. THU THU Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Gerrit Vyn / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01308840 THU © Gerrit Vyn / naturepl.com THU THU Recording of snail kite by William Belton / Ref: ML 20008 THU THU This programme contains a THU wildtrack recording of the snail kite THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by William Belton on 12 Nov 1978, THU Banhado Do Pontal, Brazil. THU THU 06:00 Today b06vmr1k (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b06vmr1m (Listen) THU Saturn THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet Saturn with its THU rings of ice and rock and over 60 moons. Galileo was the THU first astronomer to see the rings, and it's still not known THU how they were formed and whether they come from broken THU pieces of the moons as they crash into each other. The rings THU are each made up from many smaller rings and circle around THU Saturn at very high speeds. More information is coming from THU the NASA spacecraft Cassini, which took 7 years to reach THU Saturn from Earth and has been orbiting since 2004. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06x96bk (Listen) THU The Vanishing Man, Episode 4 THU THU Laura Cumming charts the obsession of a 19th century Reading THU bookseller with a portrait of Charles I - painted when the THU Monarch was a young man on a visit to Madrid. The Spanish THU genius Velasquez painted very few pictures, so did John THU Snare discover a long-lost treasure? And if so, where is it THU now? THU THU Episode 4: THU The Velasquez has been restored to Snare but he has now THU vanished - until the portrait is advertised for show on THU Broadway in 1860. The Reading bookseller has fled to THU America. THU THU This is a story about the intense emotions that great art THU can provoke - passions that sometimes verge on the THU irrational and which transcend considerations of value. THU THU John Snare's conviction about the painting he bought evolved THU into a dispute with those who had more money, power and THU influence. In a sense, the missing Velasquez became a THU battleground for class war and the individual against the THU establishment. THU THU But at the heart of the story lies a work of art, created THU with such skill and delicacy that it inspired the fiercest THU of feelings and continues to exert its mysterious pull to THU this day. THU THU Read by Siobhan Redmond THU Written by Laura Cumming THU Abridged by Isobel Creed THU THU Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Siobhan Redmond THU Author: Laura Cumming THU Abridger: Isobel Creed THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06vmr1p (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 b06vmr1t (Listen) THU Beloved, Episode 9 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 Only women remain at the house at 124 Bluestone Road and THU their isolation is becoming dangerous. 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 Stamp Paid: Richard Pepple THU Lady Jones: Michele Austin THU Janey: Cecilia Noble THU Director: Sasha Yevtushenko THU Author: Toni Morrison THU Adaptor: Patricia Cumper THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b06vmr1w (Listen) THU One Month in Molenbeek THU THU After the terror attacks in Paris, the world's attention THU turned to an inner-city district of the Belgian capital, THU Brussels, where several of the attackers came from. THU Molenbeek has been notorious for many years as a THU breeding-ground for Islamist extremism - and the Belgian THU government vowed to "clean it up". But do the authorities THU really have any plan to prevent the radicalisation of young THU Belgians? Tim Whewell has been travelling back and forth to THU Brussels since the Paris attacks to talk to local people as THU they hold up a mirror to themselves and search for THU explanations - and attempt to have a dialogue with a THU sometimes dysfunctional state. THU THU Lode Desmet producing. THU THU 11:30 Bus Lines b06vmw29 (Listen) THU First Bus company run a writing competition for their THU drivers. Hop on board to meet those who have taken part. THU David from Glasgow won the annual Company Short Story THU Competition with his moving tale of a homeless man, inspired THU by the tramp he spotted whilst driving through the city THU centre one Christmas; Sue loves the freedom of driving a bus THU around Bristol and writes poems and stories for her family THU to show them how much she loves them, while Lou wants to THU write a novel based on her experiences as a bus driver "You THU have a lot of weird and wonderful experiences driving a bus" THU she says "I even had passengers come to my wedding." THU THU Producer: Maggie Ayre. