SATURDAY 21 JANUARY 2023

SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m001h401)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 00:30 On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock (m001h3xs)
Indigenous Curiousity and Legacy

The historical records of Indigenous people in Europe tells us very little, and is often obscured thanks to its provenance. But, with careful reading the lives and legacy of those brought to Europe can be illuminated.

Written by Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock
Read by Maggie Service

Abridged by Laurence Wareing
Produced by Naomi Walmsley


SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001h403)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001h405)
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 (m001h407)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SAT 05:30 News Briefing (m001h409)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m001h40c)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston

Good morning.

It was the rainy season in 1946 and Sister Agnes was travelling by train to Darjeeling. She was 37 years old and had been a school-teacher for almost 20 years.

On that train journey, her life changed. It wasn’t that anything spectacular happened; but, as she gazed-out at the passing world of West Bengal, she had a quiet insight: it dawned on her that what she was doing with her life was good – but what she needed to do was better.

She described the insight as ‘a call within a call’… God wanted something more from her. She later wrote “He wanted me to be poor with the poor and love him in the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor.”

That single train journey marks an axis moment in the 20th century: the ‘Day of Inspiration’ was the point when Sister Agnes became Mother Teresa.

We all have life-trajectories; we walk the pilgrim road, sometimes with others, occasionally alone, and we make choices as we go.

Some people find that the daily challenge is the choice between right and wrong.

But others, like Sr Agnes, are on a road where they have already made a fundamental life-choice and, if not marching, they are at least stumbling in the direction of God and the common good.

Their daily choices determine not so much the direction of travel, but the angle of travel – and the challenge for such people is to catch a glimpse of when the soul is quietly settling for ‘the okay’ rather than reaching for the better.

Lord, allow me to be open to the inspiration of your Spirit, that today, on the feast day of Saint Agnes, I might not settle for the good, but may strive for the best.

Amen.


SAT 05:45 Four Thought (m001h40f)
I'm not having children to save the planet

Sarah Williams always wanted to become a mum. But the more she learnt about the climate crisis, the more she questioned her decision. In this talk Sarah explains why she's chosen not to have children in order to save the planet, and how she encourages others to think twice about it. She says that she is not anti-child but that overpopulation is something that should concern everyone. Sarah also points out there are more sustainable ways to start a family, like adoption.


SAT 06:00 News and Papers (m001hdn2)
The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.


SAT 06:07 Open Country (m001h4cn)
East Neuk of Fife

Ruth Sanderson visits the East Neuk of Fife on the east coast of Scotland. "Neuk" is the Scots word for a nook or corner, and Ruth finds plenty of interesting corners to explore as she braves the wind and the cold to meander up the coastline from Elie to Crail. She finds out about the Fife coastal path, discovers some of its many beaches and learns about its seabirds. She also meets a geologist-turned-restaurateur with a professional interest in the area's sealife, who tells her about the importance of fish to the region's trading history. Some of the old fishing villages are now havens for artists: in Crail Ruth visits a family-run pottery which was set up in the 1960s, and discovers how the landscape has inspired three generations of creativity.

Produced and presented by Ruth Sanderson


SAT 06:30 Farming Today (m001hdn8)
Fishermen on England's North East Coast say they're no further forward after an independent panel of scientists concluded there is no one clear cause of the deaths of thousands of crabs in the area. Fishermen blamed dredging at Teesside for releasing chemicals which killed the crabs but the panel considered that 'exceptionally unlikely' and believe it may be a pathogen.

Cornwall Council has approved plans for second home owners to be charged double the council tax. And if they leave those second homes empty and unfurnished for a year, they’ll be charged triple.

A farmer says his attempts to keep joy riders and poachers off his land have been thwarted by planners. Colin Rayner who farms near Heathrow, put concrete blocks and old tyres across gates to stop vehicles. He says he's been threatened with legal action by Buckinghamshire County Council as they say the barriers breach planning laws.

All week we've been talking about fertilisers. Russia is a top exporter of fertilisers and the chemicals used to make them and war in Ukraine has caused supply issues and driven up the price of natural gas, which is a key part of fertiliser production. As a result European fertiliser production fell by 70 per cent last year. We hear from the head of one of one of the world's biggest fertiliser firms, YARA, who's accused Vladimir Putin of 'weaponising food'.

We also look at some of the alternatives to traditional granular fertilisers. Some growers believe cover crops, planting beans and clover which fix nitrogen in the soil, are the answer to improved soil health and fertility.

Presenter = Charlotte Smith
Producer = Rebecca Rooney


SAT 06:57 Weather (m001hdnh)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SAT 07:00 Today (m001hdnq)
Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (m001hdp3)
Miles Jupp and Cariad Lloyd

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Miles Jupp, comedian, writer and actor who pops up in everything from the Vestry in Rev, the press room in The Thick of It, a Greek Island in The Durrells and recently, the desert in SAS Rogue Heroes. He's also written novels, radio series and presented the News Quiz.

Cariad Lloyd is a comedian who lost her father at a young age and has since dealt with her grief through her podcast, Griefcast. She talks openly and honestly about grief and its effects with her guests, who include authors, comedians and other public figures. But how does death blend with comedy? She joins us.

We also have author Anstey Harris, whose new fiction book has been inspired by her own adoption and research into her birth relatives. Connecting with a community of fellow adoptees on social media has helped her process some of the feelings she has had about her history.

Dr Sean Kingsley is a Saturday Live listener who contacted us about researching his family story. When we heard he was also a marine archaeologist, we thought - let's get him on the show!

Blake Harrington from The Inbetweeners chooses his Inheritance Tracks: Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses and Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen performed by Baz Luhrman.
and we have your Thank You from someone you were unable to thank at the time.

Producer: Corinna Jones


SAT 10:30 You're Dead To Me (p095dkp7)
Grainne O’Malley

Greg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Gillian Kenny and comedian Catherine Bohart in 16th century Ireland to look at the life of pirate queen Grainne O’Malley.

Against the backdrop of the changing legal landscape of Ireland as it faced brutality from incoming English administrators, we look at the difficult decisions Grainne was forced to make to ensure her family's survival. From bold changes to her appearance as a teenager to ensure her place on her fathers ship, to aggressive actions on a castle that refused to serve her food. Grainne O’Malley was not a woman to be messed with. This strength and defiance would lead to an unlikely understanding with Queen Elizabeth I.

Produced by Cornelius Mendez
Script by Greg Jenner and Emma Nagouse
Research by Jessica White

The Athletic production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (m001hdpd)
George Parker from the FT hosts a review of the political week. Including discussions on gender recognition and devolution; retained EU law and the annual Davos meeting. He also interviews former top diplomat Lord McDonald on relations between the UK and Iran.


SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (m001hdpl)
Ukraine dreams of a different future

Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Nepal, Iraq, Norway and the United States.

Andrew Harding is on the frontline in Eastern Donbas, close to Russian lines, where Ukrainian soldiers share their dreams of a future after the war.

The Yeti airlines crash in Nepal last Sunday was the worst in 30 years. Rajini Vaidyanathan saw the grim reality of the crash site and spoke to mourners as they prepared to bury their loved ones.

From chocolate biscuits, to porcelain to air-conditioning units, Iranian produce lines the shelves of stores in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. But despite the strong commercial ties and shared cultural influences between the two countries, tensions are flaring in the Kurdistan region of Iraq after the death of Mahsa Amini, writes Lizzie Porter.

In Arctic Norway, cod fisherman rely on Russian cooperation to share fish stocks in the Barents Sea. Hugh Francis Anderson was in Tromso where he met fisherman increasingly wary that souring relations with Russia could impact their livelihoods.

Mark Moran reports from Arizona on the water wars in the state, where rural farmers and ranchers are launching a fightback against the move to divert water to the expanding city of Queen's Creek.

Producer: Serena Tarling
Editor: China Collins


SAT 12:00 News Summary (m001hdqd)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 12:04 Money Box (m001hdpz)
Debt Advice, Mortgage Costs and Savings

As hundreds of people at two large debt advice charities face redundancy – we visit a local debt advice centre to see who they help and how.

Mortgage rates are at their highest for 14 years - the average is five and a half per cent for a two year fix, nearly six and half for the standard variable rate. The regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, predicts more than half a million people will be at risk of falling into arears over the next couple of years. We'll discuss what to do if you’re struggling to afford your mortgage

When and how will people who live off grid - without a gas or electricity supplier - get the government help with their energy bills?

And what are the options for saving if you're on a low income? We'll discuss the government's Help to Save scheme.

Presenter: Paul Lewis
Reporter: Dan Whitworth
Researchers: Sandra Hardial and Jo Krasner
Editor: Jess Quayle

(First broadcast, 12pm Saturday 21st January, 2023)


SAT 12:30 The News Quiz (m001h612)
Series 110

Episode 4

Andy Zaltzman is joined by Geoff Norcott, Shaparak Khorsandi, Helen Lewis and Ian Smith. This week they discuss Keir Starmer's plans for the NHS, teachers' strikes and the political row over Scotland's gender recognition reform bill.

Hosted and written by Andy Zaltzman with additional material from Alice Fraser, Mike Shephard, Katie Storey, Vicky Richards and Cameron Loxdale.

Producer: Georgia Keating
Executive Producer: James Robinson
Production Co-ordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries
Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Production


SAT 12:57 Weather (m001hdq5)
The latest weather forecast


SAT 13:00 News and Weather (m001hdqf)
The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4


SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (m001h614)
Dehenna Davison MP, Dave Doogan MP, Imran Hakim, Lucy Powell MP

Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Blackburn Cathedral with a panel including the Levelling Up minister Dehenna Davison MP, the SNP's defence spokesperson Dave Doogan MP, Lancashire-based entrepreneur Imran Hakim and the shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell MP.

Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton
Lead broadcast engineer: Phil Booth


SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (m001hdqp)
Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions?


SAT 14:45 39 Ways to Save the Planet (m0010wqr)
Hunting Down the Polluters

Tom Heap discovers fresh ways to quantify greenhouse gas emissions with help from satellites, artificial intelligence and former US Vice President Al Gore.

Emissions data from companies and countries can be inaccurate, incomplete or sometimes just plain deceitful. The team at Climate TRACE, led by Al Gore, have devised innovative ways to calculate accurate emissions data from power stations, factories, ships and even planes. That data can be used to reveal unexpected sources of carbon dioxide and methane and to provide independent figures for international negotiations on climate change.

Producer: Alasdair Cross

Researcher: Sarah Goodman

Produced in association with the Royal Geographical Society. Special thanks for this episode to Professor Raphael Heffron from the University of Dundee and Professor Paul Palmer from the University of Edinburgh. Image courtesy of Transition Zero.


SAT 15:00 The Jungle Book (m000sxy3)
Episode 1

Ayeesha Menon takes Rudyard Kipling’s family classic and gives it a darker twist, re-imagining it in the concrete jungle of present-day India. A gangland coming-of-age fable.

Mowgli, the orphan boy at the centre of the story, is being brought up by the Wolves, a gang of petty criminals in a tenement block in Mumbai, and quickly learns how to survive in that world. But when the villainous politician, Tiger Khan, threatens Mowgli's life, two residents of the tenement block, "black panther" Bagheera and the "bear" Baloo, offer to help him escape and he embarks on a journey of self-discovery through the city, meeting "creatures" along the way who don't always have his best interests at heart.

Recorded in India.

