The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
The Government's recent record on protecting wildlife comes under scrutiny in a report published by environmental groups including the RSPB, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, and WWF.
We continue our look at how nearly £20 billion of CAP money might be shared out once the latest round of CAP reforms come into force after 2015. Will hill farmers really be the winners?
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Martin Hughes-Games presents the Dunlin. Dunlins are a stirring sight, en masse, as their flocks twist and turn over the winter shoreline. When the tide turns they take to the air in a breath-taking aerobatic display. Around 350,000 Dunlin winter here, travelling from Scandinavia and Russia.
News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
Jonathan Glancey investigates the forces that shape the design of our everyday buildings, and how this could be improved.
In this first episode, Jonathan visits an example of what he calls 'anywhere architecture' - a decade-old housing estate outside Ely.
He talks to a resident and a local planner about why the development was designed as it was and its strengths and weaknesses.
And he talks to the Chief Executive of Barratt Homes, Mark Clare, about Barratt's approach at the time, and how he has been improving their approach to architecture and place design over the last few years.
He hears from the Architecture Minister Ed Vaizey and the Shadow Planning Minister Roberta Blackman-Woods about why they think design needs to be improved.
And he finds out how architects lost influence over the building process to project managers and contractors. Design may have suffered - but cost control is now much better.
Jonathan visits a retail park outside King's Lynn in Norfolk to see how, amid many examples of the 'shed' approach to retail building design, one supermarket chain has taken a new approach - paying attention to the outside of the building as well as the inside.
And he explains why he thinks the type of brick used in our housing and supermarket design can make a huge difference to the appearance of these buildings - and demonstrates the difference between hand-made and industrial bricks with the help of a hammer.
Hardeep Singh Kohli chooses a word and sets off on an exploration into its origins, meeting people for whom it has different associations. He hopes to learn 15 things along the way.
Today's word is 'check' and Susie Dent is on hand to explain that all the meanings that 'check' has developed come from the game of chess.
Hardeep's other encounters include 9 year old Samuel, a pupil at one of the many schools that takes part in the Chess in Schools initiative, founded by Malcolm Pein.
Hardeep stands in the middle of Carnaby Street with fashion lecturer Amber Butchart on the look-out for checks as they pass by, and he encounters the check list with one of the many people who need a 'to do list' to help them organise their lives and check off what they have to do that day.
Originally broadcast in 2013, in the week marking the fiftieth anniversary of CS Lewis's death, and which saw a memorial stone to the author unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, Radio 4's Book of the Week marked the occasion with a reading of his famous letters from a senior to a junior devil.
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall.
Does the education system fail boys? Sally Nicholls on her new ghost story for teenagers about the legacy of fostering and adoption. Can you control what pictures of your children appear online? The 100 great female playwrights. With Jane Garvey.
Comic and touching true story of the writer's own experience as a mother and wife, risking her husband's entire pension on building a house. The build begins and catastrophe strikes when the council inform Mrs T she has not protected the ancient trees in the garden properly and the build is ordered to cease immediately. They are threatened with 250K in fines. The couple face financial ruin.
Traditional societies and the wildlife that depends on them are disappearing. Can we preserve these fragile species? Or is the pressure to develop too great in our world? This week's field report comes from Ethiopia where one of the most endangered birds in the world, the Ethiopian Bush Crow, teeters on the verge of extinction as the traditional societies they rely upon disappear. This beautiful bird needs a particular regime of grazing and scrub to survive, but the societies that provide the right habitat are fast disappearing as development and modernisation takes over. Can we, should we, pour resources into protecting the crow when there is so much demand for money and space? Monty Don explores, with renowned writer Jared Diamond, the value of traditional societies and what we lose when they finally vanish.
The works of Benjamin Britten have been performed all over the world, from Aldeburgh (where so many of them were written) to Kuala Lumpur.
Tenor Ian Bostridge introduces us to Curlew River, one of Britten's strangest and most remarkable musical works. The chamber opera was first performed in Orford Church, but was born out of Britten's tour of the Far East in 1956. It's set in East Anglia, on the banks of the imaginary River Curlew, but is inspired by Japanese Noh theatre.
Ian Bostridge is playing the role of a mother who has lost her child in a production at St Giles, Cripplegate, in London. We follow him through the rehearsal process, hear what it's like to perform the part, and learn how Britten incorporated Eastern music and drama into a Christian parable set in the fenlands of medieval England.
Since the collapse of 2008, the big banks have struggled to build a better public image.
Stories of inflated bonuses for bosses, and poor treatment of customers have left the industry with a poor reputation. But what kind of service have you received from your bank?
When you need help or advice, are they there for you - on the high street, online or on the phone? And do you feel you can trust the advice you receive?
We want to hear your experiences and your views. Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk
National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority (2012-2017), tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.
He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as how badly austerity has bitten or the paradox of why no-one seems able to afford a house but so many people own one. And he tells these stories not just with data, but through people and the real experiences that bring the numbers to life.
In the search for data to measure how we've changed, the programme counts rotten teeth and adds up what people ate, what they own and throw away. What did we earn through the centuries, how do we know, and what could we do with it? What was our health like, or our homes, our jobs or education? What was the status and experience of women? And how has it all changed?
This is all presented with innovative radio techniques to capture data in sound - for example, new ways of creating graphs for the senses so that we can not just know, but feel, the changes.
Each of these ten programmes takes one theme, to explore how far we have made progress, and why it might continue, or falter.
Andrew Dilnot continues the story of Britain in numbers by looking at the history of how well off we have been over the years. He reveals the rich man's income from only a few generations ago that would be worth less than today's minimum wage, and uses striking audio techniques to capture the changes in our prosperity.
In this final Two Pipe Problem, William and Sandy travel to a windswept wintry Suffolk in search of William's inheritance, where they are haunted by ghosts from the past and threats from the present, and William makes a life changing decision about his future.
This week marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten, and his opera Peter Grimes is woven into this final episode of Two Pipe Problems. The opera is set in Aldeburgh, on the Suffolk coast from which Britten drew so much inspiration. Writer Michael Chaplin was inspired to create a story that drew on that landscape and the creation of Peter Grimes, but also paid homage to the genius of MR James' ghost story, Oh Whistle And I'll Come You, My Lad.
Stanley Baxter is once again joined by Geoffrey Palmer playing William, and Stephen Critchlow and Linda Broughton playing a mother and son who bear a grudge, in this haunting story - an entertaining and touching farewell to the series.
Jay Rayner and the team travel to Manchester for this week's episode of Radio 4's culinary panel programme. Answering questions from the audience are food scientist Peter Barham, restaurateur Henry Dimbleby, chef Sophie Wright and food writer Tim Hayward.
As well as giving us their views on how to cook the perfect poached egg and the age-old dilemma of whether to add the pasta to the sauce or vice versa, the panel taste Manchester's own spin on the Scotch Egg, discuss the history of Black Pudding, the origins of cordials in the Temperance Movement and the best way to eat an Eccles Cake.
Produced by Peggy Sutton.
John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature exclusive live performances.
Programme 2, the B-side. Having discussed the making of "If I Could Only Remember My Name", his 1971 album (in the A-side of the programme, broadcast on Monday 18th November and available online), David Crosby responds to questions from the audience and performs live versions of some the tracks from that debut solo album and from his as yet unreleased solo album, "Croz"
Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme (and others) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on the Radio 4 website, where the programmes can also be downloaded and other musical goodies accessed.
Michael Scott continues his new series which takes famous dates in British History and finds out what was happening at the same time in other corners of the world. It's an attempt to break out of the modular way in which historic dates are traditionally drummed into children as well as connecting previously diverse events in cultural, political and economic history all over the globe.
In programme two, we look at 1066. Complicated family succession politics result in the eventual battle of Hastings - the death of Harold in October and William's coronation in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066. Meanwhile, five days later in Spain, a brutual massacre takes place with a clash of Muslim and Jewish politics.
Headline news in China is scholar, Sima Guang's eight volume Tongzhi a groundbreaking history of China. Spin the Globe again and we visit the Seljuk empire which is in its ascendancy.
It's a programme full of surprises, connections and a sense that events across the world move at different rates and through different phases only occasionally brushing against each other.
Michael Dobbs, author of House of Cards, and broadcaster Katie Puckrik talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books.
They include the highly-praised A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, the devastating Watching the Door - Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast by Kevin Myers and Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Instead, each of the four panellists has brought their own round for the other panellists to play. How will each round play out? And, more importantly, who will be beaten at their own game?
Alex Horne's "Font, Fighter or Fragrance" in which panellists are given a word and they must guess whether that word refers to a typographical font, the name of a Gladiator from ITV's show "Gladiators" or a "Lynx deodorant" fragrance.
Roisin Conaty's "Four Second Pitch" in which panellists have but four seconds to pitch Angus the elements of an idea for a blockbuster film and a new religion.
Paul Sinha's "World Record Recall" in which panellists have to fill in the missing details from the description of a real record from the Guinness Book of World Records.
And Rufus Hound's "Which Lady Done Say That Thing" in which panellists must guess which audience member said a certain phrase. As the title suggests.
Shula's unhappy with Dan, who stayed at Jamie's. She was worried about him last night.
Shula's annoyed that Dan spoke to Eddie about Darrell - the matter is private. She asks Dan if he's ok about his granddad, and he acts fine. Dan gets angry when Shula suggests he invites friends like Jamie round. How can he, with Darrell staying?
Dan privately opens up to Alistair about Darrell being in the way. Angry Alistair takes this to Shula and confronts her over Darrell. It's time he moved out. But Shula says he needs time to find a flat.
Ed has a set-to with Will, who's on Ed's pasture with his dogs. Will belittles Ed's signs about keeping dogs away, as well as Ed's livelihood. He cruelly suggests it's a matter of time before he goes bust.
Alistair checks on one of Ed's milkers. She's lame and not responding to routine treatment. He reiterates that the neospora was probably only in the cattle that Vicky bought in. But Ed's taking no chances. He's on a knife edge. He can't afford any more losses.
Alistair talks to Alan about a hostel place for Darrell and tells Shula there could be one in Felpersham. Shula's concerned, but Alistair's firm. Shula has to decide who's more important: Darrell or Dan.
Blue Is The Warmest Colour won the top prize, the Palme D'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, but was quickly mired in controversy when the actresses Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopolous complained about gruelling love scenes which took days to film. Subsequently, the director Abdellatif Kechiche said that the movie should not be released, as it had been sullied by accusations that it was a "horrible" shoot. Briony Hanson, a former programmer of the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival delivers her verdict.
Last Tango in Halifax won the 2013 Bafta for Best Drama Series and went on to be broadcast in America to great acclaim. Series two begins tonight on BBC One and picks up where we left Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid's reunited childhood sweethearts. Writer Sally Wainwright discusses how she approached the follow-up.
With news today that film producers are to make a sequel to the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life", film critic Mark Eccleston explores some other surprising and unlikely film sequels.
Writer Jez Butterworth and director Ian Rickson had one of the biggest critical hits of the last decade with their 2008 play Jerusalem. Now they have returned to the work which set light to their careers in 1995, Mojo. The new West End production of Mojo stars Rupert Grint, Brendan Coyle and Ben Whishaw as gangsters in 1950s Soho. Jez Butterworth and Ian Rickson discuss Mojo, Jerusalem and two decades of working together.
