FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER 2012

FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b01n4l94)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.


FRI 00:30 Book of the Week (b01n846c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday]


FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b01n4l96)
The latest shipping forecast.


FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b01n4l98)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b01n4l9b)
The latest shipping forecast.


FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b01n4l9d)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b01nbz8g)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tina Beattie of Roehampton University.


FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b01n6st7)
Abattoirs say they are discarding up to 50% of sheep and cattle livers after a rise in the incidents of liver fluke. The parasite which can cause liver damage and death in animals has thrived in this year's wet weather.

It is judging day for the first of the nominees for the BBC Farmer of the Year Award. One of the judges, Countryfile's Adam Henson finds out how organic farmer and finalist Guy Watson from Riverford Farm in Devon - went from delivering veg from the back of his car to running the largest organic veg box scheme in the country.

And in the week 20,000 Irish farmers took to the streets to demonstrate against changes which they think could change their traditional way of life on the family farm - Charlotte Smith hears from Colin Tudge from the Campaign for Real Farming and Professor Richard Tiffin from the Centre for Food Security at the University of Reading to debate the pros and cons of small farms.

Farming Today was presented by Charlotte Smith and produced in Birmingham by Ruth Sanderson.


FRI 06:00 Today (b01n6st9)
Morning news and current affairs presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb, including:

0748
A man has received a total sentence of eight months after wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with hand written offensive comments about the murders of two policewomen killed in the line of duty. John Cooper QC, leading criminal and human rights barrister, and Ian Hanson, chair of the Greater Manchester Police Federation debate the justification for the arrest.

0810
As British Gas announces a 6% rise in its gas and electricity tariffs, its managing director Phil Bentley explains the reasons behind the move.

0816
A controversial badger pilot cull is likely to begin. Tom Feilden explains that the cull will have to start in the next few days if it is going to be completed before the badgers go to ground for the winter and David Heath, Liberal Democrat agriculture minister explains why the government has issued two new licences for pilot culls.

0823
The winner of the country's leading literary prize, the Man Booker, is announced next week and in the run-up to the award, Today will be talking to the six authors who have been selected for the shortlist. The BBC's arts correspondent Rebecca Jones spoke to Alison Moore about her book The Lighthouse from her home near Nottingham.


FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs (b01n6064)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday]


FRI 09:45 Book of the Week (b01n848r)
On the Map

Episode 5

Is the old cliché that women are less good at navigating than men true? Or do they just have different ways of finding their bearings?

The last part of Simon Garfield's wander through the history of maps takes us down the routes of gender difference and sat nav.

Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.


FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b01n6stc)
Shy Children - what's a parent to do? Everyone knows about the loud and disruptive children at school. But more often in the majority are the shy, anxious children who are quiet and find it hard to fit in and make friends. They don't contribute in class and often fail to thrive and learn. They often get overlooked by teachers. This pattern can carry on at secondary school and makes them more vulnerable. How do parents help their shy children without making an issue of it? And on the other hand, is being shy really a problem?

It only changes once a decade but China is deciding its new political leadership to be installed within a month. Currently just nine men hold the nexus of power over the world's second largest economy but seven of those men have to stand down this time. Will China's transition of power at the top signify any real change for Chinese women ?

On the 25th anniversary of The Pankhurst Centre in Manchester, Jenni talks to Dr Helen Pankhurst, great granddaughter of Emmeline, and granddaughter of Sylvia, about her childhood in Ethiopia, her career in international development, taking part in the Olympics Opening Ceremony, and taking forward the Pankhurst legacy in 2012.

Presented by Jenni Murray.


FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b01n6stf)
HighLites: Retouched

Episode 5

by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding.

5/5 When intimidating witnesses, tampering with CCTV, and making false statements fail to take the heat off Beverley and Shirley in a hit and run investigation, they resort to discrediting the victim. All in a week's work.

Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.


FRI 11:00 The Flower Fields (b01nb02j)
There's a gold rush in Cornwall; it's been going on for over a century - producing the first flowers of spring, daffodils especially.