Cast:
Mo - Namit Das
Tiger Khan - Rajit Kapur
Mrs Gupta - Shernaz Patel
Mr Gupta- Zafar Karachiwala
Bugs - Sukant Goel
Yuva- Abir Abrar
Kala- Shikha Talsania
Rikita- Devika Shahani
Father Carvalho - Sohrab Ardeshir
Young Kala/Rani- Preetika Chawla
Young Mo - Omkar Kulkarni
Dimple - Trisha Kale
Bobby - Alka Sharma
Varun/Boy - Ajitesh Gupta
Amma - Prerna Chawla
Raksha- Shivani Tanksale
Rafiq & Naag- Tavish Bhattacharyya
Baldeo/Tabaqui/Purun Bhagat- Vivek Madan
Akhil - Nadir Khan

Music by Sacha Puttnam
Songs written and performed by Satchit Puranik

Written and directed by Ayeesha Menon
Producer: Nadir Khan
Executive Producer: John Scott Dryden

A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour (m001hdqz)
Weekend Woman's Hour: Michelle Williams, Elizabeth McGovern, former New Zealand PM Helen Clark on Jacinda Ardern

The award-winning actor Michelle Williams discusses her new role in Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical film, The Fabelmans. She plays Mitzi, a concert pianist who’s put her artistic ambition aside to raise a family, and is struggling to play a supporting role to her computer genius husband. Michelle explains why she was attracted to the role, and how her work in Dawson's Creek as a teenager set her up for Hollywood success.

On Thursday, the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her shock resignation. We discuss with BBC Diplomatic Correspondent James Lansdale, former Prime Minister Helen Clark and the political scientist Lara Greaves from Auckland University.

Wendy Warrington is an NHS nurse and midwife who has been giving medical help and support to women and children in Ukraine since March last year. She tells us about the impact of the war on maternity services in the country.

Afghan police have confirmed that a former Afghan MP and her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in the capital Kabul. Mursal Nabizada was one of nine out of 69 female MPs who chose to stay in the country after the Taliban returned to power. We speak to Fawzia Koofi, Afghanistan's First Woman Deputy Speaker of Parliament.

The Oscar-nominated actor and Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern shares her experience of playing Martha in a new production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

‘Lucky girl syndrome’ is a new trend taking over TikTok with over 80 million views of the hashtag. The journalist Róisín Lanigan from i-D magazine and psychologist Catherine Hallissey discuss whether it’s just a new take on positive thinking, and whether there is any psychological basis for it.

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Lucy Wai
Editor: Lucinda Montefiore


SAT 17:00 PM (m001hdr6)
Full coverage of the day's news


SAT 17:30 Political Thinking with Nick Robinson (m001hdrd)
The Sharon Graham One

The leader of the Unite union gives a frank and engaging interview to Nick Robinson. She defends the new wave of strikes by ambulance workers, sets out how under her leadership Unite is 'following the money' to target bad employers and explains why Keir Starmer's Labour party is a 'bad tribute act' to Tony Blair and reveals she was threatened by former colleagues when she began an investigation into 'potential criminality' within the union. She tells stories from her early life, including how she led a walkout of silver service restaurant staff aged just 17 in a protest over pay.


SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m001hdrj)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SAT 17:57 Weather (m001hdrr)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SAT 18:00 Six O' Clock News (m001hds0)
The Conservative Party chairman, Nadhim Zahawi, has confirmed he did make a payment to HMRC to settle a tax dispute


SAT 18:15 Loose Ends (m001hdrl)
Lisa McGrillis, Travis Alabanza, Emma Moran, Joe Thomas, Rozi Plain, Jaz Delorean, Emma Freud, Clive Anderson

Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Lisa McGrillis, Travis Alabanza, Joe Thomas and Emma Moran for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rozi Plain and Jaz Delorean.


SAT 19:00 Profile (m001hdpx)
Hanif Kureishi

After suffering a fall that has left him paralysed, the playwright, screenwriter and author has begun sharing his thoughts with the world from his hospital bed.

Born in suburban Bromley to an English mother and a Pakistani father, Hanif Kureishi turned to the arts to escape his everyday surroundings growing up. He became one of the most celebrated writers of his generation.

Mark Coles hears from Kureishi's friends, family and old colleagues, as he explores the life and career of the man whose works include The Buddha of Suburbia and My Beautiful Laundrette.

Presenter: Mark Coles
Producers: Ben Cooper and Diane Richardson
Editor: Simon Watts
Production Co-ordinators: Maria Ogundele and Sabine Schereck
Sound Engineer: Neil Churchill


SAT 19:15 This Cultural Life (m001hdsj)
Damien Chazelle

Oscar-winning film-maker Damien Chazelle talks to John Wilson about his career and cultural influences.

As a child, Chazelle first started experimenting with making films using his dad’s old camcorder. After studying filmmaking at Harvard, he drew on his own experiences as a skilful jazz drummer to make his debut feature film Whiplash, about a music student and his abusive teacher. His movie La La Land, a musical in which star-crossed lovers sing and dance through the backstreets of LA, won six more Academy Awards. Damien explains how much that film owes to the Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand's 1964 romantic musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. He also reveals how the Los Angeles paintings of David Hockney, and in particular his 1967 work A Bigger Splash, inspired the feel and the palate of La La Land. Chazelle's latest movie Babylon explores the birth of the film industry itself and the painful transition from silent movies to the talkies, and is inspired, in part, by the classic musical Singin' in The Rain. He also explains how his love of west coat jazz musicians including Stan Getz and Chet Baker has influenced his creative output.

Producer: Edwina Pitman


SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 (b01slmd0)
Profumo Confidential

In 1963 Tom Mangold covered the Profumo Affair for the Daily Express. Minister of War John Profumo had admitted to an affair with Christine Keeler, who was allegedly also having an affair with a Russian Spy. The scandal led to the Minister's downfall, hastened the departure of the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and led to the suicide of 'society osteopath' Stephen Ward, who had friendships with all the players and a louche life-style, and was hounded to trial on the flimsiest allegations of living on immoral earnings.

Hours before that trial verdict was due, Tom Mangold visited Stephen Ward, only to find him writing suicide notes. Shortly after Mangold left, Ward killed himself.

In Profumo Confidential, Tom Mangold stands back from the assignment of his life half a century ago, to explain and to reveal new facets of the event which more than any other etched the shape of a generation and changed the face of Britain for ever.

A few weeks ago Mangold acquired some remarkable new documents - the private notes of the right hand man to Lord Denning whose report on the scandal was published fifty years ago. The notes offer an extraordinary insight behind the scenes of the Denning investigation - as well as containing a vivid snapshot of Britain in the early sixties, as one ageing generation fought desperately to keep the swinging sixties at bay.

Mangold has also obtained the full manuscript of Ward's unpublished autobiography and, in this programme, Stephen Ward appears to speak from the grave - condemning the establishment hypocricies closing in on him.

The programme also features a full and exclusive broadcast interview with Mandy Rice-Davis, Christine Keeler's erstwhile companion.

Producer: Adam Fowler
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 21:00 Stone (b09l0cc0)
Series 7

Episode 3

Stone Episode 3 by Richard Monks.

Following a suspicious death in a fire at a homeless hostel, DCI Stone has to track down the victim's next of kin. When the victim's father is pulled in for questioning Stone probes into the complex relationship they had but Stone's ongoing problems with his daughter lead him to some soul searching of his own.

Written by Richard Monks
Created by Danny Brocklehurst
Script Editor Caitlin Crawford
Director Nadia Molinari
Producers Gary Brown and Nadia Molinari

DCI John Stone investigates the suspicious death of a man in a fire at a homeless hostel. Stone's enquiries lead him to re-examine a murder he worked on twenty years before in order to solve the case. In doing so he uncovers a web of lies and deceit that make him face past mistakes and lead to personal trauma.


SAT 21:45 Rabbit Remembered (m0009jl8)
Episode 3

Written ten years after his Pulitzer Prize winning tetralogy about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, John Updike revisits the family a decade on from Harry's death to contemplate how the family has got on without him.

Rabbit's son Nelson has recovered from his drug habit but separated from his wife. Janice, his widow has remarried. But into their lives steps Annabelle, Harry's illegitimate daughter. And echoes of the past begin to cascade into the present.

Read by Toby Jones
Abridged by Robin Brooks
Produced by Clive Brill

A Brill production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 22:00 News (m001hdsv)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 22:15 Moral Maze (m001h60r)
Personal Debt

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be,” advised Shakespeare’s Polonius. These words seem hopelessly out of touch in cost of living crisis with soaring inflation and astronomical levels of personal debt. The charity StepChange has warned that money borrowed by UK households to pay for Christmas could take years to repay. Meanwhile, a study by the Resolution Foundation suggests the British public are the worst in the developed world at saving. How did we get here?

For some, our eye-popping indebtedness begins with a failure of personal responsibility, an absence of prudence, and an inability to discern between our ‘wants’ and needs’. For others, the real problem is systemic, where borrowers are victims of a consumerist society that both pressurises and stigmatises the poorest. Pragmatists argue that debt itself is morally neutral and merely part of the furniture of modern life. Free market libertarians see debt as a democratising force, giving people greater personal agency. Whereas many religious and philosophical traditions have long believed that there is something intrinsically immoral about charging interest on lending.

Is debt inevitable? Or a moral failing? If so, whose?

Producer: Dan Tierney.


SAT 23:00 Counterpoint (m001h461)
Series 36

Heat 2, 2023

(2/13)
In the second heat of the 2023 season the competitors come from Kent, London and Devon. They'll face Paul Gambaccini's questions on every genre of music, from the classics to show tunes, jazz, world music and pop and rock of all eras. As well as testing their musical general knowledge, Paul will ask them each to pick a special subject on which to answer individual questions - with no advance warning of the categories they'll be choosing from.

Taking part in the programme are:
Claire Barrow from Honiton in Devon
Roger Easy from London
Paul Millgate from Petts Wood in Kent

Assistant Producer: Stephen Garner
Producer: Paul Bajoria


SAT 23:30 Poetry Please (m001h45t)
Anthony Joseph

Roger McGough is joined by the writer and musician Anthony Joseph, who makes a selection from listeners' poem requests and recommendations and shares some of his own work. They talk about whether writing or music came first for Anthony and about the riches of Caribbean poetry. Anthony's choices include poems by James Berry, Claude McKay, Derek Walcott, Charles Causley, Audre Lorde, Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Helen Dunmore.

Anthony Joseph is an award winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. He is the author of four poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, and long listed for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His most recent publication is the experimental novel The Frequency of Magic.

As a musician, he has released eight critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths University and is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London. His new collection Sonnets for Albert was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.

​Produced in Bristol by Mair Bosworth for BBC Audio

SUNDAY 22 JANUARY 2023

SUN 00:00 Midnight News (m001hdt4)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 00:15 Torn (m001bkyp)
The stories behind the clothes we wear

Fisherman Sweater

Fisherman sweaters have been part of fishing communities around the world for centuries. They're knitted with wool, often with unique and intricate designs, and can take more than a hundred hours to make.

In episode seven of Torn, Gus Casely-Hayford sets out to discover if it's possible for traditional clothing to live on in a world where machines manufacture clothing at record speeds and record low prices.

The story begins in the early 1900s off the Isle of Lewis in the Scottish Hebrides with two fishermen clad in traditional woollen sweaters known there as ganseys, and continues in the present day with their descendant Alice Starmore who is the only person to have documented local knitting patterns in a published book.


Gus discovers that the tradition has come under the spotlight over the decades thanks to celebrity pizzazz. In 1950, the fashion magazine Vogue photographed Grace Kelly sailing, decked out in a cream cabled Irish fisherman sweater. Recently, Adam Driver wore a chunky white cable knit in the Hollywood movie House of Gucci, and the sweater worn by Chris Evans in Knives Out was a viral sensation. Yet the tradition of knitting fisherman sweaters is being lost as fishing communities die out in towns such as Filey on the coast of Yorkshire, where Margaret Taylor is one of very few people still able to knit them.

Presenter: Gus Casely-Hayford
Executive Producer: Rosie Collyer
Producers: Tiffany Cassidy, Janieann McCracken
Assistant Producer: Nadia Mehdi
Production Coordinator: Francesca Taylor
Sound Design: Rob Speight

A Novel production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 00:30 Short Works (m001h610)
Wasteland Girls by Anna Bailey

A story of families, hoarding, magic and revenge set in the United States.
Wasteland Girls is an atmospheric, powerful new story from BBC NSSA-shortlisted writer Anna Bailey.
Reader: Sarah Twomey
Producer: Nicola Holloway


SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001hdtf)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001hdtq)
BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.


SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001hdv0)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SUN 05:30 News Briefing (m001hdvd)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4


SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday (m001hds1)
St Peter ad Vincula, Combe Martin in Devon

Bells on Sunday comes from St Peter ad Vincula, Combe Martin in Devon. Possibly built on the site of a Saxon church, the construction of the present building began in the 13th-century with additions in the 15th-century and later. The 90 feet high tower contains a peal of eight bells cast in 1922 by the Mears and Stainbank foundry of Whitechapel London. The Tenor bell weighs ten hundredweight and is tuned to F sharp. We hear the bells ringing Yorkshire Surprise Major.


SUN 05:45 Profile (m001hdpx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday]


SUN 06:00 News Summary (m001hdlm)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SUN 06:05 Something Understood (b036tn9w)
Procrastination

Have you ever been blighted by a looming deadline and stayed up all night, wishing you'd started work just a bit earlier? You might curse your hesitation in these situations. But, Samira Ahmed asks: is procrastination always such a bad thing?

Most of us will have procrastinated at some point in our lives. Maybe you can't start the first sentence of the novel you've always want to write because you fear failure. Or perhaps you're putting off telling your partner that your relationship 'just isn't working anymore'. At worst procrastination can be debilitating or prolong a hurtful decision longer than necessary. But might it also be a useful tool for artistic inspiration and a way to let things happen in their own time?

Our relationship with procrastination is a complex one. Many of us are acutely aware that we are doing it, that it robs us of the time to complete tasks to the best of our potential, and yet we just can't stop it. Perhaps it is just human nature? Procrastination has often been characterised as a sin - leaving undone those things which we ought to have done - perhaps suggesting that procrastination has been a concern throughout history.

And yet, there may be something to be said for carefully considered delay. For anyone who's ever felt that sinking feeling after posting something in haste on social media, perhaps delaying action might have been prudent. We can learn from history that sometimes resisting pressure to act more quickly can prevent the direst of consequences. But deliberate procrastination by those who have the power to facilitate change or to maintain the status quo, even if it robs the powerless of equal rights, might suggest that procrastination is a luxury of those who have the time to wait.

The programme includes readings from Kurt Vonnegut, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lanchester, and W.H. Auden, with music by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Leonard Cohen, Karine Polwart, and Yo La Tengo.

Producer: Katherine Godfrey
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 06:35 On Your Farm (m001hdlr)
Farming on Three Plots

Anna Louise Claydon heads out on an agricultural commute around East Kent with Chloe and David Wilcock, who have to keep their livestock in three different locations in order to make farming a reality. They're a first-generation young farming couple and together they drive 40-mile round trips every day, not including multiple journeys for calving, kidding and farrowing. Chloe and David took the leap and bought their livestock, despite the difficulty of finding land around Canterbury. Coming from previous careers in music, the couple learned how to farm on the job - creating their own company, 'Oink and Udder', selling meat boxes, goat milk and soap.

Anna Louise follows Chloe and David on their morning rounds with their two children and farm helpers, four year old Albert and two year old Douglas. With baby number three due any day, she finds out how Chloe manages the long journeys alongside motherhood, pregnancy and home-schooling. Along the way, she meets Emma Loder-Symonds at Nonington Farm and hears about her mission to help first-timers like Chloe and David find and manage land during difficult times. We find out how this inspiring young couple juggle the elements, a young family and a fuel crisis to achieve their farming dreams - on three different plots of land.

Produced and presented by Anna Louise Claydon


SUN 06:57 Weather (m001hdlw)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SUN 07:00 News and Papers (m001hdm0)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SUN 07:10 Sunday (m001hdm4)
Same Sex Marriage and the Church of England

It's been a tough week for the Church of England. The announcement that same sex marriages will remain banned in the Church though blessings for civil marriages of same sex couples would be allowed has been criticised by people on both sides of the debate. We hear from the Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell who says he will take part in blessing services even though the Archbishop of Canterbury says he won't.

The story of Fr Isaac Achi who was burned alive by bandits in his home in Nigeria has reverberated around the world this week and raised the question - how dangerous is it to be a Christian in Northern Nigeria? William talks to Illia Djadi from the missionary charity Open Doors and Abuja based security analyst Dr Kabir Adamu.

Music has the power to change a mood, but what about its ability to change your life? Ismael Lea South shares the story of how listening to Hip Hop in the 90s inspired him to convert to Islam.

As part of our series on faith in prisons, William speaks to Rachel Treweek, Bishop to Prisons in England and Wales, who believes that the majority of female prisoners shouldn’t actually be locked up.

And it's robots v rabbis as we try out a new development in AI technology called Chat GPT that can be used to write sermons and prayers.

Producers: Catherine Murray & Jill Collins
Production co-ordinator: Liz Poole
Editors: Helen Grady and Tim Pemberton


SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal (m001hdm8)
Auditory Verbal UK

Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Auditory Verbal UK.

To Give:
- UK Freephone 0800 404 8144
-You can donate online at bbc.co.uk/appeal/radio4
- Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. (That’s the whole address. Please do not write anything else on the front of the envelope). Mark the back of the envelope ‘Auditory Verbal UK’.
- Cheques should be made payable to ‘Auditory Verbal UK’.
Please note that Freephone and online donations for this charity close at 23.59 on the Saturday after the Appeal is first broadcast. However the Freepost option can be used at any time.

Registered charity number: 1095133

Photo credit © David Webber


SUN 07:57 Weather (m001hdmd)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SUN 08:00 News and Papers (m001hdmj)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship (m001hdmn)
We follow one star

A service from the Chapel of Selwyn College, Cambridge, the second of two programmes marking the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The preacher is Bishop Graham Kings, founder of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, who reflects on how people of all faiths and none can nourish unity in a complex and ever-changing world. The service is led by the Dean of Chapel and Chaplain, The Rev'd Dr Arabella Milbank Robinson, and the Chapel choir leads the congregation in hymns including Christ whose glory fills the skies, and It came upon a midnight clear. Director of Music: Sarah MacDonald. Organ Scholar: Adam Field. Producer: Ben Collingwood.


SUN 08:48 A Point of View (m001h3zr)
Masculinity: From Durkheim to Andrew Tate

Zoe Strimpel looks at the history of masculinity and its moments of crisis, from Emile Durkheim at the end of the 19th Century to self-professed misogynist, Andrew Tate, today.

'The contemporary manosphere', she writes, 'doesn't appear to have any positive idea of what men should be, apart from rich, priapic and nasty - and within the long history of masculinity in crisis - this feels new'.

Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith


SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day (b04t0vfj)
Northern Cardinal

Michael Palin presents the northern cardinal from a New York's Central Park. Northern Cardinals are finch-like birds and make British robins look positively anaemic. They are common residents in the south and east of North America where they live in woods, parks and gardens. Your first sighting of these vermilion birds with their black masks and outrageous crests comes as a shock. They seem too tropically colourful to brave the dull North American winter.

Only the male Cardinals are bright red. Females are browner with flashes of red on their wings and red bills. Both sexes obtain their red colours from seeds and other foods which contain carotenoid pigments.
Their familiarity and eye-catching colours have endeared cardinals to North Americans. No fewer than seven states, including Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio have adopted cardinals as their state bird and it's also the mascot of many famous sports clubs including the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.

Producer : Andrew Dawes


SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House (m001hdms)
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell


SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus (m001hdmx)
Writer, Daniel Thurman
Director, Rosemary Watts
Editor, Jeremy Howe

Helen Archer ….. Louiza Patikas
Pat Archer ….. Patricia Gallimore
Tony Archer ….. David Troughton
Brian Aldridge ….. Charles Collingwood
Lilian Bellamy ….. Sunny Ormonde
Leonard Berry ….. Paul Copley
Lee Bryce ….. Ryan Early
Justin Elliott ….. Simon Williams
Rex Fairbrother ….. Nick Barber
Brad Horrobin ….. Taylor Uttley
Chelsea Horrobin ….. Madeleine Leslay
Tracy Horrobin ….. Susie Riddell
Jim Lloyd ….. John Rowe
Adam Macy ….. Andrew Wincott
Kate Madikane ….. Perdita Avery
Kirsty Miller ….. Annabelle Dowler
Stella Pryor ….. Lucy Speed
Erik ….. Steven Hartley


SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs (m001hdn3)
Michael Pollan, writer

Michael Pollan’s award-winning writing about plants, nature and food combines anthropology and philosophy with culture, health and natural history. Time Magazine has named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world and his maxim to ‘Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.’ is a central tenet of the sustainable food movement.

Michael grew up in suburban Long Island, USA, and planted his first garden when he was eight-years-old. He was an intern at the Village Voice newspaper in New York while he was a student and after he graduated he joined Harper’s Magazine as an editor where he worked with the writer Tom Wolfe among others.

Michael’s first book Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education is a collection of essays about gardening and his later titles, including the Botany of Desire and the Omnivore’s Dilemma, addressed modern methods of food production and argued that in an era of fast and processed food, basic cooking skills were being lost. Recently, Michael has written about the use of psychedelic drugs as a potential treatment for some mental health conditions, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Michael is professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2020 he co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. Michael is married to the artist Judith Belzer and they live in California.

DISC ONE: Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) by Harry Belafonte
DISC TWO: The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel
DISC THREE: Going Up the Country by Canned Heat
DISC FOUR: Cheek to Cheek by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
DISC FIVE: Shady Grove by Gerry Garcia and David Grisman
DISC SIX: California by Joni Mitchell
DISC SEVEN: Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles
DISC EIGHT: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: I. Prélude, composed by J.S Bach and performed by Yo-Yo Ma

BOOK CHOICE: Ulysses by James Joyce
LUXURY ITEM: Dark chocolate
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: I. Prélude, composed by J.S Bach and performed by Yo-Yo Ma

Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Paula McGinley


SUN 12:00 News Summary (m001hdn9)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 12:04 Just a Minute (m001h46h)
Series 90

Whitney Houston, Foraging for Mushrooms and Duck Duck Goose

Sue Perkins challenges Paul Merton, Jennifer Saunders, Julian Clary and Anna Maxwell Martin to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation.

The long-running Radio 4 national treasure of a parlour game is back for a new series with subjects this week ranging from Whitney Houston to Duck Duck Goose.

Production co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow
Sound editor: Marc Willcox
Producer: Rajiv Karia

A BBC Studios Production


SUN 12:32 The Food Programme (m001hdnl)
The Wild West of Whisky: From Cask Investments to Dram Scams

Whisky has long been associated with money and wealth, but in recent years prices of rare casks and limited bottlings have soared. A cask of Islay whisky sold for a record-breaking £16 million last year, and the number of cask investment companies is growing, with many of them promising investors big profits and the chance to own their very own cask of Scotch whisky.

Behind the headlines and dollar signs, some industry experts are concerned at the practices of certain companies, worried that their promised returns are unrealistic and questioning their legality to trade in some cases.

We hear from whisky consultant and broker Blair Bowman about why he feels many companies are “flying way too close to the sun”.

Jaega Wise speaks to Pete Allison from new Edinburgh whisky blender Woven about the rapid rise in cask prices, the impact it’s having on his business, and why he feels the bubble is destined to burst eventually.

Producer Robbie Armstrong meets Jennifer Rose, presenter of the Whisky Sisters podcast, to hear about her experience purchasing a cask of whisky.

Jaega also visits Holyrood Distillery to learn about their cask programme, which allows whisky aficionados to build a strong relationship with them as their whisky matures, and why they are clear that buying one of their casks is not an investment opportunity.