On 19th November 1863, Abraham Lincoln stood in a field in Pennsylvania and delivered a short speech to a crowd that could hardly hear a word that he said. Exactly one hundred and fifty years on, James Naughtie tells the story behind what is now seen as possibly the greatest political speech of them all.
The Gettysburg Address is a priceless political jewel. It's probably the most famous single speech of the democratic era, which not only distilled an idea of the United States after a bitter civil war but became a touchstone for generations of Americans wrestling with racial division, until a Civil Rights Act was passed exactly a hundred years after the speech was delivered.
Two hundred and seventy-two words that thread their way through a century and a half of American history and are a great story in themselves: Lincoln scribbling in the train from Washington... the speech itself that very few people present could actually hear... the slow transmission of the famous phrases across the country... and the eventual adoption of the speech - still read in full by visitors who visit the Lincoln Memorial - as a kind of national statement.
Peter White talks to Clara Eaglen, from RNIB and Helen Jackman from the Macular Society about the overly long waiting lists for initial eye treatment for people with various eye conditions.
The RNIB has produced a survey which reveals that eye clinicians are over-stretched and cannot keep up with the demand for appointments.
The Macular Society has contacted every Clinical Commissioning Groups in England and Wales and found that guidance from the Royal College of Ophthalmology is not being adhered to and some patients are having to wait weeks longer for treatment than the guidance stipulates.
Lee Kumutat meets John Perry a blind tarot card reader who explains how he does his work.
The first ever edition of All in the Mind was broadcast 25 years ago. In the second of three anniversary programmes Claudia Hammond and guests look back at archive editions of the programme to examine what impact psychology research has had on our lives over the last 25 years. How does evidence-based psychology affect policy decisions? Is psychology just 'proving the obvious' or has it offered insights into ourselves which we could never have guessed?
Double bombing at Iranian embassy in Beirut.
Doing business in Iraq.
Monty Python team to re-form.
Indira Varma reads Jhumpa Lahiri's Man Booker-listed new novel, The Lowland, spanning India and America, and exploring the price of idealism and the enduring power of love.
It is the 1960s, and violent revolution has come to India and America. Two brothers, Subhash and Udayan, born in Calcutta just fifteen months apart, have been inseparable since birth, but their paths are diverging. Udayan - charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Communist movement sweeping Bengal. He will risk all for what he believes. But Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother's political passion, and leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet corner of America. But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland outside their family's home, he returns to India, hoping to pick up the pieces of a shattered family, and to heal the wounds Udayan left behind.
Jhumpa Lahiri shot to fame with her Pulitzer-winning story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, followed by novel The Namesake and another collection, Unaccustomed Earth. The Lowland is her latest work, and has been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
Reader: Indira Varma is an acclaimed stage, film and television actor. Her recent TV credits include: Rome, Luther and What Remains.
The Health Secretary announces a blueprint for restoring trust in the NHS following the scandal at Stafford Hospital. Facebook and Twitter discuss online security with MPs. And UKIP's Lord Pearson tells peers Islam has a "dark side". Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2013
WED 00:00 Midnight News (b03hczqf)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
WED 00:30 Book of the Week (b03j4xdr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Tuesday]
WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b03hczqh)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b03hczqk)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b03hczqm)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 05:30 News Briefing (b03hczqp)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b03j9mhh)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Frances Finn.
WED 05:45 Farming Today (b03hwbqx)
More than a hundred horses have been put down in Wales after RSPCA officers were called to a site in the Vale of Glamorgan. Farming Today finds out how this is one of the country's worst ever horse neglect cases, and hears how the Welsh Assembly is considering legislation to tackle the problem of fly-grazing.
Reform means money from the Common Agricultural Policy can be used to fund rural development projects, instead of going direct to farmers. A boost for some rural businesses, but a cause of resentment among farmers. We ask who's right.
And we meet the dairy farmer in Somerset whose stock are still grazing outside in November, thanks to the late warm autumn.
Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Campbell.
WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03dx2x8)
Marsh Tit
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Martin Hughes-Games presents the Marsh Tit. The marsh tit is badly-named. It doesn't live in marshes, and is most at home in older broad-leaved woodlands. "Oak tit" might be a better name. Unlike some other tit species they don't travel far, holding and defending their woodland territories throughout the winter.
ProducerBrett Westwood,MRS SARAH PITT,Sarah Blunt.
WED 06:00 Today (b03hwbqz)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
WED 09:00 Midweek (b03hwbr1)
Andy McNab; Cheryl Knight; Joseph Boyden; John Lloyd
Libby Purves meets former soldier-turned-writer Andy McNab; Cheryl Knight, who is in charge of shoes at the Royal Opera House; author Joseph Boyden and producer John Lloyd.
Andy McNab is a former SAS soldier-turned-writer. He was a foundling who joined the infantry with the Royal Green Jackets, progressing to the SAS. In the Gulf War he commanded the Bravo Two Zero patrol and later wrote a book about his experiences. He has just spent the last year as the Reading Agency's literacy ambassador for the 6 Book Challenge visiting prisons and factories to encourage young people to read.
Cheryl Knight is opera footwear supervisor at the Royal Opera House and in her spare time performs as Joyce Grenfell in her one-woman show, Turn Back the Clock. The show is Cheryl's tribute to the writer and performer who died in 1979 and is remembered for her witty monologues - including her popular sketch as a harassed nursery school teacher. Cheryl is currently assembling the shoe collection for two Royal Opera House productions - Parsifal and Carmen. Turn Back the Clock is at Waterloo East Theatre.
Joseph Boyden is a prize-winning Canadian author whose new book, the Orenda, draws on his own background. He is a descendant of Canada's First Nations and was educated by Jesuits. The Orenda is set in the wilds of 17th century North America when Europeans were colonising the region and the First Nation tribes fought among themselves and suffered under the invaders. The Orenda is published by Oneworld.
Producer and writer John Lloyd is best known for his work on comedy programmes including Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and QI. He is currently the Radio 4 presenter of the Museum of Curiosity, a spin-off from QI. His new book Afterliff - the New Dictionary of Things There Should Be Words For, written with Jon Canter, is published by Faber and Faber.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
WED 09:45 Book of the Week (b03j4y80)
CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
Episode 3
Originally broadcast in 2013, in the week marking the fiftieth anniversary of CS Lewis's death, and which saw a memorial stone to the author unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, Radio 4's Book of the Week marked the occasion with a reading of his famous letters from a senior to a junior devil.
Read by Simon Russell Beale
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall.
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 10:00 Woman's Hour (b03hwbr3)
Allegra McEvedy; CSA changes; Lady Helen Hamlyn
Chef and food writer Allegra McEvedy Cooks The Perfect pork chops - with lentils and pear. We discuss the likely impact of changes to the Child Support Agency with the Minister responsible for Child Benefit, Steve Webb MP, and Caroline Davey of Gingerbread. Lady Helen Hamlyn - one of Britain's best-known philanthropists, and Woman's Hour Powerlister, on the ethos of The Helen Hamlyn Trust and its donations.
Presented by Jenni Murray
Produced by Caroline Donne.
WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b03hwbr5)
Love and Mettle
Episode 3
Love and Mettle - episode 3/5
by Andrea Earl
The comic and touching true story of the writer's own extraordinary experience as a mother and wife, risking her husband's entire pension on building a house. Mrs T realises that she and Dr T have gone into this blindly. She keeps her worries about money under wraps; but Dr T is suspicious and starts to resent having given her the authority to spend his money.
Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris.
WED 11:00 Batting for the Middle Kingdom (b03hwbr7)
In 2012, 24-year-old Jiang Shuyao made sporting history when he became the first mainland Chinese cricketer to play for an English league side.
Jiang's debut season with Cleethorpes Cricket Club drew attention to the rising popularity of the quintessentially British sport in the People's Republic of China.
The Chinese Cricket Association has set itself the target of achieving Test match status and playing against the likes of England, Australia and South Africa by 2020.
A grass roots campaign to get the game taught in schools is well underway, and in the city of Shenyang in Liaoning province in North Eastern China, the country's top side is fast becoming a nurturing ground for the star players of the future.
If China were to one day become a cricketing nation, the International Cricket Council has estimated that global revenues for the game could increase by as much as 40 per cent.
Fred Dove has been meeting some of China's finest cricketers, and talking to those attempting to make the game of WG Grace and Donald Bradman part of the Chinese way of life.
Producer: Jessie Levene
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2013.
WED 11:30 Hard to Tell (b03hwbr9)
Series 2
Episode 2
Second series of the relationship comedy written by Jonny Sweet.
It tells its central love story through the couple's individual conversations with their family and friends. In the process, we are introduced to all manner of relationships from a father and his cherished tour van to two women rivalling for the position of Best Friend, from a brother and sister comparing notes on Brazilians to a vicar and his new parish, and from a lodger's historic fling with a local waitress to a mum's lack of control over her desire to monitor her son's life.
Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to restaurants, funerals, French dressers and monkey puzzle trees.
Jonny Sweet is also the writer of Radio 4's Party and co-writer/co-star of Chickens on Sky 1.
Episode 2:
It's Valentine's Day and Tom is determined to protect his relationship from the threat of Ellen's ex-boyfriend. He organises a surprise trip and borrows his Dad's old tour van.
Producer: Lucy Armitage
A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 12:00 You and Yours (b03hwbrc)
How to give up smoking
Giving up smoking can be hard. Louise Minchin hears how support from a local group might help. Plus, the training you can get if you're ever in front of a tough select committee.
WED 12:57 Weather (b03hczqr)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 13:00 World at One (b03hwbrf)
National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
WED 13:45 A History of Britain in Numbers (b03j4y82)
Health
Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.
He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as how badly austerity has bitten or the paradox of why no-one seems able to afford a house but so many people own one. And he tells these stories not just with data, but through people and the real experiences that bring the numbers to life.
In the search for data to measure how we've changed, the programme counts rotten teeth and adds up what people ate, what they own and throw away. What did we earn through the centuries, how do we know, and what could we do with it? What was our health like, or our homes, our jobs or education? What was the status and experience of women? And how has it all changed?
This is all presented with innovative radio techniques to capture data in sound - for example, new ways of creating graphs for the senses so that we can not just know, but feel, the changes.
Each of these ten programmes takes one theme, to explore how far we have made progress, and why it might continue, or falter.
3. Health
Andrew Dilnot explores the history of our health numbers, turning statistics into sound to reveal the startling changes in what we have come to think of as normal, and discovering how the numbers translated into lives through the centuries.
Producer: Michael Blastland
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 14:00 The Archers (b03hvx6w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Tuesday]
WED 14:15 Drama (b010m2fg)
Ten Lessons in Love
An eclectic mix of writers explores one of the most important human emotions. Ten short plays; encompassing romance, heart break and some adult themes; each one is a very different perspective on love.
David uses 'the machine' to revisit his old memories - he wants to pinpoint the exact moment he fell in love. But when it malfunctions, it catapults us into the stories of a variety people, all of whom are attempting to make sense of love.
