The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Julia Neuberger, senior rabbi at the West London Synagogue.
California Wants to Classify Roundup as a Carcinogen, Herbal Leys, Rehomed Hens
The Californian State wants to add glyphosate, the main ingredient in the weed killer Roundup to its list of carcinogens. The manufacturer Monsanto isn't happy and is taking the case to court.
As part of this week's look at organic farming, we visit Cotswold Seeds in Gloucestershire who sell herbal and organic seed mixes.
Half a million hens that have come to the end of their commercial egg laying lives have been given new homes by a Devon-based charity. The British Hen Welfare Trust celebrates.
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Liz Bonnin presents the adelie penguin on a windswept Antarctic shore. A huddle of braying shapes on a windswept shore in Antarctica reveals itself to be a rookery of Adelie Penguins. These medium sized penguins whose white eye-ring gives them an expression of permanent astonishment were discovered in 1840 and named after the land which French explorer Jules Dumont d'-Urville named in honour of his wife Adele. They make a rudimentary nest of pebbles (sometimes pinched from a neighbour) from which their eggs hatch on ice-free shores in December, Antarctica's warmest month, when temperatures reach a sizzling minus two degrees. In March the adult penguins follow the growing pack ice north as it forms, feeding at its edge on a rich diet of krill, small fish and crustaceans. But as climate change raises ocean temperatures, the ice edge forms further south nearer to some of the breeding colonies, reducing the distance penguins have to walk to and from open water. But, if ice fails to form in the north of the penguin's range it can affect their breeding success, and at one research station breeding numbers have dropped by nearly two thirds.
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Professor Stephen Hawking delivers the first of his two BBC Reith Lectures on black holes.
These collapsed stars challenge the very nature of space and time, as they contain a singularity - a phenomenon where the normal rules of the universe break down. They have held an enduring fascination for Professor Hawking throughout his life. Rather than see them as a scary, destructive and dark he says if properly understood, they could unlock the deepest secrets of the cosmos.
Professor Hawking describes the history of scientific thinking about black holes, and explains how they have posed tough challenges to conventional understanding of the laws which govern the universe.
The programmes are recorded in front of an audience of Radio 4 listeners and some of the country's leading scientists at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London.
Sue Lawley introduces the evening and chairs a question-and-answer session with Professor Hawking. Radio 4 listeners submitted questions in their hundreds, of which a selection were invited to attend the event to put their questions in person to Professor Hawking.
David Schneider, despite being healthy, is terrified of dying. He wants to overcome his fears and find out whether a 'good death' is ever possible and how those facing up to it, cope. He visits the journalist and writer Jenny Diski who was told last summer that she had inoperable lung cancer and, at best, another three years to live. She now writes about the experience and her treatment, with her usual wit and candour, and her tweets have a devoted following. But as she says, 'I tell jokes but that doesn't mean that I'm not terrified at the prospect of my own non-existence.' They discuss this fear, what it is they are afraid of and whether faith might make a difference.
Volker Weidermann's account of the charming resort of Ostend, and in 1936 it's a haven for Middle-Europe emigres. Abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams:
Joseph Roth will be meeting Stefan Zweig here. But first, some background into their need to escape Austria and its encroaching dangers..
US health officials have warned pregnant women not to travel to 21 South American countries or territories amid concerns over the Zika virus, an illness which can cause severe birth defects. Last week the Brazilian authorities said the number of babies born with suspected microcephaly or abnormally small heads since October had reached nearly 4,000 and they believed the increase was caused by the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
18 year old Chloe and her foster-mother talk about the teenager's decision to leave home.
Dr Katy Vincent on the new University of Oxford and Trust study, the first of its kind, looking at the link between chronic pain and hormones that control the menstrual cycle and reproductive function.
The language of genetics is one that has filtered into public consciousness. But do we really understand how our genes influence things like our eye colour? Science writer Kat Arney talks about her new book, Herding Hemingway's Cats, which sets out to explain how our genes work.
Taiwan has elected its first female president. Tsai Ing-wen is already being described as the most powerful woman in the Chinese speaking world. We find out more.
Lia Williams plays Detective Chief Inspector Greave in the return of Radio 4's gritty crime drama.
Set in rural Norfolk, one of the lowest crime areas in the country, DCI Greave leads a team investigating two potentially linked murders. Both victims had their heads shaved antemortem and Greave discovers a link to a case in London a couple of years ago: the Dead List murders.
Anyone with a few pounds to spare can buy a tropical orchid these days. Growers have perfected the process of germinating the thousands of tiny seeds produced by each seed pod, enabling them to grow the plants in their millions. We are now able to pop into our local garden centre or supermarket and pick up a piece of tropical paradise whenever we want.
How has their appearance, scent and biology manipulated us into spreading them? The historian Jim Endersby examines how a potent mixture of imperial conquest, mysterious glamour and scientific study has helped one of the world's most beguiling plants to fascinate everyone from houseplant owners to generations of scientists.
Orchids have been associated with sex since ancient time (their name comes from the Greek orkhis, meaning testicle), but it was during the 19th century that the mysterious glamour of orchids really began to take hold. They turned on their keepers and started trying to kill those who grew them. The first victim was a Mr Winter-Wedderburn, who almost died when a vampiric orchid tried to drain every drop of blood from his body. Luckily attacks only occurred in fiction. But why did deadly sexy mobile killer orchids start to stalk the suburban greenhouses and the imaginations of their cultivators , in turn spawning what's now a multi-billion worldwide orchid industry?
Historian of science, Jim Endersby of the University of Sussex, shows us that the killer orchids are rooted in the sober, scientific work of Charles Darwin who devoted many years to working out why they have such fantastic shapes. He realised that orchids are fertilised by insects and their shapes, colours and scents all serve to lure their hapless pollinators to them often with extraordinary tricks of mimicry. They proved a tool for Darwin to demonstrate natural selection in action and he'd go on to change the ways people imagined plants, transforming them from dull, unresponsive vegetables into active creatures, who might prove to be crafty, lethal, sexy or even moral.
Today, botanists estimate there to be some 30,000 orchid species. with blooms ranging from the showy Cattleya to the spider-shaped Brassia. They know that the highly specific relationships that orchids have with just one insect pollinator have played a major role in the success of the family. But paradoxically their success is also their weakness. Adaptations to very particular local conditions can make species vulnerable to sudden changes in their environment.
As Jim Endersby reveals, this process has been tracked in detail on the Sussex downs, through a 3 decades-long study of one species of native British orchid, the Early-Spider orchid. These tiny plants have chocolate-brown flowers, covered in what look like hairs, that look a little like bees. The orchids use them to trick insects into what scientists call "pseudocopulation"; the bees try to mate with the flowers, and end up transferring their pollen to another plant. But warmer British spring temperatures are threatening the delicate relationship between the orchid and its pollinator. Could the key to saving these orchids lie with us? They've seduced us with their shapes, colonised our imaginations and modified our tastes so that we are now the next victim lured into assisting them with their efforts to reproduce.
Main Picture : Probably the first specimen of Angraecum sesquipedale to bloom in Britain, drawn by Walter Hood Fitch. From William Jackson Hooker, A century of orchidaceous plants selected from Curtis's botanical magazine (1849). Reproduced by kind permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Gospel's uplifting and rejoicing sound is world famous, a multi million-dollar music genre that in many ways has ended up the beating heart of American popular music. But can gospel be gospel if it entertains and makes money as well as praises the Lord? Financial educator Alvin Hall explores how this American religious music genre has been affected by commercialisation.
In this first episode Alvin examines gospel's journey from the church to the charts through the music of Thomas Dorsey, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke. Now considered some of gospel's greatest artists, these early singers all met with strong criticism from the church as they took their songs from the sacred world into the secular. Alvin also reveals how other gospel performers in the first half of the 20th century struggled fulfilling their religious obligations whilst battling with the temptations of life on the road.
On this day the pacifist Women's Freedom League declared that there would soon be a revival of suffragist activity, and at the Bevan Victor is finding his recovery painfully slow.
On Call You and Yours we want to know what you're doing to avoid the cost of crippling care home fees?
A yearly bill for residential nursing care is set to rise by 10% in 2016 to £38,667, which is more than sending a child to Eton College.
What financial arrangements have you made to pay for yours or your relatives care? Have you thought of making plans while you're younger to cope with the cost should you need it?
Email us now - youandyours@bbc.co.uk and don't forget to leave a phone number so we can call you back.
Farrah Jarral continues her exploration of the history of anthropology, looking at the colonial encounter.
In this episode she examines how closely anthropology was tied to colonialism, how major anthropological collections were built during the colonial period, and how quasi-scientific racism and some of the underlying attitudes towards 'savage' societies lead to a dark period in anthropological history.
But she also explores the history of one of early anthropology's greatest works: James Frazer's multi-volume work The Golden Bough - and how it was influenced by, and in turn influenced, wider intellectual trends in the early twentieth century.
A man goes through a cardboard box. Each piece of paper he picks out holds a memory. Pieced together the memories tell the story of an everyday and extraordinary love affair.
Mark Bonnar and Lucy Gaskell star in Oliver Emanuel's love story.
Him ...... Mark Bonnar
Her ...... Lucy Gaskell
The final programme in the fifth series of Mastertapes, in which John Wilson talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios.
Having discussed the recording of Antonio Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' (in the A-side of the programme, available online), Nigel Kennedy responds to questions from the audience and performs exclusive excerpts from his classical and jazz repertoire.
Forget Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft, Al Pacino and Judi Dench. To take us back to Shakespeare's own time Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright hear Shakespeare as he himself would have spoken. The original, unvarnished version from linguist David Crystal and actor Ben Crystal. They look at the fashion for Original Pronunciation and ask what it can tell us about how we speak now.
Michael and Laura perform some of Shakespeare's best known work in the original accent and attempt to bring new meaning and wit to language coated by centuries of veneer.
When Milton opens up a car repair shop, he finds he's on a collision course with a notorious local villain. Meanwhile, a mysterious tin of travel sweets comes to a sticky end.
Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they think is 'Help!'. Because each week, Milton, and his trusty assistant Anton (Tom Goodman-Hill) set out to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new adventure. Because when you're close to the edge, then Milton can give you a push.
Written by Milton with James Cary and Dan Evans, the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton" returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a shipload of new jokes.
As Eddie completes the paint work on the restored shed which burnt down at Grange Farm, Joe chuckles with Eddie about Tom's face when Joe revealed the secret family black pudding ingredient Tom was craving. Joe has a cunning idea for the cider club - they can relocate it to Grange Farm from Saturday onwards, starting the drinking at
. Joe instructs Roy to tell Mike about the change of premises.
This year will mark Lynda and Robert's 30th anniversary living in Ambridge. Keen to mark this milestone, Lynda commissions Eddie to make her a special shepherd's hut. Roy covers his incredulity, amazed at the news. Eddie feels confident it'll be a simple job, for which you can charge top dollar. No harm in trying, says Joe.
Ruth has been dealing with the auctioneers and David's arm is still not 100%. Ruth is going to call a farmer who owns cross-breds, to arrange a visit - why should Matthew and Pip have all the fun?! They're keen to get a good price for their cows and hope their catalogue entry will be inviting - they'll just have to wait for it to arrive and then see what happens on the day of the sale.
