SATURDAY 14 OCTOBER 2017

SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b0977vcb)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.


SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b098fwlm)
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, April 1956 to October 1956

Sylvia Plath's renown as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets is beyond dispute, but she was also one of its most captivating correspondents. This radio selection, is abridged by Caitlin Crawford from the remarkable, collected edition of Plath's letters published last week. Edited by Peter K Steinberg and Karen Kukil , it is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a comprehensive and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters that she wrote to over one hundred and twenty correspondents, including her husband the poet Ted Hughes, to whom previously unseen letters are now revealed. The programmes offer us a generous insight into the life of one of our most significant poets. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The book's protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is a bright, ambitious student at Smith College who begins to experience a mental breakdown while interning for a fashion magazine in New York. The plot parallels Plath's experience interning at Mademoiselle magazine and subsequent mental breakdown and suicide attempt.

Despite her remarkable artistic, academic, and social success at Smith, Plath suffered from severe depression and underwent a period of psychiatric hospitalization. She graduated from Smith with highest honours in 1955 and went on to Newnham College, Cambridge, in England, on a Fulbright fellowship. Here she met and married the English poet Ted Hughes in 1956. For the following two years she was an instructor in English at Smith College.

5. April 1956 to October 1956 - from meeting to marriage . Sylvia and Ted Hughes

Read by Lydia Wilson
Abridged by Caitlin Crawford
Produced by Susan Roberts.


SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b0977vcf)

The latest shipping forecast.


SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b0977vcl)

SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b0977vcp)

The latest shipping forecast.


SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b0977vcr)

The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b097cl97)

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaunaka Rishi Das, director of The Oxford centre for Hindu Studies.


SAT 05:45 iPM (b098bn95)
I worry Catalonia will leave

In Spain, our listener and former holiday rep Stuart on Catalan independence.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.


SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b0977vcw)

The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.


SAT 06:07 Ramblings (b097c82x)
Series 37, Listeners' Walks: Isle of Man, Kallow Point

Clare Balding continues her exploration of The Isle of Man by travelling south to walk the coastal path from Kallow Point to the Sound. She's joined by locals Jane and Peter Gunn and archaeologist, Andrew Foxon. Despite the wind and rain setting in, there are still wonderful views to be had of the Calf of Man and Jane explains the many vagaries of living on the island, she appears to know everyone or at least all those they meet en route.

Producer: Lucy Lunt.


SAT 06:30 Farming Today (b0977vcy)

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.


SAT 06:57 Weather (b0977vd0)

The latest weather forecast.


SAT 07:00 Today (b098bn97)

News and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b0977vd2)
Mary Berry

Extraordinary stories, unusual people and a sideways look at the world.


SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet (b098bpyj)
Series 18, Pangbourne College

Jay Rayner and the panel visit Pangbourne College in Berkshire. Dr Annie Gray, Andi Oliver, Tim Anderson and Sophie Wright answer the questions.

Producer: Darby Dorras
Assistant Producer: Laurence Bassett

Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster (b098bpyl)

George Parker of the Financial Times asks how far Theresa May has stabilised her leadership. Why did a plot against her fail? Why is the chancellor, Philip Hammond, in trouble with Eurosceptics? And, Baroness Trumpington, one of the best known peers, explains why she is retiring from the House of Lords.

Editor: Peter Mulligan.


SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b0977vd4)

The spiritualists selling costly 'cures' and offering exorcisms for mental health problems. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world.
Nicola Kelly is in Zanzibar were spiritual healers are getting rich as the country faces a mental health epidemic.
Mark Lowen ponders what the future may hold for Iraqi Kurdistan.
Zainab Badawi explores Charleston in America's Deep South. The carefully maintained Georgina houses are impressive, but look closely and the marks of the child slaves' hands that built them are still visible on some of the bricks
Phoebe Smith visits a restaurant for vulture in Nepal.
And Hugh Schofield has become a dad again. He's discovering that a lot has changed in France since his last child was born 18 years ago.
Producer: Joe Kent.


SAT 12:00 News Summary (b0977vd6)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 12:04 Money Box (b098bpyn)

The latest news from the world of personal finance.


SAT 12:30 The News Quiz (b097ck02)
Series 94, 13/10/2017

Host Miles Jupp is joined by Rich Hall, Helen Lewis, Mark Steel and Kiri Pritchard-McLean to hash out the week's biggest news stories.


SAT 12:57 Weather (b0977vd8)

The latest weather forecast.


SAT 13:00 News (b0977vdb)

The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (b097ck07)
Ian Blackford MP, Lord Forsyth, Iain Martin, Chi Onwurah MP

Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Wellington Church in Glasgow with a panel including the leader of the SNP at Westminster Ian Blackford MP, the Times Columnist Iain Martin, Conservative peer Lord Forsyth and Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy Chi Onwurah MP.


SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (b0977vdd)

Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions?


SAT 14:30 Drama (b098bpyq)
Rebus: Fleshmarket Close, Episode 2

2 / 2. In Ian Rankin's crime thriller, Rebus and Clarke close in on a people-trafficking gang, investigate the murder of a convicted rapist, and unravel the mystery of two skeletons in an Edinburgh pub cellar. Dramatised by Chris Dolan.

Other parts played by the cast
Producer/director: Bruce Young
BBC Scotland.


SAT 15:30 Passing Dreams (b095rbtc)

A portrait of singer, songwriter and truck driver Will Beeley.

The myth of the road is deeply rooted in America - it's the thing that delivers escape, promises freedom, fuels new hopes and, once upon a time at least, thoughts of a new nation. And it provides its own opening onto the vastness and variety of the country today.

The distances can be dizzying. And these days Will Beeley spends more time on the road than he does at home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a city in the desert, with Route 66 running through its heart.

In another life Will Beeley was a musician - a singer and songwriter - an anxious romantic at the end of the 1960s and a smooth-voiced folkie ten years later. He played gig after gig, made records and, for a while at least, hoped for the big time.

But now, like a different road taken, a different stop along the way, he spends his life behind the wheel of a hulking truck, sharing the driving with his wife, as the highway and the days blur by.

It's a unique vantage point. And as America spools past outside, framed by the huge windscreen, does he - like all of us now and then - think of times gone by, of unfinished business, of what might have been? Or is his attention fixed ahead on the road as it rolls towards him, flowing beneath his wheels?

Producer: Martin Williams.


SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour (b0977vdg)
Weekend Woman's Hour: The American folksinger Peggy Seeger

American folksinger Peggy Seeger performs and tells us about her new memoir The First Time and her UK wide music and literary tour.

The English actor and writer Dawn French talks about her relationship with her daughter, dealing with racism while married to Lenny Henry and her new book a biographical diary.

We discuss the Harvey Weinstein case, the film producer dealing with multiple allegations of sexual harassment, with Laura Bates of the Everyday Sexism Project.

How can we teach our children about consent? We hear from Deana Puccio the co-founder of the Rap Project and former New York District Attorney and Rachel Fitzsimmons a sex and relationship Education specialist about the best age to broach the subject.

The award winning poet Claudia Rankine examines her experience of race and racism in Western Society

As part of our Best Place to be a woman series we look at Social Isolation of older women. The report found that South Tyneside was one of the worst places to be a lone women over the age of 65. We hear from 89 year old Betty who lives alone in South Tyneside and from Professor Barbara Hanratty from the Institute of Aging at Newcastle University.

Wonder Woman is the world's most iconic female superhero - but what do we know about her real life creators. A new film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women seeks to tell their story. Angela Robinson the director and screenwriter tells us about it.

Presented by Jenni Murray
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Beverley Purcell.


SAT 17:00 PM (b0977vdj)
Saturday PM

Full coverage of the day's news.


SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line (b097c99r)
Shake-up in the skies

What's behind the recent collapse of airlines such as Monarch, Alitalia and Air Berlin? Is it a case of supply outstripping demand or is there a larger crisis
looming? Will Ryanair's cancellation of thousands of flights do the company permanent damage?

What's really happening to Europe's airline industry?
Evan Davis and guests discuss.

GUESTS

John Strickland, Aviation consultant

Peter Duffy, Chief Commercial Officer, EasyJet

And

Roger Flynn, Chairman, Loveholidays.com.


SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast (b0977vdl)

The latest shipping forecast.


SAT 17:57 Weather (b0977vdn)

The latest weather forecast.


SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b0977vdq)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 18:15 Loose Ends (b0977vds)
Jessica Raine, Kevin Bishop, Linda Lewis, Chris Thorpe, Siv Jakobsen, Bedouine, Arthur Smith, Clive Anderson

Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Jessica Raine, Kevin Bishop, Linda Lewis and Chris Thorpe for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Bedouine and Siv Jakobsen.

Producer: Sukey Firth.


SAT 19:00 Profile (b098bqr1)
Baroness Trumpington

Edward Stourton profiles former minister, and mistress of the deadpan one-liner, Baroness Trumpington, who this week announced she will retire from the House of Lords at the age of 95. He talks to Ian Hislop, Viscount Astor, friends and family about her extraordinary life that took her from riches, through the Wall Street Crash, code breaking at Bletchley Park, into politics and finally to unexpected celebrity status after giving a two finger salute to a fellow peer. One of few politicians with the guts to stand up to Margaret Thatcher, some have even called her an unlikely feminist icon.


SAT 19:15 Saturday Review (b0977vdv)
The Party, Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle, The Sparsholt Affair, Degas at the Fitzwilliam, The Gamble

Sally Potter's new film The Party is her funniest to date with an all-star cast telling a neat little tale of a disastrous dinner party
Heisenberg:The Uncertainty Principle is a new play by Simon Stephens. relating physics with relationship advice
The Sparsholt Affair is Alan Hollinghurst's new novel about a love affair set in Oxford during the Second World War
Degas: A Passion for Perfection is at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum, with works by Degas himself and also looking at those who influenced him and those he influenced
A new 3 part series, The Gamble, on BBC Radio 4 looks at the connection between risk and creativity, narrated by the actor Noma Dumezweni

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Sarah Crompton, Kevin Jackson and Graham Farmelo. The producer is Oliver Jones.


SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 (b098bqr3)
Travels in North Korea

Last year approximately 4,000 tourists from the West travel to the DPRK, this year there may be fewer, although tourist and business people are still entering the country.
So why do people visit?

Despite its reputation as a closed country - the 'hermit kingdom' - there has been an increasing interest in travel to North Korea over the past decade, both for tourists and business. So what do people experience there, and how do they feel when they hear the current high-voltage exchanges of threats from either side of the Pacific.

As the language of war is racheted up, Sara Jane Hall takes time to speak to those who have visited for a variety of reason, using a surprisingly rich vein of programmes recorded from within the DPRK, from the BBC archives. From the tour leaders guiding tourists through the museums, schools and parks, to a visit to the DMZ, from the 'other side', what do those who visited in the past now make of their time there? Have their views changed?

Some of the questions Sara Jane will explore include, what was the experience of being in a country so controlled you are rarely allowed to travel without a guide being present at all times? How does it feel to be unable to freely discuss your impressions for fear of putting your guide at serious risk of punishment?
Were you able to have any meaningful relationships with the Koreans and was there a sense of connection? Why did you even go?

In 1867 Mark Twain wrote "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness," but if you are unable to speak, move or act freely, how are your impressions of a country such as the DPRK formed. Sara Jane will also hear from business travelers, who have experienced negotiations with the authorities, and to refugees, who have seen Westerners in Pyongyang. How do they regard the occasional visitors, who stand out, due to their wide variety of clothing, as much as their features? Did it make tthem curious or angry?

There will also be a lot of surprises for the listener who has only a narrow picture of this country - which will humanise a little understood country.

Presented and produced by Sara Jane Hall, who has visited the DPRK twice, to record two documentaries for BBC Radio 4.