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06vjc2s (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b06kvg8c (Listen) THU 14 January 1916 - Isabel Graham THU THU On this day four Germans were recaptured after attempting to THU escape a Prisoner of War Camp, and Isabel discovers Belgian THU refugees in Folkestone. THU THU Written by Sarah Daniels THU Directed by Allegra McIlroy THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford THU Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom THU Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger THU Cristine: Ysabelle Cooper THU Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley THU Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads THU Nancy Parker: Jane Whittenshaw THU Emile Tourte: Stephane Cornicard THU Alphonse Duvall: Matthew Juul THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Director: Allegra McIlroy THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06vmxny (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06vjc2v (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06wqzk6 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 The Ever Widening War b06wc8mh (Listen) THU The Atlantic War THU THU The year 1917 was a watershed for WW1. It began and ended THU with two momentous events - American's entry into the war THU and Russia's collapse amidst revolution. Both events had a THU profound impact on the course of world history. In this THU programme, Professor Sir Christopher Clark focuses on 1917 THU as a turning point in the conflict, examining why America THU entered the First World War and showing how this was the THU decisive factor in the outcome of the conflict. THU THU At the Brookwood American military cemetery, Chris THU encounters German Americans among the names of the war dead THU and ponders the impact of the First World War on this ethnic THU group in America. THU THU Finally, he argues that while the war established American THU pre-eminence in the world it also turned America in on THU itself, isolating it from the world's affairs. The result THU was a vacuum at the core of the new world order - a THU dangerous lack of cohesion that would leave it vulnerable to THU further shocks. THU THU With John Thompson, Dominic Lieven, Gary Gerstle and Craig THU Rahanian. THU THU Sir Christopher Clark is Regius Professor of History at the THU University of Cambridge. He is the author of Kaiser Wilhelm THU II: A Life in Power, Iron Kingdom and - most recently - the THU highly acclaimed and award-winning The Sleepwalkers: How THU Europe Went To War. In 2014, he presented Month of Madness THU on BBC Radio 4 about the outbreak of the First World War. THU You can listen to that series online by visiting THU http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t7p27 or clicking on the THU related link below. THU THU Produced by Melissa FitzGerald THU A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06vkjc2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03j5j4c (Listen) THU Two Pipe Problems, I Get By with a Little Help from My THU Friends THU THU By Michael Chaplin. THU THU Following the sad death of Richard Briers earlier this year, THU in the first of these two final episodes of Two Pipe THU Problems, Stanley Baxter as Sandy is joined by Geoffrey THU Palmer as his friend and fellow sleuth William Parnes. THU THU A new chef is in the kitchen at The Old Beeches and he's THU cooking up a storm and delighting the residents, with Sandy THU as his willing and enthusiastic sous-chef. But things begin THU to go badly wrong after a visiting concert party sing a THU Beatles song which triggers unhappy memories for Albie the THU Chef (played by the late Felix Dexter). THU THU William and Sandy go in search of Albie and his son, and a THU successful father and son reunion is celebrated in song. THU THU Young Terrell Forde, who recently starred in Matilda in the THU West End, joins the company to play and sing the role of THU Albie's son, accompanied by David Shaw-Parker as his step THU dad, David Holt as memory man Billy, and Tracey Wiles as the THU warm hearted Old Beeches care assistant Karen. THU THU Cast: THU Sandy Boyle .......................Stanley Baxter THU William Parnes ...................Geoffrey Palmer THU Albie ...................................Felix Dexter THU Karen/ Sadie ......................Tracy Wiles THU Billy ....................................David Holt THU Edgar/ Lewis ......................David Shaw-Parker THU Jonathan ............................Terrell Forde THU THU Directed by Marilyn Imrie THU A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Sandy Boyle: Stanley Baxter THU William Parnes: Geoffrey Palmer THU Ellen: Linda Broughton THU Jeremy (Policeman): Stephen Critchlow THU Director: Marilyn Imrie THU Producer: Catherine Bailey THU Writer: Michael Chaplin THU THU 15:00 Open Country b06vmxpk (Listen) THU Yorkshire in the Dark THU THU Yorkshire looks different in the dark. Helen Mark looks up THU into the heavens and deep underground for a new THU understanding of England's biggest county. THU THU Off-road cycling in the Dales becomes a lot more thrilling THU when you strike out into the dark and, armed with an THU infra-red nghtscope you realise just how busy the forests of THU the North Yorkshire Moors are after sunset. THU THU Helen will also be discovering how the Bronte sisters filled THU the long nights in the Haworth Parsonage and mining precious THU Blue John in the caverns of the Peak District. THU THU Producer: Alasdair Cross. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06vjh95 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b06vjlbd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06vmypd (Listen) THU Alejandro Inarritu on The Revenant THU THU With Francine Stock THU THU The Oscar winning director of Birdman, Alejandro Inarritu THU discusses his western The Revenant, which tested his actors, THU including Leonardo Di Caprio, to their limits. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06vmzdt (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06w5b0d (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06vjc2x (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06vmzdy (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 2 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 second episode sees the voice in John's head push him THU to tipping point; a new approach to the News; and, well, THU since you ask him for a tale of espionage... 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 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 b06vmzf0 (Listen) THU Is Ian feeling sociable? There is a wild chase, but not over THU a goose. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06vmzkv (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06vmr1t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b06vmznt (Listen) THU Should Labour MPs be scared of Momentum? The group says it THU is attempting to build on the the groundswell of support for THU Jeremy Corbyn. Still in it's infancy it has already drawn THU the ire of Labour MPs and activists and sections of the THU press. They've been compared to the Militant Tendency that THU took over Liverpool Council in the early 1980's. They've THU been accused of aspiring to deselect disloyal MPs and have THU been described as a hard left rabble. Some Labour MPs are THU worried about their rise, but what is Momentum and what do THU they want? Stephen Bush of the New Statesman has been to THU Walthamstow, home of just one of these new groups, to find THU out. THU THU 20:30 In Business b06vmzv5 (Listen) THU California - Agriculture and Migration THU THU Peter Day travels to California to discover how migrant THU workers have transformed farming and agriculture. He speaks THU to families from Japan and Mexico - who've made California THU their home and learns about the history of mass migration THU and its impact on the land. THU THU Producer: Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06vmzdt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06vmr1m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06vn2gl (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06vn2gn (Listen) THU The Beach, Episode 9 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 b01by7cs (Listen) THU Series 4, Sheffield THU THU Comedian-activist Mark Thomas heads to Sheffield City Hall THU in search of new proposals for his People's Manifesto. THU THU This week's agenda: THU THU 1) Councils to plant fruit trees in public spaces THU 2) 3 Years' free education for all between age 25 and THU retirement THU and THU 3) Buckingham Palace to be converted into homeless flats THU THU Plus lots of "any other business" suggestions for the studio THU audience, including a novel approach to reducing knife THU crime. THU THU Written and presented by Mark Thomas THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b06vn4dl (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 JANUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06vjc3v (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06x96bk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06vjc3x (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06vjc3z (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06vjc41 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06vjc43 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06w4vwc (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Krish FRI Kandiah, President of the London School of Theology. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06vn4nj (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0rtf (Listen) FRI Harpy Eagle FRI FRI Michael Palin presents the Harpy Eagle flying over the FRI Brazilian rainforest. This is one of the most powerful birds FRI of prey and links mythological corpse-bearers, the coat of FRI arms of Panama and the Harry Potter films. FRI FRI In Greek mythology harpies were creatures with the bodies of FRI eagles and the faces of women, who seized people in their FRI claws. A human body is beyond the real-life harpy eagle, but FRI with its massive 12 cm talons, it can carry a full-grown FRI sloth or an adult howler monkey. Being versatile hunters, FRI the eagles catch a range of birds and reptiles and can FRI easily hoist porcupines and armadillos into the treetops to FRI feed their young. FRI FRI Harpy Eagles breed in the rainforests of central and South FRI America. They're blackish- grey above and white below with a FRI black collar and a divided crest which gives them an uncanny FRI resemblance to Buckbeak the Hippogriff in 'Harry Potter and FRI the Prisoner of Azkaban'. FRI FRI Harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Edwin Giesbers / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01364662 FRI © Edwin Giesbers / naturepl.com. FRI FRI Recording of harpy eagle by Curtis A Marantz / Ref: ML FRI 126757 FRI FRI This programme contains a FRI wildtrack recording of the harpy eagle FRI kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab FRI of Ornithology; recorded by Curtis A Marantz on 17 Aug 2015; FRI at Floresta Amazonica Hotel, Alta Floresta, Mato Grossa, FRI Brazil. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06vn6zp (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 b06vjhgs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06vjstn (Listen) FRI The Vanishing Man, Episode 5 FRI FRI Laura Cumming charts the obsession of a 19th century Reading FRI bookseller with a portrait of Charles I - painted when the FRI Monarch was a young man on a visit to Madrid. The Spanish FRI genius Velasquez painted very few pictures, so did John FRI Snare discover a long-lost treasure? And if so, where is it FRI now? FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI In 1888 a Velasquez portrait of Prince Charles is reported FRI as being lent to the Reading Art Museum by the widow of John FRI Snare. Somehow the picture has returned to Britain. FRI FRI This is a story about the intense emotions that great art FRI can provoke - passions that sometimes verge on the FRI irrational and which transcend considerations of value. FRI FRI John Snare's conviction about the painting he bought evolved FRI into a dispute with those who had more money, power and FRI influence. In a sense, the missing Velasquez became a FRI battleground for class war and the individual against the FRI establishment. FRI FRI But at the heart of the story lies a work of art, created FRI with such skill and delicacy that it inspired the fiercest FRI of feelings and continues to exert its mysterious pull to FRI this day. FRI FRI Read by Siobhan Redmond FRI Written by Laura Cumming FRI Abridged by Isobel Creed FRI FRI Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Siobhan Redmond FRI Author: Laura Cumming FRI Abridger: Isobel Creed FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06vn6zr (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 b06vn6zt (Listen) FRI Beloved, Episode 10 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 The women's isolation at One Twenty-Four Bluestone Road has FRI put them all in peril, and Denver has decided to seek help FRI from the community. After that, news spread like wildfire; FRI news that the ghost of Sethe's other daughter, who she chose FRI to kill rather than allow to be bonded back into slavery, FRI has come back to reap her revenge. FRI FRI Original music by Jon Nicholls FRI Singing arranged by Dominique Le Gendre 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 Ella: Sharon D Clarke FRI Mr Bodwin: Brian Protheroe FRI Director: Sasha Yevtushenko FRI Author: Toni Morrison FRI Adaptor: Patricia Cumper FRI FRI 11:00 Every Case Tells a Story b05wxx6x (Listen) FRI Treason on Trial FRI FRI Clive Anderson looks at a variety of famous or infamous FRI cases and retells the story that the case brought into the FRI public eye. FRI FRI In this programme he explores the 1945 trial of William FRI Joyce - Lord Haw-Haw - for High Treason. FRI FRI Featuring Professor Colin Holmes, Geoffrey Robertson QC and FRI Professor Jean Seaton. FRI FRI 11:30 The Cold Swedish Winter b06vn6zy (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 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 3: Everything works so well in Sweden that Geoff FRI misses complaining about life. It's making him homesick. FRI Then Ian suggests they try making a satirical podcast about FRI Sweden - with seismic results. FRI FRI Writer: Danny Robins FRI Additional Material by Ben Kersley FRI FRI Director: Frank Stirling FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Geoff: Adam Riches FRI Sten: Thomas Oredsson FRI Linda: Sissela Benn FRI Gunilla: Anna-Lena Bergelin FRI Anders: Fredrik Andersson FRI Ian: Danny Robins FRI Pedestrian: Thomas Ericsson FRI Writer: Danny Robins FRI Director: Frank Stirling FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06vjc45 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b06kvgfd (Listen) FRI 15 January 1916 - Norman Harris FRI FRI On this day Emmeline Pankhurst was detained in New York FRI after arriving for a tour of North America, and in FRI Folkestone there are new arrivals at the Police station. