SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2021

SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m0011cdm)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 00:30 All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner (m0011cc5)
5. The Letter

The true story of Mildred Harnack, the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler continues as the Gestapo close in on her, and husband Arvid. A letter reveals the power of their love for one another in the face of adversity.

Mildred Harnack's remarkable story is told by her great-great-niece, Rebecca Donner, who draws on diaries, letters, notes smuggled out of German prisons and de-classified intelligence reports to reconstruct the story of a woman of extraordinary bravery and compassion. In the early 1930s, living in Berlin, Mildred and her husband, Arvid, are horrified by Hitler's rapid and meteoric rise to power. Both find themselves compelled to act and take extraordinary and audacious risks to pass secrets to the Allies as World War II looms. But soon the Gestapo start to close in, and a high price is exacted.

Rebecca Donner is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Sunset Terrace, and Burnout, a graphic novel about ecoterrorism. Her essays, reportage, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times and Guernica.

Abridged by Julian Wilkinson
Produced by Elizabeth Allard


SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m0011cdp)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m0011cdr)
BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.


SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m0011cdt)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SAT 05:30 News Briefing (m0011cdw)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m0011cdy)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt Rev Paul Mason.

Good morning.

This weekend we may be more aware than usual of the war memorials in our towns and villages. They punctuate not only our civic landscape, but our history also.

So, what type of punctuation are they? Their obelisk design sets them out most obviously as:

Exclamation Marks: each engraved and fading name crying out an horrific truth of our past.

Question Marks Surely we ask “why” when visiting a war memorial or we question the very nature of peace itself. A reminder to Christians that ultimate Peace lies in Christ and is not simply the absence of war.

Are they Brackets – “Information that is not essential to the main point”. An aberration from an otherwise progressive history. We do well to remember that while there may be nothing new under the sun, there is the history we forget.

A Full Stop – Not marking the end of a story but the closing of a chapter, a chapter setting the scene of an unfolding narrative. As history unfolds it must recall its preceding twists and turns: keeping true to its past. In solidarity with its past.

Heavenly Father, you tell us there is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friend.
The fallen are our friends. We are the friends for whom they fell. Remind us that there is a bond of trust between us and if we break faith with those who died, they shall not sleep.

Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them, may they rest in peace.

Amen


SAT 05:45 In My Head (b0bhmw7z)
The Boxing Trainer

It's the build up for fight night as boxing trainer Peter Stanley prepares his protégé Simon Corcoran for his professional debut.

Part of a new series of immersive features which allow the listener to step inside the heads of a compelling character and explore their world. Recorded in binaural stereo using the latest recording techniques for a rich, lifelike, 3-D sound. Subjects wear a small microphone in each ear, picking up sound just like the human ear. Whatever they hear, we hear - how they hear it. The series is best heard on headphones.

Recorded at the legendary York Hall in London's East End, experience the night as they did - backstage and in the ring - where the stakes are high for Simon.

Producer Neil McCarthy


SAT 06:00 News and Papers (m0011jwd)
The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.


SAT 06:07 Open Country (m0011c5h)
Britain's Forgotten Rainforest

Did you know that we have rainforest, lush, green rainforest, right here in the UK? Many don't, yet it's once of our most ancient - and threatened - habitats. Gnarled trees, twisted with age, covered from root to tip in mosses and lichens, epiphytic ferns dripping from every branch.

Once existing in a vast swathe right down the west coast of Britain, "temperate rainforest" is one of the world's rarest habitats. There are species living here that can live nowhere else, but it's been gradually encroached on by humans for centuries. Now clinging on in small pockets, you can find patches of rainforest if you know where to look: in places like Dartmoor, West Wales and the west coast of Scotland. But there may be other patches out there - quietly enduring the passing centuries.

Helen Mark takes a walk into the secret forests of Britain to find out how we can save them. In Wales, projects are underway to save and expand the Celtic Rainforests, rescuing them from invading rhododendrons, and employing some hardy (but elusive) Highland Cattle to help keep the weeds in check. And a new project is launched this year, aiming to find and map the full extend of the British rainforest for the first time. They need your help to track down every last bit of it.