Photos courtesy of Tony Pletts.


SAT 21:00 Drama (b09784xb)
Reading Europe - Italy: The Story of a Lost Child, Episode 2

Elena Ferrante's story of a life long friendship between Lila and Lena comes to an end in this sad and surprising final chapter.

Accepting the fact that her lover Nino will not leave his wife, Lena decides to move back to Naples with her two children and accept his offer to rent them a flat in the nice part of town. They continue to have an affair and she finds herself pregnant.

Strangely, Lila also finds herself also pregnant and this unites their friendship once more. Lila however seems to suffer during her pregnancy - not helped by the chaos caused by the earthquake that hit Naples in 1980. Gradually she seems to lose touch with her world once again.

Written by Elena Ferrante
Translated by Ann Goldstein
Dramatised for radio by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Directed by Celia de Wolff
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 22:00 News and Weather (b0977vdx)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.


SAT 22:15 Moral Maze (b097c1g3)
50 Years of the Abortion Act

The Moral Maze returns with a special programme marking 50 years of the Abortion Act, recorded in front of an audience of students at UCL Faculty of Laws. Under the 1967 law, terminations were made legal for the first time in limited circumstances, with the agreement of two doctors. In practice this has meant that it has not usually been difficult to get an abortion in the first 6 months of pregnancy. The technology has changed: the threshold at which a baby has a good chance of surviving outside the womb has decreased, so at 23 weeks' gestation, one foetus might be aborted while another is put in intensive care. Social attitudes have changed and many doctors now support the official line of the British Medical Association which wants abortion to be decriminalised completely. So is it time for abortion to be treated like any other medical procedure that is regulated by the General Medical Council? On the other side of the dispute are those who say the Act has been too liberally interpreted. With nearly 200,000 abortions a year in the UK, they say we effectively have 'abortion on demand' and they want the law to be tightened to protect the rights of 'pre-born children' and their mothers. Whatever the details of time-limits and interpretation of the law, the moral dividing line remains as deeply-etched as it was in 1967: it is between those who think a human life starts at conception and those who don't.

The Moral Maze has teamed up with Dundee University's Centre for Argument Technology. For the first time, researchers will analyse the debate and use the data to create an interactive web page called "Test your argument", hosted by the BBC's experimental site "Taster" and available via the Radio 4 website after the broadcast.

Producer: Dan Tierney.


SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote (b0978ndx)

The popular quotations programme 'Quote ... Unquote' returns. Nigel Rees quizzes Kate Fox, Olly Mann, Julian Mitchell and Joanna Scanlon.

Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for a new series.

For over forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... have all graced the Quote ... Unquote stage.

Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of guests on the origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the panel to share their favourite anecdotes.

Episode 2

Playwright and Screenwriter Julian Mitchell
Award Winning Podcaster and Gadget Guru Olly Mann
Actor and Screenwriter Joanna Scanlan
Stand Up Poet Kate Fox

Presenter ... Nigel Rees
Reader ... Charlotte Green
Producer ... Katie Tyrrell
Production co-ordinator ... Beverly Tagg

This is a BBC Studios Production.


SAT 23:30 Dads and Daughters (b0978860)

The relationship between fathers and daughters has been the subject of countless cultural explorations down the centuries, from Elektra's distress to Bonjour Tristesse. Some of them are idealised ('To Kill A Mockingbird', 'All the Lights We Cannot See'); some highly damaging and dysfunctional ('This is England', 'The Beggar's Opera'); some, as any A'Level pupil who's studied 'King Lear' can attest, are both. What is clear in all these cases is just how particular and powerful the relationship can be, and in this highly personal programme Lauren Laverne heads home to team up with her own dad, Les, to talk about their relationship and how it matches up with some of these cultural imaginings. Among anecdotes about growing up in Sunderland and later on Les playing roadie to Lauren's gigs with the likes of the Ramones, we also hear from artists who in one way or another are engaging with the dad/daughter relationship now, including Helen MacDonald, Glyn Maxwell and The Unthanks.

Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Geoff Bird.



SUNDAY 15 OCTOBER 2017

SUN 00:00 Midnight News (b098bsmd)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.


SUN 00:30 Short Works (b097cjzq)
Series 1, Hurricane Season

Maxine Beneba Clarke's specially written short story is about the fall out from a devastating hurricane which compels Nico and his son Elias to rebuild their lives in a new land. Read by Damian Lynch.

Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer and slam poetry champion of Afro-Caribbean descent. She is the author of the poetry collections Gil Scott Heron is on Parole and Nothing Here Needs Fixing. Her award winning debut short story collection, Foreign Soil was published in 2014, and The Hate Race, her powerful memoir about growing up black in white middle-class Australia was published in 2017.

Produced by Elizabeth Allard.


SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b098bsmg)

The latest shipping forecast.


SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b098bsmj)

SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b098bsml)

The latest shipping forecast.


SUN 05:30 News Briefing (b098bsmn)

The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday (b098gmrx)
St Martins, Worcester

Church bells from St Martins, Worcester.


SUN 05:45 Profile (b098bqr1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday]


SUN 06:00 News Headlines (b098bsmq)

The latest national and international news.


SUN 06:05 Something Understood (b098bsms)
Simplicity

Mark Tully seeks the ideal balance between the virtue of simplicity and embracing the many complexities of life. Is there a danger in neglecting the virtue of simplicity? What are the pitfalls, as well as the advantages, of complexity in contemporary living?

Mark questions the potential for naivety in dreams of the "simple life" and celebrates the benefits of simplicity with music by Erik Satie and poetry by W. B. Yeats. He also considers triumphs of complexity with music by Kaikhosru Sorabji and the prose of John Steinbeck.

The readers are Christopher Harper, Francis Cadder and Polly Frame.

Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling
A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4.


SUN 06:35 The Living World (b098gms3)
Mellow Fruitfulness

Brett Westwood relives programmes from 50 years of the Living World archives. In this episode from 1988 Peter France is on the South Downs with ecologist David Streeter.

Hips haws and honeysuckle berries enliven the hedgerows. On the ground toadstools appear as if by magic and acorns rain from above - all to ensure future generations of their kind. David Streeter and Peter France sample the fruits of autumn while delving into the many evolutionary mechanisms plants employ to move the next generation across the landscape, with a little help of course.

Producer Andrew Dawes.


SUN 06:57 Weather (b098bsmv)

The latest weather forecast.


SUN 07:00 News and Papers (b098bsmx)

The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SUN 07:10 Sunday (b098bsmz)
Gender segregation in faith schools, Mahant Swami Maharaj UK visit, Moral issues of food waste

Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme.


SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal (b098gms9)
Farm Africa

Michael Palin makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Farm Africa.

Registered Charity Number: 326901
To Give:
- Freephone 0800 404 8144
- Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. (That's the whole address. Please do not write anything else on the front of the envelope). Mark the back of the envelope 'Farm Africa'.
- Cheques should be made payable to 'Farm Africa'.


SUN 07:57 Weather (b098bsn1)

The latest weather forecast.


SUN 08:00 News and Papers (b098bsn3)

The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship (b098gmsf)
Strengthen the Weak Hands

From the Churchill Hospital Cancer Centre in Oxford, anticipating St Luke's Day, who was the patron saint of Physicians. The service, which is led by the Revd Canon Dr Margaret Whipp, Lead Chaplain of Oxford University Hospitals, focusses on the work of spiritual care in the nation's hospitals. The preacher is John Wyatt, a Professor of Ethics and Perinatology and a member of the ethics committees of the Royal College of Physicians. The Chapel Choir of Exeter College, Oxford is directed by Bartosz Thiede. The producer is Andrew Earis.


SUN 08:48 A Point of View (b097ck09)
The Battle for Free Speech

Andrew Sullivan says a type of "cultural Marxism" is sweeping through American universities.

Conservative ideas, he says, are increasingly being banished from campuses and free speech is seen as a delusion.

"It's an ideology that is fast resembling a new religion".

Producer: Adele Armstrong.


SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day (b09789pb)
Stuart Butchart on the Bronze-Winged Jacana

BirdLife International's chief scientist Dr Stuart Butchart reveals the bronze-winged jacana. He shares what he found out whilst spending three years studying them at Vembanur Lake in India, surrounded by water lilies and patiently watching on a canoe.

Producer: Eliza Lomas
Photograph: Prerna Jane.


SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House (b098bsn5)

Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.


SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus (b098bsn7)

Lilian finds herself tempted, and Pip makes an embarrassing mistake.


SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs (b098gmsm)
Jane Gardam

Jane Gardam is best known for her trilogy of novels about an ex-colonial QC nicknamed Old Filth. A writer for both adults and children, she has won two Whitbread awards, the Katherine Mansfield Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker and the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Born in 1928, she grew up in North Yorkshire where her father was a schoolmaster at a small independent boys' school. Her mother wrote sermons and was an inveterate letter-writer. After graduating, Jane had a number of literary jobs, but gave up working to raise her three young children. Although she wrote poems as a young girl, her writing career didn't begin in earnest until the day her youngest child started school when she began to write her first book.

Since then, she has published more than 30 books, including novels for children and adults as well as short stories and a non-fiction volume about the Yorkshire of her youth.

Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale.


SUN 12:00 News Summary (b098bsn9)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth (b0978p0j)
Series 19, Episode 2

David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents.

Richard Osman, Arthur Smith, Lou Sanders and Phil Wang are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Kanye West, sugar, chickens and aeroplanes.

Produced by Jon Naismith
A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.


SUN 12:32 Food Programme (b098gmss)
How We Eat: 3. Eating By The Rules

Increasing numbers of people in Britain seem to eat according to very clearly defined rules, from fashionable Clean Eaters to religious believers to professional sportspeople. In this third programme in the series How we Eat, Sheila Dillon talks to them about the rules they follow and why, sometimes, rules make life not only easier but more enjoyable. She meets vlogger Madeleine Shaw, an Instagram Star with 275,000 followers, whose 12-point eating philosophy includes the rule "Don't Eat Anything Beige". She talks to followers of the ancient Jain religion, who believe it's deeply wrong to eat root vegetables or anything raw. If they break the rules, there is a complex system of atonement. She visits a slimming class to discover the pleasures of eating according to a clearly defined plan and why iced Chelsea buns are evil. And she talks to professional athletes, a jockey and a boxer, about how they eat when they know that their entire livelihood depends on not gaining a single pound.


SUN 12:57 Weather (b098bsnc)

The latest weather forecast.


SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend (b098bsnf)

Global news and analysis.


SUN 13:30 My Father's Israel (b098gp5q)

How a bitter dispute over Israel's future split a country and divided a family. In June 1967, Israel had just won the Six Day War, defeating the armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, and occupying much new territory. Israelis sensed a transformation in their country's destiny. Most were euphoric. A few were fearful. Two declarations drawn up in neighbouring Tel Aviv cafes and published on the same day symbolised this bitter divide.

One, now seen as hugely significant in shaping Israeli history, declared that 'The Land of Israel is now in the hands of the Jewish people'. It was signed by more than fifty members of the country's leading cultural and political elites. It encouraged the wave of settlements that would arise in the territories which Israel had recently occupied. The other declaration, concocted by two friends over an espresso, warned that the Israeli victory was a 'fateful' moment, and that holding onto occupied territories 'will make us a nation of murderers and murdered'. It was signed by just 12 people.

These heretical views, published in a leading daily newspaper, prompted intense criticism and its signatories were called traitors to the Zionist cause. Some received threats of violence, amongst them Shimon Tzabar, who was one of the authors. In this programme, his son Rami explores what this moment of dramatic change meant for Israel, and for his family. He travels to Tel Aviv and talks to those involved in making the two declarations, as they recall the extraordinary atmosphere surrounding them.