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Norman Harris: Sean Baker FRI Eric Morton: Paul Rainbow FRI Hilary Pearce: Craige Els FRI Anna White: Amelia Lowdell FRI Winifred Dinsdale: Alice Lowe FRI Eve: Debra Baker FRI Evadne: Evie Killip FRI Yvette: Rebecca Hamilton FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06vn700 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06vjc47 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06w4vwg (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 The Ever Widening War b06wccbk (Listen) FRI The War Without End FRI FRI In the final programme of his series, Professor Sir FRI Christopher Clark explores the dark legacy of the First FRI World War. Although the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was FRI the most elaborate in the history of warfare, Chris FRI considers how the Treaty of Versailles created serious FRI instabilities in the European post-war system, particularly FRI alienating Germany and Russia. These instabilities were FRI played out in the rise of nationalist movements in the 20s FRI and 30s and the onset of the even more devastating Second FRI World War in 1939. FRI FRI Chris also examines the longer-term impact of the war across FRI the globe, including in Asia and in the Middle East, where FRI the legacy of the First World War still resonates in the FRI names of Sykes-Picot and Lord Arthur Balfour. This, he FRI argues, was a war that has never really ended, the 'calamity FRI out of which all other calamities sprang'. FRI FRI With Margaret Macmillan, Dominic Lieven, Brendan Simms and FRI Mustafa Aksakal. FRI FRI Readings by Ewan Bailey and Fernando Tiberini. FRI FRI Sir Christopher Clark is Regius Professor of History at the FRI University of Cambridge. He is the author of Kaiser Wilhelm FRI II: A Life in Power, Iron Kingdom and - most recently - the FRI highly acclaimed and award-winning The Sleepwalkers: How FRI Europe Went To War. In 2014, he presented Month of Madness FRI on BBC Radio 4 about the outbreak of the First World War. FRI You can listen to that series online by visiting FRI http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t7p27 or clicking on the FRI related link below. FRI FRI Produced by Melissa FitzGerald FRI A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06vmzf0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03j5775 (Listen) FRI Two Pipe Problems, The House on the Marsh FRI FRI In this final Two Pipe Problem, William and Sandy travel to FRI a windswept wintry Suffolk in search of William's FRI inheritance, where they are haunted by ghosts from the past FRI and threats from the present, and William makes a life FRI changing decision about his future. FRI FRI This week marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin FRI Britten, and his opera Peter Grimes is woven into this final FRI episode of Two Pipe Problems. The opera is set in Aldeburgh, FRI on the Suffolk coast from which Britten drew so much FRI inspiration. Writer Michael Chaplin was inspired to create a FRI story that drew on that landscape and the creation of Peter FRI Grimes, but also paid homage to the genius of MR James' FRI ghost story, Oh Whistle And I'll Come You, My Lad. FRI FRI Stanley Baxter is once again joined by Geoffrey Palmer FRI playing William, and Stephen Critchlow and Linda Broughton FRI playing a mother and son who bear a grudge, in this haunting FRI story - an entertaining and touching farewell to the series. FRI FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Catherine Bailey FRI FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sandy Boyle: Stanley Baxter FRI William Parnes: Geoffrey Palmer FRI Ellen: Linda Broughton FRI Jeremy (Policeman): Stephen Critchlow FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Catherine Bailey FRI Writer: Michael Chaplin FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06vn91z (Listen) FRI RHS Harlow Carr FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel answer questions from the postbag FRI at RHS Harlow Carr in Harrogate. Matthew Wilson, Bob FRI Flowerdew and Christine Walkden offer the advice. FRI FRI Produced by Dan Cocker FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Shorts b06vn921 (Listen) FRI The Time Being, Mole Man FRI FRI The eighth season of the showcase for previously FRI un-broadcast writers. Past series have brought new talent to FRI a wider audience and provided a stepping stone for writers FRI who have since gone on to enjoy further success on radio and FRI in print - such as Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally FRI Hinchcliffe, Joe Dunthorne and