The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Imam Monawar Hussain, Muslim Tutor at Eton College.
Dairy farmers have held their first protest meeting outside a milk processing company in response to falling milk prices. The campaign group Farmers for Action says that the money they are being paid is less than the cost of production, which is around 30 pence per litre. We hear from one dairy farmer who has decided to give up the business and sell all 90 cows.
A charity in Scotland is providing emergency equipment to health workers in rural areas. The Sandpiper Trust says the kits can save lives, as it can take emergency services some time to reach patients in the most remote areas.
And farmers are being urged to report sightings of the invasive Spanish slug which is causing problems in some Eastern areas of the country. A new website, Slugwatch, has been launched to help people identify the pest, which was first identified a year ago.
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Andean Cock-of-the-rock from Peru. Deep in a cloud forest a female awaits the display of her displaying males. Gathered in front of her several head-bobbing wing-waving males, these males are spectacularly dazzling; a vibrant orange head and body, with black wings and tails, yellow staring eyes, and ostentatious fan-shaped crests which can almost obscure their beaks. Male cock-of-the rocks gather at communal leks, and their performances include jumping between branches and bowing at each other whilst all the time calling loudly. Yet, for all the males' prancing and posturing, it is the female who's in control. Aware that the most dominant and fittest males will be nearest the centre of the lekking arena, it's here that she focuses her attention.
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Jim al-Khalili talks to Professor Elspeth Garman about a technique that's led to 28 Nobel Prizes in the last century.
X- ray crystallography, now celebrating its 100th anniversary, is used to study the internal structure of matter. It may sound rather arcane but it's the reason we now know the structure of hugely important molecules, like penicillin, insulin and DNA. But while other scientists scoop up prizes for cracking chemical structures, Elspeth works away behind the scenes, (more cameraman than Hollywood star), improving the methods and techniques used by everybody working in the field.
If only it was as simple as putting a crystal in the machine and printing off the results. Growing a single crystal of an enzyme that gives TB its longevity took Elspeth's team no less than fifteen years. No pressure there then when harvesting that precious commodity.
The broadcaster Victoria Derbyshire has kept a diary since she was a child. She talks to Alastair Campbell about the habit of diary writing, and why he keeps a diary. She finds out why he started writing them, and whether, now he is so well known for them, the decision to publish affected the people close to him.
Alastair Campbell talks frankly about the two occasions when his diary was read by others in circumstances beyond his control - one when he had a nervous breakdown and a police psychiatrist used his diary entries to help him see the part drink played in his problems; and the other when Lord Hutton asked to see his diaries as part of the inquiry into the death of David Kelly.
Continuing a week of programmes with a focus on the things which bind Germans together, Neil MacGregor reveals how the fairy tales collected by the Grimms and the landscape art of Caspar David Friedrich played a vital role in re-establishing an identity for German-speaking people who had been defeated by Napoleon.
While the Grimms were studying the German language and the inner German-ness present in the folk-tales they collected, Friedrich used landscape as the external vision of being German.
Jo Swinson M.P. on how the Liberal Democrats plan to win back women voters. Chore wars - continuing our investigation into who does what at home: should childcare be considered a chore? With Beccy Asher, author of Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality and Imogen Thompson from Mothers at Home Matter. Tim Samuels on men and domesticity. Happy birthday, Woman's Hour - 68 today. We celebrate with a classic archive interview from Olive Shapley, one of the first presenters of the programme. Journalist Jenny Nordberg on the Afghan girls who are dressed and treated as boys by their families.
Joe Armstrong, Hayley Atwell and Dougray Scott star in this adaptation of the powerful novel by Michel Faber (Under the Skin, Crimson Petal and the White).
Set in the near future, it tells the story of Peter, devoted husband and devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Beatrice.
In today's episode, Peter starts to explore the USIC base on Oasis, but is eager to meet his new flock - the planet's enigmatic native inhabitants. Back on Earth, the weather is doing strange things.
Beautiful and durable, mahogany has been highly prized and traded internationally for centuries. Reaching the impressive height of 60 meters or more they are true giants of the forest. Selective logging of mahogany was unchecked across much of its range until international agreements restricted its trade. But has this been enough? Monty Don finds out more about the big-leaf mahogany and whether we can continue to use its beautiful wood without forfeiting its future.
When she was growing up in Oxford, young composer and musician Emily Levy learned much about music from her adored older brother, Gus.
He’d make her compilation tapes which brought together his passionate and eclectic taste. When he went off to university, the tape-making continued and soon they were also attending gigs and festivals together.
She speaks with some of Gus's closest friends about his passion for music and his particular talent at bringing together surprising genres and artists - not to mention his love of juggling to music.
She finds solace in the discovery that sharing Gus's music tastes with others bestows on him a kind of immortality.
And she reflects on how, in our era of musical choices made by computer algorithm, the death of someone dear to us represents the loss of a unique, human algorithm.
Finally, Emily composes a short piece of music to contribute to a programme which is, in itself, her own Mix-Tape for Gus.
In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In this series of witty talks, the acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. Conrad ranges over the defining effluvia of our era, from the Cronut, to the Shard, to the Kardashians. In this second programme Conrad turns his attention to one of the most powerful images of our era: Steve Jobs' Apple Icon.
Call You and Yours: How easy is it to get good quality care for your parents or relatives?
How easy did you find it to get good quality care for your elderly parents or relatives? The Care Quality Commission says it is one of the most stressful things we'll face in life.
Fighting between IS militants and Syrian Kurds is reported to have spread to a southern district of the town of Kobane on the Turkish border. We'll hear the latest.
After the brother of murdered hostage Alan Henning complained the family felt 'gagged' by the foreign office during his detention, we'll hear from the sister of Margaret Hassan, who was murdered by kidnappers in Baghdad ten years ago.
The British Army is about to head out to Sierra Leone to tackle the Ebola outbreak. Brigadier Kevin Beaton tells us what they'll be doing.
Liberal Democrat minister David Laws gives us his reaction to the party leadership's defeat over airport policy at their annual conference. Plus the difficulty of tackling cold school dinners.
The correspondence of the Nobel Prize winning scientist, Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), introduced by her biographer, Georgina Ferry.
In the early 1930s, Dorothy embraced x-ray crystallography, working with her phD supervisor and lover, J.D. Bernal. Letters that were both scientific and highly personal flew back and forth between them, as they tried to determine the internal structure of complex molecules.
Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago.
And through it all, we'll follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense machine, one which connects situations across the whole theatre of the war, over four long years.
Indira Varma, Lee Ross and Alex Wyndham star in this story, based on events in the valley of the Aisne, on October 7th, 1914. The German advance is just being held 60 miles north-east of Paris, on the day Mickey Bliss arrives at war.
Josie Long dives down a rabbit hole in this sequence of short documentaries, true stories and radio adventures.
We hear tales of a spam email that alters the course of two people's lives and a mysterious monument made out of shoes at a deserted intersection in rural Indiana - and Miranda July leads listeners into another world with her story of swim coaching an elderly team in a town near no large bodies of water.
The small islands of the Caribbean are acutely vulnerable to rising sea levels and a potential increase in the frequency and severity of hurricanes. Tom Heap travels to the Turks and Caicos Islands to ask if they're prepared for the worst nature can offer.
Jolyon Jenkins meets those who think the sick can be cured through the power of prayer. Could there possibly be anything in it? For over a century, people have been trying to prove it - or disprove it - through science, but firm results are elusive, and some scientists get cross at the whole idea. One study suggests that sick people might actually get worse if they discover they are being prayed for. But over the last 20 years, belief in the miraculous has been growing in Pentecostal circles, not least because miracles seem to be an effective way to gain new recruits. And the claims go far beyond any possible placebo effect: people are claiming to have received new gold teeth through prayer, to have had internal organs grow back after they have been surgically removed, and even to have raised people from the dead through prayer.
Jeremy Paxman and Mary Beard argue heatedly and entertainingly about the books they love, with presenter Harriett Gilbert acting as referee.
Jeremy's choice is Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain: a rollercoaster of a novel that's been called the Catch-22 of the Iraq War.
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis is classicist Mary Beard's recommendation. It's a depiction of French peasant life that's been described as even greater than the film of the same story.
Travels with my Aunt, a genuinely funny novel by Graham Greene, is Harriett Gilbert's contribution.
The impression and sketch show that looks behind the scenes at the life and work of star impressionist Lewis Macleod
Lewis has performed on 4 Extra's Newsjack, plus Postman Pat, The Phantom Menace and Dead Ringers.
Lynda offers Fallon the lead in her production of the Christmas show: Rumplestiltskin. She could cast PC Burns too. Alice points out they're not an item. Sensitive but undeterred, Lynda then asks Alice if she's interested. Can Chris sing?
At a club, Fallon's determined to forget about Harrison Burns. She and Alice discuss Roy and the horrible rumours about him stealing from Lower Loxley. They also lament the absence of 'homebird' Helen as a drinking buddy. Fallon is miffed to spot Burns out with another woman. Harrison comes over and Alice makes small talk. Fallon realises he's with his ex, Justine.
Helen's happy that Henry is feeling better. She tells Pat that she'll have more time to mother him now, as she's giving up work. Pat is astonished and unhappy. She rants to Tony about all the work feminists did and wonders at her own effectiveness as a mother. Tony points out that part of that goal was to give women a right to choose - and this is Helen's choice. But Pat suspects it's Rob's doing, aware that he's too clever to make it obvious. Pat feels heartbroken that Helen genuinely believes this is her own idea.
In tonight's Front Row, John Cleese talks to John Wilson about his memoir, So, Anyway - an account of the influences that shaped his comedy - and singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran considers song-writing as revenge and explains why so many of his lyrics are about drinking.
Also in the programme, Tracey Emin makes it clear why she feels motherhood and a career as an artist are incompatible.
The whole BBC unites for an extraordinary star-studded performance and the launch of BBC Music: 27 artists, 1 song.
The nature of crime is changing, with much of it now happening online, sparking growing concern that official figures fail to account for potentially millions of fraud offences. Experts say frauds involving plastic debit and credit cards are among the crimes left out of the data. So just how reliable - and useful - are the statistics?
At the same time, police economic crime units, which investigate fraud, have become increasingly stretched, partly as a result of government budget cuts. BBC Home Affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw, asks whether law enforcement has kept pace with the changing face of fraud and if there are enough resources to tackle financial crime and bring fraudsters to justice.
Amie Slavin - a sound artist, Aly Woodhouse - an Assistant Director and Corie Brown - a continuity announcer for Channel 4 tell their tales of finding a way into the Arts and staying afloat in their respective fields.
Presenter: Peter White.
Ebola - how do they predict how it's going to spread, and why estimates have risen so rapidly.
In the UK there are 22 million prescriptions a year for morphine type painkillers, costing over 300 million pounds - but do they actually work in non-cancer pain?
And a simple blood test that can tell if your recurrent chest infections might be due to an immune problem.
By David Mitchell. Part twelve. Our story alights on Marinus in a near future Canada. A 1980s Walkman arrives with a message from the past, and we begin to learn about Horology. Read by Laurel Lefkow
This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's life through those who encounter her. The journey has a global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a playfully genre-bending subplot.
Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America.
Comedy's best kept secret ingredient returns with another episode of his own sketch show. Sketches, characters, sound effects, bit of music, some messin' about, you know...
Carpentry, subatomic physics, Winston Churchill and how to deal with troublesome slugs all come under the microscope. Not really the best instrument for examining any of these things, one would've thought, but there you go.
