The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
A group of UK diary businesses have just returned from a trade mission to China.
A new agri-tech hub has been opened which brings together scientists, farmers, engineers and IT specialists, to come up the ideas for a less wasteful farming industry.
The National Trust's Tyntesfield estate has never had fertiliser applied to its lawns, so displays a colourful array of fungi.
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Liz Bonnin presents the formerly widespread saddleback of New Zealand. It's loud, piping and whistling calls once resounded throughout New Zealand's forests, but now the saddleback is heard only on smaller offshore islands. This is a bird in exile. About the size of a European blackbird, saddlebacks are predominantly black with a rust-coloured saddle-shaped patch on their backs. In Maori culture this mark came from the demi-God Maui who, after trying to catch the sun, asked the saddleback to fetch water. The bird refused, so hot-handed Maui grabbed it and left a scorch mark on the bird's back. As well as this chestnut saddle, the bird has two bright red wattles at the base of its beak which it can dilate when it displays. It also has an extensive vocabulary and one of its calls has earned it the Maori name –"Ti-e-ke".
Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Paul Younger, Rankine Professor of Energy Engineering at the University of Glasgow, in conversation with Jim al-Khalili in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead.
Paul Younger's future career was inspired by the hills around him near the River Tyne. From a background in geology he now carries out research into, as he says, "keeping the lights on and keeping homes and businesses warm whilst de-carbonising our energy systems."
He spent many years at the University of Newcastle, where he built up his expertise in the relationship between water and rocks. He has advised on how to clean up the highly polluted water left in mines after they are closed - from the North East to Bolivia.
His knowledge of the rocks beneath our feet has lead him to investigating how we might use more geothermal energy in the future. Paul Younger tells Jim al-Khalili about the experimental holes that have been drilled in County Durham and central Newcastle, and explains why these projects are now mothballed. And Professor Younger also talks about his research into other unconventional ways of generating energy - such as turning coal deep underground into gas.
David Schneider, despite being healthy, is terrified of dying. He wants to overcome his fears and find out whether a 'good death' is ever possible and how those facing up to it, cope. He visits the journalist and writer Jenny Diski who was told last summer that she had inoperable lung cancer and, at best, another three years to live. She now writes about the experience and her treatment, with her usual wit and candour, and her tweets have a devoted following. But as she says, 'I tell jokes but that doesn't mean that I'm not terrified at the prospect of my own non-existence.' They discuss this fear, what it is they are afraid of and whether faith might make a difference.
Elvis Costello, one of Britain's greatest and most influential singer-songwriters, reads his witty, frank and very irreverent take of his 40 years at the top of the music business.
Born Declan Patrick MacManus in London in 1954, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, the grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of dance-band singer. Before he was twenty-four, he had his first record deal as part of the the first wave of the British punk and new wave movement. His album, 'My Aim Is True', was a huge hit, and with his band, The Attractions, he went on to record some of the most influential albums in the 1980s and 90s. Known for his lyricism, and with an early reputation as something of an 'angry young man', he has gone on to become one of he elder statesmen of pop, collaborating with many music legends, including Burt Bacharach, Johnny Cash and Van Morrison. Costello has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award, and in 2003, Costello and the Attractions were inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In this typically idiosyncratic memoir, he charts his often unlikely rise to international success, the experiences that inspired his best-known songs, as well as the absurdities and the darker sides of fame. Today: Costello looks back on how his early childhood in 1950s London fed into his music.
Many teenagers first heard about the Paris attacks on Friday via social media - some even knew about the events before their parents. But with information streaming in from all directions what is the best way to talk toyoung people about the attacks and which news stories can they trust?
Joining us all through the programme is graphic artist 'Una'. She talks about the process of capturing the essence of people in cartoons and will be live sketching and tweeting, drawing members of the BBC production team and our guests.
In 1996, Carrie Brownstein's feminist punk band Sleater Kinney grew out of the Washington State Riot Grrrl scene which put women to the fore of music. Ten years on, she has a new memoir about her life in music, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, and the band have returned with a new album, No Cities to Love, which came out in January.
As she prepared for her wedding, Kjerstin Gruys found herself feeling bad about the way that she looked. To counter the negative feelings, she decided to stop looking in mirrors. She spent one whole year living without mirrors, not even checking her image on her wedding day. She talks to Jane about the experiment and its results.
Having completed his rehabilitation course, following accusations of sexism and cruelty to his employees, Tony has returned to Martha's therapy sessions a new man - or so he thinks. He was alarmed to learn on his course that employers are not entitled to lock employees in a cupboard for misdemeanours and is still mystified as to why his casual often throw-away remarks on people's body shape, sexual attractiveness and general intelligence are not received in the spirit in which they were intended.
Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and Shirley (the Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2.
Tony ..... Tim McInnerny
Martha ..... Frances Tomelty
Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson
Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan.
Brett Westwood explores our complex relationship with the giants of the sea, whales. These vast creatures of the sea have undergone a remarkable transformation. Once feared as sea monsters they then became a valuable resource for oil, food, blubber and bone. In the 20th century, as their numbers dwindled, they suddenly became an image of fragility - a victim of humanity's ruthlessness. They moved from roaring sea monsters to creatures that sing and represent peace, a transformation created by the media.
Although there are many species of whale ranging in size and body shape, most people have one image in their minds, a kind of super-whale that amalgamates all that is good about nature. "Save the Whale" is a household slogan." This was demonstrated by the public reaction to the Thames Whale, a female Northern bottle-nosed whale that became stranded in London 10 years ago. People went into the water to try to save her, she was photographed, written about and sung about as people became entranced by her increasingly desperate plight. She was a wildlife media sensation. After her death popular newspapers even paid for the skeleton to be preserved in a glass case rather than broken up into drawers.
The media defines our view of the whale as either a wonder to be protected or a traditional resource to be exploited. Here in the UK the removal of the national treasure that is "Dippy the dinosaur" from the foyer of the Natural History Museum, to be replaced by a blue whale skeleton, shows how much this animal means to the public today.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has become an icon of British culture - the bizarre story and flamboyant illustrations have inspired all kinds of imagery, fashion, architecture, theatre, decoration and events. But its sinister undercurrents and dreamscape have also impressed artists and musicians.
On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll's book, lead singer and song writer of alternative rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie Sioux, explores its strange allure.
"From 8 onwards, I returned to those pictures of strange, impossible animals and freakish, devious adults as I followed the solitary, brave girl, from one weird encounter to the next. I was struck that Alice could grow or shrink at the bite of a cake or the sip of a drink - my body was changing by the day and I was desperate to be older and taller, like my sister, as I wobbled around in my mum's high heels. The Mad Hatter, the Dozy Dormouse, the Mock Turtle, the Duchess' baby pig and playing croquet with flamingos as mallets all made me laugh and I loved the floating head of the grinning Cheshire Cat who couldn't be beheaded.
But there was something else that drew me into Wonderland that I couldn't have named then, though I sensed its irreverence - something darker about adults and their rules and their craziness and endless unreasonableness. Alice was an ally and the book helped me dream myself out of the London suburbs." Siouxsie Sioux
Siouxsie Sioux travels to Oxford to retrace Lewis Carroll's inspiration and influence. With an Un-Oxford soundtrack.
Dominic Lawson conducts a series of interviews over a game of chess. In this episode he plays the former Soviet dissident and Israeli politician Natan Sharansky.
Lenny Henry charts the breakthrough of a suite of powerful new black voices into serious theatre during the 1990s. Including Kwame Kwei-Armah, Winsome Pinnock, Paulette Randall, and Roy Williams.