Harvey Keitel talks to Kirsty Lang about Youth, the new film from The Great Beauty director Paolo Sorrentino, in which he and Michael Caine play a director and composer reflecting on their lives while vacationing in the Swiss Alps.
Savages are a post-punk rock band whose first album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Singer and guitarist, Jehnny Beth and Gemma Thompson, talk about repetition and sexuality on their new album Adore Life.
H.G.Wells may be best known for his classics The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds but he also wrote short stories and now Graham Duff has adapted some of these for Sky Arts. Biographer Michael Sherborne joins him to discuss H.G.Wells and the four adaptations called The Nightmare World of H.G.Wells.
The Birth of a Nation premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this week and received a standing ovation. It follows the story of Nat Turner a slave and preacher who led a rebellion in the 1800's. Justin Chang, the Chief Film Critic for Variety, explains how one man, Nate Parker, wanted to make it so much that he quit acting to produce, write, direct and star in the film.
File on 4 uncovers the story behind the collapse of one of the biggest health contracts ever put out to tender. Last April an NHS consortium of Cambridge University Hospitals and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust successfully bid to run older peoples' health services. But in December the £800m, five year contract ended without warning, with local commissioners saying only that it was "no longer financially sustainable." Jane Deith asks what the failure of the Cambridgeshire contract means for the broader policy of trying to improve NHS services by opening massive contracts to competition between Trusts and the private sector.
The RNIB and Age Concern are worried that social care for older, blind people is steadily declining. They outline their evidence and explain how they think things could be improved. We get reaction to last week's item about the need for a stylish symbol to indicate that you're partially sighted. And we hear about a blind travel agent who flew three Channel 4 comedians over Ayers Rock himself.
Folic acid in flour, Southampton FC and hip and groin pain, Online private doctors
Scotland is considering whether to add folic acid to staple foods like flour to protect babies against conditions like spina bifida.
Frustrated at the lack of action by the UK government on the issue - despite government advisers recommending for 16 years that flour should be fortified with folic acid - the Scottish government is preparing to go it alone.
Spina bifida is one of a group of severe congenital abnormalities known as neural tube defects that affect around 5000 developing babies in Europe every year. It's long been known that taking folic acid supplements, before and after pregnancy, can reduce the likelihood of these defects, as Helen Dolk, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Ulster explains to Dr Mark Porter.
Professional footballers are vulnerable to hip and groin injuries and much more likely to get arthritis as they get older. Southampton Football Club has introduced a new hip stretch and flexibility programme for all their players and the result is a dramatic reduction in injuries. Mark visits the club and meets Olufela Olomola, who, before his transfer to The Saints, spent a season on the bench with hip and groin injury at Arsenal. Just a season later he's recovered and now captains The Saints under 18 team. Mo Gimpel, Director of Medical and Science Performance Support at Southampton FC says the decision to focus on hip flexibility came several years ago, after serious hip and groin injury was keeping key players off the pitch, and the club was losing matches. The new pre-activation sessions have transformed the club's injury rates and research teams are partnering the club to find out how hip impingement develops in the first place. Professor Sion Glyn-Jones from the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences is leading a group tracking 110 young players from The Saints' Footballing Academy, a league two club, a cricket club and pupils from local schools. Detailed mechanical and imaging studies of these young players' hips will help to show exactly when hip injury, or femoroacetabular impingement, first appears, what causes it and most importantly, how to prevent it in the first place.
Private medical helplines providing 24/7 advice are the latest development in private medicine. New companies are popping up, attracting millions in private finance. They offer people access by e-mail, phone or online visual link to a GP consultation, for a fee. Dr Karen Morton, founder of DrMortons.co.uk tells Mark why she believes pressure on primary care will result in an inevitable rise in demand for such services. People who want reassurance and advice, she says, can use such helplines and avoid clogging up GP waiting rooms with relatively minor complaints. But Dr Margaret McCartney disagrees and says phone-only consultations risk fragmenting medical records and undermining the relationship between a GP and their patient.
Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of colonial luxury and privilege for its European members.
A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian Building and Chicago.
Kamel's relationship with Mitsy is deepening. But relations with Alku continue to deteriorate as more staff question his treatment of them.
Sean Curran hears Labour demand answers about the NHS helpline after a child's death. There's criticism in the Lords of government housing reforms. And MPs take evidence on the red doors of Middlesbrough.
WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY 2016
WED 00:00 Midnight News (b06y8zcv)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
WED 00:30 Book of the Week (b06ybzgq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Tuesday]
WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b06y8zcx)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b06y8zcz)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b06y8zd1)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 05:30 News Briefing (b06y8zd3)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b06zvp90)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Julia Neuberger, senior rabbi at the West London Synagogue.
WED 05:45 Farming Today (b06ycshb)
Tesco named and shamed by supermarket ombudsman, Huskies in Scotland, Organic dairy farming
Tesco has been named and shamed by the supermarket ombudsman for delaying payments to suppliers. The Groceries Code Adjudicator, Christine Tacon, explains the findings of her investigation.
Nancy Nicholson is in the Scottish Highlands to witness the Siberian Husky Club Rally.
We hear why one Cumbrian dairy farmer has decided that going organic is not a viable option for him.
Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.
WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04t0qpk)
Trumpeter Swan
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Liz Bonnin presents the sonorous trumpeter swan of North America. Across an Alaskan wilderness powerful sounds and calls emanate from the largest and heaviest of all wildfowl, the pure white trumpeter swan. With a wingspan of up to 250 cm, the biggest male trumpeter swan on record weighed over 17 kilogrammes, heavier than mute swans. They breed on shallow ponds and lakes in the wilder parts of north west and central North America. Hunted for feathers and skins, they were once one of the most threatened birds on the continent, with only 69 birds known in the United States, although populations hung on in Alaska and Canada. Since then trumpeters have been protected by law and populations have recovered in many areas. Alaska and Canada remain strongholds and today reintroductions are returning this musical bird to their former range in the USA.
WED 06:00 Today (b06ycwqt)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
WED 09:00 Midweek (b06ycwqw)
Griff Rhys Jones, Mona Golabek, Lee Tannen, Marcelo Sellaro
Libby Purves meets broadcaster Griff Rhys Jones; concert pianist Mona Golabek; playwright Lee Tannen and horticulturalist Marcelo Sellaro.
Lee Tannen is an author and playwright. He has written a play based on his memoir, I Loved Lucy, about his friendship with the legendary comedienne, Lucille Ball. He met her as a 10-year-old and became her close friend and companion until her death in 1989. I Loved Lucy is at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London.
Mona Golabek is a concert pianist who tells her mother's story in The Pianist of Willesden Lane. Set in Vienna in 1938 and in London during the Blitz, the one-woman show is the true story of Lisa Jura, a young Jewish pianist dreaming about her concert debut at Vienna's Musikverein concert hall. But with the issuing of new ordinances under the Nazi regime, everything for Lisa changes, except for her love of music, as she is torn from her family and sent onto the Kindertransport to London. The Pianist of Willesden Lane is at the St. James Theatre, London.
Griff Rhys Jones is a comedian, writer, actor and presenter. He presents Griff's Great Britain in which he sets out to explore eight quintessentially British areas from downs to highlands and coasts to wolds. He started out as a radio producer and at 26 he began to appear on the sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News. Jones and his comedy partner Mel Smith became household names, thanks, in part, to their programme Alas Smith and Jones, which ran from 1984 to 1998. Griff's Great Britain is broadcast on ITV.
Marcelo Sellaro is a horticulturalist at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. Born in Brazil, he has a passion for bromeliads and tends Kew's collection which originates from the southern United States, South America and the West Indies. Kew's 21st annual Orchids Festival will feature orchids and other tropical plants adorning the architecture of the glasshouse to create the flora of Brazil during Carnival season. Orchids Festival 2016 is at the Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew Gardens.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
WED 09:45 Book of the Week (b06ycwqy)
Summer Before the Dark
Episode 3
Volker Weidermann's account of the charming resort of Ostend, and in 1936 it's a haven for Middle-Europe emigres. Abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams:
Joseph Roth is off the train at Ostend, about to meet Stefan Zweig for the hotels and bistro life. But his head will soon be turned by another writer, who's newly arrived herself..
Reader Peter Firth
Producer Duncan Minshull.
WED 10:00 Woman's Hour (b06ycwr0)
Championing women's football
The FA's new Head of Women's Football, Baroness Sue Campbell, joins us to talk about her expectations for grassroots and elite women's football as she gets ready to start her new role.
Chronic fatigue and teenage girls. According to a new study, one in forty teenage girls has ME, or myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. Dr Esther Crawley explains the condition, and a sufferer shares her experiences.
Plus children and swearing. Psychologist Laverne Antrobus and journalist Hazel Davis discuss the impact of swearing in front of children.
And women in Homer's Iliad. Classics scholar Emily Hauser talks about her new novel inspired by Homer's 2,500 year old poem, The Iliad, in which she takes the two peripheral female characters and places them at the very centre of the plot.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Emma Wallace.
WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama (b06yrjwy)
November Dead List: Series 2
Episode 3
By Nick Perry
Lia Williams plays Detective Chief Inspector Greave in the return of Radio 4's gritty crime drama.
Set in rural Norfolk, one of the lowest crime areas in the country, DCI Greave leads a team investigating two potentially linked murders. Both victims had their heads shaved antemortem and Greave discovers a link to a case in London a couple of years ago: the Dead List murders. At each crime scene, she's found prayer cards depicting Christian martyrs whose deaths corresponds to the victims in her case.
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko.
WED 10:55 The Listening Project (b06ycwr2)
Graham and Natalie – It’s Just A Piece Of Paper
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple who have never married; they reflect on the reasons why not, and whether or not their children will eventually tie the knot - another in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess
WED 11:00 The Good Goering (b06ycwr4)
Gavin Esler investigates the story of Hermann Göring's lesser known brother Albert, who claimed he saved the lives of those threatened by Nazi persecution.
"He was always the antithesis of myself. He was not politically or militarily motivated; I was. He was melancholic and pessimistic, and I am an optimist. But he's not a bad fellow, Albert."
Hermann Göring was the most prominent Nazi to face prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials. He had been Hitler's successor and the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. Yet there was another Göring held by the Allies after the war, who in contrast was a complete mystery to his interrogators - Albert Göring, Hermann's younger brother.
Albert made some extraordinary claims. He said he had always been opposed to his brother's Nazi Party and, to the utter astonishment of his interrogators, stated he had saved the lives of countless people threatened by the regime, including Jews, sometimes with the help of Hermann himself.
Could it really be that Albert was the "Good Göring" he painted, or was he just another Nazi liar trying to evade judgement at Nuremberg?
Gavin Esler re-examines Albert's story to find out. Following the paper trail of historical documents which remain about him and through witness testimony, Gavin pieces together the life of this all-but forgotten Göring, and discovers more about the complex relationship he had with his brother Hermann.
Gavin travels to Germany where Albert Göring remains unknown to this day. He discovers Albert's story does not sit easily within the history of the period, challenging our sometimes simplistic definitions of good and evil.