Kevin Eldon is a comedy phenomenon. He's been in virtually every major comedy show in the last fifteen years, but not content with working with the likes of Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, Stewart Lee, Julia Davis and Graham Linehan, he's finally decided to put together another run of his own comedy series for BBC Radio 4.
Appearing across the series are Amelia Bullmore (I'm Alan Partridge, Scott and Bailey), Julia Davis (Nighty Night), Paul Putner (Little Britain), Justin Edwards (The Consultants), David Reed (The Penny Dreadfuls) and Catherine Shepherd (Cardinal Burns, Harry and Paul).
Written by Kevin Eldon, with additional material by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris (A Touch Of Cloth, That Mitchell and Webb Sound).
Produced and Directed by David Tyler.
Steve Punt returns for a fourth series as Radio 4's very own gumshoe, re-opening a case of murder by poisoned partridge in 1931.
Steve embarks on a historical whodunit, examining the bizarre death in Deepcut, Surrey of an army lieutenant, Hubert Chevis, who died after eating a partridge laced with strychnine. 80 years on, the Chevis case remains unsolved and nobody was ever been charged with his murder.
To add to the mystery, Chevis' father received a sinister telegram which read "Hooray, hooray, hooray" and a follow-up postcard from the same unknown sender which stated "it is a mystery they will never solve".
Steve marshals the facts, reopens the coroner's file and locates a relative with important evidence to share. Was it the wife, her ex-husband, the batman or the cook?
WEDNESDAY 08 OCTOBER 2014
WED 00:00 Midnight News (b04k409v)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
WED 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rcb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Tuesday]
WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b04k409x)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b04k409z)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b04k40b1)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 05:30 News Briefing (b04k40b3)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b04kf5zb)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Imam Monawar Hussain, Muslim Tutor at Eton College.
WED 05:45 Farming Today (b04kf5zd)
As Farmers for Action protest against falling milk prices, the milk processing companies claim that they are reacting to global events. We ask how the rest of Europe's Dairy farmers - who are they facing similar pressures, how they are dealing with plummeting prices? Kevin Belamy, a senior analyst with the Dutch bank Rabobank gives us the picture. Then Farming Minister George Eustice responds to the hardships that many British dairy farmers are experiencing. Anna Hill puts asks him whether now is the time for the Voluntary Dairy Code to be made mandatory.
On Monday's edition of Farming Today we reported on the pressures faced by rural GP practices. Today we hear from Rob Gee of Coniston in the Lake District who is Chair of the 'SOS Group, Friends of Coniston Surgery'. We hear how villagers are campaigning to keep their surgery open.
What happens to older men from rural communities who no longer work on farms, and who face the challenges of rural isolation and ageing? That's what's being addressed by The Countrymen's Club who're hosted by Rylands Care Farm in north Dorset. Twice a week the men come and help muck out the livestock. As part of our Rural Health theme we meet them on the farm.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley.
WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04hkxg2)
Variable Pitohui
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the poisonous variable pitohui from New Guinea. This jay sized, black-and-tan bird hides a dark secret. Named for their voice, pitohui is a representation of their song and 'variable' refers to their plumage colour which varies across their range. What is striking about this bird is that it is poisonous: its skin and feathers contain powerful neurotoxic alkaloids similar to those of South American poison-dart frogs. For the pitohui, this chemical defence is unlikely to be fatal to predators which prey on them; rather it discourages further attacks. People who've handled have suffered burning sensations in the mouth, numbness in fingers and bouts of sneezing. It is not recommended.
WED 06:00 Today (b04kf5zg)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
WED 09:00 Midweek (b04kf5zj)
Ray Winstone; Sir Ranulph Fiennes; Dr John Bradshaw; Martha D Lewis
Libby Purves meets actor Ray Winstone; adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes; singer and songwriter Martha D Lewis and animal behaviourist Dr John Bradshaw.
Dr John Bradshaw is an animal behaviourist and the founder and director of the Anthrozoology Institute at the University of Bristol. Anthrozoology is the study of interactions between humans and animals. He is one of the presenters of the BBC Two series Cat Watch which uses GPS tracking technology and cat-cams to follow a range of felines from city centre cats to farm cats. Cat Watch 2014: The New Horizon Experiment is broadcast on BBC Two. Cat Sense by Dr John Bradshaw is published by Penguin.
Ray Winstone is an actor best known for playing often brutal characters in films such as Sexy Beast, Scum and Nil by Mouth. In his autobiography he writes about growing up in East London where he was a schoolboy boxing champion. His breakthrough came in 1997 when he starred as an abusive husband in Nil By Mouth. He has since worked with directors including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Anthony Minghella. Young Winstone is published by Canongate.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE was the first man to reach both poles by surface travel and the first to cross the Antarctic unsupported. In 2009 he became the oldest Briton to reach the summit of Everest. His new book explores how his own ancestors were key players through the centuries of turbulent Anglo-French history that led up to the Battle of Agincourt. Agincourt - My Family, The Battle and The Fight for France is published by Hodder & Stoughton.
Martha D Lewis is a singer and songwriter. She is performing at The Trilogy of the Greek Blues festival, inspired by rembetiko singer Roza Eskenazi. Rembetiko music is derived from Greek urban folk music and in her day Roza was feted as the Greek Billie Holiday. Martha, who has just produced an album called Homage to Roza, features in a documentary, My Sweet Canary, about the life of Roza. Rembetika & Beyond: A Journey Into the Greek Blues tour begins at the Millfield Theatre, London and later at the London Jazz Festival.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
WED 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rcd)
One Nation Under Goethe
Continuing his focus on the things which bind Germans together, Neil MacGregor examines the life and work of Goethe, the greatest of all German poets: "There is a case for arguing that if Americans are one nation under God, the Germans are one nation under Goethe. And there is no doubt that it was Goethe, more than anyone else, who made German a language read - and spoken - by educated Europe."
Producer Paul Kobrak.
WED 10:00 Woman's Hour (b04kf5zl)
Jane Horrocks
Jane Horrocks on her return to the London stage as Ella Khan in East is East after a 5 year gap.
Over the last few weeks we've been hearing about the concerns that women of different ages want to see the main political parties address. Today, it's the turn of young women. As Nick Clegg prepares to address the Liberal Party Conference, we hear from some members of the Girl Guides who've been in Glasgow this week. They've held fringe meetings at Party Conferences this autumn, speaking to leading politicians from the three main parties about exactly what they want them to do.
Chore Wars is trying to find out how the household chores are divided up in your home today. But how did they do it in the past - and are we better off now? How have social changes influenced the division of labour.
Plus how are chores are split in non-traditional households? We look at how it works in house shares and same-sex relationships.
Presented by Jenni Murray
Producer Beverley Purcell.
WED 10:41 The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber (b04kf5zn)
Episode 3
Joe Armstrong, Hayley Atwell and Dougray Scott star in this adaptation of the powerful novel by Michel Faber (Under the Skin, Crimson Petal and the White).
Set in the near future, it tells the story of Peter, devoted husband and devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Beatrice.
In today's episode, USIC pharmacist Grainger drives Peter out to the nearest settlement for his first encounter with his new flock - the planet's enigmatic native inhabitants. But the letters from his wife Beatrice back on Earth tell of food shortages and natural disaster.
Adapted for radio by Miranda Emmerson
CAST
Narrator.....Dougray Scott
Peter.....Joe Armstrong
Beatrice.....Hayley Atwell
Grainger.....Kelly Burke
Oasan/ Tuska.....Mark Edel-Hunt
Jesus Lover Number One/ Severin.....Michael Bertenshaw
Jesus Lover Number Five/ BG.....Damian Lynch
Jesus Lover Number Four.....David Acton
USIC Psychologist.....Jane Slavin
USIC Doctor.....Elaine Claxton
Other parts played by members of the company
Directed by Emma Harding
WED 10:55 The Listening Project (b04kf5zq)
Rachel and Mandy - Diary Keepers
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who record their activities and their likes and dislikes with considerable dedication.
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 learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
WED 11:00 How to Dig a Grave (b04kf5zs)
Gravediggers exist in the popular imagination as a creepy, ghoulish breed. We keep them safely at a distance where they can carry the weight of our fantasies and fears about death. But what's the reality? And what lessons are there to learn six feet under the ground?
Scottish gravediggers Stevie and Bobby teach Cathy FitzGerald how to hand-dig a grave.
Presented and produced by Cathy FitzGerald.
A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 11:30 Wordaholics (b04kf5zv)
Series 3
Episode 6
Irish comic Ed Byrne, Tasmanian stand up and art expert Hannah Gadsby, punmaster general Milton Jones and classics boffin Natalie Haynes vie for word supremacy.
Gyles Brandreth is in the chair.
The letter of the week is 'Z'.
The panellists must coin their own topynyms and they also have to guess which foreign words are edible.
There's a chance to add their own new word to the dictionary, before they delve into 'A Dictionary of Americanisms' from 1848.
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle.
Producer: Claire Jones.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.
WED 12:00 News Summary (b04k40b5)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 12:04 21st Century Mythologies (b04kf5zx)
Nando's
In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In this series of witty talks, the acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. Conrad ranges over the defining effluvia of our era, from the Cronut, to the Shard, to the Kardashians. Today he looks at the ubiquitous home of piri piri chicken, Nandos.
WED 12:15 You and Yours (b04kf5zz)
Care Homes Fire; Green Energy Fraud; Packed Lunches; Botton; Hospital Appointments
An elderly woman with dementia died in a fire in her care home caused by a burning cigarette while staff were supposed to be supervising her smoking. The fire service says it is seeing too many cases like this because care workers aren't reacting to the warning signs.
The Green Deal is a government scheme where people can get a loan to pay for energy efficiency work on their home. The loan is attached the house and paid back through the savings made on energy bills. In the early days of the scheme, Trading Standards and Citizens Advice warned that the scheme was vulnerable to scammers. Over 4,000 Green Deal plans have now been processed, so were these fears justified?
Packed lunches are taking a kicking at the moment. The nation's 4 to 7 year olds are currently enjoying free school meals thanks to Nick Clegg's dim view of what they used to get in their lunchboxes. And now it seems adults too are ditching the Tupperware. There's been a more than ten percent decline in packed lunch consumption this year - that's 76 million fewer tuna sandwiches and pasta salads year on year.
A pioneering community for learning disabled residents in North Yorkshire is facing the threat of a breakaway by some able-bodied co-workers over plans to change the way it's run. Botton, near Whitby, is the largest and oldest Camphill village. About a hundred people with learning disabilities share work and accommodation with volunteers, who aren't paid but receive living costs and expenses. Reporter Andrew Fletcher went to find out more on a tour of the workshops and farms that make up of the estate.
A report by the disability campaign group Transport for All claims that poor transport systems for patients and missed hospital appointments could be costing the NHS £357million a year - that works out at £126 per patient. In some areas awareness of the scheme is very low with some patients not realising they have access to transport for their appointments
In May 2013, permitted development rights policy was introduced to allow offices to be turned into houses without planning permission, changes the Government wants to make permanent. The policy was designed to bring empty and underused buildings back into use but in some areas businesses have been served eviction notices so landlords can cash in on higher residential rents and sales prices. Samantha Fenwick reports.
WED 12:57 Weather (b04k40b7)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 13:00 World at One (b04kf601)
Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney.
WED 13:45 An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin (b04lc3pz)
Episode 3
The correspondence of Nobel Prize winning scientist, Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), introduced by her biographer, Georgina Ferry.