This is also a personal story, as Rami discovers the consequences of his father's passionate actions. After ostracism in Israel, his father went into exile in London (where Rami was born), and continued his campaigns with weapons of art, satire and unshakeable faith in his cause. The cost for the family was high.

Arguments still rage today about Israel's actions and destiny - an argument within Israeli society, within the international community and among individuals. This programme reveals, in one dramatic story, the roots of that argument, and how it reverberated so strongly across a family's life.

Producers: Rami Tzabar and Chris Bowlby
Editor: Hugh Levinson.


SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b097cjzn)
Wakehurst Place

Peter Gibbs and the panel are at Wakehurst Place in West Sussex, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of damage The Great Storm did there. Pippa Greenwood, Christine Walkden and Bob Flowerdew answer horticultural questions from the audience.

Produced by Dan Cocker
Assistant Producer: Laurence Bassett

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.


SUN 14:45 The Listening Project (b098gq6p)
Omnibus - Abused in Childhood

Fi Glover introduces conversations about surviving physical abuse in care and sexual abuse in the family in the Omnibus edition of 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.


SUN 15:00 Drama (b098h0dy)
Reading Europe - Italy: The Story of a Lost Child, Episode 3

Elena Ferrante's story of a life long friendship between Lila and Lena comes to an end in this sad and surprising final chapter.

While deep in conversation with her old lover Nino and holding his child with Lena, Lila loses sight of her own daughter who suddenly disappears. Lila's world will never be the same and, despite Lena's attempts to help her friend try to come to terms with her loss, their past comes back to haunt them and one of them finally decides that there is only one way forward.

Does this free the other or hold her prisoner to her past forever?

Written by Elena Ferrante
Translated by Anne Goldstein
Dramatised for radio by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Directed by Celia de Wolff
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.


SUN 16:00 Open Book (b098h0f0)
Omar El Akkad

Omar El Akkad's debut novel American War has won rave reviews in the states. In it he imagines a future America where the country has been ravaged by climate change and a second Civil War breaks out over fossil fuels. He talks to Mariella Frostrup about his dystopian vision.

Also on the programme, Icelandic writer Sjon, and Ted Hodgkinson discuss their new anthology of short stories from the Nordic region, and best selling writer novelist Elizabeth Kostova reveals the book she'd never lend.


SUN 16:30 Lines of Resistance (b098h0f3)

Writer and poet Bridget Minamore explores how women - particularly women of colour - have pushed back against the poetry establishment to create their own literary narratives.

Poetry as an escape from oppression and as a way to amplify the voices of the overlooked is nothing new. But, so often, resistance writers are male.

How have women in general and women of colour resisted dominant narratives in poetry? And how have they challenged those established voices of dissent to create their own literary spaces for resistance?

The themes explored in the programme range from 21st-century Peckham to ancient Iraq and the slave plantations of the Caribbean, as Bridget goes on a journey to uncover the lines of resistance followed by women throughout history. She talks both to established writers and teenage poets struggling to make their mark.

At the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, south London, poet Malika Booker tells Bridget, "Story is in our DNA". The women of the Octavia poetry collective explain how the internet both helps and hinders the process of creative resistance. With the help of Arabic literature specialist Dr Marlé Hammond and British-Egyptian writer Sabrina Mahfouz, Bridget draws links from Muslim women writing in 11th-century Spain to how Muslim women write in Britain today.

And in a surprising exchange with history professor Eleanor Robson, Bridget discovers that a writer of poetry from 4,000 years ago, long cherished by contemporary feminists, isn't all that she seems to be.

With poems by Sarah Lasoye, Warsan Shire, Malika Booker, Enheduana, Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, Seema Begum and Bridget Minamore herself.

Produced by Matthew Teller
An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4.


SUN 17:00 File on 4 (b09794sd)
Elderly Patients in Hospital - Who Cares?

How well do NHS hospitals look after their elderly patients? Allan Urry investigates concerns about a lack of basic care. Is it proving fatal for some? Why are bedsores, repeated falls, malnutrition and dehydration still featuring among the complaints of families who've lost loved ones? The programme also assesses how well the NHS responds when mistakes are made.

Reporter: Allan Urry
Producer: Nicola Dowling.


SUN 17:40 Profile (b098bqr1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday]


SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast (b098bsnh)

The latest shipping forecast.


SUN 17:57 Weather (b098bsnk)

The latest weather forecast.


SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b098bsnm)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week (b098bsnp)
Stewart Henderson

This week poet and songwriter Stewart Henderson has bells, jokes and Stravinsky, courtesy of a brace of Russian Revolution programmes.

David Bowie is at the Berlin wall, we explore Bing Crosby's last British visit and the Hannover rain stops an opera.

Daughters and sons speak affectionately about their dads, Jeremy Irons reads a poem and there's piano playing at a London train station.

Producer: Stephen Garner
Production support: Kay Bishton & Alice Platt.


SUN 19:00 The Archers (b098h0f6)

Lilian feels guilty, and Pip admits her faux pas.


SUN 19:15 The Casebook of Max and Ivan (b098h0f8)
Series 2, Case #73 - Cirque Du Solihull

Ineffective detectives Max and Ivan are called to help the penniless ringmaster of the crumbling Cirque Du Solihull (guest star Bridget Christie). After a series of mysterious accidents the circus faces closure after the human cannonball cannon is stolen.

Meanwhile, in an effort to fend off increasingly erratic landlord Malcolm, Max has come up with an ingenious way to delay paying him their rent.

Cast:
Max..............................................Max Olesker
Ivan...............................................Ivan Gonzalez
Brenda Zamponi...........................Bridget Christie
Narrator /
Malcolm McMichaelmas...............Lewis MacLeod
Belle (& others)............................Lolly Adefope
Joe (& others)..............................David Reed

Written by Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez
Developed by John Stanley Productions
Produced by Ben Walker
A Retort production for BBC Radio 4.


SUN 19:45 The Reservoir Tapes (b098h0fd)
Series 1, Deepak's Story

The story of a disappearance - told backwards.

In the third in Jon McGregor's 15-part short story series set in the Peak District, a 13-year-old girl has gone missing on the moors. Now, as the search for the girl gears up, the local newspaper boy joins the hunt for clues.

The fifteen stories of The Reservoir Tapes each stand alone but together build a compelling portrait of a community rocked by tragedy, as they explore events that precede and follow the disappearance the teenage girl. A prequel to Jon McGregor's critically acclaimed Man Booker long-listed novel Reservoir 13, these stories and their different perspectives offer tantalizing glimpses as to what might have happened to Becky.

Writer: Jon McGregor is an acclaimed British novelist who has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize three times. His third novel, Even the Dogs, won the International Dublin Literary Award
Reader: Sacha Dhawan is a British actor known for his roles in Sherlock and In the Club. He has the starring role in a feature-length drama of Sathnam Sanghera's The
Boy with the Topknot on 13th November on BBC 2
Producer: Justine Willett.


SUN 20:00 Feedback (b097cjzx)

The Editor of PM defends his programme against listeners' accusations that presenter Eddie Mair's interview with Home Secretary Amber Rudd was hostile and biased. Roger Sawyer discusses the presenter's robust style of interviewing and sets out his editorial stance on the presentation of this and other items on the programme.

When Amber Rudd sought to bring the focus of the interview back to the policy announcements made by the Prime Minister at the Party Conference, listeners expressed their frustration with Eddie Mair's questioning. We speak to those who suggest that the presenter didn't allow for an informed discussion of the Conservative Party's policies, but focused instead on the Prime Minister's misfortunes, most notably her well-documented cough. Roger Sawyer explains these editorial decisions and discusses the sanctioning of coverage such as the use of gunfire on the recent Las Vegas shooting item.

And we hear from one listener dissatisfied with Winifred Robinson's latest programme on home education, 'Out of School, Out of Sight'. Fee Berry speaks to Roger Bolton about her view that the programme should have been more carefully balanced.

Also, listeners discuss their reactions to Feedback's interview last week with the new Editor of the Today programme, Sarah Sands and we hear from those involved in the introduction of the BBC World Service's new Pidgin English programming.

Presenter: Roger Bolton
Producer: Kate Dixon
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.


SUN 20:30 Last Word (b097cjzt)
Lillian Ross, Jalal Talabani, Terry Downes, Sybil Flory, Hedley Jones

Julian Worricker on:

Lillian Ross, who wrote for the New Yorker, and created a new form of journalism....

The Iraqi president after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Jalal Talabani - a prominent Kurdish politician....

The boxer Terry Downes, who held the world middleweight title in the 1960s....

Sybil Flory, a seamstress who evaded the Japanese in 1941, and found her sister six decades later....

Hedley Jones, a Jamaican musician who designed and built the country's first sound systems....and traffic lights....


SUN 21:00 Money Box (b098bpyn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday]


SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal (b098gms9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today]


SUN 21:30 Analysis (b0978p81)
What would war with North Korea look like?

What could spark a major conflict on the world's most sensitive front line, and just how devastating would it be? Alarm about North Korea has spiked. It claims to have successfully test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit Alaska. Some experts estimate that North Korea is now 18 to 36 months away from launching a missile able to reach Los Angeles. President Trump has threatened to "totally destroy" the country, in an exchange of increasingly belligerent messages from both sides. Neal Razzell takes a look at the two sides' war plans and asks: what would war with North Korea look like?

Producer: Sarah Shebbeare.


SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour (b098bsnr)

Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.


SUN 23:00 The Film Programme (b097c82z)
Ian McEwan

In a special edition recorded at the London Film Festival, Francine Stock talks to Ian McEwan about his screen work - the films he's adapted, the movies made from his novels, the Hollywood thrillers he's penned, and the ones that got away.

The author of Atonement and On Chesil Beach reveals why he prefers to leave film-makers to do what they want with his novels and why the worst thing is to become the bad conscience of a film set, drifting around, saying "that's not what I meant". And why as an author you're treated as a god, but as a screenwriter you're treated like the cleaning lady.

Image: Getty Images.


SUN 23:30 Something Understood (b098bsms)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today]



MONDAY 16 OCTOBER 2017

MON 00:00 Midnight News (b098bsqn)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.


MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed (b097c1fy)
Restaurants - A Taste of Class

Class, labour, exchange, symbolism, performance - the restaurant is a stage which serves many functions.

Laurie Taylor explores a cultural history of restaurants with author of 'The Restaurant: Society in Four Courses' Christoph Ribbat and Times food critic Giles Coren. Also on the programme - an ethnography of a farmer's market with Dr Jessica Paddock, lecturer in Sociology at Bristol University.

Producer Fiona Woods.


MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday (b098gmrx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday]


MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b098bsqq)

The latest shipping forecast.


MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b098bsqs)

MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b098bsqv)

The latest shipping forecast.


MON 05:30 News Briefing (b098bsqx)

The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b09b5wcn)

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaunaka Rishi Das, director of The Oxford centre for Hindu Studies.


MON 05:45 Farming Today (b098bsqz)

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.


MON 05:56 Weather (b098bsr1)

The latest weather forecast for farmers.


MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b098h707)
YOLOBirder on the Redwing

Birdwatching's irreverent Tweeter YOLOBirder remembers rescuing redwings when snow hit the North East, standing with a bird in each hand.

Producer: Andrew Dawes
Photograph: John Thistle.


MON 06:00 Today (b098bsr3)

News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


MON 09:00 Start the Week (b098h70c)
The End of War?