Presented by Helen Mark
Produced in Bristol by Emily Knight


SAT 06:30 Farming Today (m0011jwg)
13/11/21 Farming Today This Week: Methane and meat discussed at COP26, Chair of the new TAC, cultivation

At the end of the second week of the COP26 climate conference we talk methane and meat. A new report by Compassion in World Farming recommends we all eat no more than 300g of meat per week to bring down emissions. That’s less than two chicken breasts, or around nine rashers of bacon. The National Farmers' Union insists the industry can meet the Government target to reduce methane emissions and its own of being net zero by 2040 without reducing livestock numbers.

"Toothless but hopefully not meaningless" is how the new Chair of the Trade and Agriculture Commission sums it up. The TAC had its first meeting this week. This is the new version of the independent body set up by the Government to look at UK Free Trade Agreements, assess their impact on food and farming and report to Parliament.

And how farmers are moving away from ploughing to instead use direct drilling or 'no-till'. It's cheaper, good for stopping soil erosion and better for not releasing carbon. But it relies on the herbicide glyphosate to control weeds, so organic farmers struggle to forgo the plough.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.


SAT 06:57 Weather (m0011jwj)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SAT 07:00 Today (m0011jwl)
Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (m0011jwn)
Evanna Lynch

Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi are joined by Evanna Lynch who was a Harry Potter superfan who developed anorexia aged 11. Whilst having treatment, her beloved Harry Potter books provided an escape, particularly the dreamy, independent character of Luna Lovegood in the fifth book. When the film came around amazingly she won the role, and Evanna played Luna for the remaining four films. She joins us.

A few years ago, Hamza Yassin went on holiday to a remote Scottish peninsula. He never left. He is now an acclaimed wildlife cameraman who loves to spread his enthusiasm for the natural world with a series on CBeebies and a new series on More4.

Asma Elbadawi led a four-year campaign to overturn a ban on hijabs in women’s basketball. Now a performance poet, she joins us.

In 2016, vet Rob Pope decided to to copy Forrest Gump and run across America. During his journey Pope became the living embodiment of the Tom Hanks character: long scraggly beard, Bubba Gump’s baseball hat and all. By the time he finished, 422 days later, he’d crossed the United States more than four times, covering a distance in excess of 25,000km – the equivalent of 600 marathons – and become the first person to trace the whole Gump route.

Lady Anne Glenconner chooses her Inheritance Tracks: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, The Platters and Nimrod, Edward Elgar, and we have your Thank you.

Producer: Corinna Jones


SAT 10:30 Soul Music (m0011jwq)
Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell made Ain't No Mountain High Enough a hit for Motown in 1967. Diana Ross followed suit in 1970 as a solo artist with her version of the song.
It has a place in people's hearts with its anthemic themes of love, loyalty, triumph and perseverance. Cynthia Dagnal-Miron is a former rock critic. As an African American growing up in the 1960s she says the song gave black people a sense of comfort and of being loved. Kevin Patterson recalls meeting an elderly lady in a store in Philadelphia. When the song came on over the speaker both independently started singing along. They got talking and he learned she had been part of a movement to desegregate a local school in the 1960s and she had sung it then at a talent show. Kevin says it was a brush with history that gives him a new connection to the song.
John Harris also grew up hearing Ain't No Mountain High Enough . He says music and being part of a choir were what saved him when he sank into drug addiction and crime and ended up in front of Judge Elizabeth Martin who was presiding over 'Drug Court' an experimental programme to help offenders beat their habit and avoid going to jail. When he got clean Judge Martin invited him to sing at the Court's 25th anniversary celebration and the song he chose to sing with some of his choir was Ain't No Mountain High Enough. John feels a sense of gratitude towards it.
"No wind no rain no winters cold can stop me from getting to you" were the words Lesley Pearl sang to her birth mother as she lay gravely ill in hospital. Lesley had braved the incoming Hurricane Sandy to fly to Charleston to be with her. She and her mother shared a love of Motown and it brought them closer towards the end of her life.
The song still inspires hope and positivity. At the height of the pandemic in 2020 when New York was suffering huge numbers of Covid deaths and hospitalisations, nurse Kym Villamer sang it to staff and patients at the hospital where she works to remind them of the perseverance of the human spirit and the goodness of humanity.
The drama and anticipation the song evokes are described by Lauren Eldridge Stewart who is Assistant Professor of Music at Washington University in St Louis. She breaks down the various musical elements that make Ain't No Mountain High Enough such an enduring powerful uplifting anthem.


SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (m00121gn)
Steve Richards discusses the controversy over parliamentary standards and MPs' outside interests with a panel of seasoned political journalists: Jack Blanchard, UK Politics Editor of Politico; Pippa Crerar - political editor of the Daily Mirror; and Ben Riley-Smith - political editor of the Daily Telegraph.


SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (m0011jws)
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world


SAT 12:00 News Summary (m0011jwv)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 12:04 Money Box (m0011jwx)
The latest news from the world of personal finance


SAT 12:30 The Now Show (m0011cd5)
Series 59

Episode 3

Steve Punt and Gareth Gwynn present the week via topical stand-up and sketches in front of a remote audience - and all from their own home!

Joining them from a safe distance is Michael Spicer tackling non-sensical poiticians, Priya Hall wonders why we're experiencing shortages of pretty much everything and Igancio Lopez plays us out with a Bowie-inspired song about billionaires in space.

Voice Actors: Luke Kempner and Karen Bartke.

Producer: Pete Strauss & Rajiv Karia
Production Co-Ordinator: Sarah Sharpe

BBC Studios Production


SAT 12:57 Weather (m0011jwz)
The latest weather forecast


SAT 13:00 News and Weather (m0011jx1)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (m0011cd9)
Kate Forbes MSP, Lord Forsyth, Barry Gardiner MP, Gillian Mackay MSP

Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from the Seaboard Centre in Balintore with the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy Kate Forbes MSP, Conservative peer and former Scottish Secretary Lord Forsyth, Labour MP Barry Gardiner and Scottish Greens Health and Social Care Spokesperson Gillian Mackay MSP.
Producer: Camellia Sinclair
Lead broadcast engineer: Ken Garden


SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (m0011jx3)
Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions?


SAT 14:45 From Fact to Fiction (m0011ccv)
What do you think about the planet, mum?

In the week that COP26 draws to a close, Travis Alabanza imagines the impact of the climate conference on a mum and her daughter.

Lisa unexpectedly gets a chance to leave her native Bristol and travel to Glasgow for COP26. On the closing day she begins an exchange of letters with her daughter Hope about her impressions of the past fortnight and what it might mean for families like theirs. There's a goodie bag, Irn Bru on tap, and she gets close enough to Barack Obama to examine his teeth, but will Hope be reassured by all this, and by plans to build eco-friendly prisons?

A funny and poignant story of love and conversation, across the generations, between mother and daughter.

Readers...Christine Kavanagh and Karis Crawford
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

Travis is an award-winning writer, performer and theatre maker. Their work surrounds gender, trans identity and race and has been described as 'mesmerising' (The Guardian) and 'the future of theatre' by the Evening Standard, which also listed them as one of the 25 most influential under-twenty-five year olds in 2019.

Bernardine Evaristo described them as a 'cultural change maker of tomorrow'. Pink News said 'There aren't enough stars in the universe to put on Travis Alabanza's (show) 'Burgerz'.' (On their show 'Overflow') 'Alabanza’s funny, tender study of allyship and the bravery of being who you are could become a future classic. “
– Evening Standard


