The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
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?
Farming Today looks at the availability of British apples in UK shops and supermarkets. As the apple season reaches its peak, how easy is it to find locally-grown fruit? Charlotte Smith talks to Adrian Barlow from English Apples and Pears Ltd, who tells her about this year's harvest, and explains the changing taste of British apple consumers. Meanwhile, industry figures show sales of premier cider reached 75 million pounds in June - up 10 million on the year before. We visit a cider company in Kent, which is currently in its 6th brewing season.
Charlotte Smith talks to the man in charge of a new online 'portal' which aims to put caterers in touch with food producers. It's all part of the government's Plan for Public Procurement which was first announced in the summer. In the UK public bodies spend around two and a half billion pounds a year on catering, and the plan which covers England, along with similar projects in Wales and Scotland, aims to improve the way the military, prisons, schools and so on source their food, and in the process support British agriculture.
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the virtuoso songster the pied butcherbird of Australia. Australian parks, gardens resonate to the flute like calls of a medium sized black and white bird with stout blue-grey bills, and a black hood. They earned their name 'butcherbird' from their habit of storing prey by impaling it onto thorns or in a tree crevice before feeding on it with their hooked bill. They can sing for up to twenty minutes at a time, appearing to improvise as they perform a mellifluous, but unpredictable performance which they deliver as a solo or a duet with another butcherbird. Australian composer David Lumsdaine, described its call as..... "a virtuoso of composition and improvisation".
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Why do we seek explanations for most mysterious events but prefer some when they're unresolved? That's the discussion with Anne McElvoy today, including Val McDermid who uncovers the secrets of forensic science, Susan Hill exploring suspense and atmosphere in ghost stories, Alex Werner from the Museum of London's new Sherlock Holmes exhibition and Dr David Clarke, who reveals the official accounts behind well known paranormal events.
Neil MacGregor visits Aachen cathedral to examine the legacy of Charlemagne (c. 747-c. 814) - was he a great French ruler, or was he Charles the Great, a German? And what is the significance of a very fine replica of the Imperial Crown?
How much of the cleaning, cooking and washing do you do in your home? Are you happy with the way things are or do you sometimes feel like a domestic slave? Do you clean for other households and then come home and do your own? Do you consider child care a chore? Are you a man who does more cooking, washing and ironing than your partner or are you responsible for all the DIY in the house? How well do things work in your house? How high are your standards? Do you get your children to pitch in? Have things changed over the years because of illness or other external circumstances? We want to hear your experiences.
Joe Armstrong, Hayley Atwell and Dougray Scott star in Miranda Emmerson's 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.
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'.
Autumn 2014: The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester staged Shakespeare's Hamlet. Maxine Peake took on the iconic role in a production which saw her reunited with Artistic Director Sarah Frankcom, a year after their hugely successful version of Shelley's The Masque of Anarchy at the Manchester International Festival.
In this programme, we go behind the scenes and document Maxine's journey to playing the part of Hamlet. From research meetings to vocal sessions, from sword fight training to character preparation, we'll follow Maxine as she prepares to take on Shakespeare's most iconic work.
We hear from the director, the designer and other creatives about how they go about putting their unique stamp on the play, and create a Hamlet for Manchester, a Hamlet for 2014.
Kerry Godliman is forced to admit all her list making might be making her seem a little old. So she tries to persuade husband Ben (Ben Abell) that they should host a wild party to try and ensure they're still young at heart.
This week's list includes a Bug Hunt, understanding what on earth iCloud is all about and having a row with Ben!
Point two on her list is buying a new washing machine - but how does she pick the best one? Kerry also needs to visit the optician, which doesn't go to plan, and she has another chat with her ever critical Guilt character.
Kerry has her regular chat with her best friend Hazel (Bridget Christie) and again is forced to understand her increasingly chaotic life.
The cast includes co-writer David Lane Pusey, Rosie Cavaliero, Lucy Briers, Nicholas Le Prevost, Dominic Frisby, Jen Brister and Melissa Bury.
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 today's topic, the Kardashians.
Dementia sufferers likely to suffer poor care at residential homes and in hospitals says care watchdog
Julia Hobsbawm is a businesswoman who has made networking her personal passion and her professional living. Her impact on the practical study of networking made her the world's first Visiting Professor in Networking at a major British business school. In this series of five programmes for Radio 4, she takes us on a journey around different and surprising worlds of networks and networking to see if we are, in fact, a Networking Nation. In today's programme she starts by looking at networking in the 21st century and discovers that it has a lot in common with networking back in the 17th.
by Dawn King. A dark thriller about obsessive love and modern technology.
Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair for the fourth heat in the current series of the wide-ranging music quiz. Three contestants answer questions on every genre of music, from every era of the classical repertoire through to jazz and show tunes, film music, rock and pop.
This week's contest comes from Salford and the competitors are from Sunderland, Chester and the Wirral.
An old adage says that a monkey sitting at a typewriter could eventually write Shakespeare. By the same token, could a computer ever create a work of art that could match Shakespeare's creativity?
Professor Trevor Cox of Salford University visits a London store to have a 3D model made of his head, something which until recently could only have been done by a sculptor. Very little human intervention is now needed to create a piece of art; just several cameras, some sophisticated software and a 3D printer.
But can computers produce music or poetry that will stand up to critical scrutiny? Trevor speaks to Professor Gustavo Díaz-Jerez who is involved in creating music software called Iamus, some of whose compositions have been performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. And he talks to Professor Simon Colton who is researching computer-generated poetry. Trevor tests out computer-created music and poetry on critics and academics.
Trevor considers whether computers could ever be truly creative in their own right, without any human input. He talks to Professor Mark D'Inverno about creative collaborations and to Professor Margaret Boden about the deeper philosophical issues raised by computer creativity.
With contributions also from Philip Ball, Tom Service, Professor Andrew Biswell and Martin Kratz.
Our brains are still running security software designed to protect us against lions, tigers and bears and we haven't run an update for about 200,000 years. Aleks Krotoski explores how well it works when faced with the risks of the digital world.
According David Ropeik author and risk communication expert at Harvard University the modern technological world presents our risk perception abilities with much more complex and abstract problems than it was ever designed to cope with. For him we feel risk rather calculate it so whether its cyber-terrorism or climate change if the risk doesn't immediately push our risk buttons we simply don't know how to react with the risk of getting risk wrong.
And no-where can the risks seem more abstract than in the digital world. Aleks explores how we respond to the dangers that lurk there through a range of stories. We spend time being driven round the Channel island of Jersey in the company of Toni an 18 year old who gives lifts to people she's only ever met through Facebook, we'll hear how a professional online poker player uses the minimal information she can glean about other players to know when to bet big and Aleks will also discover how even a walk in the park can put our technology and the private information we keep there in jeopardy.
The Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd welcomes his latest curator Phill Jupitus.
With the hugely knowledgeable co-star of Pointless and author Richard Osman; author and professor Kevin Dutton; and the Natural History Museum's curator of Solanaceae (the order of plants that includes potatoes, tomatoes and deadly nightshade) Dr Sandra Knapp.
Brian muses over Roy's infidelity and worries about getting too involved as they look after Phoebe. Jennifer empathises with Hayley and how destructive an affair can be, which prompts Brian to head off to his Borchester Land meeting.
Rob phones Helen. Things are frantic at Berrow Farm. He'll be home late and will call with instructions on when to start dinner.
Adam is concerned about the Estate contract and Charlie's end-of-crop-year report, which makes Adam feel personally criticized.
Jennifer spots Lynda at Felpersham Light Opera Society (FLOS). Lynda is planning to audition for their production of Season's Greetings. She is convinced she'll be a match for leading man Douglas Herrington.
Tired Rob comes home to his perfectly timed evening meal. He points out how relaxed Helen seems. Rob's a bit thrown when Helen says she's going to spend an afternoon with Emma, but says that sounds good as she shouldn't be lonely.
Adam is anxious to learn what happened at the BL meeting. Charlie was absent but Annabelle suggested there's nothing to worry about from the report. Justin Elliot will be coming down in a couple of weeks for the hunt ball, so maybe they'll learn more then.
Jennifer worries to Adam about upset Hayley, who has been looking into temporary schools in Birmingham for Abbie. This split is looking more and more like a break-up.
With Samira Ahmed. Historian Justin Champion reviews a major new TV drama series set during the time of the Great Fire of London, when the country was at war and there were also fears of Catholic plots against King Charles II.
Rachel Joyce's first novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was the bestselling debut of 2012. She describes her new book The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy as a companion to that novel, and tells Samira why she returned to their story.
American artist Richard Tuttle has been commissioned to install a new work in the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall and also has a retrospective of his work opening at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Richard Tuttle talks about his hopes for his new Turbine Hall commission and Rachel Campbell-Johnston reviews both exhibitions.
Leonora Gummer from the Artists' Collection Society explains how artists can make sure they get paid as their works are sold on from collector to collector.
Eighteen years since East Is East hit the London stage, playwright and actor Ayub Khan Din stars alongside Jane Horrocks in a fresh revival of his modern, multiracial drama. Samira talks to Ayub Khan Din about his own British-Pakistani upbringing in the north of England and the politics of race and identity in flux.
There are growing calls to devolve more powers to England's cities in the wake of the Scottish referendum. Steph McGovern explores the proposals.
Proponents say that devolving more power to cities, enabling them to take decisions about taxes and spending, could be the key to their growth. Compared with many other countries, the UK is highly centralised and the devolutionaries believe that is holding back cities outside of London.
Steph McGovern hears from economist Jim O'Neill, who has chaired the City Growth Commission, a year-long investigation into the subject, which publishes its final report later this month. She discovers why O'Neill believes it is important for cities outside London to be able to grow into metro regions, in the way that American cities like Boston have been able to recover from deindustrialisation.
She meets the civic leaders in Manchester to hear about their innovative 'earnback' scheme for investing in new infrastructure. And she finds out how proposals for fiscal devolution, enabling cities to raise their own taxes, might work and how the plans may require new forms of accountability, such as proposals for city mayors.
Politicians love talking about supporting families. But, asks Jo Fidgen, do they understand modern family life? And how far can or should the state change the way families live? There's endless focus on young children and childcare, while family care for the elderly is rarely mentioned. She hears from policy insiders, those who have to define families to make their businesses work, individuals facing extraordinary challenges as family life changes with society and across the generations.
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.
From the author of Brooklyn, a powerful and truthful portrayal of one woman's journey through grief, and towards hope in rural Ireland.
It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two young sons in a small town in Wexford. The love of her life, Maurice, has just died and so she must work out how to forge a new life for herself, dealing not only with the endless procession of visitors, her well-meaning relatives, but also her grieving children. Slowly, through the gift of friendship and music, she finds a way to start again - and to give her sons a future as she tries to hold on to the past.
Today: Unable to tolerate memories of family summers, Nora makes a painful decision.
Reader: Brid Brennan (born 1955) is a Northern Irish actress best known for her theatre work. She originated the role of Agnes in critically acclaimed performances of Brian Friel's 'Dancing at Lughnasa' for which she won a Tony Award.
Writer: Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Brooklyn which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, plus an earlier collection of stories, Mothers and Sons.
Jarvis Cocker brings his award winning series Wireless Nights to Salford, forming part of this year's BBC Philharmonic Presents... series, a celebration of orchestral music in its many different forms.
In front of a studio audience, Jarvis Cocker and the BBC Philharmonic weave tales of insomnia, nocturnal inspirations and dark imaginings from the world of classical music - against the backdrop of a President embroiled in the Vietnam War. There's also a special performance from Jarvis himself.
Jarvis tells stories of an insomniac German Count who supposedly had Bach compose his Goldberg Variations as a sleeping aid, and a wired President Nixon listening to Rachmaninov in the small hours when he felt the urge to go on a bizarre excursion in the presidential limo.
He also conjures up music that came in dreams and revelations - from Stravinsky's wild visions in the Rite of Spring to Schumann's once forgotten Violin Concerto, which apparently re-emerged during a séance many years after the composer's death.
Maxime Tortelier conducts the BBC Philharmonic led by Yuri Torchinsky. Anthony Marwood plays solo violin and Peter Donohoe plays solo piano. The programme was recorded on 1 October.