Lesson 1: You never know when you're going to fall in love
By Nick Warburton
David ... Sean Baker
Young David ... Nyasha Hatendi
Young Eleanor ... Alex Tregear
Lesson 2: More often than not, your dream date will be a nightmare
By Bola Agbaje
Laide ... Zawe Ashton
Femi ... Femi Oyeniran
Lesson 3: Beware of skeletons in the closet
Written and performed by Josie Long
Lesson 4: Remain interested; don't yawn at least
By Tim Key
Derek Monet ... Tim Key
Marie ... Alex Tregear
Waiter ... Stuart McLoughlin
Lesson 5: When your heart freezes it's time to leave the building
By Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Jeanie ... Sally Orrock
Ken ... Daniel Rabin
Lesson 6: Love is fickle
Written and performed by Josie Long
Lesson 7: Being alone doesn't have to mean being lonely
By Nick Payne
Jim ... Stuart McLoughlin
Sarah ... Alex Tregear
Lesson 8: Love's worth fighting for
The real-life story of Dane and Lenka
Produced by Rich Ward
Lesson 9: Love can't be pinned down
Written and performed by Josie Long
Lesson 10: Ignore all previous lessons
David ... Sean Baker
Eleanor ... Jane Whittenshaw
Young David ... Nyasha Hatendi
Young Eleanor ... Alex Tregear
Clive ... Stuart Mcloughlin
Directed by James Robinson.
WED 15:00 Money Box Live (b03hwbrh)
Saving and Investing
Looking for the top cash savings rate or a better investment return? To ask the Money Box investment team for their view, call 03700 100 444 from
1pm to
3.30pm on Wednesday or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk now.
Have you checked your savings interest rate recently? Whether you're looking for an easy access account, a cash ISA or you're prepared to lock your money away for a while, we'll have the best rates.
Perhaps you want to ask about riskier stock market investments? Should you consider a Stocks and Shares ISA?
How do Unit Trusts and Open-Ended Investment Companies (OEICs) work and how much will you pay in charges?
What should you consider if you want to be a DIY investor?
Maybe you have a question about investment jargon?
Whatever you need to know, presenter Ruth Alexander will be joined by:
Justin Modray, Director, Candid Financial Advice.
Louise Oliver, Partner, Taylor Oliver Chartered Financial Planners.
Ben Yearsley, Head of Investment Research, Charles Stanley Direct.
To talk to the team call 03700 100 444 between
1pm and
3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher.
WED 15:30 All in the Mind (b03hvx74)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Tuesday]
WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed (b03hwbrk)
The Poppy; Traveller Children in Schools
The Poppy - a cultural history. Laurie Taylor talks to renowned archaeologist and anthropologist, Nicholas Saunders, about his account of the origins, history and many meanings of the Remembrance Day Poppy. From ancient Egypt to Flanders Field to Afghanistan. How did a humble flower of the field become a worldwide icon? They're joined by Professor of History, Joanna Bourke. Also, Reader in Education, Kalwant Bhopal, discusses her research into the experience of traveller children in schools.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
WED 16:30 The Media Show (b03hwbrm)
Independent Scotland; BBC North; Young Journalist Award
In this week's Media Show from Salford, Steve speaks to the Scottish minister for culture Fiona Hyslop on her vision for broadcasting in an independent Scotland. It's been suggested that Scotland would have its own public service broadcaster based on the existing staff and assets of BBC Scotland, should it gain independence, so could this work? And Steve questions how the government could ensure people could get access to popular programmes, like Eastenders, should the BBC cease to exist in the country.
It's been 18 months since the controversial BBC move to Salford was completed. A wide range of programmes including Match of the Day, Blue Peter, and BBC Sport are now produced there. However, questions have been raised about the cost of the move and the scale of the allowances paid to some staff to relocate. Steve talks to Peter Salmon, Director of BBC North, about whether the move has met it's key objectives to better serve audiences in the north, and improve the quality of content.
And a young journalist from the developing world will be announced as the winner of a new award being sponsored by the Thomson Foundation. The finalists are all under 30, working in countries with a GDP per capital of less than $20,000. They are Judy Kosgei, a former childrens radio presenter from Kenya; investigative journalist Neha Dixit from India, and award-winning science writer Toyosi Ogunseye from Nigeria. Steve speaks to the winner about how the award will better their career in journalism.
Producer: Katy Takatsuki.
WED 17:00 PM (b03hwbrp)
Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b03hczqt)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b03hwbrr)
Series 1
Out of Our Tree
Tom's father is engrossed in putting together the Wrigglesworth Family Tree which is leaving Tom's mother at a loose end. Tom suggests she gets in a lodger for company.
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call to explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate various anecdotes from the past which illustrate his family's views. And sometimes he just needs to sound-off about the maddening world around him and bemoan everyday annoyances.
A fascinating and hilarious glimpse into Tom Wrigglesworth, his family background and the influences that have shaped his temperament,opinions and hang-ups.
During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from our families and how the past repeats in the present. All in a 30 minute phone call.
'Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups' gets underneath the skin of Tom and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a bit of totally legal phone hacking.
Cast:
Tom Wrigglesworth ...Tom
Judy Parfitt ... Granny
Paul Copley ... Dad
Kate Anthony ... Mum
David Reed ... Henry
Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle
Additional Material by Miles Jupp
Producer: Katie Tyrrell.
WED 19:00 The Archers (b03hwbrt)
It's Brian's birthday. He's miffed that Debbie has sent him a newspaper from the day he was born. He doesn't need to be reminded of his age. Brian's equally annoyed with the giant badge on Alice's card. He claims his sensitivity about his age is purely for business reasons. He doesn't want the BL board thinking he's ready to retire. Brian is rather happier with Jenny's present - a holiday in a beachside villa in Mauritius.
David plans to order some special silver jewellery for Ruth, for their anniversary.
As Josh sets off on his bike, he skids to avoid Jill's car, almost being hit as she pulls up. Mortified Jill apologises. She didn't see him. Jill agrees it's time to visit the opticians, and decides not to drive in the meantime.
At his party, Brian notices that Shula and Alistair aren't exactly in festive mood. Annabelle turns up. They discuss the decorations at Grey Gables, where they're clearly starting early for Christmas. Phoebe has a surprise ready for Brian. Everyone enjoys Ian's canapés and Brian advises David on the best ways to enjoy Budapest
Brian gives a heartfelt speech, before Jennifer finally reveals a cake spelling out the number 70. Up to now Brian has been coy about his age. The crowd start a rousing rendition of Happy 70th Birthday. Brian wryly accept the inevitable.
WED 19:15 Front Row (b03hwbrw)
Anjelica Huston; City of Culture 2017; Strangers on a Train; Turner
With Mark Lawson.
As the first part of her autobiography is published, actress Anjelica Huston discusses her unconventional childhood with her father, film director John Huston, and why he encouraged her to roll cigars and drink sherry as a child, and what a Samurai warrior was doing in her kitchen.
Hull has been named as UK City of Culture 2017, beating competition from Swansea Bay, Leicester and Dundee. John Godber, playwright and former Artistic Director of Hull Truck Theatre Company, and writer and journalist David Mark discuss Hull's historic and contemporary cultural significance.
Lawrence Fox and Imogen Stubbs star in a new stage version of Strangers on a Train by Craig Warner, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, and famously filmed by Hitchcock. Critic Peter Kemp was at the opening night.
Turner & the Sea at the National Maritime Museum claims to be the first full-scale examination of J.M.W. Turner's lifelong fascination with the sea. The exhibition features 120 works by Turner and his contemporaries, including The Fighting Temeraire. Art critic Charlotte Mullins gives her response to this latest Turner show.
Producer: Jerome Weatherald.
WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b03hwbr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
WED 20:00 Moral Maze (b03hwbry)
Public v Private Life
Even before his assassination 50 years ago this week, John F Kennedy was an iconic figure for many - his administration a "Camelot" for a shining new age. Public opinion polls show that the American people consistently rate Kennedy as one of the greatest leaders in US history. The reality of the man was much darker. In private, he was a drug-taking philanderer with links to the Mafia. But that's exactly how his personal life remained - private. Loyal staff, collusion of the press and no question of leaking the detailed FBI reports on his indiscretions meant the presidential image remained untouched. The contrast with public life today couldn't be more striking. Now we believe that there should be no separation of the public and the private and we have a right to know even the most intimate details of the private lives of politicians and those in positions of trust so that in the "public interest" we can pass judgment on their character. Others argue, they can and should be separated and that our prurience has damaged civil society. Should we always expect our leaders to moral exemplars and free from stain? Or are we all guilty of mass hypocrisy? Demanding moral standards in our leaders that we'd never apply in our own lives, or the lives of our friends? Should we welcome the shining spotlight of transparency as raising the moral standards in public life, or has it made us a much less forgiving and understanding society?
Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. With Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox and Kenan Malik.
WED 20:45 Four Thought (b03hwbs0)
Series 4
Ambivalence: For and Against
Mark O'Connell argues that in an age of strong opinions, we should embrace ambivalence.
As a child, Mark's constitutional ambiguity meant his mother considered printing the phrase 'I might and I mightn't' on a t-shirt. Today, Mark's job as a writer for Slate magazine is to take strong positions. In this fascinating look at the role of ambiguity in our society, he attempts to square the circle - or should that be circle the square - in his determination to have the courage of his own ambivalence.
Producer: Giles Edwards.
WED 21:00 Frontiers (b03hwbs2)
The Power of the Unconscious
We like to think that we are in control of our lives, of what we do, think and feel. But, as Geoff Watts discovers, scientists are now revealing that this is just an illusion.
A simple magic trick reveals just how limited our conscious awareness of the world is, and how easy it is to fool us.
So if our conscious brain can cope with so little, what is responsible for the rest? Science is starting to reveal the crucial role of a silent partner inside our heads, that we are completely unaware of - our unconscious.
In this programme, Geoff enlists the help of not just brain scientists, but a conjuror and a musician to reveal the pivotal role the unconscious plays in pretty much everything we do, think and feel. This new-found knowledge is enabling scientists to harness its powers for both medical and military benefit.
WED 21:30 Midweek (b03hwbr1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 21:58 Weather (b03hczqw)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 22:00 The World Tonight (b03hwbs4)
Tonight Ritula Shah reports live from the US base in Guantanamo Bay.
President Obama promised to close the facility in 2008 but 164 men are still being held. Will the president spend precious political capital to overcome the legal and practical hurdles that still stand in the way of its closure?
The World Tonight has been given access to the base to see what the conditions are like for the detainees and to talk to the people who guard them.
WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b03hwbs6)
The Lowland
Episode 8
Indira Varma reads Jhumpa Lahiri's Man Booker-listed new novel, The Lowland, spanning India and America, and exploring the price of idealism and the enduring power of love.
It is the 1960s, and revolution has come to India and America. Two brothers, Subhash and Udayan, born in Calcutta just fifteen months apart, have been inseparable since birth, but their paths are diverging. Udayan - charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Communist movement sweeping Bengal. He will risk all for what he believes. But Subhash, the dutiful son, leaves for a quiet life of study in America. But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland outside their family's home, he returns to India, hoping to heal the wounds Udayan left behind.
Today: Bela returns home with shocking news, and Subhash musters the courage to tell her what she deserves to know.
Jhumpa Lahiri shot to fame with her Pulitzer-winning story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, followed by novel The Namesake and another collection, Unaccustomed Earth. The Lowland is her latest work, and has been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
Reader: Indira Varma is an acclaimed stage, film and television actor. Her recent TV credits include: Rome, Luther and What Remains.
Abridger: Sally Marmion
Producer: Justine Willett.