SAT 15:00 The Pallisers (m000fnl5)
Episode 4

The Pallisers. Dramatised by Mike Harris based on the novels by Anthony Trollope.
The return of the series about high life and low politics in Victorian England. It is the 1880s and Plantagenet is to become Prime Minister. He is in charge of the government, but Cora is determined to be the power behind the throne. Is she a force for good? Or is she just meddling?
Lady Glencora..................Jessica Raine
Plantagenet.....................Tim McMullan
Phineas Finn...................Edward MacLiam
Marie Goesler.................Melody Grove
Lopez.................................Mark Arends
Emily Drought..............Lucy Reynolds
Orlando Drought.......Neil McCaul
Spurgeon......................Clive Hayward
Sailor/Servant..............Greg Jones
Servant..........................Scarlett Courtney
Director Emma Harding
Producer Gary Brown


SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour (m0011jx5)
Weekend Woman's Hour: Mary Robinson, Huma Abedin, Daddy Issues

Mary Robinson, once President of Ireland and now the Chair of The Elders, has been at COP26 in Glasgow all fortnight. She explains why the climate challenge ahead is so emotional.

The BBC has withdrawn from a workplace diversity scheme run by Stonewall. On behalf of the BBC, we hear from Rhodri Talfan Davies, who is Director of Nations and sits on the corporation's Executive Committee.

Huma Abedin worked as Hillary Clinton’s private top aide and long-time advisor for 25 years. She was also the wife of ex-congressman Anthony Weiner, when a sexting scandal sent him to prison, destroyed their marriage and derailed her boss’ bid to become President in 2016. Emerging from the wings of American political history to take command of her own story, she’s just released her memoir.

Daddy Issues. It's an insult now but it started out as a psychological term to explain the importance of father figures. But what exactly are Daddy Issues, how real are they? Katherine Angel, author of ‘Daddy Issues’, and Angharad George-Carey, host of the Daddy Issues podcast joins us.

Hollyoaks star Sarah Jayne Dunn is defending the OnlyFans pictures that led to her exit from the long-running soap. Sarah - who has played the character of Mandy Richardson on the show since 1996 - was reportedly axed after refusing to delete her OnlyFans social media account.

And people living in Syston, Leicestershire have been treated to an incredible life-size knitted soldier that has appeared at the War Memorial Clock Tower. It is the work of the mysteriously named "Knitting Banksy", an anonymous woman who has been surprising locals with her stunning creations. We hear from Samantha Noble, reporter for BBC East Midlands Online, who's been in contact with Knitting Bansky.


SAT 17:00 PM (m0011jx7)
Full coverage of the day's news


SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line (m0011c60)
Class in the workplace

How can companies create a level playing field for applicants and employees from lower socio-economic backgrounds? Evan Davis and guests discuss the sometimes invisible barriers and assumptions which exclude some from getting jobs or getting promoted. Many believe that the job interview format tends to favour the social skills of those from the middle and upper middle classes. Diversity schemes help - but there are questions about whether they go far enough. Is this the final taboo when it comes to equality in employment?

Guests:
Professor Lee Elliot-Major, University of Exeter
Sandra Wallace, chair, Social Mobility Commission and one of the Managing Directors for UK & Europe, DLA Piper
Jenny Baskerville, Head of Inclusion, Diversity & Social Equality, KPMG

Producer: Lucinda Borrell
Sound: Graham Puddifoot
Editor: Hugh Levinson


SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m0011jxb)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SAT 17:57 Weather (m0011jxd)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m0011jxg)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 18:15 Loose Ends (m0011jxj)
Sir Rod Stewart, Dan Schreiber, Damon Albarn, Jen Brister, Jordan Rakei, Athena Kugblenu, Clive Anderson

Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Sir Rod Stewart, Damon Albarn, Dan Schreiber and Jen Brister for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Damon Albarn and Jordan Rakei.


SAT 19:00 Profile (m0011jxl)
Kamlesh Patel

He came to Britain as a toddler - one of several thousand Indian immigrants from Kenya.

Raised in poverty in 1960s Bradford, Kamlesh Patel was targeted by skinheads – and sought solace playing cricket in a field with other south Asian friends.

Almost 50 years later - now a peer - Lord Patel is tasked with trying to repair the reputation of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, which has been accused of systemic racism.