In the 1940s, Dorothy worked on the structure of a new medicine with a miraculous reputation, penicillin: making her first big breakthrough while breastfeeding her daughter Liz and with her peripatetic husband, Thomas, living and working away from home. Somerville College invented maternity pay for her, a benefit which Dorothy accepted rather reluctantly. As ever, her mother urged her to go gently but, inspired by her discoveries, Dorothy worked harder than ever.
Producer: Anna Buckley.
WED 14:00 The Archers (b04lwp50)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Tuesday]
WED 14:15 Drama (b04kf603)
The Golden Record
The Golden Record was one of two phonograph records on the Voyager spacecraft, containing sounds and images of Earth's life and culture - a cosmic message in a bottle to outer space. It was created by a team lead by Carl Sagan, and there is a real love story behind the science.
Carl Sagan was an author, astronomer and sceptic who popularised science. In 1977 he was tasked, with his colleague Ann Druyan, writer, activist and academic, with creating a 'golden record', a compilation of sounds and images to be launched into space. This disc would represent life on Earth, a greeting to worlds light-years away.
Sagan and Druyan raced against time to perfect 'the ultimate mix-tape', and fell in love. It was not straightforward – Sagan was already married. However, in one phone call, they agreed that whatever lay ahead, they needed to be together.
They were together until Sagan's death in 1996. In 2012, the Voyager spacecraft left our solar system forever.
Written by Duncan MacMillan and Effie Woods.
Carl Sagan ..... Kerry Shale
Ann Druyan ..... Nancy Crane
Linda Sagan ..... Clare Cage
John Casani ..... Mathew Gravelle
Tim ..... Chris Jack
Director ..... Polly Thomas
Sound designer ..... Cathy Robinson
A BBC Cymru/Wales production or BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in October 2014.
WED 15:00 Money Box Live (b04kf605)
Saving for Retirement
Need advice about your pension? Call 03700 100 444 from
1pm to
3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk. Paul Lewis and guests answer your questions.
How are you going to fund your retirement? A company, personal or stakeholder scheme?
A new state pension will be available for those retiring from April 2016 and the age at which you can claim is rising for both men and women. When will you get yours and what might it be worth?
How many years national insurance contributions must you make to receive a full state pension ?
Should you defer claiming your state pension or make extra payments to boost your entitlement?
If you want to make your own plans you may want to ask about auto-enrolment or the different types of workplace scheme.
How do you build up a personal pension, what should you contribute and when can you access the money?
Joining presenter Paul Lewis to help you make sense of pensions will be:
Michelle Cracknell, Chief Executive, TPAS.
Tom McPhail, Head of Pensions Research, Hargreaves Lansdown.
Sally West, Strategy Adviser, Income and Poverty, Age UK.
Call 03700 100 444 from
1pm to
3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic call charges apply.
WED 15:30 Inside Health (b04kbl8w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Tuesday]
WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed (b04kf607)
Dementia Handbags; Place Hacking
Place hacking the hidden city. Laurie Taylor talks to Bradley Garrett, Lecturer in Geography and Environment at the University of Southampton, about his research into the world of urban exploration. Bridges, sewerage and underground rail systems are just a few of the sites penetrated by crews of place hackers who want to journey beyond the boundaries of everyday metropolitan life. They are joined by writer and film maker Iain Sinclair whose work also involves uncovering unseen layers of the city. Also, Julia Twigg, Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent, discusses the role of handbags in the lives of women with dementia. How do they function as memory objects and sources of identity, particularly in the transition to care homes?
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
WED 16:30 The Media Show (b04kf609)
Facebook's apology to drag queens; Anonymity online; Inquiry into the use of RIPA
Facebook has apologised to drag queens, and those with transgender status, after it closed some accounts following reports they were fake because they weren't using their legal names. However, a coalition met with Facebook at its headquarters in San Francisco, and they can now use their pseudonyms. Steve Hewlett talks to Lil Miss Hot Mess, who organised a rally in San Francisco against the policy, and to Misty Chance a drag queen in Manchester, who changed his name legally, rather than having his online profile removed. Also joining Steve is Emma Carr from Big Brother Watch, and tech journalist Rupert Goodwins about some of the wider issues the story has uncovered.
Another story this week which has raised questions about our online identity is that of Brenda Leyland, who
was found dead after being challenged by Sky News over accusations of 'trolling' the McCanns. Steve is joined by Emily Bell, Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University in the US, to discuss whether anonymity should be allowed on social websites, or are the benefits of remaining anonymous outweighed by the costs?
And a parliamentary committee is to ask every police force in the UK how many times they have obtained the telephone and email records of journalists without their consent. Keith Vaz has called for a detailed breakdown of police use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which forces telephone companies to hand over phone records. It was recently revealed how police investigating 'Plebgate' obtained the telephone records of Tom Newton Dunn, the Political Editor of the Sun, in this way. Steve Hewlett talks to Keith Vaz, chairman of the home affairs select committee about the scope of the inquiry.
Producer: Katy Takatsuki.
WED 17:00 PM (b04kf60c)
Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b04k40b9)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 18:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation (b04kf60f)
Series 10
How to Be Better
Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves with a broadcast of national comic import!
Using just the Bible, the Monarchy and Audrey Hepburn, Jeremy Hardy promises to build a whole new you.
Welcome to "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation", a series of debates in which Jeremy Hardy engages in a free and frank exchange of his entrenched views. Passionate, polemical, erudite and unable to sing,
Few can forget where they were when they first heard "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Thursdays. The Light Entertainment department was besieged, questions were asked in the House and Jeremy Hardy himself became known as the man responsible for the funniest show on radio since Money Box Live with Paul Lewis.
Since that fateful first series, Jeremy went on to win Sony Awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for Chemistry p - and was a much-loved regular on both The News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Written by Jeremy Hardy
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2014.
WED 19:00 The Archers (b04kf60h)
Bert Fry is busy working on Carol's new vegetable garden, respectfully calling her Mrs Tregorran. Jill points out it's just the way he is. Bert (the self-titled village laureate) looks forward to reading his poem at the harvest supper. Jill asks how music preparations with Joe and Eddie are going. Jill jokes to Carol that Bert is no great poet.
Eddie is keen to make some money from turkeys this Christmas. He asks Jim whether Romans used turkeys as part of any festivals. Jim does some research and turns up that Romans used chickens as oracles. Inspired, Eddie hatches a plan.
Bert is miffed with Eddie and Joe for giving him the runaround over the music for the harvest supper. Are they going to let him sing his song or not?
Jill admits to sympathetic Carol that Ambridge is changing. She's not sure she wants to stick around if Route B goes ahead. Jill is worried about the idea of David and Ruth moving to Prudhoe. They are looking at farms today.
Ruth is smitten by one farm in a nice community. David was shocked to see how frail Heather looked. However, Heather is adamant that they shouldn't move up north for her. Never mind my Mum, says Ruth - what about Jill?
WED 19:15 Front Row (b04kf60k)
Phyllida Lloyd, The Sensory War, Robert Wilson, Super Thursday
Phyllida Lloyd talks to Samira Ahmed about her all-female Henry IV and the importance of casting women in plays about political power. Professor Griselda Pollock reviews The Sensory War, a new exhibition in Manchester which reflects on how artists have tried to capture the impact of military conflict between 1914 and 2014. Photographer and official war artist Robert Wilson discusses Helmand Return, a new series of 59 billboards across the UK of his photos which capture the daily life of British troops in Afghanistan in their final tour of duty. And tomorrow is Super Thursday, the day when more than 300 books will be published on the same day. We ask why this has evolved, and what it means for the books market.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.
WED 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rcd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 today]
WED 20:00 FutureProofing (b04kf6lk)
No End of Pleasure
How will humans experience pleasure in the near future? What is the shape of things to come?
The novelist AL Kennedy conjures a vision of the future where plugging in for pleasure is as easy as logging on, where your mood can be managed for recreation and productivity, and where technology allows you to interact sexually with your lovers at a distance and possibly from the perspective of a tiger.
People with an active stake in the future test out and investigate the potential of this virtual world.
We meet Anders Sandberg, a man with an extraordinary capacity to experience pleasure and perhaps the best example of what the human of the future might be like if the trans-humanist David Pearce has his way. David believes genetic-hacking and bio-engineering are an essential component of a future he imagines without suffering.
David Levy is an international chess master whose experience of playing games with computers means he anticipates a world where the relationship humans have with machines might develop away from the chess board in ways that bring physical and emotional satisfactions.
Anil Seth shows Eliane Glaser around his substitutional reality machine and proffers a vision of the future where we can all take a trip to the North Pole, or the heart of an orchestra pit, without leaving our rooms.
And how does the future look to a greedy pleasure seeker and a recovering sex-addict? Tim Fountain and Erica Garza consider their future in a world bristling with new kinds of sex tech.
Also, Will Self is on hand to probe the ethical and moral dimensions of a new hedonic playground.
Produced by Colin McNulty and Natalie Steed
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 20:45 Four Thought (b04kf711)
Series 4
High Street Revival
We are trying to revive our high streets the wrong way, argues Clare Richmond.
Clare has many years' experience in helping to revive the fortunes of high street shops. But she has grown disenchanted with the current expectation that councils, town managers and government hit squads can improve things.
Her own experience has taught her that real and lasting change for the better can only happen when businesses get fully involved and believe they hold their futures in their own hands.
Producer: Giles Edwards.
WED 21:00 Costing the Earth (b04kbjt2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
15:30 on Tuesday]
WED 21:30 Midweek (b04kf5zj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 21:58 Weather (b04k40bc)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 22:00 The World Tonight (b04kf713)
Caroline Wyatt presents the programme: including an interview with the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond. We analyse the speech of Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg and ask about the state of British politics. It's the final of the Great British Bake Off - but what is the history of baking in the UK.
WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b04kf715)
The Bone Clocks
Episode 13
By David Mitchell. Part thirteen. Holly Sykes must decide who to trust. She's suspicious of Marinus and the Horologists, but finds herself believing their seemingly outlandish story. Read by Laurel Lefkow
This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's life through those who encounter her. The journey has a global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a playfully genre-bending subplot.
Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America.
Abridged by Robin Brooks
Produced by Allegra McIlroy.
WED 23:00 The Music Teacher (b01drtfn)
Series 2
Episode 3
Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny.
Nigel is offered a reconciliation meeting with local youths after they have run riot in the Arts Centre. And asked to teach them three part harmony into the bargain.
Directed by Nick Walker
Audio production by Matt Katz
Written and produced by Richie Webb
A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 23:15 Terry Pratchett (b01r0zb9)
Eric
Episode 1
When precocious young Eric Thursley summons a demon from the loathsome pit to fulfil his every wish, he certainly gets what he asked for.
Just... not exactly what he asked for. That's the problem with wishes.
Terry Pratchett's many Discworld novels combine a Technicolor imagination with a razor sharp wit, especially when he rewrites Faust as spotty teenage demonologist Eric.
Rincewind ..... Mark Heap
Eric ..... Will Howard
Death ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Archchancellor ..... Robert Blythe
Parrot ..... Ben Crowe
Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie
Screwpate ..... Michael Shelford
Mother ..... Christine Absalom
Narrator ..... Rick Warden
Adapted in four parts by Robin Brooks.
Director: Jonquil Panting
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.
WED 23:30 Punt PI (b038wtj2)
Series 6
The Hollinwell Incident
Steve Punt turns private investigator to reopen a mysterious case of collapsing children.