An equine vet's career is in jeopardy as he faces a disciplinary hearing for serious professional misconduct. Will his barrister Rebecca Nyman, played by Claire Rushbrook, be able to mount a credible defence? Gunnar Cauthery stars as the vet Falco Hermans.
Tilting The Odds is set at a Fitness to Practice hearing at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Falco Hermans is a vet in his thirties. Since qualifying he's built up a successful and lucrative practice as an equine vet in the racing town of Newmarket. He's got a big mortgage and three small children. He's facing a disciplinary hearing on several counts of misconduct. If he is struck off he faces financial ruin and disgrace in the racing community and in his home town.
From finding your way in a cold, dark sea swim to coping with the isolation at the bottom of the ocean, Josie Long hears stories of wild water.
David Attenborough and a panel of influential thinkers on the natural world join Tom Heap to preview this month's Climate Summit in Paris. Can the world's leaders come to an agreement to save a warming planet?
The director of Titanic, Avatar and Terminator, James Cameron tells Tom that a vegan diet can slash our carbon emissions. Former Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd recalls what went wrong at the last climate summit in Copenhagen and explains why he's so much more hopeful of real commitments on carbon emissions from the Paris meeting.
David MacKay, the government's chief scientific advisor on energy policy until 2014, tells Tom that Europe's renewable energy policy is unfit for purpose and David Attenborough raises the thorny issue of our rising population.
Lord Moynihan, an Olympic medallist and a former Minister of Sport, has called for doping in sport to be made a criminal offence. His call came in reaction to the allegations made in an independent report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Association that the London Olympics had been sabotaged by systemic doping by Russia. Lord Moynihan has long been known to favour tough measures against drug cheats - and similar criminal offences exist in Australia, Italy and France. But how workable would legislation be? And it would it act as a deterrent? We ask about the legal repercussions of the Paris attacks. And, the migrant crisis reaches Cyprus. But could those migrants now come to Britain?
Niall Ferguson and Tracy Chevalier talk books with Harriett Gilbert. Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, South Sea Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson, and Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française are discussed. Producer Sally Heaven.
Cameron pledges a "comprehensive strategy" to win support for military action.
At last, Ginny Fox has finished her rewrite of Borlando and rushes it off to her friend and confidante, Vera Sackcloth-Vest, for appraisal. Meanwhile, DH Lollipop has just completed a rewrite of Lady Hattersley's Plover and is nervously awaiting the critical verdict of Lionel Fox.
Never have two literary giants been so eager to have their geniuses confirmed, but self-doubt plagues their every waking hour.
Due to a series of unfortunate coincidences, involving Lionel's inability to remember addresses and Vera's obsession with creating a new Blue Garden at Sizzlinghust, which involves her sending off for hundreds of new plants by mail order and storing them in Gosling's shed, the manuscripts go missing.
What the writers interpret as a literary thumbs-down from their readers is nothing more than misdirected-mail. Friendships are strained to breaking point, while Ginny and Vera try to guess what the other is thinking and Mrs Gosling burns DH Lollipop's filthy manuscript when she accidentally comes across it and reads it from cover to cover.
Phoebe has passed her driving theory test, and is still busy reading science and current affairs papers and magazines in her quest to get into Oxford.
Neil's grateful for the offer of Jennifer's old kitchen units, for the village hall restoration. As Susan chivvies Neil along to their play rehearsal, Susan's miffed that Neil's letting Bridge Farm take his workers (Jazzer) away to help with the shop - and that manager Neil is doing the dirty work seeing to the pig arks.
Calendar Girls rehearsal has a late start due to Susan filling Lynda in on some good news: Neil heard from Jim that the village shop has been given Community Asset status. Susan hopes that'll put paid to Hazel Woolley's schemes - hopefully they'll reopen before Christmas. Susan's quite happy to steal an idea or two from her rivals at Bridge Farm. Susan gossips about Rob and Tony's supposed 'to-do' in the yard yesterday and how amazing Rob is. Meanwhile, Jennifer tells Elizabeth all about Adam and Ian's wedding coming up on December 14th.
Lynda has completed casting for all the female roles and nudity is naturally the hot topic: Lynda's pressured into appearing in her Calendar Girls calendar - it's everyone or no one!
The Hunger Games, Costa Book Awards, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Man in the High Castle
Front Row reveals this year's Costa Book Awards shortlist. Critic Alex Clark comments on the authors chosen in the five categories; novel, first novel, poetry, biography and children's fiction.
The Hunger Games' film franchise reaches its conclusion with Mockingjay: Part 2, with Jennifer Lawrence reprising her role as the rebellious Katniss Everdeen for the last time. Sophia McDougall reviews the film which is released in UK cinemas this week.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is best-known as the leading National Basketball Association scorer, but he is also a best-selling author. His latest book, Mycroft Holmes, is a thriller about Sherlock Holmes' older brother. So how did an American come to write about this very English character?
Andrew Collins assesses the new TV adaptation of The Man In The High Castle, based on Philip K Dick's novel about America after an Axis victory in the Second World War, and which boasts Ridley Scott as executive producer.
The big data revolution is here, with masses more personal information available. And for authoritarian governments, this information is another weapon to use against their people. Gordon Corera discovers how agencies like the Stasi always longed for such technological power, and explores what might now be possible for politicians armed with masses of data about everyone, and the means to analyse it. How have Western companies been caught up in this world, and what can be done in response? Big data promises huge benefits in many areas - but can its darker side be resisted?
The silver medallist, Libby Clegg, who's visually-impaired, talks to Peter White about her future plans now that funding from British Athletics has come to an end. And we talk about getting into the job market and doing interviews when you can't see.
Claudia Hammond finds out why astronauts' experiences of seeing Earth from space can have profound effects on their feelings towards planet Earth. She talks to astronaut, Michael Lopez-Alegria, and trainee counselling psychologist, Annahita Nezami, about the Overview Effect and how the power of planet Earth may have therapeutic value for everyone back on terra firma. Clinical psychologist, Linda Blair, is one of the judges on the All in the Mind awards. She talks about how to have a conversation with someone who may be having problems with their mental health and what makes a good, empathetic listener. Thomas Dixon, Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University, London, talks about the history of crying and why the stiff upper lip was just a blip in history. Also, Claudia talks to forensic psychologist, Bruno Verschuere, about his research into why we become worse at lying as we get older.
Wembley football fans sing French national anthem.
Football match in Hanover called off for security fears.
Charlie Sheen's HIV admission.
How climate change is affecting Tonga.
With McCarthyism reaching fever pitch in 1950s America, Peter Sargeant - a dashing PR man - is hired by the Grand St Petersburg ballet to fend off rumours that their star choreographer is a communist. But New York's ballet world is shocked when, on the opening night, the lead ballerina plummets to her death from a wire, maintaining her classical pose in the 'fifth position' as she hits the floor.
Gore Vidal's earlier novel The City and the Pillar was published in 1948 when the author was 23 years old. Its central story of a homosexual relationship caused such a scandal that the New York Times book critic refused to review any book by Gore Vidal. Others followed his lead and the author found himself at a loss as to how to continue to earn a living through his pen until a publisher suggested that he turn his hand to writing under a different name. Death In the Fifth Position was published in 1952 - the first of a trio of entertainments featuring Peter Cutler Sargeant II as a publicist turned private eye.
With Miles Sutton's death confirmed as a gruesome accident, Detective Gleason declares the case closed. Peter is however a little curious as to why Mr Washburn had been writing letters seeking a replacement for Ella Sutton before she was murdered. Nonetheless they are all looking forward to the final performance in the first run of Eclipse.
Liam Williams - a two-time Edinburgh Festival Award nominated comedian - shares his teenage misadventures in the Yorkshire suburbs.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to its subject matter of teenage sex, this episode contains language and content that some listeners may find offensive.