WED 23:00 Before They Were Famous (b03hwd2h)
Series 2
Episode 6
Even the most successful of writers have, at some point, had to take day jobs to pay the bills.
Ian Leslie presents the second series of this Radio 4 spoof documentary, which sheds light on the often surprising jobs done by the world's best known writers in the days before they were able to make a living from their art.
In a project of literary archaeology, Leslie unearths archive examples of early work by great writers, including Fortune Cookie messages written by Germaine Greer, a political manifesto by the young JK Rowling, and a car manual written by Dan Brown. In newspaper articles, advertising copy, and company correspondence, we get a fascinating glimpse into the embryonic development of our best-loved literary voices.
We may know them today for their novels, plays or poems but, once upon a time, they were just people with a dream - and a rent bill looming at the end of the month.
Producers: Anna Silver and Claire Broughton
A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 23:15 Irish Micks and Legends (b01nxw2q)
Series 1
Children of Lir
Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram become Ais and Yaz and are the very best pals. They are taking their role as Ireland's freshest story-tellers to the British nation very seriously indeed but they haven't had the time to do much research, learn their lines or work out who is doing which parts.
The girls' unconventional way of telling stories involves a concoction of thoroughly inappropriate modern-day metaphors and references to many of the ancient Irish stories.
With a natural knack for both comedy and character voices Yasmine Akram and Aisling Bea will bring you warm, modern re-workings of popular ancient Irish stories.
Today it's Children of Lir.
Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram.
Producer: Raymond Lau
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012.
WED 23:30 Today in Parliament (b03hwftd)
The Government faces a rebellion over plans to expand the Army Reserve to 30,000 to offset cuts of 20,000 regular troops.
David Cameron and Ed Miliband clash over the running of the Co-op Bank and its former chair Paul Flowers' links with the Labour Party.
MPs call for tough action against Spain following an illegal incursion into Gibraltar's territorial waters.
And some of the Government's biggest private company contractors face a grilling by MPs following two critical reports from the spending watchdog, the NAO.
Alicia McCarthy and team report on today's events in Parliament.
THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2013
THU 00:00 Midnight News (b03hczrq)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
THU 00:30 Book of the Week (b03j4y80)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b03hczrs)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b03hczrv)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b03hczrx)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (b03hczrz)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b03j9mr5)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Frances Finn.
THU 05:45 Farming Today (b03hwhcz)
All lambs in England will have to be electronically tagged from 2015 to improve traceability. Farmers claim it could cost the industry more than £1 million.
We continue our look at how CAP reform will be implemented, with a visit to the RSPB's Hope Farm in Cambridgeshire.
And 27 new Marine Conservation Zones will be designated today.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling.
THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03dx6nq)
Willow Tit
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Martin Hughes-Games presents the Willow Tit. Willow Tits are declining rapidly in many areas: they are very similar to marsh tits, so alike in fact that no-one realised that they existed here until 1897 and their identity as a breeding bird in the UK was confirmed three years later.
THU 06:00 Today (b03hwn07)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
THU 09:00 In Our Time (b03hwn09)
Pocahontas
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Pocahontas, the Native American woman who to English eyes became a symbol of the New World. During the colonisation of Virginia in the first years of the seventeenth century, Pocahontas famously saved the life of an English prisoner, John Smith. Later captured, she converted to Christianity, married a settler and travelled to England where she was regarded as a curiosity. She died in 1617 at the age of 22 and was buried in Gravesend; her story has fascinated generations on both sides of the Atlantic, and has been reinterpreted and retold by many writers and artists.
With:
Susan Castillo
Harriet Beecher Stowe Emeritus Professor of American Studies at King's College London
Tim Lockley
Reader in American Studies at the University of Warwick
Jacqueline Fear-Segal
Reader in American History and Culture at the University of East Anglia
Producer: Thomas Morris.
THU 09:45 Book of the Week (b03j593b)
CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
Episode 4
Originally broadcast in 2013, in the week marking the fiftieth anniversary of CS Lewis's death, and which saw a memorial stone to the author unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, Radio 4's Book of the Week marked the occasion with a reading of his famous letters from a senior to a junior devil.
Read by Simon Russell Beale
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall.
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b03hwn0c)
Female NEETs; Women Bishops
As the Church of England's legislative body gives first approval to new proposals that could eventually allow women to become bishops we talk to Susie Leafe, director of the conservative evangelical group Reform and a lay member of the synod who voted against female bishops and Reverend Jody Stowell part of the campaign group YES 2 Women Bishops.
Why are so many young women not in employment, education or training? We talk to two NEETs, Markita and Stephanie, and to Employment Minister Esther McVey and Kayte Lawson from the thinktank IPPR about how to get more into work.
Professor Elizabeth Kuipers from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London on receiving a WISE life-time achievement award for her work on mental illness.
Marion Trestler's new book tells the stories of Austrian women who were recruited to work in the UK after WW2. We speak to Marion, along with Erika Slowman and Erika Lang who both moved to England in the late 1940s
Presented by Jane Garvey
Produced by Kirsty Starkey.
THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b03hwn0f)
Love and Mettle
Episode 4
Love and Mettle - episode 4/5
by Andrea Earl
The true story of the writer's own experience of building a house. Mrs T has a virtual meltdown when it becomes apparent that they have been working off the wrong plans and don't have Planning Permission for the house they have already built. And secondly because Mrs T, wrongly thinking the spending was almost over, learns that there is at least another 50k to spend.
Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris.
THU 11:00 Crossing Continents (b03hwn0h)
Moldova - Sour Grapes
Wine making in Moldova is a source of national pride - they have been growing vines for centuries. During Soviet times the country was encouraged to become one of the USSR's major wine suppliers and it has remained so ever since. But recently Russia banned the importation of Moldovan wine for the second time in a decade.
Tessa Dunlop visits the prestigious Cricova winery - whose cellars have 120km of underground roads and holds bottles for the likes of Angela Merkel and President Putin - to see how the ban is affecting the poorest country in Europe.
Moldova fears that a continuing embargo will devastate its fragile economy. The Moldovan president has condemned it as an aggressive move by Russia to bully Moldova into reconsidering its comittment to forging closer relations with the European Union. Many Moldovans believe Russia wants to make their country reconsider ratifying an agreement with the EU at the end of November.
The result is that growers have vats maturing wine that may have no market. Enterprising younger wine producers, many of whom bought out former state enterprises, fear their investment may have been a mistake. Workers are concerned they may lose their jobs with little chance of alternative employment in the poorest country in Europe.
For Moldova this is symbolic of a bigger problem - it wants to join the EU party and become part of Europe but its economy remains heavily dependent on Russia for gas and cash. Meanwhile the 14th Russian army is based just miles from their capital in the disputed territory of Transnistria.
Moldova faces difficult choices
Producer: Jane Beresford.
THU 11:30 The Songs of Molly Drake (b03hwn0k)
Pete Paphides tells the story behind the privately recorded songs of Molly Drake, mother of cult singer Nick Drake, and how those songs influenced her famous son who ended his own life in 1974 at the age of 30. Nick's sister Gabrielle Drake talks extensively about her mother's music and poetry and their connection with Nick's life and work.
When Nick Drake's producer and mentor Joe Boyd heard the songs, he was moved to declare that, "This is the missing link in the Nick Drake story". Tracey Thorn of Everything But The Girl is also a fan of the songs of Molly and has recorded two covers of the songs specially for this programme.
During the course of the interview, Gabrielle revealed that Molly Drake wrote several songs about Nick when he was a child, including The Bath Song which she quotes in the programme. Molly also penned Poor Mum in response to Nick's Poor Boy - though it is unlikely that Nick ever heard this song.
Molly's is a voice rarely heard - the songs reflect her life but also chart the life of a suburban middle class mother and a lost era when people 'got on with it'. They are hauntingly evocative and Nick's melancholy is also to be heard in Molly's songs.
Up until recently, it was not known that Nick's mother also wrote songs at the piano. She recorded them for private use only and, for many years, Gabrielle looked after the material. In 2004 Gabrielle put two of the songs on a posthumous Nick Drake rarities album, which got some attention from artists like Tracey Thorn, but some of the other songs have only recently been released.
Producer: Laura Parfitt
A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:00 You and Yours (b03hwn0m)
Consumer news with Winifred Robinson.
THU 12:57 Weather (b03hczs1)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 13:00 World at One (b03hwn0p)
National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
THU 13:45 A History of Britain in Numbers (b03j53lh)
Stuff
Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority (2012-2017), tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.
He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as how badly austerity has bitten or the paradox of why no-one seems able to afford a house but so many people own one. And he tells these stories not just with data, but through people and the real experiences that bring the numbers to life.
In the search for data to measure how we've changed, the programme counts rotten teeth and adds up what people ate, what they own and throw away. What did we earn through the centuries, how do we know, and what could we do with it? What was our health like, or our homes, our jobs or education? What was the status and experience of women? And how has it all changed?
Each of these ten programmes takes one theme, to explore how far we have made progress, and why it might continue, or falter.
Stuff
Andrew Dilnot's history of the big trends in history in numbers continues with the story of stuff - the things we consume, from light to concrete - packed with revealing statistics and stories of the way stuff changed our lives.
Producer: Michael Blastland
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4
From 2013.
THU 14:00 The Archers (b03hwbrt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b03hwn0r)
Series 5
Lyall Park
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz.
Episode 1: Lyall Park
The immortal wanderer William Palmer - Pilgrim – comes to Lyall Park where he uncovers an astonishing and disturbing family secret.
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Kenny ..... Sean Murray
Harry ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Colville ..... Annette Badland
Bryony ..... Carolyn Pickles
Lavinia ..... Priyanga Burford
Threadgold ..... James Lailey
Cashier ..... Georgie Fuller
Sound ..... Colin Guthrie
Directed by Marc Beeby
A fifth series of four dark adventures. Pilgrim, cursed with immortality by the King of the Greyfolk, is forever forced to walk between the human world and the world of Faerie in a never-ending quest to preserve the uneasy balance between the two. In this series, Pilgrim finds himself in pursuit of the mysterious Radiant Boy. On the way he encounters a ballroom filled with un-dead dancers, a cursed village, a woman in love with a man with a fox's tail and a medium who takes him across the line between life and death...
THU 15:00 Open Country (b03hwn0t)
The Birds of Lindisfarne
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne is probably best known for its medieval religious heritage and in the summer months pilgrims from all walks of life flock to the island and swell its community of 160 to over 650,000. But in the winter it's the birds that flock here, taking refuge on this holy land during their winter migration. Helen Mark arrives on Holy Island just as the birds do and learns about their unique relationship with this island.
Bird Historian, Ian Kerr has been visiting the island for more than 30 years and knows of 318 species that have been recorded. He also knows the long and complex relationship the birds have with this landscape and the generations of islanders. Legend has it that St Cuthbert laid down rules for the protection of nesting Eiders, making him Britain's first conservationists - whilst in later centuries, islanders recruited Goldcrests to clear their cottages of spiders and flies.