One summer's day in 1980, at a junior jazz band festival in Nottinghamshire, hundreds of children were suddenly taken ill and fainted. They fell like dominoes; the showground was littered with bodies, the arena like a battlefield.
Many of the children feel they never got answers as to what really happened that morning.
Steve investigates, to find out if it was food poisoning or something a little more sinister.
Producer: Sarah Bowen.
THURSDAY 09 OCTOBER 2014
THU 00:00 Midnight News (b04k40c9)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
THU 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rcd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b04k40cc)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b04k40cf)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b04k40ch)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (b04k40ck)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b04kf7f9)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Imam Monawar Hussain, Muslim Tutor at Eton College.
THU 05:45 Farming Today (b04kf7fc)
Dairy Crisis, Community Defibrillators, Scottish Tea
The NFU says it's vital consumers support British dairy farmers, as global milk prices continue to fall. NFU president Meurig Raymond tells Anna Hill the union is working with retailers and processors to make sure farmers get a fair price.
We talk to a charity helping rural communities to buy and fit defibrillators, which could save vital seconds in the case of cardiac arrest in remote areas.
And the Scottish tea growers off to an international conference in Quatar tell us they need more farmers to take up tea growing.
THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04hkwtg)
Black Drongo
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the black drongo of Southern Asia. What looks a like a small crow crossed with a flycatcher is riding a cow's back in an Indian village. Black drongos are slightly smaller than European starlings, but with a much longer tail. They feed mainly on large insects: dragonflies, bees, moths and grasshoppers which they will pluck from the ground as well pursuing them in aerial sallies. Although small, these birds are famous for being fearless and will attack and dive-bomb almost any other bird, even birds of prey, which enter their territories. This aggressive behaviour has earned them the name "King Crow" and in Hindi their name is Kotwal - the policeman.
THU 06:00 Today (b04kf7ff)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
THU 09:00 In Our Time (b04kf8ps)
The Battle of Talas
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Talas, a significant encounter between Arab and Chinese forces which took place in central Asia in 751 AD. It brought together two mighty empires, the Abbasid Caliphate and the Tang Dynasty, and although not well known today the battle had profound consequences for the future of both civilisations. The Arabs won the confrontation, but the battle marks the point where the Islamic Empire halted its march eastwards, and the Chinese stopped their expansion to the west. It was also a point of cultural exchange: some historians believe that it was also the moment when the technology of paper manufacture found its way from China to the Western world.
GUESTS
Hilde de Weerdt, Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University
Michael Höckelmann, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at King's College London
Hugh Kennedy, Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London
Producer: Thomas Morris.
THU 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rcg)
The Walhalla: Hall of Heroes
Neil MacGregor visits the Walhalla, one of the most idiosyncratic expressions of national identity in 19th century Europe - a temple to German-ness, modelled on the Parthenon, built high above the Danube in Bavaria. It honours almost 200 people, from early rulers and kings to composers, poets and scientists.
Producer Paul Kobrak.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b04kf8pv)
Lynda Bellingham; Could the CPS do more to prosecute historic sexual assault?
Lynda Bellingham joins Jenni to discuss her new autobiography 'There's Something I've Been Dying to Tell You', the decision she has made to stop her cancer treatment and her life as the Nation's "Oxo Mum". In the next part of series into historic sexual abuse and assault, Jenni speaks to Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, about the role of the Crown Prosecution Service in bringing these crimes to court. What are the CPS doing to ensure that victims receive justice? And how are they responding to the increase in historic cases of rape and sexual assault? As part of Woman's Hour "Chore Wars", we explore what happens when people can no longer take on household work because of disability and illness, and we ask how the chore gender gap impacts on our finances, careers and relationships.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Laura Northedge.
THU 10:45 The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber (b04kf8px)
Episode 4
Joe Armstrong, Hayley Atwell and Dougray Scott star in this adaptation of the extraordinary novel by Michel Faber (Under the Skin, Crimson Petal and the White).
Set in the near future, it tells the story of Peter, devoted husband and devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Beatrice.
In today's episode, Peter shows his Oasan congregation some photos of life on Earth. But as life on Earth becomes increasingly difficult, the distance between him and Beatrice grows ever vaster.
Adapted for radio by Miranda Emmerson
CAST
Narrator.....Dougray Scott
Peter.....Joe Armstrong
Beatrice.....Hayley Atwell
Grainger.....Kelly Burke
Oasan/ Tuska.....Mark Edel-Hunt
Jesus Lover Number One/ Severin.....Michael Bertenshaw
Jesus Lover Number Five/ BG.....Damian Lynch
Jesus Lover Number Four.....David Acton
USIC Psychologist.....Jane Slavin
USIC Doctor.....Elaine Claxton
Other parts played by members of the company
Directed by Emma Harding.
THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent (b04kf8pz)
A Tap You Can't Turn Off
The European Union's announced plans to support, but not replace, efforts being made by Italy to save lives at sea. Emma Jane Kirby's been to the port town of Syracusa to see the difficulties the Italians have been facing. Will Ross has been meeting children in Nigeria who've been separated from their parents by the war against the militants of Boko Haram. What's it like when a family discovers that a loved one's gone to fight with extremists in the Middle East? Linda Pressly's been finding out in Kosovo. Jamie Coomarasamy's been to the west of Ukraine, hundreds of miles from the fighting in the east of the country, to find out what they think there of the struggle between government forces and the pro-Russia rebels. And the hair industry is big business in China and most of the customers, as Sam Piranty has been finding out, are Africans. But is that human hair they're buying or something else?
THU 11:30 August Shines (b04kf8q1)
Lenny Henry travels to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to tell the story of August Wilson, contemporary America's greatest black playwright.
When Lenny Henry last year won the London Critics' Circle award for his best-actor performance as Troy Maxson in August Wilson's 'Fences', many admitted they knew little about this great black playwright, whose work brought the lives of working-class Pittsburgh African Americans to Broadway and across the United States.
Although at his untimely death in 2005, Wilson had been living for many years on the west coast in Seattle, his plays and his soul had long remained in the east, in the venerable old steel town of Pittsburgh where he was born and grew up. This summer Lenny Henry travelled to the city of three rivers and many bridges, now slowly recovering from post-industrial gloom, to visit the old, multiracial Hill District, where August Wilson lived as a child, and whose geography and characters run through his plays like the Allegheny River through the city.
In a sequence of ten plays, known as the 'Pittsburgh Cycle', Wilson charts the stories of black Americans across ten decades of the twentieth century. Vibrant, real, yet filled with the original African rhythms and spirit that the playwright believed should underpin and shape his works, these plays are a magisterial account of the African American twentieth century.
At the now semi-derelict childhood home, Lenny Henry meets surviving members of Wilson's family, and encounters those who knew and loved him, like Sala Udin, who helped Wilson in the 1970s set up a powerful black theatre group to tell the stories of the Hill's residents.
Producer Simon Elmes.
THU 12:00 News Summary (b04k40cm)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:04 21st Century Mythologies (b04kf8q3)
The Shard
In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In this series of witty talks, the acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. Conrad ranges over the defining effluvia of our era, from the Cronut to the Kardashians. Today Conrad looks at that defining landmark of the London skyline The Shard.
THU 12:15 You and Yours (b04kf8q5)
Revisiting the Floods Nine Months On; Why Chilli Sauce Is So Popular
Eight months after they were flooded out of their homes, we speak to the people who still can't get their insurance companies to pay out. Best-selling novelist Rachel Joyce and Chris White, the Head of Fiction at Waterstones discuss why author appearances are important to beat the e-book. We investigate the lack of protection for elderly people who have money stolen by their own family members, and the growing success of chilli sauce- why do we want our food to get hotter?
THU 12:57 Weather (b04k40cp)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 13:00 World at One (b04kf8q7)
Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell.
THU 13:45 An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin (b04lc564)
Episode 4
The correspondence of Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) introduced by her biographer, Georgina Ferry.
After the war, Dorothy juggled pioneering research with bringing up three children. Having cracked the structure of penicillin in 1945, she embarked on an even more complicated molecule, vitamin B12, while her husband Thomas spent long periods living and working in Africa. Elected as one of the first female fellows of The Royal Society aged just 36, Dorothy's reputation as a world class researcher was growing, rapidly.
Producer: Anna Buckley.
THU 14:00 The Archers (b04kf60h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Drama (b01dgh87)
Marty Ross - Rough Magick
A comedic drama by Marty Ross set in 1605 in the Scottish Highlands in which the Royal playwright Shaxberd saves King James from assassination and attempts to save an innocent girl from being burnt as a witch.
1605. Fearing further terrorist activity following the gunpowder plot, King James transports his court to the Scottish Highlands, complete with The King's Men, his favoured theatre company. This includes middle-aged, careworn, neurotic and pox-troubled playwright William Shaxberd (although he prefers being called 'Shakespeare'). When the Royal wagons get bogged down on the moors and a seemingly supernatural attempt is made on the life of the paranoid, superstitious James, a local woman, Shona, is accused of witchcraft. Shaxberd owes Shona a debt and shaking off his customary deference to authority he employs all his ingenuity and gift for theatre to help her escape the gallows. But who was the real attacker? And does the innocent Shona have some genuine magic up her sleeve?
The play takes its prompt from historical facts: James's obsession with witchcraft and the political paranoia post-Gunpowder Plot; Shakespeare's being sometimes credited as 'Shaxberd' (might it have been his actual name?), his awkward position at court as a Catholic glove-maker's son, his rewriting of Scottish history in 'Macbeth' to flatter King James (Banquo's descendant); as well as the probably apocryphal story that The King's Men may have toured Scotland prior to the writing of 'Macbeth'.
Producer/director: David Ian Neville.
THU 15:00 Ramblings (b04kf9m6)
Series 28
The Dales Way, Part Four
Clare Balding reaches one of the most beautiful stretches of the Dales Way, setting out from Buckden to Beckermonds, in the company of the Chairman of the Long Distance Walking Association, John Sparshatt and his Californian born friend, Randal Metzger. Despite being very familiar with this part of the route, both men infect Clare with their passion for this landscape and their commitment to ensuring as many people as possible can enjoy walking the path.
Producer: Lucy Lunt.
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b04k7b6s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:55 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Bookclub (b04k7j02)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:00 The Film Programme (b04kf9m8)
Illustrating Bjork; Gregory Burke on '71; Neil Brand on the Look of Love.
With Francine Stock.
Olivier Award winning playwright Gregory Burke discusses his feature film debut '71, about a young soldier who finds himself lost in Belfast during the height of the Troubles.
Peter Strickland, the acclaimed director of revenge drama Katalin Varga, reveals what happened when Bjork asked him to film a concert on her Biophilia tour, and what it all has to do with crystals, microbes and BBC Inside Science presenter Adam Rutherford.
Pianist Neil Brand demonstrates the seduction techniques of Hollywood composers and reveals why it never pays to be too obvious.
THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science (b04kf9mb)
Nobel Prizes 2014; Gauge; Genetics and Diabetes; UK Fungus Day
Nobel Prizes 2014
The annual Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry were announced this week.
The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to UK-based researcher Prof John O'Keefe as well as May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser who discovered the brain's "GPS system". They discovered how the brain knows where we are and is able to navigate from one place to another. Their findings may help to explain why Alzheimer's disease patients cannot recognise their surroundings.
The 2014 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Professors Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura in Japan and the US, for the invention of blue light emitting diodes (LEDs). This enabled a new generation of bright, energy-efficient white lamps, as well as colour LED screens.