A Kati Whitaker production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 11:30 Bad Salsa (b06ycwr6)
Series 2
Last Call for Cuba
One of the women gets some devastating news and Chippy's lie comes back to haunt her.
Series two of the sitcom about three women who meet during cancer treatment and start going to salsa class together to maintain their friendship. As they adjust to life after cancer they realise that they've all changed. This second series begins as Jill has left her husband and son to live at her new boyfriends' parent's house, Camille is planning a huge life change and Chippy has a new live-in wannabe step-father in the shape of Gordon from their salsa class.
The series is not about cancer, but about life after cancer, how you cope the changes in your outlook, your desires and your expectations. It's also about how other people cope with the change in you.
Chippy ..... Sharon Rooney
Jill ..... Natasha Little
Terri ..... Camille Coduri
Marco ..... Derek Elroy
Tim ..... Matt Houlihan
Gordon ..... Andrew Obeney
Georgie ..... Emily Chase
Elaine ..... Ayesha Antoine
Joel ..... Joe Johnsey
Consultant 1 ..... Chris Pavlo
Consultant 2 ..... Ayesha Antoine
Written by Kay Stonham
Director: Alison Vernon-Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.
WED 12:00 News Summary (b06y8zd5)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 12:04 Home Front (b06l3fjj)
27 January 1916 - Adeline Lumley
On this day the Military Service Act was passed making conscription legal, and in Folkestone Adeline and Phyllis do their best for Victor.
Written by Claudine Toutoungi
Directed by Allegra McIlroy
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.
WED 12:15 You and Yours (b06ycy0g)
Alcohol-free beer, Publishing fraud, Frozen bank accounts
The criminal gang that stole more than five million pounds from small firms, by selling bogus magazine adverts. In some cases, the criminals even took their victims to court and sued them, when they refused to pay for adverts that never appeared.
We investigate why banks can, and do, freeze customers' bank accounts, sometimes for weeks, without giving them any explanation. What rights do you have if you are refused access to your own money?
Sales of alcohol-free beers are increasing, and for drinkers who want to reduce their alcohol intake, they offer the promise of an authentic flavour, without the hangover. More products are arriving on the market, but do any of them genuinely taste like the real thing?
Producer: Jonathan Hallewell
Presenter: Winifred Robinson.
WED 12:57 Weather (b06y8zd7)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 13:00 World at One (b06ycy0j)
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been pressing David Cameron over Google's tax deal at Prime Minister's Questions. We discuss this with a senior panel of MPs.
A victim of domestic violence and the grandparents of a severely disabled teenager have won the latest round of their legal challenges against the so-called "bedroom tax". The government says it'll appeal. We hear from one of the claimants.
WED 13:45 From Savage to Self (b06zdk01)
Culture Goes Plural
Farrah Jarral continues her journey through the history of anthropology.
In this episode she explores the legacy of one of the most influential anthropologists of all: Franz Boas. From pluralising the word 'culture' to developing the idea of cultural relativism and promoting the cause of anti-racism, Boas can claim a tremendous intellectual legacy. Farrah travels to New York City, where she sees one of his original displays at the American Museum of Natural History, and hears why he is known as the father of American anthropology.
Producer: Giles Edwards.
WED 14:00 The Archers (b06ycr51)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Tuesday]
WED 14:15 Tumanbay (b06ycytj)
Series 1
Jaws of Victory
In the ninth episode of this epic saga inspired by the Mamluk slave-dynasty, a trade delegation from across the ocean, brings to Tumanbay the very latest in war merchandise. Convinced of victory by the words of the prophet child, the Sultan (Raad Rawi) is now ready to march out with his armies and destroy rebellious provincial leader Maya. His nephew Madu (Danny Ashok) has only one desire – to escape the city with his army comrade and lover Daniel (Gareth Kennerley). But Daniel is not everything he seems.
Tumanbay, the beating heart of a vast empire, is threatened by a rebellion in a far-off province and a mysterious force devouring the city from within.Gregor (Rufus Wright), Master of the Palace Guard, is charged by Sultan Al-Ghuri with the task of rooting out this insurgence and crushing it.
Cast:
Gregor........................Rufus Wright
Cadali.........................Matthew Marsh
Wolf............................Alexander Siddig
Sarah..........................Nina Yndis
Ibn..............................Nabil Elouahabi
Maya's Envoy..............Nadir Khan
Madu...........................Danny Ashok
Daniel..........................Gareth Kennerley
Heaven........................Olivia Popica
Slave............................Akin Gazi
Al-Ghuri........................Raad Rawi
General Qulan..............Christopher Fulford
Physician.......................Vivek Madan
The Hafiz.......................Antony Bunsee
Bello..............................Albert Welling
Frog...............................Deeivya Meir
Frog's Mother................Sirine Saba
Don Diego.....................John Sessions
Dona Ana......................Annabelle Dowler
Boy................................Darwin Brokenbro
Rider..............................Akbar Kurtha
Music - Sacha Puttnam
Sound Design - Steve Bond, Jon Ouin
Editors - Ania Przygoda, James Morgan
Producers - Nadir Khan, John Dryden
Written by Mike Walker
Directed by Emma Hearn
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4
WED 15:00 Money Box (b06ycytl)
Money Box Live: World economic worries and market turmoil
Ruth Alexander and guests assess world economic woes and the current market turmoil.
Don't panic - the experts say. And stock markets have recovered slightly from record drops. But how serious is the slowdown in China and the oil price falls? Should we be worried about the spectre of deflation and debt levels around the world? What does the current economic climate mean for investors who are keen to see a return on their money?
E mail your points and questions to Ruth Alexander and her expert panel. moneybox@bbc.co.uk.
WED 15:30 Inside Health (b06ycr57)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Tuesday]
WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed (b06ycz4l)
The Creative Economy, 'Grudge' Spending
The Creative Economy: Angela McRobbie, Professor of Communications at the Goldsmiths, questions what's at stake in the new politics of culture and creativity. Talking to a range of artists, stylists, fashion designers and policy makers, she considers if the new 'creative economy' is a form of labour reform which accustoms the young, urban middle classes to a world of work which lacks the security of previous generations. She's joined by Christopher Frayling, Chancellor of the Arts University, Bournemouth and former Chair of the Arts Council England.
Grudge spending: Ian Loader, Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford, explores how we feel about buying security, compared to more enjoyable forms of spending.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
WED 16:30 The Media Show (b06ycz4n)
Lord Burns, On- and off-screen diversity, FT staff vote to strike
The chairman of Channel 4 Lord Terry Burns leaves the organisation today. His departure has been seen by some as an indication that the government is favouring 'privatisation options' for the channel. On the last day of his second term, and in his final interview for The Media Show as chairman, we speak to him about the highs and lows of the job, his thoughts on how the broadcaster should be structured in the future, and his view on the BBC's Charter renewal.
Idris Elba has put diversity back on the agenda for UK broadcasters. The British actor said in a speech to MPs last week, "diversity in the modern world is more than just skin colour." New commitments were also announced by both the BBC & Channel 4. So, what's it like at the sharp end for diversity champions working for the broadcasters? Steve is joined by Joyce Adeluwoye-Adams, BBC Diversity Lead for Television & Channel 4's Creative Diversity Manager, Ade Rawcliffe, to discuss their roles, and the challenges they face when trying to make a positive change.
Financial Times journalists have voted in favour of a 24-hour strike over proposed changes to the newspaper's pension policy. It would be the first strike in 30 years if it goes ahead. Last July, Pearson struck a deal to sell the Financial Times to Japan's Nikkei Group for nearly 900 million pounds, after nearly 60 years of ownership. The purchase underscored the Nikkei's bid for a global expansion, but it also led to suggestions that the tie-up could lead to a clash of cultures. Since then, staff have expressed concern over a number of issues, including the editorial independence of the FT. Steven Bird is the National Union of Journalists representative at the FT. He joins Steve in the studio.
Producer: Katy Takatsuki.
WED 17:00 PM (b06yczln)
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b06y8zdc)
An agreement to clamp down on tax avoidance
David Cameron is"angry" about Google's tax
WED 18:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05nvjm7)
Series 2
Episode 1
Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates an 18th century bet.
Can he walk from London's Royal Academy to the Royal Exchange building while blindfolded in under one hour?
Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham.
Additional material by Jon Hunter and Paul Byrne.
Producer: Joe Nunnery.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
WED 19:00 The Archers (b06yfcnr)
Rob asks Helen about some new maternity tops she has had delivered, querying the cost and style. With their low necklines Rob thinks they're inappropriate and points out that he'd be happy to take Helen into town to look in charity shops instead. Rob reminds Helen that it was she who pointed out that they shouldn't waster money (mentioning Peggy's cash gift).
Helen enjoys helping Tom with his black pudding recipe, but leaves him to do the tasting. Helen thinks Joe is having Tom on as Tom reveals Joe's secret ingredient - used teas leaves. Rob's surprised to see Helen at the shop and quibbles with Tom about the black pudding - over Tom supposedly bypassing Rob over this new line in the shop. Rob's certain there are better ways to make the shop profitable.
Kirsty tries three times to call Helen but has to leave messages. Fallon's so grateful to Kirsty for helping her and Emma with their wedding event today. Emma's chuffed that they 'aced' their biggest catering job to date. They make a toast to a great success.
WED 19:15 Front Row (b06yfcp0)
Gina McKee and Christopher Hampton, Rokia Traore, The body in ancient Egypt
Gina McKee and Christopher Hampton on French playwright Florian Zeller's The Mother, which explores a mother's depression after her son leaves home.
The award-winning Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traoré discusses her new album Né So.
A new exhibition revealing the day-to-day routines of ancient Egyptians and a link with fashion today.
WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b06yrjwy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:41 today]
WED 20:00 Four Thought (b06zdk7x)
Best of Four Thought: Hinge Moments in History
Another chance to hear three of the best recent episodes of Four Thought, each addressing hinge moments in the history of war and terror, and re-assessing the response of the West.
Hashi Mohamed re-interprets a recent British response to an act of terror on our own streets, arguing that the episode tells us a great deal about our nation that we take for granted.
Benedict Wilkinson challenges how we think about terrorism more generally, asking us to seriously reconsider how we confront terrorists on a global scale.
And drawing on his personal experience of advising Poland and Russia at the end of the Cold War, world-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs urges us to remember lessons of the past when taking action in the present.
Producer: Katie Langton.
WED 20:45 Four Thought (b06yfcpb)
The Meaning of North
Alex Beaumont questions the meaning of 'The North'.
Growing up in the North of England, in his youth Alex wanted nothing more than to leave for the South. Now he lives in one part of the North, and works in another, but he questions whether 'The North' is a meaningful concept at all. How does it relate to the North of Scotland, or Ireland, and what might the UK government's plan for a 'Northern Powerhouse' mean in practice?
Producer: Katie Langton.
WED 21:00 Science Stories (b06yfcph)
Series 2
The duchess who gatecrashed science
In the spring of 1667 Samuel Pepys queued repeatedly with crowds of Londoners and waited for hours just to catch a glimpse of aristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish.
