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SAT SATURDAY 06 FEBRUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06z17rw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06zhhj0 (Listen) SAT Stop the Clocks, Episode 5 SAT SAT Since she reached the age of 80, Dame Joan Bakewell has been SAT working harder than ever - campaigning, writing and sitting SAT in the Lords. Now the former journalist takes a moment to SAT reflect on the passage of time, and the changes she has SAT witnessed in her lifetime. Her theme is 'thoughts on what I SAT leave behind'. SAT SAT Stop the Clocks is a book of musings, a look back at what SAT Joan Bakewell was given by her family, at the times in which SAT she grew up - ranging from the minutiae of life, such as the SAT knowledge of how to darn and how to make a bed properly with SAT hospital corners, to the bigger lessons of politics, of SAT lovers, of betrayal. SAT SAT At times joyful, at times pensive, she contemplates the past SAT without regret, and looks to the future without fear, but SAT with firm resolve. Once the 'thinking man's crumpet', Joan SAT remains outspoken and outrageous. SAT SAT Producer: David Roper SAT Author/Reader: Joan Bakewell SAT Abridgers: David Roper and Joan Bakewell SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Joan Bakewell SAT Author: Joan Bakewell SAT Abridger: Joan Bakewell SAT Abridger: David Roper SAT Producer: David Roper SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06z17ry (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06z17s0 (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06z17s2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06z17s4 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06z5kvt (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Reverend Richard Littledale. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06z5kvw (Listen) SAT Parting with my prostate SAT SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06z17s6 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06z17s8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06z4w9p (Listen) SAT Snowsports at Glenshee, Cairngorms SAT SAT Helen Mark is on the slopes of Glenshee, the largest ski SAT area in Scotland, as it opens for the first weekend of SAT snowsports this winter season. SAT SAT The past few years have seen brilliant snow conditions SAT throughout the Cairngorms and there has been a real SAT resurgence in skiing in Scotland. This follows a time when SAT the future of the Scottish skiing industry looked bleak SAT after long period of milder winters and poor snow conditions SAT through the 1990s, which led to the Glenshee resort facing SAT closure in 2003. Helen Mark visits on one of the busiest SAT weekends of the season to find a mixture of locals and SAT enthusiasts from farther afield flocking to Glenshee's 40kms SAT of pistes for skiing and snowboarding, as well as SAT ski-touring in the extensive backcountry beyond the ski SAT lifts. SAT SAT She's come to meet the dedicated people who live and work at SAT Glenshee who keep the slopes running for the many day SAT visitors. Helen will also meet the snow addicts who come to SAT Glenshee in campervans for snowsports most weekends through SAT the winter, and follow the best snow conditions around the SAT Cairngorms. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Sophie Anton. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06zgz9j (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06z17sb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06zgz9l (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 b06zgz9n (Listen) SAT Ronan Keating SAT SAT The singer-songwriter and actor Ronan Keating joins Aamah SAT Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles. With Inheritance Tracks from SAT Phil Tufnell. SAT SAT 10:30 Jarvis on McCullers b06zh03z (Listen) SAT The writing of Carson McCullers has perhaps never been as SAT popular or acclaimed as that of contemporaries such as SAT Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams, but nonetheless she SAT remains one of the most remarkable and individual writers to SAT come out of twentieth century America. She only wrote a few SAT works, in large part because rheumatic fever left her SAT paralysed in her left arm, and she was beset by ill health SAT and alcoholism for many of her fifty years. Her writing SAT style was enormously sensuous, filled with the heat, sounds SAT and smells of the American south, and the characters who SAT populated books like 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe', 'The SAT Heart is a Lonely Hunter' and 'A Member of the Wedding' were SAT most commonly troubled misfits. Her personal life was SAT similarly idiosyncratic - the man she married twice SAT committed suicide having tried to get her to do the same - SAT though it is her very particular writing style, with a SAT strong musicality drawn from the years she spent training as SAT a classical pianist, that has made many of her fans so SAT vociferous in their attachment to her. SAT Jarvis Cocker hears from a number of them, including SAT academic Carlos Dews, author Laura Barton and musician SAT Suzanne Vega, who has not only written and starred in three SAT versions of a play about Carson, but often feels herself to SAT be in conversation with her spirit. SAT Jarvis explains his own personal devotion, explaining how SAT Carson's ability to bypass the brain and connect straight to SAT the heart is what makes her such an important figure to him. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b06zh041 (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06z17sd (Listen) SAT A Nightmare of Uncertainty SAT SAT The human stories behind the headlines. In this edition one SAT correspondent flies through the Latin American night SAT visiting three countries in search of the truth about the SAT Zika crisis; another accompanies members of a private SAT militia on patrol in Kenya. They're looking for rhino SAT poachers and if they find them, they'll kill them; the SAT kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been built on oil. But the oil SAT price has nosedived and for the Saudi leaders, it's a time SAT of unprecedented insecurity; the Syria peace talks in Geneva SAT have been put on hold - no point talking just for the sake SAT of talking, says the UN special envoy. And 'imagine a SAT dolphin or a unicorn jumping through your third eye!' That's SAT one of the suggestions at a group therapy session out in the SAT Sahara Desert. But what did the man from the BBC make of it SAT all? SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06z17sj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06zh043 (Listen) SAT TalkTalk Data Breach SAT SAT Money Box has discovered that criminals appear to have SAT accessed the details of TalkTalk engineer home visits and SAT have gone on to use this information to trick customers into SAT allowing them to take control of their computers. SAT SAT Age UK has faced mounting criticism this week for endorsing SAT a branded range of energy and insurance deals when cheaper SAT alternatives are available. SAT SAT And more on annoying transaction charges - levied on top of SAT the price of buying something when you use your credit or SAT debit card. We speak to two businesses about their different SAT attitudes to passing on the costs to customer and the SAT Managing Director of payment service provider Net Pay. SAT SAT Presenter: Lesley Curwen SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06z5jmm (Listen) SAT Series 89, Episode 5 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 This week Miles is joined by Susan Calman, Zoe Lyons, Andrew SAT Maxwell and Michael Deacon. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Zoe Lyons SAT Panellist: Andrew Maxwell SAT Panellist: Michael Deacon SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06z17sl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06z17sn (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06z5jmr (Listen) SAT Lord Campbell, Ruth Davidson, Kezia Dugdale, Patrick Harvie, SAT Humza Yousaf SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Sherbrooke St Gilbert's Church in SAT Pollokshields,Glasgow, with the former Leader of the Liberal SAT Democrats Lord Campbell, the Leader of the Scottish SAT Conservatives Ruth Davidson, the Leader of the Scottish SAT Labour Party Kezia Dugdale, the leader of the Green Party in SAT Scotland Patrick Harvie, and Humza Yousaf the Minister for SAT Europe and International Development in the Scottish SAT Government. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06zh1dt (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 The Forsytes b06zh1dw (Listen) SAT Episode 7 SAT SAT from the novels of John Galsworthy SAT Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna SAT SAT Irene has fled to Paris to escape her husband, Soames, who SAT now has a private detective watching her every move. SAT But even Soames cannot control the secrets and changes which SAT are rolling towards the Forsytes. SAT SAT Original music composed by Neil Brand SAT SAT Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT This Saturday Drama concludes "In Chancery", the second book SAT of "The Forsytes". We pick up the story again in April. SAT SAT [Over the next 2 years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new SAT dramatisation of all 9 books of John Galsworthy's Forsyte SAT Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the lives of SAT an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 years SAT from 1886 to 1936. SAT SAT Award-winning writers Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan are SAT dramatising 2 novels each and the adaptation looks behind SAT the Edwardian façade and brings more of Galsworthy's SAT wonderful insights and observations from the page. SAT SAT Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife) takes a central role as SAT narrator, with Juliet Aubrey playing Irene and Joseph SAT Millson, Soames. Later in the series they are joined by SAT Jonathan Bailey, Max Bennett and Ben Lambert.]. SAT SAT Credits SAT Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson SAT Irene Forsyte: Juliet Aubrey SAT Narrator: Jessica Raine SAT Jo Forsyte: Ewan Bailey SAT Jolly Forsyte: Joel MacCormack SAT Val Dartie: George Watkins SAT Holly Forsyte: Katie Redford SAT Annette Forsyte: Aurelie Amblard SAT June Forsyte: Rebecca Hamilton SAT James Forsyte: Gerard McDermott SAT Emily Forsyte: Susan Jameson SAT Madame Lamotte: Susan Jameson SAT Winifred: Debra Baker SAT Dartie: Chris Pavlo SAT Polteed: Sean Baker SAT Nurse: Evie Killip SAT Maid: Evie Killip SAT Doctor: Leo Wan SAT Boy: Joel MacCormack SAT Author: John Galsworthy SAT Adaptor: Shaun McKenna SAT Director: Marion Nancarrow SAT Producer: Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT 15:30 Syrena Songs b06vkcf6 (Listen) SAT Syrena Records was created in 1904. Selling millions of SAT discs to new audiences hungry for shellac delights. Opera SAT singers, Cantors, political humour & Yiddish theatre. SAT Success allowed founder Juliusz Feigenbaum to invest in SAT state of the art recording technology. By the time SAT independent Poland was reborn in 1918 Syrena was well placed SAT to shape the sound of a new nation. Hot tango and jazz were SAT performed by superb musicians and singers, mostly Jewish, SAT mostly of a generation breaking away from the old world and SAT facing the new. Adam Aston, Hanka Ordonka, Henryk Wars, SAT Micheslaw Fogg and others cut disc after disc before playing SAT in the elite night clubs of Warsaw. Some 14,000 records by SAT artists at the top of their game. Outpourings of Yiddish SAT tango, slinky foxtrots, romantic ballads. Records in Hebrew, SAT Yiddish, & Polish. Songs such as The Last Sunday and Donna SAT Clara went international. In 1939, invasion & war ended SAT Syrena and the Polish nation. Its factory and archives SAT destroyed, its artists murdered or scattered in exile. But SAT there was one last tune to play. Henryk Wars, former musical SAT director at Syrena, formed an orchestra that became the SAT soundtrack of Poles in exile and in military uniform. From SAT Tehran to Palestine to the fortress of Monte Cassino, those SAT musicians and singers that had once been the heart of Syrena SAT now played songs of a lost nation, creating the anthemic Red SAT Poppies of Monte Cassino. Monica Whitlock tells Syrena's SAT story and travels to Warsaw to hear from a new generation of SAT musicians recreating Syrena's sound. SAT SAT Producer-Mark Burman. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06zh1dy (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: A healthy sex life in a long-term SAT relationship; Grammy Award-winner Bonnie Raitt plays live SAT SAT How to enjoy a healthy sex life with your partner, husband SAT or wife when you've been with them for a long time Rowan SAT Pelling sex columnist, former editor of The Erotic Review SAT and Clare Prendergast sex therapist, Relate counsellor SAT discuss. SAT SAT Robert Schumann's last orchestral composition, the Violin SAT Concerto in D Minor,was almost unheard of for 80 years after SAT the composers' death. Marin Alsop and writer Jessica Duchen SAT talked about the women who championed it. SAT SAT Claire Skinner best known for her role in Outnumbered talks SAT about her new stage play Rabbit Hole about a mother trying SAT to recover from the death of her four year old son. SAT SAT The joys and pitfalls of making mum friends when you first SAT become a parent ? Should the government be offering advice? SAT We talk to lecturer and mum of two Dr Jennie Bristow and SAT Anne-Marie O'Leary, Editor in Chief of Netmums. SAT SAT The award winning author Helen Dunmore on her new novel SAT Exposure set in 1960's London during the Cold War. Plus a SAT look at two novels that centre on divorce . What can we SAT learn from them ? Julia Forster and family lawyer and SAT mediator Mary Banham Hall. And live music from the Grammy SAT Award winning Bonnie Raitt SAT SAT Presented by Jenni Murray SAT Produced by Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT Interviewed Guest: Claire Skinner SAT Interviewed Guest: Marin Alsop SAT Interviewed Guest: Jessica Duchen SAT Interviewed Guest: Jennie Bristow SAT Interviewed Guest: Anne-Marie O'Leary SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Dunmore SAT Interviewed Guest: Bonnie Raitt SAT Interviewed Guest: Julia Forster SAT Interviewed Guest: Mary Banham-Hall SAT Interviewed Guest: Rowan Pelling SAT Interviewed Guest: Clare Prendergast SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06zh1f0 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b06z56m9 (Listen) SAT Renewable Energy SAT SAT After the Paris summit on climate change and the global SAT commitment to cut carbon emissions, The Bottom Line is going SAT green - with businesses that generate energy from the sun, SAT the wind - and from cheese. And, whilst the government is SAT committed to getting more of its energy from renewables, SAT Evan Davis and guests discuss why green firms are seeing red SAT over cuts to subsidies they say are vital to update ageing SAT infrastructure. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Juliet Davenport, CEO, Good Energy SAT SAT Jeremy Leggett, Founder, Solarcentury SAT SAT Paul Cowling, MD, RWE Innogy UK SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06z17sq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06z17ss (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06z17sv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06zh28z (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Sara Cox, Norman Rosenthal, Romesh SAT Ranganathan, Sandra Dickinson, Derrick Evans, Bill SAT Ryder-Jones, Cale Tyson SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Norman Rosenthal, SAT Romesh Ranganathan, Sandra Dickinson and Derrick Evans an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from Bill Ryder-Jones and Cale Tyson. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Romesh Ranganathan SAT SAT 'Irrational' is touring until 4th June. It's at Court SAT Theatre, Tring on Saturday 6th, Theatre Royal, Margate on SAT Sunday 7th and Curve Leicester on 9th February. Check SAT Ramesh's website for details. SAT SAT Sandra Dickinson SAT 'I Loved Lucy' is at London's Jermyn Street Theatre until SAT Saturday 27th February. SAT SAT Derrick Evans SAT 'The Warm Up: The story behind the Lycra' is published by SAT Filament Publishing and available now. SAT SAT Norman Rosenthal SAT 'Andy Warhol – Works From The Hall Collection' is at SAT Ashmolean Museum, Oxford from Thursday 4th February until SAT Sunday 15th May. SAT SAT Bill Ryder-Jones SAT SAT ‘West Kirby County Primary’ is available now on Domino SAT Records. SAT Bill Ryder-Jones is now touring until June. He's playing SAT Crescent, York on 17th, Trades Club, Hebden Bridge on Friday SAT 19th and Café Indie, Scunthorpe on Saturday 20th February. SAT Check Bill's website for further dates. SAT SAT SAT Cale Tyson SAT SAT 'Careless Soul' is available on 8th April on Clubhouse SAT Records. SAT SAT Cale is touring the UK in May. He's playing at The Live SAT Rooms, Saltaire on 1st, The Crescent, York on 2nd and SAT Greystones, Sheffield on 3rd May. Check Cale's website for SAT further dates. SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Sara Cox SAT Interviewed Guest: Norman Rosenthal SAT Interviewed Guest: Romesh Ranganathan SAT Interviewed Guest: Sandra Dickinson SAT Interviewed Guest: Derrick Evans SAT Performer: Bill Ryder-Jones SAT Performer: Cale Tyson SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b06zh291 (Listen) SAT Series 19, Home Economics SAT SAT Good housekeeping is a phrase often heard when discussing SAT austerity measures. But how does it work? Can a real SAT household apply the sort of austerity measures that are used SAT by government? Austerity affects us all in very different SAT ways. In a week when the TUC held a conference on equality SAT and mental health in an age of austerity, while Italian SAT students riot against it, From Fact to Fiction explores what SAT it really means to cut back. Frances Grey and Sion Pritchard SAT star in this darkly comic look at balancing the books. SAT SAT Written by Dan Rebellato SAT Directed by Polly Thomas SAT A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Dan Rebellato SAT Director: Polly Thomas SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06zh293 (Listen) SAT Trumbo, Ma Rainey's Black Botton, Vinyl, Martin Parr at SAT Hepworth Wakefield, When Breath Becomes Air SAT SAT Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's acclaimed career came to a SAT crushing halt in the late 1940s when he and other Hollywood SAT figures were blacklisted for their political beliefs. SAT Starring Bryan Cranston as Trumbo, Jay Roach's film tells SAT the story of the Oscar winning writer's relationship with SAT the US government, studio bosses and Hollywood icons such as SAT John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Edward G Robinson and Otto SAT Preminger. SAT SAT A new ten part Sky Atlantic / HBO tv series Vinyl, created SAT by Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter, is set SAT in the music business in 970s New York City and stars Bobby SAT Cannavale, with the first episode directed by Scorsese SAT himself. SAT SAT At the age of 36, on the verge of completing eleven years of SAT training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed SAT with terminal lung cancer. His reflections on doctoring, SAT illness and the meaning of life form the basis of his memoir SAT "When Breath Becomes Air" - which includes an epilogue from SAT his wife. SAT SAT A new production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom opens at the SAT National Theatre in London - one of the ten-play Pittsburgh SAT Cycle by August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American SAT playwright whose work chronicles the twentieth century SAT African American experience. Written in 1982 and set in a SAT recording studio in Chicago in 1927, Ma Rainey's Black SAT Bottom features Ma Rainey, played by Sharon D Clarke, who is SAT determined that 'Black Bottom', the song that bears her SAT name, will be recorded her way. SAT SAT The Rhubarb Triangle & Other Stories is the largest Martin SAT Parr exhibition in the UK for over a decade, comprising more SAT than 300 photographs that span the past 40 years, and SAT including a new commission The Rhubarb Triangle, focusing on SAT an area of countryside known between Wakefield, Morley and SAT Rothwell in West Yorkshire, which is famous for producing SAT early-forced rhubarb. Parr's photographs capture the SAT back-breaking work of moving the rhubarb from field to shed, SAT the freezing cold and exhausting labour of picking the SAT vegetable by candlelight and the consumption of the rhubarb SAT by coach parties and food tourists. SAT SAT Trumbo SAT Trumbo SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT SAT Ma Rainey's Black Bottom SAT Ma Rainey's Black Bottom SAT is at the National Theatre in London until 18 May 2016. SAT SAT Image: Sharon D. Clarke as Ma Rainey, photo credit- Johan SAT Persson. SAT SAT SAT Vinyl SAT Vinyl SAT begins on Sky Atlantic on Monday 15 February. SAT SAT SAT Paul Kalanithi SAT SAT When Breath Becomes Air by SAT Paul Kalanithi SAT is available in hard-back and ebook now. SAT SAT Photo credit: Gale Gettinger SAT SAT The Rhubarb Triangle and Other Stories SAT The Rhubarb Triangle and Other Stories: Photographs By SAT Martin Parr SAT is at the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield until 12 June 2016. SAT SAT Image: Martin Parr - The Rhubarb Triangle. 