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner for improving the resolution of optical microscopes. This type of microscope had previously been held back by the presumed limitation that obtaining a better resolution than half the wavelength of light would be impossible. But the laureates used fluorescence to extend the limits of the light microscope, allowing scientists to see things at much higher levels of resolution.
GAUGE
The UK has a database for the amount of greenhouse gases we emit each year - usually measured in Gigatonnes of carbon. It's compiled by adding up emissions from various individual sources - be it a coal-fired power station or a wetland bog. This amount is used worldwide, but it is an estimate. A project called Greenhouse gas UK and Global Emissions, or GAUGE, is - for the first time - verifying these estimates by measuring what's in the atmosphere on a much larger scale.
Genetics and Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is globally the fastest growing chronic disease. The World Health Organisation estimates more than 300 million people are currently afflicted, rising to more than half a billion by 2030. It might seem on the surface to be a disease with a simple cause - eat too much & exercise too little - and the basic foundation is a relative lack of the hormone insulin. But as with most illnesses, it's much more complicated, not least because a large number of disease processes are happening all at once. In 2010, a particular gene variant was associated with around 40% of Type 2 diabetics - not directly causal, but this so-called 'risk variant' increases the chance of developing the condition if you have the wrong lifestyle. Research published in the journal Science Translational Medicine this week identifies a drug called yohimbine as a potential treatment to help Type 2 diabetics, one that targets this specific genetic make-up.
UK Fungus Day
October 12th is UK Fungus Day, a chance for us to celebrate these cryptic, often microscopic, but essential organisms. Usually hidden away inside plants or in soil (or if you're unlucky, in between your toes), fungi have largely been growing below scientists' radars for centuries. Mycologists still don't know anything close to the true number of fungi that exist on the planet. About a hundred thousand have been formally identified, but it's estimated that anywhere from half a million to ten million species may exist. This dwarfs, by several orders of magnitude, how many mammals there are on Earth. And, increasingly, we're realising quite how crucial fungi are to the functioning of our ecosystems. Head of Mycology at The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Bryn Dentinger, explains how valuable fungi really are.
Producer: Fiona Roberts
Assistant Producer: Jen Whyntie.
THU 17:00 PM (b04kf9md)
Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b04k40cr)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 18:30 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing (b04kf9mg)
Series 3
About Maturity
Nathan decides to prove how mature he is in order to win back the girl that rejected him.
A mix of stand-up and re-enacted family life written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle
Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing is a series about young, up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the first in his family to graduate from University, opted not to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's horror and disgust. They desperately want him to get a 'proper job.'
Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving family as he tries to prove himself.
Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of the disappointed family members. At the end of the day she just wants the best for her son. However, she'd also love to brag and show her son off to her friends, but with Nathan only telling jokes for a living that's kind of hard to do.
Martin a.k.a. Dad works in the construction industry and was looking forward to his son getting a degree so the two of them could work together in the same field. But now Nathan has blown that dream out of the window. Martin is clumsy and hard-headed and leaves running the house to his wife (she wouldn't allow it to be any other way).
Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe Nathan turned down architecture for comedy. She can't believe she left the paradise in the West Indies and came to the freezing United Kingdom for a better life so that years later her grandson could 'tell jokes!' How can her grandson go on stage and use foul language and filthy material... it's not the good Christian way!
So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan do? Will he persevere and follow his dreams? Or will he give in to his family's interference? Or will he finally leave home?!
Producer: Katie Tyrrell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.
THU 19:00 The Archers (b04kf9mj)
House-proud Helen enjoys quality time with Henry, making dinner and getting things ready for Rob to return from hunting. Henry has even drawn him a picture. Henry is keen to come hunting with him next time. When you're older, says Rob, who promised to buy Henry a pony.
Jill and Lynda are surprised that Helen has given up work, leaving Tina with more responsibility. Lynda shares her woes with Jill about her Christmas show. She had only two auditionees - Derek Fletcher and Molly Button. Jill suggests that perhaps Lynda should give the show a miss this year. It would enable the community to come back refreshed next year, and could even do Lynda the power of good as well. Lynda accepts that it's time to move on and find a new challenge.
Ruth and David tell Jill about the farm and surrounding area in Prudhoe that they're considering. They are worried how Jill will take it. David opens up to Jill about how strange and awful it would be to leave Brookfield behind. He can only do it if Jill comes with them. But can she ever see herself leaving Brookfield?
THU 19:15 Front Row (b04kf9ml)
Sheila Hancock, Gerhard Richter, '71, Nobel Prize Winner, Tony Allen
The actress Sheila Hancock talks to John Wilson about her debut novel, Miss Carter's War, which explores the repercussions of the Second World War on 20th Century Britain. The German artist Gerhard Richter gives a rare interview about his long career. Jenny McCartney reviews the film '71 starring Jack O'Connell, which follows a unit of inexperienced soldiers posted to Belfast during the Troubles. We hear from the Nigerian drummer and songwriter Tony Allen, one of the pioneers of Afrobeat. And as the French author Patrick Mondiano wins the Noble Prize for Literature, Dr Dervila Cooke explains the importance of his work.
Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Olivia Skinner.
THU 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rcg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 today]
THU 20:00 The Report (b04kf9mn)
Paramedics Under Pressure
Medical emergency 999 calls are at an all-time high, with around 9 million calls a year, creating an unprecedented workload for ambulance paramedics around the UK. As a result, many are quitting their job in increasing numbers, burnt out and unable to keep up with the pace of work now demanded of them.
Adrian Goldberg investigates what's behind this growing demand for emergency medical assistance, and asks why the recruitment of emergency paramedics has not kept pace with pressure on the service. Serving staff as well as those who have quit their job reveal a target-driven culture which sees them sent from job to job to job, where a lunch break is seen as a luxury. The finger is also pointed at some members of the public, who dial 999 to demand an ambulance for trivial injuries and illnesses.
Senior managers working for ambulance service trusts around the country say there is no quick fix for this rising exodus of staff - especially now paramedic training requires a university degree course. This has led some trusts to look as far afield as Australia and New Zealand for new recruits to plug the gap.
The NHS is planning an enhanced role for paramedics where they will be required to treat more patients in the field, to ease the pressure on over-stretched A&E departments. But with staff retention and recruitment an on-going issue for several ambulance services around the country, will they be able to meet these new expectations and will new recruits burn out too?
Researcher: James Melley
Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith.
THU 20:30 The Bottom Line (b04kf9mq)
Celebrities and Fans
Social advertising: Evan Davis and guests discuss the growing power of celebrities, the rise of the money-making super-fans who "like" their products and the vloggers with consumer clout. How effective are these new social campaigns and how will they change the advertising industry?
Guests: Edwina Dunn, CEO Starcount; Dominic Burch, senior director marketing innovation and new revenue Asda; Robin Grant, co-founder We Are Social.
Producer: Rosamund Jones.
THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science (b04kf9mb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 today]
THU 21:30 In Our Time (b04kf8ps)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 21:58 Weather (b04k40ct)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b04kznbc)
The UK says it will screen people for Ebola at Heathrow and Gatwick. How will it work? And we ask the World Bank's chief economist about the impact of the disease on the region.
THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b04kf9ms)
The Bone Clocks
Episode 14
By David Mitchell. Part fourteen. Holly Sykes becomes more deeply involved in the world of Horology. The strange incidents of her childhood begin to make sense, and she agrees to risk everything. Read by Laurel Lefkow
This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's life through those who encounter her. The journey has a global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a playfully genre-bending subplot.
Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America.
Abridged by Robin Brooks
Produced by Allegra McIlroy.
THU 23:00 Ayres on the Air (b01n6yj5)
Series 4
Winter
Popular poet Pam Ayres concludes her series of poetry and sketch shows about the seasons with a look at winter.
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Subjects include that magic combination of cold weather and broken boilers; the art of comparing ailments with an update of the Yuletide song The 12 Days of Christmas and, as we reach the end of the Winter season ,Pam tells how to fan the dying flame of passion, come Valentine's Day.
Poems include: Who's Had My Scissors, Ever Since I Had Me Op and Insomnia.
With Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead
Producer: Claire Jones.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in October 2012.
THU 23:30 Punt PI (b00v117n)
Series 3
Episode 3
Steve Punt turns super sleuth and goes in search of a most unusual royal relic: Queen Victoria's voice. He embarks on a journey to the dawn of recorded sound as he tracks down a wax cylinder which may contain the voice, the only suspected recording of Victoria in existence. Via sound archives, strong rooms, forensic audiologists, royal voice coaches, the Queen's apartments and Palace letters he pieces together the story of the lost recording of Queen Victoria and tries to get to the bottom of any message she left for her subjects.
FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER 2014
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b04k40dr)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
FRI 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rcg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b04k40dt)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b04k40dw)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b04k40dy)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b04k40f0)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b04krls1)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Imam Monawar Hussain, Muslim Tutor at Eton College.
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b04kfgck)
Milk Protests, Mental Health Helpline, Rural Business, German Crop Spraying
This week has seen the return of dairy protests. On Monday night farmers were in Shropshire demonstrating at Muller Wiseman in Market Drayton. We hear from those who were picketing Morrisons at Bridgwater in Somerset on Wednesday night. It's starting to look like a re-run of the situation in 2012, when protests by farmers led to the introduction of a voluntary dairy code.
All this week we've been reporting on health services in rural areas. Today is World Mental Health Day - we hear about YANA which provides support for anyone in agriculture struggling with mental health problems like stress and depression. YANA stands for You Are Not Alone.
Are rural businesses being penalised by planning, potholes, poor transport and painfully slow broadband?
Later today in Exeter, the South West Federation of Small Businesses is holding its first rural businesses conference in its 40 year history. The Environment Secretary Liz Truss will be there; and delegates will be trying to find solutions to the problems hindering rural commerce. Richard Haddock, who's rural spokesman for the South West Federation explains what they're hoping to achieve in order to support rural businesses.
And world record crop spraying in Germany. The machinery giant Amazone claims one of their trailer sprayers covered a staggering 2,550 acres in 24 hours - that's 106 acres an hour. They sprayed 15 fields of oilseed rape with the herbicide glyphosate.
Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Mark Smalley.
FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04hkx14)
Arctic Warbler
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the long distant migrant Arctic warbler. These classic olive-grey warblers, slightly smaller than the European robin, with a pale eye-stripe, winter in south-east Asia, but each spring fly to northern forests to breed. This can be as far as Finland, up to 13,000 kilometres away as well as Arctic and sub-Arctic Russia, Japan and even Alaska. They do this to feed on the bountiful supply of insects which proliferate during the 24-hour daylight of an Arctic summer. A few make it to Britain, the Northern Isles, but whether they finally return to Asia is not known.
FRI 06:00 Today (b04kfgcm)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs (b04k7b73)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rcj)
One People, Many Sausages
Neil MacGregor focuses on two great emblems of Germany's national diet: beer and sausages. He visits Munich to find out how regional specialities represent centuries of regional history and diversity.
Producer Paul Kobrak.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b04kfgcp)
It's one of the most enduring and celebrated dance partnerships of recent time. Now, to mark their fortieth year of working together, ice dance champions Torvill and Dean have co-written a second autobiography 'Our Life On Ice'. Jenni talks to Jayne Torvill about what it's like to have more than one 'other half'.
Ten years ago Woman's Hour reported on the house in Manchester where Elizabeth Gaskell lived and where she wrote most of her novels. Now as renovations are completed we return to hear how the building has changed.