With evocative monologues by "Adult Liam" being interjected with flashback scenes from his teenage years, this four-part series was recorded in Leeds and stars teens from Yorkshire.
Each episode delves into Liam's memories of his first fight, virginity loss, the best house party ever organised, and his marvellous outwitting of an entire teaching staff.
This is the New Labour, post-mining, aspirational heartland, meeting 50 Cent and Generation Y ennui, represented in a bourgeois radio format - by one of Britain's most exciting comedians.
Adult Liam ...... Liam Williams
Young Liam ...... Alfie Field
Bradley Dixon ...... Sam Shaw
Cranny ...... Matthew Hudson
Ralph Fletcher ...... George Richardson
Dale McIllroy ...... Oliver Gower
Tinhead ...... Lee Rockley
Rupert ...... Jacob Clarke
Sean Curran reports as David Cameron urges support for bombing 'Islamic State' in Syria. MPs clash on the junior doctors' pay dispute. And should 16 and 17 year olds get the vote?
WEDNESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2015
WED 00:00 Midnight News (b06p4jkg)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
WED 00:30 Book of the Week (b06pb54n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Tuesday]
WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b06p4jkj)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b06p4jkl)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b06p4jkn)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 05:30 News Briefing (b06p4jkq)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b06r169x)
Prayer for the Day
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tony Macauley.
WED 05:45 Farming Today (b06pbwby)
New Research on Neonicotinoids and Bees, Cornish Cauliflowers, Farmers Health Check
New research on the effects of pesticides on honey bees.
Cornish cauliflower growers are desperate for colder weather to stop crops going to waste.
One estate in the north east of Scotland is distilling, bottling and labelling spirits made from farm produce.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton.
WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04t0gzx)
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Liz Bonnin presents the greater racket-tailed drongo of South-East Asia. Across a clearing in a Malaysian forest flies a dark bird, seemingly chased by two equally dark butterflies. Those butterflies in hot pursuit aren't insects at all; they are the webbed tips of the greater racket-tailed drongo's excessively long wiry outer-tail feathers, which from a distance look like separate creatures as it flies. Glossy blue-black birds which live in wooded country and are great insect catchers, hawking after them in mid-air before returning to a perch. They're bold too and won't hesitate to harry and chase much larger birds than themselves, including, birds of prey. Like other drongos the greater racquet-tailed drongo has an extensive but not very musical repertoire which includes the sounds of other birds it meets, when it joins mixed feeding flocks, and can imitate the call of a hawk to alarm the hawk's victims and so steal food from them while they are distracted by the call: an ingenious tactic, which few other birds have learned.
WED 06:00 Today (b06pbty9)
Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
WED 09:00 Midweek (b06pbtyc)
Michel Roux Jr, Thomas Heatherwick, Dr Sarah Beynon, Dorothy Saul-Pooley.
Libby Purves meets designer Thomas Heatherwick; chef Michel Roux Jr; entomologist Dr Sarah Beynon and pilot Dorothy Saul-Pooley.
Dr Sarah Beynon is an entomologist who has just opened Grub Kitchen, a restaurant with insect dishes on the menu. Based at her bug farm in Pembrokeshire, Grub Kitchen features such delights as cricket falafels and mealworm hummus. Sarah's fascination with the natural world started in childhood - at five she was given her first 'bug box'. In the course of her research she has studied insects around the world including Zambia, Indonesia, Bolivia and Honduras. Grub Kitchen is at Lower Harglodd Farm, Pembrokeshire in Wales.
Chef Michel Roux Jr has spent many years working with organisations helping young people to find employment. In the series Kitchen Impossible he puts eight trainees with disabilities through an intensive four week introduction course to catering. The trainees are people who have been "written off" by employers because of their disabilities. Kitchen Impossible with Michel Roux Jr is broadcast on Channel 4.
Thomas Heatherwick is a designer whose studio was behind projects such as the UK Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, the Olympic Cauldron for the 2012 London Olympic Games and the design of the New Bus for London. The studio is currently working on the capital's Garden Bridge which will span the Thames between the South Bank and Temple. The bridge, which has aroused much controversy, will serve as a free public space, featuring trees, shrubs, climbing plants, hedges and flowers.
Dorothy Saul-Pooley is Master of the Honourable Company of Air Pilots - the first woman to head the organisation in its 85-year history. A lawyer turned pilot and flying instructor, she fell in love with flying at an early age but didn't take her first flying lesson until she reached her early thirties. In 2006 she qualified as a helicopter instructor and her logbook currently records over 9,500 flying hours at the controls of over 85 different types including fixed wing and rotary, piston, jet, glider and microlight aircraft.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
WED 09:45 Book of the Week (b06pbtyf)
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
This World Is Killing You
Elvis Costello, one of the greatest and most influential singer-songwriters, reads his witty, frank and very irreverent take on his 40 years at the top of the music business.
Born Declan Patrick MacManus in London in 1954, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, the grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of dance-band singer. At twenty-four he had his first record deal as part of the the first wave of the British punk and new wave movement. His album, 'My Aim Is True', was a huge hit, and with his band, The Attractions, he went on to record some of the most influential albums in the 1980s and 90s. Known for his lyricism, and with a reputation as something of an 'angry young man', he has gone on to become one of he elder statesmen of pop, collaborating with many music legends, including Burt Bacharach, Johnny Cash and Van Morrison.
Today, Costello leaves Liverpool to make his fortune in London. But an early marriage, fatherhood and a dead-end job, seem to be at odds with the life of a would-be popstar
Written and read by Elvis Costello
Producer: Justine Willett
Abridger: Richard Hamilton.
WED 10:00 Woman's Hour (b06pbtyh)
Saudi women - historic first vote in elections
As Saudi women prepare to vote and stand in local elections for the first time next month, Rothna Begum of Human Rights Watch explains what this historic moment means for women in the region.
Plus, women in jazz - why are they so much more likely to be a singers than musicians? Pianist and composer Zoe Rahman and big band leader Issie Barratt share their insider views.
And Mirror Mirror - we continue our special look at appearance.
Getting ready - in the first of a series talking to different women about how they get dressed to go out and why, we speak to 16 year old Londoner, Hannah.
And the science of visual attractiveness - why do we find someone beautiful, what's the biological and psychological explanation behind all this, and how have our perceptions of physical beauty changed over time? Carmen Lefevre of University College London and art historian Lucinda Hawkesley tell all.
WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama (b06pbtyk)
How Does That Make You Feel?
Episode 3
Caroline tells her therapist Martha how she has found a new niche - a 'cruelty aunt' role on a local newspaper where she tells the disadvantaged to "stop bleating and get on with it". This has met with mixed success. She has alienated so many of her colleagues that she is no longer able to return to work. And to top it all her husband has returned home and appears to in the midst - completely selfishly - of a mental breakdown. Why does everything but everything conspire to thwart her, when all she wants is to the most successful and best known celebrity in Britain?
Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and Shirley (the Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2.
Caroline ..... Rebecca Saire
Martha ..... Frances Tomelty
Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson
Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan.
WED 10:55 The Listening Project (b06pbtym)
Jesse and Ollie - Personal Pronouns
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who identify as non-binary, so prefer the pronoun they to he or she. Both attend the T-Group run by Space in Dorset; Space supports transgender young people aged 12-25. This conversation, produced with the support of All About Trans, is another in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
WED 11:00 The Joy of 9 to 5 (b06pbw9v)
Lucy Kellaway looks at the UK's long hours office culture and asks what happened to the 9 to 5?
In 1930 John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by 2030, we'd all be working a 15 hour week. And yet, almost half of us in the UK put in over a 40 hour week and most of those who work over 48 hours say they're unhappy.