Laura Scott is a ranger at the Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve which annually welcomes over half the world's population of pale bellied Brent Geese. They are attracted to the mudflats and the special grasses that grow there. Whilst the birds come for the special habitats that the island provides, they bring with them many gifts. For Rev David Peel, a United Reformed Church Minister and long-time birder, they are a reflection of God's beauty and design, offering moments of transcendence. For award winning Northumberland based writer Ann Cleeves, author of ITV's Drama Series 'Vera' and BBC's 'Shetland' series, the birds are an integral part of building a landscape and creating an atmosphere and Holy Island - a place that she first visited with her retired RSPB warden and keen birder husband Tim - is full of this rich bird life and atmosphere.
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b03hmngv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:55 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Open Book (b03hn1m5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:00 The Film Programme (b03hwrxf)
The Family; Blue Is the Warmest Colour; Catching Fire; 47 Ronin
Francine Stock talks to Stanley Tucci, camp compere of the deadly Hunger Games, on the constant reinvention of the character actor. Based on the young adult novels of Suzanne Collins, part two of the Hunger Games series, Catching Fire, is released this month and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Woody Harrelson.
Abdellatif Kechiche, the director of Blue is the Warmest Colour, explains why he wants to break free from the conventions of cinema, whether it's content, form or duration. Winner of this year's Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is an explicit and affecting tale of two young women and their tempestuous relationship. He also answers complaints that he was an excessively demanding director for both cast and crew.
Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer discuss The Family, a story of a mob family in hiding and their increasingly farcical - and murderous - attempts to fit into their new lives incognito.
Plus 47 Ronin, the Japanese legend of the masterless samurai, retold in an American produced film with Keanu Reeves released this Christmas. Alexander Jacoby of Oxford Brookes University explores its reincarnations across the generations.
Producer: Elaine Lester.
THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science (b03hwrxh)
Bird Atlas; Flywheels; Energy capture; Science lessons for MPs
Every twenty years there's a detailed survey of the birds of the UK and Ireland and today, the 2007-2011 Bird Atlas is published. Adam Rutherford hears from Dawn Balmer from the British Trust for Ornithology about the citizen scientists, the forty thousand volunteers who collected data on a staggering 19 million birds - 502 different species - and meets their record breaking volunteer, Chris Reynolds. A 73 year old retired maths teacher, Chris took part in the previous three atlases and walked thousands of miles in all seasons across his patch in the Outer Hebrides. Dawn describes the avifaunal picture revealed in this latest Atlas.
In 2009, Williams developed a flywheel - which temporarily stores energy - for their formula 1 car. After the Research and Development was done, the F1 governing body changed the rules, and there was no longer space for a flywheel on their car. No matter, these things have other uses. Mark Smout from Smout Allen has proposed a design for the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, which uses banks of these flywheels to regulate the energy from the nearby wind farm. It also uses spare electricity to grow a sea defence for the island. Marnie Chesterton reports on this flywheel technology and Tim Fox, energy expert at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers describes to Adam other potential solutions for storing energy on the National Grid.
Professor Bill Sutherland from the University of Cambridge is a co-author on a new "cheat sheet", published in this week's Nature, to help politicians and policy makers sort the good scientific research from the bad. He talks to Adam about why it's more important and faster, to teach a scientific approach than simply to teach facts.
Producer: Fiona Hill.
THU 17:00 PM (b03hwrxk)
Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b03hczs3)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 18:30 Clare in the Community (b01qdxwn)
Series 8
The Parent Trap
Clare is relishing the role of acting Team Leader at the Family Centre but at home she's not relishing a visit from Brian's mother.
Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but never a practical solution.
A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her.
Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control both her professional and private life
In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare.
Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden
Clare ...... Sally Phillips
Brian ...... Alex Lowe
Megan ...... Nina Conti
Nali ...... Nina Conti
Ray ...... Richard Lumsden
Hazel ...... Hannah Gordon
Joan ...... Sarah Thom
Laura ...... Sarah Thom
Joe ...... Adam Nagaitis
Mike ...... Adam Nagaitis
Paul ...... Paul Stonehouse
Frank ...... Paul Stonehouse
Girl ...... Stephanie Racine
Producer Katie Tyrrell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013.
THU 19:00 The Archers (b03hwrxm)
Emma's finishing off her cookbook with Lynda. They finally agree on a title: Appetising Ambridge. They enjoy a brownie and Emma spots that Lynda has changed another recipe. They discuss Ed's problem with Neospora - people and their dogs on his land are driving Ed crazy
Lynda reservedly updates Emma on Robin Hood progress. There's a small issue with her Robin and Marian, which she'll address this evening.
Joe's not feeling up to collecting holly and mistletoe anymore. Clarrie thinks Eddie's mad for wanting to get it from Grange Farm - it doesn't feel right, as they'd be beholden to Oliver and Caroline.
Emma has a card for Eddie and Clarrie, for their 32nd wedding anniversary. As a thank you for looking after him, Joe treats Eddie and Clarrie to £50 from his compensation to go somewhere fancy.
Eddie shares that he might have some good news for Darrell, before proposing a toast to Clarrie - the best wife in the world. Clarrie's touched.
Lynda surprises Rob and Kirsty with a private rehearsal, focusing on intimacy.
But Lynda's improvisational ideas backfire as Kirsty uses the scenario to dig at Rob, barely staying in character. Lynda vainly hopes the exercise has been useful. Kirsty admits they've been given lots to think about.
THU 19:15 Front Row (b03hwrxp)
Peter Blake; Gaslight; Sarah Ruhl; Leviathan
With Kirsty Lang.
The artist Peter Blake's new exhibition Under Milk Wood is the culmination of a 25-year project, in which he's created a series of illustrations, portraits, watercolours, and photographs based on Dylan Thomas's 'play for voices'. Peter Blake looks back over his ambitious project and discusses his fascination for Thomas's celebrated work.
A new film documentary, Leviathan, provides an insight into the harsh world of North Atlantic commercial fishing. With no narration, little dialogue, and long lingering shots of life aboard a fishing vessel, the film has divided audiences. Documentary film maker Molly Dineen gives her response.
Iain Sinclair and Professor Jeffrey Richards tell the story of the chequered history of Gaslight, Thorold Dickinson's adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play, which was suppressed by a Hollywood studio when it bought up the rights. Legend has it that the film only survives now because the director smuggled out a copy under the cloak of darkness.
Sarah Ruhl's play In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) was nominated for three Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize after its initial Broadway run in 2009. Opening tonight at the St James Theatre in London, the play shows how 19th Century medicine used the female orgasm as a cure for hysteria, and how the invention of electricity transformed the treatment. Sarah Ruhl discusses the inspiration for the play and reflects on why it has been a hit in some surprising locations.
Producer: Stephen Hughes.
THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b03hwn0f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
THU 20:00 The Report (b03hwrxr)
Energy Prices: The Truth
Hannah Barnes asks where the money from your energy bills goes. Do the energy companies have anything to hide and are customers are being ripped off? She visits Jane, an energy customer in Brighton, and finds her in a cold house waiting as long as she can to turn on her heating. Jane isnot alone - there are thousands like her who cannot afford to pay their bills. So why are they going up and are each of the different reasons given by the big six energy companies valid or are we paying too much.
Contributors:
Audrey Gallacher - Director of Energy, Consumer Futures
Reg Platt - Senior Research Fellow, IPPR
Omar Rahim - former energy trader and Editor, Energy Trader Daily
Keith Anderson - Chief Corporate Officer, Scottish Power
Alan Whitehead - Labour MP and member of the House of Commons, Energy and Climate Change Select Committee.
Stephen Fitzpatrick - Managing Director, Ovo Energy.
THU 20:30 The Bottom Line (b03hwrxt)
Design
Decorating your home is big business - in the UK and around the world. In China and India the home decor market is evolving fast - but will the result be a global homogenous style? Who sets the trends? And what do you do if your products lose their fashionable edge? Evan Davis and guests discuss the volatile world of design.
Guests:
Kelly Hoppen, founder Kelly Hoppen Interiors
Andrew Graham, CEO Graham and Brown
Lois Jacobs, Global CEO Fitch
Producer: Rosamund Jones.
THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science (b03hwrxh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 today]
THU 21:30 In Our Time (b03hwn09)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 21:58 Weather (b03hczs5)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b03hwydj)
In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective.
THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b03hwydl)
The Lowland
Episode 9
Indira Varma reads Jhumpa Lahiri's Man Booker-listed new novel, The Lowland, spanning India and America, and exploring the price of idealism and the enduring power of love.
It is the 1960s, and revolution has come to India and America. Two brothers, Subhash and Udayan, have been inseparable since birth, but their paths are diverging. Udayan - charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Communist movement sweeping Bengal. He will risk all for what he believes. But Subhash, the dutiful son, leaves for a quiet life of study in America. But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland outside their family's home, he returns to India, hoping to heal the wounds Udayan left behind.
Today: Gauri is forced to confront her past after an unexpected letter from Subhash.
Jhumpa Lahiri shot to fame with her Pulitzer-winning story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, followed by novel The Namesake and another collection, Unaccustomed Earth. The Lowland is her latest work, and has been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
Reader: Indira Varma is an acclaimed stage, film and television actor. Her recent TV credits include: Rome, Luther and What Remains.
Abridger: Sally Marmion
Producer: Justine Willett.
THU 23:00 Andrew Maxwell's Public Enemies (b03dv5n2)
The Internet
Andrew tackles the internet. Whether it's online pornography twisting our children's minds or GCHQ reading our emails, it seems only right to have a healthy distrust of the internet.
But surely, to paraphrase a former prime minister, there's no such thing as the Internet - there are men, and women, and lolcats. What is it about the internet that makes people on it so scary?
Andrew Maxwell is one of the UK's most informed and fearless stand ups. In this series of one-off stand up shows, he uses his trademark intelligence and political incisiveness to dig behind the clichés and assumptions about four possible threats to British society: food, the internet, drugs and Nationalism.
A series showcasing a comedian at the top of his abilities tackling difficult and important 'slow news' topics with a depth and perceptiveness that remains outside the remit of mainstream 'topical' comedy.
Written and performed by Andrew Maxwell.
Script edited by Paul Byrne.
Producer: Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2013.
THU 23:30 Today in Parliament (b03hwydn)
Sean Curran reports as MPs demand more police action on stalking. A cabinet minister says the badger cull is looking good in Somerset. Peers list human rights abuse round the world. And MPs clash on hiring out Parliament's facilities.
Editor: Peter Mulligan.
FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2013
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b03hczt2)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
FRI 00:30 Book of the Week (b03j593b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b03hczt4)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b03hczt6)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b03hczt8)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b03hcztb)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b03j9mrc)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Frances Finn.
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b03hxjqz)
A fall in consumer demand and high production costs are to blame for a slump in the Scottish chicken industry. That's according to one processor who may have to cut more than 200 jobs at its plant in Perthshire. But will a rescue plan for the Scottish Chicken industry help?
And the Scottish Government say their farmers will loose out on over £850 million pounds worth of European money in the latest Common Agricultural Policy reforms. Whilst each country in the UK decide how it will spend its allocation. The UK Government is in charge of dividing up the pot from the EU - and Defra has decided to share the money out equally.
The Welsh Government has said its pretty pleased with that, and like England, is looking at moving up to fifteen percent of the cash from direct farm payments to rural enterprise and agri environment schemes Similiary the assembly in Northern Ireland has accepted its share of the European money and will complete its consultation with farmers in mid-January.
But the Scottish Government says that the UK is getting extra cash from Europe which is aimed at those who get the lowest payments... And that this 'uplift' money is for their farmers, not for all UK farmers.