War became illegal in 1928 with the Paris Peace Pact that created a new world order, according to the lawyer and academic Oona Hathaway. She tells Andrew Marr how this pivotal moment launched a new international system in which sanctions replaced gunboat diplomacy. Although inter-state wars have fallen since World War Two, intra-state conflicts have risen: Elisabeth Kendall explains the dire situation of one of the Arab's poorest countries, Yemen. The Norwegian ambassador to the UK Mona Juul talks about the art of international diplomacy. She played a key role in the secret talks which led to the Oslo Accords in the 1990s - the first ever agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation. And Phillip Collins looks at the speeches that have shaped the world and inspired generations, especially at moments of war and conflict.
Producer: Katy Hickman.


MON 09:45 15 Minute Drama (b098h70f)
Ten Days That Shook the World, The Revolutionary Front

John Reed's classic eye-witness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917.
Dramatised by Robin Brooks

Episode 6: The Revolutionary Front
Kerensky and the counter-revolutionary Cossacks are making gains and threatening Petrograd. Reed visits the Revolutionary frontline with the Bolshevik commander-in-chief - who seems less than organised.

Director Alison Hindell
BBC Cymru Wales production

John Reed's vivid eye-witness account of his time in Petrograd was written in early 1918 and published in the USA the following year. It was an instant best-seller, so much so that in Russia it was some years before Stalin - who is only mentioned twice in the book - felt he could ban it for its portrayal of Trotsky. Possibly naïve, definitely politically one-sided, nevertheless the veracity and impact of Reed's enthusiastic snapshot-style reportage has become a classic memoir and inspired films including Eisenstein's classic 'October' and 'Reds' which won an Oscar for its director and star, Warren Beatty.


MON 10:00 Woman's Hour (b098bsr7)
Hillary Clinton, Lesley Sharp, BBC 100 Women

Hillary Clinton is here to give her verdict on why she lost the US presidential election to Donald Trump and tell us what it's like to live with the defeat of failing to give the country its first female president.

Lesley Sharp joins Jane to talk about playing the monstrous and vulnerable Irina Arkadina in a new version of Chekhov's masterpiece The Seagull. With her previous roles including one half of detective duo Scott & Bailey and DC Margaret Oliver in BBC mini-series Three Girls, is she drawn to playing gritty, defiant, survivor women?

The BBC has revealed its list of 100 inspirational and innovative women for 2017. On the list, Dr Ellie Cosgrove from University College London and Anita Ndreu, a TV presenter in Nairobi, they discuss their experiences of sexual harassment on public transport and how it should be tackled.


MON 10:45 Book of the Week (b098h70k)
How to Be Champion, Pre-Stand-Up, Stand-Up

Part-autobiography, part-self-help book, Sarah Millican's memoir is a funny, honest and sometimes outrageous account of how she went from being a quiet, bookish child to becoming one of Britain's most successful and best-loved comedians. She covers a wide range of subjects: from a love letter to her knockers, to coping with bullies; from a passionate defence of her decision not to have kids, to the recipe for her favourite cake, Sarah also gives hard-learned tips on how you too can be champion.

In this first episode, Sarah describes the life-changing moment she discovered her talent for writing and performing comedy in front of an audience of strangers.

Since winning the 2008 if.comedy Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for her debut solo show, 'Sarah Millican's Not Nice', Sarah has established herself as a household name, having been nominated three times for The British Comedy Awards People's Choice: Queen of Comedy and winning the award in 2011. A two time BAFTA nominee for The Sarah Millican Television Programme, Sarah's other television credits include two appearances on The Royal Variety Performance and four appearances on flagship BBC stand-up show Live At The Apollo.

Read by Sarah Millican

Written by Sarah Millican

Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron

Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.


MON 11:00 Toynbee at War (b098h70m)

Polly Toynbee examines how war profoundly informed the vision of her grandfather, the renowned historian Arnold J Toynbee. His generation were slaughtered on the Flanders fields but Toynbee's life took him on a different path. 'History is as melancholy as war itself' wrote Toynbee as he rose to become one of the 20th century's most popular historians & public intellectual. Yet real loss, from the fallout of war & troubled peace , began to inexorably shape his understanding and writing of history
Classics texts such as his vast, multi-volume best-seller A Study of History are rooted in his life and work from the outbreak of the Great War to the rise of fascism.

Haunted by the idea that he outlived so many of his generation who fell in battle, Toynbee became an important part in the Great War propaganda machine , an eyewitness to the fraught Peace Conference at Versailles & a war journalist in the troubled peace that followed. He would become a central figure in the new discipline of international relations and the founding of Chatham House as he rose to become a public intellectual. But as war loomed yet again, and after a personal audience with Hitler, Toynbee could not escape the shadow of human helplessness in the face of traumatic events surrounding him both professionally and privately. 'One is like a beetle under a steamroller' he wrote. Many of today's leading historians dismiss Toynbee's great 10 volume work as deeply flawed & riddled with mysticism and few now understand the events that deeply shaped his life. Polly Toynbee explores the events that haunted and shaped his work & life.
PRODUCER: MARK BURMAN.


MON 11:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On (b073j5cg)
Hillwalking

Susan Calman tries to learn how to unwind, by going hillwalking with Muriel Gray.


MON 12:00 News Summary (b098bsr9)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


MON 12:04 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy (b098h71y)
Series 1, Management Consulting

If managers often have a bad reputation, what should we make of the people who tell managers how to manage? That question has often been raised over the years, with a sceptical tone. The management consultancy industry battles a stereotype of charging exorbitant fees for advice that, on close inspection, turns out to be either meaningless or common sense. Managers who bring in consultants are often accused of being blinded by jargon, implicitly admitting their own incompetence, or seeking someone else to blame for unpopular decisions. Still, it's lucrative. Globally, consulting firms charge their clients a total of about $125bn.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Ben Crighton.


MON 12:13 You and Yours (b098bsrc)

News and discussion of consumer affairs.


MON 12:57 Weather (b098bsrf)

The latest weather forecast.


MON 13:00 World at One (b098bsrh)

Analysis of news and current affairs.


MON 13:45 How to Have a Better Brain (b065ssr8)
Exercise

Evidence-based, information-rich and full of smart tips and techniques, How To Have A Better Brain delivers a practical and optimistic guide to boosting brain power throughout our lives. Drawing on the latest neurological research into protecting and preserving cognitive function, journalist and broadcaster Sian Williams, currently studying for an MSc in Psychology, investigates the best ways to avert, and in some cases even reverse, mental deterioration.

In this episode Sian analyses the importance of physical exercise to brain health with Dr Alan Gow, Dr Hannah Critchlow and neuropsychologist Dr Catherine Loveday and her mum, Scilla, a former Consultant Psychiatrist who is using exercise to combat her memory loss.

Producer: Dixi Stewart.


MON 14:00 The Archers (b098h0f6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday]


MON 14:15 Drama (b062jy8y)
The Gold Killing, Episode 1

by Paul Sellar

Directed by Sally Avens

Boxer turned businessman Joe Stein wouldn't normally get involved with Mafia money but he's on his uppers; when he hears of a Ghanaian gold mine with incredible deposits he wants a piece of the action. But the returns from the mine begin to pay dividends that Joe would rather be without.


MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote (b098h9dj)

The quotable and quote-filled quotations programme 'Quote ... Unquote' continues. Join Nigel Rees as he quizzes Sally Phillips, Matthew Parris, Kate Williams and Frog Stone.

For over forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... have all graced the Quote ... Unquote stage.

Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of guests on the origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the panel to share their favourite anecdotes.

Episode 3 Panellists:

Historian Kate Williams
Actor and Screenwriter Frog Stone
Actor and Writer Sally Phillips
Columnist and Broadcaster Matthew Parris

Presenter ... Nigel Rees
Reader ... Charlotte Green
Producer ... Katie Tyrrell
Production co-ordinator ... Beverly Tagg

This is a BBC Studios Production.


MON 15:30 Food Programme (b098gmss)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday]


MON 16:00 Martin Morales' Peruvian Road Trip (b098h9dl)

Peruvian-born chef and record producer Martin Morales heads back to his homeland to explore the inherent link between food and music in Andean culture.

For the first part of his trip, Martin is accompanied by his 10 year old son and budding radio producer Felix, 8 year old daughter Tilly and his wife Lucy. He shows them round his family's favourite haunts - from the famous La Chomba restaurant in Cusco where musicians queue up to serenade the diners, to the tiny village of Lamay where they dine on the local delicacy of guinea pig on a stick.

At the Centre for Native Arts in Cusco, food and music come together with a dance about the Oca potato. Providing the soundtrack to the dance is a musician Martin once worked with in his early career, the legendary violinist Reynaldo Pillco.

Along the way, Martin meets up with a recent musical discovery of his, singer Sylvia Falcon, who enchants him with a song highlighting the importance of the Coca leaf in Peruvian cuisine and culture.

Leaving the family holiday behind, Martin continues his journey with his chef's hat on, exploring the food and culture of the Andes - including local delicacies such as the freshest trout roe he's ever tasted.

Martin describes his joy at exploring the traditional picanterias (family-run restaurants) of the Andes as being akin to his joy at discovering a new band. For this former music executive, the roots of Andean culture run deep, where music and food are firmly intertwined. On every step of the journey, Martin is drenched in the music of the Andes - twanging guitars, wood flutes, and even the odd harp provide the soundtrack to mealtimes.

A BlokMedia production for BBC Radio 4.


MON 16:30 The Digital Human (b098h9dn)
Series 12, Duped

If you use the internet the chances are you've been conscripted unknowingly into the business of spam. Spam has changed laws and communities, language and culture.

It comes in many shapes and forms - the most popular of which is advance fee fraud.

But this type of spam isn't just a feature of digital living; it's been around a lot longer than that.

The Digital Human traces the roots of the longest running spam scam in human history, before casting ahead to a world of intelligent spambots.

Aleks Krotoski asks if scams are symptomatic of their time, what do they tell us about now and what do they say about us?

Producer: Caitlin Smith.


MON 17:00 PM (b098bsrk)

Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.


MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b098bsrm)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b098hpjb)
Series 19, Episode 3

David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents.

Lloyd Langford, Henning Wehn, Ellie Taylor and John Finnemore are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as dinosaurs, China, cake and bees.

Produced by Jon Naismith
A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.


MON 19:00 The Archers (b098hpjd)

Shula's day goes from bad to worse, and Ruth makes plans for the future.


MON 19:15 Front Row (b098bsrp)

Arts news, interviews and reviews.


MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b098h70f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today]


MON 20:00 The British Road to Bolshevism (b098ht02)

In the two decades prior to the Russian Revolution in 1917, Vladimir Lenin and other prominent Russian political exiles spent periods of time in London - using the unique research resources of the British Museum, writing revolutionary pamphlets and journals, organising the smuggling of protest literature back to their home country, arguing fiercely with each other over ideological disputes and the practicalities of the struggle, as well as enjoying visits to pubs, the music hall and Speakers' Corner.

The British authorities showed greater tolerance of the emigres and their insurrectionary activities than did many other European countries, and some major revolutionary party conferences were held in London. This included the crucial 1903 congress, where the party split into the two factions of Bolsheviks (the 'hards') and Mensheviks (the 'softs') - a split with huge repercussions for the revolution and the course of Russian history.

In this programme Martin Rosenbaum explores how events in London played a role in leading up to the Russian Revolution.


MON 20:30 Analysis (b098ht04)
Can We Teach Robots Ethics?

From driverless cars to "carebots", machines are entering the realm of right and wrong. Should an autonomous vehicle prioritise the lives of its passengers over pedestrians? Should a robot caring for an elderly woman respect her right to life ahead of her right to make her own decisions? And who gets to decide? The challenges facing artificial intelligence are not just technical, but moral - and raise hard questions about what it means to be human.

Presenter: David Edmonds
Producer: Simon Maybin.


