The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
A global initiative is trying to get rid of 'ghost fishing gear' littering the sea beds.
A study shows that strawberries are bigger and better looking if they're pollinated by bees which have visited wild flowers on field margins, rather than those that have just visited crops.
More than three hundred vintage agricultural machines, including many tractors, went under the hammer at the weekend and sold at auction for more than one and a half million pounds.
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Sir David Attenborough presents the now extinct in the wild, Spix's macaw. The Spix's macaw was declared extinct in 2000 when the last known wild born male disappeared from its final refuge in Brazil. Fortunately this strikingly beautiful member of the parrot family survives in captivity. The Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation centre in Qatar is providing a reservoir for an organised breeding programme which is now managed by several conservation organisations under the guidance of the Brazilian government. Soon it is hoped the bird that inspired the film Rio, can once more fly free in the wild.
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of history looking at the past behind the present. On a farm in Cambridgeshire he compares the current Dairy Crisis with the 1930's Wheat Crisis.
Freedland, accompanied by an agricultural historian, rural affairs correspondent, farmer and an actor whose line about "Accrington Stanley" immortalized the Milk Board, compares both crises. Then as now a global glut in supply led to plummeting prices and failing farms in Britain, smaller farms suffered and farmers were forced to diversify. But what lessons can the dairy industry learn from how the wheat crisis was handled in the 1930's? Answers solicited down on the farm.
How do you capture the city of Inverness in a single dish? That's the challenge for food innovator Simon Preston and local chef Steven Devlin as they gather some colourful local characters at Eden Court Theatre to hear inspirational stories, past and present. Naturalist, Kenny Taylor, shares his perspective on the city's unique blend of wilderness in an urban environment, from journalist Iain MacDonald there's comic stories of the theft of Nessy while Gaelic broadcaster Roddy Maclean draws on a the city's rich multi-lingual and multi-cultural history.
Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected by contemporary novelists.
Today, the Moroccan-Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali reflects on how bookshops can offer refuge to those fleeing their home countries.
What happens when you turn to yes parenting? Parenting coach and creator of Yes Parenting Bea Marshall and Mandy Stopard, child behaviour advisor discuss the pros and cons.
Gaia Vince talks about becoming the first solo female writer to claim the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, an award that's been going for nearly 30 years.
Companies of over 250 might soon be obliged to publish what they pay their employees. What difference will this make in closing the pay gap that still exists between men and women 45 years after the introduction of the Equal Pay Act.
Chef Sally Clarke prepares the perfect homemade pesto and talks to Jane about running her restaurant Clarkes for 30 successful years.
Historian Alison Weir brings to life the lost Tudor Princess, Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox.
Shardlake, aided by his trusty assistant Barak, is determined to pursue his own investigations into Oldroyd's murder and the theft of the treasonous papers - as well as to discover who has been trying to kill him. Their inquiries lead them to a rough part of York, in search of information about Craike.
Gripping dramatisation of CJ Sansom's Tudor crime novel, featuring lawyer detective Matthew Shardlake and set during Henry VIII's spectacular Royal Progress to the north in 1541.
Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger
Barak ..... Bryan Dick
Maleverer ..... Stephen Critchlow
Radwinter ..... David Acton
Broderick ..... Nick Underwood
Wrenne ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Craike ..... Patrick Brennan
Rich ..... Chris Pavlo
Innkeeper ..... Mark Edel-Hunt
Not many creatures can boast being a god, a sports logo, a sly trickster, a bringer of fertility, a producer of false tears and a comic book hero, but then not many animals have lived on earth for as long as the crocodile. It is a cold-bloodied killer, using crude techniques to crush and drown its prey, but it is a master of survival over millions of years. In the Nile, where they grow to 7 metres and 1000 kilogrammes, they were revered as gods; they even had their own city Crocodilopolis where mummified crocs were the subject of long, sacred rituals. Cleopatra viewed herself as a sexy crocodile devouring Mark Anthony. More recently they were used by JM Barrie in Peter Pan to bring us the much loved ticking time-bomb that silently chased Captain Cook. We are in awe of their lightning fast movements and cold, ruthless character. The famous tennis player Rene Lacoste was considered such a ferocious player he was nicknamed The Crocodile, and the iconic sports logo was born. Our relationship with crocodiles is complex, a mixture of fear and reverence. Today we are finding more about the non-predatory side of their lives - how they use tools and cooperate. The crocodile continues to beguile us.
Van Morrison made a number of references in his songs to the east Belfast neighbourhood in which he grew up, none more directly than in Cyprus Avenue from his 1968 album Astral Weeks. Romantic images of leaves shaking on a tree, rainbow ribbons in a young girl's hair and a mansion on the hill evoke memories of Cyprus Avenue in the years before Van left Northern Ireland to pursue his career in the States.
Cyprus Avenue - with its intricate arrangement of flute, harpsichord and strings - was recorded in New York, far from the well-heeled, tree-lined avenue along which the young Van would pass on his way home to the working class area of Hyndford Street. This was in the years before the Troubles. East Belfast was steadfastly loyalist and protestant.
When the arts broadcaster Marie-Louise Muir moved into the area, she was already aware of the iconic quality of street's name - not just from Van Morrison's song, but from the fact that the Reverend Ian Paisley lived on Cyprus Avenue. Marie-Louise was a Catholic 'blow-in'. So, when Van announced that he'd be celebrating his 70th birthday by playing a gig literally feet from her front door, she was curious to see how the community would respond.
Produced by Alan Hall.
Call You & Yours: Does the rental market fit the demand for security, affordability and choice. What's wrong with renting?
Jeremy Corbyn will set out his vision for a "kinder politics" and declare his love for Britain when he delivers his first leader's conference speech. But can he win over voters outside the hall?
In his first broadcast interview the former head of the Foreign Office gives us his thoughts on the elusive Syrian peace process.
Edward Tyson, a physician and scientist, is regarded as the father of the study of comparative anatomy. Tyson was one of an early group of scientists who started to look inside animals in order to understand them and therefore learn more about ourselves. In a time before the category 'mammal' even was recognised Tyson's anatomy of a porpoise described an animal more similar to a pig than a fish without resorting to mythical explanations for this incongruity.
Later Tyson was the first to note that a chimpanzee is physically more in akin to a human than to a monkey. These observations were only made possible due to Tyson's incredible dissection skills and knowledge of anatomy.
Richard Sabin curator of large mammals at the Natural History Museum explains why Edward Tyson is his Natural History Hero.
Zubin Varla and Joseph Balderrama star in Jonathan Myerson's thriller - a tense dramatisation of the real-life OPEC siege.
After the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, OPEC used an oil embargo to punish the US and Europe for its support for Israel.
Then on 21st December 1975, Venezuelan Marxist pin-up Carlos the Jackal storms the OPEC HQ in Vienna. He takes 96 hostages, including 11 oil ministers from OPEC countries.
The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. All this week, The Price of Oil takes us from 1951 to 2045, and around the world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, to explore the role oil has played in shaping our world.
The season is devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & Jonathan Myerson, and produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC Radio Drama.
As director of London's Tricycle theatre for almost 30 years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual and political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC Radio 4, to tell the story of oil.
Urban Britain is paving over its front gardens. Lawns, hedges and hollyhocks are being replaced by tarmac and car ports. Each garden may be tiny, but with over 50 million front gardens in the UK, the numbers really add up. It's an environmental problem, quite literally on our doorsteps, and Jheni Osman is finding out what can be done about it.
In Ealing, West London, Jheni meets Leigh Hunt, Horticultural Adviser to the RHS. He reveals that according to their statistics a quarter of all gardens in the UK are now completely under the asphalt. Added together, these tiny patches of grey contribute to many environmental problems - flash floods caused by rain run-off; the 'urban heat island' effect from bricks and mortar which act like storage heaters; and the loss of all-important wildlife corridors for the birds and bees of the cities.
Meanwhile, up in the North of England, Jheni takes a look at how it SHOULD be done. With Horticulturalist Nigel Dunnett, she takes a walk around green and lush suburban Sheffield and spots innovative planting solutions to the problems of urban paving. Nigel tells her about the devastating floods which swept through Sheffield in 2007, and donning her hard hat, Jheni takes a look at the city's ingenious response to the disaster - a radical transformation of a former dual carriageway into a 1.3 kilometer green-way and 'Rain Garden'.
Back in Bristol, Jheni visits two examples of the trend being bucked. A thriving bat colony roosting in an urban garden is a haven for all sorts of wildlife, and a communal planting scheme which is transforming the hard grey of the city centre into a food-growing paradise, complete with runner-beans and sweetcorn.
In a romantic edition, Michael Rosen, Dr Laura Wright and Professor John Mullan explore the clusters of meanings and differences between the words romance and the Romantic poets, romanticism and the romance languages.
Singer Toyah Willcox chooses the actress and Hollywood legend, Katherine Hepburn.
Dubbed an 'oddity' and 'box office poison', she liked to goad the press and public with her eccentric behaviour and unconventional love life. Her career in Hollywood spanned six decades, during which she starred alongside other Hollywood greats, including James Stewart, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Tracy.
The four time Oscar award winning actress Katharine Hepburn is this week's Great Life. She is championed by singer and actress Toyah Willcox - who met and worked with her. The expert is Dr Mark Glancy – Reader in Film History, at Queen Mary, University of London. The presenter is Matthew Parris.
Things are getting desperate for the staff of Hardacre's, London's worst advertising agency. The work isn't coming in and accounts chief Amanda Brook finds herself reduced to pleading for the business of old friend/nemesis, India.
Back at the office, hopeless creative team Joe and Teddy devise a campaign for an anti-aging cream for men. Worse, they must grapple with the most difficult and least glamorous form of advertising of all - radio work.
They find themselves unexpectedly assisted by creative director Rupert Hardacre who descends from on high at Amanda's instruction to give the little people the benefit of his creative wisdom. The only trouble is, he seems to have forgotten most of it. Fortunately, he wrote it all down in a book entitled Hardacre on Advertising and he sets out to find a copy for Joe and Teddy.