Meanwhile - we hear from one analyst who favours scrapping the CAP payments altogether.
And Anna Hill finds out about how the latest bird atlas, published by the British Trust for Ornithology, has been charting the changes in our farmland bird populations for over a decade.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Jules Benham.
FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03dx6vq)
Hawfinch
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Martin Hughes-Games presents the Hawfinch. The Hawfinch is a large thickset finch with a massive bill. It uses this to crack open hawthorn and cherry stones as well as hornbeam seeds to get at the soft kernels inside. In doing so, it exerts a force of around 180 pounds per square inch.
FRI 06:00 Today (b03hxjr1)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs (b03hmntl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 Book of the Week (b03j5czk)
CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
Episode 5
Originally broadcast in 2013, in the week marking the fiftieth anniversary of CS Lewis's death, and which saw a memorial stone to the author unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, Radio 4's Book of the Week marked the occasion with a reading of his famous letters from a senior to a junior devil.
Read by Simon Russell Beale
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall.
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b03hxjr3)
Prostitution in France; Inventions for women; Men and body image
Heated debate in France on how to tackle prostitution - should it be made illegal to pay for sex? Jenni Murray takes a look at inventions for and by women. Reporter Jeff Bird tries wearing a muscle-enhancing top in public - how much do men worry about their body image? The Manchester Camerata and primary school children in South Manchester create a mini-opera about the Holocaust.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Helen Lee.
FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b03hxjr5)
Love and Mettle
Episode 5
Love and Mettle 5/5
by Andrea Earl
The true story of the writer's experience of building a house. A few weeks away from Xmas, and Dr. T. has collapsed and is in hospital. The house is nearly complete but Mrs T. doesn't care - she just wants her husband to be okay.
Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris.
FRI 11:00 Forever Young (b03hxjr7)
Love and Marriage
What does it mean, in 21st Century Britain, to be an adult? In this series of 'documentary pop songs' we examine the shifting borders of adulthood in sexual, social and financial relations.
Personal relationships have always been central to the way young people define themselves - as child, girlfriend or boyfriend, fiance, spouse, or parent. But with changing approaches to sex education, a transformation in our understanding of sexuality and shifting attitudes towards the institutions that support personal choices, it's no longer appropriate to assume any inevitability about settling down with a life-partner and starting a family.
We hear from teenagers about how their education in sexual and personal relations is drawn from the internet and the playground as much as from the classroom, we gather the experiences of young parents, and we compare the attitudes of twin sisters Nuala and Niamh - one in a relationship', one 'very single', one straight, one gay.
For each episode of Forever Young, we've commissioned a new song on each of the three themes. The Love and Marriage song is written and performed by husband and wife pop duo Summer Camp.
Produced by Eleanor McDowall with Hana Walker-Brown.
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies (b03hxjr9)
Series 3
Episode 6
Tom's girlfriend Poppy has left him for Stevie - once a friendless snotball but now fit and much-fancied - but Tom is channelling Einstein to get his girl back, because Albert proved that linear time is a delusion and that everything that happens is still happening. And if that's true, Tom has no reason to move on.
So Tom is keeping early morning vigil outside Poppy's house holding up placards relating to quantum theory. His parents, Mimi and Joe, are worried. Is their son a little genius with a post-Newtonian grasp on the nature of time or a nutjob?
On different days, Tom pretends to be different ages to escape the tyranny of time - it's all part of his quantum theory girlfriend retrieval strategy. As Lucy's boyfriend Chris says, Tom is not clever in any way that helps. Meanwhile Chris is causing Lucy problems. He says he empathizes with Tom because he knows the trauma of a broken heart. He tells her he once wrote heartbroken love songs to his ex-girlfriend Erica - the very same Erica that is currently rehearsing Titania to his Bottom. Lucy feels romantically demoted and asks her mother what she should do. Mimi advises doing nothing but Lucy figures Tom did nothing about Poppy's roving eye and now her brother is riding on his mind rocket to quantum town.
Cast:
Joe...................Mark Bonnar
Mimi.................Sarah Alexander
Tom..................Finlay Christie
Lucy.................Phoebe Abbott
Chris and Older Tom........Daniel Boyd
Writer: Marcella Evaristi
Director: Marilyn Imrie
Producer: Gordon Kennedy
An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:00 You and Yours (b03hxjrc)
Heating oil costs, solar panel woes, shocking electrical work
As heating oil prices have more than doubled in 5 years, we hear how one family were forced to live in one room last winter, and ask the Energy Minister what can be done to help those in fuel poverty.
We'll hear how the airlines might be able to use your internet history to tailor what flights they offer you, and at what cost.
And as 1 in 4 of us use unqualified electricians carry out work on our homes, we'll find out how you avoid a shock when it comes to your wiring.
FRI 12:52 The Listening Project (b03hxjrf)
Lily and Matilda - Best Friends
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who have had some disagreements through primary school and will soon be starting new schools on opposite sides of town, in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess
FRI 12:57 Weather (b03hcztd)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 13:00 World at One (b03hxjrh)
National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
FRI 13:45 A History of Britain in Numbers (b03j5czm)
Homes
Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority (2012-2017) tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.
He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as how badly austerity has bitten or the paradox of why no-one seems able to afford a house but so many people own one. And he tells these stories not just with data, but through people and the real experiences that bring the numbers to life.
In the search for data to measure how we've changed, the programme counts rotten teeth and adds up what people ate, what they own and throw away. What did we earn through the centuries, how do we know, and what could we do with it? What was our health like, or our homes, our jobs or education? What was the status and experience of women? And how has it all changed?
Each of these ten programmes takes one theme, to explore how far we have made progress, and why it might continue, or falter.
Homes
Andrew Dilnot tackles the history of our homes in numbers, looking for the big trends and statistical details over the centuries that might help explain why housing has become a national obsession. Continues next week.
Producer: Michael Blastland
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4
From 2013.
FRI 14:00 The Archers (b03hwrxm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Drama (b03hxjrl)
Robin Brooks - Lewis and Tolkien - The Lost Road
Whether you like or loathe elves and talking lions, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis each created compelling fictional worlds whose influence has become global.
C S Lewis was an academic and broadcaster whose prolific publication of literary criticism, novels, Christian apologia and the Narnia books for children brought him an international reputation in his lifetime.
By the time of his death in 1973, J R R Tolkien's 'The Lord of The Rings' and 'The Hobbit', (along with other published stories and poems which drew upon the mythology of Middle Earth), had already made him a cult figure around the world.
Haydn Gwynne, Tom Goodman-Hill and Pip Torrens star in Robin Brooks' playful tribute to the long friendship between the two men, and the way it shaped their achievements.
Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b03hxjrp)
Shrewsbury
Peter Gibbs is joined by Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank as he chairs this edition of GQT from Shrewsbury. Chris returns to the home of Emma Morris to catch-up on the development of her rural Shropshire garden, and the panelists talk topical tips whilst wandering along the banks of the River Severn.
Produced by Howard Shannon
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
This week's questions:
Q. When planting late bulbs that are starting to sprout, would it better to place them in pots or to get them into the ground while the soil is still warm?
A. It has been a very late year. You will have to plant them into the ground at some point anyway, so try putting them straight into the soil and it will save you some time and effort. Tulips are very often planted at a later point in the season. If planting into the ground, be careful with the delicate embryonic roots and backfill the hole with some friable compost. You could try plunging pots into the ground for extra protection and removing the plants later on.
Q. I have a Christmas Cactus that is about to flower. How severe a haircut can I give it once the flowering is over?
A. It is the nature of a Schlumbergera to dangle, as they are jungle plants and hang from trees. You could raise them on a stand and allow them to take their natural form. If not, take some of the longer stems back to their origin. Don't prune it all at once but take back a little bit each year.
Q. I have left it rather late to prune this year. Should I now wait until spring?
A. Gardeners are often extreme when pruning, taking either too little or too much. There is a simple rule you can follow: prune after flowering rather than at a set time of year. Prune out the wood that has previously flowered. Don't worry too much if you don't get round to it this year, they will still flower next year anyway.
Q. Does the panel have any suggestions for a tree to commemorate the birth of my grandchild?
A. You could plant an apple tree with fruit that the child will be able to pick and eat. Perhaps Spartan or Braeburn as these are attractive and familiar. If you want to plant something with a real presence in the garden, try a Tulip Tree, a Wingnut such as Pterocarya Fraxinifolia, or the Golden Hope Tree. Catalpas also have a beautiful blossom and are known for their hanging Indian beans.
Q. What are the panel's favourite plants for autumn colour, and do they have any suggestions that will double up to provide colour in spring?
A. Blueberries have both a good autumn colour and pretty spring flowers. Aeronias have flowers like a Rowan in the spring but brilliant autumn foliage. Parrotia Persica also turns a magnificent colour.
Prunus Incisa Kojo-No-Mai is small cherry and has pink blossom. It can be grown very easily in a pot during its early life. Disanthus is a must have for autumn colour and turns a lovely salmon pink in spring.
Q. Other than taking cuttings from large Salvias is there any other way of 'over wintering' them?
A. Salvias don't like heavy, wet soil conditions. They will cope with some frost as long as the ground conditions are right. Use a free-draining site with plenty of grit and organic matter. Cut them back and then mound them up with generous amounts of organic matter. You can cover the entire crown to the full root spread. Herbaceous forms of Salvias will be best covered up to 1 foot (60cm) in diameter and 6 inches (15cm) in height.
Q. What is the best way to store Begonias after they have been removed from hanging baskets?
A. You could put them into a well-drained box with used compost. They just need somewhere that will keep them plumped up and frost-free. Take them out in February or March, and then set them in a propagating case with their little dishes exposed.
FRI 15:45 Where Were You When Kennedy Was Shot? (b03hxjrs)
The Levels
The 22nd November marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most significant and shocking events in 20th century history, the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Most people know exactly where they were and what they were doing when the news hit. Inspired by this concept, three major writers give their own spin on that day through fictional stories of ordinary people as their lives are caught in that precise moment, perhaps even undergoing monumental changes in their own lives?
November 1963, in a cottage hospital a pregnant woman anxiously awaits news on her unborn child and her husband's tardy arrival.
"The Levels" by Ashley Pharoah
Read by Natascha McElhone and Hugo Speer
Produced by Gemma McMullan.
FRI 16:00 Last Word (b03hxkk7)
Frederick Sanger, Doris Lessing, Ray Gosling, Jock Kane, Austin John Marshall
Matthew Bannister on
Frederick Sanger, the only Briton - and one of only four people in the world - to win the Nobel Prize twice. His work underpinned the Human Genome Project.
Also another Nobel prize winner - the prolific novellist Doris Lessing. We have tributes from Brian Aldiss and Faye Weldon.
The broadcaster and gay rights campaigner Ray Gosling who made quirky and distinctive programmes for BBC Radio.
Jock Kane, who blew the whistle on security breaches at GCHQ.
And the record producer Austin John Marshall, best known for his work with his wife, the folk singer Shirley Collins. She pays tribute.
Producer: Neil George.
FRI 16:30 Feedback (b03hxkk9)
Radio 4's Mastertapes returned for a third series last week, with John Wilson talking to musicians about a career-defining album in front of a live audience. The series began with Robbie Williams discussing his debut solo album Life Thru a Lens. But would the programme be more at home on a music network like Radio 2 or 6Music, rather than Radio 4? Roger Bolton talks to the series producer Paul Kobrak about the place for a programme like Mastertapes on a speech network.