MON 21:00 Natural Histories (b0979191)
Gull

Brett Westwood follows gulls away from the sea and explores how they thrive in cities and at the landfill sites where birders gather to watch and ring them. Featuring Dominic Mitchell who spotted the UK's first slaty-backed gull, Viola Ross-Smith of the British Trust for Ornithology, Peter Rock on the Bristol urban gull study, artist Mark Dion who built the Mobile Gull Appreciation Unit and Dr Chris Pawson who headed up a study into the behaviour of gulls and our attitudes towards them.

Producer: Tom Bonnett.


MON 21:30 Start the Week (b098h70c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 22:00 The World Tonight (b098bsrr)

In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective.


MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b098ht06)
Ian Rankin - The Deathwatch Journal, Episode 1

1/5. A new crime serial specially written for Book at Bedtime by the best-selling
author of the Rebus novels. Set in Edinburgh in 1962 a prison
guard watches over a man sentenced to hang for the murder of his wife.
Read by Jimmy Chisholm. Producer Bruce Young.


MON 23:00 Word of Mouth (b09794s4)
Wild Words

The writer Robert Macfarlane (author of Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind) believes that the language we use to talk about nature is itself at risk of becoming an endangered species. A 2016 research paper by Cambridge University conservationists found that eight-to 11-year-old schoolchildren were 'substantially better' at identifying common Pokemon characters than common species of British wildlife.

Over the past 10 years, Macfarlane has been gathering a 'word-hoard' of thousands of terms for nature, landscape and weather, in the hope of preserving, enriching and diversifying our language for the living world. He shares some of his favourites with Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright and talks about why its so important to celebrate the language we use to talk about the natural world.

Produced by Mair Bosworth.


MON 23:30 Today in Parliament (b098bsrt)

Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.



TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2017

TUE 00:00 Midnight News (b098bstn)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.


TUE 00:30 Book of the Week (b098h70k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Monday]


TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b098bstq)

The latest shipping forecast.


TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b098bsts)

TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b098bstv)

The latest shipping forecast.


TUE 05:30 News Briefing (b098bsty)

The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b09bl7wf)

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaunaka Rishi Das, director of The Oxford centre for Hindu Studies.


TUE 05:45 Farming Today (b098bsv0)

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.


TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b098j5l1)
YOLOBirder on the Waxwing

Birdwatching's irreverent commentator YOLOBirder on his love of the hipster-goatee beard and slick back quiff of the brightly-coloured waxwing, a bird so vibrant and uplifting he has come up with a special collective noun for them.

Producer: Andrew Dawes
Photograph: Richard Johnson.


TUE 06:00 Today (b098bsv2)

News and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific (b098j5l3)
Tim Birkhead on bird promiscuity

Professor Tim Birkhead talks to Jim Al Khalili about his 40 years of research on promiscuity in birds, his love of Skomer Island and its guillemots, and the extraordinary musical talent of the male bullfinch.

Tim Birkhead is an evolutionary biologist and ornithologist at the University of Sheffield. The primary focus of his research has been reproduction in birds. He pioneered the study of promiscuity or extra-pair mating in birds, and one of its evolutionary consequences - sperm competition.

In the early 1970s Tim questioned and then exploded the assumption that female birds were always sexually monogamous - a zoological dogma originating with Charles Darwin. Tim first explored this in the guillemot colony on Skomer Island in Wales: a population of seabirds which he has studied continuously for more than 40 years in the cause of both evolutionary insights and conservation. Tim talks with passion about an ongoing funding crisis that hit this research programme recently and how the public response to it has been the most inspiring event in his career.

A side branch of Tim's research includes the jaw-dropping musical mimicry of the male bullfinch. The programme includes a recording of a captive bird whistling a German folk tune with super-human skill.

ADVISORY! There is a longer version of the conversation in the podcast of this edition. In this edit, Tim talks about the truly weird false penis of the male red-billed buffalo weaver: an extreme evolutionary product of sperm competition in this species and what amounts to an avian tickling stick. Tim also addresses the controversial topic of sperm competition in humans and the myth of 'kamikaze sperm'.

Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker.


TUE 09:30 One to One (b098j5l5)
Trevor Nelson meets 'Pip'

DJ and radio presenter Trevor Nelson grew up in London knowing he had half siblings on the Caribbean island of St Lucia. However for Trevor and his three sisters, who were raised by his parents in the UK, it didn't impact much on his family life until later in his life when he finally met his half siblings.

He's been fascinated all his life by half siblings. And now, in One to One, he has the chance to meet three people who tell him their personal stories.

Here he meets 'Pip' (not her real name) whose life has been changed by her half sibling.

The producer is Perminder Khatkar.


TUE 09:45 15 Minute Drama (b098j5l7)
Ten Days That Shook the World, Counter-Revolution

John Reed's classic eye-witness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917.
Dramatised by Robin Brooks

Episode 7: Counter-Revolution
Bryant is caught up in a vicious street battle and witnesses the bloody violence of the Revolution at close quarters. Counter-revolutionary government troops holding the telephone exchange are captured by Bolshevik sailors - who then have to learn to man the switchboards. Dramatised by Robin Brooks.

Director Alison Hindell
BBC Cymru Wales production

John Reed's vivid eye-witness account of his time in Petrograd was written in early 1918 and published in the USA the following year. It was an instant best-seller, so much so that in Russia it was some years before Stalin - who is only mentioned twice in the book - felt he could ban it for its portrayal of Trotsky. Possibly naïve, definitely politically one-sided, nevertheless the veracity and impact of Reed's enthusiastic snapshot-style reportage has become a classic memoir and inspired films including Eisenstein's classic 'October' and 'Reds' which won an Oscar for its director and star, Warren Beatty.


TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour (b098bsv4)

Programme that offers a female perspective on the world.


TUE 10:45 Book of the Week (b098j5l9)
How to Be Champion, I Don't Want Kids

Part-autobiography, part-self-help book, Sarah Millican's memoir is a funny, honest and sometimes outrageous account of how she went from being a quiet, bookish child to becoming one of Britain's most successful and best-loved stand-up comedians.

An astute observer of the ways in which society constrains and judges women, in this episode Sarah describes people's reactions (ranging from disbelief to outright shock) when she tells them that she doesn't like kids - and has never wanted to have children of her own.

Read by Sarah Millican

Written by Sarah Millican

Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron

Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.


TUE 11:00 Natural Histories (b098j5lc)
Turtle

Brett Westwood explores how the venerable, slow moving and long-lived turtle has become a symbol of good fortune and stability while being hunted for tortoiseshell and turtle soup. Featuring Molokai the turtle and his keeper at the National Sea Life Centre Jonny Rudd, conservation scientist Professor Brendan Godley from the University of Exeter, a documentary-maker telling the story of a legendary turtle in Vietnam and Gregory McNamee who dives into the cultural world of turtles.

Producer: Eliza Lomas.


TUE 11:30 Planks and a Passion (b098j5lf)

There's a saying that all you need for a theatre is 'two planks and a passion'. Across the country, Britain's theatrical heritage is both literary and architectural.

This autumn two men's enthusiasm brings London the biggest - some say the riskiest - new-built commercial theatre to open in the capital for over 50 years. Sir Nicholas Hytner ran the National Theatre for a dozen years, which saw many of its biggest triumphs including War Horse and One Man Two Guvnors. Together with his former chief executive and friend Nick Starr, he hatched the idea of a new unsubsidised house, free from the splendid but frustrating physical limits of the Victorian and Edwardian theatres of the West End. They would run an ambitious 900-seater in a new building in the shadow of Tower Bridge, and ensure that it could accommodate every shape and style of play and performance.

Over the last year Libby Purves, theatre critic and broadcaster, has followed the project from the original discussions to its opening next month with a new play by Richard Bean. It took her to a field in Norfolk where local builders and engineers made uniquely designed steel balconies. She visited a soundproof state-of-the-art studio where acoustician Paul Gillieron demonstrated how digital technology enabled the two Nicks, months ahead, to listen from every corner of their virtual space.

We hear from architect Steve Tompkins, winner of the Stirling Prize for the Liverpool Everyman, who reveals how the creation of a theatre has to combine engineering with emotional empathy, and explore the work in progress with its creators as they consider everything from dressing-room corridors to stage machinery, and discuss how even the foyer should help build a sense of occasion and community before the play even begins.

Presenter: Libby Purves
Producer: Paula McGinley.


TUE 12:00 News Summary (b098bsv6)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 12:04 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy (b098j5lh)
Series 1, Property Register

Ensuring property rights for the world's poor could unlock trillions in 'dead capital'. According to Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, the value of extralegal property globally exceeds 10 trillion dollars. Nobody has ever disputed that property rights matter for investment: experts point to a direct correlation between a nation's wealth and having an adequate property rights system. This is because real estate is a form of capital and capital raises economic productivity and thus creates wealth. Mr de Soto's understanding - that title frees up credit, turning 'dead capital' into 'live capital' - has prompted governments in other countries to undertake large-scale property-titling campaigns.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Ben Crighton.


TUE 12:13 You and Yours (b098bsv8)
Call You and Yours

Consumer phone-in.


TUE 12:57 Weather (b098bsvb)

The latest weather forecast.


TUE 13:00 World at One (b098bsvd)

Analysis of news and current affairs.


TUE 13:45 How to Have a Better Brain (b065v44t)
Relaxation

Evidence-based, information-rich and full of smart tips and techniques, How To Have A Better Brain delivers a practical and optimistic guide to boosting brain power throughout our lives. Drawing on the latest neurological research into protecting and preserving cognitive function, journalist and broadcaster Sian Williams, currently studying for an MSc in Psychology, investigates the best ways to avert, and in some cases even reverse, mental deterioration.

In this episode Sian analyses the importance of stress management to brain health with Dr Annette Bruhl, Dr Hannah Critchlow and neuropsychologist Dr Catherine Loveday and her mum, Scilla, a former Consultant Psychiatrist who took up mindfulness to combat memory loss.

Producer: Dixi Stewart.


TUE 14:00 The Archers (b098hpjd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday]


TUE 14:15 Drama (b062kfmg)
The Gold Killing, Episode 2

by Paul Sellar

Part Two

Directed by Sally Avens

Boxer turned businessman Joe Stein wouldn't normally get involved with mafia money but he's on his uppers; when he invests the money in a Ghanaian gold mine he sets off a macabre series of murders and Joe finds himself in the biggest fight of his life - a fight to stay alive.


TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet (b098bpyj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday]


TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth (b098j5lk)
Where Does Our Waste Go?

Where do the contents of our bins end up? Tom Heap lifts the lid on the recycling industry to find out what happens to our waste beyond the kerbside collection.

What does 'recycling' mean? Are bottles and tins and plastic packaging recycled when they're collected from our homes? They might well be taken to the local MRF (Materials Recovery Facility) and separated out into different waste streams, but what happens then? Embarking on a road journey along the recycling chain, Tom Heap tracks his own domestic recycling refuse to find out how much - or how little - of it is actually recycled.

Tom is accompanied on this road trip by waste expert Dr Karl Williams of the University of Central Lancashire's Centre for Waste Management, during which he devises what we're calling Karl's Top Ten Recycling Tips.

1 It's not waste you're throwing away, it's a resource.
2 Recycling starts at home.
3 Read your local authority's recycling guide or visit their website as to what they collect, and do as it says.
4 Sort your recycling at source which is at your home.
5 If in doubt, put it in the residual bin or black bag, don't put it in with the recycling!
6 Where you can, separate different materials, (eg: take cardboard wrapping off plastic cartons, plastic film from paper).
7 Don't put your recycling in bags in the bin.
8 Household waste recycling centres will take those recyclables not collected at the kerbside by your council.
9 Where possible, separate glass from paper.
10 Remember you are giving materials the chance of a second life as something else.

Producer: Mark Smalley.


TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth (b098jjr4)
Language and Our Genes with Dr Steve Jones

Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright talk to geneticist Steve Jones about how language is used to talk about genetics, and how genetics influences language.