Chores for children, as part of Woman's Hour Chore Wars series Woman's Hour hears from one family as they implement 'cleaning hour'. Jenni also speaks to Jayne Stokes of Family Action, a charity who have offered advice to parents to use domestic tasks as a basis for their children's education and to Telegraph columnist Beverley Turner about what jobs her son and two daughters are willing to do.
The UK government is investing £35 million into a new Africa-led movement to end Female Genital Mutilation in one generation. The funding will run until 2019 and represents the largest investment by any government ever into tackling FGM. The campaign called, 'The Girl Generation; Together to End FGM' is launched in Nairobi in Kenya today. Its focus is on ten African countries where it aims to instigate advocacy initiatives which will drive social and behavioural change. Thirty million girls across Africa are estimated to be at risk of FGM over the next decade. Lynne Featherstone, Minister for International Development, and Nimco Ali join Jenni to explain how the money will be used and why they believe it will make a difference.
FRI 10:45 The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber (b04kfgcr)
Episode 5
Joe Armstrong, Hayley Atwell and Dougray Scott star in this adaptation of the astonishing novel by Michel Faber (Under the Skin, Crimson Petal and the White).
Set in the near future, it tells the story of Peter, devoted husband and devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Beatrice. Peter has travelled to a far distant planet, called Oasis, where an enigmatic corporation called USIC have a base. He has been employed as Christian missionary to the native inhabitants - a gentle, peaceable community, who have welcomed Peter to their settlement and are eager to hear the teachings of the Bible, a book they call 'The Book of Strange New Things'.
In today's episode, Peter is called to preside over a funeral service of one of his colleagues on the USIC base. And for Bea, back on Earth, life grows increasingly complicated.
Adapted for radio by Miranda Emmerson.
CAST
Narrator.....Dougray Scott
Peter.....Joe Armstrong
Beatrice.....Hayley Atwell
Grainger.....Kelly Burke
Oasan/ Tuska.....Mark Edel-Hunt
Jesus Lover Number One/ Severin.....Michael Bertenshaw
Jesus Lover Number Five/ BG.....Damian Lynch
Jesus Lover Number Four.....David Acton
USIC Psychologist.....Jane Slavin
USIC Doctor.....Elaine Claxton
Other parts played by members of the company
Directed by Emma Harding.
FRI 11:00 Care, Work, Sleep, Repeat (b04kfgct)
For twenty-one year old David Matthews, life is a never-ending cycle. He cares for his mum who suffers from back problems and chronic depression. He cooks, he cleans, he does the shopping and provides emotional support. He does all this while holding down a job and thinking about his own life. Like hundreds and thousands of other young adult carers, the support he received before turning 18 largely disappeared and he found he just had to get on with it. The support available to him as an adult did not meet his needs.
Dave Howard finds out what it's like to be a young adult carer and asks if there's enough support for this group who are balancing their caring responsibilities with work or further education, and their own hopes and ambitions.
Producer: Toby Field.
FRI 11:30 My First Planet (b04fc5pq)
Series 2
Day Trip to Terror!
What better time for Social Media to kick in than on a dangerous search-and-rescue mission on the planet's surface? And just why is Lillian replacing her nose?
The return of the hit sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Vicki Pepperdine (Getting On) set on a shiny new planet.
Welcome to the colony. We're aware that, having been in deep cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some supplementary information.
Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on the voyage so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst), is now in charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, and his desire to sort things out with a nice friendly meeting infuriates the colony's Chief Physician Lillian (Vicki Pepperdine), who'd really rather everyone was walking round in tight colour-coded tunics and saluting each other. She's also in charge of Project Adam, the plan to conceive and give birth to the first colony-born baby. Unfortunately, the two people hand-picked for this purpose - Carol and Richard - were rather fibbing about being a couple, just to get on the trip.
Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and also Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer the question - if humankind were to colonise space, is it destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.)
Written by Phil Whelans
Produced and Directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:00 News Summary (b04k40f2)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:04 21st Century Mythologies (b04l3bqs)
Oscar Pistorius
In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In this series of witty talks, the acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. Conrad ranges over the defining pop culture icons of our era, from the Shard, to the Kardashians to today, Oscar Pistorius.
FRI 12:15 You and Yours (b04krnsy)
Scam Jobs; Industrial Deafness; Boilers; Kindle Unlimited
The latest in You and Yours' investigation into scam jobs. A student faces repaying £3500 after taking on a work-from-home role selling goods on eBay. Louise Minchin finds out why the adverts keep appearing, and what can be done to stop them.
The insurance industry says industrial deafness is the "new whiplash". It has been getting record numbers of claims. How easy is deafness to prove? And are all the claims legitimate? We find out.
Plus a look at Amazon's new service Kindle Unlimited. We find out why subscribers will not be able to read the current bestsellers.
Presenter: Louise Minchin
Producer: Natalie Donovan.
FRI 12:57 Weather (b04k40f4)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 13:00 World at One (b04kfk1t)
Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell.
FRI 13:45 An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin (b04lc6h3)
Episode 5
The correspondence of Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) introduced by her biographer, Georgina Ferry.
Later in life, Dorothy combined scientific research with actively campaigning for peace, travelling to China and Russia during the Cold War and later writing to her former student, Margaret Thatcher.
On receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964, she said she hoped that, in future, a woman winning such a prize would not require any special comment as 'more use is made of the talents that women share equally with men'. Fifty years later her hope has still not been fulfilled. Dorothy Hodgkin remains the only British woman to have been awarded a Nobel Prize for science.
Producer: Anna Buckley.
FRI 14:00 The Archers (b04kf9mj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Drama (b04kfk1w)
Beyond Contempt
by Peter Jukes.
Peter Jukes' nail-biting account of how, as a playwright turned court reporter, he came to live-tweet the entire 8 1/2 month hacking trial.
The director was Mary Peate.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b04kfk1y)
Kent
Peter Gibbs hosts the programme from Kent. Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Wilson take questions from local gardeners.
Produced by Darby Dorras.
Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton.
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
This week's questions and answers:
Q. What is a good plant to climb up a north-facing wall?
A. Ivy would be good for a fence, Akebia quinata would work as a climber and Camellias would work brilliantly grown in front of the wall. Espalier Pear trees or Morello Chrerries would also work well.
Q. What kind of tulips should I plant in a pot for a colourful display? What other plants could I plant with them?
A. Apricot-beauty, Fontainbleau, Triumphator, Queen of Night, Apple Dawn and Angelique are lovely varieties of tulips. Forget-Me-Nots look great planted under tulips. Plant the bulbs deep in the pot. Get some well-draining compost in the base, perhaps some John Innes mixed with something else over some crocks. Then add more compost and put the Mysotis plants (Forget-Me-Nots) on top of those and the Tulips will push their way through. You could also underplant with Scilla, White Jonquil Narcissus or Narcissus Thalia. Alternatively you could overplant them with Lilies. Plant the tulips at the end of October or early November.
Q. How should I prepare my shady east-facing vegetable plots?
A. Use raise beds to maximize the light getting to the plants. Paint any surrounding walls white. If there is turf there now, you don't need to prepare the soil too much. Plant Garlic, Broad Beans, Shallots, Onions now but wait for spring to plant other things.
Q. What is this invasive plant and how can I deal with it? It's a perennial plant which is 30cm tall with average leaves and reddish stems. It has bunches of pink scented flowers. It's in the same plant family as Carnations (Caryophyllus) so it has a similar look.
A. It's Saponaria (Soapwort) and you just need to keep digging it up.
Q. Is it recommended to leave the roots of Runner Beans in the ground with a chance of them shooting up the following year?
A. Yes, if you have a mild winter there is a chance this would work. You could use mulch to insulate them over the colder months. Be careful, the roots are poisonous.
Q. My beautiful ornamental Cherry tree took three years to die and now my other fruit trees are looking poorly. What should I do?
A. It looks like sclerosis due to mineral deficiency. You could try using some seaweed solution or manure to help give them the nutrition they need to survive.
Q. Will Eremurus (Foxtailed Lilies) do better in raised beds in full sunshine?
A. Yes, these plants like full, hot sunshine. Try the Pinocchio, Isabelina and Cleopatra varieties.
Q. My white climbing Hydrangeas are turning pink, what is happening?
A. Heat and light and water types can change the colour of the plants. The flower colour also depends on the acidity of the soil.
FRI 15:45 Ian Fleming's Thrilling Cities (b04kfk20)
Hong Kong
4 Extra Debut. In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was commissioned by the Sunday Times to explore some of the world's most exotic cities. Travelling to the Far East and then to America, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in favour of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, gangsters and geishas. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world.
Fleming wote, 'On November 2nd, armed with a sheaf of visas...one suitcase...and my typewriter, I left humdrum London for the thrilling cities of the world. All my life I have been interested in adventure and abroad. I have enjoyed the frisson of leaving the wide, well-lit streets and venturing up back alleys in search of the hidden, authentic pulse of towns. It was perhaps this habit that turned me into a writer of thrillers.'
In today's episode, Fleming flies to Hong Kong - the most vivid and exciting city he had ever experienced. He enjoys a massage at the hands of an expert, and his senses are enchanted by the smells of the streets at night - from the 'exciting dash of sandalwood' in a joss-stick factory to the scent of frying onions and 'sweet perspiration'.
Read by Simon Williams.
Abridged by Mark Burgess.
Copyright Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1963
Produced by David Blount.
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 16:00 Last Word (b04kfk22)
Andrew Kerr, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Dorothy Tyler MBE, Prof Karl Miller, Cosimo Matassa
Matthew Bannister on
Andrew Kerr who co-founded the Glastonbury music festival. Thomas Crimble of Hawkwind recalls playing at the first one in 1971.
Haiti's fallen dictator Jean Claude Duvalier. He was nicknamed "Baby Doc" because he took over from his father "Papa Doc" as president for life at the age of nineteen.
Dorothy Tyler, the British high jumper who won silver medals at both the Berlin Olympics of 1936 and the London games of 1948.
Professor Karl Miller who co-founded the London Review of Books and promoted the careers of many leading novelists and poets.
And Cosimo Matassa whose New Orleans recording studio created some of the best known early rock n roll records, including Little Richard's Tutti Frutti and Fats Domino's Blueberry Hill.
FRI 16:30 Feedback (b04kfk24)
Good news. You now have 30 day to catch up on radio programmes using iPlayer. Andrew Scott, the General Manager of radio and music for BBC Future Media joins Roger Bolton to discuss the changes.
Musician, writer, broadcaster - Jarvis Cocker can seemingly turn his hand to anything. But can he combine his intimate late-night delivery of Radio 4 programme Wireless Nights with the full force of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra? Kate Taylor takes us behind the scenes at the rehearsal to meet Jarvis along with the Wireless Nights producer Laurence Grissell and the General Manager of the BBC Philharmonic, Simon Webb.
The battle for the 12 o'clock slot on Radio 4 continues. You and Yours listeners are still reeling from losing a quarter of the consumer affairs programme each day to make space for Home Front, Radio 4's landmark 500-part drama about the First World War. But while Home Front is taking a break there's a new series called '21st Century Mythologies' in its place. Every day Peter Conrad focuses on a different example of popular culture - including Nando's, Apple computers and the Kardashians - echoing the French semiotician Roland Barthes' Mythologies 60 years earlier. Clever cultural commentary? Some listeners are not convinced.
And listeners react to an item on Today in which Sarah Montagu interviewed a woman who had married herself.