Rupert Hardacre ..... Nigel Havers
Amanda Brook ..... Josie Lawrence
Joe ..... Matthew Baynton
Teddy ..... Rasmus Hardiker
Ruth's grieving and exhausted. Heather was happy and like her old self again, just before she died. David suggests Ruth concentrates on practical things and he offers to start contacting funeral directors. Ruth insists she'll do it. David says not to worry and encourages Ruth to come home to Brookfield. Pip tries to act normally working on the farm. Ruth goes to see how she is, but Pip gets upset. Pip and David comfort Ruth who feels guilty for making Heather travel, and blaming herself. David insists that Ruth did the right thing,
Tom and Pat can't believe the awful news about Heather. Pat thinks she looks tired. Tom's keen to get moving with the new Bridge Farm shop, costing the café. Helen parrots Rob, wondering whether Fallon is right for the café. She leaves this to Tom. Fallon's delighted to be offered a permanent site, next to the shop, for her Ambridge Tea Service. It's a great crossover opportunity, says Tom, who asks Fallon to use as much Bridge Farm organic produce in her menus as possible. After a moment's hesitation, Fallon says that's fine. She accepts the offer on the spot, excited. Tom's pleased but surprised when Helen doesn't seem to be also. But Helen's suddenly distracted and has to take herself off to be sick.
Pat suspects Helen might be pregnant and advises a pregnancy test. But Helen says she's busy today - it'll have to wait.
Margaret Atwood discusses her new novel The Heart Goes Last. Set in the near future, the plot follows a couple who sign up for a new utopian community to escape the world of toxic debt, homelessness and violence. But all is not quite what it seems in the picture perfect town of Consilience where the townsfolk take turns playing prisoners and civilians.
Actress Emily Blunt talks to Kirsty about her latest role as FBI agent Kate Macer in drug cartel film Sicario. She discusses training with FBI agents to research the role and the position of women in Hollywood action blockbusters.
Sky's new comedy drama, You, Me and the Apocalypse, imagines the world on the brink of disaster as a meteorite hurtles towards earth, threatening to wipe out the human race. The British and American cast includes Rob Lowe as a foul mouthed Priest and Pauline Quirke. Natalie Haynes reviews.
Radio 4's Reading Europe season continues with contemporary literature from Germany. Award-winning German screenwriter Sascha Arango discusses his first novel, The Truth and Other Lies, a dark thriller which has become a best-seller in Germany and has been published in twenty five countries.
Claudia Rankine has won the Forward Prize for poetry for her latest collection, she reads one of the poems from Citizen: An American Lyric.
Why is the NHS struggling to get hold of some life-saving medicines for its patients? Allan Urry reveals serious concern over the availability of some drugs used in the treatment of cancer and for pain control. Pharmacists and doctors say they face a daily battle to get access to a range of medicines and either end up buying alternatives at a greater cost to the health service or using less effective alternatives which can compromise patient care. So is the Government doing enough to ensure essential supplies are available? And has Whitehall's drive to push down the NHS drugs bill deterred some manufacturers from supplying the UK?
The first operation in a trial using stem cells from a human embryo aimed at restoring sight. It's hoped that by replacing damaged cells of patients with macular disease - which is the greatest cause of blindness amongst older people - the condition can be reversed. Cathy Yelf, Chief Executive, the Macular Society talks to Peter White about the reality behind the headlines, who might benefit and when.
The likely success of visually impaired teams and athletes in the forthcoming Rio Paralympics. We reflect concern that a number of retirements, a shortage of investment and the challenge of involving young people in sport at mainstream schools is causing a drop in performance.
Visually impaired teenagers are invited to "shadow review" authors competing for the BBC's short story competition. They also talk about authors they like and new methods of reading made possible by technological developments.
Pollution, Falls in the elderly, False positives and negatives, Meningitis B and teenagers
As cars were banned from central Paris this weekend and the health risks of pollution hit the headlines, Mark Porter examines the statistic that pollution kills 29,000 people a year in the UK.
And he visits a pioneering clinic at Southampton General Hospital where falls in the elderly are seen as a risk factor for underlying health problems; 'Having a hip fracture is like having a heart attack or stroke' explains Dr Mark Baxter. 50% of people who have a hip fracture will have previously presented with a fall, but once they go on to break a hip, 1 in 10 elderly people may not be alive at the end of the month and up to 25% by the end of the year. Many elderly people are found to be on multiple treatments - blood pressure pills or bladder pills for example - that make people fall over. In recent years there has been much more attention paid to the cumulative burden of the side effects of medicines in the elderly - particularly the group of commonly used drugs known as Anticholinergics. And according to new research by a team at the University of East Anglia, taking Anticholinergics increases the risk of falls too - particularly in men.
Following news of the Meningitis B vaccine in children, an Inside Health listener got in touch to ask why it wasn't being given to teenagers in light of data showing that there is a second peak in incidence in the disease among 15 - 19 year olds? Mark talks to Professor Andrew Pollard, Chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
And Inside Language: Dr Margaret McCartney and Professor Carl Heneghan demystify the terminology of medicine and research. This week, false positives and false negatives; when is something not what it seems, and when does it seem what it's not?
Amory receives terrible news and is compelled to travel to France in search of answers.
William Boyd's novel follows one remarkable woman through the decades of the 20th century.
In 1915, Amory’s uncle unknowingly sets her life on its course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No 2 as a present for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for photography. Her camera will take her from high society London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in London’s East End, and to France and Germany during the Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female war photographers.
She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life that has been just as rich and complex as her professional one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her – her father, her brother, her lovers – irreparably scarred by two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of conflict and loss, passion and joy.
The Machiavellian Madame Cauchemar is put in charge of the school pantomime. Will Caroline, daughter of cricket billionaire Clive Spoon, be allowed to take the leading role?
New series by Alice Lowe, featuring Marcia Warren as the narrator, with Richard Glover, Simon Greenall, Rachel Stubbings and Clare Thompson.
We might want to drown it out in light, but, as Aleks Krotoski discovers, darkness can be good for us. Electric light tampers with our circadian rhythms. Now we can light up any part of the day, our body isn't shutting off to sleep as easily as it once did. Aleks discovers the way that technology is starting to recognise this on both a personal level and a societal level.
WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2015
WED 00:00 Midnight News (b06d25vm)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
WED 00:30 Reading Europe (b06dyc6k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Tuesday]
WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b06d25vt)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b06d25vw)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b06d25w0)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 05:30 News Briefing (b06d25w6)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b06d2m0d)
A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea.
WED 05:45 Farming Today (b06d2m0g)
Scott Mills and Chris Stark as ambassadors for young farmers' clubs, Bees and neonics, Farm safety
DJs Scott Mills & Chris Stark on why they've become Ambassadors for Young Farmers Clubs.
Also, the impact of neonics on bees - interim results of the largest field trials are in. We hear from the lead scientist, Professor Richard Pywell of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
Whilst deaths on Northern Ireland's farms have more than doubled in the last year, we hear from one farmer in Scotland whose tall farm equipment got tangled in live power lines.
Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Mark Smalley.
WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04dw6z4)
Red-headed Woodpecker
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Sir David Attenborough presents the red-headed woodpecker found in North America. With its inky black wings, snow white body and crimson hood, the red-headed woodpecker is one of the most striking members of its family, a real 'flying checker-board'. This striking Woodpecker has an ancient past, fossil records go back 2 million years and the Cherokee Indians used this species as a war symbol. More recently and nestled amongst Longfellow's epic poem The Song of Hiawatha, the grateful Hiawatha gave the red headed woodpecker its red head in thanks for its service to him.
WED 06:00 Today (b06d8gzx)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
WED 09:00 Midweek (b06d8h01)
Frederick Forsyth, Bruce Forsyth, Tim Angel, Louise Tiplady
Libby Purves meets writer Frederick Forsyth; entertainer Sir Bruce Forsyth; costumier Tim Angel and stonemason Louise Tiplady.
Tim Angel OBE runs Angels Costumiers which has been dressing the entertainment business for 175 years. The company has supplied costumes for television, theatre and film productions from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Star Wars to The Iron Lady and Morecambe and Wise. The exhibition, Dressed by Angels, tells the history of the costumier and features bespoke costumes made for Fred Astaire, Noel Coward, Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. Dressed by Angels - 175 Years of Costumes is at the Old Truman Brewery, London E1 6QL.
Legendary entertainer Sir Bruce Forsyth has presented the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, The Generation Game and Sunday Night At the London Palladium. His career has spanned eight decades and is recognised by the Guinness World Records book as the longest TV career of any male entertainer in the world. Strictly Bruce - Stories of My Life, is published by Bantam Press.
Frederick Forsyth CBE is a former journalist and author, best known for his thrillers including The Day of the Jackal; The Dogs of War and The Odessa File. In his new book The Outsider, he writes about his own life from becoming a fighter pilot to covering the Biafran War as a foreign correspondent and spying for British Intelligence in the 1960s. The Outsider - My Life In Intrigue is published by Bantam Press.
Louise Tiplady is a stonemason and letter carver. Her work features in a new exhibition Cutting a Dash - The Female Line. The exhibition showcases the work of 15 female letter carvers whose skills are helping to ensure that an ancient art remains relevant in 2015. Cutting a Dash is at the Lettering Arts Centre at Snape Maltings, Suffolk, IP17 1SP.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
WED 09:45 Reading Europe (b06f20r0)
David Wagner
Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected by contemporary novelists.
Today, David Wagner uncovers whether German literature still shows any sign of an East-West divide, a quarter of a century after the reunification of his home country.
WED 10:00 Woman's Hour (b06d8h08)
Ilona Domnich, Tess Hadley, Kate Green MP
Opera soprano Ilona Domnich sings live and tells us how her love for forensic science and detective mysteries helps her develop the roles of her operatic characters. Author Tessa Hadley talks to Jane about her sixth book The Past, and why she finds writing about family relationships and histories so fascinating. Kate Green MP, the new shadow minister for equalities, on her new role, the commitment to women's representation in the Labour Party under the new leader, and how shadow cabinet meetings feel with 16 women in them. Jacqui Best and Ruth Fowler discuss their experience of being lesbian in more rural areas and whether they encounter prejudices not faced by members of the LGBTQ community living in cities.
Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer : Kirsty Starkey.
WED 10:41 Shardlake (b06d8h0j)
Sovereign
Episode 8
After the second attempt upon his life, Shardlake is convinced that the stolen papers – with their allegations against the King – hold the key to the whole mystery.
Gripping dramatisation of CJ Sansom's Tudor crime novel, featuring lawyer detective Matthew Shardlake and set during Henry VIII's spectacular Royal Progress to the north in 1541.
Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger
Barak ..... Bryan Dick
Maleverer ..... Stephen Critchlow
Radwinter ..... David Acton
Wrenne ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Broderick ..... Nick Underwood
Tamasin ..... Cath Whitefield
Jennet ..... Alex Tredear
Rochford ..... Ameica Lowdell
Henry VIII ..... Patrick Brennan
The Queen ..... Melody Grove
Other parts played by members of the cast.
Dramatised by Colin MacDonald.
Director: Kirsteen Cameron
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2015.
WED 10:55 The Listening Project (b06d8h0l)
Alex and Josh – First Time Fathers
Fi Glover with a conversation between old school friends who are now facing fatherhood for the first time and share their hopes and fears, recorded in the Booth at the Hay Festival, another in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess
WED 11:00 Burying Chernobyl (b06d8h0t)
Returning to Pripyat
In the second part of her trip back to Chernobyl, Alla Alban, the daughter of two former employees at the power station, returns to the nearby town of Pripyat. Now a world famous ghost town with trees growing through the once neat concrete squares and streets, it used to be her hometown.
As well as an emotional journey back, Alla also talks to other people dealing with the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. Dr Yevgenia Stepanova runs the National Research Centre for Radiation Medicine in Kiev. For her the disaster is ongoing with second generation children still needing all the help that a struggling nation can afford.
She also talks to Ighor Gramotkin the Director General of the Chernobyl plant who arrived in 1988 and has spent his entire working life dealing with the problems left by the catastrophic mistakes made in 1986.
Professor Timothy Mouseau heads the Chernobyl Research initiative, an attempt to make some detailed sense of the impact the accident had on humans and the plant and animal life within the exclusion zone.
Alla asks them about their reading of the situation and whether the old slogan that still stands above the main square in Pripyat still applies, that the atom should be 'a worker not a soldier'.
But at the heart of the programme is a journey back to a place which feels as though it has been robbed of its innocent memories; hanging out with friends, attending concerts that would change a life and being part of a community that was to be ripped apart.
Producer: Tom Alban.
WED 11:30 Miss Marple's Final Cases (b06d8h0y)
Sanctuary
June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple in the last of three Agatha Christie dramatisations by Joy Wilkinson.
Miss Marple and her god-daughter, Bunch, arrive at the local church to discover a dying man. His last words provide the clues to unlock an unsolved crime.
Directed by Gemma Jenkins.
WED 12:00 News Summary (b06d25w8)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 12:04 Home Front (b06495vb)
30 September 1915 - Sam Wilson
The war seems particularly far away for the Wilson family.
Written by Sarah Daniels
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
WED 12:15 You and Yours (b06d8h10)
Cold calling, Preventing fraud, Consumer Rights Act, New rules for landlords
After a firm is handed a record fine for making millions of nuisance calls we'll be examining the rules that companies are supposed to follow when making cold calls, and how they're contravening them.
Why thousands of people suffering hearing loss in North Staffordshire could be denied a hearing aid?
Only one in a hundred fraud crimes reported leads to an investigation. Would the banks be better placed to protect people than the police, and if so what can they do?
The Consumer Rights Act, which comes into force this Thursday promises to be the biggest shake
up of consumer law for a generation - what will it do for you?
We'll be explaining new rules to protect people living in private rented accommodation.
WED 12:57 Weather (b06d25wb)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 13:00 World at One (b06d8h12)
Jeremy Corbyn has said this morning that he would never use nuclear weapons. So where does that leave his party's policy on Trident? His Shadow Defence Minister isn't impressed, and the leader of the GMB union tells us that scrapping Trident isn't Party Policy - it's Jeremy Corbyn's policy.
The Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham speaks to us about Trident, saying that he would find it hard to remain in Shadow Cabinet if getting rid of Trident were Labour Policy. We also hear about his plans to address voters' concerns about immigration.
As Russia agrees to use military force in Syria, we discuss what that means for the crisis in the Middle East.
And we hear about the British cars being recalled by Volkswagen.
WED 13:45 Natural History Heroes (b06d8jrd)
Dorothea Bate
When Dorothea Bate turned up at the Natural History Museum in late 1890s London and demanded a job she would have been unaware of the tremendous legacy her work would leave. Her boldness led Dorothea to the Mediterranean looking for the bones of extinct mammals, finding many species of tiny elephants and hippos.
She would later become the first female scientist to be employed by the museum. We delve into the palaeontology department at the Natural History Museum to reveal the bones Dorothea unearthed – some of which turned out to not be elephants after all.
Palaeontologist Tori explains why Dorothea Bate is one of her Natural History Heroes.
First heard on BBC Radio 4 in September 2015.
WED 14:00 The Archers (b06d2lz7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Tuesday]
WED 14:15 Drama (b06cvf4w)
The Price of Oil
Baby Oil
Daniel Betts, James McArdle and Michael J Shannon star in Jonathan Myerson's imagined political drama, based on real events in the propaganda campaign at the outbreak of the First Gulf War.
1991: the start of the First Gulf War. As the first bombs fall on Baghdad, a young man walks into the Marines Recruiting Office and demands to join up... because the war is his fault.
Baby Oil follows a young staffer's last crazy weeks in the White House, as George Bush Snr's administration struggles to sell to the American people the unpalatable idea of committing US troops to defend an oil-rich monarchy like Kuwait.
That is until the young staffer finds the perfect way...
The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. All this week, The Price of Oil takes us from 1951 to 2045, and around the world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, to explore the role oil has played in shaping our world.
Devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & Jonathan Myerson, the season is produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC Radio Drama.
As director of London's Tricycle theatre for almost 30 years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual and political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC Radio 4, to tell the story of oil.
Baby Oil was directed by Nicolas Kent.
WED 15:00 Money Box (b06d8jrg)
Money Box Live: How to find a good financial adviser
Are you among the millions of people given new freedom to access their pensions - but only if you seek costly financial advice?
Or perhaps you're young and want to invest a few thousand pounds for a rainy day and need some tips on what to do with it?
Long term financial decisions are among the most important choices you're likely to make. But they're complicated, and technical. And getting advice about them seems to be getting more expensive.
The Government says there's now an 'advice gap' - that many people who need advice aren't seeking it because they're put off by the cost. The financial regulator is now looking into ways to make it more accessible for people who 'work hard and do the right thing, but don't have significant wealth'.
Financial advisers can no longer make money from commission on products they sell you, a relatively new rule which has been welcomed across the industry. But, some analysts and financial advisers say the move has also driven up the cost of advice.
On Money Box Live this Wednesday, we'll be asking how much guidance is available free, how much you can do for yourself, how to find an advisor you can trust, how much you should reasonably expect to pay, in what circumstances it's worth paying for advice, and lots more.
Paul Lewis will be joined by our panel of experts:
Justin Modray, Founder, Candid Money
Fiona Sharp, Chartered Financial Planner, Almary Green
Caroline Rookes, CEO, Money Advice Service
They'll be here to take your questions. Call 03700 100 444 between
1pm-
3.30 pm on Wednesday. Standard geographic call charges apply. Or email us at moneybox@bbc.co.uk now.
WED 15:30 Inside Health (b06d2lzw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Tuesday]
WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed (b06d8jrj)
Russia's Red Web - Older Entrepreneurs
The 'Red Web': The Internet in Russia is a totalitarian tool but is also a device by which totalitarianism can be resisted. Laurie Taylor talks to Andrei Soldatov, a Moscow based journalist and co-author of a book which explores the Russian government's battle with the future of the Internet. Drawing on numerous interviews with officials in the Ministry of Communications, as well as the web activists who resist the Kremlin, he exposes a huge online surveillance state. What hope is there for ordinary digital citizens? They're joined by Natalia Rulyova, a Lecturer in Russian at the University of Birmingham.
Also, older entrepreneurs. Oliver Mallett, Lecturer in Management at the University of Durham, discusses the obstacles faced by late entrants to enterprise culture.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
WED 16:30 The Media Show (b06d8pqg)
Channel 4 privatisation, Freeview Play, Corbyn's press jokes, Local World sale talks
Plans to privatise Channel 4 have been revealed after documents were photographed as they were carried into Downing Street. A sale would raise an estimated £1bn for the Treasury. Steve Hewlett talks to David Elstein, former chief executive of Channel 5, about the potential benefits of having Channel 4 in private hands. Also joining him is historian and journalist Maggie Brown who explains the challenges the broadcaster would face in delivering its public remit, should it be accountable to shareholders, rather than the government.
New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn began his maiden Party Conference speech with jokes aimed at the national press. He went on to talk about media commentators who have 'sneered' at the growth in Labour's popularity, and called for an end to cyberbullying. It's not the first time he's criticised the press - recently describing headlines about himself as 'unpleasant' and 'unfair'. Steve Hewlett talks to Fraser Nelson of The Spectator about the growing hostility between Corbyn and the media.
The free to air TV service Freeview is launching Freeview Play this week. It's a new TV catch up service bringing together BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 on demand services. Steve asks Caroline Thomson, Chair of Digital UK, the organisation behind Freeview, why people would buy a box when there are so many packages on offer?
Trinity Mirror is in talks to buy the shares of Local World it does not already own. Local World is one of the largest media networks in the UK - with over 100 print titles and 70 websites. The Daily Mail and General Trust currently own just over 38% of the business. So why does it want to sell, and why would Trinity Mirror want to buy? Ian Whittaker, media analyst with Liberum, explains.
Producer: Katy Takatsuki.
WED 17:00 PM (b06d8pqj)
News interviews, context and analysis.
WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b06d25wd)
Russian warplanes have attacked targets in Syria for the first time.
VW says more than a million vehicles in Britain are affected by the diesel emissions scandal.