Twice he was frustrated and couldn't spot her, but eventually she made a grand visit to meet the Fellows of the newly formed Royal Society. She was the first woman ever to visit.
Pepys watched as they received her with gritted teeth and fake smiles.
They politely showed her air pumps, magnets and microscopes, and she politely professed her amazement, then left in her grand carriage.
Naomi Alderman asks what it was it about this celebrity poet, playwright, author, and thinker that so fascinated and yet also infuriated these men of the Restoration elite?
Part of the answer strikes right at the core of what we now call the scientific method.
Producer: Alex Mansfield
WED 21:30 Midweek (b06ycwqw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 22:00 The World Tonight (b06yfcpm)
Should convicted criminals be allowed to remain anonymous?
Should convicted criminals be allowed to remain anonymous? The French justice minister resigns over new terror laws. And remembering the Holocaust - we bring together two genocide survivors.
WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b06ys5pv)
The Automobile Club of Egypt
Episode 8
Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of colonial luxury and privilege for its European members.
A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian Building and Chicago.
Episode 8:
Kamel meets his fellow revolutionaries and a daring plot is hatched.
Read by Raad Rawi and Amir El-Masry
Translated by Russell Harris
Abridged by Jeremy Osborne
Produced by Karen Rose
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 23:00 The Future of Radio (b06yfcq0)
Series 2
The Absence App
These programmes reveal the secret work of the Institute of Radiophonic Evolution in South Mimms - drawing on conference calls, voice notes and life-logs, to tell a compelling and strange story of the technological lengths to which the researchers will go to push forward the boundaries of the emerging digital technologies.
Each week a jiffy bag of sound files arrives at the BBC. We listen to the contents to discover what backroom boffins Luke Mourne and Professor Trish Baldock (ably assisted by Shelley – on work experience) have been up to.
In this episode, they develop the Absence App and use it to disrupt a politically controversial radio broadcast.
Luke..................William Beck
Trish..................Emma Kilbey
Shelley...............Lizzy Watts
Felix....................David Brett
With Chris Stanton and Jessica Carroll
Written by Jerome Vincent & Stephen Dinsdale
Producer David Blount
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in January 2016.
WED 23:15 Nurse (b03w18yq)
Series 1
Episode 2
A brand new series starring Paul Whitehouse and Esther Coles, with Rosie Cavaliero, Simon Day, Cecilia Noble and Marcia Warren.
The series follows Elizabeth, a Community Psychiatric Nurse in her forties, into the homes of her patients (or Service Users in today's jargon). It recounts their humorous, sad and often bewildering daily interactions with the nurse, whose job is to assess their progress, dispense their medication and offer comfort and support.
Compassionate and caring, Elizabeth is aware that she cannot cure her patients, only help them manage their various conditions. She visits the following characters throughout the series:
Lorrie and Maurice: Lorrie, in her fifties, is of Caribbean descent and has schizophrenia. Lorrie's life is made tolerable by her unshakeable faith in Jesus, and Maurice, who has a crush on her and wants to do all he can to help. So much so that he ends up getting on everyone's nerves.
Billy: Billy feels safer in jail than outside, a state of affairs the nurse is trying to rectify. She is hampered by the ubiquitous presence of Billy's mate, Tony.
Graham: in his forties, is morbidly obese due to an eating disorder. Matters aren't helped by his mum 'treating' him to sugary and fatty snacks at all times.
Ray: is bipolar and a rock and roll survivor from the Sixties. It is not clear how much of his 'fame' is simply a product of his imagination.
Phyllis: in her seventies, has Alzheimer's. She is sweet, charming and exasperating. Her son Gary does his best but if he has to hear 'I danced for the Queen Mum once' one more time he will explode.
Herbert is an old school gentleman in his late Seventies. Herbert corresponds with many great literary figures unconcerned that they are, for the most part, dead.
Nurse is written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings, who have collaborated many time in the past, including on The Fast Show, Down the Line and Happiness.
Written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings with additional material from Esther Coles
Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Tilusha Ghelani
A Down the Line production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 23:30 Today in Parliament (b06yfcqc)
Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as the Google tax row dominates Prime Minister's Question Time. Also in the programme: the Government under pressure over changes to the benefits system, MPs hear from experts on flooding, and there's to be a new memorial outside Parliament to the victims of the Holocaust. Editor: Rachel Byrne.
THURSDAY 28 JANUARY 2016
THU 00:00 Midnight News (b06y8zfc)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
THU 00:30 Book of the Week (b06ycwqy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b06y8zff)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b06y8zfh)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b06y8zfk)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (b06y8zfm)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b06zw2r7)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Julia Neuberger, senior rabbi at the West London Synagogue.
THU 05:45 Farming Today (b06yfhqg)
Threats to UK pig industry, Organic farming, Impact of war on Syria's farms
Charlotte Smith investigates the threat to jobs in the UK pig industry from imports of cheaper meat. As Paul Murphy speaks to concerned pig producers in East Yorkshire, James Leavesley of Midland Pig Producers explains why they're closing two of their ten farms.
All this week Farming Today is looking at different aspects of the organic farming sector. The organically farmed area in the UK represents just over three per cent of the total agricultural land area in production, and two thirds of that is down to permanent pasture for organic dairy. However, organic production levels peaked in 2008. We hear from Mark Lynas, an environmental writer who's unconvinced about the organic way.
Also, a call for help for farmers in Syria. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation says that with the war now approaching its 6th year agricultural production has plummeted and food supplies are at an all-time low.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley.
THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04t0rd4)
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Liz Bonnin presents the raucous calling sulphur-crested cockatoo from Australia. It is with somewhat heavy irony that with its loud, jarring calls, the sulphur crested cockatoo is also known as the "Australian nightingale". These large white parrots with their formidable curved beaks and long yellow crests which they fan out when excited are familiar aviary birds. One of the reasons that they're popular as cage birds is that they can mimic the human voice and can live to a great age. A bird known as Cocky Bennett from Sydney lived until he was a hundred years old, although by the time he died in the early 1900s he was completely bald, and was then stuffed for posterity. In its native forests of Australia and New Guinea, those far-carrying calls are perfect for keeping cockatoo flocks together. They're highly intelligent birds and when they feed, at least one will act as a sentinel ready to sound the alarm in case of danger. So well-known is this behaviour that in Australia, someone asked to keep a lookout during illegal gambling sessions is sometimes known as a "cockatoo" or "cocky".
THU 06:00 Today (b06ynh2h)
Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
THU 09:00 In Our Time (b06yfhqk)
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, times and influence of Eleanor of Aquitaine (c1122-1204) who was one of the most powerful women in Twelfth Century Europe, possibly in the entire Middle Ages. She inherited land from the Loire down to the Pyrenees, about a third of modern France. She married first the King of France, Louis VII, joining him on the Second Crusade. She became stronger still after their marriage was annulled, as her next husband, Henry Plantagenet became Henry II of England. Two of their sons, Richard and John, became kings and she ruled for them when they were abroad. By her death in her eighties, Eleanor had children and grandchildren in power across western Europe. This led to competing claims of inheritance and, for much of the next 250 years, the Plantagenet and French kings battled over Eleanor's land.
With
Lindy Grant
Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reading
Nicholas Vincent
Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia
And
Julie Barrau
University Lecturer in British Medieval History at the University of Cambridge
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
THU 09:45 Book of the Week (b06yfhqm)
Summer Before the Dark
Episode 4
Volker Weidermann's account of the charming resort of Ostend, and in 1936 it's a haven for Middle-Europe emigres. Abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams:
Joseph Roth is in Ostend to meet his old friend Stafan Zweig. But he's quickly distracted by another writer, Irmgard Keun. Life is short, so they will move to the Hotel Couronne together..
Reader Peter Firth
Producer Duncan Minshull.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b06yfhqp)
Gina McKee, Home education, Grieving an ex, Leaving care
Actor Gina McKee talks about playing Anne, a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown in Florian Zeller's play 'The Mother'.
How can we best safeguard children who are home educated? Jenni is joined by Helen Lees, lecturer in Education and Multi-Professional Practice at Newman University and Amy Shaw who home educates four of her five children.
Why can it be so difficult to accept and move on when an ex lover dies? Helen Butlin, Helpline Manager at Cruse Bereavement Care and Laura Marcus discuss the impact of losing former loved ones.
Chloe has been in care since she was aged five. She is now 17 and planning to leave foster care after her 18th birthday. Helping her prepare is Narin, her Independent Visitor. Chloe and Narin talk to Jo Morris about the role of independent visitors.
Presenter: Jenni Murray.
THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b06yrrbr)
November Dead List: Series 2
Episode 4
By Nick Perry
Lia Williams plays Detective Chief Inspector Greave in the return of Radio 4's gritty crime drama.
Set in rural Norfolk, one of the lowest crime areas in the country, DCI Greave leads a team investigating three linked murders. Both victims had their heads shaved antemortem and Greave discovers a link to a case in London a couple of years ago: the Dead List murders. Then she receives her own Dead List but the names on the list don't belong to the victims but to Christian martyrs in the first century. What's the connection?
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko.
THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent (b06y8zfp)
Inspecting the Troops
Insight, storytelling, colour, detail. In this edition, the Russians in Syria show off their fighter jets and warships; a message from Moscow that Russia once again sees itself as a major player on the world stage. A million incomers to Germany in a year - can they give the economy a useful bounce as well as defuse a demographic timebomb? The old men of the Vietnamese communist party have their say at the big five-yearly meeting in Hanoi, but is their tightly-controlled socialist state beginning to unravel and is there anything they can do to stop it? We visit the world's largest refugee camp in the Kenyan desert. It has a population the size of New Orleans. Many were born there and will never leave it. Some wonder if similarly huge camps will soon spring up on the fringes of Europe. Pensioners have been among the hardest hit by the Greek government's tough austerity measures. Their income's been cut a dozen times as the government tries to hit economic targets set by the EU and the IMF. It's left some on the island of Crete foraging in the mountains for food to eat.
THU 11:30 Herland (b06yfhqr)
In 1915 women could neither vote, divorce nor work after marriage, yet in that same year the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman envisaged a revolutionary world populated entirely by women who were intelligent, resourceful and brave. Her great science fiction novel Herland tells the story of three men who crash land on an island where the men have died out; women reproduce by parthenogenesis. Until Gilman's book was published most visions of utopia, though turning the world on its head, struggled to envisage a place where gender had changed. Fantastical machines could be imagined alongside marvellous advances in medicine and technology, but the idea of woman functioning fully in the new utopias was too much for many to imagine. In this programme the award winning science fiction writer Geoff Ryman uses Herland as a starting point to ask why it's been so had to imagine a world where gender dissolves. In the course of the programme he will write his own short story, avoiding the pitfalls that have skewered many before him. The story called 'No Point Talking' will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra and be available as a podcast.
Presenter: Geoff Ryman
Producer: Nicola Swords
Contributors: Stephanie Saulter, author of the Evolution Trilogy; Laurie Penny, writer and journalist; Dr Sari Edelstein, The President of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society; Sarah Le Fanu, former Senior Editor at The Women's Press; Dr Caitríona Ní Dhúill, author of Sex and Imagined Spaces; Sarah Hall, author of The Carhullan Army and The Wolf Border.