Sean Curran reports from Westminster, as Parliament returns after a break for conferences.
TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER 2014
TUE 00:00 Midnight News (b04l01k7)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
TUE 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rlg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Monday]
TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b04l01k9)
The latest shipping forecast.
TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b04l01kc)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b04l01kf)
The latest shipping forecast.
TUE 05:30 News Briefing (b04l01kh)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b04l0tft)
Short reflection and prayer with Father Martin Graham.
TUE 05:45 Farming Today (b04l0tfw)
Milk Crisis, British Fruit, Illegal Waste
Can British milk benefit from a Fair Trade-style campaign? As farm gate prices remain low, one marketing expert tells Anna Hill what farmers can do to promote the true value of milk to the consumer.
We meet a fruit grower in Norfolk who has managed to get her apples and pears into a local retailer, just weeks after telling Farming Today that her produce would rot on the ground.
And an investigation is launched after hundreds of tons of waste was illegally dumped at a disused farm near Edinburgh wrapped in agricultural polythene to look like bails of hay or silage.
TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04hkxh9)
Common Hawk Cuckoo
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the common hawk cuckoo from the Bengal region. The repetitive call of the common hawk-cuckoo, otherwise known as the brain-fever bird, is one of the typical sounds of rural India and on into the foothills of the Himalayas. Its name partly derives from its call sounding like "brain fever" but also what one writer called its repetition being a "damnable iteration". It looks like a bird of prey, and flies like one too, imitating the flapping glide of a sparrowhawk in the region, known as the shikra, often accompanied by mobbing small birds. Unwittingly as they mob her, birds like babblers betray their nest, into which the cuckoo will lay her egg.
TUE 06:00 Today (b04l0tfy)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific (b04l0tg0)
Chris Toumazou on inventing medical devices
European Inventor of the Year, Chris Toumazou, reveals how his personal life and early research lie at the heart of his inventions.
As Chief Scientist at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London, Chris inspires engineers, doctors and other scientists to create medical devices for the 21st century.
Applying silicon chip technology, more commonly found inside mobile phones, he tackles seemingly insurmountable problems in medicine to create devices that bridge the electronic and biological worlds - from a digital plaster that monitors a patient's vital signs to an artificial pancreas to treat diabetes.
His latest creation, coined a 'lab on a chip', analyses a person's DNA within minutes outside the laboratory. The hand-held device can identify genetic differences which dictate a person's susceptibility to hereditary diseases and how they will react to a drug like warfarin, used to treat blood clots.
Producer: Beth Eastwood.
TUE 09:30 One to One (b04l0tg2)
Victoria Derbyshire talks to Fraser Harrison
In the second of two interviews about diaries, the broadcaster Victoria Derbyshire, who has kept a diary since she was a child, talks to the writer, Fraser Harrison.
He once published the record he kept of a year in the life of his young children but now believes that such accounts are best kept private. Victoria talks to him about whether he regrets publishing and finds out what his diaries are for.
Producer: Isobel Eaton.
TUE 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rlj)
Riemenschneider: Sculpting the Spirit
Neil MacGregor focuses on the religious sculptures of Riemenschneider (c1460- 1531), whose reputation as an artist has steadily risen. He is seen as a supreme sculptor, working in a peculiarly German medium, limewood, but articulating the sensibilities of a continent.
And Neil MacGregor reveals why, as the war came to an end in 1945, the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann identified Riemenschneider as a moral and political hero.
Producer Paul Kobrak.
TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour (b04l0tg4)
Dame Vivienne Westwood; Nicola Sturgeon
Dame Vivienne Westwood, doyenne of British fashion. Nicola Sturgeon MSP on her bid for the leadership of the SNP. How well does the British judicial system serve the victims of historic abuse? Emma Chichester Clark on her new book, Plumdog. Christina Noble on the work with children in South East Asia which has led to her Woman of the Year nomination.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Eleanor Garland.
TUE 10:45 The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber (b04l0tg6)
Episode 7
Joe Armstrong, Hayley Atwell and Dougray Scott star in Miranda Emmerson's 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.
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 attempts to bridge the vast distance between Oasis and Earth and reconnect with his wife, Bea.
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.
TUE 11:00 Shared Planet (b04l0tg8)
Insects and Street Lights
Artificial lighting is ubiquitous in the developed world - but the effects of night time illumination on wildlife are not yet fully understood. While we know that artificial light changes the behaviour of some animals we're still a long way from knowing whether those changes can damage wildlife populations. This week Monty Don finds out what we do know with particular regard to an important but often overlooked group of animals - insects.
TUE 11:30 Paul Is Dead (b04l0tvb)
In 1969, with The Beatles in financial and creative turmoil, a strange rumour swept the world. It began with a phone call to a US chat show - Paul McCartney had been killed in a road accident and replaced by the winner of a look-a-like competition, William Campbell an orphan from Edinburgh. And there were clues that could only be revealed by playing the Beatles records backwards.
It sounds unlikely, but millions of fans believed it.
We speak with the man who took that phone call, the hoaxer who developed the myth, and an expert on folklore who sees uncanny parallels with ancient myths about changelings and the darker side of fairies.
What does this odd tale tell us about The Beatles' place in our cultural history?
The programme includes out takes, clips from interviews and rarer versions of Beatles songs.
Produced by Matt Thompson
A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4
NOTES ON THE MUSIC USED IN THE PROGRAMME
Wherever possible or appropriate, raw sounding demo or instrumental recordings from The Beatles Anthology albums were used. For ultra lush mixes, the remixed versions from The Beatles' Love album were used. Interludes and chit chat were from the Let it Be Naked - Fly on the Wall CD which contains out takes from the Let It Be film recordings.
Timings refer to the actual programme start.
0.00 Yesterday (alt acoustic version) (Disc 1, Track 7 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
1.08 Ballad Of Paul (Track 24 - Beatlemaniacs!!! The World of Beatles Novelty Records)
1.17 I Am The Walrus (no overdubs) (Disc 2, Track 14 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
1.37 Revolution 9 (Disc 2, Track 12 - The Beatles, The Beatles)
1.53 Ballad Of Paul (Track 24 - Beatlemaniacs!!! The World of Beatles Novelty Records)
3.17 I'm Looking Through You (Unissued version) (Disc 1, Track 15 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
4.07 Revolution 9 (Disc 2, Track 12 - The Beatles, The Beatles)
4.17 Revolution 9 (reversed by programme producer)
5.25 The Fool On The Hill (Demo) (Disc 2, Track 15 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
6.33 A Day In The Life (take1/2) (Disc 2, Track 5 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
8.16 Strawberry Fields Forever (Track 8 - Magical Mystery Tour, The Beatles)
8.24 I'm Only Sleeping (Rehearsal) (Disc 1, Track 22 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
9.02 Fly On The Wall (In rehearsal) (Disc 2, Track 1 - Let It Be...Naked, The Beatles)
9.12 Revolution 9 (Disc 2, Track 12 - The Beatles, The Beatles)
10.57 Glass Onion (Remix) (Track 3 - Love, The Beatles)
11.12 Glass Onion (Disc 1, Track 3 - The Beatles, The Beatles)
12.07 Eleanor Rigby (Strings Only) (Disc 1, Track 21 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
13.34 Strawberry Fields Forever (Remix) (Track 13 - Love, The Beatles)
14.54 Strawberry Fields Forever (Remix) (Track 13 - Love, The Beatles)
16.47 I'm Looking Through You (Disc 1, Track 15 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
17.33 John, Paul, George & Ringo (Track 1 - Beatlemaniacs!!! The World of Beatles Novelty Records)
18.13 Within You, Without You [Instrumental] (Disc 2, Track 11 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
21.21 Your Mother Should Know (take 27) (Disc 2, Track 16 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
23.18 Fly On The Wall (Paul on piano) (Disc 2, Track 1 - Let It Be...Naked, The Beatles)
23.54 Fly On The Wall (Anyone seen John) (Disc 2, Track 1 - Let It Be...Naked, The Beatles)
25.15 Octopus's Garden / Sun King (Remix) (Track 16 - Love, The Beatles).
TUE 12:00 News Summary (b04l01kk)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE 12:04 21st Century Mythologies (b04l0tvd)
The Cronut
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 Shard, to the Kardashians to today, the Cronut.
TUE 12:15 You and Yours (b04l0tvg)
Call You and Yours: Should NHS workers be banned from striking?
Should NHS workers be banned from striking?
Thousands walked out in England and Northern Ireland yesterday, but police and prison officers can't.
Why are they allowed to when other frontline services are stopped from striking? Call us on 03700 100 444.
TUE 12:57 Weather (b04l01km)
The latest weather forecast.
TUE 13:00 World at One (b04l0tvl)
Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney.
TUE 13:45 Networking Nation (b04l0tvn)
Networking Selfie
Julia Hobsbawm is a businesswoman who has made networking her personal passion and her professional living. Her impact on the practical study of networking made her the world's first visiting professor in Networking at a major British business school. In this series of five programmes for Radio 4, she takes us on a journey around different and surprising worlds of networks and networking to see if we are in fact, a Networking Nation. In today's programme she looks at some of the resistance to the very idea of networking and asks whether the benefits outweigh the negatives.
TUE 14:00 The Archers (b04l0gdx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Monday]
TUE 14:15 Tommies (b03thc2q)
14 October 1914
by Nick Warburton.
Series created by Jonathan Ruffle.
Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago.
Through it all, we 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.
Lee Ross, Pippa Nixon and Indira Varma star in this story, set on October 14th, 1914. Walter Oddy, wounded in action, is among thousands arriving today at the hospitals in Boulogne. Among so many casualties - will there be time to save one life?
Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle
Director: Jonquil Panting.
TUE 15:00 Short Cuts (b04l0tvs)
Series 6
Connections
A message in a bottle, cast into the ocean, reaches a woman who needs it, a lifeboat adrift and isolated in icy waters and a crackling, radio connection offers a lifeline between friends. Josie Long hears tales of making contact.
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth (b04l0tvx)
Scuba Squad: Cleaning the Ocean
Cleaning the ocean floor, one dive at a time. Miranda Krestovnikoff reports from the sea bed as she joins a new marine clean-up squad.
Miranda joins NARC - Neptune's Army of Rubbish Cleaners - in their war against marine litter. Dave Kennard and his band of ocean cleaners dive off the coast of Pembrokeshire recovering fishing gear, bottles, cans and a whole miscellany of unwanted rubbish. They've found trolleys, whole cars, and even the kitchen sink.
This week Costing The Earth looks at the problem of marine litter that sinks to the sea bed. What we see floating on the surface and washed up on beaches is only the tip of the ice-berg. It is estimated that 70% of litter that gets into the marine environment sinks.
Miranda meets scientists and divers doing their best to combat the problem.
Presenter: Miranda Krestovnikoff
Producer: Alasdair Cross.
TUE 16:00 Law in Action (b04l0wzv)
Law in Action at 30
BBC Radio 4's Law in Action first broadcast on 14 October 1984, presented by a young Joshua Rozenberg.
Much has changed since then: the constitution was reformed; the Crown Prosecution Service founded; the Human Rights Act passed; and Joshua's beard removed.
To mark 30 years of a programme which has consistently and expertly explained the legal world to a general audience, Law in Action is broadcasting a special debate.
We will be asking a distinguished panel - the former Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Deputy President of the Supreme Court Lady Hale, and the former DPP Sir Keir Starmer - to discuss the most significant legal developments of the last 30 years.
Presenter: Joshua Rozenberg
Producer: Keith Moore
Editor: Richard Knight.
TUE 16:30 A Good Read (b04l0wzx)
Sheila Hancock and Cosmo Landesman
Actor Sheila Hancock and columnist Cosmo Landesman talk about the books they love with Harriett Gilbert, including How To Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young, Stoner by John Williams and Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
Producer Beth O'Dea.
TUE 17:00 PM (b04l0wzz)
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b04l01ks)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE 18:30 Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life (b04l0x01)
Series 1
Success
Multi-award winning comic Mark Watson attempts to answer the big questions and make sense of life, nimbly assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden.
Written and performed by Mark Watson, Tim Key and Tom Basden as they tackle academic and abstract topics.