WED 18:30 Sami Shah's Beginner's Guide to Pakistan (b06d8pql)
Episode 1
Sami Shah is an award-winning comedian and best-selling author, and one of Pakistan's most successful comedians. Yes, Pakistan has comedians. In A Beginner's Guide To Pakistan he has traveled to Birmingham - or, to give it its full name, the Islamic Republic of Birmingham - to give a quick guide to the country which has directly and/or indirectly provided the UK with 1.8% of its population: Pakistan.
In this first episode, he looks at the country's political history, from its foundations in British-ruled India right up to the present day. It's a litany of coups and assassinations, in the middle of which Sami was grew up, moved away and came home - to a very different Pakistan from the one he left. Which isn't to say that there weren't more coups and/or assassinations.
Written and performed by ... Sami Shah
The Voice of the Guide ... Anita Anand
Producer ... Ed Morrish
A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
WED 19:00 The Archers (b06d8pqn)
Lynda discovers the carcass of a dead deer and alerts Brian, who suspects poachers with dogs. He feels these are not your average, local hoodlums, but nasty criminals.
Kate's home from her retreat research trip with Lilian and Brian's sad he'll have to go back to being bombarded with vegan food. Kate's excited about the prospect of starting her retreats after Christmas, and plans to start by offering a New Year detox break. Jennifer feels that she and Brian should give Kate a chance to succeed. Jennifer surprises Brian with her new found appreciation of and respect for Carol - Jennifer even jokes about the absurdity of people thinking of her as a white witch (as if she never suspected Carol of anything untoward herself).
After some pleading and flattery, Elizabeth agrees to Lynda's request to hold the Christmas Show at Lower Loxley this year. Elizabeth also talks to Jill, whose birthday plans will have to be altered given Heather's passing. Sad Jill feels the less time she spends at Brookfield the better.
WED 19:15 Front Row (b06d8pqq)
Turner Prize, The Crucible, Gabriele Finaldi, Patrick deWitt
The Turner Prize exhibition opens at Tramway in Glasgow - the art critic Moira Jeffrey takes us on a tour of the highlights. The Turner Prize is awarded to a British artist under 50 for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year and the winner will be announced in December. This year's four shortlisted artists are Assemble, Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel and Nicole Wermers.
To celebrate 100 years from Arthur Miller's birth, two British theatres are currently staging one of his best known plays. Written in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy witch hunt, The Crucible continues to be relevant today despite being set in the 17th century. Theatre director Caroline Steinbeis, from Manchester's Royal Exchange, joins Tom Morris, Artistic director at the Bristol Old Vic, to discuss their two productions and the play's continued cultural resonance.
Gabriele Finaldi, the new director of the National Gallery, discusses his role as the head of one of the UK's most high profile cultural institutions. He explains his plans for the future of the gallery and discusses the challenges ahead, at a time when funding for the arts has taken a hit. Canadian writer Patrick deWitt talks about his new novel, Undermajordomo Minor, a subversive take on the fairy tale genre. The book is his follow-up to the Man Booker shortlisted The Sisters Brothers in 2011 which became a best-seller.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Elaine Lester.
WED 19:45 Shardlake (b06d8h0j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:41 today]
WED 20:00 Jeremy Corbyn and Britain's Place in the World (b06fnmjk)
Gavin Esler is joined by a panel of experts to debate the foreign policies of Labour's new leader. Could the Corbyn effect change British policy towards Syria, Trident, the European Union, NATO and other issues, and open up a debate over matters which have been subject to a cross-party consensus for many years?
The participants are the Shadow International Development Secretary Diane Abbott, the former diplomat Sir Stephen Wall, Mark Leonard of the European Council on Foreign Relations, Bronwen Maddox from Prospect magazine, and the journalist Peter Oborne.
Producer: Gary Connor.
WED 20:45 Four Thought (b06d8pqs)
A Scaredy-Cat's Guide to Moving Abroad
Sarah Bennetto is now an established comedian but, not so long ago, she was a lonely Australian trying - against the odds - to make a new life for herself in London. It wasn't easy. "Heroes find themselves in some pretty sticky situations at the start of a quest," she says. "What a shame that 'sticky' was, in my hostel's case, literal." In this witty and wise essay, Sarah shares her tips for starting a new life in a strange land. Recorded at the End of the Road music festival.
Producer: Richard Knight.
WED 21:00 Costing the Earth (b01n1qys)
[Repeat of broadcast at
15:30 on Tuesday]
WED 21:30 Midweek (b06d8h01)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 22:00 The World Tonight (b06d8sss)
Russia launches air-strikes on opponents of President Assad
Defence Ministry in Moscow says 8 Islamic State targets hit in central Syrian provinces of Homs and Hama.
WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b06d8ssv)
Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay
Episode 8
Life takes an unexpected turn after the handsome officer tracks Amory down in Paris.
William Boyd's novel follows one remarkable woman through the decades of the 20th century.
In 1915, Amory’s uncle unknowingly sets her life on its course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No 2 as a present for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for photography. Her camera will take her from high society London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in London’s East End, and to France and Germany during the Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female war photographers.
She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life that has been just as rich and complex as her professional one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her – her father, her brother, her lovers – irreparably scarred by two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of conflict and loss, passion and joy.
Read by Barbara Flynn
Abridged by Sara Davies
Producer: Mair Bosworth
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2015.
WED 23:00 The Celebrity Voicemail Show (b06d8ssx)
Series 1
Paul Hollywood
Kayvan Novak imagines what it might be like to hear the answerphone messages of the rich and famous.
This time, we listen into the voicemail of The Great British Bake Off's Paul Hollywood.
An entirely fictitious comedy show written, improvised and starring Kayvan Novak.
Producer: Matt Stronge
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2015
WED 23:15 The Lach Chronicles (b037v4gn)
Series 1
North Beach, San Francisco
Lach was the King of Manhattan's East Village and host of the longest running open mic night in New York. He now lives in Scotland and finds himself back at square one, playing in a dive bar on the wrong side of Edinburgh.
His night, held in various venues around New York, was called the Antihoot. He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff Buckley and many others, discovering and nurturing lots of talent including Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches. But nobody discovered him.
This week Lach remembers the time he spent in North Beach, San Francisco, hanging out with the beatniks.
Written and performed by Lach
Sound design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin
Executive Producer: Richard Melvin
A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 23:30 The Digital Human (b01nl671)
Series 2
Tales
Aleks Krotoski looks at whether how we tell stories has changed with the digital world. And it looks like it has much more to do with our distant past that we might think.
She begins by looking at the online phenomena of the Slender Man a supernatural figure that's been appearing in pictures, blogs and YouTube movies since 2009 and is described as the first great myth of the web.
Aleks speaks to AS Byatt to understand what story is for before examining how modern online storytelling bears a striking resemblance to oral traditions of medieval times. To see this in action she explores the growth of the Slender Man myth and how its community based evolution mimics how legends grew in the past.
But for many of these stories they still don't make the most of what the digital world has to offer storytellers. For this Aleks turns to Alison Norrington one of the world's leading proponents of trans-media stories.
THURSDAY 01 OCTOBER 2015
THU 00:00 Midnight News (b06d25yb)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
THU 00:30 Reading Europe (b06f20r0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b06d25yd)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b06d25yg)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b06d25yj)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (b06d25yl)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b06d9359)
A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea.
THU 05:45 Farming Today (b06d935c)
Farm emissions, Urban bees, Wool compost
European farmers urge MEPs not to impose unrealistic targets for emission reduction, which they claim would put many out of business.
The European Commission is reviewing the emissions targets for 2030, which were set back in 2001. But the European Parliament's Environment Committee has advised that agriculture should reduce its emissions by far more than its Agriculture committee thinks is achievable.
Farming produces about 10% of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions, largely through fertilisers and emissions from animals and manure.
We meet a Cumbrian farming couple who've resurrected an idea from a century-old gardening book to use unwanted sheep wool and bracken to make compost.
And the growth - and associated challenges - of bee-keeping in urban areas.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally Challoner.
THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04dyh64)
Laughing Gull
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Sir David Attenborough presents the laughing gull off the Florida coast. In summer, the hearty peal of laughter is one of the characteristic sounds people hear along the North American east coast where laughing gulls come to breed. America's version of the British black-headed gull they are easy to recognise as they patrol the seashore in search for food. Like many gulls they eat what they can find and will scavenge at rubbish dumps, and will even feast on the eggs of horseshoe crabs which spawn in Deleware Bay each spring. Some become swept up in autumnal hurricanes and having crossed the Atlantic, occasionally turn up on a European's bird-watching list.
THU 06:00 Today (b06d9bkv)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
THU 09:00 In Our Time (b06d9bkx)
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great is one of the most celebrated military commanders in history. Born into the Macedonian royal family in 356 BC, he gained control of Greece and went on to conquer the Persian Empire, defeating its powerful king, Darius III. At its peak, Alexander's empire covered modern Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and part of India. As a result, Greek culture and language was spread into regions it had not penetrated before, and he is also remembered for founding a number of cities. Over the last 2,000 years, the legend of Alexander has grown and he has influenced numerous generals and politicians.
With:
Paul Cartledge
Emeritus Professor of Greek Culture and AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College, University of Cambridge
Diana Spencer
Professor of Classics at the University of Birmingham
Rachel Mairs
Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading
Producer: Victoria Brignell.
THU 09:45 Reading Europe (b06dyb7f)
Alba Arikha
Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected by contemporary novelists.
Today, the Franco-American writer Alba Arikha reflects on whether long-term immigration is causing an identity crisis in her country's contemporary fiction.
Producer: Beaty Rubens.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b06d9bkz)
Erin Brockovich, UN at 70, Alison Saunders DPP, Make-up art
Erin Brockovich, environmental activist. She became famous in 1996 when as a single mother with no legal training, she helped US residents win a £200m settlement from an energy company for contaminating groundwater. Her story was turned into an Oscar winning film starring Julia Roberts.
As the United Nations celebrates its 70th anniversary, Laurie Adams, Oxfam's Women's Rights Director and Eleanor O'Gorman, Senior Associate, Cambridge University's Centre for Gender Studies discuss its landmark achievements for women.
Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions for the Crown Prosecution Service on how sexual consent is straightforward.