We also speak to Glenfarclas about a high profile £150,000 robbery at their distillery last year, while auction director Isabel Graham-Yooll gives her tips on spotting counterfeit whisky. Finally, whisky broker Mark Littler shares his tips on the key things to look out for when buying a cask of whisky.

Presented by Jaega Wise.
Produced by Robbie Armstrong.


SUN 12:57 Weather (m001hdns)
The latest weather forecast


SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend (m001hdnz)
Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world


SUN 13:30 Born in Bradford (m001hdp5)
The Age of Wonder

Winifred Robinson has been alongside Born in Bradford, one of the largest research studies in the world, since it started recruiting pregnant mothers in 2007. Now the thousands of children who have been tracked since birth are teenagers and the study is being widened to include every youngster in secondary school years eight through to ten. The aim is to focus in on mental wellbeing and to offer a whole range of interventions to improve lives in the city.

The Age of Wonder is backed by the Wellcome Trust and over the next seven years the data collected will provide unique insights into how teenagers grow and adapt. Alongside questionnaires, they are being weighed, measured and will be offered blood tests, blood pressure monitoring and skin fold readings. The researchers have been going into school assemblies across the city explaining to pupils what will be happening and how it will benefit them

Winifred hears from medical experts about some of the early data to emerge from the study, particularly around the questionnaires and the light they throw on things like childhood anxiety, loneliness and poor body image. The Age of Wonder is being supported by some of the worlds most respected experts in adolescent mental health and the aim is to provide interventions that can be tried on a small scale in different settings. These interventions might well result in improvements which can then be extended across different areas.

According to Professor John Wright, who heads the study, this is an excellent opportunity to shift the gaze to mental health because it’s such a critical time in terms of brain development: “it’s a time when a child’s minds changes to an adult mind. And we have this plasticity in our brains, but we are also immersed in this rush of hormones that’s happening in puberty. And we know that adolescent mental health is such a priority for the health service. So over the last twenty years adolescent mental health has been deteriorating year on year not just in Bradford or the UK, but internationally.

“We are seeing this rise in anxiety, eating disorders, depression and serious mental illness. And there’s a spectrum, from feeling sad, helpless or hopeless, having a lack of energy or a lack of interest in things at one end of the spectrum and at the other it is self-harm and risk-taking behaviours such as taking drugs. This spectrum of mental ill health is happening, and we need to understand a bit more about why its increasing and why it’s spiked over the pandemic. The Age of Wonder will really focus on this, and the young people will be involved throughout in planning and participating in ways to tackle it.”

Photographs by Carolyn Mendelsohn


SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time (m001h3z9)
Tring

How can I get rid of slugs without using pesticides? Will rhododendrons grow on chalky soil? Should we remove dead trees or leave them for wildlife?

Joining Peter Gibbs to answer these questions and more in front of a live audience in Tring are pest and disease expert Pippa Greenwood, plantsman Matt Biggs, and garden designer Juliet Sargeant.

Also on the programme, Pippa Greenwood visits her old lab at the RHS Wisley Plant Science Laboratory which will shortly open its doors to the public to showcase past and present research.

Producer: Daniel Cocker
Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod
Executive Producer: Louisa Field

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 14:45 Property of the BBC (m001f5gs)
Three Objects of Children’s Broadcasting

In a week of programmes for the BBC centenary, historian Robert Seatter selects three objects from the BBC’s archive store and tells the stories behind their creation - what they tell us about the changing history of the organisation, about expansion of the media and the nation at large. Robert’s choices are unexpected, revelatory and sometimes, with the cruel benefit of hindsight, funny.

In today’s programme, Robert enters the special space of Children’s broadcasting, the place where we first engage with a wider world, creating memories that stay with us forever. He chooses three seminal objects that are sure to strike a chord.

i) Those talkative Watch with Mother puppets Bill and Ben, with their famous nonsense language.

ii) Then the anarchic plasticine Morph, only 12 cm high, but a creative force to be reckoned with.

iii) And finally, the Blue Peter badge – what every child of the 1960s onwards desired - motivating the show’s young viewers to participate in all manner of creative activities as well as social action campaigns for communities near and far.

Robert explores themes of language and imagination, of inspiring creativity in young minds, and finally of broadcasting and citizenship. He is joined by animator extraordinaire and proud Blue Peter gold badge-wearer, Nick Park.

Producer: Mohini Patel


SUN 15:00 The Medici: Bankers, Gangsters, Popes (m001hdpb)
Episode 3 - Bonfire of the Vanities

By Sian Ejiwunmi Le-Berre, starring Tom Cullen

Lorenzo the Magnificent has to try and stop the war with the Pope. To do it he will have to go alone to Naples to negotiate with King Ferrante - the most terrifying ruler in Europe. He would rather surround himself with Art and artists, but unexpected troubles are coming from the North too - the zealous monk Savonarola is determined to purge Florence of sin, which means the rich and all their baubles of beauty.. And the bank is in decline. Can he save anything for his dim witted successors? Will they even care?

Series created by Mike Walker

CAST

Lorenzo de' Medici - Tom Cullen
Lucrezia Tornabuoni - Sharon Morgan
Clarice Orsini - Abra Thompson
Savonarola - Matthew Gravelle
King Ferrante - Jonathon Forbes
Pope Innocent - Roger Ringrose
Leonardo da Vinci- Tom Kiteley
Botticelli - Hughie O' Donnell

Organ - Branwen Munn
Sound Design - Nigel Lewis and Catherine Robinson
Producer - John Norton

A BBC Audio Wales production


SUN 16:00 Open Book (m001hdpj)
Really Good, Actually

Monica Heisey has been a writer for television comedy, including the award winning Schitts Creek, and has just published her debut novel Really Good, Actually. The story follows 28 year old Maggie as she navigates a new life after her recent divorce. Monica talks to Johny Pitts about the crossover between fiction and her own life and finding the comedy in self-improvement.

Johny explores working class lives in two collections of interlinked short stories from different sides of the Atlantic. Stories From the Tenants Downstairs is written as eight narratives from the same apartment block and vividly explores the dreams and despair of a Black community in Harlem threatened with displacement by gentrification. While The Quarry looks at the everyday lives of a cross section of haunted men all living in an housing estate in West London. Johny talks to the authors of the books, Sidik Fofana and Ben Halls, about capturing the voices of the communities and the process of writing authentic characters.

And we also hear about the hotly anticipated book coming next month in our Editors' Tip from Dialogue's Hannah Chukwu

Book List – Sunday 22 January and Thursday 17 January
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
Stories From the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
The Quarry by Ben Halls
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
Rough Springs by Richard Ford


SUN 16:30 Poetry Please (m001hdpq)
Lavinia Greenlaw

Lavinia Greenlaw is the author of The Importance of Music To Girls as well as most recently Some Answers Without Questions. Her latest poetry collection The Built Moment was published in 2019.
She sifts through the poetry requests and chooses amongst others work by William Blake, Raymond Antrobus and Denise Levertov.


SUN 17:00 File on 4 (m001h49y)
Catastrophe at the Academy

File on 4 investigates events that led to the death of two people at London's Brixton O2 Academy in December. The venue was shut down after the fatal crowd crush ahead of a concert by the Nigerian artist Asake. Security guard Gaby Hutchinson, 23, and Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, died in hospital after the incident at the south London venue on 15 December. Some said ticketless fans tried to force there way into the venue. But File on 4 has heard compelling evidence that suggests there were other reasons the venue became overcrowded.

Producer: Anna Meisel
Reporter: Greg McKenzie
Assistant Producer: Patrick Kiteley
Digital Producer: Melanie Stewart-Smith
Journalism Assistant: Tim Fernley
Technical Producer: Craig Boardman
Editor: Carl Johnston


SUN 17:40 Profile (m001hdpx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday]


SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m001hdq3)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SUN 17:57 Weather (m001hdqc)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SUN 18:00 Six O' Clock News (m001hdqk)
The government has defended the way the BBC chairman Richard Sharp was appointed, after reports that he helped secure a loan for Boris Johnson weeks before he was chosen.


SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week (m001hdqs)
Rima Ahmed

What do Beyoncé, the West Midlands, Noel Gallagher, Iran, Gina G, and New Zealand have in common? Absolutely nothing, except for the fact that they all relate in one way or another to Rima's favourite radio moments this week. We’ll also be learning what an ‘Interval Banana’ is…why Dr Michael Mosley has been hiding chocolate wrappers…and finding out just how many potatoes Huw Edwards can eat.

Presenter: Rima Ahmed
Producer: Elizabeth Foster


SUN 19:00 The Archers (m001hdqy)
At Honeysuckle Cottage Adam cooks a Sunday roast dinner for the family. He and Alice chat about the fabulous time their mum seems to be having with Lilian on their break in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Kate arrives with exciting news: Jakob has booked her tickets to Durban to visit Noluthando and Sipho. Kate thinks it’s to make up for Jakob being away so long and leaving her with Erik. She goes next Saturday. She’s struggling to get someone to cover her work but will cobble something together. She needs to see Noluthando, who’s staying with Lucas for a while. She wants to be able to comfort her after her split from her boyfriend.
Brian’s dropped in on Justin before supper, and the two compare notes on managing solo for a few days. They move on to talking shop, with Justin trying to persuade Brian a new disc drill’s a good idea all round. Brian soon loses track of time. He spots a missed call from Alice, and makes to leave. Justin’s phone then rings. It’s Lilian.
Back at Honeysuckle, Adam gives up on his dad and dishes up. Kate waxes lyrical about the delights of South Africa as the work goes on around her. They’re interrupted by a call from Brian. Jennifer’s collapsed and is being rushed to hospital. The siblings dash off to join traumatised Lilian in A&E, and she updates them as best she can. When Brian appears it’s clear they’re too late. The hospital did all they could, but her heart wasn’t strong enough. Jenny’s gone.


SUN 19:15 Believe It! (m000mrzr)
Series 5

Brand

Richard Wilson returns with another series of not quite true revelations about his life. Jon Canter’s comedic writing is as sharp as ever as he delves into themes such as celebrity, brand awareness and death.

As usual Richard has many friends from whom he seeks advice. Starring Ian McKellen as Head of Gay, Peter Capaldi and David Tennant as the Two Doctors, and Antony Sher as The Man Addicted To Waitrose along with an excellent supporting cast.

It’s a mockumentary and spoof autobiography rolled into one.

CAST:
Richard Wilson
Sir Antony Sher
Rebekah Staton - Danielle
Arabella Weir
Sir Ian McKellen
Elliot Levey - The Waiter

Written by Jon Canter
Produced and directed by Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 19:45 The Circus (m001hdr5)
Episode 3 - The Irish Dancer

A former working men’s club in North Belfast called ‘The Circus’ has been refurbished and relaunched with an inaugural talent show – and a massive cash prize for the winner! – inspiring the locals to brush up on some old skills. The new owner, a successful London property developer, has promised to bring a bit of the West End to North Belfast. But can the area really change? Can the people?
Cliftonville Circus is where five roads meet in North Belfast. It is situated in the most deprived part of the city; it is also the most divided. Each road leads to a different area – a different class – a different religion. ‘The Circus’ explores where old Belfast clashes with the new around acceptance, change, class and diversity.

The Author
Born in Belfast, Paul McVeigh has written comedy, essays, flash fiction, a novel, plays and short stories. His work has been performed on radio, stage and television, and published in seven languages. Paul co-founded the London Short Story Festival and is an associate director at Word Factory. His debut novel 'The Good Son' won The Polari First Novel Prize and The McCrea Literary Award. He is also the editor of ‘The 32: Irish Working Class Voices’, ‘Queer Love: An Anthology of Irish Fiction’ and ‘Belfast Stories’.

Writer: Paul McVeigh
Reader: Leanne Devlin
Producer: Michael Shannon
Executive Editor: Andy Martin

A BBC Northern Ireland production.