In this episode, Mark looks at "Success". Everyone wants to be successful, just as everyone wants to be loved, or have a big flashy car. But how do we actually measure success? Is it measured by how many things we have, how many swimming certificates are on our walls, whether or not we are Lionel Richie? Some people appear to be doing well in the world but are miserable. Other people don't have money, a good job or anything - but are happy.
Is that, in fact, the true definition of success - to find contentment with whatever life brings you?
Mark, Tim and Tom draw on modern definitions of success, and decide which ones are worthwhile. They look at successful people and those who have made a dog's dinner of life, to draw what conclusions they can.
Mark Watson is a multi-award winning comedian - his awards include the inaugural if.comeddies Panel Prize 2006. He is assisted by Tim Key, winner of an Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2009, and Tom Basden who won the the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer in 2007.
Producer: Lianne Coop
An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in October 2014.
TUE 19:00 The Archers (b04l0x03)
Fallon borrows the Bull kitchen where she and Emma can try out pumpkin pastries for the kids' Halloween party. Kenton suspects that Fallon is still moping after her brush with Burns and his girlfriend last week and tries to buck her up.
Emma's enjoys the relief from Ambridge View, with Ed's money worries and being under Susan's feet. She worries about Fallon, who insists that Burns isn't on her mind. Fallon invites Emma to join her for a special screening of the film Halloween. But Emma has to disappoint Fallon, who gloomily says she'll have to find someone else.
David presides over the family meeting with Kenton, Shula and Elizabeth, nervously preparing to tell them about the possible sale of Brookfield. He tries to break the news gently. He and Ruth are just getting Brookfield valued against the possibility of a worst-case scenario. No-one's taken in, though, and Shula and Elizabeth are shocked and upset. Kenton wants to know when he'll get his share of the cash.
The siblings depart, more shocked and sad than angry. Elizabeth agrees that it raises issues about inheritance. Ruth and David take a deep breath. Ruth reckons they've got everyone on board. But how long will that last, wonders David.
TUE 19:15 Front Row (b04l0x05)
Rembrandt, Bob Geldof, Here Lies Love
Simon Schama reviews the National Gallery's new blockbuster exhibition Rembrandt: The Late Works, the first-ever exploration of his final paintings.
Bob Geldof joins John to talk about the recent re-forming of The Boomtown Rats, and the release of a new compilation of classic Rats tracks. He explains how a band is like a surrogate family, how the songs' subject-matter is still relevant today - and how singing with the Rats again has helped him cope with the death of his daughter, Peaches.
Here Lies Love at the National Theatre tells the story of Imelda Marcos through the medium of disco. With music composed by David Byrne of Talking Heads and DJ Fatboy Slim, the interactive musical has the audience dancing with world leaders as it portrays Marcos's rise to power and fall from grace. Shahidha Bari reviews.
And what are the odds on tonight's Man Booker Shortlist, open to Americans for the first time? John hears from Graham Sharpe of William Hill.
Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Sarah Johnson.
TUE 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rlj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 today]
TUE 20:00 File on 4 (b04l0x07)
NHS: Testing the Market
In the biggest outsourcing to date, the NHS in England has announced it is tendering a huge £700 million contract for providing NHS cancer care in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, along with another £500million for end of life care in the region. Officials say it will streamline services and provide better treatment while critics say it's the most reckless privatisation yet. BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym investigates..
Producer: Paul Grant.
TUE 20:40 In Touch (b04l0x09)
Cricket; MSP Dennis Robertson; Specialist Care for Visually Impaired Elderly
Peter White's guest in the studio is Scotland's first blind MSP, Dennis Robertson. Dennis lost most of his sight to Retinitis Pigmentosa at the age of eleven. Before winning his seat of Aberdeenshire West in 2011, he worked as a social worker. Peter talks to him about his career, the decline of braille and his views on visually impaired sports.
Blind cricket, a form of the game adapted for visually impaired players, has been played in mixed male and female teams for many years. Now, the first all-women's visually impaired team - supported by The Change Foundation, which has been in development for the last four years - is heading to Nepal to play against its all-women's blind counterparts. Lee Kumutat went along to the team's last training session, to learn more about the team, and their aspirations for the trip and beyond.
Listener Mary Phillips, shares her concerns about the diminishing opportunities for specialist aged care for those who are visually impaired.
Producer: Lee Kumutat
Presenter: Peter White
Photograph: Cricket for Change UK: First All Female Visually Impaired Cricket Team (Courtesy of The Change Foundation).
TUE 21:00 Inside Health (b04l0x0c)
Sickness Absence, Ankle Arthritis, Hot Flushes, Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Inside Health examines advice for when parents should and shouldn't send their sick children to school. Is this another example of the nanny state, or a useful guide?
Hip replacements and knee replacements are well known treatments but now a new trial is looking into the effectiveness of ankle surgery for arthritis.
Margaret McCartney reveals the origin of the word hypochondria.
Plus, how effective is HRT for the commonest symptom of the menopause, hot flushes?
And Inside Health answers listeners' questions on Guillain-Barré syndrome, what are the causes and treatments.
TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific (b04l0tg0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
TUE 21:58 Weather (b04l01kv)
The latest weather forecast.
TUE 22:00 The World Tonight (b04l0x0f)
In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective.
TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b04l0y2j)
Nora Webster
I Was Looking After Maurice
From the author of Brooklyn, a powerful and truthful portrayal of one woman's journey through grief, and towards hope.
It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two young sons in a small town on the east coast of Ireland. The love of her life, Maurice, has just died and so she must work out how to forge a new life for herself, dealing not only with the endless procession of visitors, her well-meaning relatives, but also her grieving children.
Today: Nora realises her freedom has come to an end.
Reader: Brid Brennan
Writer: Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Brooklyn which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, plus an earlier collection of stories, Mothers and Sons.
Abridger: Sally Marmion
Producer: Justine Willett.
TUE 23:00 Small Scenes (b04l0y2l)
Series 2
Episode 1
A man uncovers a great Australian conspiracy and a financial advisor starts up a sideline as an assassin's assistant.
Small Scenes is back with more excerpts from odd lives.
Starring Daniel Rigby, Sara Pascoe, Mike Wozniak, Cariad Lloyd and Henry Paker.
Written by Benjamin Partridge, Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak.
Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.
TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament (b04l0y2n)
Should Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs be banned from voting on English issues at Westminster? Susan Hulme follows the heated arguments in the Commons over the rights and wrongs of the English question.
Also on the programme:
* Deputy PM Nick Clegg reacts to the plans for televised leaders debates ahead of the 2015 General Election.
* Policy strategists analyse the military options to stop the advance of so-called Islamic State.
* Former home secretary David Blunkett gives the intelligence committee his views about where the line should be drawn between national security and personal privacy.
WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2014
WED 00:00 Midnight News (b04l01mk)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
WED 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rlj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Tuesday]
WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b04l01mp)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b04l01mt)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b04l01mw)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 05:30 News Briefing (b04l01my)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b04l0zpq)
Short reflection and prayer with Father Martin Graham.
WED 05:45 Farming Today (b04l0zps)
Welsh Dairy, Badger Collars, Fish Quotas
As we focus on the apple and pear harvest, we meet the people behind a Fife fruit market, where the apples are grown just across the street, and have been for 800 years. The amount of mackerel Scottish fisherman can 'bank' has been increased - Scottish Pelagic Fishermen's Association says this will help them recover from the impact of the Russian export ban.
As the culling of badgers in Somerset and Gloucestershire reaches its final week, so does the first year of a bovine TB research project in Northern Ireland, where badgers are being tracked used GPS collars. Will this help to eradicate TB in on farms?
And as protests about milk prices continue across England, the Welsh government launch their own review into the health of the Welsh dairy industry, but will it help dairy farmers?
Presented by Anna Hill and Produced by Marie Lennon.
WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04hkxj9)
Galapagos Mockingbird
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents a bird which intrigued Darwin, the Galapagos mockingbird. There are four species of Mockingbird in the Galapagos islands, which probably all descended from a single migrant ancestor and then subsequently evolved different adaptations to life on their separate island clusters, hence their fascination for Charles Darwin. The most widespread is the resourceful Galapagos Mockingbird. Unlike other mockingbirds which feed on nectar and seeds, the Galapagos mockingbird has adapted to its island life to steal and break into seabird eggs and even attack and kill young nestlings. They'll also ride on the backs of land iguanas to feed on ticks deep within the reptiles' skin and will boldly approach tourists for foot. They aptly demonstrate the theory of the "survival of the fittest".
WED 06:00 Today (b04l0zpv)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
WED 09:00 Midweek (b04l0zpx)
Andrew Logan, David James, Guy Clutterbuck, Diana Nammi
Libby Purves meets gem hunter Guy Clutterbuck; artist Andrew Logan; campaigner Diana Nammi and counter-tenor David James.
Guy Clutterbuck is a gem hunter and dealer whose expeditions have led him to countries including Zambia, Mozambique, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka where he buys rough and cut gemstones. During these trips he sources rare gems such as emeralds, rubies, sapphires and aquamarines from local mines. He has donated a 60 carat Mozambican aquamarine - worth £40,000 - to a raffle by Fine Cell Work, a charity which helps prisoners rebuild their lives.
Andrew Logan is a sculptor, artist, jewellery designer and the founder of the Alternative Miss World contest. Established in 1972, the Alternative Miss World celebrates the outrageous and the unique. Notable contestants have included Leigh Bowery and Grayson Perry and previous winners include the late Derek Jarman as Miss Crepe Suzette. Andrew Logan's art can be found in public and private collections such as London's Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. This year's Alternative Miss World takes place at Shakespeare's Globe.
Diana Nammi is chief executive of the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation (IKWRO) which she set up in 2002. She has been instrumental in the campaign to bring honour killers to justice as well as striving to get forced marriages banned in this country. She has just won a Barclays Women of the Year award for her campaigning work on behalf of women from Middle Eastern and North African communities who have been affected by honour based violence and forced marriage.
David James is a founder member of the renowned Hilliard Ensemble. Known for its combinations of sacred and medieval music, the group is celebrating its 40th anniversary and performing a series of final concerts. The ensemble's most famous collaboration has been with Norwegian jazz saxophonist, Jan Garbarek, who is taking part in the farewell tour. The Hilliard Ensemble's last performance is at London's Wigmore Hall in December.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
WED 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rls)
Holbein and the Hansa
Neil MacGregor charts the rise and fall of the Hansa, or Hanseatic League, a great trading alliance of 90 cities, including Lübeck, Hamburg, Danzig, Riga and London.
He also focuses on the role of the artist Hans Holbein the Younger, who painted portraits of Hansa merchants.
'If I had to choose one image to sum up the Hansa in its heyday,' says Neil MacGregor, 'It would be Holbein's 1532 portrait of Georg Gisze, a Danzig merchant trading in London.' The painting shows an expensively-dressed 33 year old man, his wealth and status indicated by a vase made of the finest, the thinnest Venetian glass, a small circular brass clock, certainly made in Southern Germany, and a Turkey carpet imported from the Levant.
Producer Paul Kobrak.
WED 10:00 Woman's Hour (b04l0zpz)
Gemma Arterton; Public Speaking; Murder Laws; Sam Norman
Gemma Arterton stars in the new musical Made in Dagenham, the story of sewing machinists at Ford who campaigned over equal pay, she joins Jenni along with Gwen and Eileen, two of the original women involved. Professor Jeremy Horder talks about his research which questions whether infidelity is still a factor in murder sentencing; Sam Norman finished her mother Arianna Franklyn's last novel after she died; includes a look at how to do public speaking; and Nina Simone.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Corinna Jones.
WED 10:41 The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber (b04l0zq1)
Episode 8
Joe Armstrong, Hayley Atwell and Dougray Scott star in Miranda Emmerson's 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.
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, Bea and Peter's relationship comes under strain.
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 (b04l0zq3)
Kiki and Faith - Dreams of Daddy
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between sisters who are still at primary school reflecting on the alcohol-related death of their father with extraordinary perceptiveness and wisdom. The sisters were supported through their loss by the charity Children and Families in Grief, and their counsellor and their mother sat in on the recording.
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 Soldiers of the Empire (b04l0zq5)
Recruitment and Resistance
Santanu Das tells the story of how one and a half million Indian men - nearly 900,000 soldiers and 600,000 non-combatants -were recruited from the villages and towns of British India to serve the Empire in the First World War.
