SATURDAY 25 JANUARY 2020

SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m000df5l)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 00:30 Orwell in Five Words (m000df41)
Love

In the last few years, George Orwell’s writing and thinking have come to seem ever more timely. But they are also much misrepresented. As BBC Radio 4 marks the 70th anniversary of his early death, BBC documentary-maker Phil Tinline takes five words that resonate through Orwell’s work, and tests out what light they can shed on our problems today.

After Winston Smith has been tortured, brainwashed and broken in the Ministry of Love, Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty Four ends: “He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

In this final programme, Phil traces the common origins of the world Orwell imagined in Nineteen Eighty Four and the ‘thought transformation’ process that the Chinese government is currently applying to hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs in ‘vocational training centres’ across Xinjiang.

Series contributors include: Abduweli Ayup, Nick Cohen, David Dwan, Maurice Glasman, Joanna Kavenna, Robert Jay Lifton, Dorian Lynskey, James Millward, Ferdinand Mount, Jean Seaton, Joanne Smith Finley, Timothy Snyder, Mihrigul Tursun

Presenter/ Producer: Phil Tinline


SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m000df5n)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m000df5q)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m000df5s)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SAT 05:30 News Briefing (m000df5v)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m000df5x)
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Baroness Julia Neuberger, Rabbi of West London Synagogue

Good morning.

It’s the Jewish Sabbath today, a day of prayer and rest and reflection. But I am always struck by how many Jewish people will need to be working nevertheless. Doctors, nurses, dentists, for a start- some just dealing with emergencies, others on a roster to staff a busy hospital Accident and Emergency department, or a maternity ward. And they do it because they don’t want to make other people’s lives more difficult by asking for the same day off, every week. Some will get to a service before their shift starts. Others will simply stop briefly and say a quick prayer. Still others will just get on with the job, and, for some, it is literally about saving lives.

There’s a rabbinic saying that argues that a person who saves one human life is to be compared with someone who saves a whole world. And so, if your job is about saving lives, you can override the commandment to rest on the Sabbath. Right at the end of the film Schindler’s List, that saying becomes an important mantra. As Oskar Schindler was preparing to flee from the Allied advance, the Jews he had protected and cared for gave him a gold ring, made from gold fillings, with those words inscribed on it- and gave him an affidavit in case he were to be captured. By saving them, they argued, he’d saved an entire world.

Doing something brave, even if you can’t save everyone, makes a huge difference to our world. We can all be braver, if we try. And so, today, in the week of Holocaust Memorial Day, I want to share the Jewish blessing that thanks God for keeping us alive: Baruch attah Adonai, eloheinu melech ha-olam, she-hecheyannu ve- kiyyemanu ve higianu lazman ha-zeh. We praise you, our sovereign our God, for keeping us alive, keeping us going, and allowing us to reach this time.

Thank you, God, for life itself.


SAT 05:45 Four Thought (m000df5z)
A Boy Who Died

Andrew Hankinson tells the story of a boy who died, and his parents, who wanted him alive.

Recorded at the Shambala Festival in 2019, this is also an extraordinary story about Andrew's quest to understand the family's story, his feelings of discomfort, and his reasons for wanting to tell it in the first place.

Producer: Giles Edwards


SAT 06:00 News and Papers (m000dr9l)
The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.


SAT 06:07 Open Country (m000dgbk)
Ryebank Fields

Ryebank Fields is a small patch of land in Chorlton in the south of Manchester. Spanning around eleven acres this overgrown piece of grassland has become a favourite spot for the community's families to wander, explore and play. But this much-loved spot is now under threat. The owners, Manchester Metropolitan University, want to sell the land for development into housing and invest the money back into their existing inner-city site.