Produced by Will Yates
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 16:55 The Listening Project (b04kfk26)
Rachel and Mandy - Losing a Child
After Rachel lost her 19 year old daughter to septicaemia, her friendship with Mandy became even closer.
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 learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
FRI 17:00 PM (b04kfk28)
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b04k40f6)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 18:30 The Now Show (b04kfk2b)
Series 44
Episode 5
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Nathan Caton for a comic romp through the week's news. With Pippa Evans, Mitch Benn and Jon Holmes.
Written by the cast, with additional material from Gareth Gwynn, Jane Lamacraft and Tom Crowley. Produced by Alexandra Smith.
FRI 19:00 The Archers (b04kfk2d)
Bert and Joe argue over whose version of John Barleycorn to sing at the Harvest Supper. Joe argues that his is the original Borsetshire version - and besides, he's the oldest. Carol solves the problem by suggesting they do Joe's first and then Bert can sing his version as an encore.
Hayley confronts Elizabeth. She admits that the affair with Roy was not a one-off. They also got together at Loxfest.
Hayley makes clear to Roy that she knows it was Elizabeth who called the affair off, for the sake of her children. As Hayley packs a bag, Roy pleads with her not to go. But she says she needs to decide what to do, now that their marriage is over. Hayley loads the car to leave, telling a desperate Roy that he left her when he fell in love with Elizabeth.
Jill is disappointed that Elizabeth will miss the harvest supper because of a terrible headache. She worries about how awful Elizabeth sounded on the phone. Caught up in the festivities and reminded of Doris's favourite hymn, Jill has a funny turn and escapes for some air.
Outside, Jill confides in Carol that she had been prepared to leave Brookfield to support David. But now, particularly after tonight, she just can't. Jill feels too old to start again.
FRI 19:15 Front Row (b04kfk2g)
Iggy Pop; The Lion King; Marcel Duchamp
John Wilson talks to the godfather of punk, Iggy Pop, ahead of this year's BBC Music John Peel Lecture.
Disney chief Thomas Schumacher on creating The Lion King and a stage version of Frozen.
Artists Cornelia Parker and Keith Tyson in praise of surrealist Marcel Duchamp.
FRI 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rcj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 today]
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b04kfk2j)
Paul Nuttall MEP, Ed Davey MP, Caroline Flint MP, Sarah Wollaston MP
Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from the Calne Music Festival in Wiltshire with the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey MP, Caroline Flint MP who holds the shadow Energy brief for Labour, Paul Nuttall MEP the Deputy Leader of UKIP and Dr Sarah Wollaston, Conservative MP and Chair of the Health Select Committee.
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson.
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b04kfk2l)
Dying with Dignity
Adam Gopnik thinks we fail too often to let people die with dignity at the end of their lives and believes the answer lies in showing deference.
"Dignity, I think is an exceptional demand, one that depends on at least an illusion or masquerade of an anti-egalitarian, indeed pre-modern - indeed an essentially feudal sense - of deference."
Producer: Sheila Cook.
FRI 21:00 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04kfybz)
Omnibus
Episode 1
The first of five omnibus editions of Prof Kathy Willis' timely new history of our changing relationship with plants
From the birth of modern plant classification, harnessing botany and imperial progress in furthering Britain's destiny as the major civilising power in the world , to establishing the laws of what grows where and why, Professor Kathy Willis, Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, examines new attitudes to plants during the 18th and early 19th century.
From plants as tools to exploit to flowers as objects of beauty, Kathy Willis draws upon Kew's archives and its herbarium collection of pressed plants that was to play a pivotal role in establishing insights into plant relationships and their distribution around the world. It was to help establish the first accurate maps of the world's flora by the mid 19th century.
Producer: Adrian Washbourne
Presenter: KATHY WILLIS is director of science at Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. She is also professor of long-term ecology and a fellow of Merton College, both at Oxford University. Winner of several awards, she has spent over 20 years researching and teaching biodiversity and conservation at Oxford and Cambridge.
FRI 21:58 Weather (b04k40f8)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b04kfk2n)
Can UKIP repeat their success in Clacton ? Andy Hosken reports from Rochester. Can UKIP learn from the mistakes of the SDP ? Lord Owen gives us his verdict. And we discuss whether British politics is really about to enter a new dimension.
Also tonight - Ankara finds itself facing 3 enemies: IS, the Kurds and Assad. Paul Moss in Ankara asks how that's affecting the Turkish state of mind.
A potentially game changing moment for people with diabetes. One of the Harvard team tells us about their research.
Mia Farrow speaks to us about Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Peace Prize win.
We'll hear how the OTHER Nobel Peace Prize winner - Indian children's rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi
- reacted to his victory.
And - why the Australian version of Carmen has gone up in smoke.
In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective - with Philippa Thomas.
FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b04kfk2q)
The Bone Clocks
Episode 15
By David Mitchell. Part fifteen. Holly Sykes witnesses the twilight sea between life and death, and finds herself at the centre of a battle between good and evil. Read by Laurel Lefkow
This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's life through those who encounter her. The journey has a global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a playfully genre-bending subplot.
Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America.
Abridged by Robin Brooks
Produced by Allegra McIlroy.
FRI 23:00 A Good Read (b04kbl8c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 on Tuesday]
FRI 23:27 Punt PI (b03892r4)
Series 6
The Case of the Vanishing Machine Gun Maker
Another perplexing case for our best loved, though slightly unusual PI, Steve Punt.
His methods may be unconventional but this time Steve is hot on the trail of two gun makers, William Cantelo and Hirum Maxim, and the story begins in Southampton.
Late in the 19th century strange noises could be heard from a cellar beneath a pub near the Southampton docks. It was rumoured that gun maker William Cantelo was inventing a rapid firing gun, capable of destroying the enemy and certain to make its inventor very rich.
Eventually William Cantelo emerged from his cellar with the news that his invention was complete and that he was going to take a much needed holiday, which he did, taking his new invention with him. But that was the last his family saw of him, "he simply vanished into the void."
Eventually his two sons began a search to find out what had happened to their father. When they saw a picture of the American inventor Hirum Maxim in a national paper with his new invention, a rapid firing machine gun, they were shocked; he was the spitting image of their own father William Cantelo. The sons both tried in vain to talk to Maxim, on one occasion at Victoria station as Maxim was catching a train, but to no avail. They were convinced that this Maxim was their father and that gun was the same gun that Cantelo had invented but they were never able to prove it.
Maxim died a very rich man having made millions from the invention which slaughtered millions in the Great War. Cantelo's last movements were traced to America, how and where he died is a mystery.
Clearly this story throws up more questions than answers: What happened to William Cantelo? Was Cantelo impersonating Maxim, if so why? Did Maxim steal Cantelo's invention and pay Cantelo to go away? Did one man murder the other, if so who murdered who?
Producer Neil George.
FRI 23:55 The Listening Project (b04kfk5n)
Rachel and Mandy – Keep On Running
After Rachel's daughter Rosie died, the friends wanted to do something positive, but their route to the finish of the charity run wasn’t quite the same as that of the other runners. Fi Glover introduces another conversation 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 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)
21st Century Mythologies
12:04 MON (b04k9gjb)
21st Century Mythologies
12:04 TUE (b04kf61b)
21st Century Mythologies
12:04 WED (b04kf5zx)
21st Century Mythologies
12:04 THU (b04kf8q3)
21st Century Mythologies
12:04 FRI (b04l3bqs)
A Good Read
16:30 TUE (b04kbl8c)
A Good Read
23:00 FRI (b04kbl8c)
A Mix-Tape for Gus
11:30 TUE (b04kbjhs)
A Point of View
08:48 SUN (b04jmd8d)
A Point of View
20:50 FRI (b04kfk2l)
Always the Bridesmaid
15:30 SAT (b04jk36b)
An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin
13:45 MON (b04k9gjl)
An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin
13:45 TUE (b04lc3kj)
An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin
13:45 WED (b04lc3pz)
An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin
13:45 THU (b04lc564)
An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin
13:45 FRI (b04lc6h3)
Analysis
21:30 SUN (b04jjz49)
Analysis
20:30 MON (b04k9n03)
Any Answers?
14:00 SAT (b04k2lrz)
Any Questions?
13:10 SAT (b04jmd8b)
Any Questions?