SUN 20:00 More or Less (m001h3zf)
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

How long are people really waiting when they call 999 for an ambulance? Tim Harford and the team examine in detail the sheer scale of delays in responding to emergency calls. We ask why the NHS is facing a crisis when it’s got more funding and more staff than before the pandemic, with the help of Ben Zaranko from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Plus we fact check a claim from one of Britain’s leading teaching unions about pay. And are there more pubs in Ireland or Irish pubs in the rest of the world?

Presenter: Tim Harford
Series producer: Jon Bithrey
Reporters: Josephine Casserly, Nathan Gower, Paul Connolly
Sound Engineer: James Beard
Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
Editor: Richard Vadon

Image: Patient being taken out of ambulance (Photo by ANDY RAIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)


SUN 20:30 Last Word (m001h3zc)
Jeff Beck, Alice Mahon, Tom Karen OBE, Gina Lollobrigida

Matthew Bannister on

Jeff Beck (pictured), who was acclaimed as one of the most influential and innovative rock guitarists of all time.

Alice Mahon, the left wing Labour MP who often rebelled against her own party.

Tom Karen OBE, the designer who came up with the Raleigh Chopper Bike, the Bond Bug, the Reliant Robin and the Popemobile.

Gina Lollobrigida, the first post war Italian actress to gain an international reputation as a sex symbol. She was known for her rivalry with Sophia Loren.

Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Martin Power
Interviewed guest: Jeremy Corbyn
Interviewed guest: Julia Langdon
Interviewed guest: Eugenie Karen
Interviewed guest: Josephine Bahns
Interviewed guest: Angie Errigo

Archive clips used: BrianMay.Com, Thoughts on sad loss of Jeff Beck 12/01/2023; UK Parliament, Margaret Thatcher's last Prime Minister's Questions 27/11/1990; Raleigh, Noel Edmonds' Raleigh bike advert 1978; Discovery Real Time, Wheeler Dealers S07E06 Bond Bug 12/10/2010; krc/ YouTube, sound effect Landspeeder - Star Wars 18/01/2017; BBC Sound Archive, The Pope in Liverpool 30/05/1982; BBC Sound Archive, The Morning Show - African Service 07/01/1970; Excelsa Film/ Omnium International du Film/ Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica, Women of Rome - clip (1954); Hecht-Lancaster Productions/ Joanna Productions/ Susan Productions, Trapeze - trailer (1956); 7 Pictures/ Raoul Walsh Enterprises, Come September - trailer (1961); BBC One, Parkinson 28/09/1974; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/ Canterbury Production, Never So Few - trailer (1959).


SUN 21:00 Money Box (m001hdpz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday]


SUN 21:25 Radio 4 Appeal (m001hdm8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today]


SUN 21:30 Icon (m001cpb2)
Episode 4: Pink Clouds

Elizabeth Taylor received her second Oscar, playing the hard-drinking, blousy, abusive Martha opposite her real-life husband Richard Burton’s George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Years later, after an intervention by her family, Taylor would become the first A-list celebrity publicly to enter rehab.

TV and radio presenter (and I’m a Celebrity Get me Out of Here participant) Iain Lee shares his own relationship to fame and to addiction. With extracts from a 1985 Channel Four interview with the late Mavis Nicholson, in which Taylor revealed details of her time in the Betty Ford Center, and a contribution from Ellis Cashmore, author of ‘Elizabeth Taylor, a Private Life for Public Consumption'.

With Louise Gallagher.

Produced by Alan Hall with music by Jeremy Warmsley.
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio Four.


SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour (m001hdrb)
Carolyn Quinn and guests discuss the revelations about the tax affairs of Cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi, and the clash between the UK and Scottish governments over gender recognition reform. On her panel: Conservative backbencher Tim Loughton, Labour's Siobhain McDonagh and Kirsty Blackman from the SNP. Journalist John Stevens - political editor of the Daily Mirror - brings additional insight and analysis.


SUN 23:00 Loose Ends (m001hdrl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Saturday]


SUN 23:30 Something Understood (b036tn9w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today]

MONDAY 23 JANUARY 2023

MON 00:00 Midnight News (m001hdrs)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed (m001h422)
Parenting

Parenting - Laurie Taylor explores its cultural history and the shift towards intensive parenting. Andrew Bomback, Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, investigates the emergence of an immersive, all-in approach to raising children that has made parenting a competitive sport. Drawing on “how-to” parenting books and historical accounts of parental duties he charts the way in which being a parent became a skill to be mastered.

They're joined by Benedetta Cappellini, who considers the impact of these social transformations on Grandmothers.

Producer: Jayne Egerton


MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday (m001hds1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday]


MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001hdsb)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001hdsn)
BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.


MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001hdt0)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


MON 05:30 News Briefing (m001hdtb)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4


MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m001hdtl)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston

Good morning.

Roy was my age – about 8 years old. He had a much older sister, but no contemporary siblings, so when he visited his grandparents on our street, he moved into the orbit of the Preston tribe.

With my brothers and sisters, Roy found ready companions in those summer days: together we played cricket on cobbled streets, were chased by the park-rangers and, in the spare ground on Brunel Street, constructed a system of interlocking grass hide-outs as epic and ambitious in their planning as Albert Speer’s Berlin.

One morning Roy came to look for us. He went to the back of the house – front entrances for visitors, locals round the back - and he knocked on the kitchen door. My mum opened the door; she was then in her late-30s, a dark-haired Irish doctor. Roy had not met her before.

She smiled and asked could she help.

In total innocence, Roy just looked at her and asked “Can your brothers and sisters come out to play?”

You can guess my mum’s delight in the compliment, and it was a story which she took pleasure in re-telling for years to come.

It is perhaps the instinct of children to be honest messengers. For some reason, when we grow older we become more restrained; indeed, we actually filter out the positive and ‘honest feedback’ can become a euphemism for just being negative. And if it is just negative, it is rarely honest.

I remember once a Jesuit colleague, deeply frustrated after returning from a requiem Mass, said to me “Why did they leave it to his funeral to say all the good things about him??”

Lord, today will have easy opportunities to tear down and destroy: help me instead to be an agent of blessing and joy.

Amen.


MON 05:45 Farming Today (m001hdtw)
23/01/23 Land use strategy & fishing industry.

How should we use our land? With competing priorities: housing, solar farms, food production and woodland to name but a few - who decides? Sir Charles Godfray, director of the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, suggests that an apolitical body should look at land use, which he says will change as within a decade many processed meat products will be made with plant based meat substitutes.
Disputes about sustainability and conservation, worries about attracting enough workers, and the slow pace of introducing change; just some of the issues we'll be covering this week as we look at the UK's fishing industry.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.


MON 05:56 Weather (m001hdv7)
The latest weather forecast for farmers.


MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04t0gzx)
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.

Liz Bonnin presents the greater racket-tailed drongo of South-East Asia. Across a clearing in a Malaysian forest flies a dark bird, seemingly chased by two equally dark butterflies. Those butterflies in hot pursuit aren't insects at all; they are the webbed tips of the greater racket-tailed drongo's excessively long wiry outer-tail feathers, which from a distance look like separate creatures as it flies. Glossy blue-black birds which live in wooded country and are great insect catchers, hawking after them in mid-air before returning to a perch. They're bold too and won't hesitate to harry and chase much larger birds than themselves, including, birds of prey. Like other drongos the greater racquet-tailed drongo has an extensive but not very musical repertoire which includes the sounds of other birds it meets, when it joins mixed feeding flocks, and can imitate the call of a hawk to alarm the hawk's victims and so steal food from them while they are distracted by the call: an ingenious tactic, which few other birds have learned.

Producer : Andrew Dawes


MON 06:00 Today (m001hf0y)
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


MON 09:00 Start the Week (m001hf10)
Videogames – from fantasy to reality

The architect Sandra Youkhana takes readers on a tour of the structures of modern digital worlds in Videogame Atlas (co-authored with Luke Caspar Pearson). From Minecraft to Assassin’s Creed Unity she examines the real-world architectural theory that underpins these fantasy worlds, and their influence on concrete designs today.

The journalist Louise Blain presents BBC Radio 3’s monthly Sound of Gaming which showcases the latest and best gaming soundtracks. She explores how composers help create not only the atmosphere in a game, immersing players in these invented worlds, but their music is also integral to the game’s structure and design.

Adrian Hon spent a decade co-creating the hit game Zombies, Run but has become increasingly disillusioned with the way real world institutions – corporations, governments and schools – are using gamification to monitor and control behaviour. In You’ve Been Played he shows how the elements of game playing have been co-opted as tools for profit and coercion.

Producer: Katy Hickman

Image Credit: Map of the game 'Katamari Damacy' by Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson from 'Videogame Atlas: Mapping Interactive Worlds'


MON 09:45 Wise Gals by Nathalia Holt (m001hh2c)
Episode 1

In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know as the CIA.

Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the “wise gals” by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humour and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels. They were smart, courageous, and ground-breaking agents at the top of their class, instrumental in both developing innovative tools for intelligence gathering - and insisting (in their own unique ways) that they receive the credit and pay their expertise deserved.

Through their friendship and shared sense of purpose, they rose to positions of power and were able to make real change in a traditionally “male, pale, and Yale” organisation.

Wise Gals sheds a light on the untold history of the women whose daring foreign intrigues, domestic persistence, and fighting spirit have been and continue to be instrumental to US security.

Read by Nicola Stuart-Hill

Written by Nathalia Holt
Abridged by Polly Coles

Produced by Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4


MON 10:00 Woman's Hour (m001hf14)
The Brit Awards. Targeted adverts online. The ages of motherhood. Welsh Rugby.

The Brits scrapped their best male and best female awards last year in favour of gender-neutral prizes. This year no women are on the shortlist for best artist - won by Adele last year - though are nominated in other categories. Social media has been awash with fans of musicians like Charlie XCX, Florence Welch, Mabel and Ella Henderson asking why they'd been overlooked. We hear from journalist Laura Snapes the Guardian's music editor and Vick Bain who's worked in the music industry for 25 years, was the CEO of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers & Authors and founder of The F-List directory of UK female musicians.

Several former employees at the Welsh Rugby Union have told the BBC about a ‘toxic’ culture of sexism at the organisation. Nuala McGovern is joined by former Wales rugby international and Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi.

Do you ever wonder why you’re being shown particular adverts online? Nuala speaks to one woman, Hannah Tomes, who is being advertised egg donation banks despite having no interest in this – she wonders if she’s being advertised to because of her gender – we will seek to find out if she’s right and speak to the BBC’s Technology Editor Zoe Kleinman.

Figures from the ONS show that there are now twice as many women giving birth over the age of 40 as there are having children under the age of 20. But does the age you become a mother change the way you experience parenting? We hear from two women who had children at very different points in their lives…Lucy Baker the founder of the blog Geriatric Mum and Lauren Crosby Medlicott a freelance journalist who has written about her experience as a young mum.

Presenter Nuala McGovern
Producer Beverley Purcell


MON 11:00 The Invention of... (m001hf16)
Russia

Catherine the Great and the question of Europe

The extraordinary tale of how a small fortressed city became the centre of the largest contiguous landmass in the world, presented by Misha Glenny. It was Peter the Great who created a new capital on the Baltic, and Catherine the Great who extended Russian influence south and west.
Sweden, Poland, and the Ottomans all feel the expansion of Russia's empire in a century of geopolitical drama. This is the build up to today's war in Ukraine.
With contributions from Virginia Rounding, biographer of Catherine the Great; Professor Simon Dixon of UCL; Professor Robert Service, author of The Last Tsar; and Dr Sarah Young of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde


MON 11:30 The Bottom Line (m001h4d1)
How Strikes Come to an End

Current strike action across the UK led to more than a million lost working days in 2022, the worst industrial strife the nation has experienced since the 'Winter of Discontent' in the 1970s. But with the benefit of hindsight, what can we learn from those who have dealt with labour relations in the past, and can their insights help to establish a better way of working out employee grievances?