When India joined the War on August 4th 1914, the powerful native princes and politicians of all sides pledged their support. Colonial adminstrators and local chieftains toured villages to recruit from the so-called "martial races", particularly from the Punjab. Financial incentives were promised and medals were issued to successful recruiters. Singers and poets were hired to entice anyone of fighting age.
Santanu travels to India to meet the grandsons and great-grandsons of soldiers who fought on the western front, Mesopotamia and elsewhere. One speaks with immense pride of his family's help to the Empire in its hour of need; another tells of his sadness at the thought of young men who had only ever handled a sickle, being used as cannon fodder, thousands of miles from home.
In 1917 when the pool of available manpower was drying up, the British stepped up the recruiting drive. Santanu hears tales of coercion, including allegations of water supplies being diverted and even of the kidnapping of wives of men of fighting age.
Of all the colonies in the British, French and German empires, the Indian subcontinent contributed the highest number of men. This is the story of how they were recruited to travel across the Kalopani, the "dark waters", to take part in the world's first industrial war.
Producer: Philippa Goodrich
A Juniper production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.
WED 11:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully (b04l0zq7)
Series 2
Counter Plot
Richard is alarmed to discover that Uljabaan has commandeered six allotments for some sort of experiment, while Katrina is more concerned that he's arrested Lucy. But what kind of plants is he planting inside the building he has built?
Series two of Eddie Robson's sitcom about an alien race that's noticed an all-at-once invasions of Earth never works out that well. So they've locked the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green behind an impenetrable force-field in order to study human behaviour and decide if Earth is worth invading.
The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when the force-field went up.
So along with Lucy Alexander (the only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against whatever you've got) she forms The Resistance - slightly to the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard who wish she wouldn't make so much of a fuss
This is also much to the annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his unintelligible minions and The Computer (his hyper-intelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run the invasion.
Katrina Lyons ...... Hattie Morahan
Richard Lyons ...... Peter Davison
Margaret Lyons ...... Jan Francis
Lucy Alexander ...... Hannah Murray
Field Commander Uljabaan ...... Charles Edwards
The Computer ...... John-Luke Roberts
Ron ...... Dave Lamb
Lawrence ...... Michael Bertenshaw
Written by Eddie Robson
Script-edited by Arthur Mathews
Producer: Ed Morrish.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.
WED 12:00 News Summary (b04l01n0)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 12:04 21st Century Mythologies (b04l0zq9)
The E-Cigarette
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 Shard, to the Kardashians to today, the e-cigarette.
WED 12:15 You and Yours (b04l0zqc)
Cost of Football; Water Company Debt Letters
You and Yours reveals how some of our biggest water companies have been sending final demands to customers from fake debt collection firms.
University is an expensive business, but for some it is the hidden costs that are the deal-breakers. We talk to one ex-student who dropped out because of charges not mentioned in the glossy prospectus.
And Football replica kits. Children love them, but are the clubs exploiting that by hiking up prices at double the rate of inflation.
WED 12:57 Weather (b04l01n2)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 13:00 World at One (b04l0zqh)
Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney.
WED 13:45 Networking Nation (b04l10j5)
The Science of Networks
Julia Hobsbawm is a businesswoman who has made networking her personal passion and her professional living. Her impact on the practical study of networking made her the world's first visiting professor in Networking at a major British business school. In this series of five programmes for Radio 4, she takes us on a journey around different and surprising worlds of networks and networking to see if we are in fact, a Networking Nation. In today's programme she looks at the science of networks.
WED 14:00 The Archers (b04l0x03)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Tuesday]
WED 14:15 Drama (b04l10j7)
Paul's Dodgson - Home
When you're a child your home feels like the centre of the universe. As a teenager it starts to feel claustrophobic. You begin to hate all it represents with a passion and can't wait to leave.
Until one day, when you're faced with losing it for good, you find you're going to miss it with all your heart.
Paul Dodgson's drama is about what makes a home, what sustains a home and what happens when it's about to disappear forever.
Cast: Narrator . . . Paul Dodgson
Older mum . . . Pameli Benham
Younger mum . . . Sally Orrock
Dad . . . Ewan Bailey
Director: Kate McAll
A BBC/Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in October 2014.
WED 15:00 Money Box Live (b04l10jc)
Tax and Self-Assessment
Tax troubles? Let Paul Lewis and guests sort out your tax and self-assessment problems. Call 03700 100 444 from
1pm to
3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk.
Whether you're tackling a tax return, wondering what you need to declare, making decisions about capital gains and losses or puzzled by an unexpected bill or tax code, Paul Lewis and guests will be ready with the answers.
Joining Paul will be:
Gary Heynes, Baker Tilly.
Anita Monteith, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
Nimesh Shah, Partner, Blick Rothenberg.
Call 03700 100 444 between
1pm and
3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher.
WED 15:30 Inside Health (b04l0x0c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Tuesday]
WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed (b04l10jf)
Drug Mules; 'Dads Only' Parenting Project
Drug Mules - Laurie Taylor talks to Jennifer Fleetwood, Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leicester, about her study of women in the international cocaine trade. Drawing on 'in depth' interviews with female traffickers imprisoned in Ecuador, she uncovered narratives which went beyond the stock dichotomy of helpless 'victims' versus confident 'agents'.
Also, a 'dads only' parenting project. Alan Dolan, Associate Professor in the Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick, considers how learning to be a good father can clash with ideals of masculinity as well as traditional notions of fathering.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
WED 16:30 The Media Show (b04l10jk)
Reporting the EU; TV Election Debates
The BBC, ITV, Sky and Channel 4 have announced a joint plan to hold three debates ahead of next year's general election. If politicians agree to take part, one debate would see Nigel Farage appearing alongside David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband. The broadcasters have written to the parties with their proposal. However, the plan has been criticised, with suggestions that negotiations will be long and tricky, and there's the possibility of legal challenges from parties who find themselves excluded. Steve Hewlett is joined by Jonathan Levy, Head of Newsgathering at Sky, who has been involved in the process; Jenni Russell, political columnist for The Times, about why the leaders' may well choose to avoid debates this time round, and Chris Birkett, from The Digital Debate, whose idea for an online-only platform is also being considered.
A new report from the Reuters Institute of Journalism argues that the British media's coverage of the EU is falling short. In spite of increased column inches and headlines since the Eurozone crisis hit, the study claims mainstream papers and broadcasters still struggle to distil and dramatise the complexities of EU policy and process. Steve Hewlett hears from John Lloyd, FT columnist and co-author of the report, and discusses the challenge of enlivening EU reporting with BBC Europe Correspondent Chris Morris, and former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie - author of the famous 1990 headline, 'Up Your Delors!'.
Producer: Katy Takatsuki.
WED 17:00 PM (b04l10jp)
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b04l01n4)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 18:30 In and Out of the Kitchen (b01pz9xz)
Series 2
The Review
Cookery writer Damien Trench once again opens his life up to the public as we follow him through another few days in his life.
It's a new year and Damien and Anthony are undergoing fresh works on their house. They are "going upstairs" (having a loft conversion) and so Mr Mullaney, their builder, is once again installed to look after the project.
Meanwhile, Anthony and Damien discuss what to do with their spare room, and Ian Frobisher, Damien's agent, convinces him to do a restaurant review, as a favour to Pink Floyd.
Written by Miles Jupp.
Damien Trench ...... Miles Jupp
Anthony MacIlveny ...... Justin Edwards
Damien's Mother ...... Selina Cadell
Mr Mullaney ...... Brendan Dempsey
Ian Frobisher ...... Philip Fox
Helen ...... Georgina Rich
Waitress ...... Sarah Thom
Producer: Sam Michell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2013.
WED 19:00 The Archers (b04l10jr)
Susan is full of gossip to Rob, speculating on Roy and Hayley and the real reason Roy left Lower Loxley. Shula comes into the shop and remains tight-lipped, even more so when Susan shares her admiration for Charlie Thomas. It seems the parish council will have to drop their objection to the new anaerobic digester.
Ed is still worrying that no-one's buying Mike's business and the milk. More happily, he and Jazzer have some crutching work coming up (shearing sheep's back ends). Susan enters the kitchen, horrified to see the mess created by Ed's boots and Emma, who's sanding furniture.
Rob apologises for his several frantic calls to Helen. It's been hell at work, and he was worried that Henry had been taken ill or something. He's sorry if he over-reacted. But next time, if she's going out, why not send him a text, just to keep him up to speed?
Elizabeth's struggling to arrange the hunt ball. Shula has consulted a solicitor about the Brookfield inheritance. They advised to wait and see what happens with the road.
Elizabeth tells Shula about her affair. Shula is understanding. But if Susan is now on to it, soon it will be all around the village. However bad things are now, Elizabeth
fears they can only get worse.
WED 19:15 Front Row (b04l10jt)
Cat Stevens, Northern Soul, William Morris, Ken Burns
Yusuf Islam, also known as Cat Stevens, talks to Samira Ahmed about his new album Tell 'Em I'm Gone, his first for five years. Miranda Sawyer reviews a new film Northern Soul, about the music and dance phenomenon from the late '60s and early '70s. William Morris is the focus of a new exhibition Anarchy & Beauty at the National Portrait Gallery. The show's curator Fiona MacCarthy reveals there's a great deal more to him than wallpaper and furniture design. And the multi-award-winning American TV documentary-maker Ken Burns - he of the 'Ken Burns Effect' - looks back over a career in which he has covered The Civil War, the history of Jazz and the Great Depression, and discusses his latest 14-hour series The Roosevelts: an Intimate History.
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
WED 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rls)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 today]
WED 20:00 Moral Maze (b04l10jy)
Talking to Terrorists
Former US vice president Dick Cheney famously said "we don't negotiate with evil - we defeat it." Unfortunately history is not on his side. It seems that almost every time a new terrorist group comes along and we declare we'll never negotiate with them, we end up doing just that. The IRA, the PLO, Taliban, Hamas to name a few - we've eventually talked to them all. So why not talk to ISIS? Policymakers understandably respond with righteous anger and determination after a horrible event. Negotiations can give legitimacy to terrorists and their methods and set a dangerous precedent. Yet terrorists are rarely, if ever, defeated by military means alone. ISIS may seem to be well beyond the pale at the moment, but will that always be the case? And how do we make that judgement? A former director of the Israeli security agency Shin Bet has said he'd advocate talking to anyone - even the Iranians. That way, he said "we discover they don't eat glass and they that we don't drink petrol." Are people's lives being sacrificed as conflicts drag on because we refuse to talk to preserve our moral purity? Or do we have to take a stand between right and wrong, good and evil when it comes to a group such as ISIS? Should we - can we - balance the forces of pragmatism and principle when it comes to the prospect of talking to terrorists? Moral Maze - Presented by Michael Buerk
Panellists: Matthew Taylor, Michael Portillo, Claire Fox and Anne McElvoy
Witnesses: James Fergusson, Dr John Bew, Jonathan Moore and Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones
Produced by Phil Pegum.
WED 20:45 Four Thought (b04l10k2)
Series 4
Migration, Separation and Wales
Wyn James tells the story of the Welsh settlements in Patagonia. On their 150th anniversary, he asks what lessons they might offer about migration and integration.
Wyn blends stories from his own visits to Welsh Patagonia and the history of the settlements themselves. The original idea was to retain a distinct Welsh identity and to remain separate. Over time that has changed, to a distinct Welsh identity within wider Argentine society, and Wyn asks what lessons this might offer our own and other societies today for how to deal with separation and difference.
Producer: Giles Edwards.
WED 21:00 Costing the Earth (b04l0tvx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
15:30 on Tuesday]
WED 21:30 Midweek (b04l0zpx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 21:58 Weather (b04l01n6)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 22:00 The World Tonight (b04l10k6)
In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective.
WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b04l10k8)
Nora Webster
A Rage That She Could Not Control
From the author of Brooklyn, a powerful and truthful portrayal of one woman's journey through grief, and towards hope.
It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two young sons in a small town on the east coast of Ireland. The love of her life, Maurice, has just died and so she must work out how to forge a new life for herself, dealing not only with the endless procession of visitors, her well-meaning relatives, but also her grieving children.
