The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Richard Littledale.
Twenty red squirrels have been released on Mersea island in Essex over the past two and a half years. The site was chosen as there is no competition from grey squirrels and organisers of the project now hope the animals will soon start to breed.
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed a variety of barley that is better at tolerating flooding and waterlogged fields. This could help reduce loss of yield when the crop is starved of oxygen.
Farming Today continues to look at water management on farms. Anna Hill visits a farmer in Norfolk who says flooding, due to bad river management, causes havoc on his land.
And the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee release a report today highlighting some of the potential issues surrounding the government's promise to boost and maintain flood defences around the UK.
Michael Palin presents the Asian koel's arrival to an Indian orchard. This long-tailed glossy blue-black bird, is a well-known British harbinger of spring, and like its British counterpart, it is a cuckoo.
The koel's plaintive call is heard from late March until July around villages and in wooded countryside from Pakistan east to Indonesia and southern China. In India, it symbolises the birth of a new season, the flowering of fruit-trees, the bloom of romance and all that's good about spring. The koel's song can be heard in many Bollywood movies and has inspired poems and folk songs; it's even rumoured to help mangoes ripen faster.
This almost universal feel-good factor doesn't extend to its victims, because the koel is after all a cuckoo, and lays its eggs in other birds' nests. Asian Koels are parasitic on a wide range of birds, but in India especially, on House Crows and Jungle Crows.
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
If the statistics can be believed, over the last 30 years the gap between rich and poor in the West has grown as cavernous as it was in the Nineteenth Century.
In the second of two programmes, the BBC's Economics Editor Robert Peston asks whether anything can or should be done about it.
Are cheap wages inevitable if we want to compete with the likes of China? Can you tax the super-rich - or will they just move their wealth abroad? And do we all face the risk of losing our cosy, well-paid jobs to robots?
Robert poses these and other troubling questions as he speaks to a tech guru, psychologists and a comedian, among others.
Charlotte Smith looks at the support offered by self help groups to those suffering from emotional trauma.
When Sarah O'Donoghue's eighteen year old son died while out celebrating his A level results, she felt she needed to turn to the professionals for help; doctors, bereavement counsellors, therapists.
It was only after many months that she finally turned to The Compassionate Friends; one of the several charities that offers support and help to bereaved families after the death of a child. Here she found solace by talking to and being with others who had been through the same experience themselves.
Charlotte and Sarah discuss the positives and negatives of being part of such a group; the support that is given to people who so badly need it, whether there is a danger members could become too dependent, and at what point people might make the sometimes painful decision to leave a group.
German writer Julia Franck reflects on her move from East Germany to West Berlin as a child, and her initial experience as a refugee, which has informed how she views the challenges facing Europe now.
Fay Weldon, author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, talks about becoming a writer and choosing her favourite short stories for her Mischief collection, which includes a new novella. Lorin LaFave, whose son was groomed and murdered by a man he met playing online games, discusses what can be done to create a safer internet for children. Eleanor Mills, Editorial Director of The Sunday Times and chair of Women in Journalism, on The Press Awards nominations. Journalist Yomi Adegoke and beauty and diversity lecturer Emmanuelle Dirix explore the impact of cultural appropriation.
There’s trouble in New Town Edinburgh when a dog begins a nipping spree, a neighbour starts nicking cups, and plans for Bertie’s Saturday are put on hold when baby Ulysses causes confusion.
Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town is the setting for the quirky tales and ‘goings-on’ adapted by Alexander McCall Smith from his worldwide bestselling series of books.
Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, is a frequent visitor to Domenica Macdonald, the anthropologist and longest-term resident of 44 Scotland Street.
Will their friendship blossom and will she ever let his dog Cyril into her flat? Domenica’s thoughts are elsewhere, sensing trouble with the return of her neighbour Antonia who has been living in Glasgow of all places! Is Domenica’s ‘property’ safe with Antonia back in town?
Meanwhile in the flat below lives Bertie, aged six, a prodigy and victim of his excessively pushy mother, Irene. Bertie wants the life of an ordinary six-year-old boy, but instead he has psychotherapy, yoga and Italian conversation lessons. He also wants to know why his new baby brother, Ulysses, looks remarkably like his psychotherapist, Dr Fairbairn.
Comedy performer and broadcaster Helen Keen, explores a rare condition that she herself once suffered from, known as selective mutism or SM. An anxiety disorder that develops in childhood, those affected by SM can usually speak fluently in some situations, notably at home, but remain silent elsewhere - such as in school, with extended family members, or even parents. Their inability to speak is so severe that it's been likened to a phobia of speaking, and is often accompanied by the physical symptoms of extreme anxiety. Selective mutism can be mistaken for shyness or worse, a deliberate refusal to talk. But in reality, these children are desperate to speak, to share their thoughts and ideas, to make friends and to fulfil the expectations of their teachers and parents, in taking an active part in class activities. Yet somehow the words remain "trapped" inside as the anxiety, frustration and fear, builds.
Though relatively rare, increasing awareness and official recognition of selective mutism in the psychiatric literature has seen an increase in diagnoses. Today, it's estimated to affect about 1 in 150 children in the UK - roughly equivalent to the number of children who are affected by classic autism. The causes of selective mutism are poorly understood but a genetic component is likely as are environmental influences. What's clear is that without early intervention, SM can take hold and persist well into adulthood and in rare cases can develop into more acute mental health problems. As Helen knows only too well, it can be a lonely place to grow up in as the quiet child is so often, 'the forgotten child'. It wasn't until Helen was in her early twenties that she managed to break the silence.
In this programme, Helen meets some of those affected by SM, including parents and former sufferers as well as experts helping children to find their voice again. Producer: Rami Tzabar. Clip of the Alternative Comedy Experience courtesy of Comedy Central.
Often cited as one of the greatest albums ever made, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme is revered not just by jazz aficionados but music fans the world over. Fifty years after its release, British saxophonist Courtney Pine explores what makes it such a unique and important record.
John Coltrane intended A Love Supreme to be a spiritual record - a declaration of his religious beliefs and personal spiritual quest. However the album also had a wider cultural significance. It was released in February 1965, just days after black rights activist Malcolm X was assassinated and weeks before Martin Luther King led the March on Alabama, and for many the sound and feel of the music captures perfectly the sadness, confusion and anger of America's growing black consciousness movement.
Courtney visits Gaumont State Theatre in Kilburn, North London, where Coltrane performed on a tour in 1961. He is joined by a trio of leading British jazz saxophonists - Nat Birchall, Finn Peters and Jason Yarde - whose lives have been inspired and shaped by A Love Supreme and the music and spirit of John Coltrane.
Our quartet of musicians explore why the album touches so many and continues to do so with each new generation.
Not everyone at Collingwood Park is in favour of Marshalls manufacturing munitions.
HSBC is in the news for helping wealthy clients evade paying millions of pounds in tax. They've helped people hide cash in offshore accounts. That's not illegal, but deliberately hiding money to evade tax is and its costing millions.
Have you ever done that - even on a very modest scale? Do you feel bad about paying your plumber or electrician cash in hand? Or maybe you pocket the odd fifty quid and don't tell the tax man. If you could find a way to pay less tax legally, would you take it? Is it always morally wrong to dodge tax?
Skellig Michael or Great Skellig is the larger of the two Skellig islands situated some 12 km off the coast of Portmagee in south-west Ireland. It's a spectacular rocky pinnacle towering over 200 metres above sea level. The summit is reached by climbing what is, at times, an almost vertical wall of nearly 700 steps. On the summit are the remains of a well-preserved monastic outpost, including six beehive cells which date back to early Christianity. Monks were sent to island outposts like Skellig Michael to pray and keep evil spirits at bay. A visit to this island cliff is not for the feint-hearted as wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson describes in this vivid account, which is illustrated with recordings he made on and around the island. Landing is no easy task, as the waves crash against the island buttress, whilst kittiwakes soar overhead, their cries piercing the air. Climbing the steps, you have to "hold your nerve and not look back or down, behind you and beneath you is a void". Puffins explode unexpectedly out of underground burrows, their strange low growling calls, reverberating through the ground. Higher up, Chris is met by "by stiff-winged fulmars sheering and slicing through the air". Eventually he reaches the summit, and his destination. After 10 pm, there's a flutter of wings in the darkness as storm petrels emerge, their "sinister cackling sounds start to emanate from the walls". But there's more; after midnight, the air is filled with the banshee-like cries of Manx shearwaters. "Hearing these sounds come out of the darkness must have been a terrifying experience for the monks in their cliff top hives – easy to think that they were evil spirits from the west."
Daniel Ryan and Jade Matthew (who won the 2015 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Debut Performance for her role in A KIDNAPPING), play two British teachers at an international school in Manila who have kidnapped a 10-year-old child.
With local taxi driver Rami (Art Acuna) they attempt to extract a ransom from the boy's father, a prominent, corrupt and vengeful politician. But when the boy discovers the identity of one of his captors, their simple get-rich-quick plan begins to unravel.
A fast-paced thriller and a grand, comic morality tale set and recorded in the Philippines.
Seventy years on from dramatic and deadly Allied air attacks, Tom Holland visits Dresden in the east of Germany. He finds out how the city has dealt with this history, why it continues to concern us and how different regimes have used it.
In the studio, Helen Castor and her guests - Professor Richard Overy (University of Exeter) and Dr Astrid Swenson Lecturer in Politics and History at Brunel University - discuss the horror of those nights in February 1945 and how they compared with bombing raids on other European cities such as London, Coventry and Hamburg.
Back in England, Martin Ellis visits Stoke-On-Trent to find out whether history and heritage can replace garden festivals to become a major factor in the social and economic rejuvenation of the Potteries.
Contact the programme by email: making.history@bbc.co.uk - or write to Making History, BBC Radio 4, PO Box 3096. Brighton BN1 1PL.
Australian Premier, Tony Abbott is determined to develop his Northern Territory. With the enormous markets of South-East Asia on the doorstep of Darwin there's huge potential for oil, gas, mining and agriculture in the thinly-populated north.
Locals welcome the prospect of jobs but there's a real concern that the extraordinary landscape of the north could be lost. Mining and intensive agriculture require water in vast quantities. To get it dams will have to be built and groundwater abstracted. That will disrupt the complex web of life in the river systems of the north. Fish, turtles and birdlife depend upon the seasonal flows and fluctuations that will be tamed in a developed north.
Local Aboriginal people who own half of the land and make up 30% of the population still hunt and fish the rivers. Many worry that development will take their water but fail to offer them the jobs and modern facilities they would like to see.
Julian Rush travels across the tropical savannah of Australia's 'top end' to gauge the impact of a populated and energised north, meeting the people and the wildlife that will have to live alongside the incomers.
Dwaine George was sent to prison in 2001 for murder. Aged 18 and a member of a Manchester gang, he was convicted for shooting dead another 18-year-old and sentenced to life imprisonment. But Dwaine George said he didn't do it and continued to protest his innocence throughout the 12 years he eventually served. He was finally vindicated by the Court of Appeal shortly before Christmas, when his conviction was quashed.
Dwaine George wasn't the only person celebrating that day. Crammed into court for the appeal hearing had been a group of students and lecturers from Cardiff Law School. The law school runs an Innocence Project, where students take up alleged miscarriages of justice. There are more than 30 such projects at universities all over the country. The Dwaine George case was the first case in the UK brought by an Innocence Project to be successfully appealed.