Evan Davis and guests discuss.

GUESTS
Alan Johnson, former MP, Secretary of State and former Head of the Union of Communication Workers.
Professor Sian Moore, Professor of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Employment and Work (CREW), University of Greenwich
Susanna Newing, Chief People Officer, Coventry Council

Presenter: Evan Davis
Producer: Julie Ball and Marianna Brain
Editor: China Collins
Sound: Gareth Jones and Neil Churchill
Production Co-ordinators: Siobhan Reed and Sophie Hill


MON 12:00 News Summary (m001hf2f)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


MON 12:04 You and Yours (m001hf1d)
Buses, Tiny Homes, Car Buying Confusion

It's the most used form of public transport in Britain, so why has the bus service been in decline for so many years? We hear from one passenger who relies on the bus for everything from shopping to visiting family but is finding that increasingly challenging. And Alice Ridley from the Campaign for Better Transport and Paul Street, from the Confederation of Passenger Transport, which represents 95% of bus operators, discuss why the system is struggling and what could be done about it.

With house prices so high for so long some buyers are taking down sizing to another level; we hear from two people who have bought what's known as a 'tiny home', a timber framed micro mobile house, and ask what they've saved and what people should be aware of if they're considering it.

And is it us or is car buying really confusing right now? New or used, EV or petrol and what about the whole question of how to finance the cost? WhatCar Editorial Director Jim Holder joins the programme with answers and advice for anyone wondering what their next move should be.

PRESENTER: FELICITY HANNAH
PRODUCER: CATHERINE EARLAM


MON 12:57 Weather (m001hf1j)
The latest weather forecast


MON 13:00 World at One (m001hf1n)
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.


MON 13:45 Buried (m001hf1s)
1. A Deathbed Tape

A trucker leaves a tape about an appalling crime. Three words echo - Dig it Up. It leads one couple to the story of an illegal million-tonne dump in the UK.

In this BBC Radio 4 podcast series, investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor deep-dive into one of the worst environment crimes in UK history. They uncover missing documents, fears of toxicity and allegations of organised crime, and realise they've stumbled into something much bigger. As they pick at the threads of one crime, they begin to see others. Could Britain be the home of a new mafia, getting rich on our waste?

In a thrilling ten-part investigation, the husband-and-wife duo dive into a criminal underworld, all the time following clues left in a deathbed tape. They’re driven by one question - what did the man in the tape know?

Presenters and Producers: Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor
Assistant Producer: Tess Davidson
Original Music and Sound Design: Phil Channell
Sound Design and Series Mixing: Jarek Zaba
Executive Producers: Phil Abrams and Anita Elash
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

A Smoke Trail production for BBC Radio 4


MON 14:00 The Archers (m001hdqy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday]


MON 14:15 This Cultural Life (m001hdsj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:15 on Saturday]


MON 15:00 Counterpoint (m001hf22)
Series 36

Heat 3, 2023

(3/13)
Three more music lovers join Paul Gambaccini for another contest of musical knowledge, spanning music of all ages and genres. The competitors today will have to demonstrate their knowledge of everything from Schubert and Purcell to Prince and Massive Attack, with plenty of extracts to identify and some long-buried musical memories.

As well as being asked general knowledge music questions, the three competitors will each have to choose a special musical topic for their own individual round - with no warning of the subject choices and no chance to prepare.

Taking part are:
Shanine Salmon from Croydon
Ian Sanders from Gloucestershire
George Spann from Solihull.

Assistant Producer: Stephen Garner
Producer: Paul Bajoria


MON 15:30 The Food Programme (m001hdnl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday]


MON 16:00 Playing the Prince (m001h4c6)
Hamlet is the Shakespearean character that many actors long to play. Jade Anouka is one of those actors. She talks to past Hamlets– Sir Derek Jacobi, Adrian Lester, Samuel West and Tessa Parr – about the challenges in approaching the part.

And she hears the fabled story of The Red Book, a red-bound copy of the play, begun by the actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robinson, who passed the book on to a successive actor on the condition that in turn they passed it onto the finest Hamlet of the next generation. Derek Jacobi tells the story of receiving it from Peter O’Toole and passing it on to Kenneth Branagh, who in turn passed it on to Tom Hiddleston. Jade wonders where the book might go next.

Jade also explores why Hamlet as a part holds such fascination for actors. Here’s the rub - no one can tell you what Hamlet is about. A revenge tragedy, an Oedipal drama, a political betrayal, a study of insanity, the portrait of a fatally flawed genius. Each actor makes it his own but has to deal with the weight of its history.

Derek Jacobi tells the story of performing ‘To be or not to be’ only to hear the voice of Sir Winston Churchill joining in from the front row. Adrian Lester describes how he whispered each famous speech to himself in an attempt to get back to the essence of the language.

And each generation interprets Hamlet as an expression of their own time. Professor Michael Dobson from the Shakespeare Institute describes a production he saw in Ukraine in a cellar now used as a bomb shelter.

Readers: Sir Derek Jacobi, Adrian Lester, Samuel West, Tessa Parr
Producer: Sara Conkey
Sound Design: Melvin Rickarby
A True Thought production for BBC Radio 4

Acknowledgements:
Hamlet BBC2 26th December 2009
Director - Gregory Doran
Royal Shakespeare Company Production
Hamlet – David Tennant
Composer: Paul Englishby

Hamlet film 1948
Director – Laurence Olivier
Screenplay – Laurence Olivier
Hamlet – Laurence Olivier
Composer: William Walton
Two Cities Production

Hamlet BBC Radio 4 Production 2014
Director – Marc Beeby
Hamlet – Jamie Parker
Ophelia – Lizzy Watts

President Zelensky address to Parliament
BBC Parliament
Tuesday 8th March 2022


MON 16:30 Beyond Belief (m001hf2c)
Faith and the Holocaust

Lily Ebert was 20 when the Nazis deported her from her Hungarian hometown to Auschwitz. Remarkably she survived, and so did her faith. Now a 99 year old grandmother, she tells Aleem Maqbool how the Judaism of her childhood, sustained her in the most horrific circumstances.

Her moving story sparks a discussion on the impact that the Holocaust had on Jewish belief and practice and how the repercussions are manifest in the modern day.


MON 17:00 PM (m001hf2k)
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines


MON 18:00 Six O' Clock News (m001hf2w)
Rishi Sunak has ordered an investigation into former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi's taxes. And an investigation is being launched into the appointment of the chairman of the BBC.


MON 18:30 Just a Minute (m001hf32)
Series 90

Wordle, Swing Dancing and Broken Resolutions

Sue Perkins challenges Gyles Brandreth, Lucy Porter, Ria Lina and Rhys James to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation.

The long-running Radio 4 national treasure of a parlour game returns with subjects ranging from Swing Dancing to Wordle.

Production co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow
Sound editor: Marc Willcox
Producer: Rajiv Karia
A BBC Studios Production.


MON 19:00 The Archers (m001hf3f)
Frail Brian’s alone in his bedroom, ignoring his calls. Adam can’t persuade him downstairs. Tony and Lilian comfort one another. Lilian thanks Tony for breaking the news to Peggy. Tony confirms Peggy’s staying at Bridge Farm for now. Lilian observes their mum is looking small, her spirit drained away. The siblings agree it’s every parent’s worst nightmare to lose a child. Lilian’s brought back Jennifer’s belongings from the hotel. She couldn’t bear the thought of them being packed up by someone else. The others appreciate how hard this must have been, but Lilian says it gave her something to do. Adam hugs her. Alice can’t get in touch with Ruairi – she just hopes he’ll listen to his messages.
Tony goes upstairs to Brian, and makes the mistake of sitting where Jennifer usually sat. Brian snaps at him, before confessing he’s pleased Ruairi hasn’t yet had the news. He’s lucky – he can carry on a bit longer thinking Jennifer’s alive. Tony’s attempts at kind words aren’t met well, and Brian leaves the cottage. Adam goes after him, but not before Brian’s waylaid by Stella. Adam swiftly updates her, requesting space for the family. Sympathetic Stella confirms she’ll take care of the farm.
Alice collects Martha from Chris, taking comfort from her and appreciating Chris’s attentive kindness. She reassures him she knows what to do if she feels tempted to drink. She’s very worried Ruairi still doesn’t know what’s happened. She doesn’t have an address for him, though she’s sure she could find it. Chris offers to drive her to London tonight.


MON 19:15 Front Row (m001hf3p)
The play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons; conductor Alice Farnham; the short film An Irish Goodbye.

Jenna Coleman (Clara in Dr Who) and Aidan Turner (Poldark) are appearing in a new production of Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at The Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End, before touring to Manchester and Brighton. Playwright Sam Steiner tells Samira Ahmed about his romantic comedy in which the characters are restricted to speaking just 140 words a day. And the director, Josie Rourke, talks about bringing the play to the stage, and how, in the theatre, language isn’t everything.

Alice Farnham, one of Britain’s leading conductors and the co-founder and artistic director of Women Conductors with the Royal Philharmonic Society, shares insights from her new book, In Good Hands- The Making of a Modern Conductor.

And the filmmaking duo Tom Berkeley and Ross White join Samira to discuss their Bafta nominated short film An Irish Goodbye.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Julian May

Image: Aidan Turner as Oliver and Jenna Coleman as Bernadette in Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at The Harold Pinter Theatre


MON 20:00 The Boat Smugglers (m001hf3y)
The recent rise in migrant boat crossings between France the UK is being fuelled in part by the more sophisticated methods gangs are using to source the boats

Last year when they investigated the smuggling gangs for BBC Radio 4, reporter Sue Mitchell and former British soldier and aid worker, Rob Lawrie, were alongside border force officials as they seized all manner of dinghies used in the crossings. Today that haul looks very different: the makeshift supply has been replaced by a sophisticated business which sees boats manufactured in Turkey and transported across Europe to the beaches of France.

This streamlined supply chain is big business and it’s enabled the gangs to rapidly expand the trade: bigger boats made specifically for these crossings are mass manufactured in Turkey and shipped straight into the hands of smugglers. It’s a complicated dodging of laws as they’re transported across Europe, with authorities slow to react. And it promises to thwart whatever deals are secured between Britain and France to intercept the Channel crossings themselves.


MON 20:30 Crossing Continents (m001h4c4)
A Return to Paradise

In 2018 the town of Paradise in the hills of northern California was wiped out by one of the worst wildfires in California's history. The disaster made headlines around the world - regarded as a symbol of the dangers posed by climate change. So what does the future hold for communities like Paradise in a region increasingly threatened by wildfire? Four years on, Alex Last travelled to Paradise to meet the survivors who are rebuilding their town.

Photo: A home burns as the Camp fire tears through Paradise, California on November 8, 2018. (Josh Edelson /AFP via Getty Images)

Reporter and producer: Alex Last
Sound mix: Rod Farquar
Series Editor: Penny Murphy
Production coordinator: Iona Hammond


MON 21:00 Is Psychiatry Working? (m001h3y1)
Crisis

Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working. In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this first episode they look at how psychiatry responds to those in crisis.

If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support:

Mental health & self-harm: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm
Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress

or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066.

Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode
Producer: Emma Close
Editor: Clare Fordham
Sound Mix: James Beard


MON 21:30 Start the Week (m001hf10)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 22:00 The World Tonight (m001hf4d)
Nadhim Zahawi’s tax problem

Also:

The award-winning author Patrick Radden Keefe

And Japan’s PM says his country is “on the brink”


MON 22:45 Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris (m001hf4v)
Episode 6

It's 1660. Following the death of Oliver Cromwell, and the failure of his son Richard to run the Protectorate, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II is on the throne. As the divided nation attempts to heal, an Act of Oblivion is passed, granting amnesty to all for their parts in the Civil War.

But a select group have been excluded from this amnesty - those men who signed the death warrant of Charles I.