Make-up artist Lan Nguyen-Grealis creates theatrical designs with reference to Marie Antoinette and Pop Art, and reminisces about growing up as one of the first Irish-born children of the 1979 Vietnamese boat people.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Rebecca Myatt.
THU 10:45 Shardlake (b06d9bl1)
Sovereign
Episode 9
With the killer unmasked and his final duty - caring for the prisoner, Broderick - almost complete, Shardlake is glad to be heading returning south with the Progress. But when the ship docks in London, he receives a shocking summons.
Gripping dramatisation of CJ Sansom's Tudor crime novel, featuring lawyer detective Matthew Shardlake and set during Henry VIII's spectacular Royal Progress to the north in 1541.
Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger
Barak ..... Bryan Dick
Maleverer ...... Stephen Critchlow
Radwinter ..... David Acton
Wrenne ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Broderick ..... Nick Underwood
Rich ..... Chris Pavlo
Rawling ..... Patrick Brennan
Dereham ..... Mark Edel-Hunt
Swann ..... Sam Dale
Dramatised by Colin MacDonald.
Director: Kirsteen Cameron
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2015.
THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent (b06d9bl3)
The Kindness of a Baker
Insight, storytelling, colour. Today, there's endless bread but not much comfort as Nigerian children find shelter in a bakery from the extremists of Boko Haram. India's accused of involvement in disturbances just over the border in Nepal - people have died in clashes with the security forces and cross-border commerce has been hard hit. The amount of violence in eastern Ukraine has gone down, but there are other problems for the government in Kiev: the economy's in deep trouble and frustrated ultra-nationalists are making their presence felt. Voodoo's coming under attack on the island of Haiti in the Caribbean - one senior Roman Catholic churchman's called it 'magic'. And there's a visit to the 'alternative' American city of Portland, Oregon. It's certainly a place of beards and tattoos but is it falling victim to creeping provincialism?
THU 11:30 Mind the Gap (b06d9bl5)
In the Caribbean, gap teeth are associated with sexual allure; in West Africa, they signify wealth. In historical fiction, gap teeth signified poverty, idiocy or deviousness, as with Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath'. A gap-toothed character was not one to be taken seriously, and they'd often be found lurking at the bottom of the social pecking order.
Gap teeth have served some of us particularly well. Comedians have long-played on a gap-toothed appearance to convey disingenuousness and lack of guile. This plays to the idea of flaws being funny, but in an age where gap teeth are easily fixable, uniformity has become increasingly desirable. As Patricia discovers, retaining a gap-toothed appearance now has a lot to do with allure. In France, it represents coquettishness, lustfulness and sexual naivety. Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin and Vanessa Paradis were all cast in the role of alluring child-women early in their careers; their uneven dentistry helped to convince. African and Caribbean cultures embrace this trait in the same way, whilst in Nigeria, gap teeth symbolise beauty and luck.
Today, a dentist's point of view on diastema, gap teeth would be that it's a flaw waiting to be corrected. What does it say about those who choose to retain this distinguishing characteristic in the face of bright white, even-toothed homogeny? In this playful, surprising personal journey, Patricia unpicks the consequences and the cultural connotations of retaining the gap in her two front teeth.
THU 12:00 News Summary (b06d25yn)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:04 Home Front (b06495w4)
1 October 1915 - Florrie Wilson
Florrie and Albert can hardly speak for happiness.
Written by Sarah Daniels
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
THU 12:15 You and Yours (b06d9bl7)
Vivienne Westwood, Bereaved consumers, Right to buy
Insensitive, rude and incompetent - that's how one You & Yours listener describes how she was treated by a string of big companies and organisations after her husband died. The charity Cruse Bereavement Care says it's common for bereaved people to find that banks, mobile phone companies and others just don't know how to respond appropriately when a customer calls to say their relative has died.
Trading standards officers in North Yorkshire have teamed up with detectives and social workers to set up a new unit, dedicated to protecting vulnerable people from financial abuse. By working more closely together, it's hoped that people can be prevented from becoming repeat-victims.
The "right to buy" for Housing Association tenants was a promise made by the Conservatives before the last election and the government says it is still committed to the idea. But the organisation that represents Housing Associations is negotiating a voluntary deal with the government, which would avoid the proposals going through parliament. What will this mean for tenants, and how is it likely to affect the supply of social housing?
The fashion designer Vivienne Westwood got in touch with You & Yours when a letter landed on her doormat, offering her the opportunity to inherit a huge sum of money. Her suspicions were justified. Dame Vivienne gives a warning to all of us about the dangers of replying to "scam letters".
Producer: Jonathan Hallewell
Presenter: Winifred Robinson.
THU 12:57 Weather (b06d25ys)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 13:00 World at One (b06d9bl9)
Russia has launched a second day of air strikes in Syria. We analyse the turbulent political map of Syria, and, amid claims of policy drift from a senior MP in London, ask the US Ambassador to London.
The Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is meeting the Leader of the Scottish Labour Party in Edinburgh. We examine whether his more left wing policies can attract voters back from the SNP.
THU 13:45 Natural History Heroes (b06d9blc)
Allan Octavian Hume
Allan Octavian Hume donated the largest single collection of birds to the Natural History museum – around 80,000 items all collected during his time working for the East Indian Company and the British Raj in India.
He spent 20 years recording and documenting all the birds of India only for the manuscript to be destroyed just before his return to England. So profound was his frustration that Hume gave up ornithology altogether and turned his attention to botany, founding the South London Botanical Institute which encouraged the ordinary working person to make a contribution to science.
Curator of birds at the Natural History Museum Robert Prys Jones takes us into the Natural history Museum bird collection to explain why ornithologist and botanist Allan Octavian Hume is his Natural History Hero.
First heard on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.
THU 14:00 The Archers (b06d8pqn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Drama (b06cvgq8)
The Price of Oil
Someone's Making a Killing in Nigeria
Nadine Marshall, Obi Abili, and David Ajala star in Rex Obano's drama, set in Rivers State, Nigeria, in 1994.
The Ogoni people's campaign against the environmental degradation of their land by the oil industry has crystallised into a mass movement. Under General Abacha's military regime, the dispute between the people led by Ken Saro-Wiwa on the one hand, and big oil on the other, is reaching its height - when one local businesswoman finds herself caught up in its notoriously violent consequences.
This drama uses fictional characters to reflect on real events, about which responsibilities are still disputed, and many details have never fully come to light.
The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. All this week, The Price of Oil takes us from 1951 to 2045, and around the world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, to explore the role oil has played in shaping our world.
The season is devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & Jonathan Myerson, and produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC Radio Drama. As director of London's Tricycle theatre for almost 30 years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual and political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC Radio 4, to tell the story of oil.
The poem 'Ogoni! Ogoni!' quoted in the drama, was written by Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Someone's Making a Killing in Nigeria was directed by Jonquil Panting.
THU 15:00 Ramblings (b06d9blf)
Series 31
Artists' Ways - Falkirk
Clare Balding walks along the Forth and Clyde canal to the spectacular Kelpies - 30 metre high statues of horses' heads, modelled on Clydesdales. Walking with her is a group led by Jan Bee Brown - the Reader in Residence at Falkirk Libraries.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b06d29b7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:54 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Open Book (b06d29br)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:00 The Film Programme (b06d9lhq)
Macbeth, Robbie Ryan, Greensman, Shooting Stars in 1928
With Francine Stock.
Director Justin Kurzel tells Francine why he believes that Macbeth is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Greensman is not the latest super-hero but the name of the person who dresses a set with trees and shrubbery to make the indoors look like the outdoors. Richard Payne of Living Props reveals a few trade secrets.
Cinematographer Robbie Ryan explains why the selfie is making better actors of us all.
Matthew Sweet and Bryony Dixon of the BFI take us behind the scenes of a British film studio in 1928, just as new sound technology was about to change everything.
THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science (b06d9lhs)
Write on Kew festival at Kew Gardens, Preserving global biodiversity
A special edition recorded in front of an audience at Write on Kew, the Royal Botanical Garden's new literary festival. Adam Rutherford examines the science behind the global challenges and innovative solutions to preserving the essential biodiversity of the planet. From new perspectives on how plant populations can be made more resilient, to the remarkable genetic diversity of plants just being revealed by new analytical techniques, to coffee - and how one of our most prolific yet threatened commodities be protected from a changing climate . Do we need a radical new approach - are the large scale climate fixes offered by geoengineering the right solution? Adam Rutherford is joined by panellists: Kew's Director of Science, Kathy Willis; evolutionary botanist, Ilia Leitch, Kew's research leader in plant resources, Aaron Davis and author Oliver Morton.
Producer: Adrian Washbourne.
THU 17:00 PM (b06d9lhv)
News interviews, context and analysis.
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b06d25zf)
Russia carries out a second wave of bombing, attacking militant groups including IS.
THU 18:30 The Brig Society (b06d9lhx)
Series 3
Diplomat
Ahem. Marcus Brigstocke coughs politely, dons a crumpled linen suit and fibs for Britain as he tries his hand at becoming a diplomat. On the way, he'll look at the history and origins of diplomacy, the training required and the fact that approximately 60% of the modern British diplomat's work is spent apologising for Jeremy Clarkson.
Helping him to foster mutually beneficial relationships will be Margaret Cabourn-Smith, William Andrews and Colin Hoult.
Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell
Produced by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 19:00 The Archers (b06d9lhz)
Lynda's excited about the Christmas show being at Lower Loxley. Now she just needs to
decide on the right production for the wonderful setting.
Brian has been talking to the police about the dead deer Lynda found. Apparently armed
gangs are hunting deer with dogs. Lynda warns Kathy to keep a look out.
Unaware of Toby's promise to Ian of exclusivity, Rex proudly reports that Elizabeth has agreed to buy some Fairbrother geese. Toby's sent back to renegotiate with Ian, who's too busy and understaffed. Using flattery, Toby spells out their problem to Kathy. Ian and Kathy are prepared to overlook the exclusivity clause, in return for a 15% discount on the geese. Rex accepts immediately.
Lynda and Kathy are delighted to see Kirsty, who's the final interview candidate for the
Health Club manager job. Toby wastes no time in introducing himself to Kirsty and Kathy.