In this week's Law in Action Joshua Rozenberg goes to Cardiff to meet the people who made this happen. He hears about the years of work that went into their investigation, and the further years of waiting after the appeal was filed in 2010. And he hears about their euphoria and relief when the email finally came through that the Court of Appeal had quashed the conviction.
But is the system that is designed to guard against miscarriages of justice working properly? There are plenty of lawyers who say it isn't. Parliament's Justice Committee is currently conducting an inquiry into the effectiveness of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), through which all appeals for wrongful conviction must go. The commission's chairman Richard Foster gave evidence to the committee on February 3rd and will be in the Law In Action studio to debate the issue with Joshua Rozenberg and others.
Countdown dictionary buff Susie Dent and WI Chair Janice Langley talk good reads with Harriett Gilbert. Book choices include An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by the late PD James, Red Love - The Story of an East German Family by Maxim Leo, and A Walk Across The Sun by Corban Addison.
Nominated for Best Comedy in the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2015, Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' is a comedy sketch show written and performed by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd, stars of Radio 4's Showstoppers.
What happens when you put together jaded (sorry, 'experienced') comedy circuit veteran Ruth Bratt (Derek, People Just Do Nothing, Quick Cuts, Ministry of Curious Stuff, Mongrels) and 'serious circuit' enthusiast Lucy Trodd (famous for her fruit impressions)?
This week Ruth gets to perform her favourite sketch featuring eight different Kens - she just has to get Lucy to understand it. Meanwhile the 1940's divas who run a lighthouse can't work out whose turn it is to switch on the light; and on Wetumpka's public access radio station, Thandie is trying to find her clumsy and slightly terrifying daughter Lily-Rose-May a date.
Interviewing Jennifer on Radio Borsetshire, DJ Rhiannon labels her as an unlikely protestor and bit of a NIMBY. Defiant Jennifer insists that she's here to speak up for the unsung heroes. While there is breath in her body, she'll fight for her community.
Kenton can't wait to board the plane for Australia. His share of the Brookfield money will mean a new start. He feels he's becoming the man he always meant to be.
Discussing Valentine's Day, Kenton jokes with Carol about chivalry. Carol points out that her husband John was soon set straight when he once tried to open a door for her.
Kate criticises the squalid state of Roy's house, accusing him of damaging Phoebe. Roy fights back, criticizing Kate for destroying her marriage and crawling back to Ambridge. Calling Kate a terrible mother, Roy points out that he and Hayley have done their best to look after Phoebe. But Kate blames Roy for breaking Phoebe's heart. With that, Roy manhandles Kate out of his house.
Jennifer's delighted that her interview has attracted lots of publicity - and a few donations. Upset Kate plays up Roy's brutality, but Jennifer's not taken in. Both Kate and Roy need to buck up their ideas for Phoebe's sake. Phoebe should be their priority.
Jennifer Aniston discusses her new film Cake, about a grieving woman suffering from chronic pain. With this serious low-budget role, for which she received a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination, has she finally stepped out of the shadow of Friends?
Magnificent Obsessions is a new exhibition at the Barbican in London which focuses on the artist as collector. Many post-war and contemporary artists are represented, including the possessions of Howard Hodgkin, Edmund de Waal, Damien Hirst and Peter Blake. The show's curator Lydia Yee gives John Wilson a personal tour.
Indian Summers is Channel 4's new 10 part period drama, reportedly the most expensive they've ever made. The series stars Julie Walters and explores life in the plantations of northern India as the Empire begins to crumble. Shahidha Bari reviews.
As Bob Dylan hits out at critics who say he can't sing, singer Tom Robinson and critic Neil McCormick discuss the importance of personality vs technical ability in a singer's voice.
Around 28 thousand people are claiming asylum in the UK. They're accommodated in some of the nation's most deprived areas while their cases are considered. Now, with numbers on the rise, some communities say they're struggling to cope. Allan Urry reports from the Northwest of England where, in some areas, there's concern about growing pressures on health services and schools. In Liverpool the City's Mayor, Joe Anderson, talks of an asylum "apartheid" and says other towns and cities need to take a fairer share. In Rochdale in Greater Manchester, there are more asylum seekers than the whole of the south east of England. The local MP Simon Danczuk says he's worried the pressures could undermine the good community relations that have always existed in the town.
Recent stories of asylum seekers living in fancy hotels have led to outraged newspaper headlines but are they a symptom of bigger failings in the UK's system for housing those who come here seeking refuge?
Partially sighted Kevin Mclaughlin has travelled alone through ten countries in twelve days; he talks to Peter White about his experience of what he calls "extreme travel".
Hazel Dudley and her husband Wayne, who are both blind, have been taking cruise holidays for the past ten years and tell us why they think it's the only way to travel.
And is the UK's number one tourist attraction leading the way in accessibility? We sent Tom Walker along with visually impaired wheelchair user Cindy Godfrey-Mckay, to check out the Royal Yacht Britannia.
(photograph: Cindy Godfrey-Mckay in the State Dining Room of the Royal Yacht Britannia)
With the NHS facing significant and enduring financial pressures, as people's need for services continues to grow faster than funding, what impact is all this having on NHS staff? New advice about flying if pregnant and new research that links drinking one can a day of a sugary drink to an earlier onset of puberty. Plus the sensitive issue of FGM.
Syria's Bashar al-Assad tells Jeremy Bowen his country has been involved in "indirect contact" with the US -- through Iraq -- in the battle against IS militants in his country.
After witnessing Scullion's horrific battlefield injuries, Luke has left the army. Back in Scotland he vows to help his gran track down her missing photographic archive.
Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned retrospective stirs long-buried memories and leads her grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which has defined three generations.
Sean Curran hears the Foreign Secretary explain the British stance on Ukraine. There's strong condemnation of Syria's President Assad. MPs probe the Rotherham child abuse scandal. And is it time for a maximum wage?
WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2015
WED 00:00 Midnight News (b051r61b)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
WED 00:30 Letters from Europe (b05289w7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Tuesday]
WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b051r61d)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b051r61g)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b051r61j)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 05:30 News Briefing (b051r61l)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b052ms4b)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Richard Littledale.
WED 05:45 Farming Today (b051s31l)
Processed Meat Labelling; Bee Numbers; New President of Scottish NFU
Later today MEPs will vote on a proposal that calls for legislation to make it compulsory to show where the meat in processed food comes from. It's already the rule for unprocessed beef like mince, but not for all meats used in lasagnes or pizzas. We hear from Keith Taylor, Green MEP for South East England, who moved the motion.
A report out today indicates there are now more varieties of bees in urban areas than in farmland. The study published by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council shows that there are similar numbers of bees in both settings. Whilst the UK bee population is known to be in overall decline, the effects of urbanisation on pollinating insects isn't clear. We hear from the lead researcher, Dr Katherine Baldock of the University of Bristol.
The National Farmers Union of Scotland has a new President. Allan Bowie, a cereal and beef farmer from North Fife, tells us his priorities for the year ahead.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley.
WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04t0vl3)
Ostrich
Michael Palin presents the avian record breaking ostrich in the Kalahari Desert. Ostriches are ornithological record-breakers. The black and white adult male ostrich is taller and heavier than any other living bird, reaching almost 3 metres in height and weighing a whopping 150 kilograms. Females are smaller but lay the largest eggs of any bird. The ostrich's eye measures 5cm in diameter and is the largest of any land vertebrate.
Ostriches live in the wide open landscapes of central, eastern and South-West Africa. As well as being tall and observant, Ostriches also minimise their chances of being predated on, by living in groups and sharing lookout duties, or staying close to sharp-eyed antelope and zebra herds. They can also use their powerful legs to try and outrun a predator, reaching speeds of up to 70 kilometres per hour which makes them the fastest avian runner.
WED 06:00 Today (b051s31n)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
WED 09:00 Midweek (b051s31q)
Professor John Sutherland and Jack Sutherland; Pam St Clement; Adam Walker; Sam Haywood.
Libby Purves meets actor Pam St Clement; academic and journalist Professor John Sutherland and his son Jack; swimmer Adam Walker and concert pianist Sam Haywood.
Adam Walker is the only British swimmer to have completed the Ocean's 7 Challenge - seven open water swims including the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Molokai Channel in Hawaii. He started the swims in 2008 and faced sharks, whales, treacherous sea conditions and dozens of bouts of sickness during the challenge. Adam Walker: The Ocean's 7 Challenge Lecture is at the Royal Geographical Society, London.
Professor John Sutherland is an academic and author. His book, Last Drink to LA, first published in 2001, has been reissued with a new introduction. The book is a meditation on alcoholism and an account of his own decline and recovery. It also details his son's problems with addiction. Father and son are working on Jack's forthcoming book about his own experiences. Last Drink to LA: Confessions of an AA Survivor is published by Short Books.
Pam St Clement is an actor best known for her role as Pat Evans in the BBC soap series, EastEnders. Her memoir, The End of an Earring, recounts the death of her mother, her difficult relationship with her father and her itinerant childhood. She attended drama school before working in television and theatre throughout the Sixties and Seventies. She appeared in EastEnders from 1986 to 2012 becoming one of its longest running characters known for her trademark large earrings. The End of an Earring is published by Headline.
Sam Haywood is a concert pianist who has performed in many of the world's major concert halls including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and Wigmore Hall in London. As a chamber musician he is a regular duo partner of Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis and performs with many leading chamber ensembles. His latest CD, Composers in Love, brings together both well-loved and lesser known music inspired by composers' muses. Composers in Love, is released by Blackbird Records.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
WED 09:45 Letters from Europe (b05289wc)
Yasmina Khadra
Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra, now living in France, reflects on personal identity, in the light of the challenges currently facing Europe.
Producer Julia Johnson.
WED 10:00 Woman's Hour (b051s3fx)
Sharleen Spiteri, Lynne Segal and Self Harm Scars
Texas frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri joins Jenni to sing their new single, Start a Family, and talk about what it's like now that the band is 25 years old. Having experienced success with the band and as a solo artist, what does she plan to do next?
Lynne Segal's 1994 book 'Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure' argues whether heterosexual sex is inherently damaging to women. As her book is reissued, we ask how she feels 21 years later.
And, what happens to the scars when a self harmer gets better? We hear from Mary Hamilton on how she feels about her self harm scars, years after the event.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Corinna Jones.
WED 10:40 44 Scotland Street (b051s3fz)
The Blue Spode Tea Cup
Episode 3
Friendship is put to the test when Domenica asks Angus to accompany her on a secret and possibly illegal mission. Bertie’s mother’s parenting skills are under scrutiny when she comes face to face with the Social Work Department.
Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town is the setting for the quirky tales and ‘goings-on’ adapted by Alexander McCall Smith from his worldwide bestselling series of books.
Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, is a frequent visitor to Domenica Macdonald, the anthropologist and longest-term resident of 44 Scotland Street.
Will their friendship blossom and will she ever let his dog Cyril into her flat? Domenica’s thoughts are elsewhere, sensing trouble with the return of her neighbour Antonia who has been living in Glasgow of all places! Is Domenica’s ‘property’ safe with Antonia back in town?