Producer Sally Heaven.


TUE 16:30 A Good Read (b098jjr6)
Owen Jones and Georgia LA

Writer Owen Jones and Google's resident UK millennial Georgia LA join Harriett Gilbert to discuss books. Choices are The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, The Power by Naomi Alderman and The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sybille Bedford.


TUE 17:00 PM (b098bsvg)

Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.


TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b098bsvj)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 18:30 The Tim Vine Chat Show (b098jkb4)
Series 2, Greenwich

Tim Vine has been travelling the length and breadth of this fair land to not only uncover the best stories of the Great British public but also to take every possible opportunity to tell a ridiculous joke and sing a preposterous song along the way.

In this the final episode of the series Tim chats to a museum curator about airport security and there's a song about cake and milk.

Producer: Richard Morris
A BBC Studios Production.


TUE 19:00 The Archers (b098jkb6)

Tony is put in an awkward position, and Emma is suspicious.


TUE 19:15 Front Row (b098bsvl)

Arts news, interviews and reviews.


TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b098j5l7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today]


TUE 20:00 File on 4 (b098jm8c)
Police Protection? The Murder of Kevin Nunes

Fifteen years ago, promising young footballer Kevin Nunes was shot dead on a country lane in Staffordshire. Five men were convicted of his killing, and jailed for life. But just four years later, their convictions were quashed, following concerns about the way police handled a key prosecution witness.

The Court of Appeal Judge said it appeared to be "a serious perversion of the course of justice," and an investigation was launched into misconduct claims against four of the UK's most senior officers.

Now, as the report into the police investigation is finally released, File on 4 speaks to those at the centre of the saga. Will the family of Kevin Nunes will ever get the justice they seek, and what does the case tell us about police transparency and accountability?

Reporter: Phil Mackie
Producer: Laura Harmes.


TUE 20:40 In Touch (b098bsvn)

News, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted.


TUE 21:00 Inside Health (b098jm8f)

Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues.


TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific (b098j5l3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


TUE 22:00 The World Tonight (b098bsvq)

In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective.


TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b098jm8h)
Ian Rankin - The Deathwatch Journal, Episode 2

2/5. New crime story from the best-selling author of the Rebus novels.
Prison guard Thomas Scott investigates the story of condemned man
William Telfer - and begins to believe he's innocent.
Read by Jimmy Chisholm. Producer Bruce Young.


TUE 23:00 Fred at The Stand (b098jmxk)
Series 1, Hastings, Vee, McCabe and Delaney

Fred MacAulay introduces some of the funniest comedians in the UK doing what they do best - pure stand up comedy. Recorded at The Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh.

This week, Canadian John Hastings gives an insight into his love life, Sindhu Vee jokes about her family, Susie McCabe talks holidays and Gary Delaney delivers a series of blistering one liners.

Produced by Richard Melvin
A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4.


TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament (b098bsvs)

Sean Curran reports from Westminster.



WEDNESDAY 18 OCTOBER 2017

WED 00:00 Midnight News (b098bsxp)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.


WED 00:30 Book of the Week (b098j5l9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Tuesday]


WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b098bsxr)

The latest shipping forecast.


WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b098bsxt)

WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b098bsxw)

The latest shipping forecast.


WED 05:30 News Briefing (b098bsxy)

The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b09br111)

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaunaka Rishi Das, director of The Oxford centre for Hindu Studies.


WED 05:45 Farming Today (b098bsy0)

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.


WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b098jn2p)
YOLOBirder on the Peregrine Falcon

Birdwatching's irreverent Tweeter YOLOBirder tells how a kindly hotel owner took him to see peregrine falcons and got him hooked on watching these magnificent flyers for the rest of his life.

Producer: Andrew Dawes
Photograph: Adrian Dancy.


WED 06:00 Today (b098bsy2)

Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


WED 09:00 The Gamble (b098jp3w)
Series 1, Low Life

A three part series about the connection between risk and creativity, narrated by the actor Noma Dumezweni.

For the painter Lucian Freud, every brush stroke was a risk. He led a dangerous and precarious existence. How did this contribute to the production of some of greatest figurative art of the 20th century?

Freud placed staggering and catastrophic bets on horses throughout his life, often losing hundreds of thousands of pounds. He explored Soho after dark with fellow painter Francis Bacon and he had brushes with gangsters. Seemingly these activities "emptied" Freud and were a necessary preparation for work in the studio.

David Dawson, Freud's assistant from the 1990s until his death, says, "He would gamble away until he had nothing left and that somehow freed him up to then start painting again."

In the studio, Freud's approach to life was at its most intense. Spending months on paintings, it was always a slow, sometimes tortuous process and sitters knew there was a real possibility that their portrait might never be finished.

But for decades Freud's career was in the doldrums. His fleshy portraits were deemed unfashionable by the art world. James Kirkman, his dealer at this period, says, "I remember working at the Marlborough Gallery in the 60s, which represented Lucian. Lucian was definitely the most unpopular of the artists."

Featuring the art critic Martin Gayford, Freud's former partner Jacquetta Eliot and "the Gentleman's Bookmaker", Victor Chandler.

So Lucian Freud, the skin red around the white of the
White English skin, truth no lies, low life.
(from 'Lucian Freud - Bigger the brush bigger the painting' by John Lalor)

Produced by Paul Smith
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4.


WED 09:45 15 Minute Drama (b098jpmh)
Ten Days That Shook the World, Victory

John Reed's classic eye-witness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917.
Dramatised by Robin Brooks

Episode 8: Victory
Trotsky has claimed victory over the Cossacks and Kerensky is asking for an armistice. Reed sets out once more for the front line with a driver who takes a dim view of American democracy, and finds himself up against the illiterate brutality of the Red Guard.

Director Alison Hindell
BBC Cymru Wales production

John Reed's vivid eye-witness account of his time in Petrograd was written in early 1918 and published in the USA the following year. It was an instant best-seller, so much so that in Russia it was some years before Stalin - who is only mentioned twice in the book - felt he could ban it for its portrayal of Trotsky. Possibly naïve, definitely politically one-sided, nevertheless the veracity and impact of Reed's enthusiastic snapshot-style reportage has become a classic memoir and inspired films including Eisenstein's classic 'October' and 'Reds' which won an Oscar for its director and star, Warren Beatty.


WED 10:00 Woman's Hour (b098bsy4)

Programme that offers a female perspective on the world.


WED 10:41 Book of the Week (b098jpmk)
How to Be Champion, Love Letter to My Knockers/Wearing Glasses/Married a Second Time

Comedian Sarah Millican reads extracts from her candid and funny memoir.

This episode opens with a light-hearted love letter to her knockers, before moving on to describe what it was like to wear glasses from a young age (including becoming a target for school bullies) and how, despite the failure of her first marriage, she learned to believe in the word 'forever' again and marry for a second time.

Read by Sarah Millican

Written by Sarah Millican

Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron

Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.


WED 10:55 The Listening Project (b098jpmm)
Lucy and Jo - Time and Trouble

Friends who live at opposite ends of Dartmoor don't let distance keep them apart. Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.

Producer: Marya Burgess.


WED 11:00 The British Road to Bolshevism (b098ht02)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday]


WED 11:30 Mrs Sidhu Investigates: Murder With Masala (b098jr7h)
Series 1, Murder Corked

Meera Syal stars as the Indian Aunty sleuth - with Justin Edwards and Vincetn Ebrahim. Mrs Sidhu is determined to put her humiliation in the stables behind her and win back Inspector Burton's trust.

Her nose for trouble leads her to mysterious spanish butler Carlos. But is Carlos what he seems? Is he merely a servant to Lady Lucas, or is there more going on. Lord Lucas, meanwhile, holes up in his office and watches old adverts for nasal hair trimmers.

Mrs Sidhu's Miss Marple Complex is questioned, and mishandled by Inspector Burton, while Tez has an unprofessional encounter with Lucy brought on by a shared interest in conspiracy theories.

Writer Suk Pannu
Studio Engineers Phil Horne, Leon Chambers
Editor Leon Chambers
Director Marilyn Imrie
Producer Gordon Kennedy
Executive Producer Chris Pye

An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4.


WED 12:00 News Summary (b098bsy6)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


WED 12:04 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy (b098jr7k)
Series 1, Welfare State

The same basic idea links every welfare state: that the ultimate responsibility for ensuring people don't starve on the street should lie not with family, or charity, or private insurers, but with government. This idea is not without its enemies. It is possible, after all, to mother too much. Every parent instinctively knows that there's a balance: protect, but don't mollycoddle; nurture resilience, not dependence. And if overprotective parenting stunts personal growth, might too-generous welfare states stunt economic growth?

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Ben Crighton.


WED 12:13 You and Yours (b098bsy8)

Consumer affairs programme.


WED 12:57 Weather (b098bsyb)

The latest weather forecast.


WED 13:00 World at One (b098bsyd)

Analysis of news and current affairs.


WED 13:45 How to Have a Better Brain (b065vsdz)
Stimulation

Evidence-based, information-rich and full of smart tips and techniques, How To Have A Better Brain delivers a practical and optimistic guide to boosting brain power throughout our lives. Drawing on the latest neurological research into protecting and preserving cognitive function, journalist and broadcaster Sian Williams, currently studying for an MSc in Psychology, investigates the best ways to avert, and in some cases even reverse, mental deterioration.

In this episode Sian analyses the importance of mental exercise to brain health with Professor Nazanin Derakhshan, Dr Hannah Critchlow, and neuropsychologist Dr Catherine Loveday and her mum, Scilla, a former Consultant Psychiatrist who took up online word games and running a choir to combat memory loss.
Producer: Dixi Stewart.


WED 14:00 The Archers (b098jkb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday]


WED 14:15 Drama (b098jrzw)
One Horizon

By Jeremy Hylton Davies.

Gwyn and Paul take on the epic Marathon des Sables - 150 miles across the Moroccan Sahara. Starring Mark Lewis Jones and Richard Harrington.

Gwyn's life was in in pieces until he met Paul. Paul invited him to do something he hadn't done for years - run. And, from that first time around the park, throwing up and thinking he'd never go further, Gwyn slowly began to overcome his demons. Now he's reached the hardest race of them all... 150 miles across the Sahara, in scorching temperatures. But the greatest challenge in the desert... is himself

Jeremy Hylton Davies is a regular writer on BBC One's Doctors. One Horizon is his first play for radio. In it he draws heavily on the experience of its stars - real-life ultra-marathon runners, Mark Lewis Jones (Game of Thrones) and Richard Harrington (Hinterland). Together they ran in the Marathon des Sables themselves in 2014.

Directed by James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales Production.


WED 15:00 Money Box (b098bsyg)
Money Box Live: Universal Credit

Financial phone-in.


WED 15:30 Inside Health (b098jm8f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday]


WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed (b098jslj)

Sociological discussion programme, presented by Laurie Taylor.


WED 16:30 The Media Show (b098bsyj)

Topical programme about the fast-changing media world.


WED 17:00 PM (b098bsyl)

Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.


WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b098bsyn)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


WED 18:30 Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers (b098jtq1)
Series 1, Childhood

Andy Hamilton is a familiar and much-loved voice on Radio 4. Now for the first time on the network, he presents a collection of observations and reminiscences about both his personal life and his 40 years working in comedy.

Over this 4 part series, Andy looks at Childhood, Politics, The Human Body and Animals. Using comic observation and personal anecdotes he will explore each theme, examining how much (or how little) things have changed in the 60ish years he's been on this planet. Each programme will provide 30 minutes of thoughtful, social history, but packed with laughs.

In this first episode Andy looks at something we've all had: a childhood. From his favourite childhood sounds of the ice-cream van and the roar of the Stamford Bridge, to his own memories of being an overcautious and yet inattentive parent.