2015. ©Martin SAT Parr/Magnum Photos Courtesy The Hepworth Wakefield SAT SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06zh2ry (Listen) SAT Embarrassment SAT SAT Archive on 4: Embarrassment - we all suffer from it, many of SAT us work hard to avoid it and some of us love to talk about SAT it. Why do we get embarrassed? What exactly is it? It's SAT different to shame and humiliation but at the time feels SAT just as bad. We like to laugh about it which is why so much SAT of comedy is based upon it. Darwin thought it's what makes SAT us human, Keats believed it was essential to love. Author SAT and Journalist Lynne Truss prepares to cringe through the SAT archive of blunders, blushes and bashfulness and hopes it is SAT not too embarrassing. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06z1zf4 (Listen) SAT Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul, Episode 1 SAT SAT by Graham Greene SAT SAT The first of two episodes dramatised for radio by Nick SAT Warburton. SAT SAT In a conversation with Nicholas Shakespeare, Graham Greene SAT once named 'The Honorary Consul' as his favourite among all SAT his novels, "..because the characters change and that is SAT very difficult to do." SAT SAT In this superbly tense story of political kidnap and sexual SAT betrayal set at the beginning of Argentina's Dirty War in SAT early 1970s, Greene's characters find themselves on a SAT switchback ride of love, sacrifice and violence. SAT SAT Isolated Dr Eduardo Plarr, son of a missing political SAT prisoner, is lured into collaborating with a defrocked SAT priest in a kidnap plot, only to find the lives of two SAT people he doesn't care for, suddenly in his hands. SAT SAT Meanwhile Charles Fortnum, the elderly and drunken Honorary SAT Consul in a one-horse town near the Paraguayan border, faces SAT his own terrors, and the loss of the young prostitute he has SAT fallen in love with. SAT SAT Greene added: "For me the sinner and the saint can meet; SAT there is no discontinuity, no rupture... The basic element I SAT admire in Christianity is its sense of moral failure. That SAT is its very foundation. For once you're conscious of SAT personal failure, then perhaps in future you become a little SAT less fallible. In 'The Honorary Consul' I did suggest this SAT idea, through the guerrilla priest, that God and the devil SAT were actually one and the same person - God had a day-time SAT and a night-time face, but that He evolved, as Christ tended SAT to prove, towards His day-time face - absolute goodness - SAT thanks to each positive act of men." SAT SAT Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dr Eduardo Plarr: Geoffrey Streatfeild SAT Charley Fortnum: Matthew Marsh SAT Leon Rivas: Stefano Braschi SAT Aquino: Martin Marquez SAT Clara: Beatriz Romilly SAT Dr Humphries: Ewan Bailey SAT Colonel Perez: Chris Pavlo SAT Gruber: Sean Baker SAT Father: Brian Protheroe SAT Teresa: Rebecca Hamilton SAT Author: Graham Greene SAT Adaptor: Nick Warburton SAT Director: Jonquil Panting SAT Producer: Jonquil Panting SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06z17sx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Splitting the Assets b06z2v62 (Listen) SAT A glimpse behind closed doors of the Family Courts, where SAT divorcing couples are forced to struggle without the help of SAT lawyers through the complex and emotionally fraught court SAT process of dividing their financial assets. Anita Anand is SAT joined by a panel of experts to explore the issues. SAT SAT The Family Court financial remedy hearings are a battlefield SAT on which couples fight over the division of property, SAT pension rights and other financial assets. Cases involving SAT unrepresented 'litigants in person' can culminate in the SAT divorcing couple having to cross examine each other under SAT oath before a judge. SAT SAT Legal aid cuts have resulted in growing numbers forced to go SAT through these often baffling proceedings without lawyers. SAT Former high court judge and Chairman of the Marriage SAT Foundation Sir Paul Coleridge is highly critical of the SAT system, both for the stress it inflicts upon litigants and SAT the unrealistic workload it place on the judiciary. SAT SAT McKenzie Friend Nicola Matheson-Durrant complains that the SAT Family Courts system is too under-resourced to provide SAT litigants in person with the advice and support they SAT urgently need. SAT SAT Though the head of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, has SAT called for increased transparency in the Family Courts, SAT financial remedy cases continue to go almost entirely SAT unreported by the media. Legal academic Marc Mason says that SAT the disappearance of lawyers in a growing number of cases SAT has itself removed a layer of scrutiny. SAT SAT Family law barrister Lucy Reed says it is important judges SAT and lawyers are continually reminded of the emotional toll SAT of the financial settlement process so that they don't SAT become desensitised to litigants' stress. SAT SAT Producers: Josie LeGrice and Matt Willis SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Information and Support SAT Ministry of Justice SAT SAT Advice on getting a divorve SAT Visit the Ministry of Justice website SAT Personal Support Unit (PSU) SAT SAT A charity which has offices in the bigger city family courts SAT and is run by trained volunteers. They do not give legal SAT advice, but can help to navigate the system. SAT Visit the PSU website SAT Wikivorce SAT SAT Wikivorce is a fast growing and active web community SAT providing free access to information, support and advice for SAT people following the breakdown of a serious relationship. SAT Visit the Wikivorce website SAT LawWorks SAT SAT A website listing numerous pro bono legal clinics. SAT Visit the LawWorks website SAT The Bar Pro Bono Unit SAT SAT A charity which helps to find pro bono (free) legal SAT assistance from volunteer barristers. SAT Visit The Bar Pro Bono Unit website SAT McKenzie Friends SAT SAT Litigants who do not have the help of a lawyer can take a SAT friend into the court with them to help with paperwork and SAT give moral support. They are not allowed to address the SAT Judge or any other parties unless given ‘leave to speak’ by SAT the Judge. SAT SAT It is possible to buy the services of a McKenzie Friend. SAT They are currently unregulated, so have no obligation to act SAT in your best interests, so beware. However, many are trained SAT paralegals or have extensive experience. SAT SAT You must complete a McKenzie Friend form and present it to SAT the Court Clerk before you go into your hearing. SAT More information on McKenzie Friend's from the Judiciary SAT Meetup Groups SAT SAT There are many online groups that help people to make SAT contact with and meet others going through similar SAT experiences. SAT SAT SAT Visit the Divorce Support website SAT Advice Now SAT SAT Advice on getting a divorce or ending a civil partnership SAT without the help of a lawyer. SAT Visit the Advice Now website SAT SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b06z2565 (Listen) SAT Heat 4, 2016 SAT SAT (4/17) SAT The Queen overtook Queen Victoria as the longest-reigning SAT monarch last year - but who is the longest-reigning King in SAT British history? And when Mandy Rice Davies said 'He would, SAT wouldn't he?' - who was she referring to? SAT SAT These are just two of the questions Russell Davies puts to SAT the contenders in this week's edition of Brain of Britain, SAT the fourth heat of the 2016 series. At stake is a place in SAT the semi-finals in the spring. SAT SAT The Brains will also be challenged by a listener on whose SAT questions they have to collaborate - and who'll win a prize SAT if they can't agree on the right answers. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT JULIE ARIS, an NHS manager from Westham in East Sussex SAT SAT ANDREW CRAIG, a copy editor from Pewsey in Wiltshire SAT SAT ROB GREENHILL, a mature student from Leicester SAT SAT DAVID TURNER, a writer from New Maldon in London. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b06z1zf8 (Listen) SAT Gothic Poetry SAT SAT Roger McGough gets eerie with selection of gothic poetry SAT from Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Christina Rossetti and SAT Percy Shelley. With archive recordings from Sir John Gielgud SAT and Robert Donat, as well as readings by Ariyon Bakare, SAT Jasmine Hyde and Shirley Henderson. Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT The Raven SAT by Edgar Allan Poe SAT SAT From: Bartleby.com SAT SAT Ode To The West Wind SAT by Percy Bysshe Shelley SAT SAT From: Shelley’s Poetry and Prose SAT SAT Pub: A Norton Critical Edition 2002 SAT SAT SAT The Sick Rose SAT by William Blake SAT From: SAT From Blake's Poetical Works SAT SAT Pub: OUP 1934 SAT SAT La Belle Dame Sans Merci SAT by John Keats SAT SAT From: Keats’s Poetry and Prose SAT SAT Pub: A Norton Critical Edition, 2009 SAT SAT SAT Annabel Lee SAT by Edgar Allan Poe SAT SAT From: Bartleby.com SAT SAT The Moon and The Yew Tree SAT by Sylvia Plath SAT SAT From: Sylvia Plath Collected Poems SAT SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT SAT Beach Burial SAT by Kenneth Slessor SAT SAT From: Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online SAT SAT SAT Extract from Goblin Market SAT by Christina Rossetti SAT SAT From: Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: John Gielgud SAT Reader: Robert Donat SAT Reader: Ariyon Bakare SAT Reader: Jasmine Hyde SAT Reader: Shirley Henderson SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 07 FEBRUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06zj44h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Stories b06zq9y7 (Listen) SUN Hetty Sleeping SUN SUN Hattie Morahan reads Jane Gardam's classic short story in SUN which a mother is forced to question the sacrifices she's SUN made, when an ex-lover and former teacher at the Slade turns SUN up on a family holiday in Connemara. SUN SUN Reader: Hattie Morahan is an acclaimed television, film, and SUN stage actress. Her notable film roles include Alice in The SUN Bletchley Circle and Ann in Mr Holmes; he recent TV roles SUN include the doomed mother in Sadie's Jones' The Outcast, and SUN neighbour Jane in Outnumbered. SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Abridger: Julian Wilkinson SUN Writer: Born in 1928, Jane Gardam she did not publish her SUN first book until she was in her 40s, but has become one of SUN the most prolific novelists of her generation, with 25 books SUN published over the past 30 years and a number of prestigious SUN prizes to her name (she's twice winner of the Whitbread, and SUN has been shortlisted for both the Booker and Orange prizes). SUN Her novels include Old Filth, Last Friends, God on the Rocks SUN and The Hollow Land. She's been called 'the laureate of the SUN demise of the British Empire', for her poignant and witty SUN portrayals of the end of the era of British imperial SUN adventures. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Hattie Morahan SUN Author: Jane Gardam SUN Abridger: Julian Wilkinson SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06zj44k (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06zj44m (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06zj44p (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06zj44r (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06zqc23 (Listen) SUN Church bells from the Parish Church of Our Lady and St SUN Nicholas, Pier Head in Liverpool. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b06qkp8y (Listen) SUN D Is for Diagnosis SUN SUN Ann York discusses diagnoses - and how receiving one of her SUN own has made her think differently about giving them to SUN others. SUN SUN Ann is a world-renowned child and adolescent psychiatrist, SUN whose expertise is sought far and wide. In this intimate and SUN fascinating talk she discusses the difficulties of giving a SUN diagnosis, describing the benefits and the disadvantages, SUN and how the young people in her care, and their parents, SUN respond when diagnosed. And in front of an audience at SUN Somerset House she describes how her own experiences with an SUN unexpected diagnosis have affected how she thinks about her SUN own work. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Langton. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06zj44t (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06zqc25 (Listen) SUN The Hidden 36 SUN SUN According to Jewish legend, in every generation there are 36 SUN special people, called Lamed-Vav Tzaddikim, without whom the SUN world could not continue to exist. Dispersed throughout the SUN diaspora, they possess mystic powers which they can use to SUN avert disaster. But their identities are unknown, even to SUN each other. In fact, should a person claim to be one of the SUN 36, that is proof that they are not one. The 36are simply SUN too humble to believe that they are one of them. SUN SUN Taking the example of the Lamed-Vav Tzaddikim as a starting SUN point, John McCarthy explores how humility - an unpopular SUN virtue in the age of individualism - can be a sign of SUN strength and purpose. SUN SUN Acknowledging the contribution of others, caring to the SUN needs of young children or the sick, and being open to SUN something larger than ourselves - humility is part of the SUN human experience. True humility isn't stooping in order to SUN look smaller than you are, it's standing next to something SUN bigger than you which brings home to you your smallness. For SUN the religious, that is God. SUN SUN John is joined by the philosopher Oliver Leaman who reads SUN from one of his f-vourite Yiddish folk tales, Bontsha the SUN Silent. There are other readings from Last of the Just by SUN Andre Schwarz-Bart, the poet Susanne Fitzpatrick, and C.S. SUN Lewis. SUN SUN The programme also features music by Pierre Pinchik, Elvis SUN Presley and Zbigniew Preisner. SUN SUN Producer: Emily Williams SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: The Last of the Just SUN SUN Synopsis: A description of the origins of the myth of the SUN Lamed-waf SUN SUN Author:Andre Schwartz-Bart SUN SUN Publisher: Editions du Seuil SUN SUN ISBN: 978-1585670161 SUN Title: Gotham Wanes from the collection Krypton Nights SUN SUN Author: Bryan Dietrich SUN SUN Synopsis: Poem in which Batman discusses the power of masks SUN and why he wears one SUN Title:The Bondage of the Will SUN SUN Synopsis: How faith has to do with things not being seen SUN SUN Author: Martin Luther SUN SUN Publisher: Baker Academic SUN SUN ISBN: 0801048931 SUN Title:David Copperfield SUN SUN Synopsis:Uriah Heep on the virtue of being humble SUN SUN Author: Charles Dickens SUN SUN Publisher: Wordsworth Classics SUN SUN ISBN: 978-1853260247 SUN Title: Conversations With my Father SUN SUN Author: Suzanna Fitzpatrick SUN SUN Synopsis: The author’s father talks about her mothers SUN illness in a phone call. SUN Title: Bontsha the Silent SUN SUN Author: Isaac Leib Peretz SUN SUN Synopsis: Here on Earth the death of Bontsha makes no SUN impression. But in heaven it’s a different story. SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b06zqc27 (Listen) SUN After the Flood SUN SUN Battered by the winter floods, Anne Cornthwaite is picking SUN up the pieces on her Lake District farm. Storm Desmond SUN ripped through the region, turning streams into raging SUN torrents, sweeping away drystone dykes and stranding SUN livestock. SUN SUN Caz Graham pays a visit to Keswick to see how Anne is trying SUN to rebuild the business. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06zj44w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06zj44y (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06zqc29 (Listen) SUN Catholic worship returns to Hampton Court, Women's prayers SUN at the Western Wall, All aboard the Mercy Bus SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06zqc2c (Listen) SUN International Alert SUN SUN John McCarthy presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN International Alert SUN Registered Charity No 327553 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'International Alert' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'International Alert'. SUN SUN International Alert SUN SUN This year International Alert celebrates 30 years of helping SUN people affected by violent conflict build peace. SUN In over 40 countries around the world, we bring together SUN communities divided by conflict to find ways of resolving SUN their differences without resorting to violence, providing SUN them with trauma counselling, mediation and training. Local SUN people building local peace. SUN Whether it is working with communities, their governments or SUN global institutions, we help tackle the root causes of SUN conflict around the world. SUN Find out more at SUN www.international-alert.org SUN SUN SUN Safe spaces in Syria SUN SUN The vulnerability of children and young people to SUN recruitment by violent extremist groups in Syria represents SUN a growing challenge to peace. But by giving them a safe SUN space, an education and trauma counselling, International SUN Alert is helping them to develop the skills needed to cope SUN with the ordeals they are facing. SUN Photo: © Russell Watkins/DFID (Creative Commons) SUN SUN Dialogue in Lebanon SUN SUN International Alert is working with young people in Lebanon SUN to help challenge a history of sectarian division by SUN building bridges across political divides. We bring them SUN together so they can discuss constructively and peacefully SUN and tackle the issues that divide them. SUN Photo: © Nadim Bou Habib/International Alert SUN SUN Peace education in Lebanon, Syria and Turkey SUN SUN *“Without your guidance and what you tell us, I would have SUN joined ISIS,”* says 17-year-old Abdul, from Syria. SUN By attending our peace education sessions, Abdul was able to SUN discuss the issues he was facing and reflect on what he SUN wanted from his life. SUN Photo: © Nadim Kamel/International Alert SUN The names of the people in this appeal have been changed to SUN protect their identities. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06zj455 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06zj458 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06zqc2f (Listen) SUN Changed from Glory into Glory SUN SUN How can an encounter with Christ transform the life of his SUN followers? The mountain top Transfiguration of Jesus totally SUN changed the lives of the disciples who witnessed it. Leader: SUN the Rev Adrian Dorrian; Preacher: the Dean of Down, the Very SUN Rev Henry Hull. Director of Music: Michael McCracken. Crown SUN Him With Many Crowns (Diademata); Readings: Psalm 99; Luke SUN 9.28-36; Christ Whose Glory Fills the Skies (Ratisbon); Be SUN Still for the Presence of the Lord (Be Still); Love Divine, SUN All Loves Excelling (Blaenwern). Live from Down Cathedral, SUN Downpatrick. Producer: Etta Halliday. SUN SUN Lent Pilgrimage SUN SUN During Lent Radio 4’s Sunday Worship and Daily Service as SUN well as Sunday Breakfast on BBC local radio are taking the SUN idea of Pilgrimage as inspiration. A link to resources for SUN individuals and groups from Churches Together in Britain and SUN Ireland can be found below. SUN SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06z5jmt (Listen) SUN Star Wars Obsession SUN SUN Helen Macdonald has made her name writing about nature and SUN birds of prey. 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SUN SUN The bird became a national symbol for the United States of SUN America and on the Great Seal is pictured grasping a bunch SUN of arrows in one talon and an olive branch in the other. SUN SUN But pomp and reverence don't always guarantee protection. In SUN 1962 in her classic book "Silent Spring", Rachel Carson SUN warned that bald eagle populations had dwindled alarmingly SUN and that the birds were failing to reproduce successfully. SUN Rightly, she suspected that pesticides were responsible. SUN Bald eagle populations crashed across the USA from the SUN middle of the twentieth century, but fortunately are now SUN recovering following a ban on the use of the offending SUN pesticides. SUN SUN Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Matthew Maran / naturepl.com. SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01348129 SUN © Matthew Maran / naturepl.com. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06zj45d (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 b06zqchx (Listen) SUN Jim is making a big effort for the bird watch. And Kate SUN feels under pressure. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Joanna Toye SUN Director: Marina Caldarone SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Andrew Eagleton: Andrew Frame SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Usha Franks: Souad Faress SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06zqchz (Listen) SUN Professor Dame Carol Black SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Dame Carol Black. SUN SUN She is Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and is a SUN special adviser to the Department of Health and Public SUN Health England. She is also Chair of the Board of the SUN Nuffield Trust, the health policy think tank. SUN SUN She read History at Bristol University before beginning her SUN medical career with encouragement from Dame Cecily Saunders, SUN the founder of the hospice movement. She was Head of SUN Rheumatology at London's Royal Free Hospital from 1989-1994, SUN and was Medical Director of the hospital between 1995 and SUN 2002. She's an international expert on scleroderma, a skin SUN and tissue auto-immune disease, and is the second woman to SUN become President of the Royal College of Physicians. SUN SUN She was made a Dame in 2005 for her services to Medicine. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Carol Black SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06zj45n (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Museum of Curiosity b06z2853 (Listen) SUN Series 8, Hound, Vickers, Smit SUN SUN This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his SUN curator Sarah Millican welcome Rufus Hound, the comedian, SUN actor, politician and Strictly Come Dancing winner; Sir Tim SUN Smit, who gave up being a music producer and took up SUN gardening when he found the Lost Gardens of Heligan and SUN founded the Eden Project; and Doris Vickers, a woman from SUN Vienna who studied astronomy but woke up one morning with an SUN overwhelming desire to learn Latin, and who now combines the SUN two disciplines as an archaeoastronomer. SUN SUN This week, the Museum's guests discuss how people could tell SUN the time at night before the invention of clocks; how SUN politics could be transformed with obligatory wearing of SUN lie-detecting suits; and why going ape in the mirror could SUN help us see what makes us human. SUN SUN The show was researched by Anne Miller and Stevyn Colgan 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: Rufus Hound SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Smit SUN Interviewed Guest: Doris Vickers SUN Interviewed Guest: Kees Moeliker SUN Producer: Richard Turner SUN Producer: James Harkin SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06zqd89 (Listen) SUN Series that investigates every aspect of the food we eat. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06zj45s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06zj45v (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Pete & Clive b06nnnlc (Listen) SUN Pete Atkin and Clive James have shared a partnership in SUN songwriting for half a century since their University days SUN in Cambridge, creating an archive of 300 or more songs known SUN for their intellectual ranking. SUN SUN "Writing song lyrics is my favourite form of writing SUN anything. But I've never managed to become famous for it" SUN declares Clive. SUN SUN Pete and Clive's songs are reminiscent of The Great American SUN Songbook. Although Pete is well known for performing the SUN songs, they were also writing songs for other people to sing SUN in a similar tradition to Tin Pan Alley. SUN SUN In the 1970s, their musical partnership was described as SUN "one of the best song-writing partnerships alive", alongside SUN Elton John, Joni Mitchell and The Beatles. At this time, SUN Pete Atkin was the most booked artist on The John Peel Show SUN for two years running. The songs gained most recognition in SUN the 1970s thanks to DJ Kenny Everett and recordings by SUN singers Julie Covington and Val Doonican. SUN SUN In this programme, we hear revealing and personal SUN reminiscences from Pete and Clive today as they discuss how SUN it all began, the differences between writing poetry and SUN song, and their thoughts on the future of their songs. SUN Friends and colleagues contribute a personal insight into SUN this unique pairing, considered to be masters of their craft SUN by Stephen Fry, Bruce Beresford, Daniel Finklestein, Simon SUN Wallace and Russell Davies. SUN SUN Why is this the missing part in Clive James' career despite SUN it being the one thing he wants to be most remembered for? SUN SUN Producer: Hayley Redmond SUN A Sue Clark production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06z5jmc (Listen) SUN Boddington SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Boddington, Northamptonshire. Matthew Wilson, Chris SUN Beardshaw and Anne Swithinbank answer this week's questions. SUN SUN The panel offer tips on decorating the edge of a lawn, SUN suggest the best plants for sound screening, and help SUN audience members work out what has happened to their winter SUN pansies and leeks. SUN SUN Also, Chris Beardshaw gets a crash course in horticultural SUN photography while Matthew Wilson follows up on a suggestion SUN that you don't actually need a garden to garden - some pots SUN will do. 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 – We are trying to fill a 3m x 2m (10ft x 6.5ft) space on SUN the edge of a moist, clay-soil lawn and we’re looking for a SUN suitable shrub to put in it. We were thinking of *Rubus SUN odoratus *– do you agree or do you have any better ideas? SUN SUN Matthew – The *Rubus* will do ok on clay. It’s not a SUN spectacular shrub. I would recommend the *Viburnums* and my SUN favourite is a *burkwoodii* hybrid called ‘Park Farm’. SUN SUN Chris – I would recommend putting more than one plant in so SUN you get a more interesting view. I would go with the SUN species roses – for structure I would go for Rosa Terracotta SUN and then up that I would send *Clematis alpina* or a SUN *macropetala*, and then something coming up such as SUN *Perovskia atriplicifolia* (The Russian Sage). Then, I SUN would go for something animated such as* Phalaris feesey*. SUN And then a *Geranium macrorrhizum* to tickle your ankles as SUN you walk by on the lawn. SUN SUN SUN Q – How do I look after my orchid? It produces flowers on a SUN single stem and it has four silver tendrils that are getting SUN incredibly long. How should I care for it? SUN SUN Anne – This is a *Phalaenopsis *or ‘Moth Orchid’ – these SUN tendrils are actually its aerial roots. It’s growing as it SUN would in a moist environment. I would get some folia feed in SUN a misting spray and it’ll be perfectly happy. SUN SUN SUN Q – What screening could the panel suggest for screening SUN from noise? SUN SUN Anne – You need* Phyllostachys aureosulcata spectabilis *– SUN which is a type of bamboo. It needs about five to six years SUN but will reach 12-15ft (3.5m x 4.5m) and provide nice thick SUN canes. It doesn’t travel too much which is good and you can SUN thin them out and use the canes for things such as tomatoes SUN and beans. SUN SUN Matthew – The difficulty is you’ve got to plant a real depth SUN of plants – perhaps even a kilometre (0.6miles) – in order SUN to have an impact so hi-tech acoustic barriers are going to SUN be more effective. SUN SUN Chris – The closer to the source that you can put the SUN barrier, the more effective that barrier will be. SUN Evergreens are better than deciduous plants. SUN SUN SUN Q – What are the top poisonous plants that a school should SUN avoid? SUN SUN Matthew – To an extent most plants are poisonous. However, SUN really avoid things such as *Euphorbia* because of the sap. SUN *Phytolacca *also has berries that will make you ill. And SUN ‘Monkshood’ is very toxic too. SUN SUN Chris – I would include the Aconites and also *Clematis*, SUN *Ranunclus*, *Delphiniums*, *Taxus*, *Laburnum* if you’re SUN looking to exclude toxic plants. SUN SUN SUN Q – I planted some winter pansies that were in full bloom SUN before completely wilting. At the base it looked like they SUN had been eaten off. We replaced them and the soil/compost SUN in the window box but it’s happened again. Why? SUN SUN Anne – I find in wet winters pansies are hard to keep SUN healthy so they could have just rotted. If not, it’s more SUN likely to be slugs and snails. They hide in the day and SUN like to return to the same spots. SUN SUN SUN Q – Our leeks failed last year for the first time – when SUN pulled they were slimy inside and each contained a red/brown SUN bug. What went wrong? SUN SUN Anne – Almost certainly Leek Moth. You might have to cover SUN your leeks, which would be a nuisance. SUN SUN SUN Q – My question concerns the Carrot Root Fly – how can I SUN combat it please? I put a cage up so how are they getting SUN in? Or are they already in the soil? SUN SUN Matthew – Anywhere the wind can get the flies can get … they SUN might be getting in when you open the cage. I would also SUN try intercropping with other species – things like Alliums SUN would be good – to vary/disguise the smell of your delicious SUN carrots! SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06zqk2t (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations from Edinburgh, Aberystwyth and SUN Manchester about growing up with Asperger's Syndrome, gender SUN expectations on a motorbike, and how policing has changed. - SUN in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b06zqk2w (Listen) SUN Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul, Episode 2 SUN SUN by Graham Greene SUN SUN Dramatised for radio by Nick Warburton SUN SUN In a conversation with Nicholas Shakespeare, Graham Greene SUN once named 'The Honorary Consul' as his favourite among all SUN his novels, "..because the characters change and that is SUN very difficult to do." SUN SUN In this superbly tense and violent story of political kidnap SUN and sexual betrayal set at the beginning of the Dirty War in SUN early 1970s Argentina, Greene's characters find themselves SUN on a hellish journey. Isolated Dr Eduardo Plarr, son of a SUN missing political prisoner, is lured into collaborating with SUN a defrocked priest in a kidnap plot, only to find the lives SUN of two people he doesn't care for, suddenly in his hands. SUN And Charles Fortnum, the drunken Honorary Consul in a SUN one-horse town near the Paraguayan border, faces his own SUN terrors, and the loss of the young prostitute he has fallen SUN in love with. SUN SUN Greene added: "For me the sinner and the saint can meet; SUN there is no discontinuity, no rupture... The basic element I SUN admire in Christianity is its sense of moral failure. That SUN is its very foundation. For once you're conscious of SUN personal failure, then perhaps in future you become a little SUN less fallible. In 'The Honorary Consul' I did suggest this SUN idea, through the guerrilla priest, that God and the devil SUN were actually one and the same person - God had a day-time SUN and a night-time face, but that He evolved, as Christ tended SUN to prove, towards His day-time face - absolute goodness - SUN thanks to each positive act of men." SUN SUN In this concluding episode, Plarr's attempts to help Charley SUN get him death threats from the police. Not only is the state SUN closing in on Plarr, but his own past too. SUN SUN Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. SUN SUN Credits SUN Dr Eduardo Plarr: Geoffrey Streatfeild SUN Charley Fortnum: Matthew Marsh SUN Leon Rivas: Stefano Braschi SUN Aquino: Martin Marquez SUN Clara: Beatriz Romilly SUN Dr Humphries: Ewan Bailey SUN Colonel Perez: Chris Pavlo SUN Marta: Yolanda Vazquez SUN Crichton: George Watkins SUN Jose: Sean Baker SUN Father: Brian Protheroe SUN Author: Graham Greene SUN Adaptor: Nick Warburton SUN Director: Jonquil Panting SUN Producer: Jonquil Panting SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b06zqk2y (Listen) SUN Kamila Shamsie - Burnt Shadows SUN SUN Kamila Shamsie talks about her novel Burnt Shadows which was SUN nominated for the Orange Prize. SUN SUN The novel tells follows the life of Hiroko Tanaka who SUN survives the bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 to make a new life SUN in India and beyond. The gripping family saga takes us from SUN the Partition of India in 1947 to the invasion of SUN Afghanistan by the Soviet Union in 1979 to New York City in SUN the uncertain wake of 9/11. SUN SUN Presented by James Naughtie. SUN SUN March's Bookclub choice : A Strange Eventful History by SUN Michael Holroyd (2009) SUN SUN Interviewed guest : Kamila Shamsie SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b06zqk30 (Listen) SUN The Lakes and the Caribbean SUN SUN Roger McGough with a miscellany including poetry from The SUN Lakes and the Caribbean, as well as a trilogy for worriers. SUN The poetry comes from Stevie Smith, Matt Harvey, Percy SUN Shelley, Fleur Adcock and others. Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN SUN To Live At All is Miracle Enough SUN SUN By Mervyn Peake SUN SUN From The Voice of The Heart: The Working of Mervyn Peake’s SUN Imagination by G.Peter Winnington SUN SUN Pub: Liverpool University press SUN SUN SUN SUN Cold Molded Wood SUN SUN By Sarah Hymas SUN SUN From SUN http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=270 SUN 0 SUN SUN SUN SUN For No Good Reason SUN SUN By Peter Redgrove SUN SUN From The Nature of Cold Weather and Other Poems SUN SUN Pub: Routledge SUN SUN SUN SUN Beck SUN SUN By Norman Nicholson SUN SUN From Selected Poems 1940 – 1982 SUN SUN Pub: Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Green Linnet SUN SUN By William Wordsworth SUN SUN From SUN http://www.columbiagrangers.org/poem/00000008237/00000008237 SUN 00000008237P01/?q SUN = SUN SUN SUN SUN Answer to A Child’s Question SUN SUN By Samuel Taylor Coleridge SUN SUN From Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems SUN SUN Pub: Everyman SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Limbo SUN SUN By Edward Kamau Braithwaite SUN SUN From The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy; Rights of Passage / SUN Islands / Masks SUN SUN Pub: OUP SUN SUN SUN SUN Black Magic Woman SUN SUN By John Agard SUN SUN Taken from poster owned by the requestor SUN SUN SUN SUN I Shall Return SUN SUN By Claude McKay SUN SUN From Complete Poems Claude McKay SUN SUN Pub: University of Illinois Press SUN SUN SUN SUN The Pool SUN SUN By Marjorie Pickthall SUN SUN From: The Columbia Grangers World of Poetry Online SUN SUN SUN SUN Miniver Cheevey SUN SUN By Edward Arlington Robinson SUN SUN From The Penguin Book of American Verse SUN SUN Pub: Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN The Rolling English Road SUN SUN By GK Chesterton SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of G K Chesterton SUN SUN Pub: Methuen SUN SUN SUN SUN The Singing Cat SUN SUN By Stevie Smith SUN SUN FromA The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith SUN SUN Pub: Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN I Worried SUN SUN By Matt Harvey SUN SUN From The Hole in the Sum Of My Parts SUN SUN Pub: The Poetry Trust SUN SUN SUN SUN Things SUN SUN By Fleur Adcock SUN SUN From: Fleur Adcock Poems 1960 – 2000 SUN SUN Pub: Bloodaxe Books SUN SUN SUN SUN Sometimes SUN SUN By Sheenagh Pugh SUN SUN From Sheenagh Pugh Selected Poems SUN SUN Pub: Seren Books SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b06z2pn8 (Listen) SUN Vaccine Damages SUN SUN Vaccination has long been one of the greatest weapons in the SUN battle against a range of potentially fatal diseases. SUN Millions of lives have been saved worldwide, and Britain has SUN played a major role in helping to combat new pandemics. But, SUN rarely, things do go wrong and people develop serious SUN side-effects. In the UK, the Government's Vaccine Damage SUN Payment Scheme is supposed to help those left severely SUN disabled as a result. Among those currently arguing their SUN case are the families of children who developed an incurable SUN and devastating sleep disorder after being immunised against SUN swine flu. But, to date, most have received nothing and SUN Ministers have now gone to the Court of Appeal to try and SUN establish a less generous interpretation of the pay-out SUN rules. Lawyers for the families say the whole scheme is SUN outdated and unfit for purpose. Are they right? Jenny Chryss SUN investigates. SUN SUN Reporter: Jenny Chryss Producer: Ruth Evans. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b06zh291 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06zj45x (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06zj45z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06zj461 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06zqk32 (Listen) SUN Mark Steel SUN SUN Comedian Mark Steel picks his radio highlights of the week SUN which include Scottish Gallic Hip- Hop, a lecturer on BBC SUN Radio Oxford who lived as a badger, music from Greenland, SUN Danny Baker's theory about ostriches and a deeply rewarding SUN item from the BBC World Service on a dog that likes to sing SUN along with trumpets. SUN Production team: Kevin Mousley, Kay Bishton and Elodie SUN Chatelain. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06zqk34 (Listen) SUN Rob is feeling protective, and Kirsty is getting some male SUN attention. SUN SUN 19:15 So Wrong It's Right b01jrjq8 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 5 SUN SUN Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy show that seeks the finest SUN wrong answers, with guest comics Susan Calman and Miles Jupp SUN plus writer Shaun Pye on the panel. SUN SUN So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie ask his guests to pitch SUN their finest terrible ideas and to disclose the most SUN shameful, yet entertaining, stories from their lives. SUN SUN In this episode, Charlie challenges his guests to recall the SUN stupidest thing they've ever believed and to suggest the SUN best ideas for the worst new sport for the London 2012 SUN Olympics. 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 Shorts b06zqk36 (Listen) SUN Scottish Shorts, Everyone's the Same Inside SUN SUN By Wayne Price SUN Guilt, laughter and death come to mind as a man recalls his SUN family's long connection to a reclusive outsider. SUN Read by Steven McNicoll SUN Producer Eilidh McCreadie SUN SUN Author Wayne Price was born in south Wales and has lived and SUN worked in Scotland since 1987. He is an award-winning SUN fiction and poetry writer and has twice been a finalist for SUN the Manchester International Poetry Prize. He teaches at the SUN University of Aberdeen and his debut novel, 'Mercy Seat' was SUN published in 2015. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Wayne Price SUN Reader: Steven McNicoll SUN Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b06zcg4v (Listen) SUN E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit? SUN SUN Do e-cigarettes make quitting smoking more difficult? SUN Research last month claimed to show that e-cigarettes harm SUN your chances of quitting smoking. The paper got coverage SUN world-wide but it also came in for unusually fierce SUN criticism from academics who spend their lives trying to SUN help people quit. It's been described as 'grossly SUN misleading' and 'not scientific'. We look at what is wrong SUN with the paper and ask if it should have been published in SUN the first place. SUN SUN A campaign of dodgy statistics SUN SUN Are American presidential hopefuls getting away with SUN statistical murder? We speak to Angie Drobnic, Editor of the SUN US fact-checking website Politifact, about the numbers SUN politicians are using - which are not just misleading, but SUN wrong. SUN SUN Will missing a week of school affect your GCSE results? SUN SUN Recently education minister Nick Gibb said that missing a SUN week of school could affect a pupil's GCSE grades by a SUN quarter. We examine the evidence and explore one of the SUN first rules of More or Less - 'correlation is not SUN causation'. We interview Stephen Gorard, Professor of SUN Education at Durham University. SUN SUN What are the chances that a father and two of his children SUN share the same birthday? SUN SUN A loyal listener got in touch to find out how rare an SUN occurrence this is. Professor David Spiegelhalter from the SUN University of Cambridge explains the probabilities involved. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06z5jmh (Listen) SUN Terry Wogan, Lord Lucan, Frank Finlay, Denise St Aubyn SUN Hubbard, Maurice White SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Sir Terry Wogan - we have a tale of two cities: memories SUN from his home town of Limerick and accolades from his SUN fantasy town of Leicester. SUN SUN Lord Lucan, finally declared dead this week after SUN disappearing in the 1970s. Mystery still surrounds his SUN involvement in the murder of his children's nanny. SUN SUN The actor Frank Finlay, who often played darker characters. SUN His Bouquet of Barbed Wire co-star Susan Penhaligon SUN remembers him. SUN SUN Denise St Aubyn Hubbard who represented Britain as a diver SUN in the 1948 Olympics and sailed single handed across the SUN Atlantic aged 64. SUN SUN And Maurice White the singer and songwriter who founded SUN Earth Wind and Fire. SUN SUN Sir Terry Wogan SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Terry’s school friends; Jim Sexton and Mick SUN Leahy and Fellow in Renaissance Studies at the university of SUN Leicester; Gordon Campbell. SUN SUN Born 3 August 1938; died 31 January 2016 aged 77 SUN SUN Lord Lucan SUN SUN Last Word spoke to author; Laura Thompson. SUN SUN Born 18 December 1934 SUN SUN Frank Finlay SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Actress; Susan Penhaligon. SUN SUN Born 6 August 1926, died 30 January 2016 aged 89 SUN SUN Denise St Aubyn Hubbard SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her son; Hugh Hubbard. SUN SUN Born 19 February 1924; died 22 January 2016 aged 91 SUN SUN Maurice White SUN Born 19 December 1941; Died 4 February 2016 aged 74 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06zh043 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06zqc2c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b06z2br2 (Listen) SUN Space Wars, Space Peace SUN SUN Chris Bowlby explores the shifting balance between two SUN visions of outer space - as a place of harmony and as a zone SUN of growing international tension. We may think war in space SUN is a scenario dreamed up by Hollywood. But the world's top SUN military minds now believe future wars will be fought both SUN on Earth - and above it. Chris visits an arms sales fair, SUN and hears how space now affects everything from how armies SUN move, to how nuclear deterrence works. Could crucial SUN satellites he hacked in an act of aggression, might space SUN debris trigger a war? Why is China taking space security so SUN seriously? And can the international cooperation which put SUN astronaut Tim Peake into space survive? SUN SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby SUN Editor: Hugh Levinson. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06zj463 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06zqk38 (Listen) SUN John Kampfner analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06z4yn9 (Listen) SUN Toby Jones on Dad's Army SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Toby Jones reveals why he was in two minds about playing SUN Captain Mainwaring in the new film version of Dad's Army. SUN SUN Director Grímur Hákonarson tells Francine why casting the SUN sheep was as important as casting the actors in his SUN Icelandic drama Rams SUN SUN Adam Rutherford assesses Matt Damon's portrayal of a SUN botanist in The Martian. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Toby Jones SUN Interviewed Guest: Grimur Hakonarson SUN Interviewed Guest: Adam Rutherford SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06zqc25 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 08 FEBRUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06zj47c (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06z2v5l (Listen) MON Consumerism, Work-life balance MON MON Consumerism: a history of our modern, material world and the MON endless quest for more 'things'. Laurie Taylor talks to MON Frank Trentmann, Professor of History at Birkbeck College, MON University of London and author of a study which examines MON how the purchase of goods became the defining feature of MON contemporary life. They're joined by Rachel Bowlby, MON Professor of Modern English Literature at University College MON London. MON MON Also, the middle class bias in work/life balance research. MON Tracey Warren, Professor of Sociology at the University of MON Nottingham, suggests that working class experience of MON precarity complicates the debate. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Frank Trentmann at Birkbeck, University of London MON Rachel Bowlby at University College London MON Tracey Warren at the University of Nottingham MON "Be In Balance" video on the Woman's Hour website MON MON Frank Trentmann, *Empire of Things: How We Became a World of MON Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First*, MON (Penguin, 2016) MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06zqc23 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06zj47f (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06zj47h (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06zj47k (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06zj47m (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b070pcqp (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Reverend Richard Littledale. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06zqkjz (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06zj47p (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dw7p8 (Listen) MON Superb Lyrebird MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Sir David Attenborough presents the superb lyrebird of MON eastern Australia. Superb lyrebirds are about the size of MON pheasants. During courtship, as the male struts and poses, MON he unleashes a remarkable range of sounds. Up to 80% of the MON lyrebird's display calls are usually of other wild birds. MON However, if kept in captivity, they can mimic a chainsaw, MON camera click, gunshot and a whole host of other man made MON sound. Research recently discovered that the lyrebird MON co-ordinates his dancing displays to particular sounds. But MON superb lyrebirds are promiscuous performers and it's quite MON likely that another male may have played the leading role MON while he dances and sings away. MON MON Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Roger Powell / naturepl.com MON MON NPL Ref MON 01140081 MON © Roger Powell / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b06zqn0r (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06zqn0v (Listen) MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to Jane McGonigal, a MON designer of alternate reality games, about her latest MON innovation SuperBetter. Designed to aid her recovery from a MON brain injury and subsequent depression, the game reportedly MON gives people a sense of control over their own health. MON Harnessing the mind in the fight against chronic illnesses MON is the subject of Jo Marchant's book, Cure, which looks at MON the latest research into the science of mind over body. MON Rational thought and magic went hand in hand in the MON Renaissance period and the philosopher AC Grayling looks MON back at the life of John Dee - mathematician, alchemist and MON the Queen's conjurer. The actor Simon McBurney tests the MON limits of perception and human consciousness as he recreates MON what it feels like to be lost in the remote part of the MON Brazilian rainforest. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Jane McGonigal MON Interviewed Guest: Jo Marchant MON Interviewed Guest: AC Grayling MON Interviewed Guest: Simon McBurney MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06zqn0x (Listen) MON City of Thorns, Episode 1 MON MON Ben Rawlence tells the stories of just a few of the MON forgotten thousands who make up the half a million stateless MON citizens of Dadaab - the world's largest refugee camp, in MON the desert of northern Kenya, close to the Somali border, MON where only thorn bushes grow. MON MON The author, a Swahili speaker, and former researcher for MON Human Rights Watch in the horn of Africa made several long MON visits to the camps over the course of four years. His MON account bears vivid witness to the lives of those who live MON in fear, poverty and limbo. MON MON In the first episode, we meet seventeen year old Guled, as MON he struggles to survive on the outskirts of Mogadishu. He MON still tries to attend school as well as to earn a living, MON but the al-Shabaab militias are closing in. MON MON Read by David Seddon MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company productoin for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: David Seddon MON Author: Ben Rawlence MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06zqn10 (Listen) MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06zqn14 (Listen) MON Halfway Here, Episode 1 MON MON by Lucy Catherine. MON MON The Williams Family bumbles along in a normally MON dysfunctional way until something happens which causes them MON all to unravel. MON MON Halfway Here is a beautifully observed account of a family MON in meltdown by Lucy Catherine. MON MON Lucy Catherine is a distinguished radio, television and film MON dramatist. Recent TV includes Musketeers, Frankie and Being MON Human. Listeners will know her from adaptations of The MON Master and Margarita (which has just won an Audio Drama MON Award for best adaptation) and Frankenstein, as well as MON several original dramas. MON MON The excellent cast includes Tyger Drew-Honey (best known as MON the older son in Outnumbered); Sharon Small, best known for MON The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Mistresses and Cutting It; MON and Justin Salinger who, aside from his work in TV and MON theatre, is well known to Radio 4 listeners. MON MON Credits MON Luke: Tyger Drew-Honey MON Nettie: Katie Angelou MON Ailsa: Sharon Small MON Martin: Justin Salinger MON Orla: Rebecca Hamilton MON Director: Mary Peate MON Writer: Lucy Catherine MON MON 11:00 The Untold b06yr61y (Listen) MON Tainted Love MON MON Grace Dent tells the story of Jean, 73, who's being harassed MON by her 80 year old estranged husband, George. After over 40 MON arrests, a judge must decide whether George's actions are MON the result of dementia. MON MON Jean and George finally split up in early 2015 after nine MON years of unhappy marriage. But for George, that wasn't the MON end of their relationship. For months, George has been MON harassing Jean: writing her love letters, verbally abusing MON her and coming to her flat trying to gain entry. Jean now MON feels like a prisoner in her own home, scared to go out MON alone. MON MON Despite over 40 arrests, George won't keep away. As the day MON of George's court appearance approaches, a judge must weigh MON up whether George's actions are deliberate or if they stem MON from dementia. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b01phjb0 (Listen) MON Series 4, Chipping Norton 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 Chipping Norton and uncovers the MON relationship between the Camerons, the Clarksons, and a town MON full of rebels. MON MON Additional material by Pete Sinclair. MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06zj47r (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b06l4kt3 (Listen) MON 8 February 1916 - Isabel Graham MON MON On this day the siege of Kut al Amara entered its 63rd day, MON and Isabel finally finds a solution for the persistent young MON Cristine. MON MON Written by Shaun McKenna MON Directed by Allegra McIlroy MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford MON Cristine: Ysabelle Cooper MON Nancy Parker: Jane Whittenshaw MON Ruth Billings: Katie Redford MON Sylvia Graham: Joanna David MON Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley MON Dolly Clout: Elaine Claxton MON Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready MON Writer: Shaun McKenna MON Director: Allegra McIlroy MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06zqnsk (Listen) MON Online bankruptcy, Future retail MON MON In April the Government want to make it easier for people to MON apply for bankruptcy by going online. You'll no longer have MON to complete the lengthy forms in triplicate or attend your MON local County Court. But the new service could prompt some to MON make rash decisions without thinking about the potentially MON serious consequences MON MON Let's face it, no one likes paying for delivery costs, when MON you've saved money by shopping online the last thing you MON want is ten pounds slapped on to your total bill and that MON figure could be going up ... and for good reasons.. MON MON Our reporter Samantha Fenwick is live from Westfield MON Shopping Centre to hear the latest news around what shops MON will look like in the next two years. Research has MON identified five key trends which will inform the debate MON about how physical retail should adapt. We have exclusive MON access to the data. MON MON The welfare of greyhounds is back on the agenda with a MON review of how new regulations, introduced in 2010, have MON improved conditions for the dogs. But campaigners are MON calling for still higher standards and more transparency MON when it comes to the number of retired dogs being put down. MON With greyhound stadiums closing up and down the country the MON industry say they can't carry out the welfare changes MON without financial help. Henrietta Harrison went to the dogs MON in South London. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06zj47t (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06zqnsm (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Give It a Year b06zqnsp (Listen) MON Roy MON MON The stories of five different singles and what happened to MON them in 2015. 89 and widowed; 36 and a Mum of two; 25 and MON gay; 52 and divorced; 41 and never been in a long term MON relationship. At the beginning of last year, we started MON recording them. Were they looking for something? Did they MON find it? MON MON Episode 1 follows Roy - an 89-year-old widower who goes on a MON singles holiday. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06zqk34 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06zqnx1 (Listen) MON Stage Left, Episode 1 MON MON A four-part drama following the fortunes of a left-wing MON theatre company, written by acclaimed dramatist Doug Lucie. MON MON We meet the Stage Left Theatre Collective in 1985: founder MON members Emma (artistic manager) and Robert (literary MON manager), director Saul, playwright Alan, and finance MON manager, Frank. MON MON Stage Left follows the fate of the company over the course MON of the past four decades, catching up with the characters as MON they negotiate the cultural and economic climate in which MON they find themselves. There are clashing ideals, conflicting MON egos, personal grievances, differing tastes and petty MON quarrels, but at the heart of the drama is the story of a MON group of idealistic friends who see their vision refined, MON altered, dented, rebuilt and corroded by the wider artistic MON and cultural landscape. MON MON A sharp, satirical drama starring Ewan Bailey, Alex MON Jennings, Richard Lumsden, Anna Madeley, Gerard McDermot and MON Tracy Wiles. MON MON Written by ..... Doug Lucie MON Produced & Directed by ..... Heather Larmour. MON MON Credits MON Emma: Anna Madeley MON Robert: Richard Lumsden MON Frank: Alex Jennings MON Saul: Gerard McDermott MON Alan: Ewan Bailey MON Kelly: Tracy Wiles MON Sue: Jane Slavin MON Bob: Brian Protheroe MON Alice: Jane Slavin MON Ken: Doug Lucie MON Actor 1: George Watkins MON Actor 2: Brian Protheroe MON Writer: Doug Lucie MON Director: Heather Larmour MON Producer: Heather Larmour MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b06zqp80 (Listen) MON Heat 5, 2016 MON MON (5/17) MON Russell Davies welcomes competitors from Kidderminster, MON Chester, Stirling and Rothbury in Northumberland to Media MON City in Salford for the latest contest in the 2016 series. MON MON To stand a chance of making it through to the semi-final MON stage they'll have to know where Britain's first-ever safari MON park was, which 19th century war was ended by the Treaty of MON San Stefano, and the name of the party led by the Greek MON politician Alexis Tsipras. MON MON There's also an opportunity for a Brain of Britain listener MON to 'Beat the Brains' with his or her question suggestions. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06zqd89 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Herman Melville's Sea Change b06zqpcc (Listen) MON Melville's Moby Dick is one of the weirdest great novels. MON Most people know that. What not many people know is how MON Melville came to write the book and how he nearly didn't and MON how he almost became a Liverpudlian in the process. Paul MON Farley, poet and Liverpudlian, salutes an almost-ran and MON looks out after Melville across the Atlantic. MON MON Melville had one of the strangest and saddest lives. He died MON broke. Ten copies of the Moby Dick had been sold in his MON lifetime. Earlier he had a bizarre interlude in his life MON when he thought of settling in Liverpool and being thereby MON 'annihilated' as he called it. Taking this as his starting MON point Paul tracks Melville, his work and inspiration and his MON life, and looks at the novel and its author from the MON western-facing sea ports of Britain. How did the white whale MON and all that it has come to mean and suggest come from MON Melville's crossing of the Atlantic? What does it mean to MON undergo a sea change? Are we all eligible? MON MON With Andrew O'Hagen, Philip Hoare, Philip Davis and Horatio MON Clare. MON Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b06zqpcg (Listen) MON Series 13, What Is Reality? MON MON What is Reality? MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by US superstar MON neuroscientist David Eagleman, Professor Sophie Scott and MON comedian Bridget Christie to ask what is reality? Is our MON sense of the world around us a completely personal MON experience and a construct of our brains? How can we ever MON know whether what one person perceives is exactly the same MON as what another person perceives. Is your sense of the world MON around you an illusion constructed by this extraordinary MON organ, the brain, that has no direct access to the outside MON world that it is helping you to understand. MON MON 17:00 PM b06zqq9b (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06zj47w (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b070cz5y (Listen) MON Series 8, Lucas, Scott, Hartston MON MON This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his MON curator Sarah Millican welcome the comedian, actor and star MON of Little Britain, Matt Lucas; a neuroscientist from MON University College, London who studies comedy under MON laboratory conditions, Professor Sophie Scott; and an MON author, former British Chess champion and leading MON psychometrics consultant who writes the Beachcomber column MON in the Daily Express, has written dozens of bestselling MON books, and has finally gained recognition as a reality TV MON star on Gogglebox. MON MON This week, the Museum's guests discuss the joy of farts; the MON many uses of the human tongue; and why obsessive behaviour MON can turn a chess player into an unstable towering genius. 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: Matt Lucas MON Interviewed Guest: Sophie Scott MON Interviewed Guest: William Hartston MON Producer: Richard Turner MON Producer: James Harkin MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06zqq9g (Listen) MON Is the Bank of Peggy doing business today? Pip is feeling MON flat. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06zqq9j (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06zqn14 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 In Search of Great Uncle Frank b06gqdwy (Listen) MON Actor and comedian Hugh Dennis takes a personal journey to MON Gallipoli in Turkey to find out about his great uncle, MON private Frank Hinnels, who was sent there to fight against MON the mighty Ottoman Empire in the First World War. MON MON Following in Frank's footsteps is poignant yet serene. In MON the middle of what was no-man's land, surrounded by fields MON of sun-flowers and olive trees, Hugh reads from a journal MON which describes the aftermath of a sniper attack: MON "We were all completely exhausted and fellows risking their MON lives to get to a small water hole full of tortoises and MON covered by enemy snipers". MON MON Hugh's guide is battlefield historian, Major Mike Peters who MON takes him to the very spot where his great-uncle fell in MON October 1915. MON MON "One of the great sadnesses for my grandparents," says Hugh, MON "was that the letter telling them that he had died arrived MON before his last letter home. It was like correspondence from MON beyond the grave." MON MON Hugh's journey is tinged with sadness but also MON characteristic edginess and humour. MON MON Curious to hear the Turkish story, Hugh meets the MON descendants of Turkish Gallipoli soldiers. He is surprised MON to find that some villages on the peninsula have never truly MON recovered since the campaign. Hayriah is a 75 year old café MON owner whose grandfather was killed in the battle. She tells MON Hugh that, because his great-uncle fell on Turkish soil, MON Frank had now become "one of our sons". MON MON Hugh and Mike finish their travels sitting in an ANZAC MON trench as night falls. They ask whether the political MON lessons of Gallipoli have ever been truly learned. MON MON One month later, back home in Sussex, Hugh consults his MON philosopher's stone to tell us what ultimately he thinks MON he's learned from his trip to Gallipoli. MON MON A Jolt production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b06zqq9l (Listen) MON Brexit: The Irish Question MON MON If the UK leaves the EU, what happens on the island of MON Ireland? Its people would be living on either side of an EU MON border. In this edition of Analysis, Edward Stourton MON explores an aspect of the Brexit debate that few elsewhere MON in the UK may have thought about, but which raises urgent MON questions. Would there be a new opportunities, with a new MON version of the old Anglo-Irish special relationship? Or MON could a divisive border and economic harm revive dangerous MON tensions? MON MON Producer: Chris Bowlby MON Editor: Hugh Levinson. MON MON 21:00 Unnatural Selection b06ztq58 (Listen) MON Humans have been altering animals for millennia. We select MON the most docile livestock, the most loyal dogs, to breed the MON animals we need. This "artificial selection" is intentional. MON But as Adam Hart discovers, our hunting, fishing and MON harvesting are having unintended effects on wild animals. MON Welcome to the age of "unnatural selection". MON MON This accidental, inadvertent or unintentional selection MON pressure comes form almost everything we do - from hunting, MON fishing, harvesting and collecting to using chemicals like MON pesticides and herbicides; then pollution; urbanisation and MON habitat change as well as using medicines. All these MON activities are putting evolutionary pressures on the MON creatures we share our planet with. MON MON Commercial fishing selects the biggest fish in the oceans, MON the biggest fish in a population, like Atlantic cod, are MON also the slowest to reach breeding maturity. When these are MON caught and taken out of the equation, the genes for slow MON maturity and 'bigness' are taken out of the gene pool. Over MON decades, this relentless predation has led to the Atlantic MON cod evolving to be vastly smaller and faster to mature. MON MON Trophy hunting is another example of unnatural selection. MON Predators in the wild tend to pick off the easiest to catch, MON smallest, youngest or oldest, ailing prey. But human hunters MON want the biggest animals with the biggest antlers or horns. MON Big Horn Sheep in Canada have evolved to have 25% smaller MON horns due to hunting pressures. MON MON Probably the best understood examples of unnatural selection MON are the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. By MON using antibiotics we're inadvertently selecting the bacteria MON that have resistance to the drugs. The same goes for MON agricultural pesticides and herbicides. MON MON Even pollution in Victorian times led to the Peppered moth MON to change its colour. MON MON Adam discovers that our influence is universal; often MON counter to natural selective pressures and is rarely easy to MON reverse. He explores the impact on entire environments and MON asks whether we could or should be doing something to MON mitigate our evolutionary effects. MON MON Producers: Fiona Roberts and Marnie Chesterton. MON MON Billingsgate Fish Market MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06zqn0v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06zj47y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06zqq9n (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06zqq9q (Listen) MON Orlando, The Enamoured Lady MON MON In Virginia Woolf's high spirited novel her eponymous MON heroine is preoccupied by the penalties and privileges of MON womanhood. First off all a sojourn in the mountains of MON Broussa leads to further reflections on love and nature. MON MON The reader is Amanda Hale. MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Amanda Hale MON Author: Virginia Woolf MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b06z2pmp (Listen) MON The Top 20 Words in English MON MON Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright guide us through the top MON 20 words in English. Not the best or most popular (that MON would include tentacular, ping-pong and sesquipedalian (look MON it up - it's a cracker). Plus a lot of swearing. No this is MON the 20 most commonly used. It's actually quite a boring list MON - full of 'And', 'I', 'of' etc - but look a little closer MON and it tells you all about the structure of language. The MON little words you really can't do without that glue all the MON other ones together. MON MON This kind of list comes from a branch of linguistics called MON Corpus Linguistics. It looks at the frequency and MON distribution of words in large bodies of text or speech. You MON can apply it to anything - political debates, lonely hearts MON columns or pop songs. Which is exactly what our guest Prof MON Jonathan Culpeper has done. That's high end linguistics and MON Phil Collins. Only on Word of Mouth. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06zqq9s (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 09 FEBRUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06zj48z (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06zqn0x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06zj491 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06zj493 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06zj495 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06zj497 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b070sfrv (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Reverend Richard Littledale. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06zr1l2 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham and Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dw7qv (Listen) TUE Black Stork TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Sir David Attenborough presents the globally widespread but TUE secretive black stork. High up in a forest canopy, the black TUE stork is a large but fairly secretive and mostly silent TUE bird. They are also strong migrants capable of sustained TUE flight, flying up to 7,000 kilometres or more, often over TUE open seas. Black storks are summer visitors to eastern TUE Europe and breed from Germany across Russia to Japan. A TUE small population is resident in Spain, but most birds TUE migrate south in winter to Africa, India or China. Unlike TUE their relative the more flamboyant and colonial nesting TUE white stork, black storks are a solitary nester. It is at TUE this time of the year adults can produce a few grunts or TUE bill clapping sounds during courtship, the young however are TUE far more vocal at the nest. TUE TUE Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Wild Wonders of Europe / TUE Damschen / naturepl.com TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01281153 TUE © Wild Wonders of Europe / Damschen / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06zr3z8 (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 Life Scientific b06zs3m2 (Listen) TUE Peter Piot TUE TUE With the zika epidemic in Brazil being declared an TUE international health emergency just months after the recent TUE ebola epidemic in West Africa, Jim Al-Khalili talks to TUE Professor Peter Piot about a lifetime spent trying to stop TUE the spread of deadly viruses. TUE TUE Peter came across a strange new virus in 1976 when he was TUE working in a small lab in his home town, Antwerp. Weeks TUE later he was in Zaire meeting patients and trying to TUE understand the transmission routes of this terrifying new TUE virus which, together with colleagues, he named ebola. TUE Thousands of miles from home and surrounded by people dying, TUE he says he felt very much alive. His career path was set. TUE TUE He was heavily involved in the recent ebola epidemic but TUE most of Peter's career has been devoted to stopping the TUE transmission of another deadly virus, HIV. He spent most of TUE the eighties trying to convince the world that HIV/AIDS was TUE a heterosexual disease and much of the nineties trying to TUE mobilize the World Health Organisation and other UN agencies TUE to take the threat posed to the world by HIV more seriously. TUE It wasn't easy. TUE TUE Today he is Director of the London School of Hygiene and TUE Tropical Medicine in London. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b06zr3zb (Listen) TUE Jan Ravens talks to Germaine Greer TUE TUE Jan Ravens has created impressions of some of our most TUE iconic women but all she has to work with is the public TUE persona, how someone in the public eye presents themselves TUE for our view. In her series of One to One she talks to some TUE of her subjects about their image as seen by others and how TUE it differs from how they see themselves. Is image something TUE they have consciously created or has it sprung naturally TUE from their personality and from the way they look? Jan wants TUE to know if their self perception is changed through their TUE portrayal by impressionists and cartoonists. TUE Is image a useful tool, or does it become a millstone around TUE your neck ? TUE Academic and author, Germaine Greer, has been in the public TUE eye for over forty years, she talks to Jan about the way her TUE image has changed over the decades. TUE Producer Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06zr3zd (Listen) TUE City of Thorns, Episode 2 TUE TUE Ben Rawlence tells the stories of just a few of the TUE forgotten thousands who make up the half a million stateless TUE citizens of Dadaab - the world's largest refugee camp, in TUE the desert of northern Kenya, close to the Somali border, TUE where only thorn bushes grow. TUE TUE The author, a Swahili speaker, and former researcher for TUE Human Rights Watch in the horn of Africa made several long TUE visits to the camps over the course of four years. His TUE account bears vivid witness to the lives of those who live TUE in fear, poverty and limbo. TUE TUE After the deaths of his parents, Guled has been struggling TUE to survive, together with his sister, in a makeshift camp on TUE the edge of Mogadishu. But when al-Shabaab force him from TUE the classroom he fears not just for his own life but also TUE worries about his new bride, Maryam. TUE TUE Read by David Seddon TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: David Seddon TUE Author: Ben Rawlence TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06zr3zg (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0705763 (Listen) TUE Halfway Here, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Lucy Catherine. TUE TUE Nettie's mum and dad wait by her hospital bed to see if she TUE will come round after her accident and Luke tries to find TUE out who has been making her so unhappy. TUE TUE Director ..... Mary Peate. TUE TUE Credits TUE Luke: Tyger Drew-Honey TUE Nettie: Katie Angelou TUE Ailsa: Sharon Small TUE Martin: Justin Salinger TUE Orla: Rebecca Hamilton TUE Doctor: Susan Jameson TUE Mr Holbrook: Richard Pepple TUE Director: Mary Peate TUE Writer: Lucy Catherine TUE TUE 11:00 Editing Life b06zr3zj (Listen) TUE In the last couple of years, a new genetic technology has TUE taken the world of medical and biological research by storm. TUE It is known as CRISPR and it allows scientists to change the TUE DNA code of any organism precisely, quickly and cheaply. The TUE A's, G's, C's and T's of the genetic code have never been so TUE easy to edit and rewrite. Professor Matthew Cobb, a TUE biologist at the University of Manchester, has witnessed the TUE profound impact of CRISPR on his field and for Radio 4, he TUE explores the enormous potential and the challenges unleashed TUE by this new power over the genetic code. TUE TUE CRISPR-cas9's came out of apparently arcane science on how TUE bacteria defend themselves from viruses . Now there is TUE speculation about when the first CRISPR baby will born. This TUE will be a child who will have started out as the first human TUE embryo to have a genetic fault edited and corrected in such TUE a way that its descendents will also never carry that gene TUE and suffer the disease it causes. TUE TUE CRISPR's appearance and rapid adoption by scientists around TUE the world has made hitherto impractical genetic TUE manipulations doable in any species. The most controversial TUE form of genetic engineering - human germline line gene TUE therapy (on single celled embryos, egg and sperm) now looks TUE feasible because of CRISPR's ease and accuracy. The ethical TUE debate about germline gene therapy has a much greater sense TUE of urgency for scientists and non-scientists alike. TUE TUE The applications and concerns about CRISPR's potential uses TUE extend way beyond the human germline into the natural world. TUE For the first time, the gene editing technology makes TUE practical a genetic mechanism called gene drive. Organism TUE engineered with gene drives could be used to spread lethal TUE genes through wild populations of pest animals and plants - TUE such as malaria-carrying mosquitoes, invasive cane toads in TUE Australia or weeds. But many question whether this is a use TUE of CRISPR we could control once it had been released into TUE the environment. TUE TUE Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker TUE Sound engineer: Bob Nettles. TUE TUE 11:30 Tropicalia: Revolution in Sound b06zr3zl (Listen) TUE Tropicalia was a musical revolution in Brazil. Singer and TUE journalist Monica Vasconcelos meets the key artists and TUE contemporary champions of Tropicalia - from Caetano Veloso TUE and Gilberto Gil to Marcos Valle and Talking Heads' David TUE Byrne - and explores its enduring musical and political TUE force. TUE TUE Burning brightly for only few years in the late 1960s, and TUE politically inspired by the uprisings in Paris in May 68, TUE the Tropicalia movement electrified Brazilian music, TUE combining the sophistication of bossa nova, samba and baiao TUE with psychedelia, new Beatles-inspired electric sounds and TUE orchestral experimentation. It was a deliberately subversive TUE mix that provoked the country's military regime and led to TUE the exile and imprisonment of some of Brazil's star TUE musicians. TUE TUE Tropicalia brought a new wave of liberation and energy into TUE Brazilian music. Earlier in the decade, bossa nova had TUE captured a mood of national optimism but, as the 1960s wore TUE on, the political situation darkened. The military junta, in TUE power since 1964, was drifting into open repression - the TUE arts would be censored, musicians targeted, imprisoned and TUE exiled. A new, more combative approach was called for. TUE TUE Based around a core group of musicians - Caetano Veloso, TUE Gilberto Gil, the group Os Mutantes, singer Gal Costa and TUE Tom Ze - Tropicalia was a mash up of styles which drew on TUE the country's deep roots but pushed the sound elsewhere, TUE radically. Harvesting influences from inside and outside TUE Brazil, drawing especially on Western rock, classical TUE orchestration and electronic effects, Tropicalia parodied, TUE mixed and sampled global styles. TUE TUE Produced by Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06zj499 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b06l4kvy (Listen) TUE 9 February 1916 - Norman Harris TUE TUE On this day four bombs were dropped near a girls' school in TUE Kent causing 3 casualties, while Norman Harris receives TUE wonderful news. TUE TUE Written by Shaun McKenna TUE Directed by Allegra McIlroy TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Norman Harris: Sean Baker TUE Maisie Harris: Cassie Layton TUE Anna White: Amelia Lowdell TUE Winifred Dinsdale: Alice Lowe TUE Eric Morton: Paul Rainbow TUE Ruth Billings: Katie Redford TUE Sylvia Graham: Joanna David TUE Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Elsie Buss: Tracy Wiles TUE Charles Chaplin: Owen Clarke TUE Writer: Shaun McKenna TUE Director: Allegra McIlroy TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06zr3zn (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06zj49c (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06zryhh (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Give It a Year b06zryhk (Listen) TUE Susie TUE TUE The stories of five different singles and what happened to TUE them in 2015. 89 and widowed; 36 and a Mum of two; 25 and TUE gay; 52 and divorced; 41 and never been in a long term TUE relationship. At the beginning of last year, we started TUE recording them. Were they looking for something? Did they TUE find it? TUE TUE Episode 2 follows Susie - a 36-year-old single Mum of two, TUE whose year doesn't begin as she'd have chosen. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06zqq9g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b0705hd8 (Listen) TUE Stage Left, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Doug Lucie TUE TUE Not everyone is happy with the changes that have been made TUE at Stage Left Theatre Company. Tensions rise at the tenth TUE anniversary party. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Alan ..... Ewan Bailey TUE Saul ..... Gerard McDermot TUE Kelly ..... Tracy Wiles TUE Emma ..... Anna Madeley TUE Robert ..... Richard Lumsden TUE Frank ..... Alex Jennings TUE Annabel ..... Rebecca Hamilton TUE Jim ..... Caolan McCarthy TUE Waiter ..... Richard Pepple TUE TUE Director ..... Mary Peate. TUE TUE Credits TUE Alan: Ewan Bailey TUE Saul: Gerard McDermott TUE Kelly: Tracy Wiles TUE Emma: Anna Madeley TUE Robert: Richard Lumsden TUE Frank: Alex Jennings TUE Annabel: Rebecca Hamilton TUE Jim: Caolan McCarthy TUE Waiter: Richard Pepple TUE Writer: Doug Lucie TUE Director: Mary Peate TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b06zryym (Listen) TUE Tom Holland shares the stories that light up our past TUE TUE In the first of a new series, Tom Holland shares the stories TUE and new research that light up our past. TUE TUE With the BBC's iconic wartime comedy Dad's Army entertaining TUE cinema goers, Helen Castor sets out to find if this view of TUE a rather amateurish war effort, in which the British won TUE through against the odds, is really true. She's joined by TUE historian James Holland who argues that Britain's military TUE victory came about through science and industrial expertise TUE that was actually well ahead of the Nazi's. She's also TUE joined by Dr Chris Smith from the University of Kent who TUE claims this this is true also in the rigorous approach used TUE by the codebreakers at Bletchley Park. TUE TUE In Cambridge, Professor Mary Beard settles by the fire to TUE tell us about the year she thinks is the most important in TUE history - 212AD, a year in which everyone who wasn't a slave TUE received citizenship across the Roman Empire. TUE TUE In Birmingham, musician David Hinds from the band Steel TUE Pulse is taken back to the streets he grew up on, by the TUE remarkable photographic archive of Janet Mendelssohn. TUE Through her lens, we can see just what it was like to live TUE in one of the new, immigrant communities in places such as TUE Balsall Heath and Handsworth. David is joined by Dr Kieran TUE Connell from Queen's University Belfast who helped put TUE together a new exhibition at the Ikon gallery in Birmingham. TUE TUE And, quiet please, is the role of the library about to be TUE shelved in this digital age? Young historian and BBC Radio 3 TUE New Generation Thinker Tom Charlton thinks not. He argues TUE that, for the historian, the library will remain the 'go to' TUE place for new research - however tempting doing it online TUE might become. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b06zryhm (Listen) TUE Britain Disconnected TUE TUE Extreme weather this winter has cut off large areas of TUE Britain from the outside world. Does our Victorian TUE infrastructure need an urgent update? TUE TUE With parts of Cumbria cut-off since early December, bridges TUE down in Yorkshire, hundreds of ferry cancellations and the TUE West Coast train line out of action until March it's TUE increasingly clear that Britain can't cope with the strong TUE winds and floods that are becoming the new norm. TUE TUE Should we embark on a new transport revolution, pouring TUE concrete and laying steel to future-proof our roads and TUE railways or should we accept a disconnected Britain? TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b06zryhp (Listen) TUE Taking Turns in Conversation TUE TUE Michael Rosen and linguist Dr Laura Wright discuss how well TUE we judge taking it in turns when we're in conversation. TUE Professor Stephen Levinson has new research on the science TUE behind this, and joins them in the studio for a TUE carefully-calibrated discussion.. He believes that the TUE back-and-forth pattern we instinctively fall into may have TUE evolved before language itself. Levinson's research has TUE found that it takes about 200 milliseconds for us to reply TUE to each other, but it takes about 600 milliseconds to TUE prepare what we're going to say - so we're preparing as we TUE listen. Levinson notes that this is a pattern found across TUE all human languages, and some animal species, and that TUE infants begin taking turns in interactions at about six TUE months of age, before they can even speak. But what's going TUE on when someone seems to get it wrong, to interrupt or talk TUE over the other person? TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b06zrzx5 (Listen) TUE Rebecca Root & Jake Arnott TUE TUE The Long Firm author Jake Arnott and Rebecca Root, who TUE recently became the first trans actor to play a trans role TUE in a mainstream BBC series, Boy Meets Girl, nominate TUE favourite books for discussion with Harriett Gilbert. Mother TUE Night by Kurt Vonnegut is Jake's choice, while Rebecca has TUE gone for a graphic novel, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid TUE on Earth, by Chris Ware. Harriett nominates Maggie and Me, TUE Damien Barr's memoir of growing up gay in Thatcher's TUE Britain. TUE Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Jake Arnott TUE Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Root TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 17:00 PM b070dp1y (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06zj49f (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b05tlv9r (Listen) TUE Series 10, The Go-To Destination TUE TUE Ed Reardon returns to Radio 4 in a new series and whatever TUE happens you can guarantee he'll be scrimping, scraping and TUE ranting in order to keep mind, soul and cat together. TUE TUE When we last met Ed he was happily involved with BBC Radio TUE producer Laura and her BBC expenses. As we meet again, the TUE pair seem to be enjoying a state of not uncomfortable, TUE slightly drunken, bliss and the relationship has enabled Ed TUE to reconnect with life in London whilst keeping a toehold, TUE and a cat, in Berkhamsted. But good things never last for Ed TUE and the course of the series sees him and Elgar having to TUE take advantage of the numerous empty premises in need of TUE temporary caretakers and live-in guardians, or guardian TUE angels as Ed likes to think of them as Stan throws him out TUE on the street. TUE TUE Things have also changed for Ping who is suffering the TUE biggest disaster to hit the office since they stopped making TUE pens shaped like bananas - she has a new boss in the form of TUE Suzan -pronounced 'Suzanne'. Ed, of course, wastes no time TUE trying to get on the right side of Suzan in the hope of some TUE work whilst Jaz Milvane continues to be his nemesis, TUE plaguing his every move. TUE TUE The regular cast are joined this series by guests including TUE Raquel Cassidy, Pam Ferris, Celia Imrie and Jeremy Paxman TUE TUE Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. TUE TUE Produced by Dawn Ellis. TUE TUE Ed Reardon's Week is a BBC Radio Comedy production. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas TUE Suzan: Raquel Cassidy TUE Olive: Stephanie Cole TUE Pearl: Brigit Forsyth TUE Doorman: Simon Greenall TUE Jaz Milvain: Philip Jackson TUE Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy TUE Laura Pope: Vicki Pepperdine TUE Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Writer: Christopher Douglas TUE Writer: Andrew Nickolds TUE Producer: Dawn Ellis TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06zs22s (Listen) TUE Jolene is turning up the heat in the kitchen, and the TUE Fairbrothers need to mobilise. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0705765 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0705763 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b06zs22v (Listen) TUE After the Floods - A Tale of Two Cities TUE TUE The Dutch city of Nijmegen has much in common with the TUE English city of York. Similar in size, both are much visited TUE by tourists because of their histories and architecture. But TUE both also have rivers running through them and are TUE susceptible to flooding. So how do their defences compare? TUE And, as York and other communities continue to mop up the TUE damage caused by the latest catastrophic flooding, did basic TUE mistakes and a failure of planning make a bad situation very TUE much worse? TUE Reporter: Allan Urry Producer: Rob Cave. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06zj49h (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b06zs22x (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b06zs3m2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06zj49k (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06zs22z (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06zs231 (Listen) TUE Orlando, Society's Seductions TUE TUE In Virigina Woolf's boisterous novel Orlando finds herself TUE in eighteenth century England where she is seduced by London TUE society, and intoxicated by the words of the poets. The TUE reader is Amanda Hale. TUE TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Amanda Hale TUE Author: Virginia Woolf TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b06zqpcg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06zs235 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06zj4bj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06zr3zd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06zj4bl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06zj4bn (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06zj4bq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06zj4bs (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07149xt (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Reverend Richard Littledale. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06zs4hs (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dyh49 (Listen) WED Sociable Weaver WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Sir David Attenborough presents the sociable weaver of the WED Kalahari Desert in Namibia. Travel through the dry margins WED of the Kalahari Desert and the telegraph poles stretching WED across the treeless plain could be wearing giant haystacks. WED These colossal communal homes are actually a home to the WED sociable weaver. These sparrow relatives build the largest WED nesting structure of any bird in the world. A hundred pairs WED may breed in a nest weighing nearly one tonne, built on WED isolated trees or any suitable man made structure such as WED pylons. Developed over generations these colonial nests WED provide a cooling structure during the searing heat of day WED and a warm refuge for night time roosts in this inhospitable WED landscape. Other animals find a use for these structures, WED from nesting vultures using it as a safe platform, to WED snakes; who if they enter the nest, can have free rein to WED this weaver larder. WED WED Sociable Weaver (Philetairus socius) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Torsten Brehm / naturepl.com WED WED NPL Ref WED 01054541 WED © Torsten Brehm / naturepl.com WED WED 06:00 Today b06ztsj1 (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 b06ztsj5 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06ztsj8 (Listen) WED City of Thorns, Episode 3 WED WED Ben Rawlence tells the stories of just a few of the WED forgotten thousands who make up the half a million stateless WED citizens of Dadaab - the world's largest refugee camp, in WED the desert of northern Kenya, close to the Somali border, WED where only thorn bushes grow. WED WED The author, a Swahili speaker, and former researcher for WED Human Rights Watch in the horn of Africa made several long WED visits to the camps over the course of four years. His WED account bears vivid witness to the lives of those who live WED in fear, poverty and limbo. WED WED Nisho has only ever known life in Ifo - one of the camps in WED Dadaab. His job as a porter in the market enables him to WED scrape together a little extra to help his mother, whose WED failing mental health fills him with anxiety. But from his WED position, almost at the bottom of the pile, he harbours WED ambitions for the future. WED WED Read by David Seddon WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: David Seddon WED Author: Ben Rawlence WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06ztsjb (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b07053mk (Listen) WED Halfway Here, Episode 3 WED WED by Lucy Catherine. WED WED Everyone is feeling the strain of Nettie's situation. WED WED Director ..... Mary Peate. WED WED Credits WED Luke: Tyger Drew-Honey WED Nettie: Katie Angelou WED Ailsa: Sharon Small WED Martin: Justin Salinger WED Rachel: Jane Slavin WED Doctor: Susan Jameson WED Orla: Rebecca Hamilton WED Joe: Leo Wan WED Police Officer: Ewan Bailey WED Mrs Straun: Debra Baker WED Director: Mary Peate WED Writer: Lucy Catherine WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06ztsjg (Listen) WED Georgina and Holly - Community Spirit WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends in their WED 70s who still put working for their local community WED association at the top of their to-do list. Another in the WED series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you WED 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 Instrument Makers b06ztsjj (Listen) WED Musical instrument making is a vibrant craft industry in WED Britain today. The great cellist Raphael Wallfisch plays a WED cello by Andreas Hudelmayer of Clerkenwell. Want a handmade, WED yet affordable, guitar? Victoria Hurley, in Orpington, can WED build you one. In Redhill, Christopher Bayley combines WED engineering and acoustics to create the sophisticated WED chamber instrument of Ireland, the uillean pipes. Adam WED Doughty makes West African koras, in Wales. WED WED Verity Sharp, a cellist herself, hears from these makers in WED their workshops as each goes about their business: Andreas, WED at the highest end of the western classical music tradition; WED Victoria, who works on the world's most popular instrument; WED Christopher and Adam whose instruments might seem niche, but WED are sold all over the globe. WED WED Interesting questions arise: classical players favour WED venerable instruments, violins by Stradivarius. But WED techniques and the understanding of acoustics have improved. WED Might modern instruments, then, be better than the old ones? WED Raphael Wallfisch explains why he loves his cello and duets WED with the Belgian violinist, Jens Lynen, who has come to try WED out a new fiddle, in Hudelmayer's workshop it. Factories all WED over the world churn out guitars, so how does Victoria WED Hurley, compete. Clients come to makers with different WED requirements so is the instrument evolving? How can WED Christopher Bayley realise players' wishes in the wood, WED metal, leather and reeds of his pipes? And how did Adam WED Doughty come to learn to play and make the kora? WED WED The instrument maker's vocation is almost monastic - WED contemplative, laborious and forever seeking perfection. WED Verity hears their stories, and the music of the amazing WED instruments they create. WED WED Producer: Julian May. WED WED 11:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06bhk9h (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Episode 1 WED WED Welcome to Hardacres, the worst advertising agency in WED London, and setting of Edward Rowett's new series. WED WED In this first episode, the agency is shaken by the arrival WED of a new accounts chief, Amanda Brook who is determined to WED rebrand and re-launch the agency as a legitimate business. WED WED Inept creative team Joe and Teddy, two recent graduates who WED are still not entirely sure what it is they're supposed to WED be doing, find themselves fighting to save their jobs and WED prove they are not quite as clueless as they appear. WED WED Meanwhile, creative director and advertising legend Rupert WED Hardacre is appalled to discover Amanda expects him to do WED slightly more than play golf and drink whisky all day. WED WED And receptionist Laura...well, she doesn't care what WED happens. WED WED The team must work together as they head to the Advertise WED NOW! Awards and find an answer to the question - how do you WED advertise yourself? WED WED Rupert Hardacre - Nigel Havers WED Amanda Brook - Josie Lawrence WED Joe - Matthew Baynton WED Teddy - Rasmus Hardiker WED Laura - Olivia Nixon WED WED Director: Alan Nixon WED Producer: Gordon Kennedy WED An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Rupert Hardacre: Nigel Havers WED Amanda Brook: Josie Lawrence WED Joe: Matthew Baynton WED Teddy: Rasmus Hardiker WED Actor: Olivia Nixon WED Director: Alan Nixon WED Producer: Gordon Kennedy WED Writer: Edward Rowett WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06zj4bv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b06l4kzq (Listen) WED 10 February 1916 - Victor Lumley WED WED On this day conscription came into effect, and Victor Lumley WED is desperate to return to his men in France. WED WED Written by Shaun McKenna WED Directed by Allegra McIlroy WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack WED Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger WED Dr Streatfield: Chris Pavlo WED Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford WED Writer: Shaun McKenna WED Director: Allegra McIlroy WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06zttbj (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06zj4bx (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06zttbl (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Give It a Year b06zttbq (Listen) WED Ibrahim WED WED The stories of five different singles and what happened to WED them in 2015. 89 and widowed; 36 and a Mum of two; 25 and WED gay; 52 and divorced; 41 and never been in a long term WED relationship. At the beginning of last year, we started WED recording them. Were they looking for something? Did they WED find it? WED WED Episode 3 follows Ibrahim - a 25-year-old living in London, WED who is gay and Muslim. We follow his year as he moves back WED home to the North West and closer to family again. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06zs22s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b0705hk9 (Listen) WED Stage Left, Episode 3 WED WED A four-part drama following the fortunes of a left-wing WED theatre company, written by acclaimed dramatist Doug Lucie. WED WED We meet the Stage Left Theatre Collective in 1985: founder WED members Emma (artistic manager) and Robert (literary WED manager), director Saul, playwright Alan, and finance WED manager, Frank. WED WED Stage Left follows the fate of the company over the course WED of the past four decades, catching up with the characters as WED they negotiate the cultural and economic climate in which WED they find themselves. There are clashing ideals, conflicting WED egos, personal grievances, differing tastes and petty WED quarrels, but at the heart of the drama is the story of a WED group of idealistic friends who see their vision refined, WED altered, dented, rebuilt and corroded by the wider artistic WED and cultural landscape. WED WED A sharp, satirical drama starring Ewan Bailey, Alex WED Jennings, Richard Lumsden, Anna Madeley, Gerard McDermot and WED Tracy Wiles. WED WED Written by ..... Doug Lucie WED Produced & Directed by ..... Heather Larmour. WED WED Credits WED Emma: Anna Madeley WED Robert: Richard Lumsden WED Frank: Alex Jennings WED Saul: Gerard McDermott WED Alan: Ewan Bailey WED Kelly: Tracy Wiles WED James: Caolan McCarthy WED Annabel: Rebecca Hamilton WED Sue: Gillian Bevan WED Alice: Jane Slavin WED Ken: Doug Lucie WED Writer: Doug Lucie WED Director: Heather Larmour WED Producer: Heather Larmour WED WED 15:00 Money Box b0705h4w (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b06zs22x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06zttbs (Listen) WED Weather forecasting, Young people and politics WED WED Weather forecasting: Laurie Taylor explores a scientific art WED form rooted in unpredictability. He talks to Phaedra Daipha, WED Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, who WED spent years immersing herself in a regional office of the WED National Weather Service in America. How do forecasters WED decide if a storm is to be described as severe or hazardous; WED or a day is breezy or brisk? Do they master uncertainty any WED better than other expert decision makers such as WED stockbrokers and poker players? Charged with the onerous WED responsibility of protecting the life and property of US WED citizens, how do they navigate the uncertain and chaotic WED nature of the atmosphere? WED WED Also, young people, populism and politics. How do young WED Europeans regard the political process and are they more WED attracted to populist ideologies than their older WED counterparts? Gary Pollock, Professor of Politics at WED Manchester Metropolitan University, has used survey evidence WED from 14 European countries, to explore the mixture of WED political positions held by young people, finding they don't WED map easily on to the typical 'left-right' spectrum. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06zttbv (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b0705hly (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06zj4bz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05qgm0y (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates another 19th WED century bet; can he cook a pudding underneath ten feet of WED water? 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 b06zttby (Listen) WED Rex offers a friendly ear, and Bert is lending his handyman WED skills. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06ztttm (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07053mk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b06ztttp (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Michael Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Giles WED Fraser and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06j5bjn (Listen) WED On Being Ignored WED WED John Osborne tells a story of waiting for a bill in a cafe, WED and explores how a proliferation of new ways of WED communicating can mean we end up feeling ignored. WED WED Producer: Katie Langton. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b06zryhm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06ztsj5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06ztw0m (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ztw0p (Listen) WED Orlando, Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, Esquire WED WED In Virginia Woolf's boisterous novel the oppressive WED nineteenth century dawns, and an extraordinary encounter WED takes place out on the moor. The reader is Amanda Hale. WED WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard WED WED Virginia Woolf's high-spirited novel, read by Amanda Hale. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Amanda Hale WED Author: Virginia Woolf WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED WED 23:00 The Future of Radio b06ztw0r (Listen) WED Series 2, Bad Continuity 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 an algorithm to replace WED continuity announcers - resulting in industrial unrest and WED 'easy listening' on every BBC radio network - which is fine WED if you're a James Last fan. WED WED Written by Jerome Vincent and Stephen Dinsdale 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 Colin: Chris Stanton WED Actor: Jessica Carroll WED Writer: Jerome Vincent WED Writer: Stephen Dinsdale WED Producer: David Blount WED WED 23:15 Nurse b03xf1k2 (Listen) WED Episode 4 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 Billy: Paul Whitehouse WED Ray: Paul Whitehouse WED Herbert: Paul Whitehouse WED Tommy: Paul Whitehouse WED Maurice: Paul Whitehouse WED Nurse: Esther Coles WED Tony: Simon Day 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 b06ztw0t (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06zj4d1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06ztsj8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06zj4d3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06zj4d5 (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06zj4d7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06zj4d9 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b070jd0k (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Reverend Richard Littledale. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06ztx2t (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dwdm3 (Listen) THU Vogelkop Bowerbird THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Sir David Attenborough presents the Vogelkop bowerbird of THU west New Guinea. The forest floor resembles a market stall THU with neat piles of brightly-coloured fruits and leaves THU placed carefully on a mossy lawn in front of a cave of THU thatched twigs. This is the work of the Vogelkop bowerbird. THU Native to New Guinea and Australia, this drab olive brown THU male, uses aesthetic tastes to bring vibrancy of colour into THU his life: and to woo his mate. His brightly coloured THU exhibits are graded for size and colour and any withered or THU faded items are quickly replaced. Satisfied with his work, THU he whistles, and growls to entice her to a private view. THU After mating the female departs to rear her single chick THU unaided, while the male returns to the task of tending his THU creation. THU THU Vogelkop Bowerbird (Amblyornis inornata) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Barrie Britton / naturepl.com THU THU NPL Ref THU 01323009 THU © Barrie Britton / naturepl.com THU THU 06:00 Today b070jd0m (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 b06ztx2w (Listen) THU Rumi's Poetry THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi, the THU Persian scholar and Sufi mystic of the 13th Century. His THU great poetic works are the Masnavi-I Ma'navii or "spiritual THU couplets" and the Divan, a collection of thousands of lyric THU poems. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06ztzwk (Listen) THU City of Thorns, Episode 4 THU THU Ben Rawlence tells the stories of just a few of the THU forgotten thousands who make up the half a million stateless THU citizens of Dadaab - the world's largest refugee camp, in THU the desert of northern Kenya, close to the Somali border, THU where only thorn bushes grow. THU THU The camp is a semi-permanent home (the inhabitants are not THU allowed to leave without permission) to people fleeing THU conflicts from all over Africa. And it's far from exclusive THU to people of one faith. So when Monday, a young Catholic man THU from Sudan. falls for the beautiful Muna - a Somali Muslim - THU tensions are bound to ensue. THU THU The author, a Swahili speaker, and former researcher for THU Human Rights Watch in the horn of Africa made several long THU visits to the camps over the course of four years. His THU account bears vivid witness to the lives of those who live THU in fear, poverty and limbo. THU THU Read by David Seddon THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: David Seddon THU Author: Ben Rawlence THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06ztzwn (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0705clm (Listen) THU Halfway Here, Episode 4 THU THU by Lucy Catherine. THU THU Nettie is still in a coma and the family is finding it a THU strain. THU THU Director ..... Mary Peate. THU THU Credits THU Luke: Tyger Drew-Honey THU Nettie: Katie Angelou THU Ailsa: Sharon Small THU Martin: Justin Salinger THU Rachel: Jane Slavin THU Orla: Rebecca Hamilton THU Mr Holbrook: Richard Pepple THU Joe: Leo Wan THU Doctor: Susan Jameson THU Director: Mary Peate THU Writer: Lucy Catherine THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b06zj4dc (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Reaction Time b06ztzwr (Listen) THU "Your breasts look fantastic in that dress." THU THU From abysmal chat-up lines like this, to love at first sight THU in Victoria Train Station, BBC Radio Four listeners have THU some incredible relationship stories. THU THU Reaction Time broadcasts them to the nation, in a programme THU composed entirely of smartphone contributions from the THU public. BBC Radio Four shouted out for stories about love on THU social media - gave out the reactiontime@bbc.co.uk email THU address and received poignant, funny and downright odd tales THU - which have been crafted into a half-hour of dreadful THU dates, poignant memories and one incredible relationship THU that begins with a heart attack. THU THU Improvements in phone voice recorders mean listeners have THU been able to contribute high quality audio to the BBC from THU their armchairs - bypassing the need for a studio. THU THU Contributors simply recorded their two minute stories on THU their phone recorders - and emaiedl the sound file in. Tne THU contributor Narelle Lancaster, was called back and asked to THU record the script over her phone - so it's 100% listeners in THU a programme made on phones - a new way of creating a THU programme, and a unique platform for the wit and THU inventiveness of the BBC Radio 4 audience. THU THU Presenter Narelle Lancaster THU Produced by Kevin Core. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06zj4df (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b06l4lm5 (Listen) THU 11 February 1916 - Kitty Lumley THU THU On this day nurse and women's rights campaigner Emma Golden THU was arrested in New York, and the Wilson family struggle THU with their secrets. THU THU Written by Shaun McKenna THU Directed by Allegra McIlroy THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf THU Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook THU Albert Wilson: Jamie Foreman THU Writer: Shaun McKenna THU Director: Allegra McIlroy THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06zv3ws (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06zj4dh (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0705d0x (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Give It a Year b06zv3wv (Listen) THU Susanna THU THU The stories of five different singles and what happened to THU them in 2015. 89 and widowed; 36 and a Mum of two; 25 and THU gay; 52 and divorced; 41 and never been in a long term THU relationship. At the beginning of last year, we started THU recording them. Were they looking for something? Did they THU find it? THU THU Episode 4 follows Susanna - a 52-year-old health therapist, THU who is divorced - and formerly ran a matchmaking service. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06zttby (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b0705h3s (Listen) THU Stage Left, Episode 4 THU THU by Doug Lucie. THU THU Any tensions between the old members of Stage Left Theatre THU Company dissolve as they visit Alan's wife in hospital. THU THU Director ..... Mary Peate. THU THU Credits THU Emma: Anna Madeley THU Alan: Ewan Bailey THU Saul: Gerard McDermott THU Frank: Alex Jennings THU Robert: Richard Lumsden THU Jim: Caolan McCarthy THU Kelly: Tracy Wiles THU Di: Evie Killip THU Marion: Debra Baker THU Sir Clive: Brian Protheroe THU Writer: Doug Lucie THU Director: Mary Peate THU THU 15:00 Open Country b06zv3wz (Listen) THU Return to the Fens THU THU In the final episode of this series Helen Mark visit THU Woodwalton Fen in Cambridgeshire with writer Simon Barnes to THU discover the lost landscape which inspired Charles THU Rothschild to draw up the Rothschild list. This list of wild THU places in need of preservation helped establish modern THU conservation ideas and in 1912 Rothschild established the THU Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves for Britain and THU the Empire, the first society in Britain concerned with THU protecting wildlife habitats. THU Today the bungalow on stilts which Rothschild built lies at THU the heart of the Great Fen. This 50 yearlong project aims to THU join another early nature reserve at Holme Fen to Woodwalton THU by creating a mosaic of wetland habitat. Helen finds out how THU this vision is already attracting wonderful wildlife and how THU the long term residents of the fens are now enjoying a THU growing appreciation of the landscape they love. THU With a changing climate the fens offer natural solutions to THU flooding and nearby at Must Farm archaeologists have THU recently discovered how Bronze Age man embraced a watery THU landscape and thrived. In the future the Great Fen hopes it THU too can offer man viable alternatives to drainage which are THU beneficial for all the fen inhabitants. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06zqc2c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b06zqk2y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06zv3x1 (Listen) THU Radio 4's weekly look at the world of film. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06zj4dl (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06zv3x3 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06zj4dn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06zv3x5 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 6 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 - concludes the 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 final episode of the series finds John apologising for THU a delay, and wondering what his hobbies are. And, well, THU since you ask him for a tale of national mourning and THU robots... 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 Original music composed by ... Susannah Pearse THU Original music performed by ... Susannah Pearse & Sally THU Stares 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 b06zv3x7 (Listen) THU Brian has all his women around him, and Lilian is feeling THU Gee-Geed up. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06zv3x9 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0705clm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b06zv3xc (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b06zv3xf (Listen) THU Customer Service THU THU All businesses rely on customers. So, why do some businesses THU bend over backwards to keep customers happy, and why do some THU of them appear not to care? What is the impact of poor THU customer service on a business and how much does it cost THU them to invest in improving their infrastructure? Evan Davis THU discusses dos and don'ts of customer service with an THU airline, an energy company and a retailer, all of which have THU tried to completely overhaul their image. Has it worked? THU THU Guests: Kenny Jacobs, Chief Marketing Officer at Ryanair; THU Neil Clitheroe CEO retail and generation at Scottish Power THU and Gary Booker, Chief Marketing Officer at Dixons Carphone THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams THU Researcher: Sofia Patel. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06zj4dl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06ztx2w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06zv3xh (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06zv3xk (Listen) THU Orlando, The Most Influential Critic of the Victorian Age THU THU Orlando arrives at an ending and a new beginning. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Amanda Hale THU Author: Virginia Woolf THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU THU 23:00 Talking to Strangers b06zv3xm (Listen) THU Comic monologues in which a range of characters find THU themselves engaging in that most un-British of activities: THU talking to a stranger. THU THU Each piece is a character study: funny, frank, absurd, THU moving... Characters include a sex councillor who loves to THU draw, a spy who loves to share, a woman who likes to help THU too much ('I'm a serial helpist...'), a frustrated falconer, THU and a cheater who has to call her cheatee the morning after. THU And in this show, the listener themselves 'plays' the silent THU stranger in the piece... THU THU Written and performed by Sally Phillips and Lily Bevan, with THU guest stars including Emma Thompson, Olivia Coleman, Jessica THU Hynes, Steve Evets, Sinead Matthews and Joel Fry. THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant. A BBC Comedy Production. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Sally Phillips THU Performer: Lily Bevan THU Producer: Sam Bryant THU Writer: Sally Phillips THU Writer: Lily Bevan THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b06zv3xp (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06zj4fn (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06ztzwk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06zj4fq (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06zj4fs (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06zj4fv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06zj4fx (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b070j7l8 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Reverend Richard Littledale. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06zv8gx (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Vernon Harwood. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dwdb1 (Listen) FRI Eurasian Scops Owl FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Sir David Attenborough presents the Eurasian scops owl found FRI in Mediterranean regions. In summer a mournful monosyllabic FRI call interrupts the heady scented air of a Greek olive grove FRI at dusk. A male scops owl is proclaiming his territory with FRI a repeated call lasting over 20 minutes. Hearing these tiny FRI owls, no bigger than a starling is one thing, seeing one FRI roosting in an old tree is quite a challenge. They feed FRI mainly on moths and beetles which they hunt for in open FRI country with scattered trees. By autumn these largely FRI nocturnal birds are heading south to sub-Saharan Africa, FRI until the following spring when once again the olive groves FRI resound to their plaintive song. FRI FRI Eurasian Scops Owl (Otus scops) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Bengt Lundberg / naturepl.com FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01057063 FRI © Bengt Lundberg / naturepl.com FRI FRI FRI FRI The Eurasian scops owl is also known as 'common scops owl'. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06zvdlb (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 b06zqchz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06zvb6f (Listen) FRI City of Thorns, Episode 5 FRI FRI Ben Rawlence tells the stories of just a few of the FRI forgotten thousands who make up the half a million stateless FRI citizens of Dadaab - the world's largest refugee camp, in FRI the desert of northern Kenya, close to the Somali border, FRI where only thorn bushes grow. FRI FRI Monday and Muna find their child, Christine, is being FRI attacked by embittered Somali clan members. Guled threatens FRI to make the long journey to Italy, and in Washington Ben FRI Rawlence tries in vain to explain the nuances of Dadaab life FRI to the National Security Council. FRI FRI The author, a Swahili speaker, and former researcher for FRI Human Rights Watch in the horn of Africa made several long FRI visits to the camps over the course of four years. His FRI account bears vivid witness to the lives of those who live FRI in fear, poverty and limbo. FRI FRI Read by David Seddon FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: David Seddon FRI Author: Ben Rawlence FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06zvb6h (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0705ckj (Listen) FRI Halfway Here, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Lucy Catherine. FRI FRI Ailsa is struggling to accept that her daughter will never FRI recover. FRI FRI Director ..... Mary Peate. FRI FRI Credits FRI Luke: Tyger Drew-Honey FRI Nettie: Katie Angelou FRI Ailsa: Sharon Small FRI Martin: Justin Salinger FRI Orla: Rebecca Hamilton FRI Michael: Ewan Bailey FRI Male PC: Caolan McCarthy FRI Director: Mary Peate FRI Writer: Lucy Catherine FRI FRI 11:00 Mao's Golden Mangoes b06zvb6k (Listen) FRI Why would people preserve a mango in formaldehyde? Why would FRI they make thousands of wax replicas of mangoes and carry FRI them in processions, venerating the fruit like a sacred FRI icon? It seems mystifying. But at the height of the Cultural FRI Revolution, China was gripped by a peculiar hysteria - a FRI mania for mangoes. FRI FRI In the summer of 1968, China's student Red Guards had FRI brought the country to the brink of chaos. Over 1700 FRI teachers and administrators died in two months in Beijing FRI alone, and factions of students were in open battle at the FRI city's Qinghua University. FRI FRI Mao Zedong sent thousands of workers to occupy the campus FRI and quell the violence, declaring that the working class, FRI rather than the students, would direct the next stage of the FRI revolution. A week later, the Pakistani foreign minister FRI visited Beijing and presented Chairman Mao with a basket of FRI mangoes. FRI FRI As Benjamin Ramm finds out, Mao sent the mangoes on to the FRI workers at Qinghua and sparked a nationwide passion for the FRI fruit. The gift was interpreted as an act of selflessness FRI and mangoes became synonymous with the Chairman and a symbol FRI of his love for the workers. FRI FRI The Communist Party's propaganda department quickly set to FRI work creating thousands of mango-themed cotton fabrics and FRI domestic goods. Floats with giant papier-mache mangoes FRI dominated the National Day Parade in 1968. Armed peasants FRI even fought over a black and white copy of a photograph of a FRI mango. FRI FRI As Benjamin Ramm learns, the mangoes represented the hope FRI and faith of a traumatized population during one of the most FRI violent periods in China's history. FRI FRI A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Ordeal by Innocence b03z91x2 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI by Agatha Christie FRI dramatised by Joy Wilkinson FRI FRI Episode 3. FRI FRI Now Philip has been found dead, most of the family members FRI now believe that Dr. Calgary was right when he said that FRI their late mother's killer is still amongst them and FRI everyone is on their guard. FRI FRI directed by Mary Peate. FRI FRI Credits FRI Calgary: Mark Umbers FRI Gwenda: Jacqueline Defferary FRI Kirsten: Wanda Opalinska FRI Hester: Phoebe Waller-Bridge FRI Leo: Sean Murray FRI Mickey: Joel MacCormack FRI Tina: Carys Eleri FRI Mary: Priyanga Burford FRI Huish: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Constable: Arthur Hughes FRI Director: Mary Peate FRI Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson FRI Author: Agatha Christie FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06zj4fz (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b06l4mns (Listen) FRI 12 February 1916 - Hilary Pearce FRI FRI On this day a secret meeting of the Non-Conscription FRI fellowship was held in Kentish town, while in Folkestone FRI it's a day of celebrations. FRI FRI Written by Shaun McKenna FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Hilary Pearce: Craige Els FRI Ruby Tulliver: Martine McCutcheon FRI Laurie Pearce: Will Howard FRI Ivy Layton: Lizzy Watts FRI Roland Pemble: Jack Holden FRI Lilian Frost: Alex Tregear FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Jessie Moore: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Ivor Davies: Alun Raglan FRI Clerk: Richard Pepple FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b070j7lb (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06zj4g1 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b070j7ld (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Give It a Year b06zvb6m (Listen) FRI Daniel FRI FRI The stories of five different singles and what happened to FRI them in 2015. 89 and widowed; 36 and a Mum of two; 25 and FRI gay; 52 and divorced; 41 and never been in a long term FRI relationship. At the beginning of last year, we started FRI recording them. Were they looking for something? Did they FRI find it? FRI FRI Episode 5 follows Daniel - a 41-year-old academic editor, FRI who has never had a serious relationship. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06zv3x7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b06zvbwj (Listen) FRI Love Me Tender FRI FRI Love Me Tender by Ian McMillan. FRI A radio producer meets a group of trainspotters after he is FRI delayed. He decides they will make a good a subject for a FRI radio feature. But are they interesting enough? Comedy verse FRI drama by the 'Bard of Barnsley' where all the characters FRI speak in different verse forms. FRI FRI Director/Producer FRI Gary Brown FRI FRI Ian McMillan is the ever popular 'Bard of Barnsley' and FRI presenter of Radio 3's 'The Verb'. Conrad Nelson is FRI Associate Director of Northern Broadsides and recently FRI played 'Leontes' in their acclaimed production of 'The FRI Winter's Tale'. Bernard Wrigley is a celebrated folk singer FRI and actor and is known in folk circles as 'The Bolton FRI Bullfrog' because of his inimitable bass voice. FRI FRI Credits FRI Roy: Conrad Nelson FRI Phil: Bernard Wrigley FRI Beatty: Jonathan Keeble FRI Alice: Kate Coogan FRI Nigel: John Catterall FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Ian McMillan FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06zvbwn (Listen) FRI Seedy Sunday FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Seedy Sunday in Brighton. James Wong, Bob Flowerdew and FRI Christine Walkden answer questions from the audience. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Special Deliveries b06zvbwq (Listen) FRI Second Class, Signed For 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 ..... Jodie Whittaker FRI Writer ..... Colin Carberry FRI Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Jodie Whittaker FRI Writer: Colin Carberry FRI Producer: Jenny Thompson FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06zvbwv (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b06zvbwz (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06zvdld (Listen) FRI Jayne and Margaret - Mayor and Consort FRI FRI Fi Glover with friends who share a history of trade union FRI activism and when one was appointed Mayor of the Vale of FRI Glamorgan, her friend and holiday-partner became Consort. FRI Another conversation in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b070j7lh (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06zj4g3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06zvdlg (Listen) FRI Series 89, Episode 6 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 This week's programme comes from Bristol and Miles is joined FRI by Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Justin Moorhouse and Steve FRI Lamacq. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Justin Moorhouse FRI Panellist: Steve Lamacq FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06zvdlj (Listen) FRI Henry is widening his vocabulary, and is Pip feeling more FRI hopeful? FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Keri Davies FRI Director: Gwenda Hughes FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene 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 Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06zvdll (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0705ckj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06zvdln (Listen) FRI Lord Blunkett, William Chase FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Royal College for the Blind in Hereford with the FRI Labour peer Lord Blunkett and William Chase the founder of FRI Chase Distillery based in Hereford. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06zvdlq (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l4n8z (Listen) FRI 8-12 February 1916 FRI FRI In the week that conscription came into effect, there are FRI secrets and celebrations in Folkestone. FRI FRI Adeline Lumley ..... Helen Schlesinger FRI Albert Wilson ..... Jamie Foreman FRI Anna White ..... Amelia Lowdell FRI Charles Chaplin ..... Owen Clarke FRI Cristine ..... Ysabelle Cooper FRI Dolly Clout ..... Elaine Claxton FRI Dorothea Winwood ..... Rachel Shelley FRI Dr Streatfield ..... Chris Pavlo FRI Elsie Buss ..... Tracey Wiles FRI Eric Morton ..... Paul Rainbow FRI Florrie Wilson ..... Claire Rushbrook FRI Gabriel Graham ..... Michael Bertenshaw FRI Hilary Pearce ..... Craige Els FRI Isabel Graham ..... Keely Beresford FRI Ivor Davies ..... Alun Raglan FRI Ivy Layton ..... Lizzy Watts FRI Jessie Moore ..... Lucy Hutchinson FRI Johnnie Marshall ..... Paul Ready FRI Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf FRI Laurie Pearce ..... Will Howard FRI Lilian Frost ..... Alex Tregear FRI Maisie Harris ..... Cassie Layton FRI Nancy Parker ..... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Norman Harris ..... Sean Baker FRI Roland Pemble ..... Jack Holden FRI Ruby Tulliver ..... Martine McCutcheon FRI Ruth Billings ..... Katie Redford FRI Sylvia Graham ..... Joanna David FRI Victor Lumley ..... Joel MacCormack FRI Winifred Dinsdale ..... Alice Lowe FRI Clerk ..... Richard Pepple FRI FRI Written by Shaun McKenna FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06zj4g5 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06zvdls (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06zvdlv (Listen) FRI Orlando, The Present FRI FRI In Virginia Woolf's sumptuous novel the present catches up FRI with Orlando's extraordinarily lengthy past. The reader is FRI Amanda Hale. FRI FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Amanda Hale FRI Author: Virginia Woolf FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b06zrzx5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06zvdlx (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06zvdlz (Listen) FRI Nyree and June - Sharing Life Skills FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation about how a monthly Tea Party FRI helped a widow re-engage with life, and also pass on skills FRI to the younger generation. Another in the series that proves FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
05 February, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 06/02/2016 - 12/02/2016
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