Meanwhile in the flat below lives Bertie, aged six, a prodigy and victim of his excessively pushy mother, Irene. Bertie wants the life of an ordinary six-year-old boy, but instead he has psychotherapy, yoga and Italian conversation lessons. He also wants to know why his new baby brother, Ulysses, looks remarkably like his psychotherapist, Dr Fairbairn.
ANGUS LORDIE....……..…..CRAWFORD LOGAN
DOMENICA..……….....CAROL ANN CRAWFORD
ANTONIA/BIG LOU......………ANITA VETTESSE
IRENE………….........……............EMMA CURRIE
BERTIE………………...……....….….SIMON KERR
MARKUS.............................MATTHEW ZAJAC
SOCIAL WORKER.....................MOLLY INNES
Director: David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
WED 10:55 The Listening Project (b04bs0mt)
Iby and Julia - Not Defined by the Holocaust
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a survivor of Auschwitz and her granddaughter, which reveals that Iby used her experience to pass on tolerance and understanding, not fear, proving again that it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
WED 11:00 Tales from the Ring Road (b051s3g3)
Bedford
Anne-Marie Duff narrates stories of survival and resilience from the roads that encircle Bedford.
The edge of town can be a perilous place, a periphery landscape of industrial estates and redundant brickworks. Life can seem fragile here, but it also bears witness to tales of determination and hope.
In this episode, Bedford is in the spotlight. Among the stories, an Eden nestled in a garden square, a violent end to a relationship that started so happily on line and a helicopter pilot tempted into crime, stunned by life in Bedford Prison.
Producer: Sarah Bowen.
WED 11:30 Alun Cochrane's Fun House (b01rvpvf)
The Bathroom
Comedian Alun Cochrane has a 25 year mortgage which he can only pay off by being funny. In this series he takes us on a room by room, stand up tour of his house.
He has a fridge that beeps at him when he doesn't move quickly enough and a fire alarm he can't reach. His relationship with his house is a complicated one.
A hoarder of funny and original observations on everyday life, Alun invites us to help him de-clutter his mind and tidy his ideas into one of those bags that you hoover all the air out of and keep under your bed. This show will help Alun and his house work through their relationship issues and prevent a separation that Alun can ill afford; at least not until the market picks up anyway.
Starring ... Alun Cochrane and Gavin Osborn
Written by ... Alun Cochrane and Andy Wolton
Produced by ... Carl Cooper.
WED 12:00 News Summary (b051r61q)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 12:04 Home Front (b051s4jn)
11 February 1915 - Duncan Chadwick
There's unrest within the Chadwick family.
Written by: Shaun McKenna
Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.
WED 12:15 You and Yours (b051s4jq)
Social Media Copycats, Gadget Insurance and Roadkill Fashion
TESCO
Has the supermarket turned the corner?
ROADKILL FUR
Would YOU wear clothes cut from roadkill?
FOODBANKS
A new report claims food banks don't address the real issue of food poverty in the UK
TALK TALK
Listeners tell us why Talk talk is the most complained about phone provider in the UK
ROBOTS FOR DEMENTIA
How new technology can help dementia patients
GADGET INSURANCE
When a specific policy for your gadget DOESN'T necessarily pay out....
CATFISHING
What happens when someone clones your identity online and pretends to be you
PRESENTER WINIFRED ROBINSON
PRODUCER PETE WILSON.
WED 12:57 Weather (b051r61s)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 13:00 World at One (b051s4js)
Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney.
WED 13:45 The Cliff (b051s4jv)
Zoe Shipton on Geological Cliffs
"Most people look at a cliff and just see a pile of rocks. But when I look at a cliff I see millions of years of geological time." says Zoe Shipton, Professor of Geology at Strathclyde University. "In cliffs made up of sedimentary rocks, each layer of rock contains clues to how that layer was laid down millions of years ago, and what has happened to it since. We can read those layers like pages in a book". Trying to unpick the geological story of the earth, though, is far from simple - after all "the Earth is nearly 13,000 km across. Geologists are approximately 1.6 m tall, trying to unpick the story of a complicated 4D puzzle - ie one varying in space and changing in time. But we are doing this to decipher the history of a planet that is 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times larger than we are". Undaunted, she takes three cliffs - the Book Cliffs in central Utah, the Grand Canyon and Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas - to explain how geologists decipher the clues left in the rocks. But rocks are subject to the weather, and so to study them in their natural habitat geologists use underground rock laboratories. To extend the depths to which we can observe the Earth even further, geologists use geophysical tools such as seismic surveys. But because we can't produce signals strong enough to penetrate into the very centre of the Earth, geologists use natural signals as well. Listening to earthquakes from the other side of the planet provides information that can be used to map the topography at the outside of the Earth's core. "With modern technology we are learning to read the complete atlas of Earth's history."
Written and presented by Zoe Shipton, with readings by David Acton.
Additional sound recordings by Chris Watson.
Producer: Sarah Blunt
WED 14:00 The Archers (b051s2lz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Tuesday]
WED 14:15 Drama (b05107zw)
Poorland
Sean Grundy's satirical take on attitudes towards poverty and the poor.
Come to "Poorland Yorkshire", the latest addition to our chain of exciting theme parks which have transformed some of Britain's toughest council estates. Take the family on one of our many thrilling rides - "Benefit Island" water ride, "Joyride" or "HellEviction". Stay for the night in the "Disenchanted Kingdom". Try out one of our celebrity chav make-overs or visit our Poorland gift shop where "each toy is some child's broken dream". Come to Poorland, where every dream is unfulfilled.
On the same day, Susan and John visit the new Poorland theme park which has been opened on the site of the Yorkshire council estate that they grew up in. Susan's accompanying her teenage daughter on her birthday and John's there to review the new ride "The Fires of Orgreave". They bump into each other and soon discover that they remember their childhood on the estate in starkly different ways.
Script Editor ....... Abigail Youngman
Writer ................Sean Grundy
Producer ............Alison Crawford.
WED 15:00 Money Box Live (b051s4jx)
Energy Saving, Bills and Complaints
Looking for cheaper energy bills, help with switching or insulating your home? Ruth Alexander and guests answered your questions.
As the "big six" energy providers have all announced cuts to standard variable gas prices and some energy providers have signed up 17 day switching, is now a good time to swap provider and save some money?
If you use a comparison site, how do you make sure you are seeing all the available deals?
When you have switched, make sure you receive any money you have overpaid. Last year Ofgem revealed that energy providers still had £400m in credit from closed accounts, what's the process for getting your money back?
Maybe you want to know about the Warm Home Discount, Cold Weather or Winter Fuel Payments?
Are you eligible for help with the cost of insulating your home? If you receive certain benefits, some energy companies will assist with loft and cavity wall insulation or boiler repairs.
Or perhaps you want to ask about The Green Deal?
If you have a problem with your bill, energy supply or a problem resulting from switching, the Energy Ombudsman will be here to advise.
Ruth Alexander was joined by
John Baguley, Energy Ombudsman.
Audrey Gallacher, Director of Energy, Citizens Advice.
Joe Malinowski, The Energy Shop.
WED 15:30 Inside Health (b051s2m7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Tuesday]
WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed (b051s4jz)
Harvard Business School – The Construction of Pain
Harvard Business School: Laurie Taylor takes a journey through the complex moral world of what many call the West Point of American Capitalism. Michel Anteby, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, describes his research into the inner workings, mores and rituals of this highly influential institution.They're joined by Professor Ken Starkey from the Nottingham University Business School.
Also, a cultural history of pain with Dr Louise Hide, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck. University of London.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
WED 16:30 The Media Show (b051s4k1)
Protecting Journalists' Sources, American News Anchors, Football Rights, Sports Radio
Brian Williams, the most popular nightly news anchor in the USA, has been suspended for six months without pay by his employer NBC. It follows an admittance that a story he told about coming under fire on a helicopter during the Iraq war was not true. NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik talks to Steve Hewlett about the case, and the power and value of the American news anchor to the networks.
The Interception of Communications Commissioner has ruled that RIPA (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) does not provide adequate safeguards to protect journalistic sources. Sir Anthony May has suggested police need to seek permission from a judge when obtaining information of this type. Steve Hewlett speaks to the editor of the Press Gazette Dominic Ponsford, Richard Berry, the Association of Chief Police Officer's lead on RIPA, and Sun reporter Tom Newton Dunn,whose phone records were accessed by Scotland Yard over the Plebgate row.
The Premier League has announced that it's sold the British television rights for the 2016 to 2019 seasons to Sky and BT sports for just over 5 billion pounds. Sky almost doubled its investment to retain five of seven rights packages. BT Sport paid 30 per cent more at £960 million for matches including Saturday evening fixtures. Steve talks to Matthew Horsman, Director of consultancy Mediatique, about how the extra costs might impact both companies.
Kelvin MacKenzie is bidding to run a new national sports radio station that would compete with Talksport, the broadcaster he founded and sold to UTV Media a decade ago for £100m. The former editor of The Sun is teaming up with his Talksport co-founder Jason Bryant to launch Sports Radio next January. Steve Hewlett asks Jason why now is the right time.
Producer: Katy Takatsuki.
WED 17:00 PM (b051s4k3)
PM at
5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b051r61v)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 18:30 The Sinha Carta (b051s4qh)
Magna Carta is a document, over 800 years old, that surprisingly few people have read, considering how important it is.
Luckily for you, comedian and quizzer Paul Sinha (The Chase) has read it, and it turns out it's ace, especially if you love keeping your own timber and hate fishing traps in the River Medway.
Get ready as Paul will be explaining why what’s in it is in it - how it came to be - and guide you through some of its 63 clauses of medieval Latin.
He'll also supply some new, modern clauses, for a Magna Carta fit for a modern Britain.
Written and performed by Paul Sinha.
Producer: Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015.
WED 19:00 The Archers (b051s4qk)
Lilian's enjoying the comfort of Home Farm, particularly Jennifer's swish kitchen. It beats looking at Anthea's sour face at Amside (although Anthea's definitely not coming back). Jennifer wishes Kate and Roy would grow up. Brian is horrified that Lilian and Kate have drunk his fine burgundy.
Alice has uploaded Jennifer's radio interview to the web. It has had 800 views.
Out hunting, Rob reminds Helen to 'be sensible' if the worst happens and a fox is drawn. He also points out that Helen shouldn't saddle herself with the shop. They're distracted by a commotion. Despite the whipper-in's best efforts, a fox has been caught and killed. Rob is more annoyed by the presence of a hunt saboteur who is holding a camera. He goes to confront the man, who calls the group bloodthirsty murderers. The hunt sab claims they set the hounds on the fox.
Rob grabs the man, trying to take his camera. As they tussle, Rob hits him with a hard punch, before being pushed to the ground himself. Shocked Shula tells Rob to move on with the rest of the hunt. Rob tells Helen that the sab initiated the fight, and insists that Shula backs him up, despite her seeing the truth.
Rob points out that at least Shula was there to see what really happened. Helen can't think of a more reliable witness.
WED 19:15 Front Row (b051s4rd)
John Singer Sargent, Daniel Handler, Reading France, Filming by Candlelight
John Singer Sargent was one of the most celebrated artists of his generation known for painting portraits of his circle of friends including Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson and Claude Monet. AN Wilson reviews a new exhibition of Sargent's work at the National Portrait Gallery.
Lemony Snicket author Daniel Handler discusses his new novel We Are Pirates.