Today: Struggling with a rage she cannot control, Nora prepares to return to work.
Reader: Brid Brennan
Writer: Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Brooklyn which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, plus an earlier collection of stories, Mothers and Sons.
Abridger: Sally Marmion
Producer: Justine Willett.
WED 23:00 The Music Teacher (b01gh8nb)
Series 2
Episode 4
Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny.
Nigel's attempts to field calls from a dating agency whilst teaching don't go quite as planned. Meanwhile Belinda is attempting to track down the elusive Arts Centre Cleaner, who has taken refuge in Nigel's room.
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 (b01r5pxv)
Eric
Episode 2
Young Eric Thursley wants to rule the world, and junior wizard Rincewind actually manages to magic him up a tribal kingdom among the Tezumen, in the rainforests of Klatch.
But all that changes when they meet the Tezumen's bloodthirsty deity: Quetzovercoatl.
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
Parrot ..... Ben Crowe
Ponce Da Quirm ..... Jack Klaff
Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie
Screwpate ..... Michael Shelford
Quetzovercoatl ..... Robert Blythe
Narrator ..... Rick Warden
Adapted in four parts by Robin Brooks.
Director: Jonquil Panting
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.
WED 23:30 Today in Parliament (b04l10lc)
Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER 2014
THU 00:00 Midnight News (b04l01p4)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
THU 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rls)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b04l01p6)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b04l01p8)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b04l01pb)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (b04l01pd)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b04l384y)
Short reflection and prayer with Father Martin Graham.
THU 05:45 Farming Today (b04l3850)
Mushrooms, Wheat, Salt Marsh and Chartered Agriculture
Warnings that foraging for fungi is damaging ancient woodlands. In London and the south east of England, foragers are scouting in the woods for fungi and then organised teams of pickers are arriving by the van load to collect mushrooms. Sue Ireland leads the care of 11,000 acres of green spaces - including Epping Forest in Essex, Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire and London's Hampstead Heath, she says its a huge problem.
The long, hot and dry summer of 2014 has resulted in a record wheat harvest. However, the volatile global commodity market has seen wheat prices fall by thirty percent leaving farmers frustrated. Mike Hambley from the NFUs combinable crop board says that farmers need to be able to buffer up their business to cope with world markets.
Scientists have discovered that salt marsh plants could protect our beaches; by reducing the height of damaging storm-surge waves by nearly 20%. It's the first time researchers have been able to measure the protection salt marshes could provide in our sea defences. Anna Hill meets Dr Iris Moeller from Cambridge University who is one of the lead scientists on the project.
The Institute of Agricultural Management is launching a new qualification - Professional Agriculturalist - to recognise farming skills. Tim Brigstocke says it will reward farmers for their professionalism.
Presented by Sybil Roscoe. Produced in Bristol by Ruth Sanderson.
THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04hkxn6)
Crested Lark
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the crested lark found from Europe across to China. The west coast of Europe is one edge of the huge range of the crested lark. Much like many larks it is a streaky brown bird but supports, as its name suggests a prominent crest of feathers on its head. Its song is delivered in a display flight over its territory as a pleasant series of liquid notes. Unlike skylarks which are rural birds, crested larks often nest in dry open places on the edge of built-up areas. Its undistinguished appearance and behaviour were cited by Francis of Assisi as signs of humility and he observed that like a humble friar, "it goes willingly along the wayside and finds a grain of corn for itself".
THU 06:00 Today (b04l3bqg)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
THU 09:00 In Our Time (b04l3852)
Rudyard Kipling
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling. Born in Bombay in 1865, Kipling has been described as the poet of Empire, celebrated for fictional works including Kim and The Jungle Book. Today his poem 'If--' remains one of the best known in the English language. Kipling was amongst the first writers in English to develop the short story as a literary form in its own right, and was the first British recipient of a Nobel Prize for Literature. A literary celebrity of the Edwardian era, Kipling's work for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission played a major role in Britain's cultural response to the First World War.
Contributors:
Howard Booth, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester
Daniel Karlin, Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol
Jan Montefiore, Professor of Twentieth Century English Literature at the University of Kent
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
THU 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rlz)
Iron Nation
Neil MacGregor charts the role of iron in 19th century Prussia, an everyday metal whose uses included patriotic jewellery and the Iron Cross, a military decoration to honour all ranks.
Producer Paul Kobrak.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b04l3bqj)
Should employers pay for women to freeze their eggs?
Technology giants Facebook and Apple are to help female employees in the US to pay for the cost of freezing their eggs. Should employers pay for such treatment? Does this level the playing field for women or is it a step too far?
Linda Tirado's blog on "why I make terrible decisions, or, poverty thoughts", struck a chord. Her take on junk food, smoking and having children with multiple partners was shared online more than seven million times. She talks to Jane about how she felt when it went viral and about her new book on being poor in a wealthy world.
The Human Trafficking Foundation charity estimates 20,000 people are working in slavery in the UK, and says that number is rising. What's being done to tackle the problem.
Plus children's author Kate Saunders has written a sequel to E Nesbit's '5 Children and It', taking the children and the Psammead through World War 1 and into adulthood. So, what was the inspiration behind the idea ?
And Rachel, currently revived at the Finborough Theatre in London, is the first play by an African American woman to be produced professionally in 1916. Ola Ince, the director explains the significance. of its writer Angelina Weld Grimké who was a poet, dramatist, journalist, teacher, essayist, radical feminist and lesbian icon.
Presented by Jane Garvey
Producer Beverley Purcell.
THU 10:45 The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber (b04l3bql)
Episode 9
Joe Armstrong, Hayley Atwell and Dougray Scott star in Miranda Emmerson's 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.
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, life on Earth pushes Bea to breaking point, while on Oasis, Peter has a curious encounter.
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 (b04l3bqn)
Rio Rubbish
Correspondents' tales: why they're arguing about Machiavelli on a rubbish tip in Rio as the second round of the Brazilian election approaches, Neil Trevithick; Shaimaa Khalil investigates the upsurge in violence on the India/Pakistan border in Kashmir; Julia Macfarlane accompanies a group of British doctors who've gone to help out Palestinian medics in Gaza; has the historic city of Timbuktu recovered from a brutal period of conflict and occupation by Islamic extremists? Chris Simpson has been finding out. And the Star Wars film crew have been to the remote Irish island of Skellig Michael and so too has our man Vincent Dowd.
THU 11:30 Nancy Storace: Mozart's English Soprano (b04l3bqq)
Soprano Catherine Bott investigates the career and voice of the woman who first performed one of Mozart's finest operatic roles - Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro - 21 year old Londoner Nancy Storace.
Nancy was an 18th century superstar, who sang personally for Marie Antoinette as well as Napoleon and Josephine, and whose life was as dramatic as the times she lived through.
Nancy was musically talented from childhood and in 1778, aged 14, she was accompanied to Italy, where her reputation soon spread. Four years later, she was one of a company of performers recruited to work for Emperor Joseph II's court in Vienna.
Exploring Nancy's relationship with Mozart, Catherine meets the distinguished conductor, Jane Glover CBE, Director of Opera at the Royal Academy, Music Director of Chicago's Music of the Baroque, and author of the book Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music. Jane is convinced there is no foundation in the rumours that the two were ever lovers, but she is certain they were very close, and that Nancy had important creative input into the development of Susanna, in the Marriage of Figaro.
But Nancy's personal life was a disaster – her mother forced her into an arranged marriage to a British actor, John Fisher, who beat her, and only the personal intervention of the Emperor rescued the situation.
Ian Page, founder, conductor and artistic director of the company Classical Opera, accompanies Catherine in a rendition of the concert aria Ch'io mi accordi di te? (You ask that I forget you?), written by Mozart for Nancy to perform the evening before she left Vienna to return to London, in 1787. Nancy never went back to Vienna.
Produced by Bob Dickinson
A Pennine Media production first broadcast BBC Radio 4 in 2014.
THU 12:00 News Summary (b04l01pg)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:04 21st Century Mythologies (b04kfk1r)
The Selfie
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 analyses the Selfie.
THU 12:15 You and Yours (b04l3bqv)
Cyclists Filming Bad Drivers; Selling Homes Online; Plastic Musical Instruments
We're out with the cyclists who use video cameras to film and report bad drivers to the police.
Plus, the people who sell their house without an estate agent - and whether they'd do it again.
And the new cheap and cheerful plastic musical instruments. Do they sound as good? Musicians from the BBC Philharmonic test them out for us.
Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Joel Moors.
THU 12:57 Weather (b04l01pj)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 13:00 World at One (b04l3bqx)
National and international news, presented by Martha Kearney.
THU 13:45 Networking Nation (b04l3bqz)
The World of Work
Julia Hobsbawm is a businesswoman who has made networking her personal passion and her professional living. Her impact on the practical study of networking made her the world's first visiting professor in Networking at a major British business school. In this series of five programmes for Radio 4, she takes us on a journey around different and surprising worlds of networks and networking to see if we are in fact, a Networking Nation. In today's programme she looks at how the world of work runs on human networks and networking.
THU 14:00 The Archers (b04l10jr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Drama (b01dvw76)
Rachel Joyce - The Man with Wings
The Man with Wings, a new play for radio by award winning playwright Rachel Joyce, features a war-damaged man who wishes to fly, and a village boy, desperate for the return of his father.
It is 1947 and there is a gloomy and desolate feel to the small Gloucestershire village where young Jack Leach's boy lives. It is a village almost entirely populated by women and children; the men have yet to return from the war - and many will never return.
To this village comes a group of travelling nuns, who may or may not be from a religious community, but who set up a homestead in a deserted farmhouse. Then comes the man - back from the war - who is badly injured, but is nursed back to health by the women in the farmhouse. He is befriended in particular by Mireille, one of the women, and by the young boy, for whom he professes to have a secret. What this secret is, and why the man wishes to fly, is revealed as the play progresses. The boy then witnesses a scene that will live with him forever.
This epic story about faith, forbidden love, and the intoxicating power of the imagination has one foot in the poverty of post-war rural Britain, a place of bitter disillusionment that reflects part of our society today, and another in the world of the beauty where the inconceivable may just possibly happen. Niamh Cusack, Tom Goodman Hill and Ian McDiarmid star in a play, which also introduces Jo Joyce Venables as the boy.
Original Music by Lucinda Mason Brown
Produced by Gordon House
A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 15:00 Ramblings (b04l3br1)
Series 28
The Dales Way, Part Five
Clare Balding is now really into her stride as she comes close to the end of her journey along The Dales Way, walking from Dent to Sedbergh. The route is one of the most popular in England and enjoyed by thousands every year, mainly thanks to the enthusiastic group of volunteers who run The Dales Way Association. Today she walks with two of their members, Chris Grogan and Kath Doyle who explain why this route means so much to them.
Producer: Lucy Lunt.
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b04l03fd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:55 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Open Book (b04l065n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:00 The Film Programme (b04l3br3)
Agnes B; Jeffrey Katzenberg; Animal Farm and the CIA
With Francine Stock.
Fashion designer turned film producer Agnes B. discusses her directorial debut My Name Is Hmmm... and reveals her life-long affair with cinema.
The head of DreamWorks Animation, Jeffrey Katzenberg, considers the future of animated films and looks back at a career he describes as a rollercoaster.
Animal Farm was the first animated film made by the British film industry in 1954. But what nobody realised at the time, least of all the producers Halas and Batchelor, was that the film was financed by the CIA as part of the Cold War effort. Frances Stonor Saunders and Professor Tony Shaw reveal the intrigue and deception behind the production.
Medical adviser Carlton Jarvis describes how he helps actors play doctors and nurses.
THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science (b04l3br7)
Ebola; Ada Lovelace Day; Space Weather
Ebola Outbreak
As the World Health Organisation announces that the situation in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is deteriorating, with widespread and persistent transmission of Ebola Virus Disease, the UK has introduced screening measures at Heathrow airport for passengers arriving from Ebola-affected countries. How has this particular outbreak become so widespread, and where did it start? Lucie Green discusses the source, spread and science of Ebola with Jonathan Ball, Professor of Molecular Virology at the University of Nottingham.