Andy was born in Fulham in 1954, read English at Cambridge and then in 1976 began writing comedy for BBC radio, on programmes like Week Ending and The News Huddlines. In 1990, he and Guy Jenkin created Drop the Dead Donkey for Channel 4. Andy has spent much of his working life making acute observations about politics and family life. In 2007, again with Guy Jenkin, he created the massive TV hit, Outnumbered, which celebrated the chaos of life with young children. More recently they created the highly topical Ballot Monkeys and Power Monkeys for Channel 4, which charted the absurdities of the General Election and then the EU Referendum. For over 20 years he has been playing the part of Satan in his R4 sitcom, Old Harry's Game. Andy is also a popular panellist on shows such as The News Quiz and Have I Got News For You.


WED 19:00 The Archers (b098jtxt)

Robert has victory in mind, and Kate tries to do the right thing.


WED 19:15 Front Row (b098bsyq)

Arts news, interviews and reviews.


WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b098jpmh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today]


WED 20:00 Moral Maze (b098jwjz)

Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. With Giles Fraser, Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo and Matthew Taylor.


WED 20:45 Why I Changed My Mind (b098jy5f)
Series 3, Lord Carey

Dominic Lawson asks former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey why he changed his mind from opposition to any euthanasia to support for assisted dying to be made legal in the UK.

A lifelong opponent of euthanasia, George Carey recently changed his mind on an issue which the Church of England has always opposed - assisted dying for those who can decide for themselves that their suffering as a result of very serious medical problems is too much to bear. He explains how he decided to change his views on such a significant issue for the Church.

In "Why I Changed My Mind", Dominic Lawson interviews people who have changed their mind on controversial matters.

Producer: Jonathan Brunert.


WED 21:00 Costing the Earth (b098j5lk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday]


WED 21:30 The Gamble (b098jp3w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


WED 22:00 The World Tonight (b098bsys)

In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective.


WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b098jy5h)
Ian Rankin - The Deathwatch Journal, Episode 3

3/5. Scott discovers Telfer's wife was having an affair - could this
have been a motive for murder? Read by Jimmy Chisholm.
Producer Bruce Young.


WED 23:00 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair (b098n4vk)
Series 4, The Last Day

by Jenny Eclair.

Produced by Sally Avens

The first in a series of comic monologues where four women reach a crisis in their lives.
It's Miss Cavendish's last day at school and retirement looms but surely it can't go completely unmarked, that's enough to send even the most sensible woman over the edge.

Vicki Pepperdine is one of the country's leading comic actors. She co-wrote and starred in the sit-com 'Getting On' and can currently be seen in The Windsors.
Jenny Eclair is a comedian, novelist and actress. She blazed a trail for female comedians and is now a stalwart of the comedy circuit. She co-writes the stage show of 'Grumpy Old Women' and her book of Short stories 'Listening In' based on Little Lifetimes was published earlier this year.


WED 23:15 The Hauntening (b098n4vm)
Series 1, The Asag Chiller

Tech blogger Tom has acquired a healthy new lifestyle, a shiny new fridge and a terrifying new problem. Second of the series of modern horror stories.

Modern technology is terrifying. The average smartphone carries out 3.36 billion instructions per second. The average person can only carry out one instruction in that time. Stop and think about that for a second. Sorry, that's two instructions - you won't be able to do that.

But what if modern technology was literally terrifying? What if there really was a ghost in the machine?

Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors may lurk in our apps and gadgets.

Cast:
Tom............Tom Neenan
Heidi...........Jenny Bede
Debbi..........Kath Hughes
Reynolds.....Roger Morlidge
Asag...........Ewan Bailey

Written by Tom Neenan
Produced by David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.


WED 23:30 Today in Parliament (b098bsz0)

Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.



THURSDAY 19 OCTOBER 2017

THU 00:00 Midnight News (b098bt31)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.


THU 00:30 Book of the Week (b098jpmk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 on Wednesday]


THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b098bt33)

The latest shipping forecast.


THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b098bt35)

THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b098bt37)

The latest shipping forecast.


THU 05:30 News Briefing (b098bt39)

The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b09br6cs)

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaunaka Rishi Das, director of The Oxford centre for Hindu Studies.


THU 05:45 Farming Today (b098bt3c)

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.


THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b098n5pq)
Joe Acheson on the Starling

Musician Joe Acheson describes recording the sounds of starlings at the Lizard in Cornwall to use in his work as the Hidden Orchestra.

Producer: Tom Bonnett
Photograph: PeskyMesky.


THU 06:00 Today (b098bt3f)

Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


THU 09:00 In Our Time (b098bt3h)
The Congress of Vienna

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the conference convened by the victorious powers of the Napoleonic Wars and the earlier French Revolutionary Wars, which had devastated so much of Europe over the last 25 years. The powers aimed to create a long lasting peace, partly by redrawing the map to restore old boundaries and partly by balancing the powers so that none would risk war again. It has since been seen as a very conservative outcome, reasserting the old monarchical and imperial orders over the growth of liberalism and national independence movements, and yet also largely successful in its goal of preventing war in Europe on such a scale for another 100 years. Delegates to Vienna were entertained at night with lavish balls, and the image above is from a French cartoon showing Russia, Prussia, and Austria dancing to the bidding of Castlereagh, the British delegate.

With

Tim Blanning

Kathleen Burk

and

John Bew

Producer: Simon Tillotson.


THU 09:45 15 Minute Drama (b098n8z5)
Ten Days That Shook the World, Moscow

John Reed's classic eye-witness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917.
Dramatised by Robin Brooks

Episode 9: Moscow
Lunacharsky despairs at the rumour that the revolutionaries' own bombardment has destroyed the historic Kremlin. Reed and Bryant set out to Moscow to see for themselves but find not everyone in the city supports the Bolsheviks.

With Simon Ludders, Tom Forrister

Director Alison Hindell
BBC Cymru Wales production

John Reed's vivid eye-witness account of his time in Petrograd was written in early 1918 and published in the USA the following year. It was an instant best-seller, so much so that in Russia it was some years before Stalin - who is only mentioned twice in the book - felt he could ban it for its portrayal of Trotsky. Possibly naïve, definitely politically one-sided, nevertheless the veracity and impact of Reed's enthusiastic snapshot-style reportage has become a classic memoir and inspired films including Eisenstein's classic 'October' and 'Reds' which won an Oscar for its director and star, Warren Beatty.


THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b098bt3k)

Programme that offers a female perspective on the world.


THU 10:45 Book of the Week (b098n8z7)
How to Be Champion, I've Had Proper Jobs

Sarah Millican reads from her new memoir, which is part-autobiography, part-self-help book.

Before becoming an internationally acclaimed comedian, Sarah had a wide variety of proper jobs: from working in WHSmiths as a teenager, to the civil service to audiobook producer.... All of which provided fertile ground for developing her comedy.

Read by Sarah Millican

Written by Sarah Millican

Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron

Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.


THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent (b098bt3m)

Reports from writers and journalists around the world. Presented by Kate Adie.


THU 11:30 Pick a Sky and Name It (b098n8z9)

How did Momtaza Mehri go from net savvy 6th former to successful millennial poet?

A house belonging to her grandmother is the closest poet Momtaza Mehri has ever come to having a permanent home. Aside from summer months in London, Momtaza's family picked its way across the Middle East.

"Then I just realise, I'm having this typical Somali experience where we're literally going to the places that would be considered the bad 'hoods."

Across a sea, another gulf, was the country her parents no longer called home.

Talking with her mother, Momtaza revisits the childhood experiences that shaped her outlook and her coming of age as a millennial poet.

Poetry extracts are taken from:
I believe in the transformative power of cocoa butter and breakfast cereal in the afternoon
Manifesto for those carrying dusk under their eyes
The Sag
Shan
Wink Wink
November 1997

"The internet just switched up the entire game," Momtaza says.

Producer: Tamsin Hughes
A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4.


THU 12:00 News Summary (b098bt3p)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


THU 12:04 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy (b098n8zd)
Series 1, Cold Chain

The global supply chain that keeps perishable goods at controlled temperatures has revolutionised the food industry. It widened our choice of food and improved our nutrition. It enabled the rise of the supermarket. And that, in turn, transformed the labour market: less need for frequent shopping frees up women to work. As low-income countries get wealthier, fridges are among the first things people buy: in China, it took just a decade to get from a quarter of households having fridges to nearly nine in ten.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Ben Crighton.


THU 12:13 You and Yours (b098bt3r)

Consumer affairs programme.


THU 12:57 Weather (b098bt3t)

The latest weather forecast.


THU 13:00 World at One (b098bt3w)

Analysis of news and current affairs.


THU 13:45 How to Have a Better Brain (b065xcgc)
Sleep

Evidence-based, information-rich and full of smart tips and techniques, How To Have A Better Brain delivers a practical and optimistic guide to boosting brain power throughout our lives. Drawing on the latest neurological research into protecting and preserving cognitive function, journalist and broadcaster Sian Williams, currently studying for an MSc in Psychology, investigates the best ways to avert, and in some cases even reverse, mental deterioration.

In this episode Sian analyses the importance of sleep to brain health with Professor Angela Clow, Dr Hannah Critchlow, and neuropsychologist Dr Catherine Loveday and her mum, Scilla, a former Consultant Psychiatrist who started keeping a sleep diary to combat memory loss.

Producer: Dixi Stewart.


THU 14:00 The Archers (b098jtxt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday]


THU 14:15 Drama (b098nbbz)
Velvet Blackout

In 1942 a young woman with amnesia is pulled from a bombed building. A doctor and a policeman think she may know something vital to the British war effort - and they use some unorthodox techniques to force her to remember.

Directed by Marc Beeby.


THU 15:00 Ramblings (b098nc6t)
Series 37, Listeners' Walks: Stoke-on-Trent

Clare Balding meets a group of five friends from Stoke on Trent who have been walking The Two Saints Way www.twosaintsway.org.uk , a route that's taken them from Chester to Lichfield. All retired or semi-retired professional women, they all have very personal reasons for taking this pilgrimage. They like to mark various stages of the walk with a song, taking it in turns to decide on the type of music required for the particular location. They are accompanied by Buddy, a Border Terrier cross Jack Russell who has been with them for every step of the way. They women call themselves The Fast Girls Walking Group on account of the brisk pace they like to keep, so Clare will not be dawdling as they explain to her their love of their home town and why they believe The Potteries are wrongly overlooked as a great walking area.
The route can be found on OS Explorer 258 Stoke on Trent and Newcastle Under Lyme . The walk takes them from Stoke Minster to Lord Sutherland's Monument.
Ful
Producer: Lucy Lunt.


THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b098gms9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday]


THU 15:30 Open Book (b098h0f0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]


THU 16:00 The Film Programme (b098nc6w)
I Am Not a Witch

Francine Stock talks to Rungano Nyoni, the director of I Am Not a Witch, and looks at some lost films of African cinema, including a silent movie from 1915.


THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science (b098bt42)

Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science in the news.


THU 17:00 PM (b098bt44)

Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.


THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b098bt46)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


THU 18:30 Lemn Sissay's Origin Stories (b07x20c1)
Mutatis Mutandis

Batman was an orphan; Lisbeth Salander, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was an orphan; Superman was an orphan and a foundling. Cinderella was a foster child. Darth Vader - well, they can't all be winners. Lemn Sissay returns to BBC Radio 4with a comic and poetic look at the treatment of children raised in care, orphans and foster children in popular culture, comparing them with reality. Because it surely says something about how we view them that we create so many for fiction.

Lemn will explore the gap between fiction and reality, based on his own experiences of growing up in care as well as those of some special guests.