As MPs begin their own investigation, Mark Coles follows Kamlesh Patel's remarkable journey from schoolboy cricketer and one time ambulance driver to social worker, academic, the House of Lords and now chair of the club he always dreamed of playing for.

Presenter: Mark Coles
Producer: Ben Crighton


SAT 19:15 This Cultural Life (m0011jxn)
Carlos Acosta

Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta talks to John Wilson about some of the key moments of his cultural life. He discusses the influence of his father, his early love of breakdancing in the streets of Havana and the devastating effects of on life in Cuba after the collapse of Communism around the world. He also recalls his breakthrough moment winning the prestigious Prix de Lausanne ballet competition at the age of 16 and becoming the first black principal dancer of the Royal Ballet.

Producer: Edwina Pitman


SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 (m0011jxq)
Jan Morris: Writing a Life

Jan Morris wrote books but also constructed her life to a degree rarely seen in one individual. She created a glittering career, invented a writing style, chose her nationality and most famously, changed her sex. Who was the person behind her many masks?

She joked that on her death the headlines would read ‘Sex-change author dies’. A year after her passing, writer Horatio Clare assesses her remarkable legacy and explores some of the myths she built up about herself and her life.

Horatio talks to Michael Palin, travel writer Sara Wheeler, and Jan's biographer Paul Clements, and visits Jan's home in North Wales to meet her son Twm Morys. Hearing interviews she recorded throughout her long life, he attempts to find out who Jan Morris really was.

Michael Palin talks about the Jan Morris he met-witty, generous and inspirational, but also a challenging interviewee who used a variety of techniques to deflect difficult questions about her private life. “I can’t remember what I said but it was something fawningly admiring about her work and all she’d done, and she said ‘oh my life has been one whole self-centred exercise in self-satisfaction’. A wonderful ringing phrase designed to divert you from asking anything or delving too deep!”. Paul Clements tells the programme she ‘…played hide and seek with the facts’.

Morris re-invented travel-writing from the 1960s onwards, taking the genre away from dusty, factual travelogue into new realms of dazzling prose and imaginative personal response, all done with wit and humour. Jan said she ‘authored’ the cities she visited. Archive on Four considers how much she also constructed and presented her whole life, with determination, guile and skill.

James - as she was then- Morris knew from a very young age both that he was in the wrong body and that he wanted to be a writer. Through a combination of self-confidence, determination and what Jan herself describes as her ‘insufferable ambition’, she achieved what she set out to, becoming one of the most successful journalists of her generation and then a world-famous author of books about places like Venice, Oxford, Trieste and Manhattan. By the 1970s she was being
called ‘the most travelled person in the world, while Alistair Cooke dubbed her ‘The Flaubert of the jet age’. She can also claim to have created a distinctive writing style and with her history of the British Empire, even a literary genre. The ‘Pax Britannica Trilogy’ combined rigorous historical research with her own contemporary and sometimes imaginative responses to the former imperial outposts she was visiting or living in at the time.

At the same time as these professional and literary achievements, however, Jan was also undergoing a deep crisis of personal identity. In one of her books, Conundrum, she described how the conviction she’d had as a child that she was in the wrong body had never left her, but by her thirties she was in despair about the possibility of doing anything about it and had even considered killing herself. Conundrum describes how, with planning and courage, she overcame these difficulties and succeeded in making the transition from man to woman. She said the sex change brought her the happiness she’d always sought. She also claimed that her decision had
made little impact on the happiness of her four children, but that claim is put to the test in the programme. Her son Twm says ‘I don't remember the transition. I was only seven. Maybe that's some psychological block, I have no idea, but I really don't care because it doesn't disturb me in any way, it fascinates me still.’

At the same time as her transition, Jan Morris also decided to move to Wales and from that time onwards, although describing herself as Anglo-Welsh, professed herself to be more comfortable with her Welsh side and became what she described as a ‘Welsh Nationalist Republican’. It was another move in a life of self-construction. Almost all she wanted to say about her life was written down in her books, even those about far-off places. But she resisted saying more publicly.