When Any Questions visited the historic Chartwell House for last Friday's broadcast, presenter Jonathan Dimbleby was cut off just as the programme began, only to return seemingly on the telephone. And later in the week, James Naughtie was oblivious that he had dropped off the air for twelve seconds during the Today programme. Is Radio 4 the victim of sabotage or is there a ghost in the machine?
There is a takeover happening at the Beeb - some lucky listeners will be invading studios, cropping up as the voice of 'Previously on PM', and even visiting Ambridge (or at least the studio where The Archers is recorded). They're the winners of charity auctions to raise money for Children in Need. But some listeners wonder whether this type of fundraising is unfair to those without large sums of money to spare and ask whether a lottery would be fairer. Roger Bolton speaks to Children in Need's Head of Editorial, Gareth Hydes.
And we're looking for your questions for the Controller of BBC Radio 2, Bob Shennan. He'll be joining Roger Bolton next week to hear your comments and answer whatever you'd like to ask him. So please send your thoughts to us using the usual contact methods.
Producer: Will Yates
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 16:56 The Listening Project (b03hxkkc)
Abbe, Lesley and Mark - Skin Deep
Fi Glover introduces a conversation about cross-cultural adoption as experienced by one family in the 1970s, and the positive impact on their lives that continues today, in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
FRI 17:00 PM (b03hxkkf)
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b03hcztg)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 18:30 The News Quiz (b03hxkkh)
Series 82
Episode 3
A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig, with panellists Rebecca Front and Phill Jupitus.
FRI 19:00 The Archers (b03hxkkk)
Shula's buys groceries from Ambridge Organics for Jill, who's not comfortable driving at the moment. Shula reflects on Brian and Jennifer, who are on their way to Mauritius. How lovely it would be to leave it all behind, she and Helen agree.
Kirsty tells Tom about her excruciating rehearsals with Rob. She'll deserve an acting award to pull off their romance.
Helen feels like pulling out of the drinks tonight with Patrick, Kirsty and Tom. But Kirsty's determined Helen will let her hair down.
After some persuasion Helen, accepts a small glass of wine, but a little leads to a lot. Helen gets drunk and pours her heart out to Kirsty about how much she misses Rob, while Tom and Patrick have fun with the quiz machine. Kirsty wonders whether tonight was a good idea.
Eddie has some good news for Darrell. He has an offer of some cash-in-hand joinery work for a mate, on Neil's recommendation. Darrell's mood rockets. Shula's pleased for him, but wary about how he'll organise his benefits. She tries to warn overconfident Darrell not to get ahead of himself. But he reckons he'll get lots more work and will soon be out of her hair.
FRI 19:15 Front Row (b03hxlg8)
Morecambe and Wise, Kate Tempest, Poets' Corner, the return of Blofeld
With Kirsty Lang.
Morecambe and Wise are remembered and revived in a new stage production called Eric And Little Ern, which follows on from a TV biopic of the double-act, a one-man show about Eric Morecambe, and the award-winning The Play What I Wrote. The writers and stars of this latest homage, Ian Ashpitel and Jonty Stephens, discuss the reasons for the comedians' enduring appeal.
Performance poet and rapper Kate Tempest won this year's Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry for Brand New Ancients, an hour long spoken story depicting the intertwining lives of two families. As she begins a tour which will take the show all over the country, she explains who the Brand New Ancients are and reveals the play that changed her life.
James Bond producers found themselves embroiled in a legal dispute with Kevin McClory - a co-writer of the 1965 film Thunderball - over who invented the cat-stroking supervillain Blofeld. As a result, the character was left on the shelf for 30 years but with news that the relevant rights have been acquired from the McClory estate, it looks like our most famous screen villain could be given a new lease of life. To reflect on the character of Blofeld and why he has become so ubiquitous in popular culture, journalist Stephen Armstrong came to the rescue.
And 50 years after his death, the Chronicles of Narnia writer CS Lewis has been honoured with a memorial stone in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. The Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, explains how the selection process works.
Produced by Ella-mai Robey.
FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b03hxjr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b03hxlgb)
Sarah Wollaston MP, Chris Bryant MP, Steve Webb MP, George Monbiot
Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from the Godolphin School Salisbury, Wiltshire, with the environmentalist George Monbiot, Conservative backbencher Sarah Wollaston MP, Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform Chris Bryant MP and Pensions Minister Steve Webb MP.
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b03hxlgd)
Rebuilding After 9/11
Will Self reflects from the top of the new One World Trade Center in New York on the challenge of rebuilding after the destruction of
9.11.
"The downtown site, mired in ground sacred to mammon, has mixed into it a complex mulch of private rights and public responsibilities: to harmonise these competing interests in the frozen music of architecture has proved a gruelling compositional task.".
FRI 21:00 A History of Britain in Numbers (b03hxlgg)
A History of Britain in Numbers: Omnibus
Episode 1
Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.
He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as how badly austerity has bitten or the paradox of why no-one seems able to afford a house but so many people own one. And he tells these stories not just with data, but through people and the real experiences that bring the numbers to life.
In the search for data to measure how we've changed, the programme counts rotten teeth and adds up what people ate, what they own and throw away. What did we earn through the centuries, how do we know, and what could we do with it? What was our health like, or our homes, our jobs or education? What was the status and experience of women? And how has it all changed?
This is all presented with innovative radio techniques to capture data in sound - for example, new ways of creating graphs for the senses so that we can not just know, but feel, the changes.
Producer: Michael Blastland
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 21:58 Weather (b03hcztj)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b03hxlgj)
Kerry flying to Geneva to join talks on Iran's nuclear programme. Five British Greenpeace activists released on bail in Russia. Bells toll in Dallas to mark moment 50 years ago when President Kennedy was assassinated. Presented by David Eades.
FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b03hxlgl)
The Lowland
Episode 10
Indira Varma reads Jhumpa Lahiri's Man Booker-listed new novel, The Lowland, spanning India and America, and exploring the price of idealism and the enduring power of love.
It is the 1960s, and revolution has come to India and America. Two brothers, Subhash and Udayan, , have been inseparable since birth, but their paths are diverging. Udayan - charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Communist movement sweeping Bengal. He will risk all for what he believes. But Subhash, the dutiful son, leaves for a quiet life of study in America. But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland, he returns to India, hoping to heal the wounds Udayan left behind.
In today's final episode: after decades apart, mother and daughter finally meet.
Jhumpa Lahiri shot to fame with her Pulitzer-winning story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, followed by novel The Namesake and another collection, Unaccustomed Earth. The Lowland is her latest work, and has been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
Reader: Indira Varma is an acclaimed stage, film and television actor. Her recent TV credits include: Rome, Luther and What Remains.
Abridger: Sally Marmion
Producer: Justine Willett.
FRI 23:00 A Good Read (b03hvx6r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 on Tuesday]
FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament (b03hxlnk)
Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster on the latest stage of the bill for a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union. There was a vote on a controversial move -- opposed by Conservative leaders -- to bring forward a referendum to next year.
FRI 23:55 The Listening Project (b03hxlnm)
Jamie and Valerie - First Among Equals
Fi Glover introduces a conversation about vulnerability and honesty between a male midwife and his wife, who is not entirely comfortable with the job her husband does, proving again that it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
15 Minute Drama
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15 Minute Drama
19:45 MON (b03hng1d)
15 Minute Drama
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15 Minute Drama
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15 Minute Drama
10:45 WED (b03hwbr5)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 WED (b03hwbr5)
15 Minute Drama
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15 Minute Drama
19:45 THU (b03hwn0f)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 FRI (b03hxjr5)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 FRI (b03hxjr5)
15 by 15
09:30 TUE (b037t1rr)
A Good Read
16:30 TUE (b03hvx6r)
A Good Read
23:00 FRI (b03hvx6r)
A History of Britain in Numbers
13:45 MON (b03hvn59)
A History of Britain in Numbers
13:45 TUE (b03j50qn)
A History of Britain in Numbers
13:45 WED (b03j4y82)
A History of Britain in Numbers
13:45 THU (b03j53lh)
A History of Britain in Numbers
13:45 FRI (b03j5czm)
A History of Britain in Numbers
21:00 FRI (b03hxlgg)
A Point of View
08:48 SUN (b03h7gsr)
A Point of View
20:50 FRI (b03hxlgd)
A Very Powerful Politician? (The First Year of the Bristol Mayor)
11:00 MON (b03hnhjt)
Afternoon Reading
00:30 SUN (b011vg9f)
All in the Mind
21:00 TUE (b03hvx74)
All in the Mind
15:30 WED (b03hvx74)
Analysis
21:30 SUN (b03gvslv)
Analysis
20:30 MON (b03hvn6n)
Andrew Maxwell's Public Enemies
23:00 THU (b03dv5n2)
Any Answers?
14:00 SAT (b03hmh3r)
Any Questions?
13:10 SAT (b03h7gsp)
Any Questions?
20:00 FRI (b03hxlgb)
Archive on 4
20:00 SAT (b03hmh46)
BBC Inside Science
16:30 THU (b03hwrxh)
BBC Inside Science
21:00 THU (b03hwrxh)
Batting for the Middle Kingdom
11:00 WED (b03hwbr7)
Before They Were Famous
23:00 WED (b03hwd2h)
Bells on Sunday
05:43 SUN (b03hmngl)
Bells on Sunday
00:45 MON (b03hmngl)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 MON (b03hvn6t)
Book at Bedtime
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Book at Bedtime
22:45 WED (b03hwbs6)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 THU (b03hwydl)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 FRI (b03hxlgl)
Book of the Week
00:30 SAT (b03h7grj)
Book of the Week
09:45 MON (b03hng18)
Book of the Week
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Book of the Week
09:45 TUE (b03j4xdr)
Book of the Week
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Book of the Week
09:45 WED (b03j4y80)
Book of the Week
00:30 THU (b03j4y80)
Book of the Week
09:45 THU (b03j593b)
Book of the Week
00:30 FRI (b03j593b)
Book of the Week
09:45 FRI (b03j5czk)
Broadcasting House
09:00 SUN (b03hmnnd)
Clare in the Community
18:30 THU (b01qdxwn)
Classic Serial
21:00 SAT (b03gtvty)
Classic Serial
15:00 SUN (b03hn1m3)
Crossing Continents
11:00 THU (b03hwn0h)
Curlew River
11:30 TUE (b03hvqlf)
Desert Island Discs
11:15 SUN (b03hmntl)
Desert Island Discs
09:00 FRI (b03hmntl)
Drama
14:15 MON (b03j5j4c)
Drama
14:15 TUE (b03j5775)
Drama
14:15 WED (b010m2fg)
Drama
14:15 FRI (b03hxjrl)
Ed Reardon's Week
11:30 MON (b03hnhjw)
Farming Today
06:30 SAT (b03hmf7k)
Farming Today
05:45 MON (b03hng12)
Farming Today
05:45 TUE (b03hvql1)
Farming Today
05:45 WED (b03hwbqx)
Farming Today
05:45 THU (b03hwhcz)
Farming Today
05:45 FRI (b03hxjqz)
Feedback
20:00 SUN (b03h7gs9)
Feedback
16:30 FRI (b03hxkk9)
File on 4
17:00 SUN (b03h3fx6)
Forever Young
11:00 FRI (b03hxjr7)
Four Thought
20:45 WED (b03hwbs0)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:30 SAT (b03hmh3m)
Front Row
19:15 MON (b03hvn6j)
Front Row
19:15 TUE (b03hvx6y)
Front Row
19:15 WED (b03hwbrw)
Front Row
19:15 THU (b03hwrxp)
Front Row
19:15 FRI (b03hxlg8)
Frontiers
21:00 WED (b03hwbs2)
Gardeners' Question Time
14:00 SUN (b03h7gs3)
Gardeners' Question Time
15:00 FRI (b03hxjrp)
Gettysburg
20:00 TUE (b03hvx70)
Hard to Tell
11:30 WED (b03hwbr9)
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Albatross
10:30 SAT (b038xrjh)
I'm Dave Podmore, Get Me Out There
19:15 SUN (b03hn2rt)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
12:00 SUN (b03gvsln)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
18:30 MON (b03hvn68)
In Our Time
09:00 THU (b03hwn09)
In Our Time
21:30 THU (b03hwn09)
In Touch
20:40 TUE (b03hvx72)
Irish Micks and Legends
23:15 WED (b01nxw2q)
It's Your Round
18:30 TUE (b01b8zw3)
Last Word
20:30 SUN (b03h7gs7)
Last Word
16:00 FRI (b03hxkk7)
Living World
06:35 SUN (b03hmngq)
Loose Ends
18:15 SAT (b03hmh40)
Machiavelli: Devil or Democrat?