Campaigner Julie Ryan tells her she used to play there as a child before taking her own children there. She says it's her go-to place when she's stressed out, and together with campaigner Tara Parry they take Helen Mark on a tour. Tara describes Ryebank as the "green lungs" of Manchester and talks about why the land could have a future as a community garden and orchard. Steve Silver and Helen walk around the oak trees that he planted at the turn of the Millennium and says that he'd love it to be renamed "Silver's Wood" in the future. All three herald Ryebank as a habitat for wildlife and plantlife. Archaeologist Dr. Michael Nevell shows Helen the historic Nico Ditch and separates fact from folklore about its status and significance. Dr. Rebecca Taylor tells Helen about her work looking into the benefits of semi-wild green spaces in cities and how planners could consider the non-monetary value of these spaces in the future. Helen also speaks to Michael Taylor from Manchester Metropolitan University who argues that the money from the sale of Ryebank can be invested back into the University's inner-city campus and cites the sustainable measures that will be put in place as part of any development.

Presenter: Helen Mark
Producer: Toby Field


SAT 06:30 Farming Today (m000dr9n)
Farming Today This Week: Sugar

Anna Hill finds out about British sugar growers. Around 100,000 hectares of sugar beet are grown in the UK, between them producing just over a million tonnes of sugar per year. But with an increased focus on sugar and public health, and the sugar tax still a topic for debate, what's the future for the industry?

Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell.


SAT 06:57 Weather (m000dr9q)
The latest weather forecast.


SAT 07:00 Today (m000dr9s)
News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (m000dr9v)
Kay Mellor

Kay Mellor was a married mother at 16, and by her twenties had found her way to Bretton Hall College to study drama. An actor, director and screenwriter, she started on Coronation Street, before writing such TV classics as Fat Friends and Band of Gold, which she has now adapted for the stage.
Paul Olima was born in Dublin. He played football professionally, before taking up sports modelling. He explains how he became a body double, standing in for the likes of Mario Balotelli, Usain Bolt and Anthony Joshua.
Former bus driver, Justin Finlayson, converted a red London bus into a mobile recording studio for the benefit of young people in caught up in gang culture in north west London.
Saturday Live listener, Susan Moore, recalls growing up on a bus, converted by her father, a pioneer of pirate radio. She recalls how the family invited musicians to live in the family home to train as rock and roll stars and then put on dances around the country,
Duff McKagan, bass player in Guns N’ Roses, reveals his Inheritance Tracks: Funk 49 by The James Gang and Little Doll, by The Stooges.


SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet (m000dpk6)
Series 26

Bakewell

Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show from Bakewell. Dr Annie Gray, Nisha Katona, Rob Owen-Brown and Jordan Bourke answer the audience's questions.

This week, the panellists have recipe suggestions for ground almonds in savoury dishes, discuss the use of sage and debate the right way to poach an egg.

They are joined by local food producers Stephen Craig and Alan Salt. Stephen brings along some Bakewell pudding from the Old Original Bakewell Pudding shop and explains the difference between the pudding and the tart, while Alan from the Hartington Creamery is armed with Dovedale, Stilton and the first Sage Derby cheese made in Derbyshire for 60 years.

Producer: Hannah Newton
Assistant Producer: Jemima Rathbone

Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (m000dr9x)
Paul Waugh of HuffPost UK looks behind the scenes at Westminster.


SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (m000dr9z)
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world.


SAT 12:00 News Summary (m000drb1)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 12:04 Money Box (m000dpp1)
Concern over quick sale estate agents

Home owners are at risk of losing large amounts of money when selling their properties by using so called quick sale estate agents. That’s a warning from Trading Standards. It’s told Money Box it’s seen dozens of examples of people losing tens of thousands of pounds from the market value of their homes when agents exploit people who are desperate to sell quickly.

In the first half of last year private parking firms requested 4.32m driver details from the DVLA so they could issue fines to motorists. This number of demands is 25% up on 2018 which was itself a fifth higher than 2017. We get many emails to moneybox@bbc.co.uk from listeners asking what they should do when they think they have been sent a demand which they believe is unfair. We speak to parking expert John Wilkie to find out.