Two such regicides - Ned Whalley and his son-in-law William Goffe - have fled to America. But even across the Atlantic they are not safe, so long as Richard Nayler of the Regicide Committee seeks retribution.

Episode Six
Nayler has landed in Boston and is putting together a search party to hunt for Ned and Will.

Author Robert Harris, the master of plotting, is well known for his best-selling fiction, including 'Fatherland', 'Enigma', 'The Ghost Writer', 'Archangel' and 'An Officer And A Spy'. 'Act of Oblivion' is his fifteenth novel.

Writer: Robert Harris
Reader: Jamie Parker
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4


MON 23:00 Word of Mouth (m001h49p)
Band names

Bob Stanley from Saint Etienne talks band names, from the (subjectively) rubbish to the brilliant, along with some of the best origin stories.

Producer Sally Heaven


MON 23:30 Today in Parliament (m001hf57)
All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.

TUESDAY 24 JANUARY 2023

TUE 00:00 Midnight News (m001hf5r)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 00:30 Wise Gals by Nathalia Holt (m001hh2c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday]


TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001hf68)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001hf6r)
BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.


TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001hf78)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


TUE 05:30 News Briefing (m001hf7p)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4


TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m001hf86)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Fr Dermot Preston

Good morning.

The Swedish inventor, Alfred Nobel, was reading the morning newspaper at his home in Paris. It was 1888 and his older brother, Ludvig, had just died and Alfred wanted to see what the papers had to say.

Alfred opened the newspaper only to realise that they were mistakenly announcing his death, not Ludvig’s.

It was an easy mistake – there were four Nobel brothers and all were businessmen and inventors. Ludvig, had made a vast amount of money revolutionising the European oil industry; Alfred, however, had moved into chemistry and had made a pot of cash inventing both dynamite and gelignite.

So Alfred, started to read his own obituary. The headline: “The Merchant of Death is Dead”.

It was a sobering piece; the obit railed against the immorality of the man whose inventions had not just revolutionised engineering and construction, but had industrialised war and death.

Alfred was shocked to realise this was his ambiguous legacy. In the remaining 8 years of his life, his focus changed and he eventually signed-over 95% of his fortune to the establishment of the Nobel prizes for science, literature and peace.

The founder of the Jesuits, St Ignatius of Loyola, suggests a meditation for anyone who finds themselves at a crossroads of a big life-decision with no clear way forward. Ignatius says, imagine yourself on your deathbed: look back at the crossroads and ask yourself the question – what decision would you have liked to have made?

Lord, sometimes we sleepwalk through life with a narrow view of reality and a distorted understanding of good and bad. Help me this day to broaden my horizons, to minimise the bad and enhance the good.

Amen.


TUE 05:45 Farming Today (m001hf8q)
All week we're taking a closer look at the UK's fishing industry. It was supposed to be a major beneficiary of Brexit. However fishing fleets across the country say although they can now catch more fish overall, current conditions mean they are still struggling. We report from Fraserburgh Fish Market where fishermen say one of the biggest problems they face is staff shortages. Scottish fishing boats were forced to leave 15 thousand tonnes of small haddock in the sea last year due to a reduction in on shore processing workers. The Northern Ireland Fish Producers Organisation wants the government to delay the introduction of new visas: instead of existing transit visas, which have enabled international fishermen to work on UK boats, in future they'll need a 'skilled worker' visas which includes passing an intermediate English language test.

The debate around how we use land, is becoming ever more complicated, as homes, food, energy and mitigating climate change, are all pressing concerns. Recent figures show arable land prices rose 12 percent in 2022, partly due to higher grain prices following the war in Ukraine but there's also been a trend for more institutions to invest in land,. We hear from Tony Juniper, head of the Environment Agency and the Green Alliance who are publishing a report on communities and land use.

Presenter = Anna Hill
Producer = Rebecca Rooney


TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04hkylk)
King Eider

Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.

Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Arctic specialist the king eider duck. Relatives of the larger common eider found around the British coast, king eiders breed around the Arctic and sub-Arctic coasts of the northern hemisphere. As true marine ducks they can dive to depths of 25 metres on occasion, to feed on molluscs and marine crustaceans. The drake King Eider has colourful markings; having a black and white body with a reddish bill, surmounted by an orange-yellow shield. His cheeks are pale mint-green and his crown and nape are lavender-grey. He uses his bill pattern and head colours in a highly ritualised display to woo his mate, fluffing up his chest and issuing an amorous coo-ing call.

Producer : Andrew Dawes


TUE 06:00 Today (m001hf67)
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific (m001hf6q)
Rebecca Kilner on beetle behaviours and evolution

A fur-stripped mouse carcase might not sound like the cosiest of homes – but that’s where the burying beetle makes its nest; and where Rebecca Kilner has focused much of her research.
A Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Cambridge, Rebecca’s work – initially with cuckoos, then more recently with the beetles – has shed invaluable light on the relationship between social behaviours and evolution.
She tells Jim Al-Khalili how the beetles’ helpfully swift generational churn and mouse-based parenting has allowed her team to study evolution in action, demonstrating for the first time what was previously just evolutionary theory.

Producer: Lucy Taylor


TUE 09:30 One to One (m001hf76)
Grief: Ramita Navai and Mary-Frances O’Connor

Ramita Navai is a foreign affairs journalist who investigates human rights abuses and conflict around the world. She has reported from war zones and hostile territories in over forty countries, and although good at compartmentalising the trauma she's witnessed, nothing could prepare her for the grief she felt when her own father died three years ago.

In this episode, she speaks to Mary-Frances O’Connor, an associate professor at the University of Arizona, who runs the grief, loss and social stress (Glass) lab, which explores the effects of grief on the brain and the body. Together, they talk about the impact of grief on the mind and body, and how to navigate through it.

Produced by Caitlin Hobbs for BBC Audio


TUE 09:45 Wise Gals by Nathalia Holt (m001hh2l)
Episode 2

In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know as the CIA.

Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the “wise gals” by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humour and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels. They were smart, courageous, and ground-breaking agents at the top of their class, instrumental in both developing innovative tools for intelligence gathering - and insisting (in their own unique ways) that they receive the credit and pay their expertise deserved.

Through their friendship and shared sense of purpose, they rose to positions of power and were able to make real change in a traditionally “male, pale, and Yale” organisation.

Wise Gals sheds a light on the untold history of the women whose daring foreign intrigues, domestic persistence, and fighting spirit have been and continue to be instrumental to US security.

Read by Nicola Stuart-Hill

Written by Nathalia Holt
Abridged by Polly Coles

Produced by Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour (m001hf82)
The cost of being single, Zara Aleena's murder & probation service failings, menopause and the workplace

An independent review into Zara Aleena's murder found a catalogue of errors by the probation service. HM Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russell who conducted the review joins Nuala McGovern along with Zara Aleena's aunt Farah Naz.
According to new research being single comes at a price. Single people pay, on average, £860 a month more than people living in couples. So why does it cost an extra £10k per year to live as a single person? And is the independence and freedom that some single people feel worth the price tag? Nicola Slawson is a journalist and founder of The Single Supplement.
There's been a long running campaign for working women going through the menopause to get better protection. This morning the government has announced it won't make the menopause a protected characteristic, in the same way things like age and sex are - despite a recommendation from MPs that it should be. The government is commissioning more research into the subject, and cheaper and better access to HRT. But is this enough? Reporter Melanie Abbott gives us the full details of the government's response to calls for more protection. And campaigner Helen Garlick from Henpicked tells us she is calling for more action.
A new study will examine the disproportionate number of female teachers developing asbestos related diseases. Backed by teaching unions, it’s hoped the findings will put more pressure on the government to take action on asbestos in school buildings. Nuala will be talking to Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, Dr Mary Bousted, and one woman who lost her mother – a teacher for many years - to asbestos related lung cancer, mesothelioma.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore


TUE 11:00 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m001hf8l)
Series 21

The Puzzle of the Pyramids

The Great Pyramids of Giza are awesome feats of engineering and precision. So who built them - and how? Was it a mysteriously super-advanced civilization now oddly extinct? Was it even aliens?

Nah, course not! Rutherford and Fry investigate how these inspiring monuments were really constructed, and learn about the complex civilisation and efficient bureaucracy that made them possible.

Professor Sarah Parcak busts the myth that they were built by slaves. In fact, she reveals, it was gangs of well-paid blokes fuelled by the ancient Egyptian equivalent of burgers and beer. And Dr Chris Naunton explains how it was not some mysterious tech, but incredible organisation and teamwork which made it possible to transport massive stone blocks over long distances several thousand years before trucks arrived.

Dr Heba Abd El Gawad points out how racism led to bizarre assumptions in the history of archaeology, and how those assumptions linger in contemporary conspiracy theories which refuse to accept that Egyptians could have built the pyramids themselves!

Presenters: Hannah Fry and Adam Rutherford
Contributors: Professor Sarah Parcak, University of Alabama, Dr Chris Naunton, Egyptologist and broadcaster, Dr Heba Abd El Gawad, University College London
Producers: Ilan Goodman & Emily Bird


TUE 11:30 In Time to the Music (m001hf90)
My Funny Valentine

In Time to the Music is the story of a piece of music, song, an air or melody travelling through time as a folk tune, a theatre melody, a hymn, a composition, a symphony - reinterpreted across years, centuries or millennia through revival, musical revolution, social fashions or archaeological discovery. 

We examine why certain tunes have managed to reach out over time, across genres, class, race and continents, how some are reimagined by oppressors even though they were written by its oppressed, how melodies from earlier periods are borrowed by subsequent composers, and how these illusive musical engravings change genre - from hymn to reggae, from court song to rock and roll - all with the passage of time.

The first episode explores the journey of My Funny Valentine from Broadway musical in 1937 to Chet Baker's theme tune in 1954 and its most recent variations with R&B artist Justina Valentine, Norwegian singing prodigy Angelina Jordan, and Brooklyn based, Neo-Soul singer Hadassah. The programme also examines other music that has travelled through time.

Featuring musicologists Professor Laura Tunbridge and Professor Richard Dumbrill, writer Will Friedwald, jazz pianist and educator Gareth Williams and jazz singer Ian Shaw.

Written and Presented by Andrew McGibbon

Assistant Producer: Saul Sarne

Producer: Nick Romero

A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 12:00 News Summary (m001hf9g)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 12:04 You and Yours (m001hf9s)
Call You and Yours: How is your energy company dealing with you?

On today's Call You and Yours we're asking: "How is your energy company dealing with you?"

The Business Secretary Grant Shapps has written to all energy companies telling them to stop forcibly installing pre-payment meters when people struggle to pay their bills.

He said energy firms should help customers who are finding it difficult to manage.

Are you finding your bills a challenge? How has your energy supplier responded?

Have you had a pre-payment meter installed against your wishes?

Tell me - How is your energy company dealing with you?

Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk

You can call 03700 100 444 after 11am.

PRESENTER: FELICITY HANNAH
PRODUCER: LYDIA THOMAS


TUE 12:57 Weather (m001hfb2)
The latest weather forecast


TUE 13:00 World at One (m001hfbb)
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.


TUE 13:45 Buried (m001hfbl)
2. A Scene of Horror

Dan and Lucy visit Mobuoy, and reveal the audacious scam of how criminals dumped a million tonnes of waste. But there’s worse, as they learn what was buried.

"All you have to do... is dig it up."

A trucker’s deathbed tape plays out. It’s urgent, desperate.

In this BBC Radio 4 podcast series, investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor deep-dive into one of the worst environment crimes in UK history - the secret dumping of a million tonnes of waste near a city. But when they uncover missing documents, fears of toxicity and allegations of organised crime, they realise they’ve stumbled into something much bigger. As they pick at the threads of one crime, they begin to see others. Could Britain be the home of a new mafia, getting rich on our waste?

In a thrilling ten-part investigation, the husband-and-wife duo dive into a criminal underworld, all the time following clues left in a deathbed tape. They’re driven by one question - what did the man in the tape know?