Later, Lynda finds Kirsty reflecting on her interview - worried that she was too keen and
inexperienced. Lynda says it would be great to have Kirsty back in Ambridge. The idea
doesn't feel strange for Kirsty, just good. They talk about Helen - Kirsty just hopes she's
happy with Rob. Kirsty asks about Tom, but she's interrupted by her phone. It's Roy - he'd
like to offer her the job.
THU 19:15 Front Row (b06d9lj1)
The Walk, Simon Armitage, Unforgotten, Bernard Sumner
The Walk, a new film from director Robert Zemeckis, charts high wire artist Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit and Ben Kingsley as his mentor, it gives a fantastical spin to the real life event that stunned the world in 1974. Critic Sophia McDougall reviews.
Poet Simon Armitage concludes the theatrical story he began last year with a play drawn from Homer's The Iliad, by bringing The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead to the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. He explains his modern retelling of Homer's classic in which Smith - a senior government minister - plunges back into ancient Greece to become Odysseus and encounters creatures such as the Cyclops and the Sirens on his long journey back to the present day.
Unforgotten is a new TV crime drama starring Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar as detectives investigating the murder of a boy in 1976; the year of the Notting Hill Riots, the birth of Punk, and the great heat wave. Crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell reviews.
Bernard Sumner, one of the founding members of New Order, talks about the group's tenth studio album, Music Complete. He discusses the return to the classic New Order sound, his difficult relationship with bass guitarist Peter Hook and how the band's music has contributed to the urban regeneration of Manchester.
Presenter John Wilson
Producer Ella-mai Robey.
THU 19:45 Shardlake (b06d9bl1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
THU 20:00 The Report (b06d9lj3)
The 'Pink Pill': The Female Viagra?
The 'pink pill' flibanserin has been called 'the female Viagra', but critics argue its benefits are few and side effects many.
Melanie Abbott investigates how the failed anti-depressant came to be licensed in the USA, and what the future plans are to bring the drug to Europe.
Presenter: Melanie Abbott
Producer: James Melley
Researcher: Phoebe Keane.
THU 20:30 The Bottom Line (b06djzl5)
Art and the Business of Taste
How do you value something like a painting? What makes one artist worth more than another? Who decides what is in vogue and why do they have so much power in the art world? Evan Davis presents a discussion on taste and value in the art world with a panel including the British artist Grayson Perry.
Guests:
Grayson Perry - Artist
Valeria Napoleone - Collector and Patron
Ralph Taylor - Director, UK Board Contemporary Art, Bonhams.
THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science (b06d9lhs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 today]
THU 21:30 In Our Time (b06d9bkx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b06d9lj7)
What is Russia trying to achieve in Syria?
What is Russia trying to achieve in Syria by bombing rebel groups as well as the so-called Islamic State?
THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b06d9lj9)
Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay
Episode 9
Frustrated by her life in Scotland, Amory heads into the field once more.
William Boyd's novel follows one remarkable woman through the decades of the 20th century.
In 1915, Amory’s uncle unknowingly sets her life on its course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No 2 as a present for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for photography. Her camera will take her from high society London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in London’s East End, and to France and Germany during the Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female war photographers.
She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life that has been just as rich and complex as her professional one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her – her father, her brother, her lovers – irreparably scarred by two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of conflict and loss, passion and joy.
Read by Barbara Flynn
Abridged by Sara Davies
Producer: Mair Bosworth
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.
THU 23:00 Richard Marsh (b06d9ljc)
Cardboard Heart
Wedding
Award-winning writer and poet Richard Marsh stars alongside Russell Tovey and Phil Daniels in this new, heart-warming sitcom set in a greetings card company.
This week, Will's asked to be best man at a wedding. As a man who spends every day writing heartfelt sentiments, the speech is easy - Will's used to writing other people's feelings. It's much harder to confront his own.
Richard Marsh is the writer and star of Love and Sweets, a Radio 4 comedy series that won Best Comedy in the BBC Audio Drama awards 2014. Now, in Cardboard Heart, he plays Will, a hapless romantic who's keen to find love and an aspiring writer with a 9 to 5 job writing poetry at a greetings card company.
Will shares an office with Goadsby (Rebecca Scroggs), who's responsible for the card artwork and being Will's nemesis, Colin (Sam Troughton), the firm's safety and survival-obsessed accountant, and charming renegade salesman Beast (Russell Tovey). Phil Daniels plays Rog, their roguish boss.
Paid to express heartfelt emotions for people he will never meet, Will consistently fails to express himself properly to anyone he does meet. Every social interaction is a minefield for Will. In his head, he knows exactly what to say but the minute he opens his mouth, it's a disaster. Luckily for you, Will shares his inner thoughts with the audience.
Written and created by Richard Marsh
Directed by Pia Furtado
Produced by Ben Worsfield
A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 23:30 The Digital Human (b04nrmgs)
Series 6
Maps
Aleks Krotoski examines what digital mapping has meant for our understanding of the world. Are we always aware of the decisions that make them look the way they do? Traditionally of course maps are as "authored" as anything else. As Simon Garfield writer of On the Map: Why the world looks the way it does , explains we should think of maps like the biography of a famous person; highly subjective and usually with some sort of angle.
We hear this authorship at work when we join Bob Egan of PopSpotsNYC; he maps out where famous album cover photos were taken in his native New York and puts them online for us all to visit. We join him on the hunt through Google maps and on the streets as tracks down his latest quarry. Bob is adding his own layer of information to the digital mapping of our world for Dr Mark Graham of the Oxford Internet Institute this is happening all around us.
And it's this phenomenon that makes the understanding of the choices that go into making our maps even more important. We hear about the experience of paleo-anthropologist Prof Lee Berger and how hidden choices in GPS data he was using nearly cost him the most important discovery of his career. Aleks then explores if the so called "open mapping" movement hold the answer to eliminating some of issues created by digital maps with the example of Christchurch recovery map -a crowd sourced map that was created within hours of the Christchurch earth quake of 2012.
FRIDAY 02 OCTOBER 2015
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b06d261b)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
FRI 00:30 Reading Europe (b06dyb7f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b06d261g)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b06d261l)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b06d261q)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b06d261s)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b06d9ln5)
A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea.
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b06d9ln7)
EU commissioner, Hill farming, Pollinators
The European Agriculture Commissioner questions dairy farmers' claims that they struggle to make a profit. The NFU says he isn't listening to them. Hill farmers face many challenges and a meeting in Argyllshire could come up with the solutions. Bees really are the best pollinators; beating butterflies, hoverflies and moths in the fertilisation race according to a new study. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Vernon Harwood.
FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04dyh88)
Emperor Penguin
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Sir David Attenborough presents the emperor penguin from the Antarctic Peninsula. With temperatures down to minus 50oC, midwinter blizzards scouring one of the most inhospitable places on the planet, this is not an obvious location for raising young. Yet at the heart of this landscape, the world's largest penguin, the emperor, stands guard over their young. Tightly-packed colonies of hundreds or sometimes thousands of birds huddle together, to conserve heat. The male broods the single egg on his feet, protected under folds of bare abdominal skin. Females travel up to 100km from the colony in search of food, using a technique called tobogganing which is far more efficient than walking on their short legs. Harsh though the landscape is in midwinter, all this activity is co-ordinated to allow the young to fledge into the relatively warmth of an Antarctic summer.
FRI 06:00 Today (b06d9p9n)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs (b06d29bf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 Reading Europe (b06f23n4)
Elif Shafak
Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected by contemporary novelists.
Today, Elif Shafak visits a bookstore in Istanbul to understand whether modern Turkey can be experienced through its shelves.
Producer: Sarah Bowen.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b06d9p9q)
Free speech and feminism, Joan Littlewood, Graphic novel by Una
Two speakers have pulled out of a feminist conference in protest after campaigner Jane Fae withdrew saying she was effectively being silenced because she had written about pornography. Is this evidence of increasing intolerance and efforts to actively censor views which might offend?
Una, a graphic artist has drawn a novel-length comic, "Becoming Unbecoming," about the devastating abuse she endured as a child in the 1970s, set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper manhunt.
A sculpture of the pioneering theatre director Joan Littlewood will be unveiled on Sunday at Theatre Royal Stratford East, we take a look at her life and legacy.
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire was created by Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury - better known as Bess of Hardwick - in the 1590's. She outlived four husbands, was an astute and wealthy businesswoman. Louise Adamson reports.
FRI 10:45 Shardlake (b06d9p9s)
Sovereign
Episode 10
Falsely accused of treason and unable to answer the gaoler's questions, Shardlake awaits his fate in the Tower of London. Can Barak convince Archbishop Cranmer that the allegations are false and save him from the torture chamber?
Final instalment of the dramatisation of CJ Sansom's third Tudor crime novel series featuring lawyer detective Matthew Shardlake.
Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger
Barak ..... Bryan Dick
Wrenne ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Tamasin ..... Cath Whitefield
Radwinter ..... David Acton
Broderick ..... Nick Underwood
Maleverer ..... Stephen Critchlow
Jennet ..... Alex Tregear
Rawling ..... Patrick Brennan
Cranmer ..... Sam Dale
Rochford ..... Amelia Lowdell
Rich ..... Chris Pavlo
Dereham ..... Mark Edel-Hunt
Queen Catherine ..... Melody Grove
Other parts are played by members of the cast.
Dramatised by Colin MacDonald.
Director: Kirsteen Cameron
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2015.
FRI 11:00 Two Men and a Mule (b06d9p9v)
From Andean Cloud Forest to Steamy Jungle
The Andes have become a symbol of a lost world of Inca wisdom and cities in the clouds, of the Celestine Prophecy and Indiana Jones. It needs two men (and their mule) to cut their way through the mystique with some machetes and wit.
Renowned explorers Hugh Thomson and Benedict Allen join forces with their trusty mule, Washington to journey to the extraordinary Last City of the Incas, Espíritu Pampa. Deep down in the Amazon, this is where the Incas escaped when on the run from the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th Century and where the very last Inca emperor, Tupac Amaru, was finally captured and brought back to be executed in the main square of Cuzco.