In part one of a new series on modern work culture, Lucy Kellaway, management columnist for the Financial Times, discovers the origins of the eight hour working day.
She finds out what people are actually up to when they're in the office at all hours and argues much of the typical working day is taken up with time-wasting. For Lucy, our self image has become so intertwined with our job that we bolster it by putting the hours in - even if in doing so we're less happy and productive.
Speaking to business leaders, management researchers, and office workers, Lucy asks whether it's time to re-define our notion of 'hard work', and explores the idea that working less could actually be better for everyone.
Written and presented by Lucy Kellaway
Producer: Gemma Newby
Executive Producer: Russell Finch
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 11:30 The Lentil Sorters (b06pv0gx)
Researcher Bias
A sitcom set in the Office of Local and National Statistics which, depending on who you ask, is either where the real power of government resides, or the place where fun goes to die.
In this episode, Daniel and Audrey fight over the Welfare State with the aid of a can of strong lager, a fake police uniform and a beloved British character actor.
Meet the team:
Graham Quicks is Head of the People and Places Department of the LNS. There are three things in the world that Graham will always have faith in – statistics, the supremacy of filofaxes over computers and the idea that cardigans will never go out of style.
Audrey Carr is the Survey Researcher for the department. She believes passionately that statistics should be used as a tool to help the man on the street. Fortunately for her, she's never actually met "the man in the street". She's also passionate about Jane Austen, Les Miserables and pretending that she doesn't work in an office with Daniel.
Daniel Porter is the department's Data Analyst. He used to work in the City, until the City realised he was a colossal waste of space. Daniel divides his time between manipulating statistics to further his vision of capitalism, necking energy drinks and telling people his thighs are really, really strong. He's terrible.
Mrs. Wilkins has worked as tea lady, archivist and maintenance guru for fifteen years. She knows where the bodies are buried. We must stress that that is a figure of speech.
Graham Quicks ...... Vincent Franklin
Audrey Carr ...... Rebekah Staton
Daniel Porter ...... Kieran Hodgson
Mrs Wilkins ...... Julia Deakin
Special guests:
Jonty............................Tom Crowley
Stephanie....................Catriona Knox
Pete Postlefake............Paul Shearer
The Policeman..............Paul Putner
The Passer-By..............Tessa Coates
With Jo Unwin as The Narrator
Written by Jack Bernhardt
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015.
WED 12:00 News Summary (b06p4jks)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 12:04 Across the Board (b04mb80d)
Series 2
Magnus Carlsen
Across The Board: a series of interviews conducted by Dominic Lawson over a game of chess. Today, Dominic takes on the world's greatest chess player, Magnus Carlsen - and asks whether it wouldn't be better for Magnus to put his extraordinary intelligence to another use.
WED 12:15 You and Yours (b06pbw9z)
Black Friday, Deprivation of liberty safeguards, Overbooked flights
You & Yours has learned that some families of people with dementia, who die in care homes, are waiting weeks or even months for a burial, because of the rules affecting Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. These "DOLS" are intended to make sure that people are looked after in a way that does not overly restrict their freedom. But the law requires that an inquest is carried out, even when the cause of death is clear, and that has led to some lengthy and upsetting delays.
Black Friday is a shopping tradition in the United States and in the last few years it has become big in Britain too. It's a day at the end of November when high street stores kick-start the Christmas shopping season with a special day of discounts. Last year, some shoppers grabbed real bargains. But others had to face huge crowds and the police were called to several supermarkets when things got out of hand. But what is in it for the retailers? This year Asda and Jigsaw have said that they are opting out altogether and the police have warned the big stores that they must be sure to have enough staff and security ready to cope with the increased number of shoppers.
We know that airlines routinely overbook flights, selling more seats than they actually have on the plane. They do it because usually not everyone turns up to fly at the time they booked, and airlines like to fill all their seats. But what if it is a really special journey and you want to be sure everything goes smoothly? We hear from a You & Yours listener whose "once in a lifetime" holiday with her elderly mother ended in disappointment when they were turned away at the airport.
Producer: Jonathan Hallewell
Presenter: Winifred Robinson.
WED 12:57 Weather (b06p4jkv)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 13:00 World at One (b06pbxjp)
Two people have been killed -- and seven arrested -- after a gunfight in a Paris suburb where the man suspected of planning last week's attacks was thought to be hiding. We have the latest from Saint Denis.
Here at Westminster David Cameron has indicated he'd be prepared to launch air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria without UN backing. We discuss that with our panel of MPs.
Jeremy Corbyn has told Ken Livingstone to apologise after he suggested a shadow minister with a history of depression should seek "psychiatric" help. We ask the former Mayor of London if he will.
WED 13:45 Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen (b06pbwb1)
Last Taboos
Lenny Henry talks to black British film director Isaac Julien about his work as an out-gay film-maker who has from the beginning of his career confronted issues of discrimination, police brutality, and homophobia within the African Caribbean community. With his film Young Soul Rebels, which he made in 1991, but which was set in 1977 against the backdrop of the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Julien depicted head-on the violence and hatred of homosexuals within British black society. How, today, have attitudes changed?
Series Consultant Michael Pearce
Producer Simon Elmes.
WED 14:00 The Archers (b06pb82x)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Tuesday]
WED 14:15 Drama (b03w16g8)
Jonesy
by award-winning writer Tom Wells. Jamie gets the run of the BBC Radio Drama sound department to tell his own story - the heroic journey of Withernsea lad Jamie 'Jonesy' Jones from chronic asthma sufferer to graduate in GCSE PE.
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
WED 15:00 Money Box (b06pbwb3)
Money Box Live: The Payment Revolution
According to the boss of Apple, the next generation of children born in Britain will not know what money is.
The way we pay for things has changed more in the past 15 years than in the previous 150. Mobile payments, contactless cards, virtual currencies are all driving a revolution in how we pay
Whilst cash still accounts for about 85% of global consumer transactions, new technology means that you can shop without taking your wallet out of your pocket, send cash using your mobile phone number and even pay for your bus with a sticker.
Whilst these new ways to pay may be modern and efficient, exactly how secure are electronic payment systems and what about people without a bank account or a mobile phone?
Join Lesley Curwen and guests. E-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now or call 03700 100 444 from
1pm to
3.30pm on Wednesday.
Panel:
Neil Aitken, Payments UK
Paul Horlock, Head of Payments, Nationwide.
Matt Hammerstein, Head of Customer and Client Experience, Barclays
Kebbie Sebastian, Managing Director, Penser Consulting
Presenter: Lesley Curwen
Producer: Alex Lewis
Editor: Andrew Smith.
WED 15:30 All in the Mind (b06pb835)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Tuesday]
WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed (b06pbwb5)
Elite jobs, Hairdresser craft
How elite students get elite jobs. Lauren Rivera, Associate Professor of Management and Organisation at Northwestern University's Kellog School of Management, discusses her study into the hiring practices of top investment banks, consultancies and law firms. Do America's elite keep the top jobs for people just like themselves? Louise Ashley, Lecturer in Management Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, adds a British perspective.
Also, hairdressing as craft. Dr Helen Holmes, Hallsworth Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, argues that the craft of such service work is obscured by the intangibility of the product, as well as the fact that it is a female dominated profession.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
WED 16:30 The Media Show (b06pbwb7)
Media coverage of events in Paris, Tory MP Jesse Norman on BBC Studio concerns
A series of co-ordinated attacks in Paris on Friday night have resulted in the deaths of at least 129 people. Media outlets quickly mobilized with blanket coverage across television, radio, newspapers and social media. How do the news media outlet co-ordinate and respond to such a breaking and dangerous situation? How do you decide what is a proportionate amount of coverage? And with so many unconfirmed reports, how can you be sure of the reliability of your story? Steve Hewlett discusses the pitfalls and challenges with a panel of guests; John McAndrew from Sky News', the BBC's Gavin Allen, Professor of TV journalism Stewart Purvis, Jeremy Griffin from The Times and Ryan Broderick from Buzzfeed UK.