Rebecca F. John. FRI FRI Episode 2: Mole Man by Matthew Abbott FRI Following the end of a relationship, a man becomes drawn to FRI the unseen owner of a cottage who strings up dead moles FRI outside. FRI FRI Matthew Abbott is a teacher in a secondary school and, as FRI such, Mole Man is his first foray into the world of FRI published writing. Up to this point he has enjoyed writing FRI purely for himself, family and friends. He is currently FRI putting the finishing touches to a Young Adult novel. FRI Matthew lives with his wife in Oxford. FRI FRI Reader: Daniel Ryan FRI Writer: Matthew Abbott FRI FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production on BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Matthew Abbott FRI Reader: Daniel Ryan FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06vn923 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b06vn925 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04b30mc (Listen) FRI Gill and Paul - Marriage and MSA FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a woman dying from FRI Multiple System Atrophy and her husband; they find they must FRI dismiss the future they wanted and accept the one they have, FRI proving again that it's surprising what you hear when you FRI 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 upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b06w24sj (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06vjc49 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06vn929 (Listen) FRI Series 89, Episode 2 FRI FRI Series 89 of the satirical quiz. Miles Jupp is back in the FRI chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of guests FRI take on the big (and not so big) news events of the week. FRI Hugo Rifkind and Sarah Kendall are among the panellists FRI joining Miles to tackle the news of the last seven days. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Hugo Rifkind FRI Panellist: Sarah Kendall FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06vn990 (Listen) FRI Contemporary drama in a rural setting. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06vn992 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06vn6zt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06vnbcw (Listen) FRI Dominic Raab MP, Ann Widdecombe FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Nexus Methodist Church in Bath with a panel FRI including the Justice Minister Dominic Raab MP and the FRI former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06vnbcy (Listen) FRI Sing a New Song FRI FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06kvm16 (Listen) FRI 11-15 January 1916 FRI FRI In the week when the Welsh and Scottish Trades Unions voted FRI to oppose conscription, there's pressure at the Bevan to FRI return more wounded men to duty. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI FRI Credits FRI Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy FRI Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger FRI Alec Poole: Tom Stuart FRI Alphonse Duvall: Matthew Juul FRI Anna White: Amelia Lowdell FRI Cristine: Ysabelle Cooper FRI Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley FRI Dr Henry Streatfield: Chris Pavlo FRI Emile Tourte: Stephane Cornicard FRI Eric Morton: Paul Rainbow FRI Esme Macknade: Katie Angelou FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Hilary Pearce: Craige Els FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Ivor Davies: Alun Raglan FRI Ivy Layton: Lizzy Watts FRI Len Reeves: Darren Swift FRI Lilian Frost: Alex Tregear FRI Nancy Parker: Jane Whittenshaw FRI Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair FRI Norman Harris: Sean 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 Sylvia Graham: Joanna David FRI Winifred Dinsdale: Alice Lowe FRI Anna White: Amelia Lowdell FRI Eve: Debra Baker FRI Evadne: Evie Killip FRI Yvette: Rebecca Hamilton FRI Auctioneer: Gerard McDermott FRI Mr Martindale: Ewan Bailey FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06vjc4f (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06vncgn (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06vncgq (Listen) FRI The Beach, Episode 10 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 b06vkdz3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06vncgs (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04b2wzj (Listen) FRI Eugene and Margaret - Bread for Africa FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a couple who anticipated a quiet FRI retirement before a visit to Tanzania made them determined FRI to remedy the endemic starvation they saw by setting up a FRI bakery. Last year no-one starved in Ifakara. 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 upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
08 January, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 09/01/2016 - 15/01/2016
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