20:00 FRI (b04kfk2j)
Archive on 4
20:00 SAT (b04k4034)
August Shines
11:30 THU (b04kf8q1)
Ayres on the Air
23:00 THU (b01n6yj5)
BBC Inside Science
16:30 THU (b04kf9mb)
BBC Inside Science
21:00 THU (b04kf9mb)
BBC Music Performance
20:00 TUE (b04l054g)
Bells on Sunday
05:43 SUN (b04k7b6j)
Bells on Sunday
00:45 MON (b04k7b6j)
Beyond Belief
16:30 MON (b04k9mzn)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 MON (b04k9n07)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 TUE (b04kbl90)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 WED (b04kf715)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 THU (b04kf9ms)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 FRI (b04kfk2q)
Bookclub
16:00 SUN (b04k7j02)
Bookclub
15:30 THU (b04k7j02)
Broadcasting House
09:00 SUN (b04k7b6z)
Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing
18:30 THU (b04kf9mg)
Care, Work, Sleep, Repeat
11:00 FRI (b04kfgct)
Classic Serial
21:00 SAT (b04jhp4d)
Classic Serial
15:00 SUN (b04k7j00)
Costing the Earth
15:30 TUE (b04kbjt2)
Costing the Earth
21:00 WED (b04kbjt2)
Counterpoint
23:00 SAT (b04jjz3s)
Counterpoint
15:00 MON (b04k9gjq)
Desert Island Discs
11:15 SUN (b04k7b73)
Desert Island Discs
09:00 FRI (b04k7b73)
Drama
14:15 MON (b04k9gjn)
Drama
14:15 WED (b04kf603)
Drama
14:15 THU (b01dgh87)
Drama
14:15 FRI (b04kfk1w)
Farming Today
06:30 SAT (b04k2ljw)
Farming Today
05:45 MON (b04k971x)
Farming Today
05:45 TUE (b04kbgcp)
Farming Today
05:45 WED (b04kf5zd)
Farming Today
05:45 THU (b04kf7fc)
Farming Today
05:45 FRI (b04kfgck)
Feedback
20:00 SUN (b04jmcr9)
Feedback
16:30 FRI (b04kfk24)
File on 4
17:00 SUN (b04jk3qy)
File on 4
20:04 TUE (b04kbl8p)
Four Thought
20:45 WED (b04kf711)
Fresh From the Fringe
23:00 MON (b04k9n09)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:30 SAT (b04k2lrv)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:00 THU (b04kf8pz)
Front Row
19:15 MON (b04k9mzz)
Front Row
19:15 TUE (b04kbl8m)
Front Row
19:15 WED (b04kf60k)
Front Row
19:15 THU (b04kf9ml)
Front Row
19:15 FRI (b04kfk2g)
FutureProofing
22:15 SAT (b04jlry1)
FutureProofing
20:00 WED (b04kf6lk)
Gardeners' Question Time
14:00 SUN (b04jmcr3)
Gardeners' Question Time
15:00 FRI (b04kfk1y)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
00:30 SAT (b04jm9mx)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
09:45 MON (b04k6rc8)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
19:45 MON (b04k6rc8)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
00:30 TUE (b04k6rc8)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
09:45 TUE (b04k6rcb)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
19:45 TUE (b04k6rcb)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
00:30 WED (b04k6rcb)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
09:45 WED (b04k6rcd)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
19:45 WED (b04k6rcd)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
00:30 THU (b04k6rcd)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
09:45 THU (b04k6rcg)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
19:45 THU (b04k6rcg)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
00:30 FRI (b04k6rcg)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
09:45 FRI (b04k6rcj)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
19:45 FRI (b04k6rcj)
How to Dig a Grave
11:00 WED (b04kf5zs)
Ian Fleming's Thrilling Cities
15:45 FRI (b04kfk20)
In Our Time
09:00 THU (b04kf8ps)
In Our Time
21:30 THU (b04kf8ps)
In Praise of Limestone
16:00 MON (b04k9mzl)
In Touch
20:42 TUE (b04kbl8t)
Inside Health
21:00 TUE (b04kbl8w)
Inside Health
15:30 WED (b04kbl8w)
Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
18:30 WED (b04kf60f)
Just a Minute
12:04 SUN (b04jjz41)
Kerry's List
11:30 MON (b04k9gj8)
Kevin Eldon Will See You Now
23:00 TUE (b04kbl92)
Last Word
20:30 SUN (b04jmcr7)
Last Word
16:00 FRI (b04kfk22)
Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself
18:30 TUE (b04kbl8h)
Loose Ends
18:15 SAT (b04k402y)
Midnight News
00:00 SAT (b04jhjnb)
Midnight News
00:00 SUN (b04k404y)
Midnight News
00:00 MON (b04k406w)
Midnight News
00:00 TUE (b04k408d)
Midnight News
00:00 WED (b04k409v)
Midnight News
00:00 THU (b04k40c9)
Midnight News
00:00 FRI (b04k40dr)
Midweek
09:00 WED (b04kf5zj)
Midweek
21:30 WED (b04kf5zj)
Money Box Live
15:00 WED (b04kf605)
Money Box
12:04 SAT (b04k2lrx)
Money Box
21:00 SUN (b04k2lrx)
My First Planet
11:30 FRI (b04fc5pq)
News Briefing
05:30 SAT (b04jhjnl)
News Briefing
05:30 SUN (b04k4056)
News Briefing
05:30 MON (b04k4074)
News Briefing
05:30 TUE (b04k408n)
News Briefing
05:30 WED (b04k40b3)
News Briefing
05:30 THU (b04k40ck)
News Briefing
05:30 FRI (b04k40f0)
News Headlines
06:00 SUN (b04k4058)
News Summary
12:00 SAT (b04jhjnx)
News Summary
12:00 SUN (b04k405l)
News Summary
12:00 MON (b04k4078)
News Summary
12:00 TUE (b04k408q)
News Summary
12:00 WED (b04k40b5)
News Summary
12:00 THU (b04k40cm)
News Summary
12:00 FRI (b04k40f2)
News and Papers
06:00 SAT (b04jhjnn)
News and Papers
07:00 SUN (b04k405d)
News and Papers
08:00 SUN (b04k405j)
News and Weather
22:00 SAT (b04jhjp9)
News
13:00 SAT (b04jhjp1)
On Your Farm
06:35 SUN (b04k7b6n)
One to One
09:30 TUE (b04kbjhj)
Out There
19:45 SUN (b04k92wb)
Out of the Ordinary
16:00 TUE (b03xd3hl)
PM
17:00 SAT (b04k4026)
PM
17:00 MON (b04k9mzq)
PM
17:00 TUE (b04kbl8f)
PM
17:00 WED (b04kf60c)
PM
17:00 THU (b04kf9md)
PM
17:00 FRI (b04kfk28)
Pick of the Week
18:15 SUN (b04k7kbf)
Plants: From Roots to Riches
21:00 FRI (b04kfybz)
Poetry Please
23:30 SAT (b04jhpnz)
Poetry Please
16:30 SUN (b04k7j04)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 SAT (b04jmdc9)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 MON (b04kbghw)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 TUE (b04kbgck)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 WED (b04kf5zb)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 THU (b04kf7f9)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 FRI (b04krls1)
Profile
19:00 SAT (b04k4030)
Profile
05:45 SUN (b04k4030)
Profile
17:40 SUN (b04k4030)
Punt PI
23:30 TUE (b0144pvl)
Punt PI
23:30 WED (b038wtj2)
Punt PI
23:30 THU (b00v117n)
Punt PI
23:27 FRI (b03892r4)
Radio 4 Appeal
07:55 SUN (b04k7b6s)
Radio 4 Appeal
21:26 SUN (b04k7b6s)
Radio 4 Appeal
15:27 THU (b04k7b6s)
Ramblings
06:07 SAT (b04jm36f)
Ramblings
15:00 THU (b04kf9m6)
Saturday Drama
14:30 SAT (b04k4022)
Saturday Live
09:00 SAT (b04k2lqs)
Saturday Review
19:15 SAT (b04k4032)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SAT (b04jhjng)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SUN (b04k4052)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 MON (b04k4070)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 TUE (b04k408j)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 WED (b04k409z)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 THU (b04k40cf)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 FRI (b04k40dw)
Seven Round a Cauldron
10:30 SAT (b04k2lqv)
Shared Planet
21:00 MON (b04jk368)
Shared Planet
11:00 TUE (b04kbjhq)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SAT (b04jhjnd)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SAT (b04jhjnj)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SAT (b04jhjp3)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SUN (b04k4050)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SUN (b04k4054)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SUN (b04k405q)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 MON (b04k406y)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 MON (b04k4072)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 TUE (b04k408g)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 TUE (b04k408l)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 WED (b04k409x)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 WED (b04k40b1)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 THU (b04k40cc)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 THU (b04k40ch)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 FRI (b04k40dt)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 FRI (b04k40dy)
Short Cuts
15:00 TUE (b04kbjj1)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SAT (b04jhjp7)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SUN (b04k405v)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 MON (b04k407d)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 TUE (b04k408v)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 WED (b04k40b9)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 THU (b04k40cr)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 FRI (b04k40f6)
Something Understood
06:05 SUN (b04k7b6l)
Something Understood
23:30 SUN (b04k7b6l)
Start the Week
09:00 MON (b04k9gj0)
Start the Week
21:30 MON (b04k9gj0)
Sunday Worship
08:10 SUN (b04k7b6v)
Sunday
07:10 SUN (b04k7b6q)
Terry Pratchett
23:15 WED (b01r0zb9)
The Archers Omnibus
10:00 SUN (b04k7b71)
The Archers
19:00 SUN (b04k7kbj)
The Archers
14:00 MON (b04k7kbj)
The Archers
19:00 MON (b04k9mzv)
The Archers
14:00 TUE (b04k9mzv)
The Archers
19:00 TUE (b04lwp50)
The Archers
14:00 WED (b04lwp50)
The Archers
19:00 WED (b04kf60h)
The Archers
14:00 THU (b04kf60h)
The Archers
19:00 THU (b04kf9mj)
The Archers
14:00 FRI (b04kf9mj)
The Archers
19:00 FRI (b04kfk2d)
The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber
10:45 MON (b04k9gj4)
The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber
10:45 TUE (b04kbjhn)
The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber
10:41 WED (b04kf5zn)
The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber
10:45 THU (b04kf8px)
The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber
10:45 FRI (b04kfgcr)
The Bottom Line
17:30 SAT (b04jm36y)
The Bottom Line
20:30 THU (b04kf9mq)
The Educators
00:15 MON (b04hytg6)
The Film Programme
23:00 SUN (b04jm36h)
The Film Programme
16:00 THU (b04kf9m8)
The Food Programme
12:32 SUN (b04k7g5x)
The Food Programme
15:30 MON (b04k7g5x)
The Forum
11:00 SAT (b04k2lrs)
The Life Scientific
09:00 TUE (b04kbjhg)
The Life Scientific
21:30 TUE (b04kbjhg)
The Listening Project
14:45 SUN (b04k7g63)
The Listening Project
10:55 WED (b04kf5zq)
The Listening Project
16:55 FRI (b04kfk26)
The Listening Project
23:55 FRI (b04kfk5n)
The Media Show
16:30 WED (b04kf609)
The Museum of Curiosity
18:30 MON (b04k9mzs)
The Music Teacher
23:00 WED (b01drtfn)
The Now Show
12:30 SAT (b04jmcrj)
The Now Show
18:30 FRI (b04kfk2b)
The Philosopher's Arms
20:00 MON (b04jjz47)
The Report
20:00 THU (b04kf9mn)
The Time Being
00:30 SUN (b02119cs)
The World This Weekend
13:00 SUN (b04k7g5z)
The World Tonight
22:00 MON (b04k9n05)
The World Tonight
22:00 TUE (b04kbl8y)
The World Tonight
22:00 WED (b04kf713)
The World Tonight
22:00 THU (b04kznbc)
The World Tonight
22:00 FRI (b04kfk2n)
The Write Stuff
19:15 SUN (b04k7kbn)
The Year of the Drone
11:00 MON (b04k9gj6)
Thinking Allowed
16:00 WED (b04kf607)
Today
07:00 SAT (b04k2lqq)
Today
06:00 MON (b04k971z)
Today
06:00 TUE (b04ltddy)
Today
06:00 WED (b04kf5zg)
Today
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Today
06:00 FRI (b04kfgcm)
Tommies
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Tweet of the Day
08:58 SUN (b04hkwg9)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 MON (b04hkwmk)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 TUE (b04hkwnn)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 WED (b04hkxg2)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 THU (b04hkwtg)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 FRI (b04hkx14)
Weather
06:04 SAT (b04jhjns)
Weather
06:57 SAT (b04jhjnv)
Weather
12:57 SAT (b04jhjnz)
Weather
17:57 SAT (b04jhjp5)
Weather
06:57 SUN (b04k405b)
Weather
07:57 SUN (b04k405g)
Weather
12:57 SUN (b04k405n)
Weather
17:57 SUN (b04k405s)
Weather
05:56 MON (b04k4076)
Weather
12:57 MON (b04k407b)
Weather
21:58 MON (b04k407g)
Weather
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Weather
21:58 TUE (b04k408x)
Weather
12:57 WED (b04k40b7)
Weather
21:58 WED (b04k40bc)
Weather
12:57 THU (b04k40cp)
Weather
21:58 THU (b04k40ct)
Weather
12:57 FRI (b04k40f4)
Weather
21:58 FRI (b04k40f8)
Westminster Hour
22:00 SUN (b04k94jq)
What the Papers Say
22:45 SUN (b04k94js)
With Humble Duty Reports...
13:30 SUN (b041yd48)
Woman's Hour
16:00 SAT (b04k4024)
Woman's Hour
10:00 MON (b04k9gj2)
Woman's Hour
10:00 TUE (b04kbjhl)
Woman's Hour
10:00 WED (b04kf5zl)
Woman's Hour
10:00 THU (b04kf8pv)
Woman's Hour
10:00 FRI (b04kfgcp)
Wordaholics
11:30 WED (b04kf5zv)
World at One
13:00 MON (b04k9gjg)
World at One
13:00 TUE (b04kbjhz)
World at One
13:00 WED (b04kf601)
World at One
13:00 THU (b04kf8q7)
World at One
13:00 FRI (b04kfk1t)
You and Yours
12:15 MON (b04k9gjd)
You and Yours
12:15 TUE (b04kbjhx)
You and Yours
12:15 WED (b04kf5zz)
You and Yours
12:15 THU (b04kf8q5)
You and Yours
12:15 FRI (b04krnsy)
iPM
05:45 SAT (b04jmdcc)