20:00 MON (b03hvn6l)
Mastertapes
23:00 MON (b03hvn6z)
Mastertapes
15:30 TUE (b03hvr35)
Midnight News
00:00 SAT (b03h6z3w)
Midnight News
00:00 SUN (b03hczkw)
Midnight News
00:00 MON (b03hczmq)
Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
00:00 FRI (b03hczt2)
Midweek
09:00 WED (b03hwbr1)
Midweek
21:30 WED (b03hwbr1)
Money Box Live
15:00 WED (b03hwbrh)
Money Box
12:00 SAT (b03hmh3p)
Money Box
21:00 SUN (b03hmh3p)
Moral Maze
22:15 SAT (b03h429b)
Moral Maze
20:00 WED (b03hwbry)
Nadine Gordimer - A Flash of Fireflies
19:45 SUN (b03hn2rw)
News Briefing
05:30 SAT (b03h6z46)
News Briefing
05:30 SUN (b03hczl4)
News Briefing
05:30 MON (b03hczmz)
News Briefing
05:30 TUE (b03hczpb)
News Briefing
05:30 WED (b03hczqp)
News Briefing
05:30 THU (b03hczrz)
News Briefing
05:30 FRI (b03hcztb)
News Headlines
06:00 SUN (b03hczl6)
News and Papers
06:00 SAT (b03h6z48)
News and Papers
07:00 SUN (b03hczlb)
News and Papers
08:00 SUN (b03hczlg)
News and Weather
22:00 SAT (b03h6z4s)
News
13:00 SAT (b03h6z4j)
Open Book
16:00 SUN (b03hn1m5)
Open Book
15:30 THU (b03hn1m5)
Open Country
06:07 SAT (b03h6yrx)
Open Country
15:00 THU (b03hwn0t)
PM
17:00 SAT (b03hmh3y)
PM
17:00 MON (b03hvn62)
PM
17:00 TUE (b03hvx6t)
PM
17:00 WED (b03hwbrp)
PM
17:00 THU (b03hwrxk)
PM
17:00 FRI (b03hxkkf)
Pick of the Week
18:15 SUN (b03hn2rp)
Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
14:15 THU (b03hwn0r)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 SAT (b03h7gww)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 MON (b03j9m24)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 TUE (b03j9mh3)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 WED (b03j9mhh)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 THU (b03j9mr5)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 FRI (b03j9mrc)
Profile
19:00 SAT (b03hmh42)
Profile
05:45 SUN (b03hmh42)
Profile
17:40 SUN (b03hmh42)
Radio 4 Appeal
07:55 SUN (b03hmngv)
Radio 4 Appeal
21:26 SUN (b03hmngv)
Radio 4 Appeal
15:27 THU (b03hmngv)
Reflections with Peter Hennessy
13:30 SUN (b0376x76)
Round Britain Quiz
23:00 SAT (b03gvqm7)
Round Britain Quiz
15:00 MON (b03hvn5j)
Saturday Drama
14:30 SAT (b03hmh3t)
Saturday Live
09:00 SAT (b03hmh3h)
Saturday Review
19:15 SAT (b03hmh44)
Scallop
16:00 MON (b03hvn5q)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SAT (b03h6z42)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SUN (b03hczl0)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 MON (b03hczmv)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 TUE (b03hczp6)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 WED (b03hczqk)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 THU (b03hczrv)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 FRI (b03hczt6)
Shared Planet
21:00 MON (b03h30g8)
Shared Planet
11:00 TUE (b03hvqlc)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SAT (b03h6z40)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SAT (b03h6z44)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SAT (b03h6z4l)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SUN (b03hczky)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SUN (b03hczl2)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SUN (b03hczll)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 MON (b03hczms)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 MON (b03hczmx)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 TUE (b03hczp4)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 TUE (b03hczp8)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 WED (b03hczqh)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 WED (b03hczqm)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 THU (b03hczrs)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 THU (b03hczrx)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 FRI (b03hczt4)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 FRI (b03hczt8)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SAT (b03h6z4q)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SUN (b03hczlq)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 MON (b03hczn5)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 TUE (b03hczpg)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 WED (b03hczqt)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 THU (b03hczs3)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 FRI (b03hcztg)
Something Understood
06:05 SUN (b03hmngn)
Something Understood
23:30 SUN (b03hmngn)
Spin the Globe
16:00 TUE (b03hvx6p)
Start the Week
09:00 MON (b03hng16)
Start the Week
21:30 MON (b03hng16)
Sunday Worship
08:10 SUN (b03hmngx)
Sunday
07:10 SUN (b03hmngs)
The Archers Omnibus
10:00 SUN (b03hmnng)
The Archers
19:00 SUN (b03hn2rr)
The Archers
14:00 MON (b03hn2rr)
The Archers
19:00 MON (b03hvn6g)
The Archers
14:00 TUE (b03hvn6g)
The Archers
19:00 TUE (b03hvx6w)
The Archers
14:00 WED (b03hvx6w)
The Archers
19:00 WED (b03hwbrt)
The Archers
14:00 THU (b03hwbrt)
The Archers
19:00 THU (b03hwrxm)
The Archers
14:00 FRI (b03hwrxm)
The Archers
19:00 FRI (b03hxkkk)
The Bottom Line
17:30 SAT (b03h71c0)
The Bottom Line
20:30 THU (b03hwrxt)
The Echo Chamber
23:30 SAT (b03gtvv2)
The Echo Chamber
16:30 SUN (b03hn1m7)
The Film Programme
23:00 SUN (b03h6yrz)
The Film Programme
16:00 THU (b03hwrxf)
The Food Programme
12:32 SUN (b03hmpwl)
The Food Programme
15:30 MON (b03hmpwl)
The Forum
11:00 SAT (b03hx23j)
The Gobetweenies
11:30 FRI (b03hxjr9)
The Infinite Monkey Cage
16:30 MON (b03hvn5x)
The Infinite Monkey Cage
23:00 TUE (b03hvn5x)
The Kitchen Cabinet
15:00 TUE (b03hvr33)
The Listening Project
14:45 SUN (b03hmpwq)
The Listening Project
12:52 FRI (b03hxjrf)
The Listening Project
16:56 FRI (b03hxkkc)
The Listening Project
23:55 FRI (b03hxlnm)
The Media Show
16:30 WED (b03hwbrm)
The News Quiz
12:30 SAT (b03h7gsh)
The News Quiz
18:30 FRI (b03hxkkh)
The Politics of Architecture
09:00 TUE (b03hvql5)
The Politics of Architecture
21:30 TUE (b03hvql5)
The Report
20:00 THU (b03hwrxr)
The Songs of Molly Drake
11:30 THU (b03hwn0k)
The World This Weekend
13:00 SUN (b03hmpwn)
The World Tonight
22:00 MON (b03hvn6q)
The World Tonight
22:00 TUE (b03hvx76)
The World Tonight
22:00 WED (b03hwbs4)
The World Tonight
22:00 THU (b03hwydj)
The World Tonight
22:00 FRI (b03hxlgj)
Thinking Allowed
00:15 MON (b03h428y)
Thinking Allowed
16:00 WED (b03hwbrk)
Tim Key's Easy USSR
15:30 SAT (b03h30gb)
Today in Parliament
23:30 MON (b03hvn75)
Today in Parliament
23:30 TUE (b03hvx95)
Today in Parliament
23:30 WED (b03hwftd)
Today in Parliament
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Today in Parliament
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
06:00 WED (b03hwbqz)
Today
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Today
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Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups
18:30 WED (b03hwbrr)
Tweet of the Day
08:58 SUN (b03dwxfp)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 MON (b03dx2qh)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 TUE (b03dx2w1)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 WED (b03dx2x8)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 THU (b03dx6nq)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 FRI (b03dx6vq)
Weather
06:04 SAT (b03h6z4b)
Weather
06:57 SAT (b03h6z4d)
Weather
12:57 SAT (b03h6z4g)
Weather
17:57 SAT (b03h6z4n)
Weather
06:57 SUN (b03hczl8)
Weather
07:57 SUN (b03hczld)
Weather
12:57 SUN (b03hczlj)
Weather
17:57 SUN (b03hczln)
Weather
05:56 MON (b03hczn1)
Weather
12:57 MON (b03hczn3)
Weather
21:58 MON (b03hczn7)
Weather
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Weather
21:58 TUE (b03hczpj)
Weather
12:57 WED (b03hczqr)
Weather
21:58 WED (b03hczqw)
Weather
12:57 THU (b03hczs1)
Weather
21:58 THU (b03hczs5)
Weather
12:57 FRI (b03hcztd)
Weather
21:58 FRI (b03hcztj)
Westminster Hour
22:00 SUN (b03hn2ry)
What the Papers Say
22:45 SUN (b03hn2s0)
Where Were You When Kennedy Was Shot?
15:45 FRI (b03hxjrs)
Woman's Hour
16:00 SAT (b03hmh3w)
Woman's Hour
10:00 MON (b03hng1b)
Woman's Hour
10:00 TUE (b03hvql7)
Woman's Hour
10:00 WED (b03hwbr3)
Woman's Hour
10:00 THU (b03hwn0c)
Woman's Hour
10:00 FRI (b03hxjr3)
World at One
13:00 MON (b03hnhk0)
World at One
13:00 TUE (b03hvr31)
World at One
13:00 WED (b03hwbrf)
World at One
13:00 THU (b03hwn0p)
World at One
13:00 FRI (b03hxjrh)
You and Yours
12:00 MON (b03hnhjy)
You and Yours
12:00 TUE (b03hvqlh)
You and Yours
12:00 WED (b03hwbrc)
You and Yours
12:00 THU (b03hwn0m)
You and Yours
12:00 FRI (b03hxjrc)
iPM
05:45 SAT (b03h7gwy)