Original music composed by Scanner.
THU 12:00 News Summary (b06y8zfr)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:04 Home Front (b06l3frl)
28 January 1916 - Hilary Pearce
On this day President Wilson declared "The world is on fire, and sparks are likely to drop anywhere", and in Folkestone Hilary is moved by Ruby Tulliver.
Written by Claudine Toutoungi
Directed by Allegra McIlroy
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.
THU 12:15 You and Yours (b06yn9zv)
UK pork market, Poppers, Scrap metal
British pig farmers are struggling to compete with EU producers, because of a ban on imports of European food by Russia. Prices have been plummeting since one of the largest pork markets disappeared, and there's a glut of cheap pork. You & Yours hears from pig farmers who explain why UK welfare standards make competing on price tough.
You & Yours also has an exclusive interview with the UK's leading manufacturer of Poppers, the recreational drug defended by Conservative MP, Crispin Blunt. John Addy from Liquid Gold explains why he is going to fight Government plans to ban them under the Psychoactive Substances Bill.
Plus how falling metal prices could make it harder for you to get rid of your old stuff.
Presented by Winifred Robinson
Produced by Natalie Donovan
** Update: During the discussion about British Pork, we incorrectly said Waitrose sells Danish pork alongside British produce. We would like to clarify that all Waitrose bacon, sausages and ham are British, the only exception being authentic continental meats such as Parma ham.
THU 12:57 Weather (b06y8zft)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 13:00 World at One (b06ynjbf)
The UK is to accept more unaccompanied child refugees from Syria - but the government has been criticised for not taking those on their own inside the EU. We speak to the Immigration Minister.
We report on the origins of the migrant crisis - hearing from those facing starvation in Syria. And following reports that Russian planes are targeting civilians in Syria, we talk to the country's ambassador to the EU.
Is it fair for transgender women to take part in women's sport? We discuss.
THU 13:45 From Savage to Self (b06zdkb7)
Participating and Observing
Farrah Jarral tells the story of how a bit of bad luck for Bronislaw Malinowski changed anthropology forever.
When Malinowski got stuck on a small chain of Pacific islands during the First World War, it seemed like little more than an unfortunate turn of events. In fact, it proved to be his making. The book he produced as a result of his fieldwork, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, upset much of previous anthropological practice. Instead of broad conclusions drawn from multiple cultures, Malinowski's intense immersion in a single culture reset the template. Participant observation became how social anthropologists practiced their trade - and Farrah meets an anthropologist who still relies on it to the present day.
Producer: Giles Edwards.
THU 14:00 The Archers (b06yfcnr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Drama (b06yfhr1)
Holding Back the Tide
The Vauxgarth Pig
by Nick Warburton
When Richard and Clare inherit a house in Yorkshire they find themselves drawn into an unlikely group attempting to defend their town against the worst ills of modernity and it seems the Breck Howe Preservation Society will stop at nothing.
Directed by Sally Avens
Nick Warburton who wrote 'On Mardle Fen' introduces us to another maverick character in John Hector. This is a play for anyone who's spent too long speaking to a computerised voice on a phone line, or railed against the loss of a green field to ugly housing or found themselves a number rather than a name and wishes somehow they had the wherewithal to keep things as they were.
Ronald Pickup plays John Hector (Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Worst Week of My Life,Waiting for Godot) Paul Ritter plays Richard (The Game, Harry Potter, Friday Night Dinner) Kate Duchêne (Everyman, The Worst Witch, Cabin Pressure) plays Clare.
THU 15:00 Open Country (b06yfhr9)
Scowles in the Forest of Dean
Helen Mark is in the Forest of Dean in search of mysterious geological formations known as 'scowles'.
These semi-natural features in the landscape are thought to be unique to the Forest of Dean but are plentiful in this area. They are crater-like features in the woodland that have been eroded over time by water-action and exploited by miners through the centuries for their bounty: iron-ore, coal, and ochre have all been found in abundance in the Forest of Dean.
Helen descends into the mysterious, mossy world of the scowles and comes face to face with one of it's inhabitants: a large cave spider and looks for the greater and lesser horseshoe bats. These two species thrive in the craters and caverns of the the Forest.
Tales of mining and the blast furnaces that smelted the iron-ore lead Helen across the Forest before she finds herself on a film set.
The visually stunning nature of the scowles have led to television and movie crews visiting the area to film in this mysterious, other-worldly landscape. They have become the backdrop to some memorable moments in the TV series Merlin and Dr Who and most famously in the recent Star Wars film, The Force Awakens that was filmed in a part of the Forest called Puzzlewood.
Presenter: Helen Mark
Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts.
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b06y96gz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:54 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Open Book (b06y9b6w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:00 The Film Programme (b06yfjdm)
Anna Karina on her life and work with Godard
With Francine Stock.
Anna Karina talks about her life and work with Jean-Luc Godard - why he asked her to take her clothes off in their first meeting and how he would disappear for weeks after apparently popping out to the shop around the corner.
Stanley Tucci discusses his role in Spotlight, an Oscar nominated drama about the expose of a cover-up by the Catholic Church in Boston, and why he decided not to meet the man he was playing.
Sound designer Eugene Gearty explains how he got inside the head of Brian Wilson for the Beach Boys bio-pic Love & Mercy.
THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science (b06yfjdp)
Zika, Penguins, Erratum, Fossil fish
The Zika virus is dominating the news this week. The latest data says it's been found in 21 countries so far. The symptoms are generally mild, but the possibility of a link to microcephaly has been raised in Brazil. Microcephaly is a serious condition where children are born with abnormally small heads and sometimes incomplete brain development. Trudie Lang, Professor of Global Health at Oxford University, and virologist Professor Jonathan Ball from Nottingham University discuss what we know so far.
All the way from Antarctica our reporter Victoria Gill brings us the latest news about the citizen science project 'Penguin Watch'. Victoria installed new cameras with Dr Tom Hart and collected guano with Hila Levy. Gemma Clucas (Oxford and Southampton University) gives an update on what will happen with the collected data.
Back in October we featured a major paper by a team of scientists lead by Dr Andrea Manica from Cambridge University. By comparing the 4500 year-old genome of a prehistoric man called Mota to other genomes from living Africans they had mapped a migration of Middle Eastern farmers back into the whole African continent. This week, colleagues identified an error in the way the original team had processed the data, thus overturning one of the key results. But the rest of the findings remain intact. Andrea talks to us about how and why science must make corrections along the path of progress.
Heard a few stories about giant dinosaur fossils lately? Usually the giant A-list superstar fossils get all the attention. But according to curator Mark Carnall, about 90% of the collections are mainly uninteresting specimens. Marnie Chesterton went out to meet Mark at the Museum of Natural History in Oxford. He celebrates fragmentary fossils in his blog 'Underwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month'. Warning: Lower your expectations!
Producer: Jen Whyntie
Assistant Producer: Julia Lorke.
THU 17:00 PM (b06yfjdw)
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b06y8zfw)
28/01/16 The spread of the Zika virus has been described as "explosive" by the World Health Organisation
The spread of the Zika virus has been described as "explosive" by the World Health Organisation, which is predicting that up to four million people could be infected this year
THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b06yfjdy)
Series 5
Episode 4
John Finnemore's fifth series of his multi-award-winning sketch show, joined as ever by Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan.
This week features a sketch that couldn't catch a cold in Coventry, if you know what we mean; a train passenger who really doesn't over think things; and, well, since you ask him for a tale of a haunted mansion...
John is the writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John Finnemore's Double Acts, regular guest on The Now Show and The Unbelievable Truth.
One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite some time" - The Guardian
"The best sketch show in years, on television or radio" - The Radio Times
"The inventive sketch show ... continues to deliver the goods" - The Daily Mail
"Superior comedy" - The Observer
Written by and starring ... John Finnemore
Producer: Ed Morrish
A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in January 2016.
THU 19:00 The Archers (b06yfm7v)
Following Justin's advice, Lilian is selling some of her Amside properties. Justin admits he'd like to lay down roots in Ambridge - but his wife feels differently. He asks about renting the Dower House as a weekend retreat. Jennifer's delighted to have Lilian stay on at Home Farm - Lilian wonders what Brian's going to say though. Brian's also eager to know what's happening with Kate's "therapy centre" business.
Pip says good bye to her welsh sheep. Matthew really doesn't want to leave Brookfield, but he has no choice. He promises to come back and see Pip as soon as he can.
Justin admits to Brian and Jennifer he has learned some hard lessons about getting on the wrong side of the community. He's keen to do better in future. Brian's eager to know that he and Adam have the contract for the Estate. Justin's keen for Adam to come to the next BL Board meeting to outline a new strategy for the Estate. He offers to get Brian back onto the Board, mentioning that Annabelle has never really been up to the mark. While Justin can't ask her to stand down, he anticipates that she'll do the right thing in time - then the path would be clear for Brian to become Chair again - if he wants it.
THU 19:15 Front Row (b06yfm81)
John Dee, Marty Feldman show, Tibor Reich, Christopher Edge
Scholar, Courtier, Magician: the Lost Library of John Dee (1527-1609) is a new exhibition which focuses on the work of the famous mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, imperialist, alchemist and spy who was a common presence in the court of Elizabeth I. Glyn Parry gives his response to the work on display.
Marty Feldman, the British comedy writer, comedian and actor, rose to fame writing shows like radio's Round the Horne and The Frost Report and starring in films including Young Frankenstein. A new play, Jeepers Creepers directed by Monty Python's Terry Jones, charts Feldman's move to Hollywood and his struggles with his new-found fame. Mic Wright reviews.
The Whitworth in Manchester is celebrating the centenary of pioneering designer Tibor Reich with a major retrospective. Reich, a Hungarian Jew forced to flee to Britain by the Nazis, is credited with modernising British textile design with projects such as Concorde, Coventry Cathedral, the Royal Yacht Britannia and Windsor Castle. Curator Frances Pritchard discusses the exhibition.
The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge deals with matters of grief, quantum physics and parallel worlds. The author explains why he chose to tackle these subjects in a children's book.
Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b06yrrbr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
THU 20:00 The Report (b06yfm8b)
Tommy Robinson's Pegida Ambition
Tommy Robinson was the most high profile figure in the English Defence League. Then he apparently abandoned his hostility towards Islam and aligned himself with the counter extremism think tank Quilliam. Now he is back on the anti-Islam beat, helping to launch the UK branch of the German pressure group Pegida, with the first rally planned to take place in Birmingham. Reporter and Birmingham resident Adrian Goldberg spends time with Robinson and gets him to meet some of his fiercest foes in the city.
Producer: Smita Patel
Researcher: Holly Topham
Editor: Innes Bowen.
THU 20:30 The Bottom Line (b06yfm8d)
Managing the Boardroom
After recent corporate scandals like VW's emissions' cheating, Tesco's accounting irregularities, Barclays interest-rate rigging, many asked why company board members failed to act. What happened to the checks and balances designed to curb management excesses? Evan Davis and guests look at how company boards operate and how to make them work effectively. They discuss the role of company directors, the skills and experience required and examine why some say 'Beware the charismatic CEO'.