Like mining, it's marked the landscape, and there are networks of tiny fields west of Mousehole and in the Isles of Scilly. Smaller than tennis courts, they nestle, safe from the wind between high hedges, warm on south facing terraced cliffs. From these old flower fields, called quillets, came something even more valuable than the 'Golden Harvest' of early blooming daffodils - delicate Cornish violets, carnations and anemones. From Victorian times to the 1960s fragrant bunches of these sped overnight by
rail to reach the morning London markets.

Michael Bird - who lives in St Ives - listens while Bill Harvey works the plots his father tended. They are too small to admit machines and depend on the long-handled Cornish shovel. At Churchtown Farm on St Martins in the Scillies, Keith Low explains how the fields were created.

Michael walks the cliff gardens with the archaeologist Graeme Kirkham, who interprets the landscape they pass through, including the industry's mysterious skills and traditions. And he meets Bob Paterson at London’s Covent Garden market who remembers selling the violets and anemones that came on the Penzance trains, and hopes he might again.

Producer: Julian May

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2012.


FRI 11:30 Gloomsbury (b01n6vn5)
Series 1

The St Ives School of Painting

The writer and transvestite Vera Sackcloth-Vest and her bosom chum, the novelist Ginny Fox, go down to St Ives in search of the writer of very naughty books Mr D.H. Lollipop. Their husbands, Henry and Lionel, accompany them, hoping to prevent their wives from succumbing to the dangerous animal magnetism of Lollipop, whose book Lady Hattersley's Plover has scandalized and unsettled them all.

Vera's persistent and flamboyant admirer Venus Traduces arrives, desperate to re-kindle their Sapphic passion. However she is distracted when, on the cliff path, she meets a thin man with a red beard who exudes animal magnetism. He informs her that his wife is away in London being painted by Augustus John, invites Venus to call him Dave, and ravishes her in the brambles.

Meanwhile, though Vera and Ginny seem to search in vain for Lollipop, he is always much closer than they think.

Cast:
Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes
Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy
Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks
Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman
Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer
DH Lollipop ..... John Sessions

Produced by Jamie Rix
A Little Brother Production for BBC Radio 4.


FRI 12:00 You and Yours (b01n6vn7)
Bad food, gas prices and Italian coffee culture

Vodafone has been criticised for raising the cost of the fixed term contracts mid-term. Consumer groups say Ofcom should stop mobile phone operators from hiking the prices mid-contract.

Local authorities will resume a public health role for the first time in 40 years with the appointment of a Director of Public Health in all counties and metropolitan areas.

Low paid households are struggling to cope with food inflation and the government are worried that with more price rises in the food production lines the poor will struggle to eat properly. One solution is to buy more fresh food which is cheaper than most processed foods. Why do we find it so hard to change our eating habits when it will save us money and make us healthier?

The world's largest coffee chain Starbucks was inspired by the Italian cafe but the American giant has yet to open its first establishment in Italy. Dany Mitzman reports on the peculiarities of Italian coffee culture still managing to hold its foreign imitators at bay.


FRI 12:52 The Listening Project (b01n6vn9)
Alan and Carol: Talking Yorkshire

Fi Glover with the secret of a happy marriage from Alan and Carol - could it be an interest in the Yorkshire dialect - proving that it's surprising what you hear when you listen.

The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Many of the long conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject

Producer: Marya Burgess.


FRI 12:57 Weather (b01n4l9g)
The latest weather forecast.


FRI 13:00 World at One (b01n6vnc)
National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.


FRI 13:45 China: As History Is My Witness (b01nbsxj)
The Soong Sisters - The Consorts

On one bank of the Huangpu river in Shanghai stands a forest of steel and glass skyscrapers, but on the other - colonial splendour. A century ago, foreigners unpacked a whole new fascinating way of life on the docks here.

From Western ships came bicycles, engine parts and young Chinese with a vision of modernity - adventurers like Charlie Soong who had been out to see the world and had come back.

Charlie had sons, and in any earlier generation he'd have ignored his daughters but he had been educated by American Methodists and he believed in Christian virtue, democracy and the dignity of women.

From this waterfront, he sent his daughters to America to get a grounding in all three.

As Shanghai boomed, their horizons expanded. And in 1914 the eldest, Ailing, made a strategic match with a young man, H H Kung. Money was no object. He and his bride would become China's richest couple.

Qingling, the second sister, married a very different kind of politician - Sun Yatsen, the revolutionary leader of China, who had become President of China after the overthrow of the Qing dynasty in 1912.