The chair of the Commons culture, media and sport select committee has written to BBC director general Tony Hall about his concern over the corporation's plans to spin off its TV production arm into a separate commercial unit and create BBC Studios. Conservative MP Jesse Norman, who replaced John Whittingdale in May, says he has asked Lord Hall about the impact on commercial rivals and the production sector. He tells Steve Hewlett why its important for the public to be fully consulted over the creation of the new subsidiary.
Producer: Katy Takatsuki.
WED 17:00 PM (b06pbwbk)
PM at
5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b06p4jkx)
2 suspects killed in anti-terror operation in Paris. Livingstone apologises in psychiatric help row. All coal-fired power stations to close.
WED 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06pbwzh)
Series 3
Broadband on the Run
Tom and his Dad fret about some potentially uncomfortable brushes with the law while Mum prepares for the arrival of a new lodger.
Series 3 of the sitcom where Tom Wrigglesworth phones home for his weekly check-in with his Mum, Dad and Gran - giving us a glimpse into his background and influences shaping his temperament, opinions and hang-ups.
Tom ...... Tom Wrigglesworth
Granny ...... Elizabeth Bennett
Dad ...... Paul Copley
Mum ...... Kate Anthony
With Chris Pavlo.
Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle. With Miles Jupp.
Producer: Richard Morris
A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in November 2015.
WED 19:00 The Archers (b06pbwzk)
Toby and Rex are chuffed to have their licence, so they can press on with the geese. Toby tries to get Pip to go out with him - he also wants to go in with her and Adam with the share-farming business, offering to ease the burden by supplying fifty cattle of their own. But Rex is keen to stay focused on poultry.
Jill's settling back in at Brookfield and Ruth reminds her she doesn't have to tidy everything, as Jill rearranges the cupboards back to how she recognizes things. Ruth is still busy with paperwork and details for Heather's estate. She's disappointed to find out that Jez, the new AI man, has been and gone. Ruth finds herself feeling constantly not needed whilst trying to be useful. As Ruth focuses on her paperwork, Pip and David agree they're a bit worried about her. David tries to cheer Ruth up by telling her how good she has always been with the calves.
Ruth also finds out about Jill and Pip having champagne together as a mini celebration when David and Ruth were away. Jill reminds everyone they should have that celebration they had to put off - the nice meal. David looks forward to more success off the back of Pip's graduation, but Ruth seems to have mixed feelings as she and David look to the future ("whatever it may hold", says Ruth).
WED 19:15 Front Row (b06pbwzm)
Samuel Pepys, Jon Savage, Dana Fouras and Russell Maliphant
Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution, is the largest ever exhibition about the famous 17th-century diarist which takes a look at the time in which Pepys lived, from the execution of Charles I through the rule of Cromwell to the reinstatement of the monarchy with Charles II, all happening alongside plague, the Great Fire and war. John Wilson talks to the two curators, Robert Blyth and Kristian Martin.
Music historian Jon Savage discusses his new novel 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded. In it he argues that the events of 1966 - including the developments in the civil and women rights movements, the escalation of the Vietnam War, and the availability of LSD - resulted in an explosion of creativity which can be traced through the music charts from The Stones' 19th Nervous Breakdown to The Four Tops' Reach Out and I'll be There.
Dancer Dana Fouras on her return to the stage after almost 15 years, as her husband, the choreographer Russell Maliphant celebrates the 20th anniversary of his close artistic collaboration with lighting designer Michael Hulls.
Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b06pbtyk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:41 today]
WED 20:00 Moral Maze (b06pbwzp)
Islamic Terrorism
Perhaps one of the truly shocking things to come out of the events in Paris this week is that the security services were expecting a mass casualty terrorist attack and there are almost certain to be more of them in the future. Does the nature of modern terrorism mean we now have to change our way of life including what many regard as our fundamental liberal values? Does the threat mean that we all have to accept less freedom and more surveillance? Does the Muslim community have to accept that inevitably they will be subject to more scrutiny? President Hollande has said that France will destroy IS and there are those who see Islamic terrorism as an existential threat to our civilisation. But in our rush to arms and the moral barricades are we in danger of sacrificing the core values that our societies have been built on? The Moral Maze has been following the issue of Islamic terrorism, fundamentalism and how we should react to it since 1994. Paris has now been added to the list that already includes London, Madrid and many others over those years. This week we'll be inviting back witnesses who've appeared on our programme about this issue over the decades to take an historical perspective and to ask "where we go from here?" Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, Michael Portillo and Anne McElvoy. Witnesses are Inayat Bunglawala, Simon Jenkins, Dr Taj Hargey and Edward Lucas.
WED 20:45 Four Thought (b06pbwzr)
Democratising Education
Rachel Roberts argues that education needs a democratic revolution.
Rachel describes her own experiences in democratic schools - as a student, teacher, and now educational consultant. And she argues that even if every school won't make the transition to the full kind of radical democracy she enjoyed, every school - and every student - can benefit from the democratic ethos.
Producer: Katie Langton.
WED 21:00 Costing the Earth (b06pb74d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
15:30 on Tuesday]
WED 21:30 Midweek (b06pbtyc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 22:00 The World Tonight (b06pbwzt)
St Denis Raid - Eight Arrested, Two Dead
"Mastermind" still missing; Has Paris "changed everything" ?; Ken Livingstone apology.
WED 22:45 Death in the Fifth Position by Gore Vidal (b06qnn2q)
Episode 8
With McCarthyism reaching fever pitch in 1950s America, Peter Sargeant - a dashing PR man - is hired by the Grand St Petersburg ballet to fend off rumours that their star choreographer is a communist. But New York's ballet world is shocked when, on the opening night, the lead ballerina plummets to her death from a wire, maintaining her classical pose in the 'fifth position' as she hits the floor.
Gore Vidal's earlier novel The City and the Pillar was published in 1948 when the author was 23 years old. Its central story of a homosexual relationship caused such a scandal that the New York Times book critic refused to review any book by Gore Vidal. Others followed his lead and the author found himself at a loss as to how to continue to earn a living through his pen until a publisher suggested that he turn his hand to writing under a different name. Death In the Fifth Position was published in 1952 - the first of a trio of entertainments featuring Peter Cutler Sargeant II as a publicist turned private eye.
Episode 8:
A third death has abruptly re-opened the murder inquiry. Peter Sargeant feels impelled to take action to keep Jane clear of the accusing eye of Detective Gleason.
Written by Edgar Box (Gore Vidal)
Read by Jamie Parker
Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4
WED 23:00 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair (b06pbxjr)
Series 2
Lorna's Holiday
by Jenny Eclair
Lorna ..... Lesley Sharp
As Lorna recuperates in a five star hotel in Dubrovnik she acidly observes the two families staying in the villa next door, but what she sees threatens her own future as well as theirs.
Producer, Sally Avens
WED 23:15 Warhorses of Letters (b03s6jv7)
Series 3
Episode 3
Comedy by Robbie Hudson and Marie Phillips
Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby star as Napoleon's horse Marengo and Wellington's horse Copenhagen in the moving epistolary tale of two horses deeply in love but sundered by history. With an introduction by Tamsin Greig.
This week artistic differences threaten to destroy our heroes' love for each-other as both attempt to find fame as writers. But is the literary horse public ready for Marengo's experimental, Proustian and incredibly long exploration of what it is to be a horse? Or is there more of a market for Copenhagen's rather racier "Fifty Shades of Hay"?
