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SAT SATURDAY 23 JANUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06w6s14 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06wj5wf (Listen) SAT The Outrun, Personal Geology SAT SAT Amy Liptrot's incisive memoir of overcoming alcoholism amid SAT the luminous Orkney landscape. SAT SAT Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm on Orkney. She was shaped by SAT the wind-swept islands, but longed for the excitement of the SAT city. A move to London led to a life that was hedonistic and SAT fun but she was unable to control her drinking. Her SAT alcoholism exposed her to some terrifying situations and SAT left her lost and lonely. At thirty she finds herself washed SAT up back home in Orkney, and discovers that this place she SAT once longed to escape is curative, its wildness and lore SAT playing an essential part in her recovery from addiction. SAT SAT Today: examining the fault lines bisecting her life, Amy SAT questions why she became an alcoholic. SAT SAT Written by Amy Liptrot SAT Read by Tracy Wiles SAT Abridger: Sara Davies SAT Producer: Simon Richardson. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Tracy Wiles SAT Author: Amy Liptrot SAT Abridger: Sara Davies SAT Producer: Simon Richardson SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06w6s16 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06w6s1b (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06w6s1d (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06w6s1g (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06wj90x (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Julia SAT Neuberger, senior rabbi at the West London Synagogue. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06wj90z (Listen) SAT Sleeping with Trollope SAT SAT How audiobooks stopped one listener's insomnia, and another SAT on his ex boyfriend's controlling behaviour. Robin Lustig SAT reads Your News. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06w6s1n (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06w6s1q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06whswq (Listen) SAT Somerset Peat: Past, Present and Future SAT SAT Helen Mark uncovers why peat makes the Somerset Levels a SAT special place to visit, not just for the wildlife. Since SAT earliest times humans have exploited this natural resource. SAT Its wetlands once supported Lake Villagers whose secrets lay SAT buried deep beneath the feet of the modern archaeologist SAT keen to uncover what these wetlands preserves for millennia. SAT SAT A mere 50 years ago the extraction of peat was a major SAT industry employing hundreds of people. It was cut for fuel, SAT for horticulture, even animal feed. That industry has all SAT but faded into history and Helen visits one of the last SAT remaining extraction companies. Once this landscape was SAT scarred by man, littered by trackways and industry, yet SAT today what remains of this scarred is being managed to SAT return it to another use. Helen discovers the memories of SAT those who walked this peatland landscape are enjoyed by a SAT new visitor, the nature watcher. SAT SAT Producer Andrew Dawes. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06y8l7p (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT From apps to drones to robots to big data, all sorts of new SAT technologies are increasingly on offer to farmers. How is SAT technology already helping farms on the ground, and what is SAT the future likely to bring? Charlotte Smith reports from SAT Peterborough, at the UK's biggest agricultural machinery SAT show, LAMMA. SAT SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith SAT Producer: Rich Ward. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06w6s1v (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06y8l7r (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 b06y8l7t (Listen) SAT Mark Steel SAT SAT The stand-up comedian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist SAT grew up in Kent with his adopted parents. He's currently SAT touring the country with his new stand up show. 'Who do I SAT think I am?, which deals with his efforts to trace his birth SAT mother. He discusses his experience of tracing his roots, SAT and his endless fascination with British towns. SAT SAT Paula Zuccotti is an ethnographer, industrial designer and SAT trends forecaster. She has been travelling the world SAT charting a day in the life of people through their touched SAT objects. She reveals how objects can tell stories of our SAT lives. SAT SAT Anna Bailey meets Michael Nyman, the composer turned SAT film-maker and photographer to talk about his love of the SAT light. SAT SAT Graham Short is a micro engraver, who has depicted 'Leonardo SAT da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' along the sharp edge of a razor SAT blade. He goes to extreme lengths both physical and mental SAT to ensure he has a steady hand. He explains his love of SAT producing art that is too small to be seen by the naked eye. SAT SAT Debbie Wiseman is a television and film composer. She has SAT written the score for BBC 1's Dickensian series. She SAT explains how she composed the themes for some of the most SAT popular Dickens characters. She also reveals her theme tune SAT to accompany Richard and JP. SAT SAT And M C Beaton shares her inheritance tracks - (There'll be SAT Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover by Vera Lynn and SAT The Rowan Tree by Kenneth McKellar. SAT SAT Mark Steel's 'Who Do I think I am? tour runs until 3rd June SAT Every Thing We Touch - A 24 Hour Inventory of Our Lives by SAT Paula Zuccotti is published by Viking SAT Dishing the Dirt by M C Beaton is published by Constable SAT Dickensian (Original Television soundtrack) is released on SAT 26th February SAT SAT Producer: Dianne McGregor SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewer: Anna Bailey SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark Steel SAT Interviewed Guest: Paula Zuccotti SAT Interviewed Guest: Anna Bailey SAT Interviewed Guest: Michael Nyman SAT Interviewed Guest: Graham Short SAT Interviewed Guest: Debbie Wiseman SAT Interviewed Guest: MC Beaton SAT Producer: Dianne McGregor SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b06y8l7w (Listen) SAT Series 12, Brighton SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from Brighton. SAT SAT This week's panel includes the experimental food SAT psychologist Professor Charles Spence, DIY cooking expert SAT Tim Hayward, top chef Sophie Wright, and the SAT singer-turned-cook Andi Oliver. SAT SAT They discuss all things 1970s - prawn cocktails, SAT vol-au-vents, fondues - as well as the legacy of Marguerite SAT Patten. SAT SAT Also, the panel delve into the grand kitchen of George IV at SAT the Royal Pavilion and they experiment with the role smell SAT plays in eating. 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 b06y8l7y (Listen) SAT Paul Waugh of the Huffington Post examines Labour's troubles SAT over Trident. Could Donald Trump be the next president of SAT the United States? And is it fair to cut Labour's funding? SAT SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06w6s2t (Listen) SAT Steel in Crisis SAT SAT China's economy falters and is blamed for nosediving stock SAT markets and, partly, for the loss of hundreds of steel SAT industry jobs in South Wales. In this edition, Steve Evans SAT visits a steelworks in China, which has just closed down, SAT and considers the lessons the Chinese leadership may SAT consider. The misery of the war in Yemen continues and Nawal SAT al-Maghafi, recently back from there, explains why no-one is SAT rushing into peace talks. Chris Morris joins a group of SAT migrants on their voyage to across the Mediterranean to SAT Europe and learns about some of the extraordinary lengths SAT that Syrians are going to to escape the killing fields of SAT home. Mobile phones and televisions come to a monastery in SAT the foothills of the Himalayas in now-Chinese eastern Tibet. SAT Horatio Clare wonders if a centuries-old monastic way of SAT life is under threat. And, in Delhi, Anu Anand weaves a tale SAT about music and memory set against a backdrop of love, loss SAT and the passing of time. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06w6s2y (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06y8l80 (Listen) SAT Bad news for drivers as car insurance soars SAT SAT There's been a marked increase in car insurance premiums SAT despite the Government promising to bring them down in the SAT most recent Autumn Statement. The AA says that the average SAT cost to insure your car rose more than £100 at the end of SAT 2015 compared with a year earlier whilst the Government SAT currently consults on new measures to crack down on whiplash SAT claims which they estimate will reduce bills by £50. We SAT investigate. SAT SAT As local authorities find themselves ever more strapped for SAT cash, we look at plans to cut support for less well off SAT council tax payers. Who will be worse affected? SAT SAT This week the Chancellor announced his intention to SAT introduce a cap on 'excessive' pension exit fees. Mr Osborne SAT said that the Government wasn't prepared to stand by and see SAT people being ripped off or blocked from accessing their own SAT money. But is this really a win win for consumers or just SAT political spin? SAT SAT On 1 February MPs will vote on the motion 'This House has no SAT confidence in the Financial Conduct Authority'. It is the SAT first time parliament has voted on such a motion about any SAT regulator. It follows accusations that the regulator is SAT going soft on the banks which have been strongly denied. We SAT report on the growing crisis at the FCA. SAT SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06wj7bv (Listen) SAT Series 89, Episode 3 SAT SAT Series 89 of the satirical quiz. Miles Jupp is back in the SAT chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of guests SAT take on the big (and not so big) news events of the week. SAT Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Andrew Maxwell and Samira Ahmed SAT are this week's guests. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Andrew Maxwell SAT Panellist: Samira Ahmed SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06w6s36 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06w6s38 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06wj7bz (Listen) SAT Andrew RT Davies AM, Carwyn Jones AM, Mark Reckless, Kirsty SAT Williams AM, Leanne Wood AM SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Pater Hall, SAT Pembroke Dock with the Leader of the Conservatives in Wales SAT Andrew R T Davies AM, the First Minister of Wales Carwyn SAT Jones AM, the Director of Policy Development for UKIP Mark SAT Reckless, the Leader of the Liberal Democrats in Wales SAT Kirsty Williams AM, and the leader of Plaid Cymru Leanne SAT Wood AM. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06y8mhd (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b06y8ny3 (Listen) SAT God of Carnage SAT SAT What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with SAT the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational SAT debate between grown-ups about the need to teach children SAT how to behave properly? Or does it turn into a night of SAT name-calling, tantrums and tears? SAT SAT Lenny Henry stars in Yasmina Reza's play, translated by SAT Christopher Hampton, which won a Laurence Olivier Award for SAT Best Comedy with its London West End Production and Tony for SAT Best Play on Broadway. SAT The author, Yasmina Reza, is a French playwright and SAT novelist. Her plays Conversations after a Burial, The SAT Passage of Winter, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3 and A SAT Spanish Play have been produced worldwide and translated SAT into thirty-five languages. SAT SAT Christopher Hampton's work for the theatre includes The SAT Philanthropist, Savages, Treats, Tales from Hollywood. He is SAT also known for his translations of Ibsen, Horvath, Moliere SAT and Chekhov Movies: A Dangerous Method, Dangerous Liaisons, SAT Atonement, Total Eclipse, The Quiet American, Carrington, SAT The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina. SAT SAT A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Yasmina Reza SAT Michael: Lenny Henry SAT Veronica: Rosie Cavaliero SAT Millson: Joseph Millson SAT Annette: Monica Dolan SAT Director: James Macdonald SAT Producer: Catherine Bailey SAT SAT 15:35 Great Lives b06ycr4x (Listen) SAT Series 38, Eliza Manningham-Buller on Abraham Lincoln SAT SAT This week it's the turn of a former director of MI5, Eliza SAT Manningham-Buller, who tells Matthew Parris why she regards SAT Abraham Lincoln as a great life. But will her hero stand up SAT to intensive scrutiny and merit the description of having SAT led a great life? The expert is Dr Tony Hutchison, from the SAT American Studies Department at the University of Nottingham. SAT The producer is Perminder Khatkar. SAT SAT Matthew Parris with Eliza Manningham- Buller and Dr Tony SAT Hutchison. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Matthew Parris SAT Interviewed Guest: Eliza Manningham-Buller SAT Interviewed Guest: Tony Hutchison SAT Producer: Perminder Khatkar SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06y8s5c (Listen) SAT Learning English to integrate; Living with less stuff; SAT Illness and friends SAT SAT Does an inability to speak English prevent Muslim women who SAT live in the UK from integrating and make them more SAT susceptible to the "lure" of extremism? David Cameron said SAT this week that 22 per cent of Muslim women had little or no SAT English. Dr Sundas Ali from Oxford University, Nevahad Cihan SAT from the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation and SAT Gona Syeed from the Kurdish and Middle Eastern women's SAT organisation discuss. SAT SAT You've decluttered and tidied but could you live life free SAT of stuff? We hear from Bea Johnson who minimises the waste SAT in her home and James Wallman who says we should prioritise SAT experience instead of buying stuff. SAT SAT How do women in power make the world's focus on their SAT appearance work for them? Helen Lewis the Deputy Editor of SAT the New Statesman and Shahidha Bari a lecturer in SAT Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London discuss. SAT SAT We hear from the first woman to become the President of SAT Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust. SAT SAT More than 15 million people in the UK are living with SAT chronic or long term illness. What effect does that have on SAT friendships? SAT Digital media and work: we discuss with Stefana Broadbent, SAT whose latest book Intimacy at Work argues connecting with SAT friends and family at work is vital to a healthy work life SAT balance, and Martin Talks of Digital Detoxing, who believes SAT offices need to stop relying so heavily on digital media. SAT SAT And Margaret Drabble talks about the New Zealand author SAT Janet Frame whose first novel Owls Do Cry is republished SAT this month. SAT SAT Presented by Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT Interviewed guest: Margaret Drabble SAT Interviewed guest: Helen Lewis SAT Interviewed guest: Shadidha Bari SAT Interviewed guest: Gona Syeed SAT Interviewed guest: Sundas Ali SAT Interviewed guest: Navahad Jihan SAT Interviewed guest: Drew Gilpin Faust SAT Interviewed guest: Stefana Broadbent SAT Interviewed guest: Martin Talks. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Interviewed Guest: Margaret Drabble SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Lewis SAT Interviewed Guest: Shahidha Bari SAT Interviewed Guest: Gona Syeed SAT Interviewed Guest: Sundas Ali SAT Interviewed Guest: Navahad Jihan SAT Interviewed Guest: Drew Gilpin Faust SAT Interviewed Guest: Stefana Broadbent SAT Interviewed Guest: Martin Talks SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06y8t1y (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b06wj90z (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06w6s3g (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06w6s3l (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06w6s3n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06y8t22 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Scottee, Rafe Spall, Tom Allen, Janet SAT McTeer, Charlotte Cooper, Tindersticks, Vieux Farka Toure SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Rafe Spall, Tom SAT Allen, Janet McTeer, Tom Allen and Charlotte Cooper for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from Tindersticks and Vieux Farka Touré. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Rafe Spall SAT 'The Big Short' is in cinemas now. SAT SAT Janet McTeer SAT SAT 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' is at London's Donmar Theatre SAT until Saturday 13th February, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses SAT will be broadcast live from the Donmar on Thursday 28 SAT January to over 600 cinemas around the UK. SAT SAT Tom Allen SAT 'Tom Allen: Both Worlds' is at London's Soho Upstairs from SAT Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th February. SAT SAT Charlotte Cooper SAT 'Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement' is published by SAT HammerOn Press and available now. SAT SAT Vieux Farka Touré SAT The album 'Touristes' is out on Six Degrees Records. Vieux SAT Farka Toure is also touring from January to March 2016. SAT SAT Tindersticks SAT The album 'The Waiting Room' on City Slang records. SAT Tindersticks are also touring in April and May 2016. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Scottee SAT Interviewed Guest: Rafe Spall SAT Interviewed Guest: Janet McTeer SAT Interviewed Guest: Charlotte Cooper SAT Performer: Tindersticks SAT Performer: Vieux Farka Toure SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b06y8t24 (Listen) SAT Series 19, Top Trumps SAT SAT Topical drama written in response to the week's news. SAT SAT In the week when MPs debated the petition to ban Donald SAT Trump from the UK, Hardeep Singh Kohli imagines a future SAT when a certain Presidential candidate is flying into a SAT private airfield in Scotland. Will VIP Liaison Manager SAT Shahida Akhbar be amongst the day's winners? SAT SAT Shahida ..... Amiera Darwish SAT Mrs Washington ..... Nancy Crane SAT Dougie ..... Nick Underwood SAT Pilot ..... Brian Protheroe SAT Air Traffic Controller ..... Nicola Ferguson SAT SAT Directed by Gemma Jenkins. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Hardeep Singh Kohli SAT Shahida: Amiera Darwish SAT Mrs Washington: Nancy Crane SAT Dougie: Nick Underwood SAT Pilot: Brian Protheroe SAT Air Traffic Controller: Nicola Ferguson SAT Director: Gemma Jenkins SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06y8t26 (Listen) SAT AS Byatt and Russell Kane review The Big Short, Julian SAT Barnes, Champagne Life, 4000 Days, HG Wells on TV SAT SAT Oscar-nominated film The Big Short - a comedy about the SAT financial crisis SAT Julian Barnes' new novel The Noise of Time tells the story SAT of Russian composer Shostakovich, coping as a creative SAT artistic genius under the yoke of the Stalin's Soviet system SAT Champagne Life - the Saatchi Gallery's exhibition of women SAT artists. SAT New play 4000 Days at The Park Theatre is about a man who SAT emerges from a coma and discovers he can't remember anything SAT from the past decade. SAT Ray Winstone plays the author HG Wells in a new TV SAT series"The Nightmare World of HG Wells SAT SAT AS Byatt, (who has just won the Erasmus Prize) and comedian SAT Russell Kane join Tom Sutcliffe and David Benedict. The SAT producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT The Big Short SAT The Big Short SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT Photo credit: Jaap Buitendijk © Paramount SAT SAT Julian Barnes SAT The Noise of Time by SAT Julian Barnes SAT is available in hard-back and ebook from Thursday 28 SAT January. SAT SAT Champagne Life SAT Champagne Life SAT is at the Saatchi Gallery in London until 6 March 2016. SAT SAT Image: Artworks by Alice Anderson. Left – Bound, 2011. Right SAT - 181 Kilometers, 2015. Photo: © Steve White, 2015. SAT Courtesy of the Saatchi Gallery, London. SAT SAT The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells SAT The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells SAT begins on Thursday 28 January at 9pm on Sky Arts. SAT SAT SAT 4000 Days SAT 4000 Days SAT is at the Park Theatre in London until the 13 February 2016. SAT SAT Image: Alistair McGowan in 4000 Days. Photo credit : Rory SAT Lindsay. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06vg1ph (Listen) SAT Utopias SAT SAT 2016 sees the 500th anniversary of a book that generated an SAT idea that has been hotly contested throughout the hundreds SAT of years since its release; that book was 'Utopia' and its SAT author was Thomas More. SAT More had been on a trade mission to Antwerp, and spent much SAT of his time talking to fellow humanist scholars like Erasmus SAT about the notion of an ideal society and what it might look SAT like. Out of those conversations came the book, a slippery SAT tale that blurs fact and fiction and which has left readers SAT ever since trying to fathom whether More was indeed SAT presenting his island of Utopia, where equality is paramount SAT and greed attacked, as a model society or as a salutary SAT tale. SAT Half a millennium on, Michael Symmons Roberts heads to SAT Antwerp himself to find out more about the actual book, that SAT so many make reference without ever having opened its pages. SAT He finds out that partly for safety's sake (the text being SAT one on level a critique of contemporary England) it was SAT published abroad and in Latin; he also hears about its great SAT popularity, how it led many to try and set up thier own SAT perfect communities, and examines the irony that More would SAT rather have seen this book about an equal society burned SAT rather than seeing it translated into the vernacular and SAT therefore made available to all. SAT Along the way Michael also eavesdrops on figures from the SAT BBC archives describing what their personal Utopias might SAT look like - including Tony Benn, Jeanette Winterson, Aldous SAT Huxley, Nawal El Saadawi and Ian Banks. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06wbrk5 (Listen) SAT East of Eden, Episode 3 SAT SAT Episode 3 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 Adam Trask has been raising his twin boys with the help of SAT his cook, Lee. SAT SAT His estranged wife -the enigmatic Cathy - has taken over a SAT brother after murdering its previous owner. SAT SAT In order to protect the twins, Adam has always maintained SAT that their mother is dead, but Cal, after listening in at a SAT door, now knows the truth. SAT SAT That knowledge is set to destroy the Trask world in this SAT dark and febrile drama about familial love. SAT SAT Starring Holliday Grainger, Robin Laing and David Yip. SAT SAT Director: Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT Credits SAT Judge: Jimmy Chisholm SAT Cathy: Holliday Grainger SAT Cal: Alasdair Hankinson SAT Aron: Samuel Keefe SAT Adam: Robin Laing SAT Abra: Gemma McElhinney SAT Joe: Gavin Mitchell SAT Will: Nick Underwood SAT Ethel: Anita Vettesse SAT Lee: David Yip SAT Director: Kirsty Williams SAT Author: John Steinbeck SAT Adaptor: Donna Franceschild SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06w6s3t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b06wg803 (Listen) SAT Reaching Out SAT SAT Charlie Howard argues that public services should find their SAT users, not wait to be found. SAT SAT Charlie started the charity MAC-UK to provide specialist SAT mental health services to gang members and other at-risk SAT young people. As she began to work with them, she found more SAT and more people who would never have accessed traditional SAT services, but were in desperate need of them. SAT SAT She makes the case that this is also a better, more SAT efficient way to help service users, and argues that other SAT public service providers - from teachers to job advisers - SAT should consider how they can adopt the same approach. SAT SAT Producer: Katie Langton. SAT SAT 22:30 Three Pounds in My Pocket b065vsdv (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT SAT Kavita Puri listens in to intimate and heartfelt SAT conversations between the early pioneers to Britain from the SAT Indian subcontinent and their children. They talk about what SAT is important to carry on between the generations and discuss SAT whether the act of migration always means loss. SAT Producer: Smita Patel. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b06wcsnb (Listen) SAT Heat 2, 2016 SAT SAT (2/17) SAT Russell Davies hosts the second heat in the 2016 series, SAT with competitors from London and Leicester taking their SAT first step towards the title Brain of Britain. SAT SAT Would you know which city is the setting for Verdi's opera SAT La Traviata? Or who the Republican nominee was, when Barack SAT Obama won his second Presidential election in 2012? Russell SAT has plenty more questions that will put today's four SAT contenders to the test. SAT SAT The winner will go forward to the series semi-finals after SAT Easter, and there are semi-final places for the top-scoring SAT runners-up of the series too, so there is a chance that more SAT than one competitor today will qualify. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT SIMON ALVEY, a public relations consultant from Barking in SAT East London SAT SAT DAVID COTTON, a retired local government officer from SAT Leicester SAT SAT PAMELA HOLT, a retired solicitor from London SAT SAT TASHFEEN ISLAM, a human resources manager from London. SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b06wbrk9 (Listen) SAT Home SAT SAT Roger McGough opens a new series of the poetry request SAT programme with a selection of listeners' favourite poems SAT about home, exile and belonging. The readers are Pippa SAT Haywood and Richard Mitchley. Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT Bristol by John Betjeman SAT From John Betjeman Collected Poems SAT Published by John Murray SAT SAT The Seasons in North Cornwall by Charles Causley SAT From Charles Causley Collected Poems SAT Published by Macmillan SAT SAT Fires by WW Gibson SAT Sourced from Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online, 2008 SAT SAT It’s A Jungle Out There by Roger McGough SAT SAT From Everyday Eclipses SAT SAT Published by Viking SAT SAT Extract from The Great Lover by Rupert Brooke SAT From The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke SAT Published by Sidgwick & Jackson SAT SAT I Want to Go Home / Just In Case by Charlotte Mitchell SAT From I Want to Go Home SAT Published by Souvenir Press SAT SAT Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson SAT From Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson SAT Published by Chatto & Windus SAT SAT Warmth by Lotte Kramer SAT From New and Collected Poems SAT Published by Rockingham Press SAT SAT Never Go Back by Felix Dennis SAT From A Glass Half Full SAT Published by Dennis Publishing SAT SAT On Exiles and Defeats by Maria Eugenia Bravo SAT SAT Translated by Cicely Herbert SAT http://www.purochile.rrojasdatabank.info/indexen5.htm SAT SAT The Wrong Beds by Roger McGough SAT SAT From That Awkward Age SAT SAT Published by Viking SAT SAT The Right Word by Imtiaz Dharker SAT http://www.imtiazdharker.com/poems/show/6 SAT SAT Refugee Blues by W.H. Auden SAT From As I Walked Out One Evening SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT The South Country by Hilaire Belloc SAT From Sonnets and Verse by H. Belloc SAT Published by Duckworth SAT SAT Bath by Roger McGough SAT From Roger McGough Collected Poems SAT Published by Penguin Viking SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: Pippa Haywood SAT Reader: Richard Mitchley SAT Producer: Christine Hall SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 JANUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06y8z5c (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 b02qt7w2 (Listen) SUN Send One Up for Me SUN SUN The last of three stories from Helen Simpson's collection, SUN Four Bare Legs in a Bed, read by Rosie Cavaliero. SUN 3/3 Send One Up for Me. Tess is in bedsit-land hell. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Rosie Cavaliero SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN Writer: Helen Simpson SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06y8z5f (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06y8z5h (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06y8z5k (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06y8z5m (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06y92wz (Listen) SUN Church bells from St Mary Magdalene, Mortehoe in Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b06wg803 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 22:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06y8z5p (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06y96gs (Listen) SUN Living with Poverty SUN SUN Mark Tully considers social, religious and personal SUN attitudes towards poverty. SUN SUN The Archbishop of Canterbury recently said, "It's a tragedy SUN that hunger still exists in the United Kingdom in the 21st SUN century. Yet, we continue to live with scandalous SUN inequality". SUN SUN Living in Delhi, Mark Tully is also concerned by the poverty SUN that he sees around him there. In this edition of Something SUN Understood, he contemplates poverty and explores the social SUN obligations to do something about it. He talks to Dr. John SUN Kirkby about the practical solutions to the relief of SUN poverty on an individual level. There are readings from poet SUN Robert Sosa, theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and philosopher SUN Loren Eiseley - with music from Bessie Smith, Femi Kuti and SUN J.S. Bach. SUN SUN The readers are Polly Frame, Francis Cadder and Jasper SUN Britton SUN SUN Presenter: Mark Tully SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: The Poor SUN SUN Author: Roberto Sosa SUN SUN Published by: Poerty Magazine SUN Title: Moral Man And Immoral Society SUN SUN Author: Reinhold Niebuhr SUN SUN Published by: Continuum SUN Title: The Cocklewoman SUN SUN Author: Menna Elfyn SUN SUN Published by: Bloodaxe SUN Title: The Star Thrower SUN SUN Author: Loren Eiseley SUN SUN Published by: Mariner Books SUN SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b06y96gv (Listen) SUN Rooks and a Winter Roost SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. SUN SUN In this programme recorded in 2008, Lionel Kelleway is SUN joined by Joe Cullum and Ian Henderson in Norfolk. At the SUN time of recording, Lionel finds himself in a woodland SUN setting at dusk after an unseasonably warm February day in SUN anticipation of one of Britain's wildlife spectacles, SUN thousands of rooks coming to roost. This particular roost SUN next to Joe's house has connections back to the Domesday SUN Book and once was thought to contain around 100,000 birds. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06y8z5r (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06y8z5t (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06y96gx (Listen) SUN Portrait of a Bishop, Hollywood spotlight on Catholic sex SUN abuse, 100 years since WWI conscription SUN SUN Caroline Wyatt reviews the film Spotlight which tells the SUN story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the scandal of child SUN abuse and its cover-up within the local Catholic SUN Archdiocese. Meanwhile Madeline Baran reports on a SUN Minneapolis archbishop who resigned last year after covering SUN up sex-abuse re-emerged in a church in Michigan to the SUN consternation of local worshippers. SUN SUN In the wake of the Prime Minister's concerns about the SUN position of Muslim women in society, Rania Hafez from SUN Greenwich University and Dina Brawer from the Jewish SUN Orthodox Feminist Alliance discuss women's role within what SUN many people see as enclosed minority religious cultures in SUN the UK. SUN SUN This year marks the centenary of the introduction of SUN military conscription - and with it an exception for 'those SUN who could show a conscientious objection'. Commemorative SUN events are being held in Westminster and Holyrood. Bob SUN Walker reports. SUN SUN The first portrait of the Church of England's first woman SUN bishop is unveiled. Rosie Dawson was there to hear the Right SUN Revd Libby Lane's reaction to the portrait which will hang SUN in St Peter's college, Oxford, and to hear the Bishop's SUN assessment of her first year in office. SUN SUN 52 Bishops sign a letter to the Government expressing SUN concern about Shia militia attacks on Camp Liberty, the home SUN of Iranian dissidents, in Iraq. SUN SUN And ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, we hear the story of SUN Eva Clarke, born into a Nazi death camp. SUN SUN Producers: Rosie Dawson and Dan Tierney SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06y96gz (Listen) SUN I CAN SUN SUN Jon Snow presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of I CAN SUN Registered Charity No 210031 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'I CAN' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'I CAN'. SUN SUN I CAN SUN SUN More than half the children in some parts of the UK start SUN school with a communication difficulty and are likely to SUN struggle with talking, understanding, learning and making SUN friends. I CAN is a UK charity supporting children so that SUN they have the communication skills they need. Its mission is SUN that no child should be left out or left behind because of a SUN difficulty speaking or understanding. I CAN offers a free SUN Enquiry Service giving information and advice for anyone SUN concerned about a child’s communication. SUN I CAN also provides training, programmes and resources for SUN staff in mainstream schools to identify and deal with SUN children’s communication difficulties. For children with the SUN most complex and severe communication needs I CAN provides SUN specialist education, therapy and care at their two special SUN schools, Meath in Surrey for children aged 4-11 years old SUN and Dawn House in Nottinghamshire for children aged 11-19 SUN years old. SUN SUN Stephen and his younger brother SUN Brotherly love; Stephen (on the right) whose story you hear SUN in the appeal. Stephen has a severe language disorder. SUN SUN I CAN Resources SUN SUN A teacher using I CAN’s Talk Boost materials to boost SUN children’s communication in a local primary school. SUN SUN I CAN Assessments SUN SUN A child being assessed by a specialist I CAN speech and SUN language therapist – one of the team of experts. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06y8z5y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06y8z60 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06y96h1 (Listen) SUN Salt of the Earth SUN SUN To mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Sunday SUN Worship comes live from All Saints Church, Cambridge. It is SUN led by the Principal of Westcott House, the Canon Chris SUN Chivers and the preacher is the Revd Dr Jane Leach. The SUN music is directed by Calum Zuckert with musicians from the SUN Cambridge Theological Federation and the organist is SUN Jonathan Clinch. SUN SUN Producer: Katharine Longworth. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06wj7c1 (Listen) SUN Face to Face SUN SUN Tom Shakespeare is concerned by the growth in cosmetic SUN procedures and the pressure more and more women and girls, SUN in particular, feel to conform to a face and body type. SUN SUN "My anxiety is about the society that first generates body SUN dissatisfaction and then provides surgery as the solution to SUN that cultural problem". SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tom Shakespeare SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0syn (Listen) SUN Poorwill (American Nightjar) SUN SUN Michael Palin presents the common poorwill from an Arizona SUN desert. In the dead of night, loud calls pierce the SUN stillness on a moonlit track, a small shape suddenly sprouts SUN wings and flutters into the darkness ... a Common Poorwill SUN is hunting. SUN SUN Poorwills are small nightjars that breed mainly in western SUN North America, often in deserts and dry grassland. By day SUN the poorwill sits in the open or among rocks relying on its SUN mottled plumage for camouflage. By night, it emerges to hawk SUN after insects snapping them up with its large frog-like SUN mouth. SUN This technique works if it's warm enough for insects to be SUN active, but in some places where poorwills live there are SUN sudden cold snaps. Instead of migrating, the poorwill slows SUN down its metabolism and goes into torpor for days or even SUN weeks . This hibernation-like state is very rare among birds SUN and allows the poorwill to get through lean periods and was SUN first scientifically described in 1948, although the SUN phenomenon had been recorded more than 140 years earlier by SUN the great explorer Meriwether Lewis, during the Lewis and SUN Clark Expedition to discover western side of America in SUN 1804. SUN SUN Common Poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com. SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01304731 SUN © Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com SUN SUN Recording of common poorwill by Geoffrey A Keller / Ref: ML SUN 40634 SUN SUN This programme contains a SUN wildtrack recording of the common poorwill SUN kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab SUN of Ornithology; recorded by Geoffrey A Keller on 4 Jun 1987; SUN in Sycamore Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06y8z62 (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 b06y9794 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN Director: Peter Leslie Wild SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Matthew Holman: Michael Winder SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06y9796 (Listen) SUN Sigrid Rausing SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the philanthropist and publisher SUN Sigrid Rausing. SUN SUN Founder of one of the UK's largest philanthropic SUN foundations, her trust has given away around £230m to human SUN rights causes since it began. SUN SUN Brought up in Sweden, she is currently the publisher of SUN Granta Books and the editor of Granta Magazine and her work SUN spotting and developing new writers stems from her lifelong SUN love of literature. SUN SUN As the granddaughter of Ruben Rausing, who founded food SUN packaging company Tetra Pak, she is a member of one of SUN Britain's richest families. Her interest in human rights was SUN sparked as a child by a love of animals and hearing her SUN parents talk about the Holocaust. SUN SUN Producer: Paula McGinley. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Sigrid Rausing SUN Producer: Paula McGinley SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06y8z64 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Museum of Curiosity b06wcsnl (Listen) SUN Series 8, Dodd, Fry, Jenner SUN SUN This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his SUN curator Sarah Millican welcome the singer, photographic SUN playboy and failed accountant Ken Dodd; the University SUN College London lecturer who took up mathematical modelling SUN to get to grips with the dating scene, Dr Hannah Fry; and SUN the man with the enviable task of overseeing the historical SUN accuracy of over 1,200 songs and sketches that make up SUN Horrible Histories, Greg Jenner. SUN SUN This week, the Museum's peripatetic scholars reveal how the SUN first ever alcoholic drinks were guzzled from a spitton; why SUN the equation Wt+l =a +r.W,+IHW(H) and Hl+l = b + r2Ht + SUN IWH(Wt), is the formula for a happy marriage; and why you SUN can tell a joke in Liverpool that that won't get a laugh in SUN London. SUN SUN The show was researched by Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of SUN QI. SUN SUN The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. SUN SUN It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Lloyd SUN Presenter: Sarah Millican SUN Interviewed Guest: Ken Dodd SUN Interviewed Guest: Hannah Fry SUN Interviewed Guest: Greg Jenner SUN Producer: Richard Turner SUN Producer: James Harkin SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06y9798 (Listen) SUN Cardiff: The Story of a City through Its Food SUN SUN Welcome to Cardiff, Croeso i Caerdydd. The capital of Wales SUN and the fastest growing urban population in the UK. For SUN centuries, people have come to the city to live from Wales, SUN and from far beyond the country's borders, attracted by the SUN prospect of a life between the sea and the hills. It's a SUN city with, at once an international community and a strong SUN Welsh identity. SUN SUN In this programme Sheila Dillon travels to Wales to find out SUN what this has to bare on the city's food scene. She hears SUN how modern redevelopment is pulling in big restaurant SUN chains, whilst small scale food businesses come up with SUN imaginative ideas to stay in the game. She discovers a part SUN of the city which still reflects the mass immigration into SUN Cardiff docks of the 19th century. Food businesses which are SUN evolving as today's migrants take the helm. She tries a SUN truly home-grown brew, made with crowd grown hops by SUN Cardiffians, and she gets a taste of the city's most revered SUN pastry encased creation. This is a city where food means SUN more than it might first appear. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06y8z66 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06y979b (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Can We Trust the Opinion Polls? b06y9810 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Last year's general election should have been an easy result SUN to predict. There was a constant stream of opinion polls, SUN many more than in previous campaigns. But they turned out to SUN be highly misleading, suggesting a hung parliament. The SUN actual result was a huge shock to the polling industry. SUN SUN In the second part of a series examining the role of opinion SUN polling in British politics, David Cowling why the opinion SUN polls got the last election result so badly wrong. He SUN considers the analysis produced by the industry's inquiry SUN into what went askew, and asks how easily if at all it can SUN be put right in the future. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06wj67h (Listen) SUN Stowe Gardens SUN SUN Eric Robson and the panel are in Stowe Gardens. SUN SUN Bunny Guinness, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew answer SUN this week's questions from the audience, which include SUN pruning Mulberry trees, ornamental beds and water features, SUN and what to do with felled branches. SUN SUN They also offer advice on how to keep home grown vegetables SUN "supermarket crisp". SUN SUN This week's feature sees Eric Robson take a turn through one SUN of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown's most celebrated gardens. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – I used to hate tulips but now love them – what plants SUN have the panel changed their mind about and why? SUN SUN Pippa – The Dahlia. I changed my mind after having SUN children! I found that Dahlias would distract my son and SUN became a favourite of his – so they became a favourite of SUN mine! SUN SUN Eric – Jerusalem Artichokes… I was nervous due to their side SUN effects but spiced in a soup they are delicious! SUN SUN Bunny – The more you eat the more you become tolerant of SUN them so no reason to be put off. SUN Q – I planted a Mulberry tree about 20 years ago and it SUN seemed to do well – it’s about 20ft high and 18ft wide (6m x SUN 5.5m) – but the problem is that it encroaches on my lawn on SUN three sides, making mowing difficult, can I prune it? SUN SUN Bunny – Mulberries can take a lot of pruning so I wouldn’t SUN worry about it. They do have a dense canopy so the only SUN problem will be making it look nice once you’ve pruned it SUN but you won’t do any harm. Do it during the growing season SUN – particularly in July/August. Or reduce your lawn. SUN Q – We had a garden light attached to our walnut tree which SUN stopped working and the electrician was surprised to find SUN that the light was full of worms and their casts. Is it SUN normal to have tree-climbing worms and how do we stop them SUN getting into the other lights? SUN SUN Pippa – Earthworms can seem to get everywhere! SUN SUN Bob – I assume these are reddish worms the Brandling worms? SUN They tend to go where there is compost material. There may SUN have been a hole that they moved into first before they got SUN into the light fitting. Check the other lamps and make sure SUN they are well sealed. SUN Q – We have a curved, raised bed about 18 inches (45cm) high SUN which incorporates a water feature in the form of a pond and SUN fountain at the rear of the bed. Previous planting schemes SUN have grown to a height that has obscured the pond – what can SUN the panel recommend for low height? The bed is rich soil, SUN mostly shade, 3ft x 8ft (0.9m x 2.4m). SUN SUN Bob – Ornamental? I’d go for some of the Creeping Thymes SUN right at the front. Maybe a yellow Marjoram as well. Gets SUN to a foot (30cm) tall when it’s flowering. Then, second SUN row, I’d go for the ‘Autumn Joy’ Sedum, a succulent plant. SUN SUN Bunny – Keep it simple – ferns looks very good – Polystichum SUN setiferum does really well. A carpet of those with the odd SUN Arum marmoratum throughout. Then in winter a Hellebore SUN ‘Anna’. SUN SUN Pippa – I’d go for Epimediums. Pulmonaria because they are SUN great value. ‘Sissinghurst’ is a good variety. SUN SUN Eric – Juniper horizontalis would be my suggestion. SUN SUN Bunny – Very 1960s, Eric! SUN Q – Why do some of my vegetables from my allotment go soft SUN by the next day – radishes, carrots, beetroot – when the SUN supermarket versions stay crisp? SUN SUN Bob – Do you twist or cut the leaves off? You should twist SUN because if you cut them off they’ll bleed. Also, leave the SUN mud on – but not too much otherwise they’ll dry out. Rub it SUN off, don’t wash it off. Get some plastic bags with some SUN holes in and put them in there. You need to cut the airflow SUN down a little bit. SUN SUN Bunny – Supermarket stuff is also packed in gas and bleach SUN washed. SUN SUN Pippa – I don’t think twisting/cutting makes a huge SUN difference but covering (reducing lost moisture) does. SUN Q – We had to remove a beloved Wisteria growing up our SUN chimney because our insurers said it was causing cracks in SUN the walls. Can you recommend an alternative climber that SUN will produce a showy display on a sunny south-east-facing SUN wall. We have red bricks and clay soil. SUN SUN Pippa – If you could construct a support system you could go SUN for some lovely roses. Also, some of the Clematis would SUN work. SUN SUN Bunny – Roses. The Banksiae rose – especially ‘Normalis’. SUN Cut it back each year to keep it in check. Or SUN Trachelospermum jasminoides. SUN Q – The branches of felled trees are often put through a SUN shredder. If the tree is diseased and the chippings are SUN then used as a mulch what are the chances of the disease SUN then being passed? SUN SUN Pippa – It depends on what the infection is, how rotted the SUN material is and how vulnerable the reapplication area was. SUN For example, Apple canker is very good at sustaining itself SUN so I would be nervous about spreading that around an trees SUN that could succumb to that infection. However, if you were SUN going to put the same clippings in a rose bed I wouldn’t SUN worry because an infection will only spread to a susceptible SUN area. SUN SUN Bunny – They say you should leave them for three months to SUN rot down before you spread them. SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06y987c (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations from Northern Ireland, SUN Jersey and Manchester, about the beauty of the sea, and the SUN cost of academic success, in the Omnibus edition of the SUN series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you SUN 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 b06y9b6t (Listen) SUN Utopia SUN SUN 2016 is the 500th Anniversary of Thomas More's classic work SUN of speculative fiction, which has entered the culture so SUN deeply that the name of his fictional island is the accepted SUN term for our hopes and dreams of a better society. SUN Poet Michael Symmons Roberts dramatisation brings More's SUN strange and enchanting island to life, told through the SUN memoirs of Raphael Hythloday. SUN More goes on a diplomatic trip to Antwerp, to sort out a SUN dispute in the commercial wool trade between Britain and the SUN Netherlands. While he is there he meets an old man who is SUN clearly widely travelled. SUN SUN More complains about the petty politics of the trade SUN dispute, and the old stranger bemoans the state of SUN contemporary society. There is a better way, he says, and I SUN have seen it. The stranger introduces himself as the SUN explorer and adventurer Raphael Hythloday, who at the height SUN of his career of was sent out from Antwerp to explore an SUN unmapped and remote part of the ocean. After months of SUN sailing, he chanced upon an island society unlike any he had SUN seen before. The island was called 'Utopia'. SUN SUN Utopia fleshes out the story of Raphael's visit to the SUN island, giving us vivid descriptions of the place and its SUN society, its laws and social patterns and customs. SUN All the bearings for this new drama are be taken from the SUN rules and descriptions of the island in More's book, and the SUN clues he gives about Raphael's visit. SUN SUN Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. SUN SUN Credits SUN Raphael Hythloday: Raad Rawi SUN Young Raphael: Nacho Aldeguer SUN Thomas More: Michael Peavoy SUN Achorian: Michael Peavoy SUN Peter Giles: Cameron Blakeley SUN Abraxa: Emily Pithon SUN Barzanes: Jonathan Keeble SUN Macaria: Fiona Clarke SUN Director: Susan Roberts SUN Author: Thomas More SUN Adaptor: Michael Symmons Roberts SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b06y9b6w (Listen) SUN Gail Jones SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to award winning Australian novelist SUN Gail Jones whose latest book A Guide to Berlin takes its SUN title from a Nabokov short story and is about six characters SUN who share a fascination with his works. SUN Lisa McInerney curates her selection of contemporary fiction SUN writing from Ireland which tackles the changing role of SUN Catholicism in the country. SUN Also on the programme crime writer Chris Brookmyre reveals SUN the Book He'd Never Lend. SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones SUN A Guide to Berlin: Chapter 1 SUN by Gail Jones SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Gail Jones SUN Interviewed Guest: Lisa McInerney SUN Interviewed Guest: Christopher Brookmyre SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b06y9b70 (Listen) SUN Robert Burns and More SUN SUN Roger McGough with listeners' requests, including poetry by SUN Robert Burns, Ben Okri and Gerard Manley Hopkins. with SUN readings by Sir Ian McKellan and Liz Lochhead as well as SUN Ariyon Bakare, Jasmine Hyde and Patrick Romer. Producer SUN Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN The Blackbird SUN SUN by W E Henley SUN SUN SUN Sourced from Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online SUN SUN SUN SUN Stormcock in Elder by Ruth Pitter SUN SUN From: Ruth Pitter Collected Poems SUN SUN Pub: Enitharmon 1996 SUN SUN SUN SUN Flowers and Men SUN SUN by DH Lawrence SUN SUN From: DH Lawrence the Complete Poems SUN SUN Pub: Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN The Field SUN SUN by Rose Flint SUN SUN Sourced from: Literaturewales.org SUN SUN SUN SUN Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock SUN SUN by Wallace Stevens SUN SUN Sourced from Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online SUN SUN SUN SUN Elegy SUN SUN by Edna St Vincent Millay SUN SUN From: Collected Poems SUN SUN Pub: Harper & Row SUN SUN SUN SUN I Have Been Through the Gates SUN SUN by Charlotte Mew SUN SUN Sourced from Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online SUN SUN SUN SUN More Fishes than Stars SUN SUN by Ben Okri SUN SUN From: Wild by Ben Okri SUN SUN Pub: Rider, 2012 (Ebury imprint) SUN SUN SUN SUN The Explanation SUN SUN by Kipling SUN SUN From: The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse SUN SUN Pub: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1989 SUN SUN SUN SUN Song of the Reed SUN SUN by Rumi SUN SUN Translated by Jawid Mojaddedi SUN SUN From: Rumi The Masnavi Book One SUN SUN Pub: Oxford World’s Classics 2004. SUN SUN SUN SUN Bagpipe Music SUN SUN by Louis MacNeice SUN SUN From: Collected Poems SUN SUN Pub: Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Inversnaid SUN SUN by G M Hopkins SUN SUN From: the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins SUN SUN Pub: OUP SUN SUN SUN SUN Now Westlin Winds SUN SUN by Robert Burns SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns SUN SUN Pub: Bracken Books SUN SUN SUN SUN The Laws of God The Laws of Man SUN SUN by A. E. Housman SUN SUN From the Collected Poems of A.E.Housman SUN SUN Pub: Jonathan Cape SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Ian McKellan SUN Reader: Liz Lochhead SUN Reader: Ariyon Bakare SUN Reader: Jasmine Hyde SUN Reader: Patrick Romer SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b06wd7f0 (Listen) SUN Tennis: Game, Set and Fix? SUN SUN File on 4 reveals secret evidence of match fixing in tennis SUN and investigates claims that sport's governing bodies have SUN failed to act on repeated warnings about suspect players. SUN The programme has seen confidential documents which reveal SUN how some were linked to gambling syndicates in Russia and SUN Italy which won hundreds of thousands of pounds betting on SUN matches they played in. A number of those who have been SUN repeatedly flagged on fixing lists passed to the game's SUN Tennis Integrity Unit have continued to attract highly SUN suspicious gambling activity. Reporter Simon Cox also has an SUN exclusive interview with one of the most high profile SUN players to be banned for match fixing who says the problem SUN is widespread in the sport. SUN Reporter Simon Cox Producer Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b06y8t24 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06y8z68 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06y8z6b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06y8z6d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06y9b72 (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon SUN SUN Sheila McLennon with the best of BBC Radio this week. SUN SUN In this programme we hear the perils of being a Pirate with SUN no lips and an English comedian with overbearing Swedish in SUN laws. SUN SUN Why one scientist thinks it's Real Stupidity rather than SUN Artificial Intelligence we should be worrying about and the SUN extraordinary story of the Italian pianist piecing together SUN music written in the concentration camps. SUN SUN And how do you stand in relation to the potato? SUN SUN The pick from the BBC Radio iPlayer is the Radio 4 SUN documentary The Unseeing Eye from 2012 SUN SUN Produced by Stephen Garner SUN SUN Pick Production Team: Kay Bishton and Elodie Chatelain SUN SUN If you would like to suggest something for the programme SUN please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06y9b74 (Listen) SUN Adam seems to have forgotten something. And who are locking SUN horns at Bridge Farm? SUN SUN 19:15 So Wrong It's Right b01j5nws (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 3 SUN SUN Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show about the wrong SUN side of life. Guests Father Ted and IT Crowd writer Graham SUN Linehan, comedian Matthew Crosby and Sony-award winning SUN podcaster Helen Zaltzman compete to suggest the best in bad SUN ideas. SUN SUN So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie ask three guests a number SUN of questions testing their powers of creativity and SUN revealing the best embarrassing stories from their lives. SUN This week, the panel's worst experiences with a stranger and SUN the best ideas for the worst new gadget are just two of the SUN challenges faced by the panel. SUN SUN Can anyone top Helen's nomination for most annoying modern SUN irritant, 'constructed reality TV'? And will anyone beat SUN Graham Linehan's suggestion for a terrible new gadget, the SUN 'exciting ladder'? SUN SUN The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also SUN presents BBC4s acclaimed Newswipe and Screenwipe series, and SUN is an award winning columnist for The Guardian. He also won SUN Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009. SUN SUN Produced by Aled Evans SUN A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 The Imperative Mood b06y9b76 (Listen) SUN Padgett Powell is an acclaimed writer of very stylised SUN fiction and, in this short work, he weaves curious SUN statements in a truly haunting manner. SUN SUN It's an amusing sonata of bizarre commands by the SUN award-winning author. Three voices provide the listener with SUN seemingly random instructions to a soundtrack of American SUN music. SUN SUN This is a companion piece to the writer's The Interrogative SUN Mood, broadcast last week. SUN SUN The readers are Liza Ross, Garrick Hagon and Robert Ravelli. SUN SUN Directed by Chris Thompson SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b06wv9cg (Listen) SUN Billionaires v the World SUN SUN Oxfam says that 62 people now own as much wealth as half of SUN the world's population. But is this really telling us SUN anything meaningful? And how is it that this study shows SUN that some of the world's poorest people live in the United SUN States? SUN SUN What do you do with bored children on a bus? Rob Eastaway, SUN author of 'Maths on the go,' gets three pupils to play a SUN game on the Number 12 in south London. SUN SUN Prime Minister David Cameron said this week that 22% of SUN British Muslim women speak little or no English. He says SUN that equates to 190,000. We look at the figures. SUN SUN Plus, was the Hatton Garden Heist the biggest robbery ever? SUN Is water more expensive than oil? And a new prime number is SUN discovered. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06wv9cd (Listen) SUN Glenn Frey, Lord Weidenfeld, Jeanne Cordova, Haskell Wexler, SUN Gilbert Kaplan. SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Glenn Frey - singer, guitarist and songwriter with The SUN Eagles - who sold millions of albums in the 1970s. SUN SUN Lord Weidenfeld, the influential publisher, party giver and SUN networker - and, in later life, rescuer of Christians from SUN Syria and Iraq. SUN SUN The writer and activist Jeanne Cordova - a former nun who SUN campaigned for lesbian rights. SUN SUN Haskell Wexler, the cinematographer who won an Oscar for the SUN film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?". SUN SUN And Gilbert Kaplan, the multi millionaire businessman who SUN conducted Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony more than a SUN hundred times. SUN SUN Glenn Frey SUN SUN Born 6 November 1948, died 18 January 2016 aged 67 SUN SUN Lord Weidenfeld SUN SUN Born 13 September 1919; died 20 January 2016 aged 96 SUN SUN Jeanne Córdova SUN SUN Born 18 July 1948; died 10 January 2016 aged 67 SUN SUN Haskell Wexler SUN SUN Born 6 February 1922, died 27 December 2015 aged 93 SUN SUN Gilbert Kaplan SUN SUN Born 3 March 1941; died 1 January 2016 aged 74 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06y8l80 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06y96gz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b06wj1bt (Listen) SUN Norway's European Vision SUN SUN Norway isn't a member of the European Union, but does SUN business with the EU. Is it a model for other countries? SUN Jonty Bloom speaks to people working in a range of SUN businesses - including Norway's vital fishing industry - and SUN asks about the advantages and disadvantages of the SUN arrangement. SUN SUN Produced by Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06y8z6g (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06y9jvb (Listen) SUN Julia Hartley Brewer analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06y9jvd (Listen) SUN Amputation, Al Gore, and Heroin SUN SUN True stories told live in the USA. SUN SUN 23:50 A Point of View b06wj7c1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:48 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 JANUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06y8z80 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06wg7rp (Listen) MON Con Men in New York, Iconography of punishment MON MON Con men in New York: The little known world of the urban MON hustler. Laurie Taylor talks to Terry Williams, Professor of MON Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York, MON about his study into the ways in which con artists play MON their game in back alleys, police precincts and Wall St MON boiler rooms. He spent years studying their psychological MON tricks as they scammed tourists with bogus tales, sold off MON knock offs in Canal St and crafted Ponzi schemes. They're MON joined by Dick Hobbs, MON Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. MON MON The iconography of punishment. From Piranesi's prison MON fantasies to Warhol's Electric Chair, images of penal MON retribution have featured prominently in Western art. Eamonn MON Carrabine, Professor of Sociology at the University of MON Essex, asks what we can learn from artistic treatments of MON the ways in which we've dealt with criminals over time. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Eamonn Carrabine at the University of Essex MON Terry Williams at the New School for Social Research, USA MON Dick Hobbs at the University of Western Sydney MON MON MON MON Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton, *The Con Men: Hustling MON in New York City,* (Columbia University Press, 2015) MON MON MON MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06y92wz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06y8z82 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06y8z84 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06y8z86 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06y8z88 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06zf0pw (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Julia MON Neuberger, senior rabbi at the West London Synagogue. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06yb420 (Listen) MON Dairy Industry Update MON MON An update on the UK dairy industry following a cut in the MON price per litre paid to its suppliers by the farmer-owned MON processor, Arla. The company blames the continuing global MON oversupply of milk, coinciding with a slowing in demand. MON Meanwhile the giant Dutch processor, Friesland Campina, is MON now paying its farmers a bonus not to increase the amount of MON milk they supply. MON A new report from the European Court of Auditors says three MON quarters of EU funded environmental schemes aren't value for MON money. The court checked 28 projects in the four countries MON that spent the most: England, Portugal, Italy and Denmark. MON It found that though the schemes were beneficial to the MON environment, most were not cost effective. MON And on the morning before Burns Night, we hear how organic MON whisky is made in Moray. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06y8z8b (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0pm9 (Listen) MON Black-Footed Albatross MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Liz Bonnin presents the black-footed albatross of Midway MON Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Two dusky-brown birds point MON their bills skywards to cement their lifelong relationship, MON these are black-footed albatrosses are plighting their troth MON in a former theatre of war. At only a few square kilometres MON in size, the island of Midway is roughly half way between MON North America and Japan. Once it was at the heart of the MON Battle of Midway during World War Two, but today it forms MON part of a Wildlife Refuge run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife MON Service and is home to white laysan albatross and the darker MON Black footed Albatross. Around 25,000 pairs of Black-foots MON breed here. Each pair's single chick is fed on regurgitated MON offal for six months, after which it learns to fly and then MON can be vulnerable to human activity on the airbase. But MON careful management of both species of albatrosses near the MON airstrip has reduced the number of casualties to a minimum. MON MON Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Michael Pitts / naturepl.com. MON MON NPL Ref MON 01114875 MON © Michael Pitts / naturepl.com. MON MON 06:00 Today b06ybg7f (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06ybg7h (Listen) MON Migration and Citizenship MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr explores the question of MON citizenship. While immigration issues dominate political MON debate, little attention is paid to the big increase in the MON number of people becoming British. The academic Thom Brooks MON and the Eurosceptic MEP Daniel Hannan look at the MON relationship between the two and the challenges for modern MON UK citizenship. Ben Rawlence spent four years reporting the MON stories of those who are stateless, living in the largest MON refugee camp in the world, while Frances Stonor Saunders MON explores the increasing complexity of today's border regimes MON and the obsession with the verified self. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Thom Brooks MON Interviewed Guest: Daniel Hannan MON Interviewed Guest: Frances Stonor Saunders MON Interviewed Guest: Ben Rawlence MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06ybg7k (Listen) MON Summer Before the Dark, Episode 1 MON MON Volker Weidermann's account of the charming resort of MON Ostend, and in 1936 it's a haven for Middle-Europe emigres. MON Abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams: MON MON Stefan Zweig strolls the seafront, visits a cafe, and waits MON for his friend Joseph Roth to arrive. Also in town are other MON writers, wives and mistresses, as storm clouds gather over MON the rest of Europe.. MON MON Reader Peter Firth MON MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Peter Firth MON Author: Volker Weisemann MON Abridger: Katrin Williams MON Producer: Duncan Minshull MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06ybg7m (Listen) MON Anne-Marie Slaughter on work-life balance, Female refugees, MON Forensic pathologist Professor Helen Whitwell MON MON Anne-Marie Slaughter caused an internet furore in 2012 with MON her essay "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" which MON described her experience of holding down a demanding job MON whilst parenting equally demanding teenage sons. In her new MON book Unfinished Business, Anne-Marie explains why the MON problem of the work/life balance lies not with women but MON with the workplace, and suggests a radical rethink of the MON way that we approach our working lives. MON MON Women and children now outnumber male refugees making the MON difficult crossing to Greece. New research by Amnesty MON International shows these women and girl refugees face MON violence, assault, exploitation and sexual harassment as MON they travel. We explore what, if any measures are being put MON in place to protect them. MON MON It's the 20th anniversary of the TV series, Silent Witness. MON Professor Helen Whitwell is the forensic pathologist on whom MON the original series was based. Silent Witness has been MON criticised over the years for its gruesome and harrowing MON scenes as well as its failure to convey the work of forensic MON pathologists accurately. So how close to life is Silent MON Witness? How often are pathologists at odds with the police? MON And what draws a person into a career examining dead bodies MON in minute detail? MON MON Public health experts want changes to how women are screened MON for cervical cancer, meaning that far fewer young women MON would face recall for repeat tests. Dr Anne Mackie, Director MON of Screening for Public Health England, on why she is MON recommending testing for the human papillomavirus as a more MON effective first approach. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed guest: Anne-Marie Slaughter MON Interviewed guest: Gauri Van Gulik MON Interviewed guest: Professor Helen Whitwell MON Interviewed guest: Dr Anne Mackie MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Anne-Marie Slaughter MON Interviewed Guest: Gauri van Gulik MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Whitwell MON Interviewed Guest: Anne Mackie MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06ybg7p (Listen) MON November Dead List, Episode 1 MON MON By Nick Perry MON MON Lia Williams plays Detective Chief Inspector Greave in the MON return of Radio 4's gritty crime drama. Set in rural MON Norfolk, one of the lowest crime areas in the country, DCI MON Greave leads a team investigating two potentially linked MON deaths. MON MON Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. MON MON Credits MON DCI Greave: Lia Williams MON John Sweeney: Steve Toussaint MON Father Manu: Paul Ready MON DS Ellison: George Watkins MON Eddie Paine: Michael Jibson MON DC Purkiss: Katie Redford MON Wardle: Sean Baker MON Martin Turnbull: Ewan Bailey MON Pathologist: Susan Jameson MON Operator: Evie Killip MON Police: Richard Pepple MON Organist: Caolan McCarthy MON Director: Sasha Yevtushenko MON Writer: Nick Perry MON MON 11:00 The Untold b06ybg7r (Listen) MON Todmorden Under Water MON MON Grace Dent documents the untold dramas of 21st century MON Britain. MON MON Boxing Day, 7.30am: flood sirens sounded in Todmorden, West MON Yorkshire. MON MON As the waters rose rapidly, Mandy and Paul faced a unique MON rescue mission. They share their terraced house on the MON outskirts of Todmorden with their student daughter, her MON boyfriend, three dogs, four cats and 27 tortoises. MON MON The Untold follows them as they attempt to meet their first MON objective: getting one room clear of the water so that they MON can close the door on the chaos in the house and take stock. MON MON Sharing this one room with their many pets, they face MON numerous challenges. The town is cut off, roads are closed, MON they have elderly relatives in need of care, and a baby MON tortoise in need of emergency treatment, after it was MON stepped on in the chaos. Mandy also stands in the road, MON asking drivers to quell their speed: moving vehicles create MON waves which add to the water in the house. MON MON As the rain eases, The Untold finds out how Mandy and Paul MON try to restore some normality to their world under water. MON MON Producer Sue Mitchell. MON MON 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b01pc3by (Listen) MON Series 4, Ottery St Mary 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 Ottery St Mary in Devon to discuss MON Coleridge's embarrassing childhood, pixies, and what happens MON when you put five thousand people in a square with a lit tar MON barrel. MON MON Additional material by Pete Sinclair. MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06y8z8d (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b06l3c0t (Listen) MON 25 January 1916 - Bob Capeling MON MON On this day a conference on shell shock began at the Royal MON Society of Medicine, and Bob Capeling finds himself in MON difficulties at the Bevan. MON MON Written by Claudine Toutoungi MON Directed by Allegra McIlroy MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Bob Capeling: Joe Sims MON Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone MON Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair MON Millie Mumford: Jessica Turner MON Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont MON Carl Larkin: Richard Pepple MON Patrick Bunting: Jack Ashton MON Beryl Roche: Rebecca Hamilton MON Writer: Claudine Toutoungi MON Director: Allegra McIlroy MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06ybg7t (Listen) MON Houseplants, The cost of care homes, Giving up smoking MON MON Care home fees for people funding themselves could rise by MON between six and ten percent by the time the new national MON living wage comes into force in April, according to industry MON watchers. We hear from a You and Yours listener who reports MON big fee increases and find out how the homes are justifying MON the rises. MON MON Having spent some years out of favour in the world of MON interior design, houseplants are back. But those luscious MON spider-plants in macramé pot holders that you might remember MON (or still have?) won't make the fashionable cut. Find out MON what does. MON MON And if you're struggling with a new year resolution to give MON up smoking, maybe locked between the desire to give up and MON your secret love of the habit like the listeners we've MON spoken to - join Winifred as she speaks to one of the MON country's top smoking cessation specialists. Find out why MON confidence is key and why having just one can make you feel MON worse than giving up completely. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06y8z8g (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06ybg7w (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 From Savage to Self b06ybg7y (Listen) MON Anthropology Is Born MON MON GP, musician and anthropologist Farrah Jarral tells the MON amazing and unexpected story of anthropology. From its MON earliest roots studying 'savage' and 'primitive' cultures MON during the imperial era, through living among them in the MON post-colonial period, to the sometimes self-obsessed study MON of our own societies during the globalised present, Farrah MON traces the history of this influential discipline. MON MON She asks the questions which anthropologists have asked for MON generations - how have we understood our own societies, how MON have we seen and understood those of others, what is it that MON we share, and what is it to be human - and situates them in MON the changing historical and intellectual contexts in which MON they were asked, and answered. MON MON In this first episode, Farrah explains her own passion for MON anthropology and explores its birth as a distinct MON discipline. MON MON Producer: Giles Edwards. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06y9b74 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b036kscx (Listen) MON James Lees-Milne, What England Owes MON MON by Christopher William Hill MON MON As WW2 nears its conclusion, James Lees-Milne is sent to MON assess Faringdon House in Berkshire for the National Trust. MON Faringdon is home to the composer, artist and poet Gerald, MON Lord Berners, who has returned to England under a cloud, MON having spent most of the war in Rome. Lord Berners is an MON eccentric through-and-through - a man given to dying his MON doves to co-ordinate with the food he's serving and the once MON proud owner of a pet giraffe. Together with the handsome MON Robert Heber Percy and his wife, Jennifer, Lord Berners is MON part of an apparently successful ménage a trois. Lees-Milne MON finds it an inspirational relationship and is convinced it MON would be the perfect and most civilised lifestyle to lead. MON Berners is determined that provision must be made for his MON beloved Robert if the house is acquired by the Trust. And as MON Lees-Milne contemplates mortality, he considers what his own MON legacy will be. 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; Victoria & Albert) as the novelist Nancy Mitford MON and chart four years during the war when Lees-Milne was at MON his most industrious in trying to secure properties for the MON National Trust. In this play, Christopher Godwin (The Voyage MON of the Dawn Treader; My Family & Other Animals) stars as the MON eccentric Gerald, Lord Berners. MON MON Credits MON James Lees-Milne: Tobias Menzies MON Lord Berners: Christopher Godwin MON Nancy Mitford: Victoria Hamilton MON Robert Heber-Percy: Michael Shelford MON Jennifer Heber-Percy: Philippa Stanton MON Woman: Joanna Brookes MON Eddy Sackville-West: David Seddon MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON Writer: Christopher William Hill MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b06ybg80 (Listen) MON Heat 3, 2016 MON MON (3/17) MON Russell Davies welcomes four more competitors to the Radio MON Theatre in London for Heat Three of the 2016 series. This MON week two of them are from Scotland and two from the South MON East of England. At least one will be going through to the MON semi-finals in the spring, and perhaps all the way to taking MON the coveted title of Brain of Britain. Will they know which MON of Shakespeare's plays used Geoffrey of Monmouth's History MON of the Kings of Britain as a major source? Which US MON President was the first to officially give the White House MON its name? Or precisely what the word 'cuneiform' means? MON MON The Brains will also have to face the challenge of two MON questions from a listener, which they have to combine their MON knowledge to tackle, with the setter winning a prize if MON they're not up to it. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06y9798 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b06ybg82 (Listen) MON Craig Brown MON MON Satirist Craig Brown takes us through his life in reading, MON with humorous and touching extracts read by Simon Russell MON Beale and Eleanor Bron. Craig, who's best known for the MON parodies he writes for Private Eye, chooses an extract from MON The Story-teller by Saki; Evelyn Waugh's description of MON sunset from Labels: A Mediterranean Journey; The Mermaid by MON WB Yeats; extracts from The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leo MON Rosten and Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino, a short poem from MON The Rattle Bag collection called And the days are not full MON enough by Ezra Pound; Our Frank from Letters of Note and an MON extract from Enjoy by Alan Bennett. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Craig Brown MON Reader: Simon Russell Beale MON Reader: Eleanor Bron MON Producer: Beth O'Dea MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b06ybg84 (Listen) MON Series 13, What is Race? MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by comedian MON Shappi Khorsandi, science broadcaster Adam Rutherford and MON evolutionary geneticist Mark Thomas. They look at the thorny MON issue of race, and whether there is a scientific definition MON for the concept of race. Do our genes reveal racial MON differences, and if so do they tell us anything about our MON evolutionary history? They also look at the results of their MON own personal DNA tests...so which panellist is a little bit MON neanderthal and which one has a genetic history firmly MON rooted in the North! MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b06ybg86 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06y8z8j (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b06ybgxr (Listen) MON Series 8, Ward, Sharman, Blofeld MON MON This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his MON curator Sarah Millican welcome an award-winning Australian MON comedian who is so much more than a mere joker, Felicity MON Ward; the cricket commentator whose association with James MON Bond villainy is more than a mere coincidence, Henry MON Blofeld; and a former chemist from Mars who is more than a MON Mir astronaut, Dr Helen Sharman OBE. MON MON This week, the Museum's guests discuss the cultural MON significance of Australians using watermelons as hats; how MON you can increase your stature in more ways than one by going MON into space; how it took an author as inventive as P.G. MON Wodehouse to coin the word 'gruntled' decades after the word MON 'disgruntled'; the vital importance of toilets; and the MON coolest possible way of telling mountain trekkers where you MON were when you first saw the Himalayas. 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 It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Lloyd MON Presenter: Sarah Millican MON Interviewed Guest: Felicity Ward MON Interviewed Guest: Henry Blofeld MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Sharman MON Producer: Richard Turner MON Producer: Dan Schreiber MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06ybjgt (Listen) MON The Bull needs more man (or is that woman?) power. And Pip MON is making every moment count. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06ybngx (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06ybg7p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Trump and the Politics of Paranoia b06ybngz (Listen) MON "In politics, you campaign in poetry and govern in prose," MON said Mario Cuomo, former governor of New York and perpetual MON presidential hope of liberal Democrats. MON MON But was Mario right? In America, politicians very often MON campaign on fear. And when that fear is stoked to irrational MON levels, it has a clinical name - paranoia. MON MON Fifty years ago in a classic essay, American political MON scientist Richard Hofstadter, explored the Paranoid Style - MON "an old and recurrent phenomenon in our public life which MON has been frequently linked with movements of suspicious MON discontent". In this documentary, Michael Goldfarb looks at MON the history of America's politics of paranoia backwards from MON Donald Trump's current campaign through the McCarthy era to MON the foundation era of the US and fears of Freemasons and the MON Illuminati seizing control of the government. MON MON Using archive recordings and readings, as well as interviews MON with leading historians and political operatives, Goldfarb MON explains how exploiting irrational fear became a major part MON of American politics. MON MON A Certain Height production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b06ybnh1 (Listen) MON Tomas Sedlacek: The Economics of Good and Evil MON MON What have the Book of Genesis and the movie Fight Club got MON to do with GDP? According to the radical Czech economist, MON Tomas Sedlacek, quite a lot. He believes notions of sin and MON belief recorded in ancient texts should influence our MON thinking about the contemporary economy - and he describes MON the biblical story of the 7 fat cows and 7 lean cows as "the MON first macro-economic forecast". He argues passionately that MON we need to make the economy work for us, rather than us MON working for the state of the economy. And he condemns the MON way most nations have got themselves hooked on debt, in a MON never-ending cycle. MON MON Evan Davis interviewed Sedlacek,at University College London MON as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations for the School MON of Slavonic and East European Studies. MON MON Producer: Hugh Levinson. MON MON Czech economist, Tomas Sedlacek, in discussion with Evan MON Davis MON MON 21:00 Rethinking Anorexia Nervosa b06wczm3 (Listen) MON Anorexia Nervosa is the most lethal of all psychiatric MON disorders. Early treatment can be effective but about a MON quarter of people develop a severe and enduring form of the MON disorder, which persists into adulthood and is notoriously MON difficult to treat. MON MON The longer this pernicious disorder persists, the worse the MON prognosis for these patients. Desperate to find answers and MON offer hope, doctors and researchers are now pushing the MON boundaries of science in search of novel treatments. Sally MON Marlow talks to those at the cutting edge of research and to MON people who have been battling anorexia nervosa for decades. MON She discovers the role that thoughts and emotions play in MON the disorder, and how these are being examined by scientists MON who are increasingly turning to the brain to look for MON answers. MON MON Scans are revealing areas and circuits in the brain which MON behave differently in people with anorexia nervosa. It's MON thought that the food rituals, obsessional thoughts and MON habits that characterise the disorder become entrenched over MON time, making it ever more difficult to break free from them. MON It appears that this might explain why for those who have MON had anorexia nervosa for many years, treatments such as MON talking therapies so often fail to help. MON MON Armed with this knowledge, researchers are now using MON electrical stimulation to reset the brain areas and circuits MON that appear to be abnormal in patients with severe and MON enduring anorexia nervosa. MON MON At Kings College London, researchers are trialling a MON technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation, whereby MON electromagnetic currents are delivered to the brain of each MON study participant via a device held above the head. MON Meanwhile researchers at Toronto University are trialling a MON much more invasive technique, which involves implanting MON electrodes deep inside the brain. MON MON It's hoped that these techniques may free patients from some MON of the mental torment that prevents them from benefitting MON from existing therapies. While researchers are cautiously MON optimistic about what they're discovering, trialling MON experimental techniques in such vulnerable and desperate MON patients, raises a myriad of ethical dilemmas for everyone MON involved. MON MON Producer: Beth Eastwood. MON MON BBC Action Line MON MON Information and Support: MON Anorexia and Bulimia Care MON provides ongoing care, emotional support and practical MON guidance for anyone affected by eating disorders. MON Phone: 03000 11 12 13 MON "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON http://www.anorexiabulimiacare.org.uk/ MON MON Beat MON provides information, help and support for people with MON eating disorders or difficulties with food, weight and MON shape. MON Phone (18+): 0845 634 1414; (under 25): 0845 634 7650 MON (Mon-Fri, 2-4) MON www.b-eat.co.uk MON MON The National Centre for Eating Disorders MON provides advice and information on compulsive eating, MON anorexia, bulimia and weight problems MON Phone: 0845 838 2040 MON www.eating-disorders.org.uk MON MON MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06ybg7h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06y8z8l (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06ybnh3 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ys5n1 (Listen) MON The Automobile Club of Egypt, Episode 6 MON MON Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen MON into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced MON into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of MON colonial luxury and privilege for its European members. MON MON A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social MON unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the MON internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian MON Building and Chicago. MON MON Episode 6: MON Mitsy meets the King of Egypt. But the outcome does not MON please her father. MON MON Read by Raad Rawi MON Translated by Russell Harris MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne MON MON Produced by Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Raad Rawi MON Reader: Emerald O'Hanrahan MON Author: Alaa Al Aswany MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Karen Rose MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b06ybnh5 (Listen) MON Series 5, Nigel Kennedy (the A-Side) MON MON John Wilson concludes the current series of the programme MON where he talks to leading performers and songwriters about MON the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front MON of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. MON MON Programme 11. Antonio Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' with MON Nigel Kennedy. MON MON Having trained at both the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music MON and the Juilliard School in New York, Nigel Kennedy has MON developed into one of the most popular classical musicians MON of his generation. This in no small part is due to the MON phenomenal success of his recording of The Four Seasons in MON 1989. At the time he explained that he set out to use "every MON kind of technique I know" to communicate his feeling for the MON music to his listeners. MON MON Kennedy's passion for non-classical music has seen him play MON alongside The Who and Kate Bush, record violin-based MON versions of songs by The Doors and Jimi Hendrix, and release MON an album for the jazz label Blue Note Sessions. However, The MON Four Seasons retains a special place in his repertoire, and MON in 2015 he released a completely fresh take on Vivaldi's MON violin concertos. MON MON In front of an audience at the BBC Studios in Maida Vale, MON Nigel Kennedy talks about the album that earned a place in MON the Guinness Book of Records as the best-selling classical MON work of all time, and performs exclusive excerpts from the MON concertos that helped make him famous. MON MON Producers: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06ybnh7 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 JANUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06y8z9m (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06ybg7k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06y8z9p (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06y8z9r (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06y8z9t (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06y8z9w (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06yrhf7 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Julia TUE Neuberger, senior rabbi at the West London Synagogue. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06ybv0d (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 b04t0ptz (Listen) TUE Adelie Penguin TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Liz Bonnin presents the adelie penguin on a windswept TUE Antarctic shore. A huddle of braying shapes on a windswept TUE shore in Antarctica reveals itself to be a rookery of Adelie TUE Penguins. These medium sized penguins whose white eye-ring TUE gives them an expression of permanent astonishment were TUE discovered in 1840 and named after the land which French TUE explorer Jules Dumont d'-Urville named in honour of his wife TUE Adele. They make a rudimentary nest of pebbles (sometimes TUE pinched from a neighbour) from which their eggs hatch on TUE ice-free shores in December, Antarctica's warmest month, TUE when temperatures reach a sizzling minus two degrees. In TUE March the adult penguins follow the growing pack ice north TUE as it forms, feeding at its edge on a rich diet of krill, TUE small fish and crustaceans. But as climate change raises TUE ocean temperatures, the ice edge forms further south nearer TUE to some of the breeding colonies, reducing the distance TUE penguins have to walk to and from open water. But, if ice TUE fails to form in the north of the penguin's range it can TUE affect their breeding success, and at one research station TUE breeding numbers have dropped by nearly two thirds. TUE TUE Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Charlie Summers / naturepl.com. TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01300450 TUE © Charlie Summers / naturepl.com. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06ybv0g (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 Reith Lectures b06pttqf (Listen) TUE Professor Stephen Hawking: Black Holes, Stephen Hawking: Do TUE black holes have no hair? TUE TUE Professor Stephen Hawking delivers the first of his two BBC TUE Reith Lectures on black holes. TUE TUE These collapsed stars challenge the very nature of space and TUE time, as they contain a singularity - a phenomenon where the TUE normal rules of the universe break down. They have held an TUE enduring fascination for Professor Hawking throughout his TUE life. Rather than see them as a scary, destructive and dark TUE he says if properly understood, they could unlock the TUE deepest secrets of the cosmos. TUE TUE Professor Hawking describes the history of scientific TUE thinking about black holes, and explains how they have posed TUE tough challenges to conventional understanding of the laws TUE which govern the universe. TUE TUE The programmes are recorded in front of an audience of Radio TUE 4 listeners and some of the country's leading scientists at TUE the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London. TUE TUE Sue Lawley introduces the evening and chairs a TUE question-and-answer session with Professor Hawking. Radio 4 TUE listeners submitted questions in their hundreds, of which a TUE selection were invited to attend the event to put their TUE questions in person to Professor Hawking. TUE TUE Producer: Jim Frank. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b06pb54l (Listen) TUE David Schneider with Jenny Diski TUE TUE David Schneider, despite being healthy, is terrified of TUE dying. He wants to overcome his fears and find out whether a TUE 'good death' is ever possible and how those facing up to it, TUE cope. He visits the journalist and writer Jenny Diski who TUE was told last summer that she had inoperable lung cancer TUE and, at best, another three years to live. She now writes TUE about the experience and her treatment, with her usual wit TUE and candour, and her tweets have a devoted following. But as TUE she says, 'I tell jokes but that doesn't mean that I'm not TUE terrified at the prospect of my own non-existence.' They TUE discuss this fear, what it is they are afraid of and whether TUE faith might make a difference. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06ybzgq (Listen) TUE Summer Before the Dark, Episode 2 TUE TUE Volker Weidermann's account of the charming resort of TUE Ostend, and in 1936 it's a haven for Middle-Europe emigres. TUE Abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams: TUE TUE Joseph Roth will be meeting Stefan Zweig here. But first, TUE some background into their need to escape Austria and its TUE encroaching dangers.. TUE TUE Reader Peter Firth TUE TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Peter Firth TUE Author: Volker Weidermann TUE Abridger: Katrin Williams TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06yclg4 (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 b06yrjby (Listen) TUE November Dead List, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Nick Perry TUE TUE Lia Williams plays Detective Chief Inspector Greave in the TUE return of Radio 4's gritty crime drama. TUE TUE Set in rural Norfolk, one of the lowest crime areas in the TUE country, DCI Greave leads a team investigating two TUE potentially linked murders. Both victims had their heads TUE shaved antemortem and Greave discovers a link to a case in TUE London a couple of years ago: the Dead List murders. TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Credits TUE DCI Greave: Lia Williams TUE John Sweeney: Steve Toussaint TUE DS Ellison: George Watkins TUE Eddie Paine: Michael Jibson TUE DC Purkiss: Katie Redford TUE Martin Turnbull: Ewan Bailey TUE Neighbour: Evie Killip TUE Police: Richard Pepple TUE DCI Parslew: Brian Protheroe TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Writer: Nick Perry TUE TUE 11:00 Crafty Orchids b06yclg6 (Listen) TUE Anyone with a few pounds to spare can buy a tropical orchid TUE these days. Growers have perfected the process of TUE germinating the thousands of tiny seeds produced by each TUE seed pod, enabling them to grow the plants in their TUE millions. We are now able to pop into our local garden TUE centre or supermarket and pick up a piece of tropical TUE paradise whenever we want. TUE TUE How has their appearance, scent and biology manipulated us TUE into spreading them? The historian Jim Endersby examines how TUE a potent mixture of imperial conquest, mysterious glamour TUE and scientific study have helped one of the world's most TUE beguiling plants to fascinate everyone from houseplant TUE owners to generations of scientists. TUE TUE Orchids have been associated with sex since ancient time TUE (their name comes from the Greek orkhis, meaning testicle), TUE but it was during the 19th century that the mysterious TUE glamour of orchids really began to take hold. They turned on TUE their keepers and started trying to kill those who grew TUE them. The first victim was a Mr Winter-Wedderburn, who TUE almost died when a vampiric orchid tried to drain every drop TUE of blood from his body. Luckily attacks only occurred in TUE fiction. But why did deadly sexy mobile killer orchids start TUE to stalk the suburban greenhouses and the imaginations of TUE their cultivators , in turn spawning what's now a TUE multi-billion worldwide orchid industry? TUE TUE Historian of science, Jim Endersby of Sussex University, TUE shows us that the killer orchids are rooted in the sober, TUE scientific work of Charles Darwin who devoted many years to TUE working out why they have such fantastic shapes. He realised TUE that orchids are fertilised by insects and their shapes, TUE colours and scents all serve to lure their hapless TUE pollinators to them often with extraordinary tricks of TUE mimicry. They proved a tool for Darwin to demonstrate TUE Natural Selection in action and he'd go on to change the TUE ways people imagined plants, transforming them from dull, TUE unresponsive vegetables into active creatures, who might TUE prove to be crafty, lethal, sexy or even moral. TUE TUE Today, botanists estimate there to be some 30,000 orchid TUE species. with blooms ranging from the showy Cattleya to the TUE spider-shaped Brassia. Thanks to Darwin and others' studies, TUE they know that the highly specific relationships that TUE orchids have with just one insect pollinator have played a TUE major role in the success of the family. But paradoxically TUE their success is also their weakness. Adaptations to very TUE particular local conditions can make species vulnerable to TUE sudden changes in their environment. TUE TUE As Jim Endersby reveals, this process has been tracked in TUE detail on the Sussex downs, through a 3 decades-long study TUE of one species of native British orchid, the Early-Spider TUE orchid. These tiny plants have chocolate-brown flowers, TUE covered in what look like hairs, that look a little like TUE bees. The orchids use them to trick insects into what TUE scientists call "pseudocopulation"; the bees try to mate TUE with the flowers, and end up transferring their pollen to TUE another plant. But warmer British spring temperatures are TUE threatening the delicate relationship between the orchid and TUE its pollinator. Could the key to saving these orchids lie TUE with us? They've seduced us with their shapes colonised our TUE imaginations and modified our tastes so that we are now the TUE next victim lured into assisting them with their efforts to TUE reproduce. TUE TUE Producer Adrian Washbourne. TUE TUE 11:30 The Gospel Truth b06ycmd8 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Gospel's uplifting and rejoicing sound is world famous, a TUE multi million-dollar music genre that in many ways has ended TUE up the beating heart of American popular music. But can TUE gospel be gospel if it entertains and makes money as well as TUE praises the Lord? Financial educator Alvin Hall explores how TUE this American religious music genre has been affected by TUE commercialisation. TUE TUE In this first episode Alvin examines gospel's journey from TUE the church to the charts through the music of Thomas Dorsey, TUE Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke. Now TUE considered some of gospel's greatest artists, these early TUE singers all met with strong criticism from the church as TUE they took their songs from the sacred world into the TUE secular. Alvin also reveals how other gospel performers in TUE the first half of the 20th century struggled fulfilling TUE their religious obligations whilst battling with the TUE temptations of life on the road. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06y8z9y (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b06l3d5v (Listen) TUE 26 January 1916 - Kitty Lumley TUE TUE On this day the pacifist Women's Freedom League declared TUE that there would soon be a revival of suffragist activity, TUE and at the Bevan Victor is finding his recovery painfully TUE slow. TUE TUE Written by Claudine Toutoungi TUE Directed by Allegra McIlroy TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf TUE Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack TUE Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger TUE Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom TUE Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy TUE Alec Poole: Tom Stuart TUE Patrick Bunting: Jack Ashton TUE Writer: Claudine Toutoungi TUE Director: Allegra McIlroy TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06ycmdb (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06y8zb0 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06ycmdd (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 From Savage to Self b06zdjvc (Listen) TUE The Colonial Encounter TUE TUE Farrah Jarral continues her exploration of the history of TUE anthropology, looking at the colonial encounter. TUE TUE In this episode she examines how closely anthropology was TUE tied to colonialism, how major anthropological collections TUE were built during the colonial period, and how TUE quasi-scientific racism and some of the underlying attitudes TUE towards 'savage' societies lead to a dark period in TUE anthropological history. TUE TUE But she also explores the history of one of early TUE anthropology's greatest works: James Frazer's multi-volume TUE work The Golden Bough - and how it was influenced by, and in TUE turn influenced, wider intellectual trends in the early TUE twentieth century. TUE TUE Producer: Giles Edwards. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06ybjgt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b06ycn95 (Listen) TUE A History of Paper TUE TUE By Oliver Emanuel TUE TUE A man goes through a cardboard box. Each piece of paper he TUE picks out holds a memory. Pieced together the memories tell TUE the story of an everyday and extraordinary love affair. TUE TUE Folded into that is a brief, and sometimes fictional, TUE history of paper. TUE TUE Starring Mark Bonnar and Lucy Gaskell TUE TUE Directed by Kirsty Williams. TUE TUE Credits TUE Him: Mark Bonnar TUE Her: Lucy Gaskell TUE Director: Kirsty Williams TUE Writer: Oliver Emanuel TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b06y8l7w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b06ycr4s (Listen) TUE Series 5, Nigel Kennedy (the B-Side) TUE TUE The final programme in the fifth series of Mastertapes, in TUE which John Wilson talks to leading performers and TUE songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. TUE Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic TUE Maida Vale Studios. TUE TUE Programme 12 (B-side): Having discussed the recording of TUE Antonio Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' (in the A-side of the TUE programme, broadcast on Monday 25th January and available TUE online), Nigel Kennedy responds to questions from the TUE audience and performs exclusive excerpts from his classical TUE and jazz repertoire. TUE TUE Producers: Paul Kobrak and John Goudie. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b06ycr4v (Listen) TUE How Shakespeare Spoke TUE TUE Forget Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft, Al Pacino and TUE Judi Dench. To take us back to Shakespeare's own time TUE Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright hear Shakespeare as he TUE himself would have spoken. The original, unvarnished version TUE from linguist David Crystal and actor Ben Crystal. They look TUE at the fashion for Original Pronunciation and ask what it TUE can tell us about how we speak now. TUE TUE Michael and Laura perform some of Shakespeare's best known TUE work in the original accent and attempt to bring new meaning TUE and wit to language coated by centuries of veneer. TUE TUE Producer: Mair Bosworth. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b06ycr4x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 15:35 on Saturday] TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06z0dch (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06y8zb2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06ycr4z (Listen) TUE Series 2, Milton's Motors TUE TUE When Milton opens up a car repair shop, he finds he's on a TUE collision course with a notorious local villain. Meanwhile, TUE a mysterious tin of travel sweets comes to a sticky end. TUE TUE Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they TUE think is 'Help!'. Because each week, Milton, and his trusty TUE assistant Anton (played by Milton regular, Tom Goodman-Hill) TUE set out to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a TUE new adventure. Because when you're close to the edge, then TUE Milton can give you a push. TUE TUE "Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a TUE flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners" - The TUE Guardian. TUE TUE "King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times TUE TUE "If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The TUE Daily Mail TUE TUE Written by Milton with James Cary (Bluestone 42, Miranda) TUE and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 show House Of TUE Rooms), the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton" TUE returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a TUE shipload of new jokes. TUE TUE The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill (Spamalot, Mr. TUE Selfridge) as the ever-faithful Anton, Josie Lawrence and TUE Ben Willbond. TUE TUE With music by Guy Jackson. TUE TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Himself: Milton Jones TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06ycr51 (Listen) TUE Lynda plans to mark a milestone, and what is Joe brewing up? TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06ycr53 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06yrjby (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b06ycr55 (Listen) TUE File on 4 uncovers the story behind the collapse of one of TUE the biggest health contracts ever put out to tender. Last TUE April an NHS consortium of Cambridge University Hospitals TUE and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust TUE successfully bid to run older peoples' health services. But TUE in December the £800m, five year contract ended without TUE warning, with local commissioners saying only that it was TUE "no longer financially sustainable." Jane Deith asks what TUE the failure of the Cambridgeshire contract means for the TUE broader policy of trying to improve NHS services by opening TUE massive contracts to competition between Trusts and the TUE private sector. TUE Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06y8zbl (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b06ycr57 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Reith Lectures b06pttqf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06y8zby (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06ycr59 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ys5nv (Listen) TUE The Automobile Club of Egypt, Episode 7 TUE TUE Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen TUE into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced TUE into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of TUE colonial luxury and privilege for its European members. TUE TUE A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social TUE unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the TUE internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian TUE Building and Chicago. TUE TUE Episode 7: TUE Kamel's relationship with Mitsy is deepening. But relations TUE with Alku continue to deteriorate as more staff question his TUE treatment of them. TUE TUE Read by Raad Rawi and Amir El-Masry TUE Translated by Russell Harris TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE TUE Produced by Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Raad Rawi TUE Reader: Emerald O'Hanrahan TUE Author: Alaa Al Aswany TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b06ybg84 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06ycr5c (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06y8zcv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06ybzgq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06y8zcx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06y8zcz (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06y8zd1 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06y8zd3 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06zvp90 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Julia WED Neuberger, senior rabbi at the West London Synagogue. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06ycshb (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0qpk (Listen) WED Trumpeter Swan WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Liz Bonnin presents the sonorous trumpeter swan of North WED America. Across an Alaskan wilderness powerful sounds and WED calls emanate from the largest and heaviest of all wildfowl, WED the pure white trumpeter swan. With a wingspan of up to 250 WED cm, the biggest male trumpeter swan on record weighed over WED 17 kilograms, heavier than mute swans. They breed on shallow WED ponds and lakes in the wilder parts of north-west and WED central North America. Hunted for feathers and skins, they WED were once one of the most threatened birds on the Continent, WED with only 69 birds known in the United States, although WED populations hung on in Alaska and Canada. Since then WED trumpeters have been protected by law and populations have WED recovered in many areas. Alaska and Canada remain WED strongholds and today reintroductions are returning this WED musical bird to their former range in the USA. WED WED Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Charlie Cairns / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01449882 WED © Charlie Cairns / naturepl.com. WED WED 06:00 Today b06ycwqt (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 b06ycwqw (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06ycwqy (Listen) WED Summer Before the Dark, Episode 3 WED WED Volker Weidermann's account of the charming resort of WED Ostend, and in 1936 it's a haven for Middle-Europe emigres. WED Abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams: WED WED Joseph Roth is off the train at Ostend, about to meet Stefan WED Zweig for the hotels and bistro life. But his head will soon WED be turned by another writer, who's newly arrived herself.. WED WED Reader Peter Firth WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Peter Firth WED Author: Volker Weidermann WED Abridger: Katrin Williams WED Producer: Duncan Minshull WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06ycwr0 (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 b06yrjwy (Listen) WED November Dead List, Episode 3 WED WED By Nick Perry WED WED Lia Williams plays Detective Chief Inspector Greave in the WED return of Radio 4's gritty crime drama. WED WED Set in rural Norfolk, one of the lowest crime areas in the WED country, DCI Greave leads a team investigating two WED potentially linked murders. Both victims had their heads WED shaved antemortem and Greave discovers a link to a case in WED London a couple of years ago: the Dead List murders. At each WED crime scene, she's found prayer cards depicting Christian WED martyrs whose deaths corresponds to the victims in her case. WED WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED Credits WED DCI Greave: Lia Williams WED John Sweeney: Steve Toussaint WED DS Ellison: George Watkins WED Eddie Paine: Michael Jibson WED DC Purkiss: Katie Redford WED Martin Turnbull: Ewan Bailey WED Neighbour: Evie Killip WED Police: Richard Pepple WED DCI Parslew: Brian Protheroe WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko WED Writer: Nick Perry WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06ycwr2 (Listen) WED Graham and Natalie - It's Just a Piece of Paper WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple who WED have never married; they reflect on the reasons why not, and WED whether or not their children will eventually tie the knot - WED another in the series that proves it's surprising what you WED hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 The Good Goering b06ycwr4 (Listen) WED Gavin Esler investigates the story of Hermann Göring's WED lesser known brother Albert, who claimed he saved the lives WED of those threatened by Nazi persecution. WED WED "He was always the antithesis of myself. He was not WED politically or militarily motivated; I was. He was WED melancholic and pessimistic, and I am an optimist. But he's WED not a bad fellow, Albert." WED WED Hermann Göring was the most prominent Nazi to face WED prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials. He had been Hitler's WED successor and the second most powerful man in the Third WED Reich. Yet there was another Göring held by the Allies after WED the war, who in contrast was a complete mystery to his WED interrogators - Albert Göring, Hermann's younger brother. WED WED Albert made some extraordinary claims. He said he had always WED been opposed to his brother's Nazi Party and, to the utter WED astonishment of his interrogators, stated he had saved the WED lives of countless people threatened by the regime, WED including Jews, sometimes with the help of Hermann himself. WED WED Could it really be that Albert was the "Good Göring" he WED painted, or was he just another Nazi liar trying to evade WED judgement at Nuremberg? WED WED Gavin Esler re-examines Albert's story to find out. WED Following the paper trail of historical documents which WED remain about him and through witness testimony, Gavin pieces WED together the life of this all-but forgotten Göring, and WED discovers more about the complex relationship he had with WED his brother Hermann. WED WED Gavin travels to Germany where Albert Göring remains unknown WED to this day. He discovers Albert's story does not sit easily WED within the history of the period, challenging our sometimes WED simplistic definitions of good and evil. WED WED A Kati Whitaker production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Bad Salsa b06ycwr6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Last Call for Cuba 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 third episode one of the women gets some devastating WED news and Chippy's lie comes back to haunt her. 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 Chippy ..... Sharon Rooney WED WED Jill ..... Natasha Little WED WED Terri ..... Camille Coduri WED WED Marco ..... Derek Elroy WED WED Tim ..... Matt Houlihan WED WED Gordon ..... Andrew Obeney WED WED Georgie ..... Emily Chase WED WED Elaine ..... Ayesha Antoine WED WED Joel ..... Joe Johnsey WED WED Consultant 1 ..... Chris Pavlo WED WED Consultant 2 ..... Ayesha Antoine 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 Tim: Matt Houlihan WED Gordon: Andrew Obeney WED Georgie: Emily Chase WED Elaine: Ayesha Antoine WED Joel: Joe Johnsey WED Consultant 1: Chris Pavlo WED Consultant 2: Ayesha Antoine WED Writer: Kay Stonham WED Director: Alison Vernon-Smith WED Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06y8zd5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b06l3fjj (Listen) WED 27 January 1916 - Adeline Lumley WED WED On this day the Military Service Act was passed making WED conscription legal, and in Folkestone Adeline and Phyllis do WED their best for Victor. WED WED Written by Claudine Toutoungi WED Directed by Allegra McIlroy WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger WED Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom WED Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf WED Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack WED Sylvia Graham: Joanna David WED Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw WED Writer: Claudine Toutoungi WED Director: Allegra McIlroy WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06ycy0g (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06y8zd7 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06ycy0j (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 From Savage to Self b06zdk01 (Listen) WED Culture Goes Plural WED WED Farrah Jarral continues her journey through the history of WED anthropology. WED WED In this episode she explores the legacy of one of the most WED influential anthropologists of all: Franz Boas. From WED pluralising the word 'culture' to developing the idea of WED cultural relativism and promoting the cause of anti-racism, WED Boas can claim a tremendous intellectual legacy. Farrah WED travels to New York City, where she sees one of his original WED displays at the American Museum of Natural History, and WED hears why he is known as the father of American WED anthropology. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06ycr51 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Tumanbay b06ycytj (Listen) WED Jaws of Victory WED WED In the ninth episode of this epic saga inspired by the WED Mamluk slave-dynasty, a trade delegation from across the WED ocean, brings to Tumanbay the very latest in war WED merchandise. Convinced of victory by the words of the WED prophet child, the Sultan (Raad Rawi) is now ready to march WED out with his armies and destroy rebellious provincial leader WED Maya. His nephew Madu (Danny Ashok) has only one desire - to WED escape the city with his army comrade and lover Daniel WED (Gareth Kennerley). But Daniel is not everything he seems. 