With scenes shot entirely by candlelight in the BBC TV adaptation of Wolf Hall, its Director of Photography Gavin Finney discusses the challenges he faced, and Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, Chair of the Globe Theatre's architectural research group, reflects on the opportunities and limitations she faces in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse which is lit entirely by candles.
As part of Radio 4's Reading Europe Season, Damian Barr finds out the latest French publishing news from three industry insiders, and hears about the thriving independent book shop scene, thanks to the policy of fixed price books.
WED 19:45 44 Scotland Street (b051s3fz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:40 today]
WED 20:00 Moral Maze (b051s4rg)
Muslim Leadership
When an heir to the throne feels moved to step in to a minefield as potentially explosive as Muslim values you know something is amiss. At the weekend Prince Charles, who has been a self-professed admirer of Islam, gave an interview where he expressed alarm at the extent of the radicalisation of young British Muslims and added "particularly in a country like ours where, you know, the values we hold dear. You'd think that the people who have come here, born here, go to school here would imbibe by those values and outlooks." It must be a difficult time to be a Muslim in Britain. The Rotherham child sex abuse scandal; the number of Muslims in jail in England and Wales has hit an all-time with 1 in 5 of those in top security prisons being Muslim; another murderous video apparently fronted by a British Muslim - there are now said to be more British Muslims fighting for ISIS than for the British Army; the Birmingham Trojan Horse inquiry. It's a grim list which will no doubt appal the majority of Muslims as much as it does anyone else. There are plenty of misleading and malicious interpretations of what's happening. But these issues are so profoundly important to the social cohesion of our society that many people, including Muslims, are now asking is there a crisis of moral leadership in Britain's Muslim community? Each of these stories has its own complex and intricate mix of cause and effect, some of which are unique and some overlapping. Where are the powerful leaders, stepping on to the national stage to address these problems and point to solutions? Islam is a diverse faith, but can it really be just a structural problem? Are the leaders there, but finding their voices are being drowned out by an unrelentingly hostile press? Is there something more fundamental about the nature of faith in the public sphere? Or are the majority paying an unfair price for the distortion of their faith by the radicalised few?
WED 20:45 Why I Changed My Mind (b051s4sl)
Series 1
Tim Montgomerie
In this series Dominic Lawson interviews people who have changed their mind on controversial matters.
This week he asks Tim Montgomerie, founder of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, why he has abandoned his opposition to same-sex marriage and about the emotional backlash.
Producer: Martin Rosenbaum.
WED 21:00 Costing the Earth (b051s2br)
[Repeat of broadcast at
15:30 on Tuesday]
WED 21:30 Midweek (b051s31q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 22:00 The World Tonight (b051s4t0)
Obama and IS: The US president seeks authority for war.
We'll ask why Barack Obama has sought a new mandate from Congress to take military action against so-called Islamic State
WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b051s4t2)
The Illuminations
Episode 8
by Andrew O'Hagan
Luke plans a trip to Blackpool in search of his gran's missing photographs, as well as answers to some of the mysteries in her past.
Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned retrospective stirs long-buried memories and leads her grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which has defined three generations.
Abridged by Sian Preece
Reader: Maureen Beattie
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie.
WED 23:00 Irish Micks and Legends (b051s4t4)
Series 2
King Larry Long Ears
Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram tell the tale of King Larry Lonshach, a man hiding a terrible, gag inducing secret beneath his crown.
Only his hairdressers ever find out the secret - but that knowledge doesn't end well for them.
Series two of the duo's unique comedic, highly irreverent take on Irish folklore.
Still the very best pals, Aisling and Yasmine take their role explaining Irish legends to the British nation very seriously indeed. That said, it would appear that they haven't had the time to do much research, work out who is doing which parts, edit out the chat or learn how to work the sound desk.
With a vast vault of fantastical myths, mixed with 21st century references to help you along, prepare for some very silly lessons in life, love and the crazy shenanigans of old Ireland and modern Irish.
Producer: Raymond Lau
A Green Dragon Media production first broadcast BBC Radio 4 in February 2015.
WED 23:15 Love in Recovery (b051s4vb)
Series 1
The Pub
Comedy drama by Pete Jackson, set in Alcoholics Anonymous and inspired by his own road to recovery. Starring Sue Johnston, John Hannah, Eddie Marsan, Rebecca Front, Paul Kaye and Julia Deakin.
The programme follows the lives of five very different recovering alcoholics. Set entirely at their weekly meetings, we hear them get to know each other, learn to hate each other, argue, moan, laugh, fall apart, fall in love and, most importantly, tell their stories.
There are funny stories, sad stories, stories of small victories and milestones, stories of loss, stories of hope, and stories that you really shouldn't laugh at - but still do. Along with the storyteller.
In this final episode of the series, the group is forced to leave the safety of the meeting room to try to rescue one of their members - from the pub.
Writer Pete Jackson is a recovering alcoholic and has spent time with Alcoholics Anonymous. It was there he found, as many people do, support from the unlikeliest group of disparate souls, all banded together due to one common bond. As well as offering the support he needed throughout a difficult time, AA also offered a weekly, sometimes daily, dose of hilarity, upset, heartbreak and friendship.
Written and created by Pete Jackson
Produced and Directed by Ben Worsfield
A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 23:30 Today in Parliament (b051s4vd)
Ed Miliband clashes with David Cameron over political donors who held Swiss bank accounts with HSBC.
The Labour leader accuses Mr Cameron of being a "dodgy prime minister surrounded by dodgy donors".
The Prime Minister says Mr Miliband is controlled by union donations and the Labour government was the "friend of the tax dodger".
And a group of MPs question the head HM Revenue and Customs about its role in the HSBC tax row.
The Health Secretary announces a guardian to help whistleblowers in the NHS in England.
And MPs question the new chair of the inquiry into historical child abuse, Justice Lowell Goddard from New Zealand.
THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2015
THU 00:00 Midnight News (b051r62q)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
THU 00:30 Letters from Europe (b05289wc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b051r62s)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b051r62v)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b051r62x)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (b051r62z)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b052ms70)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Richard Littledale.
THU 05:45 Farming Today (b051vlp9)
Dairy Summit; Scottish Dairy; Sheep Carcasses
Farming Minister George Eustice describes yesterday's milk summit, held in Westminster. Around the table were the NFU, milk producers, high street banks and the government trade agency UKTI, retailers and processors. They discussed the volatility of milk prices and how more help could be given to dairy farmers.
It wasn't so long ago that the dairy campaigners Farmers For Action and NFU Scotland were not on talking terms. But it seems the crisis in dairy prices has enabled them to put their policy differences to one side, having shared a platform at a meeting in Ayrshire. With the Scottish members of Farmers for Action having decided they don't want to take direct action, David Handley, chair of the protest group, tells us why there appears to be less fire in the bellies of farmers north of the Border.
When a sheep goes through the abattoir, it's aged by its teeth. Those over 12 months old have their spinal chord removed; a process knows as carcass splitting. But lamb producers want to see the system refined, so that animals that have been born the previous year are only declared to be aged 12 months old on the 30th June. The regulation of carcass splitting came into practice as a precaution during the BSE crisis.
Livestock advisor at the National Farmers' Union, Tom Fullick, explains.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley.
THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04t0vp4)
Mauritius Kestrel
Michael Palin presents the Mauritius kestrel from the island of Mauritius. Today the calls of several hundred Mauritius kestrels ring out across the forests and farmland of the island, so it's hard to believe that as recently as the early 1970s, only four birds could be found in the wild.
These smart chestnut falcons were almost wiped out by a cocktail of threats ...destruction of their evergreen forests, pesticides and the introduction of predators such as monkeys, mongooses, rats and cats. When a species is so critically endangered there aren't many options, and conservationists decided that their only choice was to take some of the wild Mauritius kestrels into captivity.
By 1993, 300 Mauritius kestrels had been released and by November of that year there were as many as 65 breeding pairs in the wild. Now the kestrels are back, hovering above the landscapes that nearly lost them forever.
THU 06:00 Today (b051vlpc)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
THU 09:00 In Our Time (b051vlpf)
The Photon
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the photon, one of the most enigmatic objects in the Universe. Generations of scientists have struggled to understand the nature of light. In the late nineteenth century it seemed clear that light was an electromagnetic wave. But the work of physicists including Planck and Einstein shed doubt on this theory. Today scientists accept that light can behave both as a wave and a particle, the latter known as the photon. Understanding light in terms of photons has enabled the development of some of the most important technology of the last fifty years.
With:
Frank Close
Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Oxford
Wendy Flavell
Professor of Surface Physics at the University of Manchester
Susan Cartwright
Senior Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield.
Producer: Thomas Morris.
THU 09:45 Letters from Europe (b05289wf)
Zafer Senocak
Writer Zafer Senocak, born in Turkey but long resident in Germany, offers a personal perspective on the challenges facing Europe.
Producer Julia Johnson.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b051vlph)
The Walton Sextuplets, Self Harm Scars and Ginger Rogers
In 1983 Janet Walton gave birth to six girls, making her the first and only mother of sextuplet girls in the world. Janet and her husband Graham look back 30 years to the reality of parenting six children of the same age.
Access to good antenatal care is known to improve maternal and child outcomes. But what rights do pregnant migrant women have to healthcare in the UK and who pays?
On yesterday's programme we heard an account of Mary Hamilton's recovery from self-harming. Today Dr Jack Nathan consultant psychotherapist for The Maudsley Hospital's Self Harm Service; and Helen Sare, former self harmer and now volunteer educator for Selfharm.co.uk give advice for people affected by self harm and respond to listeners emails.
From the Woman's Hour archive, the iconic actress and dancer Ginger Rogers speaks to former presenter Marjorie Anderson about how she kept up her love for dancing.
And the life of Baroness Platt of Writtle, co-founder of Women in to Science and Engineering who has died.
THU 10:45 44 Scotland Street (b051vlpk)
The Blue Spode Tea Cup
Episode 4
There are gender issues with Ulysses – Bertie thinks his baby brother looks like a girl. And with Cyril the dog in prison, Angus needs help to free the New Town canine!
Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town is the setting for the quirky tales and ‘goings-on’ adapted by Alexander McCall Smith from his worldwide bestselling series of books.
Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, is a frequent visitor to Domenica Macdonald, the anthropologist and longest-term resident of 44 Scotland Street.
Will their friendship blossom and will she ever let his dog Cyril into her flat? Domenica’s thoughts are elsewhere, sensing trouble with the return of her neighbour Antonia who has been living in Glasgow of all places! Is Domenica’s ‘property’ safe with Antonia back in town?
Meanwhile in the flat below lives Bertie, aged six, a prodigy and victim of his excessively pushy mother, Irene. Bertie wants the life of an ordinary six-year-old boy, but instead he has psychotherapy, yoga and Italian conversation lessons. He also wants to know why his new baby brother, Ulysses, looks remarkably like his psychotherapist, Dr Fairbairn.