As her biographer Paul Clements says: “This mask…was often there, and what was lurking underneath is anybody’s guess.’


SAT 21:00 Brief Lives (b04d4q09)
Series 7

Episode 1

Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly. Ep 1 of 6
Frank Twist and his team of Manchester's finest paralegals returns for another series. Frank is recovering from his recent stroke and desperate to get back to work. Meanwhile Sarah's beauty parlour seems to be harbouring a secret.

Frank.......................David Schofield
Sarah......................Kathryn Hunt
Ronnie.....................Rachel Austin
Cheryl.....................Mandi Symonds
Kim..........................Sarah Lam
Anh.........................Vera Chok
DC Hart...................James Quinn

Director/Producer Gary Brown


SAT 21:45 The Poet and the Echo (b09ms49d)
Series 2

The Windhover

5 writers choose 5 poems as inspiration for new stories.

Episode 1/5

The Windhover

A mother tells the story of how her son came to be part of the family.

A story inspired by Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'The Windhover', by Merryn Glover

Credits

Writer ..... Merryn Glover
Reader ..... Alison Peebles
Producer ..... Claire Simpson

A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 22:00 News (m0011jxs)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 22:15 The Reunion (m000qlzh)
The Covid-19 ward

Kirsty Wark brings together six people who were in the eye of the storm during this year's pandemic.

The poet and author Michael Rosen is reunited with some of the intensive care staff who cared for him during his battle with coronavirus. He has no memory of much of his time in hospital as he was in an induced coma for seven weeks. The staff who looked after him rarely see their patients again once they have been discharged.

For the ICU staff at the Whittington Hospital in north London, the rising tide of infected patients was like "a tsunami" and the following weeks were like working in "a warzone". Michael's consultant, Professor Hugh Montgomery, said that he and his team watched six coffins go out in one morning. Charge nurse Ally Auladin said, "You'd start your day putting on PPE, then it would be 100mph for the rest of the day."

Senior nurse Jo Eardley said, "You could work a whole day and not know your patient's name because we didn't have time." The baffling symptoms of infected patients meant that much of their previous training and experience was useless. Junior doctor Amanda Macaskill Stewart said; "It's the first time I've worked with a disease that I didn't know about. We were hoping for the best without really knowing."

Michael's wife Emma Williams said that, on the night after Michael was intubated, she feared he may never wake up. As medics worked around the clock to save him, Michael's poem celebrating the NHS took on a new resonance during the pandemic.

For months after his discharge, Michael struggled to make sense of what he had been through. But for Amanda, "He was truly one of our happy stories."

Presenter: Kirsty Wark
Producer: Karen Pirie
Series Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain (m0011cgw)
The Final, 2021

(17/17)
Russell Davies welcomes the four competitors whose wide general knowledge has propelled them through heats and semi-finals, who now take their place on the stage for the 2021 Brain of Britain Final.

Their knowledge will be truly put to the test in order for them to leap the final hurdle and hold the trophy. Which Greek letter is used in physics to denote wavelength? Which was the first US state to ratify the constitution? What would you take an antitussive medicine for?

An appreciative audience is on hand to encourage the competitors and cheer the eventual champion, who'll become the 68th official BBC Brain of Britain.

Assistant Producer Stephen Garner
Producer Paul Bajoria

Brain of Britain is a BBC Audio North production for Radio 4


SAT 23:30 Uncanny (m0011jxv)
Case 4: My Best Friend's Ghost

Laura, a young woman with a wild streak, leaves home and finds a room in a flat-share where she meets Anna, who becomes her best friend. When Anna dies tragically from cancer, Laura is heartbroken, but then… Anna comes back.

As Laura tells Danny Robins her story, he explores the world of mediums (is it really possible to contact the dead?) and investigates the greatest of all mysteries – what happens to us when we die?

Written and presented by Danny Robins
Experts: Chris French and Ashley Darkwood
Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King
Music: Evelyn Sykes
Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake
Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4