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.Gregor (Rufus Wright), Master WED of the Palace Guard, is charged by Sultan Al-Ghuri with the WED task of rooting out this insurgence and crushing it. WED WED Music - Sacha Puttnam WED Sound Design - Steve Bond, Jon Ouin WED Editors - Ania Przygoda, James Morgan WED Producers - Nadir Khan, John Dryden WED WED Written by Mike Walker WED Directed by Emma Hearn WED WED A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Gregor: Rufus Wright WED Cadali: Matthew Marsh WED Wolf: Alexander Siddig WED Sarah: Nina Yndis WED Ibn: Nabil Elouahabi WED Maya's Envoy: Nadir Khan WED Madu: Danny Ashok WED Daniel: Gareth Kennerley WED Heaven: Olivia Popica WED Slave: Akin Gazi WED Al-Ghuri: Raad Rawi WED General Qulan: Christopher Fulford WED Physician: Vivek Madan WED The Hafiz: Antony Bunsee WED Bello: Albert Welling WED Frog: Deeivya Meir WED Frog's Mother: Sirine Saba WED Don Diego: John Sessions WED Dona Ana: Annabelle Dowler WED Boy: Darwin Brokenbro WED Rider: Akbar Kurtha WED Writer: Mike Walker WED Director: Emma Hearn WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Producer: John Dryden WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06ycytl (Listen) WED Ruth Alexander and guests assess world economic woes and the WED current market turmoil. WED WED Don't panic - the experts say. And stock markets have WED recovered slightly from record drops. But how serious is the WED slowdown in China and the oil price falls? Should we be WED worried about the spectre of deflation and debt levels WED around the world? What does the current economic climate WED mean for investors who are keen to see a return on their WED money? WED WED E mail your points and questions to Ruth Alexander and her WED expert panel. moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b06ycr57 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06ycz4l (Listen) WED The Creative Economy, 'Grudge' Spending WED WED The Creative Economy: Angela McRobbie, Professor of WED Communications at the Goldsmiths, questions what's at stake WED in the new politics of culture and creativity. Talking to a WED range of artists, stylists, fashion designers and policy WED makers, she considers if the new 'creative economy' is a WED form of labour reform which accustoms the young, urban WED middle classes to a world of work which lacks the security WED of previous generations. She's joined by Christopher WED Frayling, Chancellor of the Arts University, Bournemouth and WED former Chair of the Arts Council England. WED Grudge spending: Ian Loader, Professor of Criminology at the WED University of Oxford, explores how we feel about buying WED security, compared to more enjoyable forms of spending. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06ycz4n (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06yczln (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06y8zdc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05nvjm7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates an 18th WED century bet; can he walk from London's Royal Academy to the WED Royal Exchange building while blindfolded in under one hour? WED WED Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham. Additional material WED written by Jon Hunter and Paul Byrne. Produced by Joe WED Nunnery. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim FitzHigham WED Producer: Joe Nunnery WED Writer: Tim FitzHigham WED Writer: Jon Hunter WED Writer: Paul Byrne WED WED 19:00 The Archers b06yfcnr (Listen) WED Has Tom got the recipe for success? Things are looking up WED for Fallon. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06yfcp0 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06yrjwy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Four Thought b06zdk7x (Listen) WED Best of Four Thought: Hinge Moments in History WED WED Hashi Mohamed re-interprets a recent British response to WED terrorism, arguing that the episode tells us a great deal WED about our nation. WED WED Producer: Katie Langton. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06yfcpb (Listen) WED The Meaning of North WED WED Alex Beaumont questions the meaning of 'The North'. WED WED Growing up in the North of England, in his youth Alex wanted WED nothing more than to leave for the South. Now he lives in WED one part of the North, and works in another, but he WED questions whether 'The North' is a meaningful concept at WED all. How does it relate to the North of Scotland, or WED Ireland, and what might the UK government's plan for a WED 'Northern Powerhouse' mean in practice? WED WED Producer: Katie Langton. WED WED 21:00 Science Stories b06yfcph (Listen) WED Series 2, The Duchess Who Gatecrashed Science WED WED In the spring of 1667 Samuel Pepys queued repeatedly with WED crowds of Londoners and waited for hours just to catch a WED glimpse of aristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish. WED WED Twice he was frustrated and couldn't spot her, but WED eventually she made a grand visit to meet the Fellows of the WED newly formed Royal Society. She was the first woman ever to WED visit. WED WED Pepys watched as they received her with gritted teeth and WED fake smiles. WED WED They politely showed her air pumps, magnets and microscopes, WED and she politely professed her amazement, then left in her WED grand carriage. WED WED Naomi Alderman asks what it was it about this celebrity WED poet, playwright, author, and thinker that so fascinated and WED yet also infuriated these men of the Restoration elite? WED WED Part of the answer strikes right at the core of what we now WED call the scientific method. WED WED Producer: Alex Mansfield. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06ycwqw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06yfcpm (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ys5pv (Listen) WED The Automobile Club of Egypt, Episode 8 WED WED Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen WED into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced WED into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of WED colonial luxury and privilege for its European members. WED WED A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social WED unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the WED internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian WED Building and Chicago. WED WED Episode 8: WED Kamel meets his fellow revolutionaries and a daring plot is WED hatched. WED WED Read by Raad Rawi and Amir El-Masry WED Translated by Russell Harris WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne WED WED Produced by Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Raad Rawi WED Reader: Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Author: Alaa Al Aswany WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Karen Rose WED WED 23:00 The Future of Radio b06yfcq0 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Absence App WED WED These programmes reveal the secret work of the Institute of WED Radiophonic Evolution in South Mimms - drawing on conference WED calls, voice notes and life-logs, to tell a compelling and WED strange story of the technological lengths to which the WED researchers will go to push forward the boundaries of the WED emerging digital technologies . WED WED Each week a jiffy bag of sound files arrives at BBC Radio 4. WED We listen to the contents to discover what backroom boffins WED Luke Mourne and Professor Trish Baldock (ably assisted by WED Shelley - on work experience) have been up to. WED WED In this week's episode, they develop the Absence App and use WED it to disrupt a politically controversial radio broadcast. WED WED Written by Jerome Vincent & Stephen Dinsdale WED WED Producer David Blount WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Luke: William Beck WED Trish: Emma Kilbey WED Shelley: Lizzy Watts WED Felix: David Brett WED Actor: Chris Stanton WED Actor: Jessica Carroll WED Writer: Jerome Vincent WED Writer: Stephen Dinsdale WED Producer: David Blount WED WED 23:15 Nurse b03w18yq (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED A brand new series starring Paul Whitehouse and Esther WED Coles, with Rosie Cavaliero, Simon Day, Cecilia Noble and WED Marcia Warren. WED WED The series follows Elizabeth, a Community Psychiatric Nurse WED in her forties, into the homes of her patients (or Service WED Users in today's jargon). It recounts their humorous, sad WED and often bewildering daily interactions with the nurse, WED whose job is to assess their progress, dispense their WED medication and offer comfort and support. WED WED Compassionate and caring, Elizabeth is aware that she cannot WED cure her patients, only help them manage their various WED conditions. She visits the following characters throughout WED the series: WED WED Lorrie and Maurice: Lorrie, in her fifties, is of Caribbean WED descent and has schizophrenia. Lorrie's life is made WED tolerable by her unshakeable faith in Jesus, and Maurice, WED who has a crush on her and wants to do all he can to help. WED So much so that he ends up getting on everyone's nerves. WED WED Billy: Billy feels safer in jail than outside, a state of WED affairs the nurse is trying to rectify. She is hampered by WED the ubiquitous presence of Billy's mate, Tony. WED WED Graham: in his forties, is morbidly obese due to an eating WED disorder. Matters aren't helped by his mum 'treating' him to WED sugary and fatty snacks at all times. WED WED Ray: is bipolar and a rock and roll survivor from the WED Sixties. It is not clear how much of his 'fame' is simply a WED product of his imagination. WED WED Phyllis: in her seventies, has Alzheimer's. She is sweet, WED charming and exasperating. Her son Gary does his best but if WED he has to hear 'I danced for the Queen Mum once' one more WED time he will explode. WED WED Herbert is an old school gentleman in his late Seventies. WED Herbert corresponds with many great literary figures WED unconcerned that they are, for the most part, dead. WED WED Nurse is written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings, who WED have collaborated many time in the past, including on The WED Fast Show, Down the Line and Happiness. WED WED Written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings with WED additional material from Esther Coles WED Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Tilusha Ghelani WED A Down the Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Herbert: Paul Whitehouse WED Gary: Paul Whitehouse WED Ray: Paul Whitehouse WED Victor: Paul Whitehouse WED Maurice: Paul Whitehouse WED Nurse: Esther Coles WED Phyllis: Marcia Warren WED Alice: Marcia Warren WED Lorrie: Cecilia Noble WED Producer: Paul Whitehouse WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED Writer: David Cummings WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b06yfcqc (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 JANUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06y8zfc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06ycwqy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06y8zff (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06y8zfh (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06y8zfk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06y8zfm (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06zw2r7 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Julia THU Neuberger, senior rabbi at the West London Synagogue. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06yfhqg (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 b04t0rd4 (Listen) THU Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Liz Bonnin presents the raucous calling sulphur-crested THU cockatoo from Australia. It is with somewhat heavy irony THU that with its loud, jarring calls, the sulphur-crested THU cockatoo is also known as the "Australian Nightingale". THU These large white parrots with their formidable curved beaks THU and long yellow crests which they fan out when excited are THU familiar aviary birds. One of the reasons that they're THU popular as cage birds is that they can mimic the human voice THU and can live to a great age. A bird known as Cocky Bennett THU from Sydney lived until he was a hundred years old, although THU by the time he died in the early 1900s he was completely THU bald, and was then stuffed for posterity. In its native THU forests of Australia and New Guinea, those far-carrying THU calls are perfect for keeping cockatoo flocks together. THU They're highly intelligent birds and when they feed, at THU least one will act as a sentinel ready to sound the alarm in THU case of danger. So well-known is this behaviour that in THU Australia, someone asked to keep a lookout during illegal THU gambling sessions is sometimes known as a "cockatoo" or THU "cocky". THU THU Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of David Tipling / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01429607 THU © David Tipling / naturepl.com. THU THU Recording of sulphur-crested cockatoo by Thane K Pratt / THU Ref: ML 168385 THU THU This programme contains a THU wildtrack recording of the sulphur-crested cockatoo THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Thane K Pratt on 30 Mar 1975; in THU Bosavi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea. THU THU 06:00 Today b06ynh2h (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 b06yfhqk (Listen) THU Eleanor of Aquitaine THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, times and THU influence of Eleanor of Aquitaine (c1122-1204) who was one THU of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. As well as THU her own land in Aquitaine, she ruled over the part of France THU held by her first husband Louis VII and then over the empire THU of her second husband, Henry II of England. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06yfhqm (Listen) THU Summer Before the Dark, Episode 4 THU THU Volker Weidermann's account of the charming resort of THU Ostend, and in 1936 it's a haven for Middle-Europe emigres. THU Abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams: THU THU Joseph Roth is in Ostend to meet his old friend Stafan THU Zweig. But he's quickly distracted by another writer, THU Irmgard Keun. Life is short, so they will move to the Hotel THU Couronne together.. THU THU Reader Peter Firth THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Peter Firth THU Author: Volker Weidermann THU Abridger: Katrin Williams THU Producer: Duncan Minshull THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06yfhqp (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 b06yrrbr (Listen) THU November Dead List, Episode 4 THU THU By Nick Perry THU THU Lia Williams plays Detective Chief Inspector Greave in the THU return of Radio 4's gritty crime drama. THU THU Set in rural Norfolk, one of the lowest crime areas in the THU country, DCI Greave leads a team investigating three linked THU murders. Both victims had their heads shaved antemortem and THU Greave discovers a link to a case in London a couple of THU years ago: the Dead List murders. Then she receives her own THU Dead List but the names on the list don't belong to the THU victims but to Christian martyrs in the first century. THU What's the connection? THU THU Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. THU THU Credits THU DCI Greave: Lia Williams THU John Sweeney: Steve Toussaint THU Father Manu: Paul Ready THU DS Ellison: George Watkins THU Eddie Paine: Michael Jibson THU DC Purkiss: Katie Redford THU Radio: Ewan Bailey THU Receptionist: Evie Killip THU Police: Richard Pepple THU Director: Sasha Yevtushenko THU Writer: Nick Perry THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b06y8zfp (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Herland b06yfhqr (Listen) THU In 1915 women could neither vote, divorce nor work after THU marriage, yet in that same year the American writer THU Charlotte Perkins Gilman envisaged a revolutionary world THU populated entirely by women who were intelligent, THU resourceful and brave. Her great science fiction novel THU Herland tells the story of three men who crash land on an THU island where the men have died out; women reproduce by THU parthenogenesis. Until Gilman's book was published most THU visions of utopia, though turning the world on its head, THU struggled to envisage a place where gender had changed. THU Fantastical machines could be imagined alongside marvellous THU advances in medicine and technology, but the idea of woman THU functioning fully in the new utopias was too much for many THU to imagine. In this programme the award winning science THU fiction writer Geoff Ryman uses Herland as a starting point THU to ask why it's been so had to imagine a world where gender THU dissolves. In the course of the programme he will write his THU own short story, avoiding the pitfalls that have skewered THU many before him. The story called 'No Point Talking' will be THU broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra and be available as a THU podcast. THU THU Presenter: Geoff Ryman THU Producer: Nicola Swords THU Contributors: Stephanie Saulter, author of the Evolution THU Trilogy; Laurie Penny, writer and journalist; Dr Sari THU Edelstein, The President of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman THU Society; Sarah Le Fanu, former Senior Editor at The Women's THU Press; Dr Caitríona Ní Dhúill, author of Sex and Imagined THU Spaces; Sarah Hall, author of The Carhullan Army and The THU Wolf Border. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06y8zfr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b06l3frl (Listen) THU 28 January 1916 - Hilary Pearce THU THU On this day President Wilson declared "The world is on fire, THU and sparks are likely to drop anywhere", and in Folkestone THU Hilary is moved by Ruby Tulliver. THU THU Written by Claudine Toutoungi THU Directed by Allegra McIlroy THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Hilary Pearce: Craige Els THU Ruby Tulliver: Martine McCutcheon THU Ivy Layton: Lizzy Watts THU Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw THU Writer: Claudine Toutoungi THU Director: Allegra McIlroy THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06yn9zv (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06y8zft (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06ynjbf (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 From Savage to Self b06zh6n8 (Listen) THU We Are All Anthropologists Now THU THU Farrah Jarral shows how anthropology has seeped out of THU academia to infiltrate everyday life. THU THU Farrah discovers how anthropologists helped direct early THU research into office automation. She speaks to an THU anthropologist working with drivers in Birmingham to THU understand how they use their time in the car, and gets THU dating advice from Helen Fisher, an anthropologist who has THU worked for a decade as Chief Scientific Adviser to THU match.com. And she reveals which British TV show she THU considers a "modern ethnographic masterpiece". THU THU Producer: Giles Edwards. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06yfcnr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b06yfhr1 (Listen) THU Holding Back the Tide THU THU by Nick Warburton THU THU When Richard and Clare inherit a house in Yorkshire they THU find themselves drawn into an unlikely group attempting to THU defend their town against the worst ills of modernity and it THU seems the Breck Howe Preservation Society will stop at THU nothing. THU THU Directed by Sally Avens THU THU Nick Warburton who wrote 'On Mardle Fen' introduces us to THU another maverick character in John Hector. This is a play THU for anyone who's spent too long speaking to a computerised THU voice on a phone line, or railed against the loss of a green THU field to ugly housing or found themselves a number rather THU than a name and wishes somehow they had the wherewithal to THU keep things as they were. THU THU Ronald Pickup plays John Hector (Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, THU The Worst Week of My Life,Waiting for Godot) Paul Ritter THU plays Richard (The Game, Harry Potter, Friday Night Dinner) THU Kate Duchêne (Everyman, The Worst Witch, Cabin Pressure) THU plays Clare. THU THU Credits THU Richard: Paul Ritter THU Clare: Kate Duchene THU John Hector: Ronald Pickup THU Lux: Michelle Asante THU Penrith: Chris Pavlo THU Trafford: Gerard McDermott THU Mrs Cardabbon: Susan James THU Estate Agent: Caolan McCarthy THU Director: Sally Avens THU Writer: Nick Warburton THU THU 15:00 Open Country b06yfhr9 (Listen) THU Snowsports at Glenshee, Cairngorms THU THU Helen Mark gets on her skis at the Glenshee Snowsports THU Centre in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park as it opens THU for the first snow of the winter season. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06y96gz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b06y9b6w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06yfjdm (Listen) THU Anna Karina on her life and work with Godard THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Anna Karina on her life and work with Jean-Luc Godard. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Adam McKay THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06yfjdp (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06yfjdw (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06y8zfw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06yfjdy (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 4 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 week features a sketch that couldn't catch a cold in THU Coventry, if you know what we mean; a train passenger who THU really doesn't over think things; and, well, since you ask THU him for a tale of a haunted mansion... 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 b06yfm7v (Listen) THU Has someone piqued Brian's interest? Lilian gets an THU interesting offer. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06yfm81 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06yrrbr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b06yfm8b (Listen) THU A Seven-Day NHS THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b06yfm8d (Listen) THU Managing the Boardroom THU THU After recent corporate scandals like VW's emissions' THU cheating, Tesco's accounting irregularities, Barclays THU interest-rate rigging, many asked why company board members THU failed to act. What happened to the checks and balances THU designed to curb management excesses? Evan Davis and guests THU look at how company boards operate and how to make them work THU effectively. They discuss the role of company directors, the THU skills and experience required and examine why some say THU 'Beware the charismatic CEO'. THU THU Guests: THU THU Sir David Walker, Former Chairman, Barclays plc THU THU Michael Jackson, Former Chair, The Sage Group plc THU THU Margaret Heffernan, Former CEO, entrepreneur and author THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06yfjdp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06yfhqk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06yfm8j (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ys5sj (Listen) THU The Automobile Club of Egypt, Episode 9 THU THU Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen THU into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced THU into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of THU colonial luxury and privilege for its European members. THU THU A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social THU unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the THU internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian THU Building and Chicago. THU THU Episode 9: THU Reprisal is brutal after the King is publically shamed. THU THU Read by Raad Rawi, Amir El-Masry andEmerald O'Hanrahan THU Translated by Russell Harris THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne THU THU Produced by Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Raad Rawi THU Reader: Emerald O'Hanrahan THU Author: Alaa Al Aswany THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Karen Rose THU THU 23:00 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01ckggk (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 4 THU THU Comedian-activist Mark Thomas and his studio audience at The THU Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow consider policy proposals for a THU People's Manifesto. THU THU This week's agenda: THU 1) A kick-starter to kick Scotland out of the Union. THU 2) Bankers to be given bonuses in the form of NHS donation THU cards. THU and THU 3) An end to bank fees for those on a family income of less THU than £30,000. THU THU Plus there are plenty of "any other business" policy THU suggestions from the audience. THU THU Written and presented by Mark Thomas THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b06yfm8r (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06y8zgt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06yfhqm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06y8zgw (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06y8zgy (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06y8zh0 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06y8zh2 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06yn1wv (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Julia FRI Neuberger, senior rabbi at the West London Synagogue. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06yfqq6 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0pjx (Listen) FRI Snow Petrel FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Liz Bonnin presents an Antarctic specialist, the delicate FRI looking snow petrel. On a wind blasted Antarctic iceberg, FRI small white hummocks sprout beaks to bicker and flirt with FRI each other. These are snow petrels, one of the hardiest bird FRI species in the world. Few bird species breed in the FRI Antarctic and fewer still are so intimately bound to the FRI landscape of snow and ice. But the near pure white snow FRI petrel makes its home in places where temperatures can FRI plummet to -40 Celsius and below. Returning to their FRI breeding areas from October, the nest is a skimpy affair FRI nothing more than a pebble-lined scrape in a hollow or rocky FRI crevice where the parents rear their single chick on a diet FRI of waxy stomach oil and carrion. But for a bird of such FRI purity the snow petrel has a ghoulish diet, foraging at FRI whale and seal carcasses along the shore. Although it breeds FRI on islands such as South Georgia which are north of the FRI summer pack ice, the snow petrel's true home is among snow FRI and ice of its Antarctic home. FRI FRI Snow Petrel (Pagodroma nivea) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Doug Allan / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01369730 FRI © Doug Allan / naturepl.com. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06yjtgg (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 b06y9796 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06yfqqm (Listen) FRI Summer Before the Dark, Episode 5 FRI FRI Volker Weidermann's account of the charming resort of FRI Ostend, and in 1936 it's a haven for Middle-Europe emigres. FRI Abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams: FRI FRI Swimming, promenading, drinking.The pleasures of Ostend FRI linger in the face of storm clouds gathering over Europe, FRI but even seasoned vacationers know they have to move on.. FRI FRI Reader Peter Firth FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Peter Firth FRI Author: Volker Weisemann FRI Abridger: Katrin Williams FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06yjthj (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 b06yrspc (Listen) FRI November Dead List, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Nick Perry FRI FRI Lia Williams plays Detective Chief Inspector Greave in the FRI return of Radio 4's gritty crime drama. FRI FRI Set in rural Norfolk, one of the lowest crime areas in the FRI country, DCI Greave leads a team investigating a series of FRI murders. She's connected all of the victims to a single FRI crime committed eight years previously: the murder of a FRI young Albanian woman at a Norfolk farm. But she's yet to FRI uncover who is behind it all. Series finale. FRI FRI Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. FRI FRI Credits FRI DCI Greave: Lia Williams FRI John Sweeney: Steve Toussaint FRI Father Manu: Paul Ready FRI Magda Jusufi: Anamaria Marinca FRI DS Ellison: George Watkins FRI Lady Kirkham: Susan Jameson FRI DC Purkiss: Katie Redford FRI Housekeeper: Caolan McCarthy FRI Director: Sasha Yevtushenko FRI Writer: Nick Perry FRI FRI 11:00 Every Case Tells a Story b05xxc06 (Listen) FRI The Case of Kolkata FRI FRI Clive Anderson looks at a variety of famous and infamous FRI court cases and retells the story that the case brought into FRI the public eye. FRI FRI In this programme he explores a case brought before the High FRI Court of Kolkata in 2003, which aimed to decide once and for FRI all whether the city of Kolkata had in fact been founded Job FRI Charnock, a representative of the East India Company in FRI 1690, as the history books claimed. FRI FRI Featuring: William Dalrymple, Krishna Dutta, PT Nair, FRI Vikrant Pachnanda and Deborshi Roychoudhury. FRI FRI 11:30 Ordeal by Innocence b03y0l8y (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI by Agatha Christie FRI dramatised by Joy Wilkinson FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Doctor Calgary comes to visit the Argyle family with good FRI news. He tells the family he is there to clear the name of FRI Jacko, who was convicted of the murder of his mother. But FRI his information is not greeted with the enthusiasm he FRI expects. FRI FRI Along with Crooked House, Ordeal by Innocence was Agatha FRI Christie's favourite of her own works. It is easy to see FRI why. Eschewing the traditional detective format, it takes an FRI original idea - how the innocent suffer more than the guilty FRI when a crime goes unsolved - and explores it to the full FRI within a family where everyone has a motive and means to FRI have done it. FRI FRI Credits FRI Calgary: Mark Umbers FRI Gwenda: Jacqueline Defferary FRI Kirsten: Wanda Opalinska FRI Hester: Phoebe Waller-Bridge FRI Jacko: Arthur Hughes FRI Leo: Sean Murray FRI Mickey: Joel MacCormack FRI Tina: Carys Eleri FRI Philip: John Norton FRI Mary: Priyanga Burford FRI Marshall: David Seddon FRI Huish: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Doctor: Harry Jardine FRI Hotel Receptionist: Georgie Fuller FRI Director: Mary Peate FRI Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson FRI Author: Agatha Christie FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06y8zh4 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b06l3fwy (Listen) FRI 29 January 1916 - Olive Hargreaves FRI FRI On this day a Canadian soldier was badly injured by a bus in FRI Folkestone, and at the Bevan hospital Sister Hargreaves FRI clashes with Dorothea. FRI FRI Written by Claudine Toutoungi FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads FRI Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley FRI Dr Streatfield: Chris Pavlo FRI Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair FRI Private Kelly: Leo Wan FRI Private Lensfield: George Watkins FRI Private Bunce: Ewan Bailey FRI Private Fynn: Caolan McCarthy FRI Writer: Claudine Toutoungi FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06yjvny (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06y8zh6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06yjvp0 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 From Savage to Self b06zh7ch (Listen) FRI Anthropology Faces the Future FRI FRI Farrah Jarral concludes her series on anthropology by FRI looking to the future, including the anthropology of outer FRI space. FRI FRI Farrah speaks to the thinker whose writing caused the FRI biggest argument amongst her fellow anthropology students - FRI Donna Haraway. She ponders the anthropology of artisanal FRI cheesemakers, and their cheese, and learns what studying FRI cheese has in common with studying outer space (it has FRI nothing to do with the moon). FRI FRI Producer: Giles Edwards. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06yfm7v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0400mh7 (Listen) FRI Blood Count FRI FRI A day in the musical life and relationship of Duke Ellington FRI and Billy Strayhorn as they record Strayhorn's final FRI composition, 'Blood Count'. An interview with Time Magazine FRI reveals some truths about their working methods and the FRI question of artistic credit. The action takes place during a FRI recording session, and is based on extensive research into FRI the working relationship of the two men. By Ian Smith. FRI FRI Musicians: Matt Home (drums) Andrew Cleyndert (bass) Dave FRI Newton (piano) Ian Smith (trumpet) and Alan Barnes (reeds) FRI FRI Directed by Martin Smith FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Duke Ellington: Clarke Peters FRI Billy Strayhorn: Don Gilet FRI Elaine Robillard: Ashleigh Haddad FRI Harry Carney: Steve Toussaint FRI Writer: Ian Smith FRI Producer: Martin Smith FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06yfyp7 (Listen) FRI Barnard Castle FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel are in Barnard Castle, County FRI Durham. Pippa Greenwood, Christine Walkden and Matt Biggs FRI answer this week's questions from the audience. FRI FRI Produced by Dan Cocker FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio. FRI FRI 15:45 Special Deliveries b06yfyp9 (Listen) FRI How Lovely on the Mountain FRI FRI A series of stories about some rather Special Deliveries, FRI commissioned to mark the anniversary of the Royal Mail 500 FRI years after Cardinal Wolsey appointed the first Master of FRI the Posts in 1516. FRI FRI In Lucy Gannon's story a curiously behaving dog leads a FRI postman to make a rather unexpected delivery, while Kate FRI Woodward takes us to the French court, and the tradition of FRI royal gift exchange. In our final episode Colin Carberry's FRI story is about Laura, a young wife and mother who is making FRI some tough decisions by way of the Royal Mail. FRI FRI Reader ..... Kevin Whately FRI Writer ..... Lucy Gannon FRI Producer ..... Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Kevin Whately FRI Writer: Lucy Gannon FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06yfypc (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b06yfypf (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06yfypr (Listen) FRI James and Victoria - The Step-Parent FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversations between half siblings, FRI who reflect on the arrival of step-parents, and the FRI conflicting loyalties they felt as children - another in the FRI series that proves 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 learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b06ynjgz (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06y8zh8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06yfypv (Listen) FRI Series 89, Episode 4 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 Jeremy Hardy, Camilla Long, Terry Christian and Rich Hall FRI are this week's panellists. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Camilla Long FRI Panellist: Terry Christian FRI Panellist: Rich Hall FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06yfyq5 (Listen) FRI Pat is relying on Rob. And what would David's ancestors have FRI thought? FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Paul Brodrick FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Matthew Holman: Michael Winder FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06yfyq7 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06yrspc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06yfyq9 (Listen) FRI Lord Hennessy, Caroline Lucas MP, John Redwood MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Purbeck School in Wareham , Dorset, with the cross FRI bench peer Lord Hennessy, the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas FRI MP, and the Conservative backbencher John Redwood MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06yfyqf (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l3js2 (Listen) FRI 25-29 January 1916 FRI FRI In the week when President Woodrow Wilson declared "The FRI world is on fire, and sparks are likely to drop anywhere", FRI pressures begin to tell at the Bevan hospital too. FRI FRI Written by Claudine Toutoungi 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 Beryl Roche: Rebecca Hamilton FRI Bob Capeling: Joe Sims FRI Carl Larkin: Richard Pepple FRI Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley FRI Dr Streatfield: Chris Pavlo FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Hilary Pearce: Craige Els FRI Ivy Layton: Lizzy Watts FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Millie Mumford: Jessica Turner FRI Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair FRI Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads FRI Patrick Bunting: Jack Ashton FRI Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom FRI Ruby Tulliver: Martine McCutcheon FRI Sylvia Graham: Joanna David FRI Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack FRI Private Bunce: Ewan Bailey FRI Private Fynn: Caolan McCarthy FRI Private Kelly: Leo Wan FRI Private Lensfield: George Watkins FRI Writer: Claudine Toutoungi FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06y8zhb (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06yjvp2 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ys5tg (Listen) FRI The Automobile Club of Egypt, Episode 10 FRI FRI Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen FRI into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced FRI into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of FRI colonial luxury and privilege for its European members. FRI FRI A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social FRI unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the FRI internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian FRI Building and Chicago. FRI FRI Episode 10: FRI Events build to a violent climax after which nothing will be FRI the same again. FRI FRI Read by Raad Rawi, Amir El-Masry and Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Translated by Russell Harris FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI Produced by Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Raad Rawi FRI Reader: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Author: Alaa Al Aswany FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI FRI 23:00 Woman's Hour b06yg02f (Listen) FRI Late Night Woman's Hour: Purity FRI FRI Lauren Laverne and guests discuss purity. What does it mean FRI for women in food, sex and religion? Late night, intimate FRI conversation. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Lauren Laverne FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06yjvp4 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06yfyqt (Listen) FRI Eamonn and Roisin - Two Parents, Two Homes FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a father seeking assurance from his 18 FRI year old daughter that growing up in two homes has not been FRI a damaging experience - another conversation in the series FRI that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
22 January, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 23/01/2016 - 29/01/2016
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