ANGUS LORDIE....……..…..CRAWFORD LOGAN
DOMENICA..……….....CAROL ANN CRAWFORD
IRENE………….........……............EMMA CURRIE
BERTIE………………...……....….….SIMON KERR
LAWYER.............................MATTHEW ZAJAC
SOCIAL WORKER.....................MOLLY INNES
Director: David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent (b051vlpm)
Tea and Cakes in Addis
Questions and answers beyond the headlines. Little urgency apparent as the factions from the bitter war in South Sudan gather in Ethiopia to talk about peace. President Putin's been attending another peace conference, this one in Minsk - we've been considering how his standing at home is being affected by the worsening conflict in eastern Ukraine. Our Middle East Editor has a face to face interview with Bashar al-Assad of Syria -- but was it really the BBC audience the president was hoping to reach with his answers? Three years after the sinking of the cruise ship the Costa Concordia, we return to the Italian island of Giglio to find out what effect the wreck has had on the local economy. And it's one of the windiest regions on earth -- so is China's new bullet train across the Gobi Desert in danger of being blown over?
THU 11:30 A World beyond Alice (b051vlpp)
While British children's books are known across the world, far fewer European children's books are translated into English. David Almond, the award-winning author of books such as Skellig and My Name is Mina, tries to discover how and why this has come about, and makes a heart-felt case for change.
For at least the 150 years since the publication of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), British children's books have enjoyed a world-wide reputation. By contrast, few children's books from continental Europe are translated into English.
It's said that up to 40% of books read by continental European children are translated from other languages while as few as 4% of the books read by British children were originally published in a language other than English.
As David sees it, if the lives, experiences and concerns of children across Europe differ - and if we hope to resolve issues of alienation in our societies - then this loss is great indeed.
Amongst the books he champions are a dark and shocking existential novel for older children by Danish writer Janne Teller, called "Nothing", and a playful but now poignant picture book about a harmonious multicultural Paris, by Barroux, called "Mr Leon's Taxi".
Hearing from authors Cornelia Funke, Janne Teller and Nadia Budde, publisher Jane Winterbotham, children's book experts Daniel Hahn and Michael Rosen, translator Sarah Ardizzone - and from three tri-lingual British-based brothers - David makes a passionate case for A World Beyond Alice.
Producer : Beaty Rubens.
THU 12:00 News Summary (b051r631)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:04 Home Front (b051vlpr)
12 February 1915 - Esther O'Leary
Councillor Maud Burnett's controversial scheme is gathering pace.
Written by: Shaun McKenna
Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.
THU 12:15 You and Yours (b051vlpt)
Insurance Renewals; Hidden Cameras in Care Homes; Nightclub Breathalysers; Amusement Arcades
The high street retailer fined for forcing customers to hand over their house keys
How hidden increases in insurance premiums could now be revealed
The new guidance for anyone tempted to use a hidden camera to spy on a carer
The nightclubs using breathalysers to check customers are not too drunk to come in
And we head to the seaside to assess the fortunes of the modern day amusement arcade.
Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Jon Douglas.
THU 13:00 World at One (b051vlpw)
Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney.
THU 13:45 The Cliff (b051vlpy)
Martin Palmer on Spiritual Responses
In the last of four illustrated essays by different writers on the theme of cliffs, Martin Palmer, Secretary General of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation, reflects on the spiritual responses evoked by cliffs in religious stories and traditions across the world. Drawing on examples, he explores five spiritual responses. First, a sense of awe "Reverence for such majestic soaring creations". The second is a feeling of being closer to God, and one of the reasons for cliff burials around the world such as those near the town of Sagada in the Mountain Province on Luzon Island in the Philippines "Neither earth nor sky – safe also from scavenging animals". The third is adding to the wonder of nature's creation with shrines, temples and monasteries projecting from cliffs. The fourth response could be described as creating or strutting our own power through use of cliff faces as advertisement of our status; "cliffs have been the setting for monumental carvings of victories, for religious texts or poems extolling the beauty of the place" and for carving vast figures with special significance. Finally, Martin suggests, we have created our own versions of cliffs - from skyscrapers to the facades of great cathedrals and temples - and in these we create our own meaning of the cliff face. Vast creations, our natural cliffs speak both of permanence and time, but also bear witness to change,"even if it is change over an unimaginably long period of time".
Written and narrated by Martin Palmer
Readings by David Acton
Additional sound recordings by Chris Watson
Producer Sarah Blunt
THU 14:00 The Archers (b051s4qk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Drama (b051vr32)
Nick Perry - The Transfer
It's
5am on Monday 2 February and football's transfer window closes in 18 hours.
Danny Provisor is a football agent negotiating a last-ditch deal to bring Serbian prospect Slavko Ilich to the UK, but a call to his girlfriend Frankie reveals that Slavko hasn't returned home from a night out. Fending off phone calls from suspicious reporters and an increasingly irate Chief Executive, Danny searches for Slavko knowing that this deal will not only rescue his career, but also provide security for his family.
With BBC Radio 5 Live counting down the hours the pressure begins to build, and the deal and Danny's world start to collapse.
Written by Nick Perry.
Danny Provisor ...... David Schofield
Jonathan Provisor ...... Daniel Abelson
Keith ...... Daniel Abelson
Frankie ...... Rachel Austin
Samira ...... Rachel Austin
Steve Lucas ...... Simon Armstrong
Graham Parsons ...... Simon Armstrong
Barman ...... Simon Armstrong
Peter Gray ...... Chris Donnelly
Mr Agnihotri ...... Chris Donnelly
Lewis ...... David Hounslow
Stanislav Illich ...... Velibor Topic
Slavko Illich ...... Mirza Koluder
As Himself ...... Ian Dennis
Producer: Toby Field
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015,
THU 15:00 Open Country (b051vr34)
Tump 53
Helen Mark visits Tump 53 - a family friendly nature reserve built on the history of a 20th century artillery that was once known as 'The Secret City'. This Royal Arsenal was 3 miles long, 1 mile wide covering 1,300 acres employing 100,000 people at it's peak. Today Tump 53 - a former munitions storage site within the arsenal - has been reclaimed for nature.
People's love of the Tump was recognised in 2014 when voters chose the Tump to receive £50,000 in The Big Lottery Fund's The People's Millions awards. London Wildlife Trust has been working in partnership with Gallions Peabody Group, Trust Thamesmead and the local community to manage the site's habitats and run family friendly wildlife activities to reconnect with nature.
It now contains mixed woodland, a glade, a pond, and is surrounded by a reed-fringed moat. Over 60 bird species have been spotted at this unique site, including kingfisher, willow warbler and redpoll but traces of it's military history still intrigue locals to this day.
Helen Mark explores the site with Volunteering Support Officer Jane Clark and industrial archaeology enthusiast Ian Bull before heading off to Crossness Pumping Station which is currently home to a special part of the Arsenal's last remaining narrow gauge railway. Helen also joins former Arsenal workers Ray Fordham and Peter Martin at The Greenwich Heritage Centre as they share their personal memories of working on site before heading back to the reserve to join the children of Windrush Primary School who now use the former ammunitions site as a very special out door classroom.
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b051r7hp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:55 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Open Book (b051r8p6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:00 The Film Programme (b051vr36)
Love in the Movies
Antonia Quirke presents a valentine to the cinema in a special edition about love in the movies. She talks to Terence Stamp, once described as the most beautiful man in the world, about what it was like to be loved from afar by millions of strangers. And she hears from Sir Richard Eyre who explains why he believes romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story is a perfect movie, and from award-winning documentary maker Kim Longinotto about Love Is All, her evocative compilation of love scenes from over a hundred years of British film history. Sharing the love are critics Jason Solomons and Angie Errigo, who reveal if they ever fell in love with someone because they reminded them of a movie star.
THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science (b051vr38)
Earth's Core; What Can Chemistry Do for Us?; Ocean Acidification; Darwin Day
Adam Rutherford explores new insights into what lies at the very centre of the Earth. New research from China and the US suggests that the innermost core of our planet, far from being a homogenous iron structure has another, distinct region at its centre. He talks to the study's lead researcher Xiangdong Song and to geophysicist Simon Redfern about what this inner-inner core could tell us about the very long history of the Earth and the long suspected swings in the earth's magnetic field.
Professor Andrea Sella, from University College London is a recipient of the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Prize, in recognition, like Faraday himself, of exemplary science communication to the lay public. Andrea gave his prize lecture this week, describing chemistry as one of the 'crowning intellectual achievements of our age'. How justified is the claim? What have chemists ever done for us?
The sea forms the basis of ecosystems and industries, and so even subtle changes to the waters could have serious knock on effects. Dr Susan Fitzer from the University of Glasgow has been wading into Scottish lochs to study shelled creatures; they form a vital basis for marine ecosystems and the global food industry. But what effects could ocean acidification have on this vital organism?
And to mark Darwin Day Adam Rutherford examines the origins of Creationism and its most recent variation Intelligent Design. Why do opinion polls in the US routinely find that about half of the population denies the truth of Darwin's theory and believes instead that humans were created supernaturally by God at some point within the last few thousand years? He hears from historian Thomas Dixon, and from Eugenie Scott, former director of the National Centre for Science Education - a US organisation committed to keeping evolution (and now climate change) in the US schools' curriculum.
Producer: Adrian Washbourne.
THU 17:00 PM (b051vr3b)
PM at
5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b051r633)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 18:30 Britain Versus the World (b04vf6rp)
Series 1
Episode 2
Comedy panel show pitting two British comedians against a team of comics from overseas to find out which side is superior.
Joining the British captain, Hal Cruttenden, is the Mancunian comedian Justin Moorhouse while the captain of the Rest of the World - Henning Wehn - is teamed with Danish stand-up Sofie Hagen. The contest is overseen by Irishman Ed Byrne who does his very best to stay impartial.
Host
Ed Byrne
Guests
Hal Cruttenden
Henning Wehn
Justin Moorhouse
Sofie Hagen
Programme Associate:L Bill Matthews
Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 204.
THU 19:00 The Archers (b0512j9s)
Fallon helps Carol with her outfit and look for the Valentine's dance. They joke about Bert and Joe's dancing rivalry, Jim and Robert's birdwatching competition and Jennifer's new local celebrity status. Jennifer has become the focus now, rather than SAVE.
Kenton takes a big delivery at the Bull. It looks like he has a surprise in store for Valentine's night.
Oliver offers Ed the option to continue renting his land, perhaps running some beef cattle, alongside his contracting work once he has bought a tractor. Joe is delighted. It looks as if Ed won't be leaving Grange Farm just yet. Bucked up, Joe vows to wipe the floor with Bert at the dance.
Worried Shula, and also Rob, are questioned by PC Burns about the hunt yesterday. Oliver agrees to go with Shula for support. Rob is relying on Shula to vouch for him. PC Burns questions conflicted Shula, who confirms that the hunt saboteur pushed Rob to the ground. Burns then asks if, at any stage, Shula saw Rob strike the man.
Following the questioning, PC Burns informs them that the Police are still investigating the complaint. He'll be in touch in due course. Oliver's adamant that Rob will be fine. Shula was there and saw what happened. Shula just wants to go home.
THU 19:15 Front Row (b051vvgr)
Reopening of The Whitworth with Cornelia Parker, Richard Wilson, Daniel Evans, Barrie Rutter, Maria Balshaw
Cornelia Parker discusses her new exhibition at the re-developed Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. The show features some of the works which brought Parker to public attention including her blown-apart shed - Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View - and some new commissions such as Blakean Abstract, a collaboration with Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Professor Kostya Novoselov.
As part of Sheffield Theatres' Sarah Kane season, marking the 20th anniversary of the premiere of her play Blasted, the actor and director Richard Wilson directs a new production of this controversial work. The season has been programmed by Sheffield Theatres' artistic director Daniel Evans. Both talk to John Wilson about the late Sarah Kane's work, and her legacy as a playwright.