A Money Box investigation has found that councils around the country are charging students Council Tax over the summer holidays when they should be exempt. Last week we heard from a student at Durham University who'd been sent a bill for hundreds of pounds. After the programme we were contacted by students from Oxford, Norwich, Salford, and Chester who had a similar story. Student bodies are now calling on the government to address the issue with local authorities to ensure that students aren’t forced to pay Council Tax.

Presenter: Paul Lewis
Reporter: Dan Whitworth
Researcher: Darin Graham
Producer: Dan Whitworth/Alex Lewis
Editor: Emma Rippon


SAT 12:30 The News Quiz (m000df52)
Series 101

Episode 3

Nish Kumar is joined by comedians Kerry Godliman and Angela Barnes, and Isabel Hardman of The Spectator to talk about all things Davos, Bezos, Sussex and Starmer.

The producer is Sam Michell

It's a BBC Studios Production.


SAT 12:57 Weather (m000drb3)
The latest weather forecast


SAT 13:00 News (m000drb5)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (m000df56)
Lucy Frazer MP, Vaughan Gething AM, Liz Saville Roberts MP, Ann Widdecombe MEP

Chris Mason presents topical debate from St Asaph Cathedral in North Wales with Justice Minister Lucy Frazer MP, Vaughan Gething AM Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services in the Welsh Government, the leader of Plaid Cymru at Westminster Liz Saville Roberts MP and Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe.
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson


SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (m000drb7)
Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions?


SAT 14:45 One to One (b0b0pvn1)
Soumaya Keynes meets Claudia Goldin

Does economics have a problem with women? The Economist's Soumaya Keynes shares experiences with Harvard's Claudia Goldin, a former president of the American Economic Association.


SAT 15:00 Riot Girls (m000drb9)
The Trial of The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall's pioneering novel about love between women becomes the centre of a 1928 obscenity trial. It remains an iconic portrayal of lesbian relationships and contains the passionate plea: "Give us also the right to our existence."

Drama by Shelley Silas, starring Kate Fleetwood and Anastasia Hille. Part of the Riot Girls season of dramas.

Directed by Emma Harding

Radclyffe Hall ..... Kate Fleetwood
Una, Lady Troubridge ..... Anastasia Hille
Stephen Gordon ..... Laura Christy
Gilchrist Thompson ..... Will Kirk
Sir Chartres Biron ..... Neil McCaul
Eustace Fulton ..... Clive Hayward
Norman Birkett ..... Rick Warden
James Melville ..... Tony Turner
Desmond McCarthy ..... Greg Jones
Court Clerk ..... Adam Courting
Court Actress ..... Scarlett Courtenay
Puddle ..... Jessica Turner

Additional research documents courtesy of Morris Ernst Papers, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin


SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour (m000drbc)
Gail Porter, Modest Fashion & Female Friendships

Gail Porter, once one of the UK’s most sought after female TV presenters, talks about when her naked image was projected on the Houses of Parliament and her new documentary Being Gail Porter.

The Office for National Statistics released new employment figures – we look at what sorts of jobs women are losing and what is being done to save them. The Economist Vicky Pryce and the TUC’s Head of Economics Kate Bell discuss.

As well-known high street fashion brands start selling clothes under the ‘Modest Fashion’ banner we discuss what modest fashion is with Reina Lewis from the London College of Fashion and Amina Begum Ali a model with the world’s first modest modelling agency Umma Models.

Would you sacrifice having children to save the planet? We heard the views from you and discussed the issue with Anna Hughes who has chosen to be child free for environmental reasons and from Professor Sarah Harper Director of the Oxford Programme on Fertility Education and Environment.

How much do your girlfriends mean to you? We talk about a new play at the Royal Court in London which explores the highs and lows of female friendship. The playwright Miriam Battye and the actor Rebekah Murrell discuss.

Lorna Cooper gives us her tips for feeding a family of four on a budget of just £20 a week.

Presented by: Jane Garvey
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Beverley Purcell


SAT 17:00 PM (m000drbh)
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines.