Produced by Gareth Edwards.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.
WED 23:30 Today in Parliament (b06pbxjt)
Susan Hulme reports from Westminster, as the prime minister indicates his willingness to use military force against the group Islamic State in Syria.
And MPs express concern about the arrest of a former member of the Parachute Regiment in connection with the events of Bloody Sunday.
THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2015
THU 00:00 Midnight News (b06p4jm1)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
THU 00:30 Book of the Week (b06pbtyf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b06p4jm3)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b06p4jm5)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b06p4jm7)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (b06p4jm9)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b06r5dgq)
Prayer for the Day
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tony Macauley
THU 05:45 Farming Today (b06pd39x)
Judicial review on pollution, Farmers' views on EU, English wine
Environmental and angling groups are taking the government to court, amid claims it isn't doing enough to protect our rivers. Campaigners say Defra is failing in its duty to protect watercourses from agricultural pollution. A two-day judicial review gets underway today.
For British farmers who depend on subsidies from Brussels and export markets in Europe, the result of the forthcoming referendum on EU membership will be particularly important. Agricultural bodies around the country are already holding events to discuss the pros and cons. Vernon Harwood reports from an EU debate at the Three Counties Showground in Worcestershire.
And as part of Farming Today's week-long look at alcohol production in the British countryside, Sarah Swadling visits a Devon vineyard which has been making wine for more than twenty-five years.
Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Emma Campbell.
THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04t0hgk)
Eastern Orphean Warbler
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Liz Bonnin presents the eastern orphean warbler in an olive grove near Athens. Until recently there used to be just a single species of Orphean Warbler; a summer visitor to southern Europe, North Africa and western Asia: a handsome bird much like a large blackcap with a white throat and greyish-brown back. But across the wide breeding range which stretches from Portugal to Pakistan some orphean warblers look and sound different. Those east of Italy tend to be subtly greyer above and paler beneath. And the songs of birds from Greece eastwards are longer and richer, often including the richness of nightingale like notes. These slight differences have persuaded many ornithologists that the Eastern Orphean warbler is a different species to the Western Orphean Warbler. Biologists call this "splitting "although exactly where these new species boundaries lie is a moot point.
THU 06:00 Today (b06pd3b3)
Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
THU 09:00 In Our Time (b06pd3b9)
Emma
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." So begins Emma by Jane Austen, describing her leading character who, she said, was "a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this, one of Austen's most popular novels and arguably her masterpiece, a brilliantly sparkling comedy of manners published in December 1815 by John Murray, the last to be published in Austen's lifetime. This followed Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Mansfield Park (1814), with her brother Henry handling publication of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1817).
With
Janet Todd
Professor Emerita of Literature, University of Aberdeen and Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge
John Mullan
Professor of English at University College, London
And
Emma Clery
Professor of English at the University of Southampton.
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
THU 09:45 Book of the Week (b06pd3bc)
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
Pop Star Period
Elvis Costello, one of the greatest and most influential singer-songwriters, reads his witty, frank and very irreverent take on 40 years at the top of the music business.
Born Declan Patrick MacManus in London in 1954, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, the grandson of a trumpet player and son of dance-band singer. At twenty-four he had his first record deal as part of the the first wave of the British punk and new wave. Costello's album, 'My Aim Is True', was a huge hit, and with his band, The Attractions, he went on to record some of the most influential albums in the 1980s and 90s. Known for his lyricism, and with a reputation as something of an 'angry young man', he has gone on to become one of he elder statesmen of pop, collaborating with many music legends, including Burt Bacharach, Johnny Cash and Van Morrison.
Today, a persona is created, a band is formed, and the idiosyncrasies of Top of the Pops are endured.
Written and read by Elvis Costello
Producer: Justine Willett
Abridger: Richard Hamilton.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b06r8t1z)
Business of beauty, Portugal politics, Men and appearance, Geling Yan
Why the British beauty industry is worth an estimated £9 billion - Vivienne Rudd, Director of Global Innovation and Insights at market analysts Mintel and Telegraph beauty editor Sonia Haria discuss the money made from products.
Portugal and women in politics - Alison Roberts, BBC correspondent in Lisbon talks about the success of Left Bloc party and its high profile women.
Chinese novelist Geling Yan on new book Little Aunt Crane.
Three young men discuss how their anxieties over appearance have affected their lives.
Innovation in the kitchen - Catherine Carr reports on why the Americans still use the cup measurement system to make their traditional brownies and pancakes, with food writer Bee Wilson.
Jane Garvey talks to three young men about how appearance has impacted on their lives.
Presenter: Jenni Murray.
THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b06pd3bk)
How Does That Make You Feel?
Episode 4
Philip is back following a worrying 'reading glasses incident' where he was mistakenly taking his mother's blood pressure pills and she his tranquilising medication. With a new lease on life, although still living in his mother's house, Philip tells his therapist Martha about his recent visit to a writer's retreat in Yorkshire.
Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and Shirley (the Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2.
Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson
Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan.
THU 11:00 Crossing Continents (b06pd3bp)
The Drugs Mules of the Andes
Peru is the world's largest producer of cocaine. A staggering one-third of it travels on foot, on the backs of young men like Daniel. He is 18, full of bravado, and claims he does this work so he will be able to go to university and take care of his family. Daniel is one of thousands known as 'mochileros' - backpackers, in Spanish - who hike their illicit cargo from the tropical valley where most of Peru's coca is produced, up to Andean towns, out towards the border with Brazil, and to clandestine airstrips.
For Crossing Continents Linda Pressly meets the 'mochileros' who are mostly young men from isolated, peasant villages. They have grown up in coca-growing communities that suffered some of the worst atrocities of Peru's dirty war with Shining Path rebels in the 1990s. All of them do it for the money - payments of hundreds of dollars in a region where the incidence of poverty is more than twice the national average.
It is a perilous occupation. Armed gangs, a re-emerging Shining Path, the military and police all conspire to stop or control the trade. Daniel says that on every trip he makes, three or four young men will die. Highland prisons are bursting with mochileros who were caught, but in many ways they are the lucky ones - others die on the trails, their bodies devoured by wild animals.
The Drug Mules of the Andes tells the story of the 'mochileros', their families and the Peruvian authorities charged with interdiction.
THU 11:30 When Stockhausen Came to Huddersfield (b06pd3bt)
Ian McMillan finds out what happened when the controversial German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's visit to the 1988 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival nearly ended in disaster. This super star of the Avant Garde, who featured on the front cover of the Beatles Sergeant Pepper album, had been shocking audiences since the 1950's with his dazzling compositions. He was lured to the quiet West Riding mill town for its 10th anniversary festival, because the South Bank in London couldn't provide the rehearsal time and a suitable venue for his composition, Sternklang or 'Star Sound'. The Festival Director Richard Steinitz had promised him the cavernous council owned sports hall for the performance, which was turned into an indoor park for the occasion, complete with Christmas trees and artificial turf. While setting up for a concert in Huddersfield Town Hall part of the ceiling fell onto Stockhausen's mixing desk and narrowly missed injuring the great man himself. During his visit Stockhausen developed a taste for the local curry house, bought ear plugs to get to sleep in the railway hotel and invited local people to get ready for 'visitors from outer-space'. His reputation had gone before him, and he didn't disappoint those who were lucky enough to be there. The visit put the festival on the map, and has become part of local folklore. Ian is joined by the writer and broadcaster Robert Worby, the then Festival Director Richard Steinitz, Technical Manager Steve Taylor, musician Peter Britton who trained the student performers, and Jim Pywell who was a music student at the Polytechnic at the time.