This arduous trek takes them down off the steep slopes of the Andean cloud-forest into the steamy jungle, down stone-laid Inca paths, across raging rivers and landslides as they trek to the last city of the Incas - Espiritu Pampa - 'the Pampa of Ghosts'.
Produced by Ruth Evans
A Ruth Evans Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 11:30 Shush! (b06d9p9x)
Series 1
Tome Raider
Alice and Snoo have to elicit the help of Alice's father to save Dr Cadogan from disgrace. Meanwhile Simon's feelings for Alice face an unexpected obstacle.
Meet Alice, a former child prodigy who won a place at Oxford aged 9 but, because Daddy went too, she never needed to have any friends. She's scared of everything - everything that is, except libraries and Snoo, a slightly confused individual, with a have-a-go attitude to life, marriage, haircuts and reality. Snoo loves books, and fully intends to read one one day.
And forever popping into the library is Dr. Cadogan, celebrity doctor to the stars and a man with his finger in every pie. Charming, indiscreet and quite possibly wanted by Interpol, if you want a discrete nip and tuck and then photos of it accidentally left on the photocopier, Dr Cadogan is your man.
Their happy life is interrupted by the arrival of Simon Nielson, a man with a mission, a mission to close down inefficient libraries. Fortunately, he hates his mission. What he really wants to do is once, just once, get even with his inexhaustible supply of high-achieving brothers.
Written by Morwenna Banks and Rebecca Front
Alice ...... Rebecca Front
Snoo ...... Morwenna Banks
Simon Neilson ...... Ben Willbond
Dr Cadogan ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
Daddy ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Spong Customer ...... Matt Green
Based on an idea developed with Armando Iannucci
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in October 2015.
FRI 12:00 News Summary (b06d2621)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:04 Home Front (b064969c)
2 October 1915 - Juliet Argent
Juliet's secret is growing out of control.
Written by Sarah Daniels
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
FRI 12:15 You and Yours (b06d9p9z)
Student housing, Social care, Charity lotteries
As rents continue to rocket, and complaints about the poor quality of student flats remain consistent, it's no surprise that some students are looking for alternatives to private landlords. Last year student Housing Cooperatives were set up in Birmingham and Edinburgh. The latest is in Sheffield. We meet the students moving in for the new academic year, as well as the members of the wider Cooperative movement that is supporting them financially.
Concluding our series on financial abuse of elderly people, we look at mail fraud - where criminals convince victims to send them money through the post. Some victims are so vulnerable that they continue to send the money, even when their relatives beg them not to. We meet one woman whose elderly aunt was tricked in to losing £20,000 and still wouldn't stop giving.
The market for tiles grew by 4% in the UK last year - perhaps because of the new trend for patterned tiles on bathroom and kitchen floors and walls. Retailer Topps Tiles is posting good profits, and has just launched 14 boutique stores aimed at the more discerning tile buyer. So why are people now desperate to decorate their homes with the kind of tiles that were unfashionable for so long?
Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Olive Clancy.
FRI 12:57 Weather (b06d2629)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 13:00 World at One (b06d9pb1)
As the Government announces £80 million in help for redundant workers following the mothballing of the Redcar steel works, Business Secretary Sajid Javid defends the Government's handling of the crisis.
As President Putin meets European leaders to talk about Ukraine and Syria, Admiral West, the former First Sea Lord tells us that President Assad will be in power for a long time, and that ISIS are not the only targets of Russian airstrikes.
Zac Goldsmith is the Conservative candidate for London Mayor. He talks about his background, London, Housing, and why unless there is significant reform, he will vote to leave the EU.
Should you be worried if your GP is being paid incentives to reduce the number of patients referred to hospitals.
As a 15 year old is sentenced to life over terrorism charges, we report on an organisation that supports mothers who's children have joined ISIS.
And in today's WATO at 50, two of the people who worked on the first edition of The World at One revisit the programme 50 years on.
FRI 13:45 Natural History Heroes (b06d9pb3)
Alice Eastwood
Alice Eastwood was a self-taught botanist using her holidays to collect and identify plants in Colorado who went on to become the curator of the California Academy of Science botany collection.
Over her career Eastwood discovered many of the plants on California's coastline and during the fire that followed the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco Eastwood rescued 1,497 important specimens from the museum – only made possible because she had taken the fortunate step of segregating it in the first place.
The rest of the collection was destroyed and Eastwood devoted the rest of her life to rebuilding it. When she retired the collection contained over 300,000 specimens, over three times as many as were destroyed in 1906.
Sandy Knapp explains why Alice Eastwood is her Natural History Hero.
First heard on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.
FRI 14:00 The Archers (b06d9lhz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Drama (b06cvgy2)
The Price of Oil
No Two Days
Faye Marsay and Paul Higgins star in Joy Wilkinson's maze of tales about risk, passion and deep-sea oil.
On 20th April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon rig explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the Mexican Gulf. An ambitious young journalist is determined to investigate, but her story becomes confused between youthful romantic dreams and reality. It leads her to a massive old oil rig off the coast of Aberdeen, and a grizzled but good-looking drilling engineer. Their lives become entwined in a sparkling series of alternative stories about the risks, rewards and realities of deep-sea drilling.
The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. All this week, The Price of Oil takes us from 1951 to 2045, and around the world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, to explore the role oil has played in shaping our world.
Devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & Jonathan Myerson, the season is produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC Radio Drama. As director of London's Tricycle theatre for almost 30 years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual and political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC Radio 4, to tell the story of oil.
No Two Days was directed by Nicolas Kent.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b06d9rll)
Gartmore
Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from Gartmore, Stirling. Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Christine Walkden answer questions from a local audience.
Produced by Howard Shannon
Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:45 Rowing to Eden (b06d9rln)
Only You
Amy Bloom has long been regarded as a master of the American short story, and her new collection, Rowing to Eden, celebrates more than two decades of her work.
In this unconventional tale, a woman trapped in a loveless marriage, seeks solace in a friend, and discovers a love more complex and complicated than she could ever have imagined.
Author: Amy Bloom is regarded as one of the masters of the American short story. She's the author of three novels (Lucky Us, Away and Love Invents Us), and three collections of short stories, and has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Though her novels have been highly acclaimed, she's best known for her short stories, which have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic Monthly, among others, over the past 25 years. She is also a trained psychotherapist
Reader: Teresa Gallagher
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
FRI 16:00 Last Word (b06d9rlq)
Brian Friel, General Mario Menendez, Tessa Ransford, John Guillermin, Ben Cauley
Matthew Bannister on
The award winning Irish playwright Brian Friel, best known for Dancing At Lughnasa and Translations.
Argentine General Mario Menéndez who was appointed Governor of the Falkland Islands during the invasion.
Tessa Ransford who founded the Scottish Poetry Library.
John Guillermin who directed movie blockbusters like The Towering Inferno, Death on the Nile, and the 1976 re-make of King Kong.
And Ben Cauley, the trumpeter who was the only survivor of the plane crash which killed Otis Redding.
Producer: Neil George.
FRI 16:30 Feedback (b06h2d4x)
Corbyn Coverage
From walkouts to bias and booing, we're kicking off a brand new series of Feedback with the biggest stories in BBC Radio. All told by you.
By far the most talked about man in the Feedback inbox (rivalled only by the villainous Rob from The Archers) is the newly-elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Many Feedback listeners say they think BBC Radio has been too quick to dismiss Mr Corbyn's style of politics and has a tendency to focus too much on what some see as trivial aspects of his leadership, such as why he didn't sing the National Anthem. Jeremy Corbyn's victory took many in the media by surprise, so does the BBC's political reporting need to adapt to a new political landscape to suit the mood of the country? Roger Bolton talks to the BBC's Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith and Richard Clarke, Editor of the BBC Radio newsroom.
Legendary war correspondent Kate Adie joins Roger to discuss 60 years of From Our Own Correspondent. Feedback listeners have getting in touch with their dispatches about why they think the programme's decades-old format still delivers the goods
And BBC Radio 3 have been targeting listeners subliminally, with a special nocturnal broadcast of composer Max Richter's piece 'Sleep'. The piece lasts for the duration of our recommended eight hours of rest and a Feedback listener takes us into his bedroom to tell us whether Radio 3 gave him sweet dreams.
Producer: Katherine Godfrey
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 16:55 The Listening Project (b06d9rlv)
David and Mairead – A Pregnant Pause
Fi Glover introduces a first for the Project, a conversation about the forthcoming birth between the prospective parents, recorded when the Booth was in Suffolk, only hours before their baby arrived... Another conversation in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess
FRI 17:00 PM (b06d9t2z)
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b06d262k)
Russia steps up its bombing campaign against opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.
FRI 18:30 The News Quiz (b06d9t31)
Series 88
Episode 3
A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp. This week Miles is joined by Susan Calman, Elis James, Andy Hamilton and Emily Ashton to mull over the big stories of the moment.
Producer: Richard Morris
A BBC Radio Comedy Production.
FRI 19:00 The Archers (b06d9t33)
Josh has been helping Ruth with Heather's papers. Ruth found Heather's funeral plan, written a couple of years ago, with details of hymns and readings etc. Heather would like Pip to do a reading. David encourages Ruth to relax but Ruth wants to keep busy - she'll help Pip and ask about the reading. Jill tentatively pops round to Brookfield with some food - she's happy to put off her 85th birthday celebration. David insists that Brookfield is still Jill's home. Seeing Jill at Brookfield, Ruth gets upset, admitting to David that it's a reminder of Heather's absence. Ruth feels guilty for the strain caused to Heather and that she and David are to blame - they should have just moved to Hexham.
Rob's surprised to find out from Fallon that Helen and Tom want her to run the café site at the Bridge Farm shop. Rob tells Helen off for taking Tom's advice over his own - a huge decision both for the business and their future. Helen tells Rob she's pregnant, which cuts short his anger. She has taken two tests and is certain. Rob's delighted and starts to pamper and mollycoddle Helen. Henry comes in to join them and Rob explains that mummy is going to have a baby. Helen tells Henry to keep it a secret though. Rob's certain that Henry's going to have a baby brother.