Presenters and Producers: Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor
Assistant Producer: Tess Davidson
Original Music and Sound Design: Phil Channell
Sound Design and Series Mixing: Jarek Zaba
Executive Producers: Phil Abrams and Anita Elash
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

A Smoke Trail production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 14:00 The Archers (m001hf3f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday]


TUE 14:15 Drama (m001hfbv)
Back Home

By May Sumbwanyambe. Noreen returns to her native Zambia after 20 years in the UK. As the head of a wildlife charity she’s come back to give a speech about animal conservation in Africa but her family - who haven’t seen her since she left as a young student - want to talk about difficult issues closer to home.

Noreen ..... Rakie Ayola
Mwemba ..... Adam Courting
Moses ..... Ben Onwukwe

Producer/director: Bruce Young

May Sumbwanyambe researched and wrote the play while he was a Leverhulme Trust artist-in-residence at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, University of York, and research assistance was provided by Molly Brown.


TUE 15:00 Short Cuts (m001hfc2)
Series 33

Fatherhood

Memories, love and snot. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring the labyrinth of fatherhood.

An Occasion for Tears
Produced by Mike Williams

In Third Person (For my son)
Written and read by Raymond Antrobus

Are You Here?
Produced by Axel Kacoutié

Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 15:30 A Thorough Examination with Drs Chris and Xand (p0dl27x3)
Series 2: Can I Change?

8. Changing our environment

Most of us would like something about ourselves or our lives to be different, but how easy is it to actually change?

Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken are looking at whether people can change and how they do it. Exactly how much of any aspect of personality is genetic destiny and how much are we shaped by the world around us?

Chris wants to be a better doctor, friend, husband and father. But most urgently he wants to be a better brother, and is determined to improve his relationship with Xand. They’re best friends and talk to each other every day, but they are also business partners who find it very hard to work together without having a visceral row.

Chris wants to change how he relates to his brother and believes it is possible, but Xand is less convinced that we can or that he needs to change. In this series, Chris confronts that pessimism.

In episode 8 - Changing Our Environment - Xand convinces Chris to come into his pottery shed and give it a whirl. Working together has historically resulted in heated arguments, so it’s time for Chris to act on what he’s learnt about improving his relationship with Xand. The twins consider how easy it is to roll out change on a large scale and ask Will Norman how he manages to implement change in the face of opposition.

Presented by Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken
Produced by Hester Cant and Alexandra Quinn
Series Editor: Jo Rowntree
A Loftus Media and van Tulleken Brothers Ltd production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth (m001hfcc)
Grammar Table

Ellen Jovin is a grammar and language fan. Her book Rebel With A Clause: Tales and Tips From A Roving Grammarian details her travels with her Grammar Table. Keen to engage with people face to face rather than online Ellen purchased a fold up table and set off on a road trip around the United States setting up on street corners and waiting for people to talk to her. The idea was that people could come and ask her about language and grammar without being made to feel stupid. Common questions included when to use commas and semi-colons and the right way to say 'nuclear' (think George Bush). Although she had lots of fun on her trip and met many interesting people along the way, Ellen's main intention is to help people with written and spoken English presentation in their public and working lives without the need for grammar books.

Producer: Maggie Ayre


TUE 16:30 Great Lives (m001hfck)
Adjoa Andoh on Zora Neale Hurston

Actor Adjoa Andoh has a list of TV, theatre and film credits as long as your arm. She's best known worldwide as Bridgerton's Lady Danbury, and is due to direct - and star in the title role - in a new production of Richard III. Her great life is the 20th century American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God".

An iconic figure in the literature of the jazz age, her name was all but forgotten after her death in 1960, before being pulled back into public consciousness in the US by "The Color Purple" author Alice Walker, who famously wrote: "A people do not throw their geniuses away".

With the help of fellow enthusiast Dr Janine Bradbury, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Writing and Culture at the University of York, Adjoa makes the case that we should all know more about Zora, a trailblazer who - on top of her writing career - researched zombies in the Caribbean and helped collect the stories of slavery's last survivors.

Presenter: Matthew Parris
Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton


TUE 17:00 PM (m001hfcq)
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines


TUE 18:00 Six O' Clock News (m001hfcv)
The BBC has seen evidence that children at some care homes in Doncaster were abused.


TUE 18:30 Phil Ellis Is Trying (m0007scd)
Series 2

Mickstown

Phil signs up to a special class at the gym in order to impress Ellie. The class promises to "cleanse your mind gutters". But as it's run by Mick the Chinese Herbalist it's also there to empty your wallet. Meanwhile, Polly has become a community support support-officer. First task: to capture a pigeon that's been terrorising Parbold.

Written by Phil Ellis and Fraser Steele.

Starring:

Phil Ellis as Phil
Johnny Vegas as Johnny
Amy Gledhill as Polly
Terry Mynott as J-Dawg/Al Pacino
Katia Kvinge as Ellie
Sunil Patel as HQ/Follower
and with special guest star Mick Ferry as Mick the Chinese Herbalist

Produced by Sam Michell

A BBC Studios production


TUE 19:00 The Archers (m001hfcr)
Kate and Jakob drink cocoa at Willow Cottage. Kate hopes her dad’s getting some sleep. Jakob looks at a photo of a younger Kate at a road protest, which Jennifer had framed. He thinks Kate looks amazing; her mum must have clearly admired her stance to have kept the photo. They laugh over photos of Kate as a schoolgirl, just before she got expelled. This is news to Jakob. Kate counters that Erik was news to her – Jakob hadn’t give her much information about him at all. Jakob comments he’d noticed that wine was missing from his house, but was gratified to find the place tidied almost to his standard when he returned. Kate confesses this might have been Rex. Kate acknowledges through all her troubles her mum never stopped being there for her. As Kate talks about her mum’s life and potentially missed opportunities, Jakob hypothesises that Jennifer perhaps wished she could be more like Kate. Kate cries; she wishes she’d been able to thank her mum.
Alice and Chris track down Ruairi at his London apartment and give him the news. Profoundly shocked, Ruairi lashes out in his anguish, shouting at them to leave his apartment. Julianne emerges from the bedroom and makes them tea. She calms Ruairi, suggesting he goes back to Ambridge with Alice. Alice and Chris think the situation’s weird, but are relieved to get Ruairi away. Ruairi makes them promise not to tell anyone about Julianne. They agree, and Alice reassures Ruairi they haven’t come to spy on him but to bring him home.


TUE 19:15 Front Row (m001hfcz)
Artist John Akomfrah, Oscar Nominations, Arts Council England responds

John Akomfrah was announced today as the artist chosen to represent the UK at the next Venice Biennale - the world's biggest contemporary art exhibition. Known for his films and video installations exploring racial injustice, colonial legacies, migration and climate change, he discusses why watching a Tarkovsky film as a teenager opened his mind to the possibilities of art.

Film critics Jason Solomon and Leila Latif discuss the nominations for this year's Oscars, which are led by Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Banshees of Inisherin, and All Quiet of the Western Front.

Darren Henley, Arts Council England Chief Executive, responds to criticism the organisation has been facing since its new funding settlement was announced last November.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Emma Wallace

Main Image: John Akomfrah at his London studio, 2016
© Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery.


TUE 20:00 File on 4 (m001hfd3)
Learning to survive: The School Fighting the Cost of Living Crisis

This episode tells the story of a primary school on the frontline of the cost of living crisis, a school doing more than most to make sure children are fed, warm and have somewhere safe to go home to at night.

File on 4 spent several months recording at Ingol Community Primary in Preston. It’s in one of the most deprived areas in England; more than half of their pupils are on pupil premium - additional state funding aimed at closing the attainment gap between poorer pupils and their peers - but that’s not their only challenge.

This school is going to exceptional lengths to make sure families survive the cost of living crisis this winter, all while battling unprecedented pressure on the school’s own finances. Will they be able to make ends meet and still provide all this extra help for families?

Reporter: Alys Harte
Producer: Ben Robinson
Journalism Assistant: Tim Fernley
Technical Producer: Richard Hannaford
Editor: Carl Johnston


TUE 20:40 In Touch (m001hfd7)
Guide Dog Waiting Lists; Blind Ice Hockey

This week, we put guide dog waiting lists under the spotlight.

John Welsman is canine affairs lead for the charity "Guide Dogs". He joins us to discuss waiting times and the outlook for those on the list. We're also joined by BBC news reporter Sean Dilley who shares his feelings following the retirement of Sammy, his faithful guide dog of over eight years. And we speak to Isabel Holdsworth who tells us about the experience of training her own guide dog.

We also take another trip into the world of blind sport.

Nathan Tree is a keen blind ice hockey player. We report on an event he recently hosted in Oxford which gave visually impaired people the opportunity to get on the ice and try it out for themselves. We hear from some of those who gave it a go and also from Nathan about his ambitions to raise the profile of the sport.

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Fern Lulham
Production coordinator: Liz Poole

Website image description: Peter White sits smiling in the centre of the image, wearing a dark green jumper. Above Peter's head is the BBC logo (three individual white squares house each of the three letters). Bottom centre and overlaying the image are the words "In Touch" and the Radio 4 logo (the word Radio in a bold white font, with the number 4 inside a white circle). The background is a bright mid-blue with two rectangles angled diagonally to the right. Both are behind Peter, one of a darker blue and the other is a lighter blue.


TUE 21:00 Inside Health (m001hfd0)
Is a fungal pandemic possible?

James Gallagher asks whether the next pandemic might be an invasive fungi? Most people think of athlete's foot or fungal toe nails but the World Health Organisation recently issued the first ever list of life threatening fungi. James hears stories of hospitals being shut down, a ruined honeymoon and fungal infections that consume human tissue leaving terrible disfigurement. Add to that ‘The Last of Us’ a hit video game turned new TV series where a parasitic fungus manipulating the brains of ants has jumped to people. Sounds fanciful but while this particular fungus couldn’t cross from ants to humans, Dr Neil Stone explains why invasive fungal infections are on the rise and a potential pandemic should not be dismissed.
Producer, Erika Wright


TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific (m001hf6q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


TUE 22:00 The World Tonight (m001hfdc)
Germany on verge of supplying Ukraine with tanks

Also:

Big changes to Ukraine government after corruption claims.

Guillermo del Toro on his Oscar nomination.

And Alzheimer's ambassador Dame Arlene Phillips.


TUE 22:45 Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris (m001hfdh)
Episode 7

It's 1660. Following the death of Oliver Cromwell, and the failure of his son Richard to run the Protectorate, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II is on the throne. As the divided nation attempts to heal, an Act of Oblivion is passed, granting amnesty to all for their parts in the Civil War.

But a select group have been excluded from this amnesty - those men who signed the death warrant of Charles I.

Two such regicides - Ned Whalley and his son-in-law William Goffe - have fled to America. But even across the Atlantic they are not safe, so long as Richard Nayler of the Regicide Committee seeks retribution.

Episode Seven
Ned and Will are on the run, and Nayler and his search party are getting ever closer.

Author Robert Harris, the master of plotting, is well known for his best-selling fiction, including 'Fatherland', 'Enigma', 'The Ghost Writer', 'Archangel' and 'An Officer And A Spy'. 'Act of Oblivion' is his fifteenth novel.

Writer: Robert Harris
Reader: Jamie Parker
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 23:00 Small Scenes (m0002z4f)
Series 4

Episode 4

Award-winning sketch series set to music and starring Daniel Rigby, Mike Wozniak, Cariad Lloyd, Henry Paker and Freya Parker. This week a man discovers that his real name is Ian and his life starts to spiral into chaos. Meanwhile, a young woman exposes a dark conspiracy at the heart of West End musicals.

Written by Benjamin Partridge, Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak, with additional material from the cast.

Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer.

A BBC Studios production.


TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament (m001hfdm)
Sean Curran reports as MPs question ministers on Probation Service mistakes in the case of Zara Aleena.