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SAT SATURDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06zj4hs (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06zvb6f (Listen) SAT City of Thorns, Episode 5 SAT SAT Ben Rawlence tells the stories of just a few of the SAT forgotten thousands who make up the half a million stateless SAT citizens of Dadaab - the world's largest refugee camp, in SAT the desert of northern Kenya, close to the Somali border, SAT where only thorn bushes grow. SAT SAT Monday and Muna find their child, Christine, is being SAT attacked by embittered Somali clan members. Guled threatens SAT to make the long journey to Italy, and in Washington Ben SAT Rawlence tries in vain to explain the nuances of Dadaab life SAT to the National Security Council. SAT SAT The author, a Swahili speaker, and former researcher for SAT Human Rights Watch in the horn of Africa made several long SAT visits to the camps over the course of four years. His SAT account bears vivid witness to the lives of those who live SAT in fear, poverty and limbo. SAT SAT Read by David Seddon SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: David Seddon SAT Author: Ben Rawlence SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06zj4hv (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06zj4hx (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06zj4hz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06zj4j1 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06zvdt7 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison SAT Murdoch: Tibetan Buddhist, writer, & editor. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06zvdt9 (Listen) SAT It was burgers, now I'm craving cucumbers SAT SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06zj4j3 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06zj4j5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06zv3wz (Listen) SAT Return to the Fens SAT SAT In the final episode of this series Helen Mark visit SAT Woodwalton Fen in Cambridgeshire with writer Simon Barnes to SAT discover the lost landscape which inspired Charles SAT Rothschild to draw up the Rothschild list. This list of wild SAT places in need of preservation helped establish modern SAT conservation ideas and in 1912 Rothschild established the SAT Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves for Britain and SAT the Empire, the first society in Britain concerned with SAT protecting wildlife habitats. SAT Today the bungalow on stilts which Rothschild built lies at SAT the heart of the Great Fen. This 50 yearlong project aims to SAT join another early nature reserve at Holme Fen to Woodwalton SAT by creating a mosaic of wetland habitat. Helen finds out how SAT this vision is already attracting wonderful wildlife and how SAT the long term residents of the fens are now enjoying a SAT growing appreciation of the landscape they love. SAT With a changing climate the fens offer natural solutions to SAT flooding and nearby at Must Farm archaeologists have SAT recently discovered how Bronze Age man embraced a watery SAT landscape and thrived. In the future the Great Fen hopes it SAT too can offer man viable alternatives to drainage which are SAT beneficial for all the fen inhabitants. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0705z0r (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 b06zj4j7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0705z0t (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 b0705z0w (Listen) SAT Jamie Foreman SAT SAT After playing tough guys in Layer Cake, Oliver Twist and Nil SAT by Mouth, the part of thug Derek Branning in Eastenders SAT seemed a natural choice for actor Jamie Foreman. But with SAT comedy parts in Birds of a Feather and Pantomime under his SAT belt he's now pushing his boundaries with an all singing all SAT dancing role in Mrs Henderson Presents in the West End in SAT London. Given his background as an East End gangster's son, SAT his dramatic career seems even more surprising. He joins SAT Richard and Aasmah on Saturday Live. SAT SAT Social psychologist Viren Swami has a passion for passion, SAT having studied attraction for ten years. He'll be discussing SAT dating formation, revealing relationship myths and advising SAT how best to meet your match. SAT SAT They met at Birmingham University and despite not studying SAT music they came together over their love of voice and formed SAT an a Cappella group. The sons of Pitches went on to win SAT Gareth Malone's naked choir competition, broadcast on BBC 2 SAT at the end of last year, and now they are making a go at a SAT professional career. 5 out of 6 of them join us on Saturday SAT to talk about their passion for voice and to demonstrate SAT it's versatility, and they'll be serenading us with an SAT alternative love song. SAT SAT Ruth Goodman is a social historian who is passionate about SAT how people lived in the past, so much so that she spends SAT much of her free time taking part in enactments. Her latest SAT book is about her favourite era, and entitled How to be a SAT Tudor. SAT SAT We hear from listeners Paul and Helen who fell in love over SAT the harp, and your Thank yous. SAT SAT Comedian, writer and actor Chris Addison chooses his SAT inheritance tracks. He inherited Mozart's Serenade for 13 SAT Wind Instruments ('Gran Partita') and will pass on Waiting SAT For The Great Leap Forwards by Billy Bragg (from 'Worker's SAT Playtime') SAT SAT Jamie Foreman stars in Mrs Henderson Presents at the Noel SAT Coward Theatre in London SAT Viren Swami's book is Attraction Explained published by SAT Routledge SAT How to be a Tudor is by Ruth Goodman published by Penguin SAT The Sons of Pitches tour starts in May 2016 - details via SAT link to their website below SAT Chris Addison stars in The Royal Opera's new production of SAT Emmanuel Chabrier's L'Étoile which runs 1-24 February 2016. SAT SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Jamie Foreman SAT Interviewed Guest: Viren Swami SAT Interviewed Guest: The Sons of Pitches SAT Performer: The Sons of Pitches SAT Interviewed Guest: Ruth Goodman SAT Interviewed Guest: Chris Addison SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b070601q (Listen) SAT Series 6, The Last Emperor SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini returns with the series that takes a long SAT hard look behind the scenes of three classic films which SAT have scooped the Best Picture Award. He reports on the SAT artistic, political and personal decisions that lie behind SAT the winners, laced with some pretty good gossip too. SAT SAT In Episode 1 Paul hears from the director, producer, SAT cinematographer and composer of the epic which opened up the SAT recent history of China to the West and swept the Oscars in SAT 1988. SAT SAT Producer: Marya Burgess. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b070601s (Listen) SAT Helen Lewis of The New Statesman looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06zj4j9 (Listen) SAT Trapped in a Nightmare SAT SAT Human stories behind the headlines: Fergal Keane is on the SAT frontline in Ukraine with a husband and wife who are SAT determined to stay on in their home even as war consumes SAT their town. Two boys talk to Quentin Sommerville about life, SAT death and indoctrination in an ISIS-held town in Syria. SAT Grace Livingstone is in the Venezuelan countryside finding SAT that livelihoods are being hit hard by the financial crisis. SAT On Mafia Island, off the coast of Tanzania, Hannah McNeish SAT finds there are two principal topics of conversation - the SAT performance of the new president and a fish called Jesus SAT which, so the story goes, is as big as a car. And it is now SAT official: the very best baguettes in the world are baked by SAT Koreans. Steve Evans, in Seoul, talks of changing tastes in SAT a young market with a global, fashionable appetite for the SAT trappings of European culture and cuisine. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06zj4jc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b070601v (Listen) SAT Should tax be such a taxing matter? Plus second-hand car SAT insurance worries SAT SAT On Money Box with Lesley Curwen: When you're buying a SAT second-hand car, if the vehicle has been modified and you've SAT not told your insurer, it could invalidate your cover in the SAT event of an accident. The experience of Money Box listener SAT Matt shows there is confusion over what constitutes a 'non SAT standard' part and an 'upgrade'. He bought his car second SAT hand and had no idea the vehicle's lights and bumpers had SAT been modified by a previous owner. After an accident, he was SAT shocked to find out that his insurer wouldn't pay out. After SAT Money Box intervened, the insurer changed its mind. SAT SAT Should tax be such a taxing matter? Angela Knight, the new SAT boss of the Office of Tax Simplification, gives her first SAT broadcast interview. She explains her priorities in tackling SAT what experts say is Britain's over-complicated system of SAT taxes and reliefs. Accountants point out that the tax code SAT has actually expanded in the last five years - it now SAT stretches to 19,000 pages. That's despite the best efforts SAT of the OTS, which was launched in 2010. SAT SAT A change designed to cap transaction charges on credit card SAT purchases which according to one estimate should save SAT consumers £700m a year, looks like doing nothing of the SAT kind. Companies big and small are still charging them - and SAT there's no sign that's going to change anytime soon. In SAT December an EU regulation capped the amount a bank could SAT charge a merchant or retailer for accepting payment by card SAT - something called the interchange fee - at 0.3 per cent. SAT The expectation was that this would force the fees down if SAT not out of existence altogether. But because there's not SAT just one but a series of costs involved in processing any SAT card transaction, retailers have told Money Box, they still SAT need to levy a credit card fee. The programme hears from two SAT businesses who take a different view on how much of the SAT charges levied on them they pass on SAT to customers. SAT SAT Auto Body Professionals Club SAT Financial Ombudsman Service SAT Citizens Advice: Buying a Used Car SAT SAT SAT Money Advice Service SAT Money Saving Expert.com SAT SAT SAT Gov UK: Office of tax simplification SAT CIOT: Chartered Institute of Taxation SAT ACCA: Global body for professional accountants SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06zvdlg (Listen) SAT Series 89, Episode 6 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's programme comes from Bristol and Miles is joined SAT by Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Justin Moorhouse and Steve SAT Lamacq. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Justin Moorhouse SAT Panellist: Steve Lamacq SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06zj4jf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06zj4jh (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06zvdln (Listen) SAT Lord Blunkett, David Davis MP, Dr Kate Hudson, Quentin Letts SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Royal College for the Blind in Hereford with the SAT Labour peer Lord Blunkett, the Conservative backbench MP SAT David Davis, The General Secretary of the Campaign for SAT Nuclear Disarmament, Dr Kate Hudson, and the Daily Mail SAT sketchwriter and author Quentin Letts,. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b070601x (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b070601z (Listen) SAT Rebus: A Question of Blood, Episode 1 SAT SAT 1/2. Thriller by Ian Rankin. Dramatised in two parts by SAT Chris Dolan. SAT SAT When a known criminal dies in a house fire the forensic SAT evidence suggests he was murdered before the fire started. SAT Rebus - the last person to see the victim alive - becomes SAT the main suspect. SAT SAT Meanwhile, a fatal shooting at a private school near SAT Edinburgh unexpectedly leads Rebus to an army helicopter SAT crash on Jura in a case involving diamonds and drug SAT smuggling. SAT SAT DI Rebus ...................Ron Donachie SAT Siobhan Clarke......... Gayanne Potter SAT DI Hogan ................. Brian Ferguson SAT DCI Templer ............ Sarah Collier SAT Bell .......................... .Brian Pettifer SAT Miss Teri .................. Nicola Roy SAT Whiteread .............. Veronica Leer SAT Peacock ................... Gavin Mitchell SAT Kate .......................... Eilidh McCormick SAT Brimson .................. Kenny Blyth SAT James ...................... Alasdair Hankinson SAT Fogg.......................... Paul Young SAT SAT Other parts played by the cast. SAT SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young SAT SAT BBC Scotland. SAT SAT Credits SAT DI Rebus: Ron Donachie SAT Siobhan Clarke: Gayanne Potter SAT DI Hogan: Brian Ferguson SAT DCI Templer: Sarah Collier SAT Bell: Brian Pettifer SAT Miss Teri: Nicola Roy SAT Whiteread: Veronica Leer SAT Peacock: Gavin Mitchell SAT Kate: Eilidh McCormick SAT Brimson: Kenny Blyth SAT James: Alasdair Hankinson SAT Fogg: Paul Young SAT Author: Ian Rankin SAT Adaptor: Chris Dolan SAT Director: Bruce Young SAT Producer: Bruce Young SAT SAT 15:30 Tropicalia: Revolution in Sound b06zr3zl (Listen) SAT Tropicalia was a musical revolution in Brazil. Singer and SAT journalist Monica Vasconcelos meets the key artists and SAT contemporary champions of Tropicalia - from Caetano Veloso SAT and Gilberto Gil to Marcos Valle and Talking Heads' David SAT Byrne - and explores its enduring musical and political SAT force. SAT SAT Burning brightly for only few years in the late 1960s, and SAT politically inspired by the uprisings in Paris in May 68, SAT the Tropicalia movement electrified Brazilian music, SAT combining the sophistication of bossa nova, samba and baiao SAT with psychedelia, new Beatles-inspired electric sounds and SAT orchestral experimentation. It was a deliberately subversive SAT mix that provoked the country's military regime and led to SAT the exile and imprisonment of some of Brazil's star SAT musicians. SAT SAT Tropicalia brought a new wave of liberation and energy into SAT Brazilian music. Earlier in the decade, bossa nova had SAT captured a mood of national optimism but, as the 1960s wore SAT on, the political situation darkened. The military junta, in SAT power since 1964, was drifting into open repression - the SAT arts would be censored, musicians targeted, imprisoned and SAT exiled. A new, more combative approach was called for. SAT SAT Based around a core group of musicians - Caetano Veloso, SAT Gilberto Gil, the group Os Mutantes, singer Gal Costa and SAT Tom Ze - Tropicalia was a mash up of styles which drew on SAT the country's deep roots but pushed the sound elsewhere, SAT radically. Harvesting influences from inside and outside SAT Brazil, drawing especially on Western rock, classical SAT orchestration and electronic effects, Tropicalia parodied, SAT mixed and sampled global styles. SAT SAT Produced by Simon Hollis SAT A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0707r9n (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT We hear from the columnist and broadcaster Emma Freud on the SAT emotional rollercoaster of planning four funerals for family SAT members and from Barbara Chalmers who has set up a website SAT to help people record their funeral wishes. SAT Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder and former chief executive of SAT the children's charity Kids Company gives her first SAT broadcast interview since a committee of MPs published a SAT report into the collapse of the charity earlier this month. SAT With the current Secretary General Ban Ki_Moon retiring in SAT December this year the selection process for his successor SAT has begun. We discuss the chances of that next Secretary SAT General being a woman with the BBC's diplomatic SAT Correspondent Bridget Kendall. SAT When Breath Becomes Air is a book about a man facing death SAT following a cancer diagnosis, we hear from Lucy Kalanithi SAT his wife on why her husband Paul decided to write the book SAT and their decision to have a baby. SAT The American guru and Harvard Professor Amy Cuddy tells us SAT how to overcome shyness and anxiety. SAT We hear from two breastfeeding mothers who took part in our SAT phone in on the subject on Monday about their experiences. SAT And the Award winning spoken artist Hollie McNish shares her SAT thoughts and feelings on becoming a mother. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Freud SAT Interviewed Guest: Barbara Chalmers SAT Interviewed Guest: Camila Batmanghelidjh SAT Interviewed Guest: Bridget Kendall SAT Interviewed Guest: Lucy Kalanithi SAT Interviewed Guest: Amy Cuddy SAT Interviewed Guest: Hollie McNish SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0707r9q (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b06zv3xf (Listen) SAT Customer Service SAT SAT All businesses rely on customers. So, why do some businesses SAT bend over backwards to keep customers happy, and why do some SAT of them appear not to care? What is the impact of poor SAT customer service on a business and how much does it cost SAT them to invest in improving their infrastructure? Evan Davis SAT discusses dos and don'ts of customer service with an SAT airline, an energy company and a retailer, all of which have SAT tried to completely overhaul their image. Has it worked? SAT SAT Guests: Kenny Jacobs, Chief Marketing Officer at Ryanair; SAT Neil Clitheroe CEO retail and generation at Scottish Power SAT and Gary Booker, Chief Marketing Officer at Dixons Carphone SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams SAT Researcher: Sofia Patel. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06zj4jk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06zj4jm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06zj4jp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0707r9s (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Nikki Bedi, Cuba Gooding Jr, Anita Rani, Joe SAT Lycett, Bobby Baker, Beirut, Golden Rules SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Cuba Gooding Jr, SAT Anita Rani, Joe Lycett and Bobby Baker for an eclectic mix SAT of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Beirut SAT and Golden Rules. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Anita Rani SAT The last two shows of the ‘Strictly Come Dancing Tour’ are SAT at The O2, London on Saturday 13th at 14.30 and 19.30 and SAT Sunday 14th February at 13.30 and 18.30. SAT SAT Cuba Gooding Jr SAT ‘The People v OJ Simpson’ starts on Monday 15th February at SAT 21.00 on BBC Two. SAT SAT Joe Lycett SAT 'That's The Way, A-Ha A-Ha, Joe Lycett' is touring until SAT July. Joe's performing at Octagon Centre, Sheffield on 17th, SAT Glee Club, Nottingham on 18th and O2 Academy, Leicester on SAT 21st February. Check Joe's website for further dates. SAT SAT SAT Bobby Baker SAT 'Letting In The Light' can be found on The Grove, opposite SAT Stratford Library, London until Wednesday 23rd March. SAT SAT Beirut SAT SAT 'No No No' is out now on 4AD. SAT SAT Beirut are playing Manchester's Albert Hall on Saturday 13th SAT February. SAT SAT Golden Rules SAT SAT 'Golden Ticket' is out now on Lex Records. SAT SAT Golden Rules are playing at the BBC 6 Music Festival on SAT Saturday 13th February. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: Cuba Gooding Jr SAT Interviewed Guest: Anita Rani SAT Interviewed Guest: Joe Lycett SAT Interviewed Guest: Bobby Baker SAT Performer: Beirut SAT Performer: Golden Rules SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b0707r9v (Listen) SAT Series 19, 13/02/2016 SAT SAT A fictional response to a story in the week's news. In the SAT week that saw Google executives face a grilling from the SAT Public Accounts Committee over their UK tax deal, Katherine SAT Jakeways tells the story of a student who makes a SAT controversial fiscal arrangement of her own. SAT SAT Directed by Emma Harding. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Katherine Jakeways SAT Director: Emma Harding SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0707r9x (Listen) SAT Hieronymus Bosch, OJ Simpson, North Water, A Bigger Splash, SAT Battlefield SAT SAT The biggest Hieronymus Bosch exhibition ever has just opened SAT in Holland. 500 years after his death, Noordbrabants Museum SAT has gathered together the largest collection of his bizarre, SAT extraordinary work SAT OJ Simpson's 1994 trial has been turned into a US TV drama. SAT Does it have something new to show or say? SAT Ian McGuire's North Water has garnered positive reviews from SAT the likes of Hilary Mantel and Martin Amis. It's a whodunnit SAT set on board an 18th century whaling ship. "A version of SAT Captain Ahab (if you squint a little) meets a version of SAT Sherlock Holmes" SAT Ralph Fiennes stars in A Bigger Splash, a tale of louche SAT life set around a swimming pool in a baking hot Italian SAT villa. Also starring Tilda Swinton, Matthius Schoenaerts and SAT Dakota Johnson SAT Battlefield at The Young Vic is Peter Brook's distillation SAT of his magnum opus Mahabarata. A few short tales which deal SAT with life an immense canvas in miniature SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Amanda Vickery, Natalie Haynes SAT and Jim White. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT A Bigger Splash SAT A Bigger Splash SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT SAT Ian McGuire SAT The North Water SAT by Ian McGuire is available in hard-back and ebook now. SAT SAT SAT Hieronymus Bosch SAT Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of Genius SAT is at the The Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch, Holland SAT until 8 May 2016. SAT SAT Image: Hieronymus Bosch - Visions of the Hereafter (left to SAT right - Fall of the Damned, Hell, Earthly Paradise, Ascent SAT into Heaven), ca. 1505-15. Venice, Museum of Palazzo SAT Grimani. Photo and Imaging Rik Klein Gotink and Robert SAT G.Erdmann the Bosch Research and Conservation Project. SAT SAT Battlefield SAT Battlefield SAT is at the Young Vic in London until 27 February 2016. SAT SAT Image: ©Simon Annand SAT SAT SAT The People v. O.J. Simpson SAT The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story SAT begins on BBC Two on Monday 15 February at 9pm SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Amanda Vickery SAT Interviewed Guest: Natalie Haynes SAT Interviewed Guest: Jim White SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0707r9z (Listen) SAT The Art of the Obit SAT SAT To mark the tenth anniversary of R4's obituary programme SAT Last Word, Matthew Bannister presents an archive hour SAT celebrating this stalwart of the newspaper and broadcasting SAT world. SAT SAT Matthew finds out about the delicate work of preparation, as SAT he talks to leading obituary figures about how they choose SAT which lives to cover. He examines some landmark obituaries, SAT and reads from The Times full page obit on Hitler, an SAT indicator of how the often delicate balance between honesty SAT and sensitivity is achieved. Matthew also reveals some of SAT his own behind-the-scenes stories - like the time he made SAT uncomfortably close contact with the corpse. SAT SAT We find out about future developments, as some of the SAT leaders in the obituary field reveal moves into the world of SAT the pre-recorded farewell obituary video. Musician Dave SAT Swarbrick recalls how it felt to see his premature obit in SAT print, and Matthew explores why working in the world of the SAT obit is always surprising and unexpectedly life-affirming. SAT SAT Producer: Neil George. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06zqk2w (Listen) SAT Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul, Episode 2 SAT SAT by Graham Greene SAT SAT Dramatised for radio by Nick 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 and violent story of political kidnap SAT and sexual betrayal set at the beginning of the Dirty War in SAT early 1970s Argentina, Greene's characters find themselves SAT on a hellish journey. Isolated Dr Eduardo Plarr, son of a SAT missing political prisoner, is lured into collaborating with SAT a defrocked priest in a kidnap plot, only to find the lives SAT of two people he doesn't care for, suddenly in his hands. SAT And Charles Fortnum, the drunken Honorary Consul in a SAT one-horse town near the Paraguayan border, faces his own SAT terrors, and the loss of the young prostitute he has fallen SAT 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 In this concluding episode, Plarr's attempts to help Charley SAT get him death threats from the police. Not only is the state SAT closing in on Plarr, but his own past too. 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 Marta: Yolanda Vazquez SAT Crichton: George Watkins SAT Jose: Sean Baker SAT Father: Brian Protheroe SAT Author: Graham Greene SAT Adaptor: Nick Warburton SAT Director: Jonquil Panting SAT Producer: Jonquil Panting SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06zj4jr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b06ztttp (Listen) SAT Charities SAT SAT Charity in the UK is big business. There are over 165,000 SAT charities registered with the Charity Commission, and the SAT total annual income of the sector is more than £100 billion. SAT But what should they be allowed to spend their money on? The SAT government has just announced that charities which receive SAT state grants will not be allowed to spend any of that tax SAT payers cash on political campaigning. The National Council SAT for Voluntary Organisations has described the change as SAT "draconian" and will amount to "gagging" them. There is a SAT lot at stake. Charities get £13 billion pounds a year from SAT national or local government. Figures from the National SAT Audit Office show that that money makes up well over a half SAT of the annual income of many well-known charities. Being a SAT prophetic witness has always been a key aspect of what SAT charities do. Campaigning and political activity is a vital SAT part of that, but should it be funded by us the taxpayer, SAT whether by direct grants or via the tax breaks that are part SAT of charitable status. Or do we need to rethink our SAT definition of what is and isn't a charity? If public schools SAT can qualify for charitable status, why not campaigning SAT groups like "Liberty"? With headlines about aggressive fund SAT raising tactics of some organisations, the charity halo has SAT become somewhat tarnished in recent times. But do we have an SAT outdated "Lady Bountiful" view of what charities are for? If SAT we want our charities to make a difference is it time to SAT accept that they need to apply all the modern commercial SAT tools you'd expect from such a large industry. Or, in their SAT rush for influence and impact, have charities lost site of SAT the personal relationships, responsibilities and trust that SAT lie at the heart of altruism? What should charity be for? SAT Chaired by Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Anne SAT McElvoy, Giles Fraser and Matthew Taylor. Witnesses are Andy SAT Benson, Debra Allcock-Tyler, Christopher Snowdon and Craig SAT Bennett. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b06zqp80 (Listen) SAT Heat 5, 2016 SAT SAT (5/17) SAT Russell Davies welcomes competitors from Kidderminster, SAT Chester, Stirling and Rothbury in Northumberland to Media SAT City in Salford for the latest contest in the 2016 series. SAT SAT To stand a chance of making it through to the semi-final SAT stage they'll have to know where Britain's first-ever safari SAT park was, which 19th century war was ended by the Treaty of SAT San Stefano, and the name of the party led by the Greek SAT politician Alexis Tsipras. SAT SAT There's also an opportunity for a Brain of Britain listener SAT to 'Beat the Brains' with his or her question suggestions. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT IAN FENNELL, a software developer from North Worcestershire SAT SAT KERRY GRIFFITHS, a dealer in antiques and collectibles, from SAT Stirling SAT SAT KAREN MILLWARD, a historic house volunteer guide from SAT Rothbury in Northumberland SAT SAT DAVID NICHOL, currently unemployed, from Chester. SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b06zqk30 (Listen) SAT The Lakes and the Caribbean SAT SAT Roger McGough with a miscellany including poetry from The SAT Lakes and the Caribbean, as well as a trilogy for worriers. SAT The poetry comes from Stevie Smith, Matt Harvey, Percy SAT Shelley, Fleur Adcock and others. Producer Sally Heaven. 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SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Stories b0707y3j (Listen) SUN The Pig Boy SUN SUN Jessica Raine reads Jane Gardam's classic story in which a SUN young wife is thrilled to be rejoining her husband in Hong SUN Kong, still under the British. But all too soon she finds SUN herself looking for authenticity and excitement... SUN SUN Reader: Jessica Raine is best known for her role as Jenny in SUN the TV drama Call the Midwife. Other recent TV credits SUN include Jane Boleyn in Wolf Hall, and Tuppence Beresford in SUN Partners in Crime. 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: Jessica Raine SUN Writer: Jane Gardam SUN Abridger: Julian Wilkinson SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0707v9d (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0707v9j (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0707v9l (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0707v9n (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0707y3l (Listen) SUN Bells from the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Tonbridge SUN in Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b06kdztz (Listen) SUN National Pride SUN SUN Alex Marshall, fresh from writing a book about national SUN anthems, discusses nationalism and patriotism. SUN SUN Alex tells stories of meeting self-described patriots and SUN nationalists from Japan to Paraguay via France and SUN Kazakhstan, and explores how our thinking about nationalism SUN and patriotism is highly dependent on place and time. SUN SUN Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0707v9q (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0707y3n (Listen) SUN A Wing and a Prayer SUN SUN John McCarthy explores the sacred and profane place of birds SUN in our daily lives. SUN SUN He considers the many spiritual meanings birds have for SUN humans. From doves as biblical heralds of the Holy Spirit to SUN ravens in the Qur'an, birds are at the iconic heart of SUN almost all world religions. But how did they get there? Is SUN it their ability to fly which grips us? Or the apparent SUN purity and beauty of (many) of their songs and calls? SUN SUN Along the way, John explores the parallels between listening SUN to Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending, hearing a dawn chorus SUN in Kielder Forest and seeking a personal pathway to the SUN divine. He also recalls a bird-inspired moment of hope SUN during his time in captivity in Lebanon - a memory triggered SUN by the music of the singer, Fairouz. SUN SUN John meets keen birdwatcher and author, Stephen Moss who SUN tells how his love of birds helped him through divorce and SUN bereavement, and reveals the true meanings of birdsong, SUN which prove to be both paradoxical and far more profane than SUN sacred. SUN SUN The programme includes poetry from John Clare, prose from SUN Gerald Durrell, and music from Canteloube, Respighi and SUN Chris Watson. SUN SUN The readers are Madeleine Bowyer and Peter Marinker. SUN SUN Producer: Matt Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Short quote from ‘Singing in the wilderness : a salute to SUN John James Audubon’ SUN SUN Donald Culross Peattie SUN SUN G. P. Putnam (New York, 1935) SUN Preface to Vaughan Williams’ ‘The Lark Ascending’ score SUN SUN George Meredith (poet) SUN Extract from ‘Parliament of the Birds’ SUN SUN Attar of Nishapur, translated by Edward FitzGerald SUN SUN Dodo Press SUN SUN ISBN: 978-1409909569 SUN Extract from ‘Corvus: A Life with Birds’ SUN SUN Esther Woolfson SUN SUN Granta Books SUN SUN ISBN: 978-1847080806 SUN Extract from ‘The Ravens Nest’ SUN SUN John Clare (in The Poetry of Birds, anthology) SUN SUN Penguin SUN SUN ISBN: 978-0141027111 SUN Extract from ‘My Family and Other Animals’ SUN SUN Gerald Durrell SUN SUN Penguin SUN SUN ISBN: 978-0241951460 SUN Extract from ‘Adoro Te Devote’ (Latin hymn) SUN SUN St Thomas Aquinas (translated by Gerard Manley Hopkins) SUN Interviewee: Stephen Moss SUN SUN Weblink: www.stephenmoss.tv SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0707y3q (Listen) SUN Reindeer Farming in Sweden SUN SUN The indigenous people of northern Sweden are the Sami and SUN their nomadic lifestyle has traditionally centred around the SUN reindeer, both as a means of transport and for food and SUN clothing. Today the Sami are no longer nomadic but many like SUN Nils Nutti Sami want to continue to work with their SUN reindeer. Nils has found a unique solution to the problem of SUN meeting his family's need for money now that they live in a SUN settled place whilst continuing to work with his beloved SUN reindeer. SUN SUN At the reindeer corral these semi-domesticated animals are SUN used to take tourists on sleigh rides and to teach them SUN about the Sami way of life. This means that the reindeer are SUN of greater value and allows Nils to encourage young Sami and SUN even non-Sami like Klara Enbom Burreau to continue with this SUN traditional way of life in a sustainable way. SUN SUN The Sami use every part of the reindeer for meat, blood SUN sausages, fur and hide and as Helen Mark discovers, this SUN relationship continues to sustain the Sami culture with its SUN deep respect for nature. SUN SUN Producer: Helen Lennard. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0707v9s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0707v9v (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0709v34 (Listen) SUN Jehovah's Witness investigation, Mental health chaplains, SUN The art of being still SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b0709v36 (Listen) SUN Tender Education and Arts SUN SUN Olivia Coleman presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN Tender Education and Arts SUN Registered Charity No 1100214 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Tender Education and Arts' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Tender Education and SUN Arts'. SUN SUN Tender Education & Arts SUN SUN Tender Education & Arts is a charity that engages young SUN people in the prevention of domestic and sexual violence. We SUN use arts-based workshops to help them to recognise, avoid or SUN escape from unhealthy relationships. Young people learn SUN skills to help their friends if they see early warning signs SUN that they’re at risk. SUN Since 2004, we have worked with over 100,000 young people in SUN schools, youth centres, hostels and healthcare settings. SUN Tender aims to engage, to challenge, to entertain and to SUN stop abuse before it starts. SUN SUN Discussion SUN SUN Tender Youth Ambassadors lead a discussion about sexual SUN consent with their peers. SUN SUN Drama Workshop SUN SUN Secondary school students take part in a drama workshop to SUN explore their rights and responsibilities in relationships. SUN SUN Tailored Projects SUN SUN Tender workshop leaders work together to design tailored SUN projects for at-risk young people. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0707v9x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0707v9z (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0709v38 (Listen) SUN Lent Pilgrimage 1: The Open Road SUN SUN A celebration of the art of conversation as we embark on a SUN Lent pilgrimage. SUN With the Revd Ruth Harvey and Lynne Ling of Shoreline SUN Conversations, who, with Churches Together in Britain and SUN Ireland have crafted this year's Lent resources. On the Open SUN Road the invitation is to undertake a particular kind of SUN journey, a sacred journey which involves both inner and SUN outer dimensions. Readings: Deuteronomy 26: 1-11, Luke 4: SUN 1-19. Music: Ubi Caritas (Taize), Forty Days and Forty SUN Nights (Aus Der Tiefe), Guide me, O thou Great Redeemer (Cwm SUN Rhondda). With the Manchester Chamber Choir directed by SUN Andrew Earis. From Emmanuel Church Didsbury; Producer: SUN Philip Billson. See the Sunday Worship web page for a link SUN to online resources from Churches Together in Britain and SUN Ireland. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06zvdlq (Listen) SUN Anti-Political Punditry SUN SUN Adam Gopnik argues that the votes cast in America's primary SUN in New Hampshire say far less about shifts in political SUN opinion than the pundits and commentators claim. SUN SUN "It takes less 'anger' and 'alienation' than a mild SUN reshuffling of the ideological deck in a peculiarly shaped SUN contest to produce results that look, on first glance, SUN revolutionary." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04dw7p8 (Listen) SUN Superb Lyrebird SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Sir David Attenborough presents the superb lyrebird of SUN eastern Australia. Superb lyrebirds are about the size of SUN pheasants. During courtship, as the male struts and poses, SUN he unleashes a remarkable range of sounds. Up to 80% of the SUN lyrebird's display calls are usually of other wild birds. SUN However, if kept in captivity, they can mimic a chainsaw, SUN camera click, gunshot and a whole host of other man made SUN sound. Research recently discovered that the lyrebird SUN co-ordinates his dancing displays to particular sounds. But SUN superb lyrebirds are promiscuous performers and it's quite SUN likely that another male may have played the leading role SUN while he dances and sings away. SUN SUN Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Roger Powell / naturepl.com SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01140081 SUN © Roger Powell / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0707vb5 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. We hear how a blind boy can find his way around SUN Edinburgh by clicking his tongue. 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SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN Director: Gwenda Hughes SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0709v49 (Listen) SUN Ben Saunders SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the polar adventurer Ben SUN Saunders. In his own words he "specialises in dragging heavy SUN things around cold places". SUN SUN He's one of only three people to have skied solo to The SUN North Pole and he holds the record for the longest solo SUN Arctic journey ever on foot. SUN SUN After traversing Russia and the frozen crust of the Arctic SUN Ocean, his most recent adventure was to triumph where, a SUN century before, Captain Scott and his men failed. Ben SUN successfully retraced that ill-fated Terra Nova route by SUN making the eighteen hundred mile journey through SUN Antarctica-and-back, entirely on foot. SUN SUN When he's not wrapped up somewhere cold, he is an SUN ultra-marathon runner and motivational speaker. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Ben Saunders SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b0707vbk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Museum of Curiosity b070cz5y (Listen) SUN Series 8, Lucas, Scott, Hartston SUN SUN This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his SUN curator Sarah Millican welcome the comedian, actor and star SUN of Little Britain, Matt Lucas; a neuroscientist from SUN University College, London who studies comedy under SUN laboratory conditions, Professor Sophie Scott; and an SUN author, former British Chess champion and leading SUN psychometrics consultant who writes the Beachcomber column SUN in the Daily Express, has written dozens of bestselling SUN books, and has finally gained recognition as a reality TV SUN star on Gogglebox. SUN SUN This week, the Museum's guests discuss the joy of farts; the SUN many uses of the human tongue; and why obsessive behaviour SUN can turn a chess player into an unstable towering genius. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Lloyd SUN Presenter: Sarah Millican SUN Interviewed Guest: Matt Lucas SUN Interviewed Guest: Sophie Scott SUN Interviewed Guest: William Hartston SUN Producer: Richard Turner SUN Producer: James Harkin SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0709v4f (Listen) SUN First Bite SUN SUN In her new book, First Bite - How We Learn To Eat, Bee SUN Wilson takes a deep and reflective look at how food choices SUN and habits are shaped, and how they can be changed. SUN SUN Sheila Dillon is joined by Bee Wilson and special guests to SUN discuss the book's surprising findings, and how to make SUN positive changes where positive change is needed. SUN SUN Sheila and Bee are joined by Rosie Boycott, who advises the SUN Mayor of London on food and is Chair of the London Food SUN Board, as well as father and son Geoff and Anthony SUN Whitington who star in the just-released film Fixing Dad, SUN which documents Geoff's struggles with type 2 diabetes and SUN his two sons' efforts to help him. SUN SUN Dan Saladino tells the story of Professor Pekka Puska, who SUN as a young public health doctor in the 1970s spearheaded the SUN North Karelia Project in Finland, which in the context of a SUN population with the highest rates of death from heart SUN disease in the world, aimed to improve the way that a whole SUN region ate. SUN SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Bee Wilson SUN Interviewed Guest: Rosie Boycott SUN Interviewed Guest: Pekka Puska SUN Interviewed Guest: Geoff Whitington SUN Interviewed Guest: Anthony Whitington SUN Reporter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0707vbr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0707vbw (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Batman and Ethan b0709v4m (Listen) SUN Ethan was born blind. He's now a 10 year-old boy who SUN collects sounds on his 51 dictaphones, composes music, and SUN performs on stage in concerts. Until now he's been SUN home-schooled, but last year he was offered a place at St SUN Mary's Music School in Scotland - one of the best in the SUN country. The problem is he struggles to get around. SUN SUN This is where Batman comes in. His real name is Daniel Kish SUN and like Ethan he's blind. He's a master of echolocation. He SUN makes clicking noises - like a bat - to build a picture of SUN the world around him. Neuroscientists have done experiments SUN on him and found that he's managed to activate the visual SUN part of his brain. He's taught people all over the world to SUN "see through sound" and he's so good at it that he goes SUN hiking, cycling and rock-climbing. SUN SUN "Batman" (Daniel) comes to Scotland to spend 10 days with SUN Ethan, to teach him echolocation and help him prepare for SUN his new school. The documentary follows Ethan's progress as SUN he learns from Daniel Kish. Listeners are introduced to the SUN principles of echolocation, they follow Ethan practicing at SUN home, on the train and at his new school. They're brought SUN into Ethan's world, through music composed specially by SUN Ethan, and they're with him on his birthday, on long walks SUN in the Scottish hills, right through to his experience at SUN school. SUN SUN We follow Ethan up to his final day of term to find out how SUN he's done, and see how he copes with his biggest challenge SUN yet: playing an accordion solo with the orchestra at the SUN school concert. SUN SUN Produced and presented by Helena Merriman. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06zvbwn (Listen) SUN Seedy Sunday SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Seedy Sunday in Brighton- the UK's biggest and SUN longest-running community seed swap event. SUN SUN James Wong, Bob Flowerdew and Christine Walkden answer SUN questions from the audience on topics such as increasing the SUN snail population, growing show-stopping carrots, and 'to SUN shred, or not to shred'. They also discuss their favourite SUN seeds. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – I am keen on wildlife in my garden – including snails, SUN which get bad press from many gardeners. There are 118 SUN species of snail in the British fauna, how can I encourage SUN my snail population please? SUN SUN Bob – It’s slugs that do the damage, compared to snails. SUN SUN Christine – Organic matter, growing and partly decaying, SUN will encourage more snails. SUN SUN SUN Q – I am going to Borneo – can the panel recommend any seeds SUN I might bring back that would do well in my allotment? SUN SUN James – Really nothing is going to grow here unless you go SUN to a really high altitude. SUN SUN Christine – Lack of humidity and legislation might also hold SUN you back. SUN SUN Bob – There’s a whole range of bananas that you wouldn’t SUN come across here. Pineapples too. You’re in the middle of SUN the Durian season – a big tropical fruit – so you could try SUN those. But you should try there and then find a supplier SUN back here as transporting edibles is forbidden. SUN SUN SUN Q – Please can you convince my partner that we need a SUN shredder to speed up our compost and get rid of the green SUN bin? SUN SUN James – I’ve never needed one – I just chop things roughly. SUN SUN Christine – I use a shredder quite often. The other way to SUN do it is get one for the local community and share it. SUN SUN Bob – I use an old rotary mower and then mow over the SUN materials. SUN SUN SUN Q – I would like to plant a medium size apple tree. Do you SUN have any suggestions? I am close to the sea so have to cope SUN with wind and salt from that. SUN SUN Bob – If you could shelter it that would help. Put your SUN apples in an old fridge – it keeps the mice away and the SUN temperature constant. ‘Winston’ is a good variety, SUN ‘Wagner’, ‘Granny Smith’, ‘Golden Delicious’ is good when SUN grown at home compared to the supermarket. SUN SUN Christine – I like ‘James Grieves’. SUN SUN SUN Q – I started some Hollyhocks from seed last summer and they SUN developed Hollyhock rust. I’ve cut them back and they look SUN ok but if it comes back will I have to throw them out and SUN start again? SUN SUN Christine – The rust is quite common. It’s suggested to SUN remove the old leaves as they are more susceptible. Also SUN feed with potash from March ‘til July to harden the foliage. SUN Never wet the foliage. Fungicides, in my opinion, don’t SUN work. SUN SUN SUN Q – My carrots are rubbish and come to very little. We have SUN heavy London clay soil but I have been improving it. What SUN can I do to grow some show-stopping carrots? SUN SUN Christine – Add organic matter to the soil. Maybe try SUN growing in toilet rolls first to start them off and then SUN plant them out from there. If you can get 5-8 decent young SUN leaves before planting them out that might do the trick. SUN SUN Bob – For big carrots go for a variety such as Autumn King SUN or a derivation of it. Take a crowbar and make a hole in SUN the ground, 1.5ft (0.5m) deep, conical shaped, and then fill SUN with sowing compost. Don’t use anything rich. Also, grow SUN varieties such as ‘Nantes’ or ‘Amsterdam Forcing ‘and grow SUN them in tubs – it’s much more convenient to do multiple SUN sowing. Feed with water and liquid feed when they’re SUN growing. SUN SUN James – You can use previously used compost – from things SUN such as bedding plants – so it’s nutrient poor which is good SUN for carrots. SUN SUN SUN Q – What suggestions do you have for people who live in SUN rented and temporary shared accommodation – to be motivated SUN to garden and for quick-growing flowers/vegetables that you SUN could plant now to be ready for the summer? SUN SUN Christine – Plant in containers so you can take your garden SUN with you when you go. Hardy annuals would be good at this SUN time of year. For vegetables go for radishes and carrots. SUN SUN James – Go for houseplants. I grow Kaffir Limes, curry SUN leaves, lemongrass, Yuzu (a Japanese citrus). SUN SUN Bob – Also, you could think about dwarf stock fruits – they SUN don’t grow too big and you can dig them up and move them. SUN SUN SUN Q – Every year my sweet corn grows beautifully but just as SUN it’s ready for picking the local badgers beat me to them! SUN How can I deter them? SUN SUN Bob – By law you cannot interfere with Badgers. You could SUN try taking a sock, dipping it in soapy powder and then SUN putting it over the cobs so it tastes soapy to the badger. SUN If it stays dry your crop will be fine. SUN SUN James – ‘Blue Jade’ is a tiny variety that grows earlier and SUN is not as popular with badgers so you could try growing that SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b0709v4p (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between women in Derry, SUN Barry and Grantham about community action, public office and SUN life skills in the Omnibus of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Saturday Drama b04d0l1g (Listen) SUN Victory SUN SUN Victory by Gwyneth Hughes. SUN SUN Admiral Lord Nelson , Sir William and Emma, Lady Hamilton SUN have been living together in Italy. But when they return SUN home to England their triangular relationship comes under SUN public scrutiny, ending only with Nelson's death at the SUN battle of Trafalgar in 1805. SUN SUN Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. SUN SUN Credits SUN Emma: Imogen Stubbs SUN Nelson: Ronan Vibert SUN Hamilton: Stuart Richman SUN Fanny: Fiona Clarke SUN Mrs Cadogan: Fiona Clarke SUN Kitty: Verity-May Henry SUN Little Emma: Verity-May Henry SUN Rev Edmund Nelson: Seamus O'Neill SUN King George: Seamus O'Neill SUN Beatty: Seamus O'Neill SUN Greville: Andonis James Anthony SUN Prince of Wales: Andonis James Anthony SUN Hardy: Andonis James Anthony SUN Beckford: Jonathan Keeble SUN Lord St Vincent: Jonathan Keeble SUN Pitt: Jonathan Keeble SUN Horatia: Sophie Downham SUN Writer: Gwyneth Hughes SUN Producer: Susan Roberts SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b070cgkh (Listen) SUN Elizabeth Strout - My Name Is Lucy Barton SUN SUN Elizabeth Strout's new novel My Name is Lucy Barton is a SUN moving meditation on motherhood, memory and overcoming a SUN difficult past. The writer talks to Mariella Frostrup about SUN her inspiration for the book, and her brief career as a SUN stand-up comic. SUN SUN Kevin Jackson joins Mariella to review a new graphic novel SUN version of Proust's In Search of Lost Time and the new SUN director of the Cheltenham Literature Festival talks about SUN her ambitions for the event. SUN SUN Read the opening chapter from My Name Is Lucy Barton by SUN Elizabeth Strout SUN My Name Is Lucy Barton: Chapter 1 SUN by Elizabeth Strout SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Elizabeth Strout SUN Interviewed Guest: Kevin Jackson SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b070cgkk (Listen) SUN Love and the Rest SUN SUN Roger McGough with poetry of love, hate and everything in SUN between on this Valentine's edition of Poetry Please. SUN Featured poets include Harold Pinter, Carol Ann Duffy and WB SUN Yeats, and there are readings from Fiona Shaw, Alice Arnold, SUN Paul Mundell and Burt Caesar. Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN SUN Love and Hate SUN SUN by Elizabeth Siddal SUN SUN From SUN http://allpoetry.com/poem/8517301-Love-and-Hate-by-Elizabeth SUN Eleanor-Siddal SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Modern Love SUN SUN by George Meredith SUN SUN From: SUN http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173969 SUN SUN SUN SUN The Confirmation SUN SUN By Edwin Muir SUN SUN From: Edwin Muir Collected Poems SUN SUN Pub: Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN After the Rain SUN SUN by Alfred Williams SUN SUN From: alfredwilliams.org.uk SUN SUN (official website of the Alfred Williams heritage SUN society) SUN SUN SUN SUN Ghetto SUN SUN By Michael Longley SUN SUN From: Gorse Fires SUN SUN Pub: Secker & Warburg SUN SUN SUN SUN Who are my People? SUN SUN by Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni SUN SUN From: The Best Loved Poems of the American People SUN SUN Pub: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group SUN SUN SUN SUN The Laboratory SUN SUN by Robert Browning SUN SUN From: Browning: Poems selected by W E Williams SUN SUN Pub: Penguin Books SUN SUN SUN SUN In the Isle of Dogs SUN SUN by John Davidson SUN SUN From: John Davidson A Selection of his Poems SUN SUN Pub: Hutchinson SUN SUN SUN SUN It is Here SUN SUN By Harold Pinter SUN SUN From: Harold Pinter Collected Poems and Prose SUN SUN Pub: Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Glove SUN SUN by Angela Topping SUN SUN From: angelatopping.wordpress.com SUN SUN SUN SUN Valentine SUN SUN by Carol Ann Duffy SUN SUN From: Selected Poems SUN SUN Pub: Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN The Stolen Child SUN SUN By W B Yeats SUN SUN From: The Day Before The Meteor Came – Poems Along the Angel SUN Highway SUN SUN Pub: New Hope International SUN SUN SUN SUN Batter My Heart SUN SUN by John Donne SUN SUN From: Donne SUN SUN Pub: Everyman SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Fiona Shaw SUN Reader: Alice Arnold SUN Reader: Paul Mundell SUN Reader: Burt Caesar SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b06zs22v (Listen) SUN After the Floods - A Tale of Two Cities SUN SUN The Dutch city of Nijmegen has much in common with the SUN English city of York. Similar in size, both are much visited SUN by tourists because of their histories and architecture. But SUN both also have rivers running through them and are SUN susceptible to flooding. So how do their defences compare? SUN And, as York and other communities continue to mop up the SUN damage caused by the latest catastrophic flooding, did basic SUN mistakes and a failure of planning make a bad situation very SUN much worse? SUN Reporter: Allan Urry Producer: Rob Cave. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b0707r9v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0707vcl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0707vcs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0707vcz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b070cgkm (Listen) SUN John Waite SUN SUN Love is in the air this Valentine's day edition when John SUN Waite will make his selection of the best bits of BBC Radio SUN this week. So we'll hear from the poetic trainspotters who SUN just love old steam engines; the woman who fell in love with SUN the man who saved her father's life - and why Chinese SUN workers in Mao Tse Tung's cultural revolution fifty years SUN ago - adored mangoes. SUN SUN Production team Kevin Mousley, Kay Bishton and Elodie SUN Chatelain. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b070cgkp (Listen) SUN Will Pip be a happy valentine? Jolene has got her man (and SUN then some). SUN SUN 19:15 So Wrong It's Right b01jxrtw (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 6 SUN SUN Presented by Charlie Brooker, So Wrong It's Right is a SUN competitive game of wrongness where coming up with terrible SUN ideas is the right thing to do. SUN SUN Over a series of rounds, Charlie asks his guests to trawl SUN through their lives for comic calmites and to pitch SUN inappropriate ideas. SUN SUN In this episode - the last in the current series - the SUN guests joining him to try and out-wrong each other are SUN comedians Susan Calman and Rob Beckett and Pointless star SUN Richard Osman. SUN SUN The panel's worst experience as a teenager is just one of SUN the challenges in this edition. Will anyone better Richard SUN Osman's confession that he performed a rap version of the SUN Easter story in front his entire school? SUN SUN The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also SUN presents BBC2's How TV Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's You SUN Have Been Watching and 10 O'Clock Live, and writes for The SUN Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British SUN Press Awards and Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards SUN 2009. SUN SUN Produced by Aled Evans SUN A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Shorts b070cgkr (Listen) SUN Scottish Shorts, Still Life SUN SUN By Margaret Morton Kirk SUN Artist Jack lives quietly on a remote Scottish island until SUN a chance meeting with a tourist changes everything. SUN Read by Melody Grove SUN Producer Eilidh McCreadie SUN SUN Margaret Morton Kirk is a writer from Inverness. Her short SUN stories have achieved success in a number of competitions SUN and she is currently working on a crime novel set in her SUN home town. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Margaret Morton Kirk SUN Reader: Melody Grove SUN Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b06zvbwz (Listen) SUN Selfies, Sugar Daddies and Dodgy Surveys SUN SUN Advertising dressed up as research has inspired us this SUN week. Firstly recent reports that said that young women aged SUN between 16 and 25 spend five and a half hours taking selfies SUN on average. It doesn't take much thinking to realise that SUN there something really wrong with this number. We pick apart SUN the survey that suggested women are spending all that time SUN taking pictures of themselves. SUN SUN The second piece of questionable research comes from reports SUN that a quarter of a million UK students are getting money SUN from 'sugar daddies' they met online. The story came from a SUN sugar daddy website. They claim around 225,000 students have SUN registered with them and have met (mostly) men for what they SUN call "mutually beneficial arrangements". We explain our SUN doubts over the figures. SUN SUN There were reports recently that there will more plastic in SUN the ocean than fish by 2050. The report comes from The Ellen SUN MacArthur Foundation. But, as we discover, there's something SUN fishy about these figures. SUN SUN Away from advertising, studies have shown that children born SUN in the summer do not perform as well as children born SUN earlier in the academic year. For this reason schools are SUN being encouraged to be sympathetic to parents that want SUN their summer-born children to start a year later. But what SUN should parents do? Is this a good option? We speak to Claire SUN Crawford, Assistant Professor of Economics at the SUN University. SUN SUN Gemma Tetlow from the Institute for Fiscal Studies explains SUN how some areas of public spending having fallen to similar SUN levels seen in 1948. She explains how spending has changed SUN over time, and what might happen in the future. SUN SUN And friend of the programme, Kevin McConway, explains some SUN of the statistical words that non-statisticians do not SUN understand. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06zvbwv (Listen) SUN Marvin Minsky, Margaret Forster, Peter Powell, Sir Brian SUN Tovey, Joe Alaskey SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Professor Marvin Minsky - the computer scientist who carried SUN out pioneering work on artificial intelligence. SUN SUN Margaret Forster who wrote novels like Georgy Girl and SUN acclaimed biographies including a life of Daphne Du Maurier. SUN SUN Peter Powell who invented the stunt kite and turned it into SUN a global business, before it all came crashing down. SUN SUN Sir Brian Tovey who was director of the Government SUN Communications Head Quarters - GCHQ - when the government SUN tried to introduce a ban on trade union membership. SUN SUN And Joe Alaskey, the voice artist behind Daffy Duck and Bugs SUN Bunny. SUN SUN Marvin Minsky (Pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Professor of Artificial Intelligence and SUN Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of SUN Technology; Patrick Winston. SUN SUN Born 9 August 1927; died 24 January 2016 aged 88 SUN SUN Margaret Forster SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her daughter; Caitlin Davies and SUN authors; Claire Tomalin and Elizabeth Day. SUN SUN Born 25 May 1938; died 8 February 2016 aged 77 SUN SUN Peter Powell SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his son; Mark Powell. SUN SUN Born 29 June 1932; died 3 January 2016 aged 83 SUN SUN Sir Brian Tovey SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his daughter; Helen Fulton and Professor of SUN International Security at the University of Warwick; Prof SUN Richard Aldrich. SUN SUN Born 15 April 1926; died 23 December 2015 aged 89 SUN SUN Joe Alaskey SUN SUN Born 17 April 1952; died 3 February 2016 aged 63 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b070601v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0709v36 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b06zqq9l (Listen) SUN Brexit: The Irish Question SUN SUN If the UK leaves the EU, what happens on the island of SUN Ireland? Its people would be living on either side of an EU SUN border. In this edition of Analysis, Edward Stourton SUN explores an aspect of the Brexit debate that few elsewhere SUN in the UK may have thought about, but which raises urgent SUN questions. Would there be a new opportunities, with a new SUN version of the old Anglo-Irish special relationship? Or SUN could a divisive border and economic harm revive dangerous SUN tensions? SUN SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby SUN Editor: Hugh Levinson. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0707vdt (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b070cgkw (Listen) SUN Sam Coates of The Times looks at how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06zv3x1 (Listen) SUN Suffragette SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Film-maker Sarah Gavron talks about Suffragette and the SUN marked reactions to the film since it was released in SUN cinemas. SUN SUN Director Mark Jenkin shows Francine how to develop film in SUN instant coffee. SUN SUN Debut director Stephen Fingleton discusses the unexpected SUN challenges of making his low budget feature, The SUN Survivalist, a post-apocalyptic drama set almost entirely in SUN a small hut. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0707y3n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0707vg3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06zttbs (Listen) MON Weather forecasting, Young people and politics MON MON Weather forecasting: Laurie Taylor explores a scientific art MON form rooted in unpredictability. He talks to Phaedra Daipha, MON Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, who MON spent years immersing herself in a regional office of the MON National Weather Service in America. How do forecasters MON decide if a storm is to be described as severe or hazardous; MON or a day is breezy or brisk? Do they master uncertainty any MON better than other expert decision makers such as MON stockbrokers and poker players? Charged with the onerous MON responsibility of protecting the life and property of US MON citizens, how do they navigate the uncertain and chaotic MON nature of the atmosphere? MON MON Also, young people, populism and politics. How do young MON Europeans regard the political process and are they more MON attracted to populist ideologies than their older MON counterparts? Gary Pollock, Professor of Politics at MON Manchester Metropolitan University, has used survey evidence MON from 14 European countries, to explore the mixture of MON political positions held by young people, finding they don't MON map easily on to the typical 'left-right' spectrum. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Phaedra Daipha at Rutgers, School of Arts and Sciences MON Gary Pollock at Manchester Metropolitan University MON MON MON MON Phaedra Daipha, *Masters of Uncertainty: Weather Forecasters MON and the Quest for Ground Truth *(2015, University of Chicago MON Press) MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0707y3l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0707vg5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0707vg7 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0707vg9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0707vgc (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b070v86y (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison MON Murdoch: Tibetan Buddhist, writer, & editor. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b070cjsn (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Vernon Harwood. MON MON 05:56 Weather b0707vgf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mhyzf (Listen) MON Raven MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON David Attenborough presents the story of the raven. Ravens MON are one of the most widely distributed birds in the world MON and can survive Arctic winters and scorching deserts. In the MON UK, Ravens were once widespread, even in cities but MON persecution drove them back into the wilder parts of our MON islands. Now they're re-colonising the lowlands and are even MON turning up on the outskirts of London where, since Victorian MON times, the only ravens were the ones kept at the Tower. MON MON Raven (Corvus corax) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b070cnxs (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b070cnxv (Listen) MON Who Owns Culture? MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe discusses who owns culture. MON The writer Tiffany Jenkins tells the story of how western MON museums have come to acquire treasures from around the MON world, but dismisses the idea of righting the wrongs of the MON past by returning artefacts. The Zimbabwean writer Tendai MON Huchu believes the west shouldn't underestimate the impact MON of colonisation on cultural identity. Ellen McAdam, Director MON of Birmingham Museums Trust, discusses the pressures MON regional museums are under. While the art critic Waldemar MON Januszczak eschews traditional views of Renaissance art, MON arguing that far from a classical Italian form, its roots MON are in the 'barbarian' lands of Flanders and Germany. MON Producer: Hannah Robins. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Tiffany Jenkins MON Interviewed Guest: Tendai Huchu MON Interviewed Guest: Ellen McAdam MON Interviewed Guest: Waldemar Januszczak MON Producer: Hannah Robins MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b070cnxx (Listen) MON Benjamin Franklin in London, Episode 1 MON MON In the middle of the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin spent MON almost two decades in London - at exactly the same time as MON Mozart, Casanova and Handel. This is an enthralling MON biography - not only of the man, but of the city when it was MON a hub of Enlightenment activity. MON MON For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin MON was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his MON fortune in Philadelphia and established his fame as a MON renowned experimental scientist, he crossed the Atlantic to MON live as a gentleman in the heaving metropolis of London. MON MON From his house in Craven Street, he mixed with both the MON brilliant and the powerful - in London coffee house clubs, MON at the Royal Society, and on his summer travels around the MON British Isles and continental Europe. He counted David Hume, MON Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, Edmund Burke and Erasmus MON Darwin among his friends - and, as an American colonial MON representative, he had access to successive Prime Ministers MON and even the King. MON MON The early 1760s saw Britain's elevation to global superpower MON status with victory in the Seven Years War and the MON succession of the young, active George III. This brought a MON sharp new edge to political competition in London and MON redefined the relationship between Britain and its colonies. MON They would profoundly affect Franklin himself, eventually MON placing him in opposition with his ambitious son William. MON MON Though Franklin sought to prevent the America's break with MON Great Britain, his own actions would finally help cause that MON very event. MON MON Episode 1: MON In November 1724, aged 18, Franklin is sent to London for MON the first time to buy printing equipment for a Philadelphia MON newspaper. MON MON Written by George Goodwin MON Abridged by Barry Johnston MON Read by Nickolas Grace MON MON Produced by David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Nickolas Grace MON Author: George Goodwin MON Abridger: Barry Johnston MON Producer: David Roper MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b070cnxz (Listen) MON Julianne Moore MON MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b070crdl (Listen) MON Halfway Here, Episode 6 MON MON by Lucy Catherine. MON MON 15 year old Nettie is still being kept alive artificially MON after her accident. Her mum is trying to find out what she MON was up to by looking at her laptop. MON MON Director ..... Mary Peate. 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 Doctor: Susan Jameson MON Michael: Ewan Bailey MON Nurse: Evie Killip MON Herbie: Richard Pepple MON Director: Mary Peate MON Writer: Lucy Catherine MON MON 11:00 The Untold b06yr6px (Listen) MON Being Bowie MON MON Laurence Bolwell has been dressing as David Bowie and MON singing his songs on stage for 18 years. One Monday morning, MON early in January, he hears the news that his idol has died. MON That Friday night, he is due on stage with his act in a MON theatre in Carmarthen. Grace Dent tells the story of MON Laurence's week, and finds out what it's like to be a MON tribute artist the day your hero dies. MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 11:30 Linda Smith: A Modern Radio Star b070vbzw (Listen) MON Andy Hamilton presents a tribute to his friend, the comedian MON and Radio 4 favourite Linda Smith who died ten years ago, at MON the age of 48. MON MON Originally recorded a few months after Linda's death, Andy MON Hamilton speaks to her friends and colleagues including MON Jeremy Hardy, Mark Steele, Hattie Hayridge, Sandy Toksvig, MON Nicholas Parsons, Chris Neill, Simon Hoggart, Barry Cryer MON and her partner Warren Lakin. MON MON He also treats us to some of her best radio bits including MON her own sit com Linda Smith's Brief History of Timewasting; MON as a panellist on The News Quiz, Just a Minute and I'm Sorry MON I Haven't a Clue, plus her musings on Radio 4's Devout MON Sceptics which led to her being asked to be President of the MON Humanist Society. MON MON Written and presented by Andy Hamilton MON Researched and compiled by Michael Pointon MON Produced by Claire Jones. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b0707vgm (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry b070cxxy (Listen) MON The Scarlet Mark MON MON Drs Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry are on hand to solve MON everyday mysteries sent in by listeners. For the last few MON weeks they've been collecting cases to investigate using the MON power of science - from why people shout on their mobile MON phones to what causes traffic jams. MON MON In the first episode, called 'The Scarlet Mark', they get to MON the root of the following conundrum, posed by Sheena MON Cruickshank in Manchester: MON MON 'My eldest son is ginger but I am blonde and my husband MON brunette so we are constantly asked where the red came from. MON Further, people do say the "ginger gene" is dying out, but MON how good is that maths or is it just anecdotal?' MON MON Our science sleuths set out to discover what makes gingers MON ginger with a tale of fancy mice, Tudor queens and ginger MON beards. MON MON Featuring historian and author Kate Williams and Jonathan MON Rees from the University of Edinburgh, one of the team who MON discovered the ginger gene. MON MON If you have any scientific cases for the team to investigate MON please email: curiouscases@bbc.co.uk MON MON Presenters: Hannah Fry & Adam Rutherford MON Producer: Michelle Martin. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b070cxy0 (Listen) MON Student accommodation, Mobile phone contracts, Cheap flights MON MON Mobile phone companies need to take more responsibility for MON mistakes they make when people are ending contracts - that's MON according to Citizens Advice. We talk to a listener who MON cancelled her contract only to find the company were taking MON money from her account years later. MON MON With numbers of students set to rise from already record MON rates, decent student accommodation has never been more MON difficult to find. Big developers are investing billions in MON the sector, building high end blocks with perks like gyms, MON wifi, security and in house cinema. These might be nice to MON live in, but are they affordable and how do they sit within MON communities? You and Yours investigates. MON MON And we take a look at regional airports. Is it right to MON subsidise them when the aim is to improve cohesion and MON create jobs? It's a widespread practice across Europe, and MON makes for cheaper tickets from some airports. But with a new MON set of subsidised routes about to come on the market we ask MON how much benefit they are to the consumer - and the MON taxpayer. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0707vgw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b070cxy2 (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 In Therapy b070v9y4 (Listen) MON Louise and Richard MON MON Psychotherapist Susie Orbach explores the private MON relationship between therapist and patient. We join Susie in MON her consulting room, where she meets a different client each MON day. MON MON All of the clients are played by actors, but these are not MON scripted scenes. Each client profile has been carefully MON constructed by therapist Susie, director Ian Rickson (former MON artistic director at the Royal Court, and director of the MON highly acclaimed 'Jerusalem') and radio producer Kevin MON Dawson. The client profiles have been given to the actors MON who have learnt about their characters lives, backgrounds, MON and individual reason for seeking therapy. The scenes have MON then been improvised and recorded on hidden microphones at MON Susie's surgery. MON MON Today, Susie meets Louise and Richard who are expecting MON their first child in a few days. MON MON Elsewhere in the series, we meet Helen, a high achieving MON corporate lawyer who is struggling to identify what is wrong MON - but knows that something is. Then there's Harriet, who is MON in her 40s. Since failed IVF, she has separated from her MON partner and is working in the office at a junior school. MON John is older - in his 60s and a retired railway trade MON unionist. His wife and children are gone, but his therapy is MON helping him to turn his life around. We also hear Susie's MON first meeting with Jo - a new patient and an out of work MON actress. MON MON We hear the therapist at work, eavesdropping on the most MON intimate of exchanges. To help us with our understanding of MON the process, Susie Orbach commentates on what is happening MON in the room, shining a light on the journey both she and her MON patient have embarked upon. MON MON Presenter: Susie Orbach MON Producer: Kevin Dawson MON Director: Ian Rickson MON MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b070cgkp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b070cxy6 (Listen) MON In Pieces to Camera MON MON Stephen Ridges is stuck in a cheap hotel trying to save his MON career. He's a writer on a TV show and he's about to be MON fired. And his wife has just phoned to tell him not to MON bother coming home unless he can turn it all around. He has MON 12 hours. MON MON He's working on Jelly House (a scripted reality programme MON involving kids parties) and he hates it. But he needs the MON money. As he writes for his life he struggles to come to MON terms with exploiting real people's lives for entertainment. MON We listen in on meetings where talk of 'spiking' the jelly MON and planting unseen fathers are excitedly agreed in a world MON where crazed media people will do anything in an attempt to MON entertain. MON MON Script Editor - Abigail Youngman MON Writer - Sean Grundy MON Producer - Alison Crawford. MON MON Credits MON Stephen Ridges: Richard Lumsden MON Karen Qills: Michelle Holmes MON Derren Badcock: Tim Downie MON Bess Harley: Katy Carmichael MON St John Montgomery: David Reed MON Jason Custer: David Reed MON Lucy Steptoe-Spencer: Alex Tregear MON Harry Fford: Thom Tuck MON Drunk 1: Thom Tuck MON Rupie Schulz: Kenneth Collard MON Drunk 2: Kenneth Collard MON Writer: Sean Grundy MON Producer: Alison Crawford MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b070cxy8 (Listen) MON Heat 6, 2016 MON MON (6/17) MON The sixth heat in the current season of the general MON knowledge quiz comes from Salford, with competitors from MON Shropshire, Merseyside and Lincolnshire making their bid for MON the title of Brain of Britain 2016. MON MON Russell Davies asks the programme's traditionally testing MON questions. Could you remember who narrated the original MON series of The Clangers; who was runner-up in the Sports MON Personality of the Year award for 2015; or say what the time MON difference is between Perth and Sydney? MON MON Today's winner will go through to the 2016 semi-finals later MON in the spring. For a bit of light relief the contestants MON will have to combine their knowledge to answer questions MON devised by a Brain of Britain listener, who'll win a prize MON if they can't do so successfully. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b0709v4f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Gospel Truth b06ycmd8 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Gospel's uplifting and rejoicing sound is world famous, a MON multi million-dollar music genre that in many ways has ended MON up the beating heart of American popular music. But can MON gospel be gospel if it entertains and makes money as well as MON praises the Lord? Financial educator Alvin Hall explores how MON this American religious music genre has been affected by MON commercialisation. MON MON In this first episode Alvin examines gospel's journey from MON the church to the charts through the music of Thomas Dorsey, MON Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke. Now MON considered some of gospel's greatest artists, these early MON singers all met with strong criticism from the church as MON they took their songs from the sacred world into the MON secular. Alvin also reveals how other gospel performers in MON the first half of the 20th century struggled fulfilling MON their religious obligations whilst battling with the MON temptations of life on the road. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b070cxyb (Listen) MON Series 13, Maths of Love and Sex MON MON Robin Ince and Brian Cox get romantic (although MON unfortunately not with each other) as they discuss the MON mathematics of love and the statistics of sex. They are MON joined on stage by comedian and former maths student Paul MON Foot, mathematician Hannah Fry and statistician Professor MON Sir David Speigelhalter, as they discover whether a MON knowledge of numbers can help you in the affairs of the MON heart? Can a maths algorithm help you find your perfect mate MON at a party and what do the statistics tell us about what MON happens after the party, if you do! They find out whether MON mathematicians are more successful at dating than comedians, MON and whether a rational, scientific approach to love and life MON long happiness is really the answer. MON MON 17:00 PM b070cz5w (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0707vh4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b06zqq9d (Listen) MON Series 8, Calman, Cooke, Lowe MON MON This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his MON curator Sarah Millican welcome the comedian, Fearer of MON Raisins and Collector of Thimbles, Susan Calman; an artist MON who has made an art out of copying art and claims that he MON has actually slept with the Mona Lisa, Adam Lowe; and a TV MON naturalist who admits that when she talks to animals, all MON they want to talk about is food, fighting and, well, mating, MON Lucy Cooke. MON MON This week, the Museum's guests discuss what Fifty Shades of MON Grey has in common with Capt. Kirk and Mr Spock making sweet MON exoplanetary love; how salt could be the building material MON of the future if only it didn't rain; and why living on a MON small island will either turn you into a pygmy or a giant. MON MON The show was researched by Anne Miller and Stevyn Colgan 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: Susan Calman MON Interviewed Guest: Adam Lowe MON Interviewed Guest: Lucy Cooke MON Producer: Richard Turner MON Producer: James Harkin MON MON 19:00 The Archers b070d1p4 (Listen) MON A helping hand for Helen? MON MON 19:15 Front Row b070d28r (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b070crdl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Strangers on My Doorstep b070d28t (Listen) MON Germany: At the Centre MON MON In the European migration crisis, Germany stands at the MON centre. Angela Merkel encouraged hundreds of thousands to MON move there in recent months, calling for a 'welcome culture' MON to show itself among her fellow citizens. It was meant to MON show that the Germans - partly because of their dark MON twentieth century history - were uniquely prepared to MON respond to the refugee's plight. MON MON And Germany's recent history does offer a fascinating lens MON through which to understand the current crisis. Chris Bowlby MON visits the Friedland transit camp, now housing Syrians but MON which has received successive waves of refugees since the MON 1940s, beginning with some of the millions of ethnic Germans MON driven west by the Red Army. We'll hear how Germany absorbed MON these multi millions, and then millions more 'guest workers' MON from Turkey and elsewhere. Has this changed the country, MON redefining what it is to be German? In Cologne, Chris MON explores how these unresolved tensions are resurfacing MON today, as the country debates how far it can continue to MON receive refugees in such numbers, and how they will MON integrate into today's Germany MON MON Producer: Shabnam Grewal. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b070d28w (Listen) MON Inheritance MON MON Why does inheritance arouse such powerful emotions? Family, MON death and money make for gripping stories - just ask MON Tolstoy, Austen or Dickens - but our attitudes also reflect MON the way we feel about society, the state, and even MON ourselves. MON MON Discussions tend to dissolve into rows about levels of tax MON but in this programme Jo Fidgen explores the values and MON intuitions that underpin our strength of feeling. MON MON Producer: Joe Kent. MON MON 21:00 Editing Life b06zr3zj (Listen) MON In the last couple of years, a new genetic technology has MON taken the world of medical and biological research by storm. MON It is known as CRISPR and it allows scientists to change the MON DNA code of any organism precisely, quickly and cheaply. The MON A's, G's, C's and T's of the genetic code have never been so MON easy to edit and rewrite. Professor Matthew Cobb, a MON biologist at the University of Manchester, has witnessed the MON profound impact of CRISPR on his field and for Radio 4, he MON explores the enormous potential and the challenges unleashed MON by this new power over the genetic code. MON MON CRISPR-cas9's came out of apparently arcane science on how MON bacteria defend themselves from viruses . Now there is MON speculation about when the first CRISPR baby will born. This MON will be a child who will have started out as the first human MON embryo to have a genetic fault edited and corrected in such MON a way that its descendents will also never carry that gene MON and suffer the disease it causes. MON MON CRISPR's appearance and rapid adoption by scientists around MON the world has made hitherto impractical genetic MON manipulations doable in any species. The most controversial MON form of genetic engineering - human germline line gene MON therapy (on single celled embryos, egg and sperm) now looks MON feasible because of CRISPR's ease and accuracy. The ethical MON debate about germline gene therapy has a much greater sense MON of urgency for scientists and non-scientists alike. MON MON The applications and concerns about CRISPR's potential uses MON extend way beyond the human germline into the natural world. MON For the first time, the gene editing technology makes MON practical a genetic mechanism called gene drive. Organism MON engineered with gene drives could be used to spread lethal MON genes through wild populations of pest animals and plants - MON such as malaria-carrying mosquitoes, invasive cane toads in MON Australia or weeds. But many question whether this is a use MON of CRISPR we could control once it had been released into MON the environment. MON MON Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker MON Sound engineer: Bob Nettles. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b070cnxv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0707vhj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b070d28y (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b070d5sw (Listen) MON Jonathan Unleashed, Episode 1 MON MON The first adult novel by Meg Rosoff, author of the MON bestselling Young Adult novel "How I Live Now". MON MON Jonathan Trefoil has arrived in New York from college and is MON ready for his life to begin. He's found himself an apartment MON and he's temporarily in charge of his brother's dogs (Dante, MON a Border Collie, and Sissy, a Spaniel) while his brother is MON working in Dubai. His best friend Max gets him a job at MON Comrade, a marketing company run by one of their school MON friends. He has a smart girlfriend, Julie, who will join him MON once she's found work. Life seems good. MON MON But it isn't really, he's lost; a dreamer floundering. His MON creativity is stifled by the mind-numbing work at Comrade: MON thinking up pithy ways to sell a budget office supplies MON company's wares, which they always reject in favour of tried MON and tested slogans "Pens: 3 for 2". He holds onto his sanity MON by writing a graphic novel "The New York Inferno" in which a MON Border Collie spirit guide accompanies a young poet through MON the nine circles of the New York underworld. MON MON Things gradually come to a head when Julie secures a job in MON her company's New York office and the different, unhappy MON strands of Jonathan's life begin to slowly unravel. MON MON Read by Rhashan Stone. MON MON Written by Meg Rosoff. MON MON Abridged by David Jackson Young. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Rhashan Stone MON Author: Meg Rosoff MON Abridger: David Jackson Young MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b06zryhp (Listen) MON Taking Turns in Conversation MON MON Michael Rosen and linguist Dr Laura Wright discuss how well MON we judge taking it in turns when we're in conversation. MON Professor Stephen Levinson has new research on the science MON behind this, and joins them in the studio for a MON carefully-calibrated discussion.. He believes that the MON back-and-forth pattern we instinctively fall into may have MON evolved before language itself. Levinson's research has MON found that it takes about 200 milliseconds for us to reply MON to each other, but it takes about 600 milliseconds to MON prepare what we're going to say - so we're preparing as we MON listen. Levinson notes that this is a pattern found across MON all human languages, and some animal species, and that MON infants begin taking turns in interactions at about six MON months of age, before they can even speak. But what's going MON on when someone seems to get it wrong, to interrupt or talk MON over the other person? MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 America in Black and White b070d5sy (Listen) MON Criminal Justice MON MON Protests against shootings of young black men by the police MON have pushed the issue of race to the top of the public MON agenda in the United States. Now BBC Washington MON correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan, who has covered many of MON the recent protests, sets out to examine some of the deep, MON underlying structural issues which America still has with MON race. MON MON In this first episode, Rajini investigates the criminal MON justice system. She examines the statistics and hears MON stories of those involved in the system. She speaks to MON liberal activists opposed to what they call the system of MON 'mass incarceration', and in Nebraska visits the MON conservative politician promoting laws to reduce the number MON of people behind bars. "Will that help black Americans?" she MON asks him. His reply? "I hope so." MON MON Elsewhere she hears from protesters arguing that the system MON can never be reformed, and that the police need to be MON disarmed. She visits the retired police chief advising MON President Obama on the way forward, who acknowledges the MON problem but argues that "all black lives matter", including MON those killed by criminals, and that protesters must accept MON that the police are part of the solution. He has now been MON hired to help Chicago's troubled force improve its record. MON MON Rajini also spends time with the police force teaching all MON its officers how to be 'ethical protectors'. MON MON Producer: Giles Edwards. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0707vm4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b070cnxx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0707vm6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0707vm8 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0707vmb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0707vmd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b070vbg0 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison TUE Murdoch: Tibetan Buddhist, writer, & editor. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b070dks1 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk3x (Listen) TUE Mistle Thrush: Part One TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Brett Westwood presents the Mistle Thrush. Loud rattling TUE calls, like someone scraping a comb across wood, tell you TUE that Mistle Thrushes are about. From midsummer to early TUE autumn, bands of Mistle Thrushes roam the countryside, where TUE they feed on open pastures, among stubble or on moorland. TUE These birds are very fond of the white sticky berries of TUE mistletoe and spread the seeds into cracks of tree bark when TUE they wipe their bills or defecate. TUE TUE Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) TUE Image courtesy of Jenny Hibbert (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b070dks3 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b070dks6 (Listen) TUE Naomi Climer TUE TUE Naomi Climer is one of the most senior British women TUE engineers working in the communications industry, and after TUE decades working on major projects she's left the world of TUE business to become the first female president of Institution TUE of Engineering and Technology (the IET). As part of her TUE presidency, Naomi has launched a campaign called - Engineer TUE a better World - to make us realise that engineering is an TUE exciting and creative activity.. and, in particular, to TUE attract and retain more women in the profession. TUE TUE Naomi Climer's most recent role was running Sony's Media TUE Cloud Services. She was based in California where, she says, TUE engineers are treated like rock stars. She talks to Jim TUE al-Khalili about how British engineers can gain higher TUE status than they do today. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b070dksc (Listen) TUE Jan Ravens talks to Lyse Doucet TUE TUE Actress and impressionist, Jan Ravens talks to one of her TUE favourite subjects, the BBC's Chief International TUE Correspondent, Lyse Doucet. They discuss how much her public TUE image reflects her private self and how much consideration TUE she gives to clothes and jewellery when appearing on TUE television . TUE Producer Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b070dksg (Listen) TUE Benjamin Franklin in London, Episode 2 TUE TUE In the middle of the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin spent TUE almost two decades in London - at exactly the same time as TUE Mozart, Casanova and Handel. This is an enthralling TUE biography - not only of the man, but of the city when it was TUE a hub of Enlightenment activity. TUE TUE For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin TUE was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his TUE fortune in Philadelphia and established his fame as a TUE renowned experimental scientist, he crossed the Atlantic to TUE live as a gentleman in the heaving metropolis of London. TUE TUE From his house in Craven Street, he mixed with both the TUE brilliant and the powerful - in London coffee house clubs, TUE at the Royal Society, and on his summer travels around the TUE British Isles and continental Europe. He counted David Hume, TUE Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, Edmund Burke and Erasmus TUE Darwin among his friends - and, as an American colonial TUE representative, he had access to successive Prime Ministers TUE and even the King. TUE TUE The early 1760s saw Britain's elevation to global superpower TUE status with victory in the Seven Years War and the TUE succession of the young, active George III. This brought a TUE sharp new edge to political competition in London and TUE redefined the relationship between Britain and its colonies. TUE They would profoundly affect Franklin himself, eventually TUE placing him in opposition with his ambitious son William. TUE TUE Though Franklin sought to prevent the America's break with TUE Great Britain, his own actions would finally help cause that TUE very event. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE After spending over 30 years in America, Franklin returns to TUE London - not as a humble printer, but as a leading TUE politician. TUE TUE Written by George Goodwin TUE Abridged by Barry Johnston TUE Read by Nickolas Grace TUE TUE Produced by David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Nickolas Grace TUE Author: George Goodwin TUE Abridger: Barry Johnston TUE Producer: David Roper TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b070dksj (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b070dksm (Listen) TUE Halfway Here, Episode 7 TUE TUE by Lucy Catherine. TUE TUE Luke is still keeping watch by his sister's hospital TUE bedside. 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 Rachel: Jane Slavin TUE Pat: Gerard McDermott TUE Orla: Rebecca Hamilton TUE Richard: George Watkins TUE Woman: Debra Baker TUE Director: Mary Peate TUE Writer: Lucy Catherine TUE TUE 11:00 Unhappy Child, Unhealthy Adult b070dksr (Listen) TUE We already know that unhappy experiences in childhood are TUE more likely to lead to mental health issues in later life. TUE TUE What's becoming clear, however, is that chronic stress and TUE anxiety during this time can trigger dramatic changes in the TUE body which contribute to our risk of developing diseases TUE like diabetes, heart disease, cancer and stroke. Chronic TUE stress in childhood is also associated with a shortened life TUE span. TUE TUE Health-harming behaviours which contribute to disease risk, TUE like smoking, drinking alcohol and drug use, are more common TUE among those who have endured traumatic experiences in TUE childhood. TUE TUE But scientists are now revealing that these stressful TUE childhood experiences have a direct impact on our physical TUE health, through their impact on the developing brain and the TUE immune system. TUE TUE The question now is how to use this knowledge to improve the TUE nation's health. Should health professionals routinely ask TUE patients about traumatic events in their childhoods? And if TUE so, who should broach the subject, where and when? TUE TUE Geoff Watts visits a GP practice which is about to trial TUE this novel idea, and looks at the growing body of evidence TUE revealing how adverse childhood experiences contribute to TUE poor health and shorter lives. TUE TUE Producer: Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE 11:30 The Beat Women b06084ks (Listen) TUE The forgotten women of the Beat Generation supported, loved, TUE endured, and were creatively overshadowed by their famous TUE male counterparts. More than just muses, they were often TUE authors in their own right. Laura Barton travels to New York TUE to meet some of these women, writers such as Joyce Johnson, TUE who already had a book deal when she met Jack Kerouac as a TUE young woman, but has seen her long career overshadowed by TUE her brief time as Keraouc's girlfriend. Hettie Jones risked TUE everything to defy 1950's convention and her Jewish parents TUE to marry the black poet LeRoi Jones, who later became Amiri TUE Baraka. TUE TUE Then there are writers such as Anne Waldman, from a later TUE generation to Hettie and Joyce, who learnt from the Beat TUE Generation and aims to keep the tradition alive today. TUE TUE While in many cases the work of the women of the Beats was TUE not be as innovative as their male counterparts, Laura TUE argues that we should celebrate the writing of the women who TUE fought to forge their own paths, for whom merely telling TUE their story was a struggle. TUE TUE Presenter: Laura Barton TUE Producer: Jessica Treen. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b0707vmg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry b070dkst (Listen) TUE The Phantom Jam TUE TUE Drs Rutherford and Fry set out to discover what makes TUE traffic jam. Adam ventures on to the M25 in search of a TUE tailback, and Hannah looks at projects around the world that TUE have attempted to solve the scourge of the traffic jam. TUE TUE Featuring Neal Harwood from the Transport Research TUE Laboratory and BBC technology reporter, Jane Wakefield. And TUE Masdar City man. TUE TUE If you have any scientific cases for the team to investigate TUE please email: curiouscases@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Presenters: Hannah Fry & Adam Rutherford TUE Producer: Michelle Martin. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b070dksw (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0707vmj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b070dkt0 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 In Therapy b070v8b7 (Listen) TUE Harriet TUE TUE Psychotherapist Susie Orbach explores the private TUE relationship between therapist and patient. Each day we are TUE given privileged access to Susie's consulting room, where TUE she meets a variety of clients. TUE TUE All of the clients are played by actors, but these are not TUE scripted scenes. Each client profile has been carefully TUE constructed by therapist Susie, director Ian Rickson (former TUE artistic director at the Royal Court, and director of the TUE highly acclaimed 'Jerusalem') and radio producer Kevin TUE Dawson. The client profiles have been given to the actors TUE who have learnt about their characters lives, backgrounds, TUE and individual reason for seeking therapy. The scenes have TUE then been improvised and recorded on hidden microphones at TUE Susie's surgery. TUE TUE Today, Susie meets Harriet, who is in her 40s. Since failed TUE IVF, she has separated from her partner and is working in TUE the office at a junior school. TUE TUE Elsewhere in the series, we meet Helen, a high achieving TUE corporate lawyer who is struggling to identify what is wrong TUE - but knows that something is. Then there's John. He's older TUE - in his 60s. A retired railway trade unionist, his wife and TUE children are gone, but his therapy is helping him to turn TUE his life around. We also hear Jo's first meeting with Susie. TUE She is a new patient. An out of work actress. Then there's TUE Louise and Richard - a couple expecting their first baby in TUE a few days. TUE TUE We hear the therapist at work, eavesdropping on the most TUE intimate of exchanges. To help us with our understanding of TUE the process, Susie Orbach commentates on what is happening TUE in the room, shining a light on the journey both she and her TUE patient have embarked upon. TUE TUE Presenter: Susie Orbach TUE Producer: Kevin Dawson TUE Director: Ian Rickson TUE TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b070d1p4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b070dkt2 (Listen) TUE Deliverers TUE TUE A dark comedy about a disastrous school trip to France. A TUE group of pupils are stranded outside Paris on their journey TUE to the Finals of the Young European Ethical Enterprise TUE Awards. Young NQT teacher Lee and more experienced teachers TUE Val and Lesley struggle to cope when one of their students TUE goes missing and then try to minimise the fallout from the TUE incident back home where headmistress Eve is determined to TUE find out what really happened. "Deliverers" examines the TUE stresses, strains and compromises of teachers taxed to TUE deliver success at all costs. TUE TUE A second play for Radio 4 by Claudine Toutoungi, whose first TUE radio play "Slipping" was nominated for Best Original Drama TUE in the 2014 Audio Drama Awards. TUE TUE Directed by Liz Webb. TUE TUE Credits TUE Lee: Jonathan Bailey TUE Eve: Kate Fleetwood TUE Val: Elizabeth Berrington TUE Lesley: Jessica Turner TUE Wenling: Ruhua Xianyu TUE Director: Liz Webb TUE Writer: Claudine Toutoungi TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b070dkt5 (Listen) TUE Helen Castor takes the chair for the programme which TUE showcases new historical research and the people doing it. TUE TUE Today, Tom Holland is on the Dorset/Wiltshire border where a TUE farmer has dug up a Bronze Age body. Remarkably, as Dr Tom TUE Booth from the University of Sheffield explains, this is far TUE from unique. Indeed, just when the Pharaohs were building TUE the pyramids to house them forever, Bronze Age Britons were TUE busy mummifying their dead too. TUE TUE With Bridge of Spies and now Deutschland '83, Helen Castor TUE finds out why the Cold War has become such a hot topic with TUE historians as well as TV viewers. TUE TUE And Dan Snow takes us back to the year when the British TUE Museum opened its doors for the first time, Wedgwood started TUE production, Kew Gardens was founded and Britain swept almost TUE everyone away on battlefields and seas across the globe. Is TUE 1759 the most important date in history? TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b070dkt9 (Listen) TUE Requiem for a King TUE TUE Tom Heap tells the story of coal from Industrial Revolution TUE to its apparent demise. TUE TUE As the world begins to fall out of love with coal, is it too TUE early to write its obituary? TUE TUE Coal drove the Industrial Revolution in this country. It TUE could be argued that it helped to put the 'Great' into Great TUE Britain. TUE TUE Now, at least in Britain, we're turning our back on the TUE sooty black stuff. The last deep pit, Kellingley Colliery, TUE closed in December 2015 and all of the coal-fired power TUE stations in the UK are set to close in the next decade. Coal TUE is on its knees. TUE TUE But what about the rest of the world? China and the US have TUE had an enormous appetite for coal and while both will TUE continue to mine and burn the stuff for the coming decades, TUE it is possible that we may have already reached 'peak coal' TUE - the point at which coal demand will plateau, before TUE declining. TUE TUE Coal will continue to lift developing countries through the TUE various economic growth. It is expected that areas of South TUE Asia will continue to depend on coal to generate power but TUE even in those places they are hoping to implement new, TUE cleaner ways of burning coal. The fuel could be facing a TUE 'long sunset'. TUE TUE But is there a glimmer of hope? TUE TUE Carbon Capture and Storage has often been hailed as a TUE potential cure-all for Carbon Dioxide emissions from fossil TUE fuels, so could it step in now to save coal before it is TUE confined to the annals of history? TUE TUE It may be too early to say. However in Canada there is one TUE commercially operating plant. Many experts believe that we TUE need CCS if we are going to seriously tackle our global CO2 TUE emissions because, at least in the short term, coal will TUE remain on his dusty throne for the coming decades. TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b070dnqr (Listen) TUE Mouthpiece: Turning the Spoken Word into Songs TUE TUE Michael Rosen hears about Mouthpiece, a project turning TUE interviews recorded in Parliament into songs. Composer TUE Jennifer Bell has been given access to interview people TUE about their working lives in the Houses of Parliament. She's TUE turned their words into beautiful a-cappella songs in an TUE attempt to reflect the way in which Parliament is the voice TUE of the country - or is it? TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b070dnqt (Listen) TUE Samantha Bond and Jason Cowley TUE TUE Actress Samantha Bond and editor of The New Statesman Jason TUE Cowley join Harriett Gilbert for some passionate TUE conversation about favourite books. TUE TUE Samantha Bond, star of 'Home Fires', 'Downton Abbey' and a TUE one-time Miss Moneypenny, is also a voracious reader. Her TUE choice is Donna Tartt's first novel, the best-selling 'A TUE Secret History', a murder-mystery with a Vermont campus TUE setting and an intriguing cast of characters. TUE TUE Jason Cowley is credited with revitalising The New Statesman TUE as its editor. He recommends 'The Secret Agent' by Joseph TUE Conrad, a novel about a terrorist bomb-plot devised by a TUE shady Soho shopkeeper who doubles as a spy for the Russians. TUE The story was inspired by the death of a French anarchist TUE who accidentally blew himself up while attempting to plant a TUE bomb in Greenwich Park in 1894, and has, in its turn, TUE inspired many adaptations since its publication in 1907. TUE TUE Harriett's choice is 'The Dead Lake' by Hamid Ismailov, a TUE haunting fairytale, with hints of Gunther Grass' 'The Tin TUE Drum', about the impact of repeated atomic testing in TUE Soviet-era Kazakhstan on the local people of the Steppes. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Samantha Bond TUE Interviewed Guest: Jason Cowley TUE Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE TUE 17:00 PM b070dnqw (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0707vml (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b05vcsdq (Listen) TUE Series 10, One Man, Two Charlies TUE TUE Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, TUE complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and the TUE curmudgeonly attitude to life that he's mastered over years TUE of failure. TUE TUE Ed finally finds himself homeless. However, all is not lost TUE as an unexpected bonus of the recent financial apocalypse is TUE that there are many premises in need of temporary TUE caretakers. So it is that Ed finds himself residing in a TUE furniture warehouse in Berkhamsted, complete with 'dream TUE kitchen' fake fruit and a massage chair. He also somehow TUE finds himself an author with a two book cookbook deal and a TUE three figure advance. 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 Frank: Simon Greenall TUE Charlotte: Celia Imrie TUE Jaz Milvain: Philip Jackson TUE Cliff: Geoff McGivern TUE Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy TUE Charlie: Phaldut Sharma TUE Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Writer: Christopher Douglas TUE Writer: Andrew Nickolds TUE Producer: Dawn Ellis TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b070dq89 (Listen) TUE Pat gets some reassurance, and is Kirsty still feeling the TUE romance of Valentine's Day? TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b070dq8c (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b070dksm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b070dq8f (Listen) TUE Are international conflicts creating tensions between Sunni TUE and Shia Muslims in the UK? TUE TUE Shabnam Mahmood reports from both Sunni and Shia communities TUE and reveals how divisive messages from the Middle East are TUE fuelling intolerance here. TUE TUE Organisations which monitor hate crimes say sectarian TUE violence, while low level, is increasing. TUE TUE One Shia man tells the programme: "It is now becoming quite TUE dangerous. It is an attack on me as a Shia that really TUE scares me." TUE TUE Mahmood reports from one of an increasing number of unity TUE events being staged across the country to foster good TUE relations. A Sunni imam tells her: "These are dangerous TUE times and the religious leadership need to be seen to be TUE doing things to bring communities together." TUE TUE So can such work prevent tensions escalating in the face of TUE the sectarian propaganda that's increasingly available TUE online and on satellite television channels? TUE TUE Producer: Sally Chesworth. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0707vmn (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b070dq8h (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b070dks6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0707vmq (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b070dr3k (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b070dr3m (Listen) TUE Jonathan Unleashed, Episode 2 TUE TUE Rhashan Stone reads the new novel by Meg Rosoff, author of TUE the bestselling "How I Live Now". TUE TUE Set in New York, the novel follows graphic designer Jonathan TUE Trefoil as he navigates big city life as a fully-fledged TUE adult. Aided by canine companions Dante the collie and Sissy TUE the spaniel - who've been left in his charge by his brother TUE James - Jonathan wishes there was a book he could read ("How TUE To Be A Person") that would help him cope with his new TUE responsibilities. TUE TUE Increasingly worn down by his mind-numbing job in a TUE marketing company, the one bright spot on Jonathan's horizon TUE is the imminent arrival of his girlfriend Julie. But what TUE will she make of the tiny apartment he's found? And how will TUE she get on with the dogs? TUE TUE Read by Rhashan Stone. TUE TUE Written by Meg Rosoff. TUE TUE Abridged by David Jackson Young. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Rhashan Stone TUE Author: Meg Rosoff TUE Abridger: David Jackson Young TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b070cxyb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 America in Black and White b07183xh (Listen) TUE Segregation TUE TUE Rajini Vaidyanathan continues her examination of the debate TUE about race in the United States. In this second episode she TUE looks at segregation. TUE TUE The Brown versus the Board of Education case and the civil TUE rights movement were supposed to have brought Americans TUE together, but in Kansas City Rajini sees for herself the TUE much more complicated legacy of desegregation. On the one TUE hand, splintering solidarity in the black community; on the TUE other a city where white and black Americans still live TUE quite separate lives. TUE TUE Demographers suggest America is becoming less segregated, TUE but in Atlanta, one of the big southern cities supposedly TUE driving the desegregation, she finds the reality doesn't TUE quite match the statistics. Catching up with a family TUE featured throughout the series, she finds estate agents TUE steering black families away from white neighbourhoods. She TUE discusses that with Julian Castro, the US Housing Secretary, TUE and hears about his new rules to get communities TUE integrating. TUE TUE In Connecticut she visits a community which has spent 20 TUE years trying to integrate its schools, without requiring it TUE of anyone. TUE TUE Producer: Giles Edwards. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0707vp0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b070dksg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0707vp2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0707vp4 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0707vp6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0707vp8 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b070ss12 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison WED Murdoch: Tibetan Buddhist, writer, & editor. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b070fdhq (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Emma Campbell. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk4j (Listen) WED Great Spotted Woodpecker WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Brett Westwood presents the Great Spotted woodpecker. In WED spring Great Spotted Woodpeckers drum loudly with their WED bills against tree bark to advertise their territories. WED Unlike many of our woodland birds, which are declining, WED Great Spotted Woodpeckers have increased rapidly over the WED last few decades - up to 250% since the 1970's. WED WED 06:00 Today b070fdhs (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b070fdhv (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b070fdhx (Listen) WED Benjamin Franklin in London, Episode 3 WED WED In the middle of the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin spent WED almost two decades in London - at exactly the same time as WED Mozart, Casanova and Handel. This is an enthralling WED biography - not only of the man, but of the city when it was WED a hub of Enlightenment activity. WED WED For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin WED was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his WED fortune in Philadelphia and established his fame as a WED renowned experimental scientist, he crossed the Atlantic to WED live as a gentleman in the heaving metropolis of London. WED WED From his house in Craven Street, he mixed with both the WED brilliant and the powerful - in London coffee house clubs, WED at the Royal Society, and on his summer travels around the WED British Isles and continental Europe. He counted David Hume, WED Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, Edmund Burke and Erasmus WED Darwin among his friends - and, as an American colonial WED representative, he had access to successive Prime Ministers WED and even the King. WED WED The early 1760s saw Britain's elevation to global superpower WED status with victory in the Seven Years War and the WED succession of the young, active George III. This brought a WED sharp new edge to political competition in London and WED redefined the relationship between Britain and its colonies. WED They would profoundly affect Franklin himself, eventually WED placing him in opposition with his ambitious son William. WED WED Though Franklin sought to prevent the America's break with WED Great Britain, his own actions would finally help cause that WED very event. WED WED Episode 3: WED Franklin's achievements in the field of physics, and WED specifically that of electricity, have won him an WED international reputation. WED WED Written by George Goodwin WED Abridged by Barry Johnston WED Read by Nickolas Grace WED WED Produced by David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Nickolas Grace WED Author: George Goodwin WED Abridger: Barry Johnston WED Producer: David Roper WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b070fdhz (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b070fdj1 (Listen) WED Halfway Here, Episode 8 WED WED by Lucy Catherine. WED WED Luke is desperate to communicate with his comatose twin WED sister somehow. 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 Orla: Rebecca Hamilton WED Pat: Gerard McDermott WED Annie: Debra Baker WED Richard: George Watkins WED Dr Makarem: Ewan Bailey WED Nurse: Evie Killip WED Mr Rathbone: Chris Pavlo WED Director: Mary Peate WED Writer: Lucy Catherine WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b070fdj3 (Listen) WED Louise and Ivor - Negative Attitude WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation between a retired photographer WED and his daughter, about the preservation of his archive of WED half a million negatives into the digital age. Another in WED the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when WED you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Verdun - The Sacred Wound b070fdj5 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Verdun is the sacred wound of France. No other battle of the WED Great War would so define the trauma of loss, the bitterness WED of occupation and the Republic's desire to repulse the WED ancient enemy. It began in a rain of steel and ended with WED both sides exhausted but crucially France undefeated. It was WED the last battle the nation would fight alone and would, in WED the decades to come, help shape modern Europe. David WED Reynolds explores both the many meanings the battle WED generated in 1916 and the memory of loss that came to shape WED France & Germany in the post war years. WED WED On February 21st 1916, this quiet part of the front, with WED its seemingly impregnable array of fortresses, was subjected WED to an almost unendurable bombardment. Industrial slaughter WED on an unprecedented scale. A million shells fall that day on WED an unprepared and increasingly panicked French army. Yet as WED the Germans advanced through torn up terrain there was still WED life and it was firing back. WED WED What had been planned as an overwhelming breakthrough to WED crush French resolve & bring about a war of movement would WED escalate into 10 months of mutual artillery slaughter with WED soldiers scraping and burrowing into the earth to simply WED hold the line. It was a battle that made the name of WED Philippe Petain, ensured the majority of French forces WED marked by service there & ruined the reputations of its WED supreme commanders Erich von Falkenhayn, whose masterplan WED Verdun had been and Marshall Joffre, accused in Parliament WED of military failings & for presiding over terrible losses. WED WED In the first of two programmes, historian David Reynolds WED travels to Verdun and its mournful battlefields to better WED understand what it meant for two nations to wage industrial WED warfare over a patch of land no bigger than the distance WED from Leeds to Bradford. WED WED Producer: Mark Burman. WED WED 11:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06bnq1g (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Episode 2 WED WED Change is afoot at Hardacre's, London's worst advertising WED agency. New accounts chief Amanda Brook is well underway WED with her plans to turn the agency around, insisting they WED take any work they can get. Creative team Joe and Teddy thus WED find themselves reduced to working on posters for industrial WED adhesives, cast iron stoves, and jewellery for dogs. WED WED Horrified at seeing his name associated with such a low WED calibre of clients, creative director and advertising legend WED Rupert Hardacre resolves to bring in a better class of WED account. He enlists Amanda's help to chase down McCutcheon's WED Whisky, a client he worked with many years earlier. WED WED While Hardacre and Amanda head off, Joe and Teddy are left WED at the office determined to prove that they can design a WED poster, hire a plumber, and interview a client entirely WED unsupervised. Their jobs may just depend on it. WED WED Rupert Hardacre - Nigel Havers WED Amanda Brook - Josie Lawrence WED Joe - Matthew Baynton WED Teddy - Rasmus Hardiker 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 Director: Alan Nixon WED Producer: Gordon Kennedy WED Writer: Edward Rowett WED WED 12:00 News Summary b0707vpb (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry b070ffbh (Listen) WED The Aural Voyeur WED WED Drs Rutherford and Fry tackle a vexing case sent in by WED Daniel Sarano from New Jersey, who asks why people shout on WED their mobile phones in public. WED WED Our science sleuths find the answer by delving into the WED inner workings of telephony with a tale of engineering WED rivalry, Victorian etiquette and early otolaryngology. WED WED Featuring acoustic technologist Nick Zakarov and historian WED Greg Jenner, author of 'A Million Years in a Day: A Curious WED History of Daily Life.' WED WED If you have any scientific cases for the team to investigate WED please email: curiouscases@bbc.co.uk WED WED Presenters: Hannah Fry & Adam Rutherford WED Producer: Michelle Martin. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b070ffbk (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0707vpl (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b070ffbm (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 In Therapy b070nvxf (Listen) WED Jo WED WED Psychotherapist Susie Orbach explores the private WED relationship between therapist and patient. Each day we are WED given privileged access to Susie's consulting room, where WED she meets a variety of clients. WED WED All of the clients are played by actors, but these are not WED scripted scenes. Each client profile has been carefully WED constructed by therapist Susie, director Ian Rickson (former WED artistic director at the Royal Court, and director of the WED highly acclaimed 'Jerusalem') and radio producer Kevin WED Dawson. The client profiles have been given to the actors WED who have learnt about their characters lives, backgrounds, WED and individual reason for seeking therapy. The scenes have WED then been improvised and recorded on hidden microphones at WED Susie's surgery. WED WED Today, Susie has her first meeting with Jo, a new patient WED and an out of work actress. WED WED Elsewhere in the series, we meet Helen, a high achieving WED corporate lawyer who is struggling to identify what is wrong WED - but knows that something is. Then there's Harriet, who is WED in her 40s. Since failed IVF, she has separated from her WED partner and is working in the office at a junior school. WED John is older - in his 60s, and a retired railway trade WED unionist. His wide and children are gone, but his therapy is WED helping him to turn his life around. Then there's Louise and WED Richard - a couple expecting their first baby in a few days. WED WED We hear the therapist at work, eavesdropping on the most WED intimate of exchanges. To help us with our understanding of WED the process, Susie Orbach commentates on what is happening WED in the room, shining a light on the journey both she and her WED patient have embarked upon. WED WED Presenter: Susie Orbach WED Producer: Kevin Dawson WED Director: Ian Rickson WED WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b070dq89 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03szts2 (Listen) WED The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Modern Husband WED Course WED WED A new two-dramatisation of Alexander McCall Smith's latest WED No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency book, 'The Minor Adjustment WED Beauty Salon'. Mma Remotswe and Mma Makutsi return to Radio WED 4 for a tenth series based on the popular novels set in WED Bostwana, dramatised by the author. WED WED Episode 1 : The Modern Husband Course WED Mr J.L.B. Matekoni embarks on a quest for self-improvement, WED with a little encouragement from Mma Ramotswe. Mma Makutsi WED settles into her new house while hiding a secret from her WED best friend. WED WED Directed by Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED Credits WED Mma Ramotswe: Claire Benedict WED Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall WED Mr JLB Matekoni: Ben Onwukwe WED Mma Sheba: Adjoa Andoh WED Aunt Radiphuti: Adjoa Andoh WED Phuti Radiphuti: Jude Akuwudike WED Charlie: Maynard Eziashi WED Liso: Maynard Eziashi WED Mma Soleti: Eleanor Crooks WED Mma Keitumetse: Anna Bengo WED Student: Steve Toussaint WED Mma Molapo: Janice Acquah WED Director: Eilidh McCreadie WED Writer: Alexander McCall Smith WED WED 15:00 Money Box b070fft3 (Listen) WED Louise Cooper and guests debate: is the ISA on its last WED legs? E mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk. Or ring WED 03 700 100 444 on Wednesday from 1pm. WED ISAs: Individual Savings Accounts WED ISAs: Junior Individual Savings Accounts WED ISAs: Help to Buy Scheme WED Personal Savings Account - Latest information WED Money Saving Expert: Is the Cash ISA Dead? WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b070dq8h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b070fft5 (Listen) WED Museums and nationalism, Imagining utopias WED WED Museums and the 'nation': What can we learn about WED nationalism by looking at a country's cultural institutions? WED Laurie Taylor talks to Peggy Levitt, Professor of Sociology WED at Wellesley College, and author of a study which explores WED how museums today represent diversity and make sense of WED immigration and globalisation. She interviewed a range of WED museum directors, curators, and policymakers and heard the WED inside stories of the famous paintings and objects which WED define collections across the globe; from Europe to the WED United States, Asia, and the Middle East. They're joined by WED Julian Spalding, the art critic and writer. WED WED Also, imagining utopias. Professor Craig Calhoun, director WED of the London School of Economics and Political Science, WED considers the role of impossible dreams in shaping our WED reality. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b070fft7 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b070fft9 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0707vq3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05r3z49 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham and his old nemesis Alex WED Horne recreate a 19th century bet; can Tim ride a horse from WED London to Dover and back before Alex makes 1 million dots on WED a piece of paper? WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim FitzHigham WED Performer: Alex Horne WED WED 19:00 The Archers b070fftd (Listen) WED Bert gets a proposition. And who is the mystery suitor? WED WED 19:15 Front Row b070fn1w (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b070fdj1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b070fn1y (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor, Claire WED Fox and Jill Kirby. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b070fn20 (Listen) WED The Wilderness WED WED The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for WED self-examination and reflection on the events leading up to WED Jesus' crucifixion. Throughout Lent six writers will reflect WED on these events through a variety of locations as they WED explore the theme of "Lent in the Landscape". This week Emma WED Loveridge, who used to run excursions to the Sinai Desert, WED takes us to her own private wilderness which she has created WED in Devon to reflect on Jesus' forty days and forty nights in WED the wilderness. Producer: Phil Pegum. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b070dkt9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b070fdhv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b070fn22 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b070fn24 (Listen) WED Jonathan Unleashed, Episode 3 WED WED The new novel by bestselling author Meg Rosoff, read by WED Rhashan Stone. WED WED Jonathan Trefoil has arrived in New York fresh from college WED and ready for his life to begin. He's found himself an WED apartment and he's temporarily in charge of his brother's WED dogs (Dante, a Border Collie, and Sissy, a Spaniel) while WED his brother is working in Dubai. His best friend Max has WED landed him a job at Comrade, a marketing company run by one WED of their school friends. He has a smart girlfriend, Julie, WED who has just joined him. Life is good... isn't it? WED WED Greeley, Comrade's new Office Manager, brings a brighter, WED healthier vibe to Jonathan's working life - even encouraging WED him to bring the dogs into work. But just as Jonathan begins WED to feel that he's getting on top of his new life, Julie WED floors him with a commercially sensible proposition. WED WED Written by Meg Rosoff. WED WED Read by Rhashan Stone. WED WED Abridged by David Jackson Young. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Rhashan Stone WED Author: Meg Rosoff WED Abridger: David Jackson Young WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 23:00 The Future of Radio b070fn4c (Listen) WED Series 2, Friends Electric 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, jealousy of a fellow inventor drives WED Luke to take Artificial Intelligence to the next level. WED WED Written by Jerome Vincent & Stephen Dinsdale WED WED Producer David Blount WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Luke: William Beck WED Trish: Emma Kilbey WED Shelley: Lizzy Watts WED Felix: David Brett WED Leary: Eddie Eyre WED Pontius: Chris Stanton WED Actor: Jessica Carroll WED Writer: Jerome Vincent WED Writer: Stephen Dinsdale WED Producer: David Blount WED WED 23:15 Nurse b03y15jr (Listen) WED Episode 5 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 Gary: Paul Whitehouse WED Billy: Paul Whitehouse WED Ted: Paul Whitehouse WED Herbert: Paul Whitehouse WED Graham: Paul Whitehouse WED Nurse: Esther Coles WED Phyllis: Marcia Warren WED Tony: Simon Day WED Producer: Paul Whitehouse WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED Writer: David Cummings WED WED 23:30 America in Black and White b0718434 (Listen) WED The Future of Black America WED WED Rajini Vaidyanathan concludes her series looking at race in WED America by examining how black Americans are represented, WED and asking what it means to be black in America today. WED WED Travelling widely across the country she hears from families WED in Atlanta, activists in Missouri and academics in New York WED City. She speaks to the artist Kehinde Wiley about his WED subversive attempts to literally paint power differently; to WED the poet Tracy K. Smith about the vital role stories can WED play in encouraging empathy and hears from the civil rights WED icon John Lewis why he is using comic books to tell his WED story. WED WED Rajini discusses what is taught in schools, what is shown on WED TV, and how the reality of being black in America means new WED black migrants to the United States are increasingly WED retaining their immigrant identity to avoid being considered WED 'African American'. She discusses the next generation of WED leadership, who can authentically lead the Black Lives WED Matter movement, and attends a remarkable convention in WED Baltimore encouraging Americans to have 'courageous WED conversations about race.' WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED THU THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0707vsy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b070fdhx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0707vt0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0707vt4 (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0707vtd (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0707vtj (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b070v8qf (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison THU Murdoch: Tibetan Buddhist, writer, & editor. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b070h6wp (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378tjf (Listen) THU Oystercatcher THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Michaela Strachan presents the oystercatcher. These black THU and white waders used to be called sea-pies because of their THU pied plumage, which contrasts sharply with their pink legs THU and long red bill. Oystercatchers don't often eat oysters. THU Instead they use their powerful bill to break into mussels THU on rocks or probe for cockles in the mud of estuaries. THU THU Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) THU Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b070h6ws (Listen) THU News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and THU Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b070h6ww (Listen) THU Robert Hooke THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work or Robert THU Hooke (1635-1703) who worked for Robert Boyle and was THU curator of experiments at the Royal Society. The engraving THU of a flea, above, is taken from his Micrographia which THU caused a sensation when published in 1665. Sometimes THU remembered for his disputes with Newton, he studied the THU planets with telescopes and snowflakes with microscopes. He THU was an early proposer of a theory of evolution, discovered THU light diffraction with a wave theory to explain it and felt THU he was rarely given due credit for his discoveries. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b070h6wz (Listen) THU Benjamin Franklin in London, Episode 4 THU THU In the middle of the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin spent THU almost two decades in London - at exactly the same time as THU Mozart, Casanova and Handel. This is an enthralling THU biography - not only of the man, but of the city when it was THU a hub of Enlightenment activity. THU THU For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin THU was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his THU fortune in Philadelphia and established his fame as a THU renowned experimental scientist, he crossed the Atlantic to THU live as a gentleman in the heaving metropolis of London. THU THU From his house in Craven Street, he mixed with both the THU brilliant and the powerful - in London coffee house clubs, THU at the Royal Society, and on his summer travels around the THU British Isles and continental Europe. He counted David Hume, THU Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, Edmund Burke and Erasmus THU Darwin among his friends - and, as an American colonial THU representative, he had access to successive Prime Ministers THU and even the King. THU THU The early 1760s saw Britain's elevation to global superpower THU status with victory in the Seven Years War and the THU succession of the young, active George III. This brought a THU sharp new edge to political competition in London and THU redefined the relationship between Britain and its colonies. THU They would profoundly affect Franklin himself, eventually THU placing him in opposition with his ambitious son William. THU THU Though Franklin sought to prevent the America's break with THU Great Britain, his own actions would finally help cause that THU very event. THU THU Episode 4: THU Franklin's opponents in the Pennsylvania Assembly are THU preparing poisonous attacks to greet him on his return to THU America. THU THU Written by George Goodwin THU Abridged by Barry Johnston THU Read by Nickolas Grace THU THU Produced by David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Nickolas Grace THU Author: George Goodwin THU Abridger: Barry Johnston THU Producer: David Roper THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b070hbsn (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b070hbsq (Listen) THU Halfway Here, Episode 9 THU THU by Lucy Catherine. THU THU Nettie is still being kept on life support as her pregnancy THU continues. 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 Orla: Rebecca Hamilton THU Pat: Gerard McDermott THU Herbie: Richard Pepple THU Director: Mary Peate THU Writer: Lucy Catherine THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b0707vtn (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 JD Salinger, Made in England b070hbss (Listen) THU JD Salinger is feted as the writer of one of greatest ever THU American novels. The Catcher in Rye established him as the THU most celebrated chronicler of urban New York and, in Holden THU Caulfield, he created the enduring embodiment of disaffected THU American youth. THU THU Less well known is that Salinger spent three months in THU Tiverton, Devon, while preparing to be part of the D Day THU landings in 1944, and that during this short time he wrote a THU revealing autobiographical short-story and worked on the THU development of Holden Caulfield's character. Mark Hodkinson THU - a Salinger devotee who edited his best-selling biography - THU travels to Tiverton to retrace Salinger's steps and discover THU how Devon influenced Salinger's work. THU THU The central character in the short-story, For Esme - with THU Love and Squalor, is, as Salinger was, a fledgling writer THU who becomes a US sergeant stationed in Devon. With the help THU of a local reading group, Mark visits the most likely church THU featured in the story and learns from people who remember THU the GIs being in town. THU THU Mark is also accompanied by Dr Sarah Graham of the THU University of Leicester. They discuss how the story and THU Salinger's time in Devon informed his work, and life. THU THU The programme also hears an exclusive interview with a 96 THU year old New Yorker who served with Salinger in Tiverton and THU remained friends with the reclusive writer for the rest of THU his life. "Salinger liked Devon," says the veteran soldier, THU "Any free time he had was taken up by writing on his THU portable typewriter.". THU THU 12:00 News Summary b0707vtx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry b070hbsv (Listen) THU The Squeamish Swoon THU THU Science sleuths Hannah Fry and Adam Rutherford investigate THU the following question sent in by Philip Le Riche: THU THU 'Why do some people faint at the sight of blood, or a THU hypodermic needle, or even if they bash their funny bone? THU Does it serve any useful evolutionary purpose, or is just THU some kind of cerebral error condition?' THU THU Adam is strapped onto a hospital tilt table in an attempt to THU make him blackout and Hannah receives an aromatic surprise. THU THU Featuring consultant cardiologists Dr Nicholas Gall and Dr THU Adam Fitzpatrick and cardiac physiologist Shelley Dougherty. THU THU If you have any scientific cases for the team to investigate THU please email: curiouscases@bbc.co.uk THU THU Presenters: Hannah Fry & Adam Rutherford THU Producer: Michelle Martin. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b070hbsx (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0707vv3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b070hbt0 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 In Therapy b070cxy4 (Listen) THU Helen THU THU Psychotherapist Susie Orbach explores the private THU relationship between therapist and patient. Each day we are THU given privileged access to Susie's consulting room, where THU she meets a variety of clients. THU THU All of the clients are played by actors, but these are not THU scripted scenes. Each client profile has been carefully THU constructed by therapist Susie, director Ian Rickson (former THU artistic director at the Royal Court, and director of the THU highly acclaimed 'Jerusalem') and radio producer Kevin THU Dawson. The client profiles have been given to the actors THU who have learnt about their characters lives, backgrounds, THU and individual reason for seeking therapy. The scenes have THU then been improvised and recorded on hidden microphones at THU Susie's surgery. THU THU Today, Susie meets Helen, a high achieving corporate lawyer THU who is struggling to identify what is wrong - but knows that THU something is. THU THU Elsewhere in the series, we meet Harriet, who is in her 40s. THU Since failed IVF, she has separated from her partner and is THU working in the office at a junior school. John is older - in THU his 60s, and a retired railway trade unionist. His wife and THU children are gone, but his therapy is helping him to turn THU his life around. We also meet Louise and Richard - a couple THU expecting their first baby in a few days, and Jo, who is THU meeting Susie for the first time - she is an out of work THU actress. THU THU We hear the therapist at work, eavesdropping on the most THU intimate of exchanges. To help us with our understanding of THU the process, Susie Orbach commentates on what is happening THU in the room, shining a light on the journey both she and her THU patient have embarked upon. THU THU Presenter: Susie Orbach THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU Director: Ian Rickson THU THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b070fftd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03szx7n (Listen) THU The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Minor Adjustment THU Beauty Salon THU THU A new two-dramatisation of Alexander McCall Smith's latest THU No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency book, 'The Minor Adjustment THU Beauty Salon'. Mma Remotswe and Mma Makutsi return to Radio THU 4 for a tenth series based on the popular novels set in THU Bostwana, dramatised by the author. THU THU Episode 2: The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon THU Mma Ramotswe searches for answers as the campaign against THU Mma Soleti steps up a gear. Meanwhile the Agency welcomes a THU new arrival, and an old wrong is finally righted. THU THU Directed by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU Credits THU Mma Ramotswe: Claire Benedict THU Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall THU Mma Potokwani: Janice Acquah THU Mma Soleti: Eleanor Crooks THU Charlie: Maynard Eziashi THU Daisy Manchwe: Noma Dumezweni THU Official: Steve Toussaint THU House Mother: Alibe Parsons THU Director: Eilidh McCreadie THU Writer: Alexander McCall Smith THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b070hktk (Listen) THU Series 32, Walking with a Purpose: The Surrey Hills THU THU Clare Balding joins Jenni Williams and her disabled three THU year old daughter, Eve, as they take their daily walk in the THU Surrey Hills. These walks are the highlight of their day as THU both enjoy being outside, admiring the views and watching THU the antics of their young and exuberant, golden retriever, THU Scout. Jenni talks candidly to Clare about how she and her THU husband, Steve have come to terms with Eve's condition and THU how they feel blessed to have such a happy and life THU affirming child. THU Producer Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Jenni Williams THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0709v36 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b070cgkh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b070hkyc (Listen) THU Radio 4's weekly look at the world of film. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b0707vvw (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b070hkyf (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0707vvy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On b070hn0t (Listen) THU Susan Calman is the least relaxed person she knows. She has THU no down time, no hobbies (unless you count dressing up your THU cats in silly outfits) and her idea of relaxation is to play THU Grand Theft Auto, an hour into which she is in a murderous THU rage with sky high blood pressure. Her wife had to threaten THU to divorce her to make her go on holiday last year. Her THU first for four years. But she's been told by the same THU long-suffering wife, that unless she finds a way to switch THU off, and soon, she's going to be unbearable. THU THU So Susan is going to look at her options and try to immerse THU herself in the pursuits that her friends find relaxing, to THU find her inner zen and outer tranquillity. Each week she THU will ditch the old Susan Calman and attempt to find the new THU Susan Calm, in a typically British leisure pursuit; this THU week she goes hillwalking with Muriel Gray, and in later THU episodes will watch cricket with Andy Zaltzman, have a THU spontaneous holiday with John Finnemore and enjoy an art THU gallery with Phil Jupitus. THU THU Keep Calman Carry On is an audience stand up show in which THU Susan reports on how successful she's been - both at THU relaxing and at the pursuit itself - as well as playing in THU and discussing a handful of illustrative clips from her THU efforts. It's an attempt to find out how people find solace THU or sanctuary in these worlds and how Susan can negotiate her THU own place in them. THU THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Susan Calman THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU Writer: Susan Calman THU THU 19:00 The Archers b070hn0w (Listen) THU It is a big day for Brookfield, and Brian has a fatherly THU sense of dread. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b070hn0y (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b070hbsq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b070hns3 (Listen) THU 7-Day NHS THU THU This drive for changing the way the NHS operates has been THU frequently used by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt as the THU reason why a change to junior doctor and consultant THU contracts is needed. But what does it actually mean? John THU Ware explores what a seven-day NHS would look like, what THU evidence there is that it's needed, and, crucially, whether THU we can afford it. THU THU Reporter: John Ware THU Producer: Hannah Barnes THU Researcher: Kirsteen Knight. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b070hns6 (Listen) THU Data Privacy THU THU When you enter personal details onto any website or THU smartphone app, what happens to it? Where does it get THU stored, who owns it and who has access to it? These THU questions are becoming more relevant to ask as we put more THU details about every facet of our lives onto the internet. THU With a new piece of legislation passed in the EU dealing THU with this precise issue, businesses need to be up to speed THU with their knowledge on effective privacy management THU THU Evan Davis and guests discuss why personal data is so THU valuable to business, and how the individual can also THU benefit from sharing this information. THU THU Guests: THU THU Mike Gordon, CEO, Callcredit Information Group THU THU Liz Brandt, CEO, Ctrl Shift THU THU Eduardo Ustaran, Data Privacy expert and Partner, Hogan THU Lovells. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b0707vvw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b070h6ww (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b070hns9 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b070hnsc (Listen) THU Jonathan Unleashed, Episode 4 THU THU Bestselling author Meg Rosoff's new novel, set in New York, THU read by Rhashan Stone. THU THU Jonathan Trefoil has arrived in New York ready for his life THU to begin. He's found an apartment and is temporarily in THU charge of his brother's dogs (Dante, a Border Collie, and THU Sissy, a Spaniel) while his brother is working in Dubai. His THU best friend Max has got him a job at Comrade, a marketing THU company run by one of their school friends. He has a smart THU girlfriend, Julie, who has just joined him in the city. Life THU is good... isn't it? THU THU Julie's unexpected proposition, and his hasty acceptance, THU leaves Jonathan reeling. A visit to his parents doesn't THU quite go as planned and, back at work, as things unravel THU further, leading office manager Greeley to step in with some THU wise advice. THU THU Written by Meg Rosoff. THU THU Read by Rhashan Stone. THU THU Abridged by David Jackson Young. THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Rhashan Stone THU Author: Meg Rosoff THU Abridger: David Jackson Young THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 23:00 Talking to Strangers b070hrqj (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 Minimal Impact b05xdcb7 (Listen) THU Tailfins and Burgers THU THU The story of the musical aesthetic and the ubiquitous THU technique of minimalism. THU THU It's now fifty years since the west coast American composer THU Terry Riley wrote In C, a work that consisted of 53 short THU musical phrases repeated at will. For New Yorker Steve THU Reich, this offered a new kind of musical expression for a THU post-war society of 'tailfins, Chuck Berry and millions of THU burgers sold'. With origins as much in the art world and the THU pop music industry as in the experimental musical philosophy THU of John Cage, 'minimalism' slowly but incontrovertibly THU assumed a dominant position in the musical landscape. THU THU In this American-inflected first episode, composers from THU three generations - Steve Reich himself, Julia Wolfe of Bang THU on a Can and Bryce Dessner, a composer and guitarist with THU The National - consider the impact of the minimalist THU aesthetic and the techniques it employed in the USA and THU abroad, revealing a 'victory for the art school over the THU music conservatoire'. THU THU Produced by Alan Hall THU A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0707vyh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b070h6wz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0707vzg (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0707vzj (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0707vzl (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0707vzn (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b070v9y2 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison FRI Murdoch: Tibetan Buddhist, writer, & editor. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b070hscf (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k6slx (Listen) FRI Robin FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI David Attenborough presents the robin. Christmas cards FRI became popular around 1860 and robins often featured, FRI carrying letters in their beaks or lifting door-knockers and FRI were often referred to as the 'little postmen'. Until 1861, FRI postmen wore red coats and were nick-named redbreasts or FRI Robins, so the association between a familiar winter bird FRI and the person who brought Christmas greetings was FRI irresistible. FRI FRI Robin (Erithacus rubecula) FRI Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b070hsch (Listen) FRI News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and FRI Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0709v49 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b070hsck (Listen) FRI Benjamin Franklin in London, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the middle of the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin spent FRI almost two decades in London - at exactly the same time as FRI Mozart, Casanova and Handel. This is an enthralling FRI biography - not only of the man, but of the city when it was FRI a hub of Enlightenment activity. FRI FRI For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin FRI was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his FRI fortune in Philadelphia and established his fame as a FRI renowned experimental scientist, he crossed the Atlantic to FRI live as a gentleman in the heaving metropolis of London. FRI FRI From his house in Craven Street, he mixed with both the FRI brilliant and the powerful - in London coffee house clubs, FRI at the Royal Society, and on his summer travels around the FRI British Isles and continental Europe. He counted David Hume, FRI Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, Edmund Burke and Erasmus FRI Darwin among his friends - and, as an American colonial FRI representative, he had access to successive Prime Ministers FRI and even the King. FRI FRI The early 1760s saw Britain's elevation to global superpower FRI status with victory in the Seven Years War and the FRI succession of the young, active George III. This brought a FRI sharp new edge to political competition in London and FRI redefined the relationship between Britain and its colonies. FRI They would profoundly affect Franklin himself, eventually FRI placing him in opposition with his ambitious son William. FRI FRI Though Franklin sought to prevent the America's break with FRI Great Britain, his own actions would finally help cause that FRI very event. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI It is 1775, and Franklin is no longer of any political use FRI in London. He becomes Ambassador to France in the days FRI before the Revolution. FRI FRI Written by George Goodwin FRI Abridged by Barry Johnston FRI Read by Nickolas Grace FRI FRI Produced by David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Nickolas Grace FRI Author: George Goodwin FRI Abridger: Barry Johnston FRI Producer: David Roper FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b070hscm (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b070hscp (Listen) FRI Halfway Here, Episode 10 FRI FRI by Lucy Catherine. FRI FRI Luke's dark night of the soul is over. 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 Doctor: Susan Jameson FRI Director: Mary Peate FRI Writer: Lucy Catherine FRI FRI 11:00 Choose Life b070hscr (Listen) FRI In February 1996, Trainspotting exploded onto the big FRI screen. Twenty years on, the real-life recovering addicts FRI who inspired the filmmakers and actors reveal their own FRI stories. FRI FRI "All the characters are so recognisable that you don't know FRI whether to laugh or cry. You are asked to do both." Review FRI of Trainspotting, The Guardian, February 1996. FRI FRI Scotland has a massive drug problem. The number of FRI substance-related deaths has more than doubled since 1996 - FRI the year Irvine Welsh's novel about a group of heroin FRI addicts became one of the UK's most successful films, FRI directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor and FRI Robert Carlyle. FRI FRI Trainspotting won a string of awards for its uncompromising FRI portrayal of drug abuse. Much of the action and emotion on FRI screen was informed by a small group of real-life recovering FRI addicts, who advised the filmmakers and actors. FRI FRI Calton Athletic Recovery Group is credited at the end of the FRI film for special technical advice, and thanked "for their FRI inspiration and courage". FRI FRI Now, members of the Glasgow-based charity reveal their own FRI stories. FRI FRI Davie, Willie, Peter, Colin and others from Calton Athletic FRI Recovery Group talk candidly and intimately about their own FRI experiences of drug addiction and recovery. They discuss the FRI impact on loved ones, the need for honesty, and their own FRI decisions to "Choose Life", in the famous opening words of FRI the film. FRI FRI They also talk about their involvement in the making of FRI Trainspotting, including their cameo roles, and they FRI consider how true to life it was - and still is. FRI FRI Produced by Steve Urquhart FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Dilemma b03szh9f (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 1 FRI FRI Sue Perkins presents a third series of Dilemma, the panel FRI show where she puts four guests through the moral and FRI ethical wringer by posing a series of finely-balanced FRI dilemmas and then cross-examining them on their answers. FRI FRI This week, Sue is joined by comedians Kerry Godliman and FRI John-Luke Roberts, journalist and broadcaster Julia FRI Hartley-Brewer and ex-footballer Clarke Carlisle, who FRI collectively attempt to resolve dilemmas based around FRI dinosaur bones, injured guinea pigs, and unethical banks. FRI They also assert their moral correctness over giving FRI directions and selling state secrets. FRI FRI The show was devised by the actor and award-winning comedian FRI Danielle Ward. FRI FRI "A non-irritating, hilarious panel show" (Radio Times) FRI FRI Presenter ... Sue Perkins FRI Producer ... Ed Morrish. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sue Perkins FRI Panellist: Kerry Godliman FRI Panellist: Clarke Carlisle FRI Panellist: Julia Hartley-Brewer FRI Panellist: John-Luke Roberts FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b0707vzq (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry b070hv9m (Listen) FRI The Stellar Dustbin FRI FRI An unusual case today for science sleuths Hannah Fry and FRI Adam Rutherford sent in by Elisabeth Hill: FRI FRI 'Can we shoot garbage into the sun?' FRI FRI The duo embark on an astronomical thought experiment to see FRI how much it would cost to throw Hannah's daily rubbish into FRI our stellar dustbin. FRI FRI Featuring space scientist Lucie Green and astrophysicist FRI Andrew Pontzen. FRI FRI If you have any scientific cases for the team to investigate FRI please email: curiouscases@bbc.co.uk FRI FRI Presenters: Hannah Fry & Adam Rutherford FRI Producer: Michelle Martin. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b070hv9p (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0707vzv (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b070hv9r (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 In Therapy b070v8bn (Listen) FRI John FRI FRI Psychotherapist Susie Orbach explores the private FRI relationship between therapist and patient. Each day we are FRI given privileged access to Susie's consulting room, where FRI she meets a variety of clients. FRI FRI All of the clients are played by actors, but these are not FRI scripted scenes. Each client profile has been carefully FRI constructed by therapist Susie, director Ian Rickson (former FRI artistic director at the Royal Court, and director of the FRI highly acclaimed 'Jerusalem') and radio producer Kevin FRI Dawson. The client profiles have been given to the actors FRI who have learnt about their characters lives, backgrounds, FRI and individual reason for seeking therapy. The scenes have FRI then been improvised and recorded on hidden microphones at FRI Susie's surgery. FRI FRI Today, Susie meets John, a retired railway trade unionist in FRI his 60s. His wife and children are gone, but his therapy is FRI helping him to turn his life around. FRI FRI Elsewhere in the series, we meet Helen, a high achieving FRI corporate lawyer who is struggling to identify what is wrong FRI - but knows that something is. Then there's Harriet, who is FRI in her 40s. Since failed IVF, she has separated from her FRI partner and is working in the office at a junior school. We FRI also hear Susie's first meeting with Jo - a new patient and FRI an out of work actress. Then there is Louise and Richard who FRI are expecting their first child in a few days. FRI FRI We hear the therapist at work, eavesdropping on the most FRI intimate of exchanges. To help us with our understanding of FRI the process, Susie Orbach commentates on what is happening FRI in the room, shining a light on the journey both she and her FRI patient have embarked upon. FRI FRI Presenter: Susie Orbach FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI Director: Ian Rickson FRI FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b070hn0w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0415hb8 (Listen) FRI Tittle Tattle FRI FRI Tittle Tattle by Martyn Hesford FRI FRI It is 1964 and the 'Carry On' films are at the height of FRI their popularity. Kenneth Williams is taking his mother FRI Louie out for afternoon tea to celebrate her 60th birthday. FRI He makes sure it is in a 'select' tea room - Derry and Toms. FRI But who does he bump into? None other than fellow 'Carry On' FRI actor Charles Hawtrey and his mother Alice. Charles is FRI meeting a director about an upcoming film, but he is being FRI very secretive as to who this mystery person is. FRI FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown FRI FRI Martyn Hesford is a hugely experienced scriptwriter and is FRI best known for FANTABULOSA! (BBC 4) starring Michael Sheen FRI which chronicles the life of Kenneth Williams. Martyn was FRI nominated for a BAFTA for Best Single Drama for this film. FRI FRI After starting his career as an actor, Martyn turned to FRI screenwriting and penned a number of highly acclaimed BBC FRI award winning single dramas such as A SMALL MOURNING, winner FRI of Radio Times Drama Award, BRAZEN HUSSIES starring Julie FRI Walters and A LITTLE BIT OF LIPPY starring Kenneth Cranham. FRI As well as working on original pieces, Martyn has adapted FRI several classic novels for TV. NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (ITV1), DR FRI JEKYLL AND MR HYDE (Clerkenwell Films/Working FRI Title/Universal Pictures) and THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP (ITV1). FRI FRI Credits FRI Kenneth Williams: Adam Godley FRI Charles Hawtrey: David Charles FRI Louie Williams: Janine Duvitski FRI Alice Hawtrey: Marcia Warren FRI Waiter: Eddie Capli FRI Teddie: Hamilton Berstock FRI Gloria: Lisa Allen FRI Writer: Martyn Hesford FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b070hxsb (Listen) FRI Tutbury Castle FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire. Bunny Guinness, Matthew FRI Wilson and Bob Flowerdew answer this week's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Hannah Newton FRI Assistant Producer: Laurence Bassett FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Imagining Chekhov b070hxsd (Listen) FRI Woman with a Little Pug FRI FRI A set of three stories, commissioned specially for Radio 4. FRI Alison MacLeod explores the life and work of one of the FRI finest short story writers of them all - Anton Pavlovich FRI Chekhov. FRI FRI Episode One: FRI In this playful reworking of Chekhov's classic tale 'The FRI Lady With A Little Dog', a philanderer encounters a woman in FRI a Brighton hotel. But they can't help thinking they've met FRI each other somewhere before. FRI FRI Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for FRI the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her stories FRI Solo, A Capella and In Praise Of Radical Fish have featured FRI in previous Radio 4 series. Her works include The Changeling FRI and The Wave Theory of Angels. Her novel, Unexploded, was FRI long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and was broadcast as FRI Book At Bedtime. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction FRI at the University of Chichester. FRI FRI Reader: Peter Firth FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Alison MacLeod FRI Reader: Peter Firth FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b070hxsg (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b070hxsj (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b070hxsl (Listen) FRI Ann and Daniel - Breaking the Sound Barrier FRI FRI In a first for The Listening Project, Fi Glover introduces a FRI conversation that uses signing. A mother and her son reflect FRI on their experiences of the deaf and hearing worlds. Another FRI in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI 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 b070nx1d (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0707w0r (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b070hxsn (Listen) FRI Series 89, Episode 7 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 panellists include Danny Finkelstein, Holly FRI Walsh and Vicki Pepperdine. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Danny Finkelstein FRI Panellist: Holly Walsh FRI Panellist: Vicki Pepperdine FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b070hxsq (Listen) FRI Has someone got their eye on Kirsty? Lynda is feeling FRI creative once again. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Mary Cutler FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Matthew Holman: Michael Winder FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Wayne Tucson: Clive Wood FRI Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b070nqx1 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b070hscp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b070hxss (Listen) FRI Claire Fox, Matt Hancock, John Mills, Emily Thornberry MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Wolfson College, Cambridge University with a panel FRI including Director of the Institute of Ideas Claire Fox, FRI Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General Matt FRI Hancock MP, the business man and co chair of Vote Leave John FRI Mills and Shadow Defence Secretary Emily Thornberry MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b070hxsv (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Archive on 4 b05v6d35 (Listen) FRI The Choke FRI FRI The journalist, author and Olympian Matthew Syed blew it big FRI time at the Sydney 2000. A GB medal prospect in table tennis FRI he was thrashed by an opponent he had beaten many times FRI before- he choked. He's been keen to understand ever since FRI why sometimes the brain robs an individual of the ability to FRI do routine tasks - in his case to hit a ping pong ball on FRI the table. FRI FRI You don't have to be a world class sportsman to choke think FRI of that job interview you fluffed or that wildly attractive FRI person at a party that left you unable to do what you do FRI everyday- speak coherently. FRI FRI In The Choke Matthew will explore the neurological and FRI psychological trajectory of a choke illustrated with some FRI dramatic examples where the pressure told at the worst FRI possible time- musicians, politicians, businessmen, actors FRI and sportsmen all feature in this examination of when we FRI fail to do what comes naturally to us. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0707w14 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b070nqx7 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b070hxsx (Listen) FRI Jonathan Unleashed, Episode 5 FRI FRI Rhashan Stone reads the new novel by bestselling author Meg FRI Rosoff. FRI FRI Moving to New York fresh from college, Jonathan Trefoil's FRI new life as an adult with grown-up responsibilities is not FRI going quite as planned. Although he knows it's a terrible FRI idea, he has hastily accepted his girlfriend Julie's FRI marriage proposal: she works for a wedding magazine and FRI they've offered to pay for everything in return for FRI live-streaming the ceremony and running a four-page spread FRI in the next issue. Soon, the stress of his personal life FRI spills over into his work and the only thing keeping him FRI sane is the companionship of his brother's dogs, Dante and FRI Sissy. FRI FRI Written by Meg Rosoff. FRI FRI Read by Rhashan Stone. FRI FRI Abridged by David Jackson Young. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Rhashan Stone FRI Author: Meg Rosoff FRI Abridger: David Jackson Young FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b070dnqt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Minimal Impact b05xxhw6 (Listen) FRI Jesus' Blood and Fluffy Clouds FRI FRI The story of the musical aesthetic and the ubiquitous FRI technique of minimalism. FRI FRI Fifty years since the emergence of a challenging new 'art FRI school' attitude to musical composition emerged in the FRI United States - in the work of Terry Riley, Steve Reich and FRI others - various techniques associated with 'minimalism' FRI have been absorbed into every aspect of modern musical life, FRI from the pop industry and dance scene, to film scores and FRI religious music, as well as contemporary concert music. FRI FRI In this second episode, British composers trace how the FRI minimalist aesthetic has informed music as diverse as John FRI Tavener's Song for Athene and The Orb's Little Fluffy FRI Clouds. Contributors include Gavin Bryars, composer of the FRI iconic Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, film and dance FRI composer Jocelyn Pook, Indian percussion player and composer FRI Talvin Singh, Alex Paterson of The Orb and the most minimal FRI of English composers Laurence Crane. FRI FRI Produced by Alan Hall FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b070hxwl (Listen) FRI Jane and Hannah - Deaf or Hearing FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation in which a hearing mother and FRI her pregnant deaf daughter wonder whether the new baby will FRI be deaf or hearing, and reflect on their own experiences. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
12 February, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 13/02/2016 - 19/02/2016
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