Barrie Rutter, founder and artistic director of Northern Broadsides, first played the role of King Lear in 1999 for a Northern Broadsides production. 16 years later he's playing Lear for the second time in his career. Barrie Rutter talks to John Wilson about taking on the leading role in the play that many feel is Shakespeare's greatest tragedy.
Maria Balshaw, Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, on how the building's £15m redevelopment has stayed true to the Victorian instincts of its founders but provided a bridge to the needs of its 21st century visitors.
THU 19:45 44 Scotland Street (b051vlpk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
THU 20:00 Law in Action (b051s2bt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Tuesday]
THU 20:30 The Bottom Line (b051vvgt)
Gold
It's soft, shiny and rare. A symbol of love, of power, of wealth - gold has been prized for thousands of years, its value rises and falls as the economies round it fluctuate. Yet there's only a limited supply of it and demand is high: for jewellery, technology, by central banks and investors. But after more than a decade of rising prices, the value of gold is down. So how to make money from this precious metal? Evan Davis and guests follow its journey from the gold mines of west Africa to the workshops of an east London jewellery maker. What are the risks, responsibilities and rewards for those who mine it, invest in it and manufacture with it?
Guests:
Nolan Watson, CEO, Sandstorm Gold
Mark Bristow, CEO, Randgold Resources
Elizabeth Hunt, Director, Allied Gold
Producer: Sally Abrahams.
THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science (b051vr38)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 today]
THU 21:30 In Our Time (b051vlpf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b051vvgw)
EU leaders discuss the ceasefire due to begin in Ukraine at the weekend.
Deal brokered at marathon session in Minsk with help of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.
THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b051vvgy)
The Illuminations
Episode 9
by Andrew O'Hagan
Anne is on the road to Blackpool with her grandson Luke, who is determined to piece together the fragments of his gran's past.
Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned retrospective stirs long-buried memories and leads her grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which has defined three generations.
Abridged by Sian Preece
Reader: Maureen Beattie
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie.
THU 23:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels (b01m16pr)
Series 2
Lessington
Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre adventures.
More memories as Brian relives his experiences in Lessington where ignorance reigns.
Neil Pearson stars in series two of Bill Dare's satirical adventure story about a man lost in a fictional world.
Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson
Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale
Sharol ..... Jo Bobin
Cop ..... Fergus Craig
Cop ..... Colin Hoult
Guide ..... Patrick Brennan
Wife ..... Christine Absalom
Barman ..... Harry Livingstone
Robber ..... Sam Alexander
Producer: Steven Canny
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2012.
THU 23:30 Today in Parliament (b051vvh0)
Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
FRIDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2015
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b051r641)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
FRI 00:30 Letters from Europe (b05289wf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b051r643)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b051r645)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b051r647)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b051r649)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b052msgf)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Richard Littledale.
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b051vywx)
Milk Prices, Fracking, LED-Grown Tomatoes
Farmer protests over the falling milk price are continuing, despite reassurance from the Government earlier this week.
In Staffordshire, the BBC's West Midland's Rural Affairs correspondent David Gregory-Kumar speaks to a dairy farmer who says he could be paid as little as 13 pence per litre for his milk. He says if that's the case his cattle will starve.
Fracking will be allowed to take place under National Parks and other protected areas. Although a couple of weeks ago the government agreed on an outright ban of all fracking in protected areas, they now say this may 'unduly constrain the industry' and fracking will be allowed, as long as the wells start outside the boundaries of protected areas. Farming Today hear from the Campaign to Protect Rural England who say they are concerned about this move.
And Farming Today continues to look at the relationship between the farmer and water. Every year UK agriculture uses around 184 million cubic metres of water, Charlotte Smith speaks to the UK Irrigation Association about how much farmers rely on groundwater supplies.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton.
FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04t0vqb)
Chowchilla
Michael Palin presents the secretive chowchilla from Queensland, Australia. The chowchilla gets its name from its song, which is one of the most distinctive sounds of the coastal rainforest of north-east Queensland. You're not likely to see the bird though because it spends its time skulking on the forest floor. Chowchillas belong to the family known as logrunners because they feed and nest on or near ground-level. They're stout thrush-like birds; the males are dark brown with a white chest and throat, whilst the female's throat is rusty-orange.
Chowchillas have been found to sing with different dialects in different areas. Within say, 50 hectares, all the family groups of pairs and non-breeding younger birds may share the same dialect. But in an adjacent area, the families may assemble some of their song components slightly differently. Over time, their song culture could change and a new dialect would be born.
FRI 06:00 Today (b051vywz)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs (b051r7hy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 Letters from Europe (b0549x7d)
Henning Mankell
The Swedish novelist Henning Mankell, author of the Kurt Wallander crime novels, reflects from his home in the South of France on the state of Europe after last month's attacks in Paris.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b051vyx1)
Labour's Pink Bus, Grandmothers, Cancer-Spotting Dog, The Love Project
Animation filmmaker Daisy Jacobs' greatest champion was her grandmother, Eileen, and it seems fitting that a film she made about Eileen has been nominated for an Oscar. The film - which last week picked up a BAFTA award -is based on the final months of Eileen's life. Daisy joins Jenni and journalist Michele Hanson, whose daughter Amy Hanson wrote that she "loved her grandmother 'more than any other living thing on earth".
Dogs can sniff out explosives, so why not breast cancer? Jenni talks to Dr Claire Guest who is convinced they can and is running the first canine breast cancer detection trial in the UK. Joining them is her dog, Daisy, who Claire believes saved her life.
The Love Project in Barrow in Furness has been collecting an oral history of women's experiences of romance, relationships and love from 1940s through to the present day. We hear from the women involved and the Project Director, Amanda Mortlock.
FRI 10:45 44 Scotland Street (b051vyx3)
The Blue Spode Tea Cup
Episode 5
Angus is summoned to the Police Station and fears the worst, while for Domenica sorry seems to be the hardest word.
Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town is the setting for the quirky tales and ‘goings-on’ adapted by Alexander McCall Smith from his worldwide bestselling series of books.
Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, is a frequent visitor to Domenica Macdonald, the anthropologist and longest-term resident of 44 Scotland Street.
Will their friendship blossom and will she ever let his dog Cyril into her flat? Domenica’s thoughts are elsewhere, sensing trouble with the return of her neighbour Antonia who has been living in Glasgow of all places! Is Domenica’s ‘property’ safe with Antonia back in town?
Meanwhile in the flat below lives Bertie, aged six, a prodigy and victim of his excessively pushy mother, Irene. Bertie wants the life of an ordinary six-year-old boy, but instead he has psychotherapy, yoga and Italian conversation lessons. He also wants to know why his new baby brother, Ulysses, looks remarkably like his psychotherapist, Dr Fairbairn.
DOMENICA..……….....CAROL ANN CRAWFORD
ANGUS LORDIE....……..…..CRAWFORD LOGAN
STUART...........….....DAVID JACKSON YOUNG
ANTONIA/BIG LOU......………ANITA VETTESSE
BERTIE………………...…………….….SIMON KERR
Director: David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
FRI 11:00 Entitlement to Care (b051vyx5)
Meeting the medical needs of immigrants makes for heated political discussion, but in many parts of the country GP's quietly get on with the job: we join Bradford GP Dr Alastair Bavington at his Girlington Surgery.
Dr Bavington sees at first hand the struggles of those newly arrived to this country and the part health plays in the process as they gradually assimilate. He was born in Pakistan and has helped several waves of immigrants arriving in the city, starting with those from the Mirpur region of the country and more recently the large numbers coming from Eastern Europe. With such vastly different experiences of healthcare in their home countries there's a lot to be done in terms of teaching them how and when to access the NHS.
Stepping away from the national debate over whether and what GP's should be charging foreigners, Dr Bavington explores the experiences of those new to the country seeking health care. Starting with the basics of how you educate those with no real experience of free health care about how and when should they access the surgery? It takes time to sort out existing conditions and get them on the right treatment programmes. And this takes place against a backdrop of language barriers and when social issues, like poor housing and isolation, come into play.
He is keen for the NHS to recognise the extra work required to sort out the sometimes very complex health needs of those coming to this country: "At one level it's a problem because of the resource drain on the NHS of helping people who come from very different cultures and health care systems and bringing with them unsorted ill health problems and with the barriers of language and culture to navigate
"It's happening in parts of the country where immigrants first arrive and probably in parts of the country where not happening they probably don't know it's a problem. It's also a problem for the individuals - do they get the sort of service that they need or are there a lot of people whose needs aren't met and who might even suffer unnecessarily
I would like policy makers to be a little bit more aware of the complexity of providing good health care in the inner city. It would be great for me and many other practises dealing with lots of immigrants, that the amount of work they're having to do would be recognised and it would make it easier for them to attract and recruit and retain the kind of staff members they need to provide good primary care services.".
FRI 11:30 Valentine's Day (b01qhdjz)
Following on from his very successful John Peel's shed, here is another beautiful story of every day life from the very talented John Osbourne.
A young man starts turning out his junk and comes across a box of memories he has saved, letters, birthday and Valentine's cards he has received over the years, tickets for gigs he's been to. And through these we come to understand the recent events in his life.
Some are from an ex girlfriend. His first love (played by Isy Suttie) - they were together when they were teenagers.
Others are from his mum (played by Suki Webster.) She worries about him. She means well and is trying to make him feel better but it makes him feel worse. John will tell this story in front of an audience in the Radio Theatre.
There are also postcards from his Gran (Ann Beach) mainly moaning about her various seaside trips.
This is recorded in the Radio Theatre in front of an audience.
FRI 12:00 News Summary (b051r64c)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:04 Home Front (b051w060)
13 February 1915 - Fraser Chadwick
A budding local reporter can't believe his luck.
Written by: Shaun McKenna
Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.
FRI 12:15 You and Yours (b051w062)
Cosmetic Surgery, Audi Oil Consumption, Student Rent Costs
Many Audi drivers with a 2.0 litre TFSI engine in their car are finding they have to top up their oil every few hundred miles. Audi has a repair for affected cars, but why are some customers having the work done for free when others are charged hundreds of pounds?
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons says that a year on from a government review of the way the industry sells procedures, special offers and time-limited discounts are still widespread.
And a study of student rent costs claims landlords are inflating costs and creating artificial demand for houses by asking students to sign for them months before moving in. But are students a greater risk than other tenants?
Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Joel Moors.
FRI 12:57 Weather (b051r64f)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 13:00 World at One (b051w064)
Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell.
FRI 13:45 Letters from Europe (b05289wh)
Lydie Salvayre
The French novelist Lydie Salvayre, winner of last year's Prix Goncourt, reflects on the aftermath of last month's attacks in Paris.
FRI 14:00 The Archers (b0512j9s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Jonathan Myerson - How Did I Get Here? (b051w2zx)
by Jonathan Myerson
Rebecca looks after her kids, and her Dad. But Dad isn't how he used to be. Multi-infarct dementia has made him confused, and forgetful of people and his past.
Rebecca misses her Dad. She longs to talk to him, and to ask him questions.
But what if she could have him back? Just the way he always was?
Has she remembered him right?
Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b051w2zz)
Baslow, Derbyshire
Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from Baslow, Derbyshire. Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer the questions from local gardeners..