THU 12:00 News Summary (b06p4jmc)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:04 Across the Board (b04md54h)
Series 2
Sigrid Rausing
Across The Board: a series of interviews conducted by Dominic Lawson over a game of chess. Today Dominic takes on one of Britain's leading philanthropists, Sigrid Rausing, who plays chess every day with her husband.
THU 12:15 You and Yours (b06pmj9t)
VW emissions, Cinema trends, Tube map makeover, Affordable bridalwear
The owners of well over a million vehicles in the UK are caught up in the Volkswagen emissions scandal. We're looking at how the promised fix might affect them and their cars.
Cinema survived the age of the video cassette but streaming services like Netflix are posing a new threat. We report on how the industry hopes to keep us going to the movies.
And London's iconic tube map has had a makeover to keep walkers happy. We're putting it to the test.
Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Jon Douglas.
THU 12:57 Weather (b06p4jmf)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 13:00 World at One (b06pmj9w)
The French authorities have announced that the man they believe masterminded the attacks on Friday, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed in yesterday's police operation in Paris. Junior doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of going on strike - we hear from the BMA and Con chair of Health Select Comm. A Libyan man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder PC Yvonne Fletcher in London 31 years ago. And Spencer Livermore, Labour's last General Election Co-ordinator has accused Jeremy Corbyn of "failing to learn the lessons of why Labour lost in 2015" and has told us that unless he does, the Labour party "will lose in 2020".
THU 13:45 Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen (b06pd3c0)
African Accents
Lenny Henry investigates the sudden blossoming of new black British theatrical voices whose roots are not in the Caribbean but in Africa. From Nigeria via Peckham and Hastings comes the energetic talent of Bola Agbaje whose play Gone Too Far triumphed at London's Royal Court Theatre, winning an Olivier award in 2008 before being filmed for the big screen, with a slew of new work since. "Writing is easy" she tells Lenny Henry ...and, she says, it all came about only because she managed to squeeze a place on a Royal Court writers' scheme on the day applications closed.
Series Consultant Michael Pearce
Producer Simon Elmes.
THU 14:00 The Archers (b06pbwzk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Drama (b06pd8rv)
Not Now
By David Ireland.
It's
2:15. Kyle's just buried his father. He loved his Dad but it's his Uncle he's always looked up to. What happens during the next 45 minutes will change all that forever.
A darkly funny drama about sexual and social relations by one of Belfast's hottest young writers.
Directed by Kirsty Williams.
THU 15:00 Open Country (b06pd8rx)
Prehistoric Gower
Writer Iain Sinclair seeks the UK's oldest burial site in a cave along south Gower's windy clifftops. The 'Red Lady of Paviland' was interred in a cave 26,000 years ago, the bones decorated with red ochre. But, as he tells Helen Mark, "she" was in fact a he, buried with jewellery and alongside a mammoth's skull. This was at a time when the Bristol Channel was a tundra landscape.
Best known for his psychogeographic journeyings through unloved modern landscapes and wastelands, such as the M25 perimeter, Sinclair explains to Helen why he's drawn back to the ancient past in this part of south Wales, a place of childhood holidays, and the subject of his latest book, 'Black Apples of Gower'.
He's joined by archaeologist Ffion Reynolds, who's a specialist in prehistoric sites, and antiquarian bookseller Jeff Towns.
Producer: Mark Smalley.
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b06p4ln9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:54 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Open Book (b06p56zr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:00 The Film Programme (b06pdcdy)
How I Pitched To Steven Spielberg, and Barbara Broccoli on Life Beyond Bond
With Francine Stock
James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli explains why she's just produced a film called Radiator, about a middle-aged man caring for his two elderly parents that was made for less than one percent of the budget of Spectre, and why not all films should be made for teenage boys.
Bridge Of Spies scribe Matt Charman reveals why he took off his clothes to pitch his Cold War spy thriller to Steven Spielberg on the phone.
A rare showing of a 13 hour French movie that was totally improvised, Out 1, is playing soon in a West End cinema. Francine is granted a private screening and reports back from her marathon viewing session - was it all worth it and more importantly, will she ever recover the feeling in her legs ?
And there's an opportunity for listeners to write their own coda to Brief Encounter - what Alec did next...
THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science (b06pdcf0)
Antarctic ice sheet instability, Groundwater, Accents, Fluorescent coral
Antarctic ice-sheet instability
A new study models how the ice sheets in Antarctica will react if greenhouse gases rise at a medium to high rate. They predict the most likely outcome is a rise in global sea level of about 10cm by 2100. Previous research had put this figure at 30cm: this has not been ruled out by the new research, but it's been ruled much less likely.
Groundwater
The Earth's groundwater has been quantified - it's estimated to be 23 million cubic km. (which is equivalent to the Earth's entire land surface covered in a layer some 180m deep.) However, just 6% of the water is available for our use and to take part in the hydrogeological cycle. That small fraction is referred to as "modern" groundwater: it is extractable because it is near the surface, and can be used to supplement above-ground resources in rivers and lakes. But it's also the most sensitive to over use, climate change and to human contamination.
Fluorescent coral
Adam visits the National Oceanographic Centre in Southampton to see some fluorescent corals and asks how they can be utilised for medical imaging.
Accents
How are our accents changing? A three year study at University of Glasgow has found that Scottish accents haven't changed as much as English accents (which have become much more homogenised over the past 100 years). By listening to recordings from first World War Scottish prisoners of war, the Sounds of the City project has noticed that changes to Glaswegian accents have occurred over a much longer time frame than previously thought. But these changes have occurred locally - not in the same way or to the extent that it is thought English accents have evolved.
Producer: Fiona Roberts.
THU 17:00 PM (b06ppk4w)
PM at
5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b06p4jmh)
R4 1800 19 November 2015
French authorities say the man who they believe planned the attacks on Paris is dead. They say Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in yesterday's police operation in a northern suburb.
THU 18:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01rfy5w)
Series 2
With Doc Brown
Comedy show hosted by Alex Horne and his five piece band and specially written, original music.
This episode explores the theme of children including songs on George Formby, the alphabet and Rastafarians. Guest starring Doc Brown who raps with the band and talks to whales.
Guest starring comedian Doc Brown.
Alex's Horne Section are:
Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland
Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown
Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier
Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds
Piano/keyboard .... Ed Sheldrake
Producer: Julia McKenzie.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013.
THU 19:00 The Archers (b06pdcf2)
Rob doesn't fancy attending Adam and Ian's wedding in December, telling Helen it would be rather hypocritical given Adam's roving eye and track record - he mentions Charlie Thomas "sniffing around" and how awful it would be for Ian if Ian ever found out. Although with that in mind, Rob can see why Ian would want to secure Adam in marriage.
Helen rushes to collect Henry, worried about being late and upsetting Rob, and has a minor car accident. Rob's concerned about Helen and the baby's safety. Thinking of the Helen's incident with Mike Tucker years ago, Pat persuades Helen to stop driving for the time being at least.
Meanwhile, the ad is in the Echo announcing the opening of the new Bridge Farm shop.
Peggy talks to Hazel on Clarrie's behalf. Hazel won't budge over evicting the Grundys, but says the village shop can open whenever Susan likes - she's rather indifferent to it.
Desperate for somewhere to live, Eddie and Clarrie look at flats - but Clarrie doesn't like any. The only one they can afford is tiny. They face up to the fact that Joe may have to go in to a home.
THU 19:15 Front Row (b06pdcf4)
Cate Blanchett, Enya, Bruntwood Prize winner
Oscar-winning actor Cate Blanchett discusses her role in Todd Haynes' new film Carol, based on a Patricia Highsmith novel about an affair between a 1950s American housewife and a shop assistant (Rooney Mara).