Guests:
Sir David Walker, Former Chairman, Barclays plc
Michael Jackson, Former Chair, The Sage Group plc
Margaret Heffernan, Former CEO, entrepreneur and author
Producer: Sally Abrahams.
THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science (b06yfjdp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 today]
THU 21:30 In Our Time (b06yfhqk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b06yfm8j)
Zika crisis - Brazil's abortion laws
Time to repeal the ban ?; Gbagbo at ICC ; Michael Gove - liberal hero ?
(Photo: A pregnant woman outside her house in Recife, the Brazilian city with the most cases of Zika virus (Credit: EPA/Percio Campos).
THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b06ys5sj)
The Automobile Club of Egypt
Episode 9
Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of colonial luxury and privilege for its European members.
A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian Building and Chicago.
Episode 9:
Reprisal is brutal after the King is publically shamed.
Read by Raad Rawi, Amir El-Masry andEmerald O'Hanrahan
Translated by Russell Harris
Abridged by Jeremy Osborne
Produced by Karen Rose
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 23:00 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b01ckggk)
Series 4
Episode 4
Comedian-activist Mark Thomas and his studio audience at The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow consider policy proposals for a People's Manifesto.
This week's agenda:
1) A kick-starter to kick Scotland out of the Union.
2) Bankers to be given bonuses in the form of NHS donation cards.
and
3) An end to bank fees for those on a family income of less than £30,000.
Plus there are plenty of "any other business" policy suggestions from the audience.
Written and presented by Mark Thomas
Produced by Colin Anderson.
THU 23:30 Today in Parliament (b06yfm8r)
Sean Curran reports from Westminster where ministers face calls for exemptions from the so-called bedroom tax and opposition MPs demand an end to arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
Ministers defend the Prime Minister over his "bunch of migrants" comment and peers debate David Cameron's £20 million fund to help Muslim women learn how to speak English, in order to tackle segregation in some British communities.
FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 2016
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b06y8zgt)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
FRI 00:30 Book of the Week (b06yfhqm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b06y8zgw)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b06y8zgy)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b06y8zh0)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b06y8zh2)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b06yn1wv)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Julia Neuberger, senior rabbi at the West London Synagogue.
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b06yfqq6)
Yeo Valley, Floods, Aldi bacon - British or Danish?
Victims of the recent floods in Yorkshire descend on Westminster to raise awareness of their plight and ask the government for assistance. A petition, plus 500 pairs of wellies, were presented on College Green. Charlotte Smith met some of those attending as they recalled some of their experiences.
Also in today's programme Andrew Dawes visits the headquarters of Yeo Valley to find out how they have achieved success in the organic sector, and Peter Melchett, policy director for the Soil Association, tells Charlotte how organic farming is currently faring. Also, environment correspondent David Gregory-Kumar asks if Aldi are misleading customers by selling Danish bacon surrounded by British flags.
Presented by Charlotte Smith.
FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04t0pjx)
Snow Petrel
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Liz Bonnin presents an Antarctic specialist, the delicate looking snow petrel. On a wind blasted Antarctic iceberg, small white hummocks sprout beaks to bicker and flirt with each other. These are snow petrels, one of the hardiest bird species in the world. Few bird species breed in the Antarctic and fewer still are so intimately bound to the landscape of snow and ice. But the near pure white snow petrel makes its home in places where temperatures can plummet to -40 Celsius and below. Returning to their breeding areas from October, the nest is a skimpy affair nothing more than a pebble-lined scrape in a hollow or rocky crevice where the parents rear their single chick on a diet of waxy stomach oil and carrion. But for a bird of such purity the snow petrel has a ghoulish diet, foraging at whale and seal carcasses along the shore. Although it breeds on islands such as South Georgia which are north of the summer pack ice, the snow petrel's true home is among snow and ice of its Antarctic home.
FRI 06:00 Today (b06yjtgg)
Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs (b06y9796)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 Book of the Week (b06yfqqm)
Summer Before the Dark
Episode 5
Volker Weidermann's account of the charming resort of Ostend, and in 1936 it's a haven for Middle-Europe emigres. Abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams:
Swimming, promenading, drinking.The pleasures of Ostend linger in the face of storm clouds gathering over Europe, but even seasoned vacationers know they have to move on..
Reader Peter Firth
Producer Duncan Minshull.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b06yjthj)
The Wainwright Sisters; Women and US Politics
On Monday primary voting begins in the US presidential race - Sarah Palin is back on the scene in support of Donald Trump, and Hillary Clinton is under attack from her Democrat rival (Bernie Sanders) as the "Establishment candidate". Clinton's credentials as a defender of Women's Rights have also been under attack from Trump's camp and polls show her struggling to engage younger women.
Martha Wainwright and her half-sister Lucy Wainwright Roche on growing up as part of a musical dynasty, the death of Martha's mother Kate McGarrigle at the time of the difficult birth of her son, how this brought her closer to Lucy and inspired her to create an album of dark lullabies with her - including songs passed on in their family (from each of their mothers and their father to the children), and why they're recording together now as The Wainwright Sisters.
Trouser trends for the coming season and influences from the past with Sasha Wilkins, who blogs as Liberty London Girl, and fashion historian Amber Butchart.
Composer Jocelyn Pook and Director Emma Bernard will be talking to Jenni about how they've used performance and music to bring to life some of the poems and drawings by children who were in the Terezin concentration camp. The production is currently touring round the country and will be at London's Barbican on Saturday.
FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b06yrspc)
November Dead List: Series 2
Episode 5
By Nick Perry
Lia Williams plays Detective Chief Inspector Greave in the return of Radio 4's gritty crime drama.
Set in rural Norfolk, one of the lowest crime areas in the country, DCI Greave leads a team investigating a series of murders. She's connected all of the victims to a single crime committed eight years previously: the murder of a young Albanian woman at a Norfolk farm. But she's yet to uncover who is behind it all. Series finale.
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko.
FRI 11:00 Every Case Tells a Story (b05xxc06)
The Case of Kolkata
Clive Anderson looks at a variety of famous and infamous court cases and retells the story that the case brought into the public eye.
In this programme he explores a case brought before the High Court of Kolkata in 2003, which aimed to decide once and for all whether the city of Kolkata had in fact been founded Job Charnock, a representative of the East India Company in 1690, as the history books claimed.
Featuring: William Dalrymple, Krishna Dutta, PT Nair, Vikrant Pachnanda and Deborshi Roychoudhury.
FRI 11:30 Agatha Christie - Ordeal by Innocence (b03y0l8y)
Episode 1
Doctor Calgary comes to visit the Argyle family with good news. He tells the family he is there to clear the name of Jacko, who was convicted of the murder of his mother. But his information is not greeted with the enthusiasm he expects.
Along with Crooked House, Ordeal by Innocence was Agatha Christie's favourite of her own works. It is easy to see why. Eschewing the traditional detective format, it takes an original idea - how the innocent suffer more than the guilty when a crime goes unsolved - and explores it to the full within a family where everyone has a motive and means to have done it.
FRI 12:00 News Summary (b06y8zh4)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:04 Home Front (b06l3fwy)
29 January 1916 - Olive Hargreaves
On this day a Canadian soldier was badly injured by a bus in Folkestone, and at the Bevan hospital Sister Hargreaves clashes with Dorothea.
Written by Claudine Toutoungi
Directed by Allegra McIlroy
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.
SECRET SHAKESPEARE
A Shakespeare quote is hidden in each Home Front episode that is set in 1916. These were first broadcast in 2016, the 400th anniversary year of the playwright's death. Can you spot them all?
FRI 12:15 You and Yours (b06yjvny)
Care home complaints, Foreign TV
Relatives are facing counter allegations and even evictions when they raise concerns about their relatives care. At the end of last year the Health Service Ombudsman published a report which revealed that people over the age of seventy five often lack the confidence to complain when they receive poor care, and worry about the impact this might have on their future treatment.
Tesco has been found guilty of treating suppliers badly. The supermarket watchdog found they had broken industry rules... for late payments to their suppliers... and even for paying suppliers less than they were owed. That was in response to a report this week from the industry watchdog, the Grocery Code Adjudicator, who said she was shocked by the widespread abuses of the code of conduct.
With the price of oil lower than at any time since 2003, motorists are discovering to their benefit that the collapse has led to lower prices at the pumps. Yet Britain's two leading long-haul airlines are still applying hefty surcharges to travelers. So what's going on? That's what Simon Calder has been trying to find out since he was charged £189 for a "carrier-imposed surcharge" on a flight to Shanghai.
Foreign language dramas are taking off on UK Television. From Borgen to The Killing we're going mad for Scandi drama and now Channel 4 have launched an on demand service of 600 hours of foreign language programming. But when these dramas are subtitled this causes problems for the visually impaired. We talk to the experts.
FRI 12:57 Weather (b06y8zh6)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 13:00 World at One (b06yjvp0)
News presented by Mark Mardell including the latest on EU deal negotiations, a woman in need of two hand transplants and how landlords are checking the immigration status of tenants.
FRI 13:45 From Savage to Self (b06zdkdv)
Coming of Age
Farrah Jarral concludes the first week of her series on the history of anthropology by looking at the remarkable legacy of Margaret Mead.
Farrah looks at how Mead's first research trip to the South Pacific set a new template for how anthropological learning could be used in modern societies, upending how Americans thought about child-rearing and breastfeeding. And she argues that Mead's research in her second major research expedition changed forever notions of fixed gender identities.
Speaking to Margaret Mead's daughter, the anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, and to an anthropologist who wrote a book called 'Margaret Mead Made Me Gay', Farrah explores the extraordinary legacy of this anthropological pioneer.
Producer: Giles Edwards.
FRI 14:00 The Archers (b06yfm7v)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Drama (b0400mh7)
Blood Count
A day in the musical life and relationship of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn as they record Strayhorn's final composition, 'Blood Count'. An interview with Time Magazine reveals some truths about their working methods and the question of artistic credit. The action takes place during a recording session, and is based on extensive research into the working relationship of the two men. By Ian Smith.
Musicians: Matt Home (drums) Andrew Cleyndert (bass) Dave Newton (piano) Ian Smith (trumpet) and Alan Barnes (reeds)
Directed by Martin Smith
A BBC Cymru Wales Production.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b06yfyp7)
Barnard Castle
Eric Robson and the panel are in Barnard Castle, County Durham. Pippa Greenwood, Christine Walkden and Matt Biggs answer this week's questions from the audience.
Discussion includes how best to grow coffee, tips on what to put in a bog garden, and how to get a damson tree to flower.
Also, Matt Biggs visits the Nursery Garden at Eggleston Hall and Pippa Greenwood takes a turn around a Gaol Garden.
Produced by Howard Shannon
Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:45 Special Deliveries (b06yfyp9)
How Lovely on the Mountain by Lucy Gannon
A curiously behaving dog leads a postman to make a rather unexpected delivery, Kevin Whately reads Lucy Gannon's short story
One of a special series about some rather Special Deliveries, commissioned to mark the anniversary of the Royal Mail in 2016, 500 years after Cardinal Wolsey appointed the first Master of the Posts in 1516.