Chris Beardshaw and members of the local horticultural society visit nearby Chatsworth in search of the winter crown jewels.
Produced by Howard Shannon
Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:45 Shorts (b051w301)
Scottish Shorts
Red Bus, by Vicki Jarrett
SHORTS: Scottish Shorts is one of a returning series of short readings featuring new writing from first time or emerging writers.
A woman sworn off relationships after a series of romantic disappointments finds her resolve tested to the limit. Morven Christie reads a witty, contemporary tale which shows inspiration can come from the most unlikely quarter.
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie.
Vicki Jarrett is a writer from Edinburgh. Her debut novel 'Nothing Is Heavy' was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish First Book award. Her first collection of short stories, 'The Way Out', is published by Freight later this year.
FRI 16:00 Last Word (b051w4dk)
John Hopkins, Ena Baxter, Lord Gavron, Andre Brink, Charles Townes, Steve Strange
Matthew Bannister on
John "Hoppy" Hopkins - the photographer who played a pivotal role in the counter culture of the 1960s. He set up the underground magazine International Times and started the UFO club where Pink Floyd made their early appearances. Record producer Joe Boyd and poet Michael Horovitz pay tribute.
Also Ena Baxter the culinary creator behind the success of the Scottish family business Baxter's foods.
Lord Gavron, the Labour peer who made his fortune in the printing business.
Andre Brink, the dissident Afrikaans writer whose work was banned by South Africa's apartheid government.
And Charles Townes, the Nobel Prize winning physicist whose work paved the way for the invention of the laser.
FRI 16:30 Feedback (b051w4dm)
Almost an entire day on Radio 4 was taken over by a dramatic airing of War and Peace at the start of the year. For some listeners it was a joy that kept them glued to their radios - for others it was a rude interruption to the schedule. Radio 4's Commissioning Editor for Drama, Jeremy Howe, explains why the network decided to broadcast wall-to-wall Tolstoy at the expense of regular programmes.
Also, the BBC's Director General Tony Hall has weighed into the ongoing debate about changes to The Archers. Jeremy Howe gives his reaction to the DG's intervention.
And is the BBC's news output little more than a barrage of bleak and dismal events? Is there space - or even a need - for more good news stories? Professor Charlie Beckett explored this question in his programme, Good News is No News. It generated debate on social media with many people saying they felt overwhelmed by negative news. So is it time for the BBC to give more focus to positive news stories?
Producer: Will Yates
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 16:55 The Listening Project (b04fzblf)
Victor and Finola - The Key of Heaven
Fi Glover introduces a conversation in which 63 year old Victor shares the joy of his new life, now he's learned to read and write, with the mentor who handed him the key, proving once again that it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
FRI 17:00 PM (b051w4dr)
PM at
5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b051r64h)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 18:30 The Now Show (b051w4dt)
Series 45
Episode 6
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches featuring Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes, John Finnemore and Adam Kay.
FRI 19:00 The Archers (b051w4dw)
It's Saturday and the 1940s Valentine's Night dance at the Bull. PC Burns' gift has left Fallon grinning - a flower arrangement in the shape of a tea pot, referring to her Ambridge Tea Service.
Tina has waked out of Ambridge Organics with immediate effect, leaving Helen to take over. Pat is pleased to see Helen back at the helm and Helen admits it has given her a buzz.
Kenton welcomes everyone, offers cocktails and starts proceedings with an 'excuse me' dance. Rob's left stood up and feeling foolish, with Helen at the shop. Adam points out that Shula looks a bit glum too. Rob blames the scuffle he had with a hunt sab.
Carol enjoys Bert and Joe's rivalry. She first dances with Joe, who's disgruntled when Bert cuts in.
There are prizes for the dancing (categories chosen by Kenton). Neil and Susan win most loved-up couple, but Helen notices how loved-up Fallon and Harrison look. Joe and Bert are tied in the prize for most elegant dancing, both with Carol.
Adam tells Rob about his plans to marry Ian. Rob knowingly remarks that it's a special feeling knowing that you only have eyes for each other.
Helen admits to Adam that she's keen to get back to work at the shop. Rob appears, apologetic, and sweeps Helen on to the floor for a dance, wishing her a happy Valentine's Day.
FRI 19:15 Front Row (b051w4dy)
50 Shades of Grey; Bob Odenkirk; Fireworks
Kirsty Lang talks to Bob Odenkirk, star of the Breaking Bad spin-off TV series Better Call Saul.
Mr Grey will see you now... two hours of torture or the heights of ecstasy? Rowan Pelling gives her verdict on Sam Taylor-Johnson's film Fifty Shades of Grey.
Palestinian playwright Dalia Tala and director Richard Twyman discuss Fireworks, their new play for the Royal Court Theatre in London, about the impact of war on children in Gaza.
FRI 19:45 44 Scotland Street (b051vyx3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b051w4f0)
Sir Ming Campbell MP, Harriet Harman MP, Alex Salmond MSP, Anna Soubry MP
Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from the Broadcasting House Radio Theatre in London with Sir Ming Campbell MP the former Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman MP, former Leader of the Scottish National Party Alex Salmond MSP and Defence Minister Anna Soubry MP.
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b051w4f2)
The Purpose of Satire
Will Self finds himself driven to reconsider the nature and purpose of satire in the wake of the murders at Charlie Hebdo in Paris. "The paradox is this: if satire aims at the moral reform of a given society it can only be effective within that particular society; and furthermore only if there's a commonly accepted ethical hierarchy to begin with. A satire that demands of the entire world that it observe the same secularist values as the French state is a form of imperialism like any other.".
FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b051w4f4)
9-13 February 1915
The Mayor of Tynemouth honours the first local soldier to be awarded a V.C and Edie shares the town's excitement.
Written by Shaun McKenna
Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews
Music: Matthew Strachan
Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.
FRI 21:58 Weather (b051r64k)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b051w4f6)
Political anger at HMRC over non-prosecution of wealthy property investor
BBC learns that the man -- who didn't file a tax return between 1987 and 2011 -- and didn't pay any income tax during that time -- has never been prosecuted.
FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b051w4f8)
The Illuminations
Episode 10
by Andrew O'Hagan
Luke has left the army for good and travelled to Blackpool with Anne to locate her lost archive, along the way uncovering the tragedy which led to her giving up photography.
Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned retrospective stirs long-buried memories and leads her grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which has defined three generations.
FRI 23:00 A Good Read (b051s2bw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 on Tuesday]
FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament (b051w4fb)
Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster.
FRI 23:55 The Listening Project (b04bryc6)
Iby and Carolyn - A Survivor's Secret
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between Iby, who survived the Holocaust but kept her secret for forty years, and the friend to whom she first revealed that she'd spent time in Auschwitz; nearly thirty years on Carolyn asks her why she waited so long to share her past.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
44 Scotland Street
10:45 MON (b051rjpk)
44 Scotland Street
19:45 MON (b051rjpk)
44 Scotland Street
10:45 TUE (b051s0fk)
44 Scotland Street
19:45 TUE (b051s0fk)
44 Scotland Street
10:40 WED (b051s3fz)
44 Scotland Street
19:45 WED (b051s3fz)
44 Scotland Street
10:45 THU (b051vlpk)
44 Scotland Street
19:45 THU (b051vlpk)
44 Scotland Street
10:45 FRI (b051vyx3)
44 Scotland Street
19:45 FRI (b051vyx3)
A Good Read
16:30 TUE (b051s2bw)
A Good Read
23:00 FRI (b051s2bw)
A Love Supreme: 50 Years On
11:30 TUE (b051s0fp)
A Point of View
08:48 SUN (b0512lng)
A Point of View
20:50 FRI (b051w4f2)
A World beyond Alice
11:30 THU (b051vlpp)
Agatha Christie
23:00 MON (b01qm7p4)
Alun Cochrane's Fun House
11:30 WED (b01rvpvf)
An Image of Sound
15:45 SAT (b051w066)
Analysis
21:30 SUN (b050zy49)
Analysis
20:30 MON (b051ryqn)
And the Academy Award Goes To...
10:30 SAT (b051j5tb)
Any Answers?
14:00 SAT (b051j5tj)
Any Questions?
13:10 SAT (b0512lnd)
Any Questions?
20:00 FRI (b051w4f0)
Archive on 4
20:00 SAT (b051j636)
Are You Inexperienced?
00:30 SUN (b01jrqrf)
BBC Inside Science
16:30 THU (b051vr38)
BBC Inside Science
21:00 THU (b051vr38)
Bells on Sunday
05:43 SUN (b051r6nw)
Bells on Sunday
00:45 MON (b051r6nw)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 MON (b051ryqs)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 TUE (b051s2nd)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 WED (b051s4t2)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 THU (b051vvgy)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 FRI (b051w4f8)
Book of the Week
00:30 SAT (b0512h6h)
Brain of Britain
23:00 SAT (b050zy3s)
Brain of Britain
15:00 MON (b051ryq4)
Brian Gulliver's Travels
23:00 THU (b01m16pr)
Britain Versus the World
18:30 THU (b04vf6rp)
Broadcasting House
09:00 SUN (b051r7ht)
Clinging On: The Decline of the Middle Classes
17:00 SUN (b05108h6)
Costing the Earth
15:30 TUE (b051s2br)
Costing the Earth
21:00 WED (b051s2br)
Desert Island Discs
11:15 SUN (b051r7hy)
Desert Island Discs
09:00 FRI (b051r7hy)
Drama
15:00 SUN (b051r80b)
Drama
14:15 MON (b051rpvr)
Drama
14:15 TUE (b03y10gx)
Drama
14:15 WED (b05107zw)
Drama
14:15 THU (b051vr32)
Entitlement to Care
11:00 FRI (b051vyx5)
Erasing Enoch: The Tory Quest for the Minority Vote
20:00 MON (b051ryql)
Farming Today
06:30 SAT (b051j5t4)
Farming Today
05:45 MON (b051rflx)
Farming Today
05:45 TUE (b051s0f7)
Farming Today
05:45 WED (b051s31l)
Farming Today
05:45 THU (b051vlp9)
Farming Today
05:45 FRI (b051vywx)
Feedback
16:30 FRI (b051w4dm)
File on 4
20:00 TUE (b051s2m3)
Finding Your Voice
11:00 TUE (b051s0fm)
From Fact to Fiction
19:00 SAT (b051j5ts)
From Fact to Fiction
17:40 SUN (b051j5ts)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:30 SAT (b050xgvk)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:00 THU (b051vlpm)
Front Row
19:15 MON (b051ryqj)
Front Row
19:15 TUE (b051s2m1)
Front Row
19:15 WED (b051s4rd)
Front Row
19:15 THU (b051vvgr)
Front Row
19:15 FRI (b051w4dy)
Gardeners' Question Time
14:00 SUN (b0512lmt)
Gardeners' Question Time
15:00 FRI (b051w2zz)
Gloomsbury
19:15 SUN (b01n6vn5)
Good News Is No News
13:30 SUN (b051r7j4)
Hibernian Homicide: New Irish Crime Stories
19:45 SUN (b051r9n2)
Home Front - Omnibus
21:00 FRI (b051w4f4)
Home Front
12:04 MON (b051rjpr)
Home Front
12:04 TUE (b051s0fr)
Home Front
12:04 WED (b051s4jn)
Home Front
12:04 THU (b051vlpr)
Home Front
12:04 FRI (b051w060)
In Our Time
09:00 THU (b051vlpf)
In Our Time
21:30 THU (b051vlpf)
In Touch
20:40 TUE (b051s2m5)
Inside Health
21:00 TUE (b051s2m7)
Inside Health
15:30 WED (b051s2m7)
Irish Micks and Legends
23:00 WED (b051s4t4)
Jonathan Myerson - How Did I Get Here?