Ada Lovelace Day
Leading the charge in inspiring and celebrating women scientists, technologists and mathematicians is 19th century computer programmer Ada Lovelace. Daughter of poet Lord Byron, collaborator with inventor Charles Babbage, and accomplished mathematician herself, October 14th has been set aside for Ada Lovelace Day. Event founder Suw Charman-Anderson tells us more.
Space Weather
The Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre is designed to protect the UK from severe problems caused by space weather. It's been known since 1859 that weather in space can cause problems on Earth, but scientists say our growing dependence on technology puts us at greater risk. Our satellites, power grids and radio signals are all vulnerable to damage from extreme space weather events. Lucie Green heads down to the new space weather centre in Exeter, to see how they monitor the sun's activity, and how that translates into an extra-terrestrial forecast.
Producers: Fiona Roberts & Marnie Chesterton
Assistant Producer: Jen Whyntie.
THU 17:00 PM (b04l3br9)
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news.
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b04l01pl)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b04l3clb)
Series 4
Episode 1
John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things like Miranda, records a fourth series of his hit sketch show.
In this repeat this is the fifth episode of the brand-new series which sees John create an innovative teaching aid; eavesdrop on two guards who really should be paying more attention; and, well, since you ask him for a tale of honour satisfied, he does have one such sketch.
The first series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme was described as "sparklingly clever" by The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. The second series won Best Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and Comedy.co.uk awards, and was nominated for a Radio Academy award. The third series actually won a Radio Academy award.
In this fourth series, John has written more sketches, like the sketches from the other series. Not so much like them that they feel stale and repetitious; but on the other hand not so different that it feels like a misguided attempt to completely change the show. Quite like the old sketches, in other words, but about different things and with different jokes. (Although it's a pretty safe bet some of them will involve talking animals.)
Written by and starring ... John Finnemore
Also featuring ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan.
Original music by ... Susannah Pearse & Sally Stares.
Producer ... Ed Morrish
A BBC Studios Production.
THU 19:00 The Archers (b04l3cld)
Graham Ryder from Rodways arrives to value Brookfield. He suggests splitting the land into two separate lots for extra value, and selling the house separately. It would give David and Ruth more options. David remembers the fields they walk on being bought from Meadow Farm by Phil. They spot Adam in the distance and quickly move on.
Graham values Brookfield in the region of £4.5 million - a conservative estimate, he admits to a slightly disappointed David. There are few decent farms for sale anywhere in the country. So once David and Ruth find the one they like up near Prudhoe, they'll need to move quickly.
Carol tells Peggy all about the latest developments at Glebe Cottage. Bert has been wonderful and she's rewarding him with a trip to the garden centre with tea and cake.
Peggy and Jill get Carol talking about her last days with John, as well as her children Richard and Anna. She'd like to see Anna more often. Richard is more of a stranger. Carol moves the conversation on to Peggy's birthday. What better excuse for a party?
Carol reminds Peggy to think about her idea of forming a bridge club. Jill hopes that Graham will be safely gone when she gets back to Brookfield. Jill admits she feels confused. She'd hate to leave Ambridge, but if Brookfield's going to be sold off, Jill's not sure she could bear to stay.
THU 19:15 Front Row (b04l3clg)
Gillian Anderson; Michael Frayn; Jimi Hendrix Biopic; Buying Art in the Internet Age
Gillian Anderson tells John Wilson about the stage-fright that has always plagued her, most recently in A Streetcar Named Desire, and discusses her debut sci-fi novel, A Vision of Fire. Also in the programme, Kate Mossman reviews Jimi: All is By My Side, a new biopic of Jimi Hendrix; Michael Frayn discusses Matchbox Theatre, his new collection of short plays to be read in the imagination; and Christie's CEO Steven Murphy explains how tablet technology has transformed the art market.
Producer: Ellie Bury
Presenter: John Wilson.
THU 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rlz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 today]
THU 20:00 Law in Action (b04l0wzv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Tuesday]
THU 20:30 The Bottom Line (b04l3cmq)
TripAdvisor Etc
Online postings about hotels, restaurants, hairdressers, electricians: How much can you trust the views of a total stranger when it comes to deciding what to buy, where to go and whose skills and services to employ? How do review sites monitor their online ratings and ensure they're genuine? Evan Davis and guests discuss the power of user-generated reviews that can make or break a business. What can firms do to limit the damage of a bad review and how can they maximise a positive review?
Guests:
Stephen Kaufer, President and CEO, TripAdvisor
Colleen Curtis, Vice President, European Marketing, Yelp
Kevin Byrne, Founder and CEO, Checkatrade
Producer: Sally Abrahams.
THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science (b04l3br7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 today]
THU 21:30 In Our Time (b04l3852)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 21:58 Weather (b04l01pn)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b04l3cqm)
Will the EU commission accept David Cameron's wish to limit the free movement of people within the EU? We hear from Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd.
THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b04l3cqp)
Nora Webster
You Are Not Lady Muck Any More
From the author of Brooklyn, a powerful and truthful portrayal of one woman's journey through grief, and towards hope.
It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two young sons in a small town on the east coast of Ireland. The love of her life, Maurice, has just died and so she must work out how to forge a new life for herself, dealing not only with the endless procession of visitors, her well-meaning relatives, but also her grieving children.
Today: A return to work, and to the office politics Nora thought she'd left behind her.
Reader: Brid Brennan
Writer: Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Brooklyn which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, plus an earlier collection of stories, Mothers and Sons.
Abridger: Sally Marmion
Producer: Justine Willett.
THU 23:00 52 First Impressions with David Quantick (b04l3ghh)
Series 1
Episode 1
Journalist and comedy writer David Quantick has met and interviewed hundreds of people. What were his first impressions, how have they changed and does it all matter?
In this first programme (of four), there are stories about Björk, Michael Caine and Freddie Mercury, among others.
Produced by Steve Doherty
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 23:30 Today in Parliament (b04l3ghk)
Labour accuses the Government of "complacency" over the effectiveness of airstrikes against Islamic State.
But the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, insists the coalition's air campaign is having an effect.
MPs raise concerns over the possible loss of jobs after Tata Steel says it plans to sell one of its British divisions.
There are fresh calls for Lord Freud to resign for saying some disabled people were "not worth" the minimum wage.
And ministers deny plans to get more people on their bicycles has been "rushed and botched".
Susan Hulme and team report on today's events in Parliament.
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER 2014
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b04l01ql)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
FRI 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rlz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b04l01qn)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b04l01qq)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b04l01qs)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b04l01qv)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b04lh20h)
Short reflection and prayer with Father Martin Graham.
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b04l3gm6)
Dairy latest, Rabbit farming, Scottish Crofting
At the end of a turbulent week for the dairy industry, protest group Farmers for Action warns of city centre protests in the run-up to Christmas. They want a fair price for their milk from processors and retailers. It comes amid a global milk glut and a supermarket price war.
Crofters in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland are told they'll need to complete an annual census giving details about their land and what they do with it. Crofts are unique to the area, and are pieces of land usually held in tenancy. The information gathered will help inform the Scottish government about the value of the system.
And we meet a former engineer in Wiltshire who wants to develop a farm to produce 25,000 rabbits a year.
FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04hkypv)
Echo Parakeet
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the echo parakeet found only in Mauritius, a bird which has brushed extinction by its wingtips. This once familiar bird of the island of Mauritius will only nest in large trees with suitable holes, few of which remain after widespread deforestation on the island. A close relative of the more adaptable ring necked parakeet found now across southern Britain where it's been introduced, by the 1980's the wild population of echo parakeets numbered around ten birds. Threatened with extinction in the wild, captive breeding and successful releases into the wild have stabilised the population to about three hundred birds.
FRI 06:00 Today (b04l3nnm)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs (b04l065b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rm5)
1848: The People's Flag and Karl Marx
Neil MacGregor reflects on the events of 1848, when black, red and gold became the colours of the flag for a united Germany, and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto.
Producer Paul Kobrak.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b04l3nnp)
Women-Only Trains; Shabana Azmi; Supergrans; Rural Childhood
In some countries women-only carriages on the city's metro and train networks have been introduced to protect women from sexual harassment and abuse. But could similar measures help tackle the issue in the UK?
Shabana Azmi is one of India's most famous actors. In a career spanning 40 years she has played the lead in over 140 films. Shabana believes art should be used as a medium for social change and is equally respected for her work fighting for the rights of women and slum dwellers. After more than a decade away Shabana is back performing on the British stage and she joins Jenni Murray to talk about her latest role and her work as a social campaigner.
Hillary Clinton recently became a grandmother. The baby's arrival prompted questions about her ability to be President AND be a grandmother. So how easily can powerful women combine a demanding job with being a hands-on grandmother?
This year is the centenary of Laurie Lee's birth, the author of "Cider with Rosie". His much loved book tells the tale of his life growing up in a small Gloucestershire village at a time when the countryside was experiencing great change. We often have an idealised view of life in the country, but is it always the childhood idyll we like to imagine?
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Cecile Wright.
FRI 10:45 The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber (b04l3gm8)
Episode 10
Joe Armstrong, Hayley Atwell and Dougray Scott star in Miranda Emmerson's 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.
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 horrified to find Jesus Lover 5 gravely ill in Intensive Care. And on Earth, a pregnant Bea faces an uncertain future.
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 The Devolutionaries: Powering Up England's Cities (b04l0gf1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 on Monday]
FRI 11:30 Jeeves - Live! (b03xhd5y)
Series 2
Jeeves and the Song of Songs
Martin Jarvis performs 'Jeeves and the Song of Songs', the first of two of P.G. Wodehouse's celebrated stories, starring blithe Bertie Wooster and his urbane valet Jeeves. Recorded in front of a live audience - it was a highlight of last year's Cheltenham Festival of Literature.
In this one-man tour de force, as well as the characters of Jeeves and Wooster, Jarvis also characterises the bleating Tuppy Glossop, controlling Aunt Dahlia and about a thousand costermongers. Laughs galore!
Jarvis's previous one-man R4 Wodehouse received outstanding reviews. The Times: 'Outshining all was Martin Jarvis in the funniest performance of the year... an astonishing one-man tour-de-force...Jarvis caught the essence of Wodehouse's writing in a way I thought only possible through reading'.
Martin Jarvis received a Theatre World Award for his performance as Jeeves in 'By Jeeves' on Broadway.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres
A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:00 News Summary (b04l01qx)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:04 21st Century Mythologies (b04l3lxm)
Flight MH370
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 cultural moments of our era, from the Shard, to the Kardashians to today, missing flight MH370.
FRI 12:15 You and Yours (b04lgj71)
E-Cigarette Fires; Timeshare Contracts; Shareholder Democracy
Peter White reveals some new figures which show the extent of e-cigarette fires, hears the latest in a fight over changes to timeshare contracts and finds out why shareholders could be missing their chance to have a say in the boardroom. Also, second hand cars with a dodgy history - what you can do if you find that bargain may have a criminal record as well as a log book. And the mystery of the missing phone numbers.
FRI 12:57 Weather (b04l01qz)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 13:00 World at One (b04lgn2n)
Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell.
FRI 13:45 Networking Nation (b04l3lxp)
Nation of Networkers
Julia Hobsbawm is a businesswoman who has made networking her personal passion and her professional living. Her impact on the practical study of networking made her the world's first visiting professor in Networking at a major British business school. In this series of five programmes for Radio 4, she takes us on a journey around different and surprising worlds of networks and networking and - in this final episode - asks if we are, in fact, a Networking Nation.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
FRI 14:00 The Archers (b04l3cld)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Drama (b04l3lxr)
Moya O'Shea - Super Chief
As The Super Chief, the 'Train of the Stars', pulls out of Union Station, Los Angeles to begin its journey across America, Nathan, a Pullman Porter, is surprised to see his son, Benji, jump on board.
Written by Moya O'Shea.
Benji ....... Alex Lanipekun
Nathan ...... Steve Touissant
Munsden ...... Morgan Deare
Mr Drexyl ...... Steven Hartley
Mrs Parsons ...... Laurel Lefkow
Constance ....... Samantha Dakin
Fred Harvey ....... Damian Lynch
Director: Tracey Neale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b04l3lxt)
Anglesey
Eric Robson chairs the panel programme from Anglesey. Toby Buckland, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank take questions from a local audience.