Producer: Heather Larmour
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2016.
FRI 16:00 Last Word (b06yfypc)
Lord Parkinson, Bill Mitchell, Paddy Doherty, Henry Worsley, Dr Gladys-Marie Fry
Matthew Bannister on
The Conservative politician Lord Parkinson. He masterminded the 1983 election victory but was forced to resign when his affair with his secretary was revealed.
Bill Mitchell, who lived and breathed the Yorkshire Dales, editing the Dalesman magazine and writing hundreds of books.
Paddy Doherty, the Irish Republican activist who played a leading role in Derry's 1969 Battle of the Bogside.
Henry Worsley, the former SAS soldier and explorer who died whilst attempting the first solo unaided crossing of Antarctica.
And Dr Gladys-Marie Fry, the folklorist who chronicled the African American experience.
FRI 16:30 More or Less (b06yfypf)
How Harmful Is Alcohol?
New alcohol guidelines were issued recently which lowered the number of units recommended for safe drinking. But are the benefits and harms of alcohol being judged correctly? We speak to Professor David Speigelhalter and
Sepsis - do 44,000 people die of it a year? Is it the country's second biggest killer? We speak to Dr Marissa Mason about the difficulties of knowing the numbers.
Dan Bouk tells the story of a statistician who crept around graveyards in South Carolina at the turn of the century recording how long people lived - all to help out an insurance firm.
It's from his book 'How our days became numbered' - looking at how data from insurance company has shaped knowledge about our lives.
Have refugees caused a gender imbalance in Sweden or is there something funny going on? It has been reported that there are 123 boys for every 100 girls aged between 16 and 17 in Sweden. In China, the ratio is 117 boys to 100 girls. We explore if the numbers add up and why this might be.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Charlotte McDonald.
FRI 16:55 The Listening Project (b06yfypr)
James and Victoria - The Step-Parent
Fi Glover introduces a conversations between half siblings, who reflect on the arrival of step-parents, and the conflicting loyalties they felt as children - another in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
FRI 17:00 PM (b06ynjgz)
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b06y8zh8)
Tareena Shakil from Birmingham is the first British woman to be convicted of joining IS.
FRI 18:30 The News Quiz (b06yfypv)
Series 89
Episode 4
Series 89 of the satirical quiz. Miles Jupp is back in the chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of guests take on the big (and not so big) news events of the week. Jeremy Hardy, Camilla Long, Terry Christian and Rich Hall are this week's panellists.
Producer: Richard Morris
A BBC Radio Comedy Production.
FRI 19:00 The Archers (b06yfyq5)
Pat and Helen admire the black puddings at Bridge Farm - Clarrie has done a good job. When Tom tries to get Helen to taste some, she recoils and takes herself to the loo, with Pat following to see if she's alright. Helen snaps, telling Pat to stop fussing.
Brian seems to be in a good mood following last night and Jennifer raves about the new menu at Grey Gables. Pat and Jennifer discuss Helen, who Pat says hasn't been eating properly. Jennifer suggests it's just the pregnancy - but if Pat's worried she should speak to Rob, perhaps?
Ruth notes that Pip will miss Matthew, who starts his new job on Monday. David reflects on how different things were at Brookfield a year ago. As they prepare to sell the herd, their catalogue will be ready to send out in a week, so there'll be no going back then. David and Ruth look at the map as they start to plan which fields they want to sow down to grass for their new system. David is totally with Ruth with their new venture - there are exciting times ahead for Brookfield!
FRI 19:15 Front Row (b06yfyq7)
Will Smith, Caryl Churchill's new play, Iran tourism, Ringo Starr's birthplace
Will Smith talks to John Wilson about his role as a forensic neuropathologist in the new film Concussion, based on a true story, which deals with the phenomenon of brain injury in American Football.
Susannah Clapp and David Benedict review Caryl Churchill's new play Escaped Alone and consider her contribution to theatre.
The British Museum's Vesta Curtis describes the glorious heritage of Iran and reflects upon recent US policy changes and their impact on tourism.
With news that after years of wrangling, Ringo Starr's birthplace at 9 Madryn St, Liverpool, is to be refurbished rather than knocked down, the former Beatle looks back on growing up there in an interview he gave to Front Row in 2008.
Presenter John Wilson
Producer Dixi Stewart.
FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b06yrspc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b06yfyq9)
Lord Hennessy, Caroline Lucas MP, John Redwood MP, Gisela Stuart MP
Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Purbeck School in Wareham, Dorset, with the crossbench peer Lord Hennessy, Green Party MP and former leader Caroline Lucas, the Conservative backbencher John Redwood MP and Labour MP Gisela Stuart.
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b06yfyqf)
Expert by Experience
After hearing a former political prisoner in South Africa and a holocaust survivor tell their stories, Tom Shakespeare concludes that personal experience is the most powerful form of expertise.
"Hearing their testimonies affected me more deeply than any lecture, book or film. They were unforgettable authentic encounters."
Producer: Sheila Cook.
FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b06l3js2)
25-29 January 1916
In the week when President Woodrow Wilson declared "The world is on fire, and sparks are likely to drop anywhere", pressures begin to tell at the Bevan hospital too.
Written by Claudine Toutoungi
Directed by Allegra McIlroy
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole
Story-led by Shaun McKenna
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Composer: Matthew Strachan
Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews.
FRI 21:58 Weather (b06y8zhb)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b06yjvp2)
British Woman Guilty of Joining IS
How to treat people returning from Syria; why French Jews are moving to London and a personal experience of raising a child with microcephaly.
Picture credit: West Midlands Police.
FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b06ys5tg)
The Automobile Club of Egypt
Episode 10
Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of colonial luxury and privilege for its European members.
A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian Building and Chicago.
Episode 10:
Events build to a violent climax after which nothing will be the same again.
Read by Raad Rawi, Amir El-Masry and Emerald O'Hanrahan
Translated by Russell Harris
Abridged by Jeremy Osborne
Produced by Karen Rose
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 23:00 Woman's Hour (b06yg02f)
Late Night Woman's Hour: Purity
Lauren Laverne and guests discuss purity. What does it mean for women in food, sex, religion and thought? Late night, intimate conversation with author Emma Woolf, Jewish theologian Dina Brawer, business woman Shirley Yanez and political journalist Helen Lewis.
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament (b06yjvp4)
Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster on a policy U-turn from the Ministry of Justice.
FRI 23:55 The Listening Project (b06yfyqt)
Eamonn and Roisin - Two Parents, Two Homes
Fi Glover introduces a father seeking assurance from his 18 year old daughter that growing up in two homes has not been a damaging experience - another conversation in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 MON (b06ybg7p)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 MON (b06ybg7p)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 TUE (b06yrjby)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 TUE (b06yrjby)
15 Minute Drama
10:41 WED (b06yrjwy)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 WED (b06yrjwy)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 THU (b06yrrbr)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 THU (b06yrrbr)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 FRI (b06yrspc)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 FRI (b06yrspc)
A Point of View
08:48 SUN (b06wj7c1)
A Point of View
23:50 SUN (b06wj7c1)
A Point of View
20:50 FRI (b06yfyqf)
Agatha Christie - Ordeal by Innocence
11:30 FRI (b03y0l8y)
Analysis
20:30 MON (b06ybnh1)
Any Answers?
14:00 SAT (b06y8mhd)
Any Questions?
13:10 SAT (b06wj7bz)
Any Questions?
20:00 FRI (b06yfyq9)
Archive on 4
20:00 SAT (b06vg1ph)
BBC Inside Science
16:30 THU (b06yfjdp)
BBC Inside Science
21:00 THU (b06yfjdp)
Bad Salsa
11:30 WED (b06ycwr6)
Bells on Sunday
05:43 SUN (b06y92wz)
Bells on Sunday
00:45 MON (b06y92wz)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 MON (b06ys5n1)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 TUE (b06ys5nv)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 WED (b06ys5pv)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 THU (b06ys5sj)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 FRI (b06ys5tg)
Book of the Week
00:30 SAT (b06wj5wf)
Book of the Week
09:45 MON (b06ybg7k)
Book of the Week
00:30 TUE (b06ybg7k)
Book of the Week
09:45 TUE (b06ybzgq)
Book of the Week
00:30 WED (b06ybzgq)
Book of the Week
09:45 WED (b06ycwqy)
Book of the Week
00:30 THU (b06ycwqy)
Book of the Week
09:45 THU (b06yfhqm)
Book of the Week
00:30 FRI (b06yfhqm)
Book of the Week
09:45 FRI (b06yfqqm)
Brain of Britain
23:00 SAT (b06wcsnb)
Brain of Britain
15:00 MON (b06ybg80)
Broadcasting House
09:00 SUN (b06y8z62)
Can We Trust the Opinion Polls?