SAT 17:30 The Inquiry (m000drbk)
How did Trump get into trouble with Ukraine?

How did Trump’s personality and way of dealing with people lead to a trial in the Senate?
The answer involves Trump’s long standing belief in conspiracy theories, his transactional way of doing business, the revolving door of staff turnover at the White House and his admiration for Russian president Vladimir Putin. With Tanya Beckett.


SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m000drbm)
The latest shipping forecast.


SAT 17:57 Weather (m000drbp)
The latest weather forecast.


SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m000drbr)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 18:15 Loose Ends (m000dq1y)
Britt Ekland, Rob Delaney, Alexei Sayle, Lucy Hawking, Rachael & Vilray, Stephen Schwartz, Luke Brady, Arthur Smith

Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Britt Ekland, Rob Delaney, Alexei Sayle and Lucy Hawking for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Stephen Schwartz and Luke Brady and Rachael & Vilray.


SAT 19:00 Profile (m000dpnk)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason

The young, black cellist from Nottingham making chart history.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason was the first ever black winner of the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year. He performed with the eyes of the world looking on at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. And now he's become the first ever cellist to reach the UK’s top 10 album chart. Who is the 20-year-old making classical accessible? Mark Coles finds out from those who know him best.

Producers: Simon Maybin & Diane Richardson
Editor: Penny Murphy


SAT 19:15 Saturday Review (m000drbv)
David Copperfield, Welkin, Motherwell, Pregnancy exhibition, Windermere Children

Armando Iannucci has taken on Dickens' David Copperfield with Dev Patel in the lead role
A new play by Lucy Kirkwood, Welkin, has opened at London's National Theatre. The Welkin is set in Norfolk in 1759, when a jury of matrons is called to try a female murder suspect who is 'pleading the belly' in order to avoid execution
Motherwell is the memoir of journalist, the late Deborah Orr recounting her childhood and growing up in Scotland and trying to break from her family
Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media is a new exhibition at London's Foundling Museum which looks at how artists have shown pregnant women over the centuries
The Windermere Children on BBC2 is the story of 300 Polish child survivors of concentration camps who were brought to the UK after the war and billetted in The Lake District

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Helen Lewis, Catherine Yass and Mark Billingham
The producer is Oliver Jones

Podcast Extra recommendations:

Catherine: Steve McQueen Year 3 at Tate Britain & A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride & Yinka Shonibare's Farm in Nigeria
Mark: Elvis Presley 68 Comeback Special & Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Helen: House Of Glass by Hadley Freeman & In The Darkroom by Susan Faludi
Tom: Daniel Finkelstein's tweet thread about his mother's escape from Germany & Miss Austen by Gill Hornby & Shook opening at the Trafalgar Studios in April.


SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 (m000drbx)
The Science of Evil

How attempts to understand the Holocaust created a science - social psychology. This Holocaust Memorial Day (Jan 27th) marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Attempts to understand racism, antisemitism and the horrors of Nazi ideology led to the creation of a new field of science. Social psychology is the investigation of how our thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by others. This Archive On Four is about the science of evil and five of its pioneers: Kurt Lewin, Solomon Asch, Henri Tajfel, Serge Moscovici and Stanley Milgram. They were all Jewish. They all lost family in the Holocaust. They were all driven by one question. How could it have happened? David Edmonds speaks to among others, Moscovici's son, Milgram's daughter and two of Tajfel's former students.
Producer: Mark Savage


SAT 21:00 Sebastian Baczkiewicz - Pilgrim (b01qwhp5)
Series 4

Tregarrah Head

by Sebastian Baczkiewicz

Episode 2: Tregarrah Head

Birdie continues her war of attrition, leaving a wake of innocent victims. Pilgrim has to rescue the Old Man of Tregarrah Head from his fate as the changeling baby of devoted West Country parents.