Produced by Howard Shannon
Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
This week's questions and answers:
Q. What is the best way to keep a Venus Fly Trap alive in the absence of winter flies?
A. Keep it in a cool, well-ventilated, frost-free place - perhaps a windowsill. Only water it a little bit and don't feed it. Nip of the buds off in the winter and wait until spring to let it flower.
Q. After fruiting well, my strawberries are in full flower again. Should I cut these flowers off?
A. They will fruit and ripen with the help of a bit of warmth (perhaps move them into the greenhouse), but the plant will be using up the energy it would have reserved for next year's crop.
Q. I'm from Yorkshire, and yet I can't grow Rhubarb. What can I do?
A. Buy virus free clones, plant them in partial sun, partial shade. Don't plant it in waterlogged areas or over rock. Plant them somewhere they can put down deep roots and prepare the soil with manure. You could also try growing Rhubarb from seed - the 'Glaskin's Perpetual' variety works well from seed.
Q. Am I going to live to regret not removing the stubs of trees along a bank where I'm planting shrubs and perennials?
A. Leave the stubs in but pull out the suckers. The roots of the trees will help hold the bank together but put in plants with roots that will also help keep the bank together: Cotoniasters - Dameri or Periwinkle varieties.
Q. My mature Olive tree bears no fruit. What can I do?
A. There are specific varieties for northern climates but sticking to your existing tree, all you can do is encourage it with high-potash feed and prune it.
Q. My cabbages are splitting. How can I stop this?
A. Cabbages like good firm soil. Keep them well watered through dry spells.
Q. I live in a wet and windy village high above sea level. What perennials can I plant in my southwest facing clay-soil garden for some colour?
A. Cranesbills are great for colour. The 'Roseanne' variety flowers from May through to October. 'Azure Rush' also flowers for a really long season. 'Johnsons' Bloom', 'Magnificum' and 'Dusky Crug' are also great varieties. The 'Broadway Lights' variety of Shaster Daisy Leucanthemum would grow well, as would Phsostegia (Obedient Plant). Cloudberries and Salmonberries, the Strawberry- Potentilla cross 'Pink Panda', Wild Strawberries, Myrica Gale (Bog Mertyl) and Bilberries are other plants to try.
Q. What is wrong with my Plum tree? The leaves are brown and shrivelled, as are the fruits.
A. If the fruits are touching in a cluster, the fruits in the middle will rot and the rot will spread amongst the fruit. Thin the fruit clusters to avoid this happening and remove all the rotten plums now to reduce the chances of the infection spreading to next years' crop.
Q. What is the ideal gift for a gardener?
A. A good new pair of secateurs or jam from the garden's fruits and Chillies.
FRI 15:45 Ian Fleming's Thrilling Cities (b04l3lxw)
Tokyo
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 wrote, '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 Tokyo where he witnesses an astonishing ju-jitsu demonstration, has his fortune told and is attended in a bath-house by one of the prettiest girls he has ever seen.
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 (b04lh20k)
Sir Jocelyn Stevens, Jerrie Mock, John Moat, Shirley Baker, David Rayvern Allen
Matthew Bannister on
Sir Jocelyn Stevens, the newspaper executive noted for his fearsome temper who went on to transform the Royal College of Art and chair English Heritage.
Jerrie Mock who was the first woman to fly solo around the world.
John Moat, the poet and novelist who founded Arvon, which has provided courses for hundreds of aspiring writers.
Shirley Baker, the photographer known for her pictures of working class life in the North West of England.
And David Rayvern Allen, the BBC producer who was also a prolific cricket writer.
FRI 16:30 Feedback (b04l3nnr)
Have political interviews become a monotonous drone on your radio? Newsnight Editor Ian Katz believes most are simply "boring-snoring". 5 live Breakfast presenter Nicky Campbell and Today's John Humphrys fought their corner in a Masterclass at this year's Radio Festival in Salford on "The Art of the Political Interview." Three Feedback listeners also went along and put their questions to Radio 4's Grand Inquisitor.
Roger Bolton also talks to Desert Island Discs' Kirsty Young about how she gets her castaways to open up. She also reveals which castaway made her go weak at the knees.
The Head Down Generation, the BBC Trust and commercial rivals are just some of concerns that the Controller of Radio 1 and 1Xtra, Ben Cooper, has to consider. But what seven things are keeping him awake at night? He responds to the ever-present question of Radio 1's average audience age and brings new meaning to the words pipe and platform.
Produced by Will Yates
A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 16:55 The Listening Project (b04l3nnt)
Athena and Jan - Disability: Part of the Human Condition
Fi Glover introduces an actor and writer with cerebral palsy talking with her mother about how we'll all be disabled if we live long enough - a thought that might change attitudes.
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 (b04l3nnw)
Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b04l01r1)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 18:30 The Now Show (b04l3lxy)
Series 44
Episode 6
Steve Punt and Jon Culshaw are joined by special guest Nish Kumar for a comic romp through the week's news. With Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and Jon Holmes.
Written by the cast, with additional material from Gareth Gwynn, Carrie Quinlan and Chris Coltrane. Produced by Alexandra Smith.
FRI 19:00 The Archers (b04l3ly0)
David feels that Graham Ryder was right. They'll have to be ready to move at short notice. Ruth's sure they'll manage it - David hopes they don't have to.
Ed and Jazzer will be doing the crutching (shearing sheeps' back ends) next week. Meanwhile, there have been no more hints for Adam from Charlie about the Estate contract.
David investigates what Phil paid for the Meadow Farm land. What would Phil have thought of their plans, after spending his life building up Brookfield? Ruth doesn't want them going any further if David's not 100% on board.
Lynda is peeved not to have been cast by Felpersham Light Opera Society (FLOS) - with all her experience! She decides to direct and perform in her own Christmas show.
Adam works out from David and Ruth that they plan to sell up if Route B is chosen. Ruth feels that their business as a family is far more important than the location. Adam assures David that he has no divided loyalty. It would be a tragedy all round if the Archers were forced to leave.
Jennifer helps desperate Roy by getting Phoebe to soften a bit. Roy begs for forgiveness, but Phoebe says there's no excuse for what he's done. She hates him and she's never coming home.
FRI 19:15 Front Row (b04l3ly2)
Robert Downey Jr, David Cronenberg, The Knick Reviewed
Damian Barr talks to Hollywood's highest-paid actor Robert Downey Jr about his latest role as hotshot young lawyer Hank Palmer in The Judge, in which Palmer and his estranged father - the judge, played by Robert Duvall - are made to face their demons when the judge is accused of murder. Film director David Cronenberg discusses penning his first novel, Consumed, which returns to the blackly comic subject matter of his early cinematic work. Mr Francis Wells, one of the UK's leading cardiac surgeons, reviews medical drama The Knick, directed by Steven Soderbergh. And, as an exhibition of Russian avant-garde theatre designs opens at the V&A in London, the curator Kate Bailey explains why the ground-breaking artists of the early 20th century started designing costumes and sets.
Presenter: Damian Barr
Producer: Olivia Skinner.
FRI 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation (b04k6rm5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 today]
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b04l3ly4)
Lord Heseltine, Chuka Umunna MP, Frances O'Grady, James Delingpole
Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from the Thame Arts & Literature Festival with Conservative peer Lord Heseltine; Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna MP; the General Secretary of the TUC, Frances O'Grady; and the columnist and author James Delingpole.
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson.
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b04l3ly6)
The Football Fallacy
Adam Gopnik explains why the English are better at watching football than they are playing it and why the Americans are better at talking about democracy than they are at practising it.
"Call this the Constructive Fallacy of the Secondary Activity - or, perhaps, The Delusion of Mastery
through Proximity."
Producer: Sheila Cook
Editor: Richard Knight.
FRI 21:00 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04l3ly8)
Omnibus
Episode 2
Prof Kathy Willis, Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, with the omnibus edition of her history of our changing relationship with plants during the 19th century.
She examines the race to tame and culture the prized Amazonian water lily which played out in glare of the nations' new greenhouses; the smuggling of rubber seeds out of Brazil to establish a rubber industry in the British colonies; how a growing passion for orchids opened a new episode in cultivating exotic plants for all; the threat posed by the rise of invasive species; and how a new precision in understanding the behaviour of hybrids led to the birth of modern genetics at the close of the 19th century.
Producer Adrian Washbourne.
FRI 21:58 Weather (b04l01r3)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b04lh20m)
Nigeria's military says it has agreed a ceasefire with Islamist militants Boko Haram - and that the schoolgirls the group has abducted will be released.
FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b04l3lyb)
Nora Webster
Someone Who Is Looking Out For You
From the author of Brooklyn, a powerful and honest portrayal of one woman's journey through grief, and towards hope.
It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two young sons in a small town on the east coast of Ireland. The love of her life, Maurice, has just died and so she must work out how to forge a new life for herself, dealing not only with the endless procession of visitors, her well-meaning relatives, but also her grieving children.
Today: Nora finally allows herself to accept help.
Reader: Brid Brennan
Writer: Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship, The Master both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Brooklyn which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, and an earlier collection of stories, Mothers and Sons.
Producer: Justine Willett
Abridger: Sally Marmion.
FRI 23:00 A Good Read (b04l0wzx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 on Tuesday]
FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament (b04l3lyd)
Mark D'Arcy reports on the latest attempt by Conservative MPs to change the law so that there's a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU before the end of 2017.
Last year, the European Union (Referendum) Bill, was blocked in the House of Lords after peers decided to cut short their debate on the private members bill.
Today, the MP sponsoring the new version of the bill, a Conservative former minister, Bob Neill, told the Commons, it was time for politicians who were opposed to the idea of an in out referendum to "put up or shut up".
Tonight's programme also ventures in the world of fashion as Mark is given a behind the scenes look at the Solicitor General's wardrobe.
FRI 23:55 The Listening Project (b04l3nny)
Paul and Rob - Just a Beautiful Family
Fi Glover introduces Paul and Rob, who adopted their baby boy earlier this year. They hadn't expected they'd be accepted as parents, but are loving the experience.
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 (b04l0gdd)
21st Century Mythologies
12:04 TUE (b04l0tvd)
21st Century Mythologies
12:04 WED (b04l0zq9)
21st Century Mythologies
12:04 THU (b04kfk1r)
21st Century Mythologies
12:04 FRI (b04l3lxm)
52 First Impressions with David Quantick
23:00 THU (b04l3ghh)
A Century of Hope
10:30 SAT (b04kzz5t)
A Good Read
16:30 TUE (b04l0wzx)
A Good Read
23:00 FRI (b04l0wzx)
A Mix-Tape for Gus
13:30 SUN (b04kbjhs)
A Point of View
08:48 SUN (b04kfk2l)
A Point of View
20:50 FRI (b04l3ly6)
Analysis
21:30 SUN (b04k9n03)
Analysis
20:30 MON (b04l0gf3)
Any Answers?
14:00 SAT (b04kzz62)
Any Questions?
13:10 SAT (b04kfk2j)
Any Questions?
20:00 FRI (b04l3ly4)
Archive on 4
20:00 SAT (b04kzz6g)
BBC Inside Science
16:30 THU (b04l3br7)
BBC Inside Science
21:00 THU (b04l3br7)
Bells on Sunday
05:43 SUN (b04l03f4)
Bells on Sunday
00:45 MON (b04l03f4)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 MON (b04l0hs6)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 TUE (b04l0y2j)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 WED (b04l10k8)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 THU (b04l3cqp)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 FRI (b04l3lyb)
Brazilian Bonanza
00:30 SUN (b03bsb9t)
Broadcasting House
09:00 SUN (b04l043z)
Can a Computer Write Shakespeare?