As Sun was an older man and already married, Qingling's parents objected - so she jumped out of a window and eloped with him.

All three sisters were very much in the public eye, and in the news magazines almost as often as film stars - but life wasn't just a round of photo opportunities and jazz.

Qingling's husband Sun Yatsen died in 1925 and his movement split into warring camps.His successor, Chiang Kaishek, was a no-nonsense military man - some would say a fascist. Qingling was horrified by his tactics. And doubly horrified when she discovered her younger sister Meiling was planning to marry him.

Presenter: Carrie Gracie
Producer: Neal Razzell.


FRI 14:00 The Archers (b01n6sjs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday]


FRI 14:15 Drama (b01n6vnf)
Power in Crimpsea

Power in Crimpsea
Written by Vicky Meer

Mayor Goderick Derrick loves Crimpsea, surfing and his small business. Determined to be a cut above his seaside neighbours, he is hatching a master plan to extend Crimpsea's season. By embracing renewable energy, can he put his bracing seaside town on the tourist map, save his struggling plumbing business and the environment? A fantastical, tall tale of sea, surf and ambition.
By Vicky Meer.

Produced by Sharon Sephton
Directed by Pauline Harris.


FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b01n6vnh)
Eglwys Fach

Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural panel programme from Eglwysfach in West Wales, with Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Matt Biggs fielding questions from a gardening audience.

Questions answered in the programme:
Q. My parents' anniversary is marked by the flowering of a magnolia planted in the spring when they were married. Does the panel have a suggestion for something similar that could mark our anniversary on October 1st?
A. Tree Mallows, or Mediterranean Lavateras, flower very well in the autumn. Vitex agnus-castus, or the Chaste bush, (despite it's name) has blue flowers which come out in autumn. Alternatively, the mountain ash Joseph Rock is autumn flowering, but has primrose yellow fruit too.

Q. Do the team think it is possible to grow rhubarb on wet, Welsh hills at over 900ft above sea level? I have tried for 25 years.
A. If the soil is too thin, the rhubarb cannot get its large root down. It does not mind the cold, so could be planted in a large container and kept behind a north wall during winter and moved into the sun during spring. Try a virus-free clone such as Victoria or Fulton's Strawberry Surprise.

Q. Do the panel think gardening is a solitary activity?
A. When gardening, you have got to be of one mind and aiming towards the same goal, so it is often better to garden alone!

Q. With few bees to pollinate this summer, should I use a soft brush to help fertilise our four mature grape vines and tomatoes.
A. You can use a feather duster (but not when they're wet). It will do no harm to do it.

Q. Which members of the Cow Parsley family like an acid soil and the wet and windy climate of Wales?
A. Baltic Parsley is recommended, standing about 1.5 metres high, it is quite hardy and can be grown from seed. Alternatively, Anthriscus sylvestris or Ravenswing, Angelicas such as Angelica Gigas, or Seseli Gummiferum are interesting variations. Parsnips produce tall stems and are a statuesque plant or you could encourage existing Hogweed plants which are attractive to insects.

Q. What plants could the panel suggest for me to grow to encourage bats to forage in my garden, remembering that bats are insectivorous?
A. A lime tree is a good habitat for aphids and, as such, would encourage bats. Honeysuckles or Lupins might also be good. A wildflower meadow containing daisies, self-heals and Yellow Rattle for example will attract insects and in turn attract bats. Hawthorn trees will attract insects, as will a pond.

Q. Why can't I grow leeks in Wales? Could it be the slate-y soil, the acidic conditions, or the windy location?
A. Most vegetables don't like an acid soil, so lime will help. Manure will also help, as will growing them with a little more space between them.

Producer: Howard Shannon
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.


FRI 15:45 On the Brink (b01n6vnk)
Four-Minute Warning

Fifty years ago, the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, as the US and Soviet leadership engaged in a military stand-off over missiles in Cuba.

In Marina Lewycka's story, the second in a series looking at the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of ordinary people, a teenage girl wonders how to make the most of her last four minutes, should the warning come...

Reader: Sian Thomas
Writer: Marina Lewycka's novel, 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian', was long-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel is 'Various Pets Dead and Alive'.
Producer: Justine Willett.