2. MUTATIS MUTANDIS

In this second episode, Lemn looks at the children at Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, otherwise known as The X-Men Academy; specifically, Rogue and Wolverine, whose dark and tragic origins lie long before either of them reached the School. But there, Xavier - Professor X - sought to teach the children how to control their powers and make the most of them. Lemn's experiences in children's homes in Wigan was not the same. What difference would it have made it it had been?

Lemn also talks to comedian and care leaver Sophie Willan, who spent most of her childhood in foster care and assisted accommodation. What superpowers did she discover she had, removed from the security of family?

Written and performed by ... Lemn Sissay
Guest ... Sophie Willan
Producer ... Ed Morrish

LEMN SISSAY'S ORIGIN STORIES IS A BBC STUDIOS PRODUCTION.


THU 19:00 The Archers (b098nfg2)

Toby battles with his feelings, and Matt continues to make trouble.


THU 19:15 Front Row (b098bt48)

Arts news, interviews and reviews.


THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b098n8z5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today]


THU 20:00 The Briefing Room (b098nfg4)

Series looking at important issues in the news. Presented by David Aaronovitch.


THU 20:30 The Bottom Line (b098nfg6)
Is there a business case for having a diverse workforce?

Evan Davis presents the business conversation programme. In this edition, Evan and guests discuss if there a business case for having a diverse workforce.


THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science (b098bt42)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today]


THU 21:30 In Our Time (b098bt3h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b098bt4b)

In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective.


THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b098nfg8)
Ian Rankin - The Deathwatch Journal, Episode 4

4/5. The date of execution is set. Scott and Gracie Cullen are
convinced of Telfer's innocence - but rumours begin to spread
about their relationship. Read by Jimmy Chisholm.
Producer Bruce Young.


THU 23:00 Liam Williams: Ladhood (b098nfgb)
Series 2, Episode 3

Comedian Liam Williams recounts his youthful misadventures in this autobiographical sitcom. Episode three finds Liam looking for love in all the wrong places as he tries to impress the ladies with some help from a sleazy pick-up manual.

Ladhood is written and performed by Liam Williams and starred.

Al Roberts
Emma Sidi
Freya Parker
Kieran Hodgson
Paul G Raymond
Sally Grace
Paul Copley

The Producer is Joe Nunnery
It is a BBC Studios Production.


THU 23:30 Today in Parliament (b098bt4d)

Sean Curran reports from Westminster.



FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER 2017

FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b098bt7l)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.


FRI 00:30 Book of the Week (b098n8z7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Thursday]


FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b098bt7n)

The latest shipping forecast.


FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b098bt7q)

FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b098bt7s)

The latest shipping forecast.


FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b098bt7v)

The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b09bdpf3)

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaunaka Rishi Das, director of The Oxford centre for Hindu Studies.


FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b098bt80)

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.


FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b098njdj)
Joe Acheson on the Corncrake

Musician Joe Acheson was stopped in his tracks when he heard corncrakes for the first time when he was performing in the Western Isles.

Producer: Tom Bonnett
Photograph: Melvyn Fagg.


FRI 06:00 Today (b098bt87)

Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs (b098gmsm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday]


FRI 09:45 15 Minute Drama (b098njdl)
Ten Days That Shook the World, The Conquest of Power

John Reed's classic eye-witness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917.
Dramatised by Robin Brooks

Episode 10: The Conquest of Power
The Bolsheviks have defeated the counter-revolution and are getting on with the business of government despite the threat of civil war. The abolition of all private ownership of land has won over the peasants and, for a moment, the Revolution seems to have accomplished its goals.

The Internationale is sung by Eiry Thomas

Director Alison Hindell
BBC Cymru Wales production

John Reed's vivid eye-witness account of his time in Petrograd was written in early 1918 and published in the USA the following year. It was an instant best-seller, so much so that in Russia it was some years before Stalin - who is only mentioned twice in the book - felt he could ban it for its portrayal of Trotsky. Possibly naïve, definitely politically one-sided, nevertheless the veracity and impact of Reed's enthusiastic snapshot-style reportage has become a classic memoir and inspired films including Eisenstein's classic 'October' and 'Reds' which won an Oscar for its director and star, Warren Beatty.


FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b098bt89)

Programme that offers a female perspective on the world.


FRI 10:45 Book of the Week (b098nlcf)
How to Be Champion, Recipe for My Very Favourite Cake

Sarah Millican reads from her frank and funny memoir - which is part-autobiography, part-self-help book.

Wooden spoons at the ready... After making the earth-shattering discovery that old, dead bananas can be turned into delicious cake, Sarah searched for the perfect recipe for banana bread, found it thanks to John Barrowman, Millicanised it and shares it with us today.

Read by Sarah Millican

Written by Sarah Millican

Abridged by Kirsteen Cameron

Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.


FRI 11:00 When Britain Invaded Russia (b098nlcm)

Lucy Ash tells the story of a little-known brutal war that took place a century ago along the frozen rivers of the Russian Arctic, transforming Russia's relations with the West for decades to come. After the October Revolution, thousands of foreign troops under British command fought Russians on Russian soil for over 18 months. Swamps and forests around Archangel are still littered with grenades and fragments of shells. On Mudyug, an island in the White Sea, Lucy visits the remains of a concentration camp where the Allies locked up potential troublemakers. British soldiers stayed on long past the Armistice with no clear idea of their mission. Were they there to defend against German attacks or were they on a crusade which Winston Churchill hoped would "strangle at birth the Bolshevik State"? In the programme Lucy Ash meets the 93-year-old son of General Edmund Ironside, who wrote at the time that he was in charge of "a tiny army of not very first class troops" stranded in the icy vastness of Russia "in the midst of a bitter civil war".
Producer: Natalia Golysheva.


FRI 11:30 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b098nlcz)
Series 2, Food

This week's Big Problem with Helen Keen is; Food

Natural resources are dwindling so how can we make sure everyone is fed? How has our food shopping and food production changed? Can science help? Will the future be meals in a pill? But, most importantly, what will Helen have for her tea?

As humanity faces a very big raft of very varied problems, many of them of its own making, here is a series of optimistic, scientifically literate yet comically nimble shows that offer a sweeping overview of the biggest challenges we face and the science behind them. We look at the often surprising solutions of past generations and the likely and unlikely solutions of the future and present a scrupulously researched comedy celebrating human ingenuity.

Written by Helen Keen, Jenny Laville, Lloyd Langford and Carrie Quinlan and special thanks to Laura-Alexandra Smith.
Cast: Helen Keen, Jon Culshaw and Susy Kane.
Producer was Katie Tyrrell and it was a BBC Studios Production.


FRI 12:00 News Summary (b098bt8c)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


FRI 12:04 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy (b098ns1w)
Series 1, Plough

The plough was a simple yet transformative technology. It was the plough that kick-started civilisation in the first place - that, ultimately, made our modern economy possible. But the plough did more than create the underpinning of civilisation - with all its benefits and inequities. Different types of plough led to different types of civilisation.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Ben Crighton.


FRI 12:13 You and Yours (b098bt8f)

Consumer news and issues.


FRI 12:57 Weather (b098bt8h)

The latest weather forecast.


FRI 13:00 World at One (b098bt8k)

Analysis of news and current affairs.


FRI 13:45 How to Have a Better Brain (b065xhtm)
Diet

Evidence-based, information-rich and full of smart tips and techniques, How To Have A Better Brain delivers a practical and optimistic guide to boosting brain power throughout our lives. Drawing on the latest neurological research into protecting and preserving cognitive function, journalist and broadcaster Sian Williams, currently studying for an MSc in Psychology, investigates the best ways to avert, and in some cases even reverse, mental deterioration.

In this episode Sian analyses the importance of diet to brain health with Professor Barbara Sahakian, Dr Hannah Critchlow, and neuropsychologist Dr Catherine Loveday and her mum, Scilla, a former Consultant Psychiatrist who took up eating chocolate every day to combat memory loss.

Producer: Dixi Stewart.


FRI 14:00 The Archers (b098nfg2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday]


FRI 14:15 Drama (b098ns1y)
The Longest Journey

Radio 4 drama.


FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b098ns20)
70th Anniversary Garden Party at Ness Botanic Gardens: The Potting Shed

Horticultural advice from GQT's Garden Party Potting Shed. Throughout the day at this year's 70th Anniversary Garden Party each panellist offered a one-on-one horticultural surgery for audience members on site at Ness Botanic Gardens. Here are the highlights from those sessions.

Produced by Dan Cocker
Assistant Producer: Laurence Bassett

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.


FRI 15:45 Short Works (b098ns22)
Series 1, Run

A new short story by novelist Ruth Thomas, author of 'Things to Make and Mend'. At a dinner party, a mother, still adjusting to her daughter leaving home for the first time, meets a teenager who is just as lost as she is.

Reader: Alexandra Mathie

Writer: Ruth Thomas

Producer: Claire Simpson.


FRI 16:00 Last Word (b098ns26)

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.


FRI 16:30 Feedback (b098ns2n)

Radio 4's forum for audience comment.


FRI 16:55 The Listening Project (b098ns2q)
Nuala and Maria - Stop the Pity Party

One of them had a partner the other didn't like. Since she ditched him their friendship has blossomed. Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.

Producer: Marya Burgess.


FRI 17:00 PM (b098bt8q)

Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.


FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b098bt8s)

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


FRI 18:30 The News Quiz (b098ns2s)
Series 94, 20/10/2017

Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.


FRI 19:00 The Archers (b098ns2v)

Lilian receives a shocking proposition, and there is serious trouble at the vets.


FRI 19:15 Front Row (b098bt8v)

News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, literature, film and music.


FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b098njdl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today]


FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b098ns2x)

Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion.


FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b098ns34)

A reflection on a topical issue.


FRI 21:00 Streets Apart: A History of Social Housing (b098ns6r)
Omnibus, Streets in the Sky

Lynsey Hanley explores the era of council housing that was defined by high rise living.

In 1957, a gigantic, futuristic new council block started to appear on the hillside above Sheffield train station. Four years later it was finished and residents from the old slums that used to dot the area started to move in. The building's name was Park Hill and it would become a vessel for everything people hate - and love - about late 20th century council housing in Britain.

The architects of the building were two young Cambridge graduates called Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith. They took their inspiration from a fashionable French architect who went by the name Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier had grand ideas about space, light and order but he also thought modernist buildings needed to try and recreate the street patterns of old back to back houses - but 50 feet up in the air. This idea was known as 'streets in the sky' and it would come to dominate the thinking around estate architecture for a generation.

In this episode, Lynsey explores the trend of building upwards.

Park Hill was just the beginning of an era that saw our city skylines dotted with tower blocks and high rise buildings. All that came to an end with the collapse of Ronan Point in 1968, but it is a period that still dominates our thinking about estates. Grenfell Tower was designed and conceived of at this time.

Lynsey visits Park Hill to find out what it was like to live in this radical new building. She also meets the residents who live there now and asks whether a recent regeneration has changed the social fabric of the building beyond recognition.

Presenter: Lynsey Hanley
Producer: Sara Parker and Joe Sykes
Executive Producer: Samir Shah

A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4.


FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b098bt90)

In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective.


FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b098nv6t)
Ian Rankin - The Deathwatch Journal, Episode 5

5/5. Telfer's appointment with the hangman is imminent as Scott
is taken to see the Edinburgh gangster Jack Mulholland.
Read by Jimmy Chisholm. Producer Bruce Young.


FRI 23:00 A Good Read (b098jjr6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday]


FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament (b098bt92)

Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster.


FRI 23:55 The Listening Project (b098nv6w)
Susan and Margaret - Finding Female Friendship

Moving to Maryport opened up the possibility of a strong new friendship. Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.

Producer: Marya Burgess.