16:00 MON (b0435kkd)
Classic Serial
21:00 SAT (b04k7j00)
Classic Serial
15:00 SUN (b04l065l)
Costing the Earth
15:30 TUE (b04l0tvx)
Costing the Earth
21:00 WED (b04l0tvx)
Counterpoint
23:00 SAT (b04k9gjq)
Counterpoint
15:00 MON (b04l0gdn)
Desert Island Discs
11:15 SUN (b04l065b)
Desert Island Discs
09:00 FRI (b04l065b)
Drama
14:15 MON (b01g65h1)
Drama
14:15 WED (b04l10j7)
Drama
14:15 THU (b01dvw76)
Drama
14:15 FRI (b04l3lxr)
Farming Today
06:30 SAT (b04kzz5m)
Farming Today
05:45 MON (b04l0c4q)
Farming Today
05:45 TUE (b04l0tfw)
Farming Today
05:45 WED (b04l0zps)
Farming Today
05:45 THU (b04l3850)
Farming Today
05:45 FRI (b04l3gm6)
Feedback
20:00 SUN (b04kfk24)
Feedback
16:30 FRI (b04l3nnr)
File on 4
17:00 SUN (b04kbl8p)
File on 4
20:00 TUE (b04l0x07)
Four Thought
20:45 WED (b04l10k2)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:30 SAT (b04kzz5y)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:00 THU (b04l3bqn)
Front Row
19:15 MON (b04l0gdz)
Front Row
19:15 TUE (b04l0x05)
Front Row
19:15 WED (b04l10jt)
Front Row
19:15 THU (b04l3clg)
Front Row
19:15 FRI (b04l3ly2)
FutureProofing
22:15 SAT (b04kf6lk)
Gardeners' Question Time
14:00 SUN (b04kfk1y)
Gardeners' Question Time
15:00 FRI (b04l3lxt)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
00:30 SAT (b04k6rcj)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
09:45 MON (b04k6rlg)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
19:45 MON (b04k6rlg)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
00:30 TUE (b04k6rlg)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
09:45 TUE (b04k6rlj)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
19:45 TUE (b04k6rlj)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
00:30 WED (b04k6rlj)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
09:45 WED (b04k6rls)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
19:45 WED (b04k6rls)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
00:30 THU (b04k6rls)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
09:45 THU (b04k6rlz)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
19:45 THU (b04k6rlz)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
00:30 FRI (b04k6rlz)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
09:45 FRI (b04k6rm5)
Germany: Memories of a Nation
19:45 FRI (b04k6rm5)
Hamlet Undressed
11:00 MON (b04jhn49)
Ian Fleming's Thrilling Cities
15:45 FRI (b04l3lxw)
In Our Time
09:00 THU (b04l3852)
In Our Time
21:30 THU (b04l3852)
In Touch
20:40 TUE (b04l0x09)
In and Out of the Kitchen
18:30 WED (b01pz9xz)
Inside Health
21:00 TUE (b04l0x0c)
Inside Health
15:30 WED (b04l0x0c)
Jeeves - Live!
11:30 FRI (b03xhd5y)
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
18:30 THU (b04l3clb)
Kerry's List
11:30 MON (b04l0gdb)
Last Word
20:30 SUN (b04kfk22)
Last Word
16:00 FRI (b04lh20k)
Law in Action
16:00 TUE (b04l0wzv)
Law in Action
20:00 THU (b04l0wzv)
Loose Ends
18:15 SAT (b04krq1b)
Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life
18:30 TUE (b04l0x01)
Midnight News
00:00 SAT (b04k40gs)
Midnight News
00:00 SUN (b04l01fq)
Midnight News
00:00 MON (b04l01hq)
Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
00:00 FRI (b04l01ql)
Midweek
09:00 WED (b04l0zpx)
Midweek
21:30 WED (b04l0zpx)
Money Box Live
15:00 WED (b04l10jc)
Money Box
12:04 SAT (b04kzz60)
Money Box
21:00 SUN (b04kzz60)
Moral Maze
20:00 WED (b04l10jy)
Nancy Storace: Mozart's English Soprano
11:30 THU (b04l3bqq)
Networking Nation
13:45 MON (b04l0gdl)
Networking Nation
13:45 TUE (b04l0tvn)
Networking Nation
13:45 WED (b04l10j5)
Networking Nation
13:45 THU (b04l3bqz)
Networking Nation
13:45 FRI (b04l3lxp)
News Briefing
05:30 SAT (b04k40h1)
News Briefing
05:30 SUN (b04l01fz)
News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
05:30 FRI (b04l01qv)
News Headlines
06:00 SUN (b04l01g1)
News Summary
12:00 SAT (b04k40h9)
News Summary
12:00 SUN (b04l01gf)
News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
12:00 FRI (b04l01qx)
News and Papers
06:00 SAT (b04k40h3)
News and Papers
07:00 SUN (b04l01g5)
News and Papers
08:00 SUN (b04l01g9)
News and Weather
22:00 SAT (b04k40hp)
News
13:00 SAT (b04k40hf)
On Your Farm
06:35 SUN (b04l03f8)
One to One
09:30 TUE (b04l0tg2)
Open Book
16:00 SUN (b04l065n)
Open Book
15:30 THU (b04l065n)
Out There
19:45 SUN (b04l06m2)
PM
17:00 SAT (b04kzz66)
PM
17:00 MON (b04l0gds)
PM
17:00 TUE (b04l0wzz)
PM
17:00 WED (b04l10jp)
PM
17:00 THU (b04l3br9)
PM
17:00 FRI (b04l3nnw)
Paul Is Dead
11:30 TUE (b04l0tvb)
Pick of the Week
18:15 SUN (b04l06lw)
Plants: From Roots to Riches
21:00 FRI (b04l3ly8)
Poetry Please
23:30 SAT (b04k7j04)
Poetry Please
16:30 SUN (b04l065q)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 SAT (b04kfk6j)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 MON (b04l0c4n)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 TUE (b04l0tft)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 WED (b04l0zpq)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 THU (b04l384y)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 FRI (b04lh20h)
Profile
19:00 SAT (b04kzz6b)
Profile
05:45 SUN (b04kzz6b)
Profile
17:40 SUN (b04kzz6b)
Radio 4 Appeal
07:55 SUN (b04l03fd)
Radio 4 Appeal
21:26 SUN (b04l03fd)
Radio 4 Appeal
15:27 THU (b04l03fd)
Ramblings
06:07 SAT (b04kf9m6)
Ramblings
15:00 THU (b04l3br1)
Saturday Drama
14:30 SAT (b01k1ljh)
Saturday Live
09:00 SAT (b04kzz5r)
Saturday Review
19:15 SAT (b04kzz6d)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SAT (b04k40gx)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SUN (b04l01fv)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 MON (b04l01hv)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 TUE (b04l01kc)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 WED (b04l01mt)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Shared Planet
21:00 MON (b04kbjhq)
Shared Planet
11:00 TUE (b04l0tg8)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SAT (b04k40gv)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SAT (b04k40gz)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SAT (b04k40hh)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SUN (b04l01fs)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SUN (b04l01fx)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SUN (b04l01gk)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 MON (b04l01hs)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 MON (b04l01hx)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 TUE (b04l01k9)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 TUE (b04l01kf)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 WED (b04l01mp)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 WED (b04l01mw)
Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
05:20 THU (b04l01pb)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 FRI (b04l01qn)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 FRI (b04l01qs)
Short Cuts
15:00 TUE (b04l0tvs)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SAT (b04k40hm)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SUN (b04l01gp)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 MON (b04l01j7)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 TUE (b04l01ks)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 WED (b04l01n4)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 THU (b04l01pl)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 FRI (b04l01r1)
Small Scenes
23:00 TUE (b04l0y2l)
Soldiers of the Empire
11:00 WED (b04l0zq5)
Something Understood
06:05 SUN (b04l03f6)
Something Understood
23:30 SUN (b04l03f6)
Start the Week
09:00 MON (b04l0gd4)
Start the Week
21:30 MON (b04l0gd4)
Sunday Worship
08:10 SUN (b04l03fg)
Sunday
07:10 SUN (b04l03fb)
Terry Pratchett
23:15 WED (b01r5pxv)
The Archers Omnibus
10:00 SUN (b04l0441)
The Archers
19:00 SUN (b04l06ly)
The Archers
14:00 MON (b04l06ly)
The Archers
19:00 MON (b04l0gdx)
The Archers
14:00 TUE (b04l0gdx)
The Archers
19:00 TUE (b04l0x03)
The Archers
14:00 WED (b04l0x03)
The Archers
19:00 WED (b04l10jr)
The Archers
14:00 THU (b04l10jr)
The Archers
19:00 THU (b04l3cld)
The Archers
14:00 FRI (b04l3cld)
The Archers
19:00 FRI (b04l3ly0)
The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber
10:45 MON (b04l0gd8)
The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber
10:45 TUE (b04l0tg6)
The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber
10:41 WED (b04l0zq1)
The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber
10:45 THU (b04l3bql)
The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber
10:45 FRI (b04l3gm8)
The Bottom Line
17:30 SAT (b04kzz68)
The Bottom Line
20:30 THU (b04l3cmq)
The Devolutionaries: Powering Up England's Cities
20:00 MON (b04l0gf1)
The Devolutionaries: Powering Up England's Cities
11:00 FRI (b04l0gf1)
The Digital Human
16:30 MON (b04l0gdq)
The Film Programme
23:00 SUN (b04kf9m8)
The Film Programme
16:00 THU (b04l3br3)
The Food Programme
12:32 SUN (b04l065d)
The Food Programme
15:30 MON (b04l065d)
The Forum
11:00 SAT (b04kzz5w)
The Life Scientific
09:00 TUE (b04l0tg0)
The Life Scientific
21:30 TUE (b04l0tg0)
The Listening Project
14:45 SUN (b04l065j)
The Listening Project
10:55 WED (b04l0zq3)
The Listening Project
16:55 FRI (b04l3nnt)
The Listening Project
23:55 FRI (b04l3nny)
The Media Show
16:30 WED (b04l10jk)
The Museum of Curiosity
12:04 SUN (b04k9mzs)
The Museum of Curiosity
18:30 MON (b04l0gdv)
The Music Teacher
23:00 WED (b01gh8nb)
The Now Show
12:30 SAT (b04kfk2b)
The Now Show
18:30 FRI (b04l3lxy)
The World This Weekend
13:00 SUN (b04l065g)
The World Tonight
22:00 MON (b04l0hs4)
The World Tonight
22:00 TUE (b04l0x0f)
The World Tonight
22:00 WED (b04l10k6)
The World Tonight
22:00 THU (b04l3cqm)
The World Tonight
22:00 FRI (b04lh20m)
The Write Stuff
19:15 SUN (b09yh0q9)
Thinking Allowed
00:15 MON (b04kf607)
Thinking Allowed
16:00 WED (b04l10jf)
Today in Parliament
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Today in Parliament
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Today in Parliament
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Today in Parliament
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Today in Parliament
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Tommies
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Tweet of the Day
08:58 SUN (b04hkxg2)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 MON (b04kjgy6)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 TUE (b04hkxh9)
Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
05:58 FRI (b04hkypv)
Weather
06:04 SAT (b04k40h5)
Weather
06:57 SAT (b04k40h7)
Weather
12:57 SAT (b04k40hc)
Weather
17:57 SAT (b04k40hk)
Weather
06:57 SUN (b04l01g3)
Weather
07:57 SUN (b04l01g7)
Weather
12:57 SUN (b04l01gh)
Weather
17:57 SUN (b04l01gm)
Weather
05:56 MON (b04l01j1)
Weather
12:57 MON (b04l01j5)
Weather
21:58 MON (b04l01j9)
Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
21:58 WED (b04l01n6)
Weather
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Weather
21:58 THU (b04l01pn)
Weather
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Weather
21:58 FRI (b04l01r3)
Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully
11:30 WED (b04l0zq7)
Westminster Hour
22:00 SUN (b04l06m4)
What the Papers Say
22:45 SUN (b04l06m6)
Wireless Nights
23:00 MON (b04l0pwh)
Woman's Hour
16:00 SAT (b04kzz64)
Woman's Hour
10:00 MON (b04l0gd6)
Woman's Hour
10:00 TUE (b04l0tg4)
Woman's Hour
10:00 WED (b04l0zpz)
Woman's Hour
10:00 THU (b04l3bqj)
Woman's Hour
10:00 FRI (b04l3nnp)
World at One
13:00 MON (b04l0gdj)
World at One
13:00 TUE (b04l0tvl)
World at One
13:00 WED (b04l0zqh)
World at One
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World at One
13:00 FRI (b04lgn2n)
You and Yours
12:15 MON (b04l0gdg)
You and Yours
12:15 TUE (b04l0tvg)
You and Yours
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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iPM
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