FRI 16:00 Last Word (b01n6vnm)
Verghese Kurien, Helen Nicoll, Bobby Hogg, Tereska Torres, 'Big Jim' Sullivan

Matthew Bannister on

Dr Verghese Kurien. Known as "India's Milkman", he transformed milk production in India by setting up co-operatives of small farmers.

Helen Nicoll - the children's author best known for her Meg and Mog stories. Her illustrator Jan Pienkowski pays tribute.

Bobby Hogg - the last surviving speaker of the Cromarty dialect which was used in parts of the Black Isle near Inverness.

The French writer Tereska Torres whose novel about wartime romances caused controversy with its depiction of lesbian affairs

And session guitarist "Big Jim" Sullivan who played on an amazing 55 number one songs.


FRI 16:30 Feedback (b01n6vnp)
Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations.

Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your views on the things you hear on BBC Radio.

This programme's content is entirely directed by you.

Producer: Kate Taylor
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.


FRI 16:55 The Listening Project (b01n6vnr)
Shelley and Lee: Surviving Loss

Fi Glover with a harrowing conversation from Cumbria. Lee and Shelley buried their child on what would have been his second birthday. Proving that it's surprising - and sometimes life-affirming - what you hear when you listen.

The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Many of the long conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject

Producer: Marya Burgess.


FRI 17:00 PM (b01n6vnt)
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.


FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b01n4l9j)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


FRI 18:30 The News Quiz (b01n6vnw)
Series 78

Episode 6

A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. Panellists are Susan Calman, Francis Wheen, Rebecca Front and Nick Doody.

Produced by Lyndsay Fenner.


FRI 19:00 The Archers (b01n6vny)
Jolene is discussing business with Lilian and the occupational hazards of working with partners. Kenton arrives with some ideas for The Bull but Jolene asks why he's not saving them for Jaxx. Kenton wants to spend more time with her and has an interesting idea.

Emma's planning cheap activities - she loves doing things as a family. Ed suggests another activity for the two of them which doesn't cost anything...

Later, they are joking about Joe misplacing his teeth again when George appears with a new karate suit. Emma is seething that Will didn't discuss it with her, and that he might know about their money problems.

Fallon tells Jolene about Lynda's plans for an Elizabethan Christmas and that Rhys will play Benedick opposite her as Beatrice. Jolene is pleased for her but wants a private word.

Jolene and Kenton know that Fallon's been a bit down. They explain that Kenton is considering leaving Jaxx to work full time at The Bull. Fallon points out that this would be one less job for someone at the pub. Kenton then proposes that Fallon goes to manage Jaxx. An interview might be involved but Jim has been praising her. Fallon can see it's a great opportunity, but it's a big decision.


FRI 19:15 Front Row (b01n6vp0)
On the Road - the film, American Idiot, Agyness Deyn

With Kirsty Lang.

Jack Kerouac's novel On The Road has finally been turned into a film - directed by Walter Salles and starring Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley and Kristen Stewart - 60 years after he wrote it. The original manuscript, written over three weeks on one long scroll, is currently on view at the British Library. Writer Iain Sinclair discusses whether the book has made a successful trip from scroll to screen

The Broadway musical American Idiot, based on the music of rock band Green Day, has just begun a British tour. It follows the fortunes of three young friends, finding their way in post 9/11 American suburbia. Music critic Kate Mossman reviews.

The Cold War has fascinated artists Jane and Louise Wilson ever since they established themselves with two works, Gamma, about the Greenham air force base, and Stasi City, examining the secret police HQ in East Berlin. They tell Kirsty about their latest show, the culmination of a three year project looking at the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Supermodel Agyness Deyn talks about her first major film role, in the thriller Pusher, playing a stripper and drug-dealer's girlfriend. She also describes making the transition to acting, and the art of mastering tricky accents for her forthcoming role in Terence Davies' film Sunset Song.

Miranda Hart, Cheryl Cole, Tom Daley and Pudsey the dancing dog are among the wide range of the celebrities who have just published their memoirs. As the rush to top the Christmas book charts begins, The Bookseller's Benedicte Page analyses the state of the autobiography market.

Producer Rebecca Nicholson.


FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b01n6stf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]


FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b01n6vp2)
Canford School, Wimborne

Jonathan Dimbleby presents the political discussion programme from Canford School, Canford Magna in Wimborne, Dorset. Guests include the Secretary of State for Defence, Philip Hammond; Labour peer, Lord Falconer of Thoroton; the head of Relate, Ruth Sutherland and the former BBC Director General, Greg Dyke. Producer: Lisa Jenkinson.


FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b01n6vp4)
Understanding Contemporary China 1/4

Martin Jacques presents a personal view on how best to understand the unique characteristics and apparent mysteries of contemporary China, its development and its possible future. In a new series of talks he sets out the building blocks for making sense of China today.

In this introductory talk, he argues that we cannot make sense of China by looking at it through a Western prism. China is not like a Western nation-state and never will be. Western nations are countries constituted on the basis of nation, China is a country constituted on the basis of a civilization. The consequences are profound and far-reaching.

In his second talk, he examines the tributary system, the historical China-centric network of international relations which involved other parts of East Asia accepting the principle of Chinese superiority in return for protection and access to the Chinese market, an arrangement distinct to European forms of colonialism. He asks whether a system of this kind is now re-emerging.

In his third talk, he explores the nature of race in China. Over 90 per cent of the Chinese population regard themselves as belonging to the same race, the Han. This is a stark contrast to the multi-racial composition of the world's other populous states. Chinese ethnic identity stems from a process of integration and of cultural identity. What defines the Chinese above all is pride in their culture and a sense of cultural achievement. The advantage of the Han identity is that it is the cement that has held China together. The disadvantage is a weak understanding of and respect for ethnic and cultural differences.

In his final talk, he asks how the undemocratic Chinese state can enjoy legitimacy and authority in the eyes of its population. He argues that the Chinese state is held in such high esteem because it is seen as the embodiment, protector and guardian of Chinese civilization. The state is seen as an intimate, a member of the family indeed - in fact, the head of the family. It is a remarkable institution which will come to exercise interest and fascination outside China.

Martin Jacques is the author of 'When China Rules the World'.


FRI 21:00 China: As History Is My Witness (b01n9v4d)
Omnibus: Part 1

Omnibus edition of episodes 1-5 of China: As History is My Witness in which the BBC's former Beijing Correspondent Carrie Gracie explores 5 great lives from Chinese history and asks what they tell us about China today.

1. SIMA QIAN: China's Great Historian faces a tough choice - death or castration.

2. KUBLAI KHAN: How the man from Mongolia beat the odds and conquered the south and became China's favourite barbarian.

3. THE DUKE OF ZHOU: In a society built around ancestor worship, Carrie Gracie charts the life of the ultimate ancestor and the man who inspired Confucius.

4. DU FU & LI BAI: China's answer to Shakespeare - Chinese children still quote these two drunkard poets from the 8th Century.

5. THE SOONG SISTERS: The story of three sisters who married some of the most powerful men of the 20th Century - it is said that one sister loved money, one loved power and one loved her country.

Presenter: Carrie Gracie
Producer: Neal Razzell.


FRI 21:58 Weather (b01n4l9l)
The latest weather forecast.


FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b01n6vtx)
An investigation into police behaviour at Hillsborough is launched.

Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell meets the Police Federation this evening, to try and smooth relations after his row with officers in Downing Street.

Paul Moss reports from Colombia on their growing economy.

All that and more with Carolyn Quinn at 10.


FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b01n7kfx)
Summer Lies

Stranger in the Night, Part 2

A stranger tells his seatmate a chilling story on a night flight to Germany and then asks for his help. But is this soft-voiced, smiling man capable of murder? Bill Nighy reads the concluding instalment of Stranger in the Night from Bernhard Schlink's new collection of short fiction.

Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.


FRI 23:00 A Good Read (b01n65q4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday]


FRI 23:27 The First LP in Ireland (b01h666r)
Colum Sands presents the story of how, in 1947, the Irish Folklore Commission and the BBC established a scheme to seek out and record folk music and stories throughout Ireland.


FRI 23:55 The Listening Project (b01n8ly2)
Karen and Mark: Our Faith Will Keep Us Strong

Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. Karen and Mark from Northern Ireland find that their mutual love and their faith are helping them get through Karen's treatment for breast cancer.

The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Many of the long conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject

Producer: Marya Burgess.