14:15 FRI (b051w2zx)
Just a Minute
18:30 MON (b051ryqd)
Last Word
20:30 SUN (b0512lmy)
Last Word
16:00 FRI (b051w4dk)
Law in Action
16:00 TUE (b051s2bt)
Law in Action
20:00 THU (b051s2bt)
Letters from Europe
09:45 MON (b051rjpf)
Letters from Europe
00:30 TUE (b051rjpf)
Letters from Europe
09:45 TUE (b05289w7)
Letters from Europe
00:30 WED (b05289w7)
Letters from Europe
09:45 WED (b05289wc)
Letters from Europe
00:30 THU (b05289wc)
Letters from Europe
09:45 THU (b05289wf)
Letters from Europe
00:30 FRI (b05289wf)
Letters from Europe
09:45 FRI (b0549x7d)
Letters from Europe
13:45 FRI (b05289wh)
Living World
06:35 SUN (b051r6xp)
Loose Ends
18:15 SAT (b051j5tq)
Love in Recovery
23:15 WED (b051s4vb)
Making History
15:00 TUE (b051s2bp)
Midnight News
00:00 SAT (b050xgv1)
Midnight News
00:00 SUN (b051r5wk)
Midnight News
00:00 MON (b051r5yg)
Midnight News
00:00 TUE (b051r5zy)
Midnight News
00:00 WED (b051r61b)
Midnight News
00:00 THU (b051r62q)
Midnight News
00:00 FRI (b051r641)
Midweek
09:00 WED (b051s31q)
Midweek
21:30 WED (b051s31q)
Money Box Live
15:00 WED (b051s4jx)
Money Box
12:04 SAT (b051j5tg)
Money Box
21:00 SUN (b051j5tg)
Moral Maze
22:15 SAT (b0510gvv)
Moral Maze
20:00 WED (b051s4rg)
More or Less
20:00 SUN (b0512ln0)
News Briefing
05:30 SAT (b050xgv9)
News Briefing
05:30 SUN (b051r5wt)
News Briefing
05:30 MON (b051r5yq)
News Briefing
05:30 TUE (b051r606)
News Briefing
05:30 WED (b051r61l)
News Briefing
05:30 THU (b051r62z)
News Briefing
05:30 FRI (b051r649)
News Headlines
06:00 SUN (b051r5ww)
News Summary
12:00 SAT (b050xgvm)
News Summary
12:00 SUN (b051r5x6)
News Summary
12:00 MON (b051r5yv)
News Summary
12:00 TUE (b051r608)
News Summary
12:00 WED (b051r61q)
News Summary
12:00 THU (b051r631)
News Summary
12:00 FRI (b051r64c)
News and Papers
06:00 SAT (b050xgvc)
News and Papers
07:00 SUN (b051r5x0)
News and Papers
08:00 SUN (b051r5x4)
News and Weather
22:00 SAT (b050xgw0)
News
13:00 SAT (b050xgvr)
One to One
09:30 TUE (b051s0ff)
Open Book
16:00 SUN (b051r8p6)
Open Book
15:30 THU (b051r8p6)
Open Country
06:07 SAT (b05126z9)
Open Country
15:00 THU (b051vr34)
PM
17:00 SAT (b051j5tn)
PM
17:00 MON (b051ryqb)
PM
17:00 TUE (b051s2by)
PM
17:00 WED (b051s4k3)
PM
17:00 THU (b051vr3b)
PM
17:00 FRI (b051w4dr)
Pick of the Week
18:15 SUN (b051r9my)
Poetry Please
23:30 SAT (b051zy5z)
Poetry Please
16:30 SUN (b051r8p8)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 SAT (b0512lsx)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 MON (b052ms2q)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 TUE (b052ms3d)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 WED (b052ms4b)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 THU (b052ms70)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 FRI (b052msgf)
Radio 4 Appeal
07:55 SUN (b051r7hp)
Radio 4 Appeal
21:26 SUN (b051r7hp)
Radio 4 Appeal
15:27 THU (b051r7hp)
Salt
11:00 MON (b051rjpm)
Saturday Drama
14:30 SAT (b03q4pss)
Saturday Live
09:00 SAT (b051j5t8)
Saturday Review
19:15 SAT (b051j5tv)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SAT (b050xgv5)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SUN (b051r5wp)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 MON (b051r5yl)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 TUE (b051r602)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 WED (b051r61g)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 THU (b051r62v)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 FRI (b051r645)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SAT (b050xgv3)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SAT (b050xgv7)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SAT (b050xgvt)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SUN (b051r5wm)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SUN (b051r5wr)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SUN (b051r5xb)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 MON (b051r5yj)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 MON (b051r5yn)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 TUE (b051r600)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 TUE (b051r604)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 WED (b051r61d)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 WED (b051r61j)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 THU (b051r62s)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 THU (b051r62x)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 FRI (b051r643)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 FRI (b051r647)
Shorts
15:45 FRI (b051w301)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SAT (b050xgvy)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SUN (b051r5xg)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 MON (b051r5z0)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 TUE (b051r60f)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 WED (b051r61v)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 THU (b051r633)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 FRI (b051r64h)
Something Understood
06:05 SUN (b051r6xm)
Something Understood
23:30 SUN (b051r6xm)
Spoilsport: Science Stops Play
21:00 MON (b05102tf)
Start the Week
09:00 MON (b051rjpc)
Start the Week
21:30 MON (b051rjpc)
Sunday Worship
08:10 SUN (b051r7hr)
Sunday
07:10 SUN (b051r7hm)
Tales from the Ring Road
11:00 WED (b051s3g3)
The Archers Omnibus
10:00 SUN (b051r7hw)
The Archers
19:00 SUN (b051r9n0)
The Archers
14:00 MON (b051r9n0)
The Archers
19:00 MON (b051ryqg)
The Archers
14:00 TUE (b051ryqg)
The Archers
19:00 TUE (b051s2lz)
The Archers
14:00 WED (b051s2lz)
The Archers
19:00 WED (b051s4qk)
The Archers
14:00 THU (b051s4qk)
The Archers
19:00 THU (b0512j9s)
The Archers
14:00 FRI (b0512j9s)
The Archers
19:00 FRI (b051w4dw)
The Architects
11:30 MON (b051rjpp)
The Bottom Line
17:30 SAT (b05126zr)
The Bottom Line
20:30 THU (b051vvgt)
The Cliff
13:45 MON (b051rnlg)
The Cliff
13:45 TUE (b051s2bm)
The Cliff
13:45 WED (b051s4jv)
The Cliff
13:45 THU (b051vlpy)
The Film Programme
23:00 SUN (b05126zc)
The Film Programme
16:00 THU (b051vr36)
The Food Programme
12:32 SUN (b051r7j0)
The Food Programme
15:30 MON (b051r7j0)
The Infinite Monkey Cage
16:30 MON (b051ryq8)
The Infinite Monkey Cage
23:00 TUE (b051ryq8)
The Listening Project
14:45 SUN (b051r7j6)
The Listening Project
10:55 WED (b04bs0mt)
The Listening Project
16:55 FRI (b04fzblf)
The Listening Project
23:55 FRI (b04bryc6)
The Media Show
16:30 WED (b051s4k1)
The Now Show
12:30 SAT (b0512ln6)
The Now Show
18:30 FRI (b051w4dt)
The Price of Inequality
09:00 TUE (b051s0fc)
The Price of Inequality
21:30 TUE (b051s0fc)
The Sinha Carta
18:30 WED (b051s4qh)
The Unbelievable Truth
12:04 SUN (b050zy41)
The Week in Westminster
11:00 SAT (b051j5td)
The World This Weekend
13:00 SUN (b051r7j2)
The World Tonight
22:00 MON (b051ryqq)
The World Tonight
22:00 TUE (b051s2m9)
The World Tonight
22:00 WED (b051s4t0)
The World Tonight
22:00 THU (b051vvgw)
The World Tonight
22:00 FRI (b051w4f6)
Thinking Allowed
00:15 MON (b0510db6)
Thinking Allowed
16:00 WED (b051s4jz)
Today in Parliament
23:30 MON (b051ryqv)
Today in Parliament
23:30 TUE (b051s2ng)
Today in Parliament
23:30 WED (b051s4vd)
Today in Parliament
23:30 THU (b051vvh0)
Today in Parliament
23:30 FRI (b051w4fb)
Today
07:00 SAT (b051j5t6)
Today
06:00 MON (b051rjp9)
Today
06:00 TUE (b051s0f9)
Today
06:00 WED (b051s31n)
Today
06:00 THU (b051vlpc)
Today
06:00 FRI (b051vywz)
Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You'
18:30 TUE (b046ny8j)
Tweet of the Day
08:58 SUN (b04t0v8k)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 MON (b04t0vfj)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 TUE (b04t0vhm)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 WED (b04t0vl3)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 THU (b04t0vp4)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 FRI (b04t0vqb)
Valentine's Day
11:30 FRI (b01qhdjz)
War and Peace
21:00 SAT (b04w89ty)
Weather
06:04 SAT (b050xgvf)
Weather
06:57 SAT (b050xgvh)
Weather
12:57 SAT (b050xgvp)
Weather
17:57 SAT (b050xgvw)
Weather
06:57 SUN (b051r5wy)
Weather
07:57 SUN (b051r5x2)
Weather
12:57 SUN (b051r5x8)
Weather
17:57 SUN (b051r5xd)
Weather
05:56 MON (b051r5ys)
Weather
12:57 MON (b051r5yx)
Weather
12:57 TUE (b051r60c)
Weather
21:58 TUE (b051r60h)
Weather
12:57 WED (b051r61s)
Weather
12:57 FRI (b051r64f)
Weather
21:58 FRI (b051r64k)
Westminster Hour
22:00 SUN (b051r9sk)
What the Papers Say
22:45 SUN (b051rbl0)
Why I Changed My Mind
05:45 SUN (b0510gvx)
Why I Changed My Mind
20:45 WED (b051s4sl)
With Great Pleasure
16:00 MON (b051ryq6)
Woman's Hour
16:00 SAT (b051j5tl)
Woman's Hour
10:00 MON (b051rjph)
Woman's Hour
10:00 TUE (b051s0fh)
Woman's Hour
10:00 WED (b051s3fx)
Woman's Hour
10:00 THU (b051vlph)
Woman's Hour
10:00 FRI (b051vyx1)
World at One
13:00 MON (b051rnld)
World at One
13:00 TUE (b051s0hp)
World at One
13:00 WED (b051s4js)
World at One
13:00 THU (b051vlpw)
World at One
13:00 FRI (b051w064)
You and Yours
12:15 MON (b051rjpz)
You and Yours
12:15 TUE (b051s0ft)
You and Yours
12:15 WED (b051s4jq)
You and Yours
12:15 THU (b051vlpt)
You and Yours
12:15 FRI (b051w062)
iPM
05:45 SAT (b0512lsz)