13:30 SUN (b06y9810)
Crafty Orchids
11:00 TUE (b06yclg6)
Desert Island Discs
11:15 SUN (b06y9796)
Desert Island Discs
09:00 FRI (b06y9796)
Drama
14:30 SAT (b06y8ny3)
Drama
21:00 SAT (b06wbrk5)
Drama
14:15 MON (b036kscx)
Drama
14:15 TUE (b06ycn95)
Drama
14:15 THU (b06yfhr1)
Drama
14:15 FRI (b0400mh7)
Every Case Tells a Story
11:00 FRI (b05xxc06)
Farming Today
06:30 SAT (b06y8l7p)
Farming Today
05:45 MON (b06yb420)
Farming Today
05:45 TUE (b06ybv0d)
Farming Today
05:45 WED (b06ycshb)
Farming Today
05:45 THU (b06yfhqg)
Farming Today
05:45 FRI (b06yfqq6)
File on 4
17:00 SUN (b06wd7f0)
File on 4
20:00 TUE (b06ycr55)
Four Bare Legs in a Bed
00:30 SUN (b02qt7w2)
Four Thought
22:15 SAT (b06wg803)
Four Thought
05:45 SUN (b06wg803)
Four Thought
20:00 WED (b06zdk7x)
Four Thought
20:45 WED (b06yfcpb)
From Fact to Fiction
19:00 SAT (b06y8t24)
From Fact to Fiction
17:40 SUN (b06y8t24)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:30 SAT (b06w6s2t)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:00 THU (b06y8zfp)
From Savage to Self
13:45 MON (b06ybg7y)
From Savage to Self
13:45 TUE (b06zdjvc)
From Savage to Self
13:45 WED (b06zdk01)
From Savage to Self
13:45 THU (b06zdkb7)
From Savage to Self
13:45 FRI (b06zdkdv)
Front Row
19:15 MON (b06ybngx)
Front Row
19:15 TUE (b06ycr53)
Front Row
19:15 WED (b06yfcp0)
Front Row
19:15 THU (b06yfm81)
Front Row
19:15 FRI (b06yfyq7)
Gardeners' Question Time
14:00 SUN (b06wj67h)
Gardeners' Question Time
15:00 FRI (b06yfyp7)
Great Lives
15:35 SAT (b06ycr4x)
Great Lives
16:30 TUE (b06ycr4x)
Herland
11:30 THU (b06yfhqr)
Home Front - Omnibus
21:00 FRI (b06l3js2)
Home Front
12:04 MON (b06l3c0t)
Home Front
12:04 TUE (b06l3d5v)
Home Front
12:04 WED (b06l3fjj)
Home Front
12:04 THU (b06l3frl)
Home Front
12:04 FRI (b06l3fwy)
In Business
21:30 SUN (b06wj1bt)
In Our Time
09:00 THU (b06yfhqk)
In Our Time
21:30 THU (b06yfhqk)
In Touch
20:40 TUE (b06y8zbl)
Inside Health
21:00 TUE (b06ycr57)
Inside Health
15:30 WED (b06ycr57)
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
18:30 THU (b06yfjdy)
Last Word
20:30 SUN (b06wv9cd)
Last Word
16:00 FRI (b06yfypc)
Living World
06:35 SUN (b06y96gv)
Loose Ends
18:15 SAT (b06y8t22)
Mark Steel's in Town
11:30 MON (b01pc3by)
Mark Thomas: The Manifesto
23:00 THU (b01ckggk)
Mastertapes
23:00 MON (b06ybnh5)
Mastertapes
15:30 TUE (b06ycr4s)
Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
00:00 FRI (b06y8zgt)
Midweek
09:00 WED (b06ycwqw)
Midweek
21:30 WED (b06ycwqw)
Money Box
12:04 SAT (b06y8l80)
Money Box
21:00 SUN (b06y8l80)
Money Box
15:00 WED (b06ycytl)
More or Less
20:00 SUN (b06wv9cg)
More or Less
16:30 FRI (b06yfypf)
News Briefing
05:30 SAT (b06w6s1g)
News Briefing
05:30 SUN (b06y8z5m)
News Briefing
05:30 MON (b06y8z88)
News Briefing
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News Briefing
05:30 WED (b06y8zd3)
News Briefing
05:30 THU (b06y8zfm)
News Briefing
05:30 FRI (b06y8zh2)
News Headlines
06:00 SUN (b06y8z5p)
News Summary
12:00 SAT (b06w6s2y)
News Summary
12:00 SUN (b06y8z64)
News Summary
12:00 MON (b06y8z8d)
News Summary
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News Summary
12:00 WED (b06y8zd5)
News Summary
12:00 THU (b06y8zfr)
News Summary
12:00 FRI (b06y8zh4)
News and Papers
06:00 SAT (b06w6s1n)
News and Papers
07:00 SUN (b06y8z5t)
News and Papers
08:00 SUN (b06y8z60)
News and Weather
22:00 SAT (b06w6s3t)
News
13:00 SAT (b06w6s38)
Nurse
23:15 WED (b03w18yq)
One to One
09:30 TUE (b06pb54l)
Open Book
16:00 SUN (b06y9b6w)
Open Book
15:30 THU (b06y9b6w)
Open Country
06:07 SAT (b06whswq)
Open Country
15:00 THU (b06yfhr9)
PM
17:00 SAT (b06y8t1y)
PM
17:00 MON (b06ybg86)
PM
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PM
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PM
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PM
17:00 FRI (b06ynjgz)
Pick of the Week
18:15 SUN (b06y9b72)
Poetry Please
23:30 SAT (b06wbrk9)
Poetry Please
16:30 SUN (b06y9b70)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 SAT (b06wj90x)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 MON (b06zf0pw)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 TUE (b06yrhf7)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 WED (b06zvp90)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 THU (b06zw2r7)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 FRI (b06yn1wv)
Radio 4 Appeal
07:54 SUN (b06y96gz)
Radio 4 Appeal
21:26 SUN (b06y96gz)
Radio 4 Appeal
15:27 THU (b06y96gz)
Rethinking Anorexia Nervosa
21:00 MON (b06wczm3)
Saturday Live
09:00 SAT (b06y8l7t)
Saturday Review
19:15 SAT (b06y8t26)
Science Stories
21:00 WED (b06yfcph)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SAT (b06w6s1b)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SUN (b06y8z5h)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 MON (b06y8z84)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 TUE (b06y8z9r)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 WED (b06y8zcz)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 THU (b06y8zfh)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 FRI (b06y8zgy)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SAT (b06w6s16)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SAT (b06w6s1d)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SAT (b06w6s3g)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SUN (b06y8z5f)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SUN (b06y8z5k)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SUN (b06y8z68)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 MON (b06y8z82)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 MON (b06y8z86)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 TUE (b06y8z9p)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 TUE (b06y8z9t)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 WED (b06y8zcx)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 WED (b06y8zd1)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 THU (b06y8zff)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 THU (b06y8zfk)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 FRI (b06y8zgw)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 FRI (b06y8zh0)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SAT (b06w6s3n)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SUN (b06y8z6d)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 MON (b06y8z8j)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 TUE (b06y8zb2)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 WED (b06y8zdc)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 THU (b06y8zfw)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 FRI (b06y8zh8)
So Wrong It's Right
19:15 SUN (b01j5nws)
Something Understood
06:05 SUN (b06y96gs)
Special Deliveries
15:45 FRI (b06yfyp9)
Start the Week
09:00 MON (b06ybg7h)
Start the Week
21:30 MON (b06ybg7h)
Sunday Worship
08:10 SUN (b06y96h1)
Sunday
07:10 SUN (b06y96gx)
Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!
18:30 TUE (b06ycr4z)
The Archers Omnibus
10:00 SUN (b06y9794)
The Archers
19:00 SUN (b06y9b74)
The Archers
14:00 MON (b06y9b74)
The Archers
19:00 MON (b06ybjgt)
The Archers
14:00 TUE (b06ybjgt)
The Archers
19:00 TUE (b06ycr51)
The Archers
14:00 WED (b06ycr51)
The Archers
19:00 WED (b06yfcnr)
The Archers
14:00 THU (b06yfcnr)
The Archers
19:00 THU (b06yfm7v)
The Archers
14:00 FRI (b06yfm7v)
The Archers
19:00 FRI (b06yfyq5)
The Bottom Line
20:30 THU (b06yfm8d)
The Film Programme
16:00 THU (b06yfjdm)
The Food Programme
12:32 SUN (b06y9798)
The Food Programme
15:30 MON (b06y9798)
The Future of Radio
23:00 WED (b06yfcq0)
The Good Goering
11:00 WED (b06ycwr4)
The Gospel Truth
11:30 TUE (b06ycmd8)
The Imperative Mood
19:45 SUN (b06y9b76)
The Infinite Monkey Cage
16:30 MON (b06ybg84)
The Infinite Monkey Cage
23:00 TUE (b06ybg84)
The Kitchen Cabinet
10:30 SAT (b06y8l7w)
The Kitchen Cabinet
15:00 TUE (b06y8l7w)
The Listening Project
14:45 SUN (b06y987c)
The Listening Project
10:55 WED (b06ycwr2)
The Listening Project
16:55 FRI (b06yfypr)
The Listening Project
23:55 FRI (b06yfyqt)
The Media Show
16:30 WED (b06ycz4n)
The Moth Radio Hour
23:00 SUN (b06y9jvd)
The Museum of Curiosity
12:04 SUN (b06wcsnl)
The Museum of Curiosity
18:30 MON (b06ybgxr)
The News Quiz
12:30 SAT (b06wj7bv)
The News Quiz
18:30 FRI (b06yfypv)
The Reith Lectures
09:00 TUE (b06pttqf)
The Reith Lectures
21:30 TUE (b06pttqf)
The Report
20:00 THU (b06yfm8b)
The Untold
11:00 MON (b06ybg7r)
The Week in Westminster
11:00 SAT (b06y8l7y)
The World This Weekend
13:00 SUN (b06y979b)
The World Tonight
22:00 MON (b06ybnh3)
The World Tonight
22:00 TUE (b06ycr59)
The World Tonight
22:00 WED (b06yfcpm)
The World Tonight
22:00 THU (b06yfm8j)
The World Tonight
22:00 FRI (b06yjvp2)
Thinking Allowed
00:15 MON (b06wg7rp)
Thinking Allowed
16:00 WED (b06ycz4l)
Three Pounds in My Pocket
22:30 SAT (b065vsdv)
Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler
18:30 WED (b05nvjm7)
Today in Parliament
23:30 MON (b06ybnh7)
Today in Parliament
23:30 TUE (b06ycr5c)
Today in Parliament
23:30 WED (b06yfcqc)
Today in Parliament
23:30 THU (b06yfm8r)
Today in Parliament
23:30 FRI (b06yjvp4)
Today
07:00 SAT (b06y8l7r)
Today
06:00 MON (b06ybg7f)
Today
06:00 TUE (b06ybv0g)
Today
06:00 WED (b06ycwqt)
Today
06:00 THU (b06ynh2h)
Today
06:00 FRI (b06yjtgg)
Trump and the Politics of Paranoia
20:00 MON (b06ybngz)
Tumanbay
14:15 WED (b06ycytj)
Tweet of the Day
08:58 SUN (b04t0syn)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 MON (b04t0pm9)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 TUE (b04t0ptz)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 WED (b04t0qpk)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 THU (b04t0rd4)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 FRI (b04t0pjx)
Utopia
15:00 SUN (b06y9b6t)
Weather
06:04 SAT (b06w6s1q)
Weather
06:57 SAT (b06w6s1v)
Weather
12:57 SAT (b06w6s36)
Weather
17:57 SAT (b06w6s3l)
Weather
06:57 SUN (b06y8z5r)
Weather
07:57 SUN (b06y8z5y)
Weather
12:57 SUN (b06y8z66)
Weather
17:57 SUN (b06y8z6b)
Weather
05:56 MON (b06y8z8b)
Weather
12:57 MON (b06y8z8g)
Weather
21:58 MON (b06y8z8l)
Weather
12:57 TUE (b06y8zb0)
Weather
21:58 TUE (b06y8zby)
Weather
12:57 WED (b06y8zd7)
Weather
12:57 THU (b06y8zft)
Weather
12:57 FRI (b06y8zh6)
Weather
21:58 FRI (b06y8zhb)
Westminster Hour
22:00 SUN (b06y8z6g)
What the Papers Say
22:45 SUN (b06y9jvb)
With Great Pleasure
16:00 MON (b06ybg82)
Woman's Hour
16:00 SAT (b06y8s5c)
Woman's Hour
10:00 MON (b06ybg7m)
Woman's Hour
10:00 TUE (b06yclg4)
Woman's Hour
10:00 WED (b06ycwr0)
Woman's Hour
10:00 THU (b06yfhqp)
Woman's Hour
10:00 FRI (b06yjthj)
Woman's Hour
23:00 FRI (b06yg02f)
Word of Mouth
16:00 TUE (b06ycr4v)
World at One
13:00 MON (b06ybg7w)
World at One
13:00 TUE (b06ycmdd)
World at One
13:00 WED (b06ycy0j)
World at One
13:00 THU (b06ynjbf)
World at One
13:00 FRI (b06yjvp0)
You and Yours
12:15 MON (b06ybg7t)
You and Yours
12:15 TUE (b06ycmdb)
You and Yours
12:15 WED (b06ycy0g)
You and Yours
12:15 THU (b06yn9zv)
You and Yours
12:15 FRI (b06yjvny)
iPM
05:45 SAT (b06wj90z)
iPM
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