William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Birdie ..... Kate Fleetwood
Sally ..... Rebekah Staton
Gary ..... Ed Gaughan
Kingsley ..... Robert Blythe
Elaine ..... Sarah Thom
Dan ..... Ben Crowe
Girl ..... Agnes Bateman

Directed by Jessica Dromgoole


SAT 21:45 Annika Stranded (b0bgbpss)
Series 4

Deep Sea Drilling

Eight new cases to challenge the detective wit of Annika Strandhed, queen of the Oslo Police boat patrol.

Since we last met her, Annika has been promoted to Chief Inspector. Her first act was - apart from choosing a new speedboat - to co-opt Mikel, her forensic photographer of choice, to accompany her. Her son Tor is about to start school.

Being Chief Inspector means a bigger case-load. What follows will test her physically and emotionally as never before.

Episode 2: Deep Sea Drilling
Annika is helicoptered in to sort out an unusual situation developing on an oil rig.

Nick Walker is the author of two critically-acclaimed novels, Blackbox and Helloland. His plays and short stories have often featured on BBC Radio 4, including the First King of Mars stories (2007 - 2010) and the plays Life Coach (2010) and Stormchasers (2012). The previous series of Annika Stranded were broadcast in 2013, 2014 and 2016.

Writer: Nick Walker
Reader: Nicola Walker
Sound Design: Jon Calver
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 22:00 News and Weather (m000drbz)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 22:15 The Fix (m000djx9)
Debt

Debt and Poverty

This is the third series of Radio 4's programme which tries to solve some of the UK's most difficult social problems. This year, The Fix spends three episodes looking at one issue: debt. Why is it such an intractable problem in the UK, where 15% of the population have no savings at all? Presenters Matthew Taylor and Cat Drew bring together two teams of bright young minds and guide them through the process of designing a solution to problem debt. Then a panel of judges picks the best idea to be piloted by the local council.

Producer: Chloe Hadjimatheou
Researcher: Eleanor Biggs


SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz (m000djb7)
Programme 2, 2020

(2/12)
Can you explain how an English magician, a football team whose motto is 'Power in Motion', and something developed by a Serbian-American inventor, could really shake up the start of the week?

The panellists in Round Britain Quiz this week will face this and many other similarly convoluted puzzles, for which they'll need all their reserves of arcane knowledge and all their powers of lateral thought. The North of England, represented by Adele Geras and Stuart Maconie, begin the defence of the Round Britain Quiz series champions' title which they won last year. Opposing them are the Midlands pairing of Stephen Maddock and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett. Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair to ensure fair play, and to offer helpful hints where necessary - but the more hints the teams need, the fewer points they'll get.

Producer: Paul Bajoria


SAT 23:30 William Sieghart’s Poetry Pharmacy (m000df98)
Founder of the Forward Prize for Poetry and National Poetry Day, William Sieghart welcomes you into his Poetry Pharmacy where he serves up poetic prescriptions to soothe the soul.

For William, poetry has never been the distant, lofty pursuit that it's sometimes portrayed as. He's always been an advocate of the therapeutic power of poems. It was this conviction in the power of poetry to transform our lives that led him to become a very different kind of pharmacist.

Since 2012, William has travelled the length and breadth of Britain and beyond meeting people with an issue they're keen to get off their chests. Following a consultation, William dips into his extensive library and selects a poem that's perfectly suited to advise, console or otherwise illuminate whatever is preoccupying his patient.

This is a process in which poetry leaps off the page and reveals its vital curative properties. Willam explains that hearing a poet's take on a problem can offer great comfort. The distance afforded by seeing our own emotions formalised and made beautiful combines with the connection we can feel with the poet - a stranger who somehow seems to understand what we're going through.

In this programme, William meets Rebecca who has been experiencing a loss of control in her life due to serious illness, Sarah whose 18 year old triplets are about to the fly the nest and head off to university, and Suzanne who is coming to terms with her role as carer within her family.

Presenter: William Sieghart
Producer: Caroline Thornham
A Novel production for BBC Radio 4