FRI 19:15 Front Row (b06d9t35)
Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam discusses how an idyllic childhood in working class Minnesota led to his unique and anarchic style of cut out animation; and on to becoming a member of Monty Python, and one of the most inventive film directors of modern times.
In an extended interview he talks to John Wilson about the influences on his work and his recurring themes - of the battle against bureaucracy, surveillance and consumerist greed.
Presenter John Wilson
Producer Ella-mai Robey.
FRI 19:45 Shardlake (b06d9p9s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b06d9t37)
Hilary Benn MP, Louise Bours MEP, Ken Clarke MP, Alice Nutter.
Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Winstanley College in Wigan with Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn, UKIP spokesperson on health Louise Bours MEP, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Ken Clarke MP and the playwright and former Chumbawumba singer Alice Nutter.
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b06d9t39)
Will Self: What's in a Name
Will Self reflects on the significance of names, including his own.
"We desire to be recognised for who we really are, and seek out in our very ascription the means of uniting our intimate identities with our social selves.".
FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b064969f)
28 September - 2 October 1915
Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War Britain covering a week that the Wilson family could never have dreamed of.
CAST
Esme ..... Katie Angelou
Sam ..... Alexander Aze
Edie ..... Kathryn Beaumont
Stella ..... Ava Bell
Ray ..... Scarlett Bell
Gabriel ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Juliet ..... Lizzie Bourne
Howard ..... Gunnar Cauthery
Dolly ..... Elaine Claxton
Station Master ..... Stephen Critchlow
Sylvia ..... Joanna David
Harry ..... Alec Fellows-Bennett
Roland ..... Jack Holden
Adam ..... Billy Kennedy
Kitty ..... Ami Metcalf
Clemmie ..... Joanna Monro
Ralph ..... Nicholas Murchie
Albert ..... Harry Myers
Matron ..... Rhiannon Neads
Johnnie ..... Paul Ready
Florrie ..... Claire Rushbrook
Adeline ..... Helen Schlesinger
Dorothea ..... Rachel Shelley
Ken ..... Joe Sims
Written by Sarah Daniels
Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews
Music: Matthew Strachan
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
FRI 21:58 Weather (b06d262m)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b06d9t3d)
A 15-year-old boy from Blackburn is given a life sentence for plotting a terrorist attack.
How can radicalisation be prevented?
FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b06d9t3h)
Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay
Episode 10
As her health declines, Amory wonders whether to continue.
William Boyd's novel follows one remarkable woman through the decades of the 20th century.
In 1915, Amory’s uncle unknowingly sets her life on its course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No 2 as a present for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for photography. Her camera will take her from high society London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in London’s East End, and to France and Germany during the Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female war photographers.
She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life that has been just as rich and complex as her professional one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her – her father, her brother, her lovers – irreparably scarred by two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of conflict and loss, passion and joy.
Concluded by Barbara Flynn.
Abridged by Sara Davies
Producer: Mair Bosworth
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.
FRI 23:00 Great Lives (b06d2j24)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 on Tuesday]
FRI 23:27 The Digital Human (b04n31cr)
Series 6
Nostalgia
We live in a world where the nostalgia for the past now permeates our present.
With online trends like 'Throw Back Thursdays', apps like Timehop and platforms which gives you the tools to make your digital image look like it was taken with an analogue camera, the internet has never seemed so backwards-facing.
In this week's episode of The Digital Human, Aleks Krotoski visits imagined worlds and eras long past to explore whether the web is a nostalgia machine.
We speak with Professor of Svetlana Boym to trace the origins of the word back to homesick Swiss mercenaries in the 17th century, visit a water park in New Jersey which was reborn through the collective power of online nostalgia and take tea with a vintage enthusiast, who divides his time between working as an air host in a high-flying company, with living in the 1940s.
Producer: Caitlin Smith.
FRI 23:55 The Listening Project (b06d9t3l)
Sophie and Monica - Leaving a Legacy
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who have reached their 40s without having children, about how the outside world judges them. Recorded when the Booth was in Moseley Park in Birmingham, another in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
A Point of View
08:48 SUN (b06c4l20)
A Point of View
23:50 SUN (b06c4l20)
A Point of View
20:50 FRI (b06d9t39)
Alice's Wunderland
23:00 TUE (b06d2m05)
All Those Women
11:30 MON (b06d2fxv)
Analysis
20:30 MON (b06d2g5g)
Any Answers?
14:00 SAT (b06d24gm)
Any Questions?
13:10 SAT (b06c4k66)
Any Questions?
20:00 FRI (b06d9t37)
Archive on 4
20:00 SAT (b0075mvb)
BBC Inside Science
16:30 THU (b06d9lhs)
BBC Inside Science
21:00 THU (b06d9lhs)
Bells on Sunday
05:43 SUN (b06d27f7)
Bells on Sunday
00:45 MON (b06d27f7)
Beyond Belief
16:30 MON (b06d2fzc)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 MON (b06d2g5x)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 TUE (b06d2m00)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 WED (b06d8ssv)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 THU (b06d9lj9)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 FRI (b06d9t3h)
Book of the Week
00:30 SAT (b06c45nz)
Broadcasting House
09:00 SUN (b06d25bv)
Burying Chernobyl
11:00 WED (b06d8h0t)
Can Porn Be Ethical?
20:00 MON (b06d2g5d)
Chris Paling - Words and Music
00:30 SUN (b036tqq7)
Costing the Earth
15:30 TUE (b01n1qys)
Costing the Earth
21:00 WED (b01n1qys)
Desert Island Discs
11:15 SUN (b06d29bf)
Desert Island Discs
09:00 FRI (b06d29bf)
Drama
14:30 SAT (b06cv5lk)
Drama
21:00 SAT (b06bd7sl)
Drama
15:00 SUN (b06d29bp)
Drama
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Drama
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Drama
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Drama
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Drama
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Feedback
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File on 4
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File on 4
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Four Thought
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From Our Own Correspondent
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From Our Own Correspondent
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Front Row
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Front Row
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Front Row
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Front Row
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Front Row
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FutureProofing
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Gardeners' Question Time
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Gardeners' Question Time
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Great Lives
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Great Lives
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Home Front - Omnibus
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Home Front
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Home Front
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Home Front
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Home Front
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Home Front
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I Was...
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In Business
21:30 SUN (b06c0cjk)
In Our Time
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In Our Time
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In Touch
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Inside Health
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Inside Health
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Jellyfish
19:45 SUN (b06d29c0)
Jeremy Corbyn and Britain's Place in the World
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Last Word
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Last Word
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Loose Ends
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midweek
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Midweek
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Mind the Gap
11:30 THU (b06d9bl5)
Miss Marple's Final Cases
11:30 WED (b06d8h0y)
Money Box
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Money Box
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Money Box
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More or Less
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Natural Histories
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Natural Histories
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Natural History Heroes
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Natural History Heroes
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Natural History Heroes
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Natural History Heroes
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Natural History Heroes
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Headlines
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News and Papers
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News and Papers
07:00 SUN (b06d25b8)
News and Papers
08:00 SUN (b06d25bj)
News and Weather
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News
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Oil: A Crude History of Britain
13:30 SUN (b06bnbpv)
On Your Farm
06:35 SUN (b06d29b3)
Open Book
16:00 SUN (b06d29br)
Open Book
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PM
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PM
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PM
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PM
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PM
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PM
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Pick of the Week
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Poetry Please
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Poetry Please
16:30 SUN (b06d29bt)
Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Profile
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Profile
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Profile
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Quote... Unquote
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Quote... Unquote
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Radio 4 Appeal
07:54 SUN (b06d29b7)
Radio 4 Appeal
21:26 SUN (b06d29b7)
Radio 4 Appeal
15:27 THU (b06d29b7)
Ramblings
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Ramblings
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Reading Europe
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Reading Europe
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Reading Europe
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Reading Europe
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Reading Europe
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Reading Europe
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Reading Europe
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Reading Europe
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Reading Europe
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Reluctant Persuaders
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Richard Marsh
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Rowing to Eden
15:45 FRI (b06d9rln)
Sami Shah's Beginner's Guide to Pakistan
18:30 WED (b06d8pql)
Saturday Live
09:00 SAT (b06d24b8)
Saturday Review
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Shardlake
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Shardlake
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Shardlake
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Shardlake
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Shardlake
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Shardlake
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Shardlake
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Shardlake
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Shardlake
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Shardlake
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
05:20 FRI (b06d261q)
Shush!
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
18:00 FRI (b06d262k)
Something Understood
06:05 SUN (b06d29b1)
Start the Week
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Start the Week
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Sunday Worship
08:10 SUN (b06d29b9)
Sunday
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TED Radio Hour
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The Absolutely Radio Show
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The Archers Omnibus
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
19:00 FRI (b06d9t33)
The Art of Walking into Doors
11:00 MON (b06d2fxf)
The Bottom Line
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The Brig Society
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The Celebrity Voicemail Show
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The Digital Human
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The Digital Human
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The Digital Human
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The Digital Human
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The Digital Human
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The Film Programme
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The Food Programme
12:32 SUN (b06d29bh)
The Food Programme
15:30 MON (b06d29bh)
The Forum
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The Kitchen Cabinet
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The Kitchen Cabinet
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The Lach Chronicles
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The Listening Project
14:45 SUN (b06d29bm)
The Listening Project
10:55 WED (b06d8h0l)
The Listening Project
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The Listening Project
23:55 FRI (b06d9t3l)
The Long View
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The Long View
21:30 TUE (b06d2g8s)
The Media Show
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The News Quiz
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The News Quiz
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The Report
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The Town Is the Menu
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The Unbelievable Truth
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The Unbelievable Truth
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The World This Weekend
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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Thinking Allowed
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Thinking Allowed
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Tom Ravenscroft's Campervan of Vinyl Dreamers
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Two Men and a Mule
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
21:58 FRI (b06d262m)
Westminster Hour
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What the Papers Say
22:45 SUN (b06d29cn)
When Van Played Cyprus Avenue
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Word of Mouth
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Word of Mouth
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World at One
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World at One
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World at One
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World at One
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World at One
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You and Yours
12:15 MON (b06d2fyd)
You and Yours
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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iPM
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iPM
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