With 75m sales and four Grammy Awards to her name, Enya releases her new album Dark Sky Island. It's inspired by the poetry of Roma Ryan which takes islands as its theme, and specifically the Channel Island of Sark - designated the world's first dark sky island.
Katherine Soper won this year's Bruntwood Prize for playwriting, Britain's biggest competition of its kind, with her play Wish List. She discusses her play which centres on the loving relationship between a brother with OCD and a sister struggling to keep her zero-hour contract.
Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Rebecca Armstrong.
THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b06pd3bk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
THU 20:00 Paris: Could It Happen Here? (b06rywqs)
David Cameron says seven terrorist plots have been thwarted in the UK this year alone. Mass casualty attacks, like those seen in Paris, are on the agenda too according to the head of MI5.
What is going on in the communities from which this largely "homegrown" threat has emerged? In an attempt to understand, Edward Stourton gathers a group of Muslim journalists with grassroots knowledge.
Contributors:
Sabbiyyah Pervez
Mobeen Azhar
Fayaz Rizvi
Secunder Kermani
Producer: Sally Abrahams.
THU 20:30 The Bottom Line (b06pdcf6)
The Northern Powerhouse
Can the Northern Powerhouse solve Britain's North-South economic divide? For now, the Northern Powerhouse is a concept: an idea that towns and cities in the north can unite, forming their own economic hub to rival London and the south east. So how to turn it into a reality? Evan Davis and guests are with an audience at the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce to discuss what kind of businesses will settle in the north of England and what needs to be done to encourage them to make the move. They'll talk about the frustrations of poor transport links, the joys of green spaces and the reasons why businesses like to cluster.
Guests:
Wayne Hemingway, Designer and entrepreneur, Hemingway Design
Vanda Murray, an Independent Director, Manchester Airports Group
Sir Richard Leese, Leader, Manchester City Council and Chair, Transport for the North
Jo York, co-founder, Reframed TV
Producer: Sally Abrahams.
THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science (b06pdcf0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 today]
THU 21:30 In Our Time (b06pd3b9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b06pdcf8)
France confirms death of man thought to be organiser of Friday's massacre in Paris
The latest on the Paris terror attacks - and will junior doctors go on strike?
THU 22:45 Death in the Fifth Position by Gore Vidal (b06qrmw8)
Episode 9
With McCarthyism reaching fever pitch in 1950s America, Peter Sargeant - a dashing PR man - is hired by the Grand St Petersburg ballet to fend off rumours that their star choreographer is a communist. But New York's ballet world is shocked when, on the opening night, the lead ballerina plummets to her death from a wire, maintaining her classical pose in the 'fifth position' as she hits the floor.
Gore Vidal's earlier novel The City and the Pillar was published in 1948 when the author was 23 years old. Its central story of a homosexual relationship caused such a scandal that the New York Times book critic refused to review any book by Gore Vidal. Others followed his lead and the author found himself at a loss as to how to continue to earn a living through his pen until a publisher suggested that he turn his hand to writing under a different name. Death In the Fifth Position was published in 1952 - the first of a trio of entertainments featuring Peter Cutler Sargeant II as a publicist turned private eye.
Episode 9:
The body count has reached three. Peter Sargeant is desperate to find out the truth and has begun to interview his list of suspects. But the clock is ticking as Detective Gleason seems about to make an arrest and, despite the lack of evidence, Peter’s girlfriend Jane Garden looks to be the likely candidate. Peter has already talked to Anna Eglanova who is convinced that Alyosha had a hand in Ella's death. Next he visits Jed Wilbur at home.
Written by Edgar Box (Gore Vidal)
Read by Jamie Parker
Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4
THU 23:00 Jon Ronson On (b01rlrjz)
Series 7
11:11
Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another five-part series of fascinating stories shedding light on the human condition.
In the first programme, he investigates confirmation bias - or why so many people look for evidence that confirms their pre-existing beliefs.
Jon believes he may be susceptible to confirmation bias himself. Over the last two years he has kept noticing that the time on his phone is
11.11. After looking on the internet, he found out there are many other people also doing this, including Uri Geller who first started noticing the number 11 over twenty years ago. Jon has also discovered that a particular community of people believe
11.11 is a sign for a new spirit guide who will come to earth, coincidentally known as Monjoronson. He speaks to the owner of the Monjoronson web domain, Ron Besser, and asks if it is possible that Jon himself is the spirit guide they're looking for.
Jon talks to other people who have been affected by confirmation bias, including an Oxford academic who believes her fate can be determined by looking at two lip balm pots.
The journalist David Aaronovitch says he believed the delusions he had while suffering intensive care psychosis after a routine operation were real.
Lotfi Raissi, the first person to be charged in connection with the September 11th attacks, tells Jon he believes his arrest was down to confirmation bias because he fitted a certain profile. A judge found there was no evidence to link Raissi to any form of terrorism.
Finally Jon speaks to the lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, who believes people who are prone to confirmation bias are more likely to be recruited to police forces.
Producer: Lucy Greenwell
A Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 23:30 Today in Parliament (b06pdcfb)
Sean Curran reports from Westminster as MPs back the deal to prevent the collapse of the power-sharing executive at Stormont and a minister defends the grants to the failed charity, Kids Company.
MPs press the Energy Secretary over plans to phase-out the UK's coal-fired power stations and mark International Men's Day with a debate on the high rate of male suicide.
FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b06p4jnk)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
FRI 00:30 Book of the Week (b06pd3bc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b06p4jnp)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b06p4jnr)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b06p4jnt)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b06p4jnw)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b06r9j65)
Prayer for the Day
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tony Macauley
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b06pdck2)
Antibiotics, Cider production, GM salmon, Sheep dip poisoning
Farmers who believe exposure to sheep dip has damaged their health have been meeting the Farming Minister George Eustice, to push for recognition of their problems. Until 1992, the use of sheep dip containing organophosphates was compulsory. It meant hundreds of sheep farmers were repeatedly exposed to the chemical, and many now believe that caused neurological damage and long-term health problems. Charlotte Smith hears from Paul Wright, who used to farm on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border. He's now retired, for health reasons.
Antibiotics have been in the headlines this week, with the frightening discovery of bacteria which have become resistant to the "drug of last resort". Should the farming industry be doing more to cut down its usage of antibiotics? Charlotte hears from the two organisations with views on the subject: the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics, a campaign group which aims to limit antibiotic use in UK farming, and RUMA - the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance.
Genetically modified salmon has been approved by the American Food and Drug Administration. The Atlantic salmon has been modified with genes from other fish, so that it grows more quickly than other farmed salmon. Helen Briggs from the BBC's science team explains what the development means.
And as we conclude our week-long look at alcohol production on UK farms, Sally Challoner finds out how the cider harvest has been going.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell.
FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04sylr1)
Red-crowned Crane
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.
Liz Bonnin presents the red-crowned crane from Japan and Asia. Backlit by a Japanese winter sun, huge black and white birds dance for an audience. Their plumage mirrors the dazzling snow and dark tree-trunks. The only spots of colour are crimson - the caps of these Red-crowned Cranes. Red-crowned Cranes breed only in far-eastern Russia. Tall, majestic and very vocal, red-crowned cranes gather in groups to reinforce pair-bonds, by leaping into the air and fluttering their 2.5 metre wings, sometimes holding sticks or twigs in their long bills. During winter months, the cranes are fed with grain, and receive a stream of captivated visitors. In front of a wall of clicking camera shutters, the cranes perform their elaborate dance, to delight their captivated audience.
FRI 06:00 Today (b06pddgx)
Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs (b06p4nph)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 Book of the Week (b06pddgz)
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
Diving for Pearls
Elvis Costello, one of the UK's greatest and most influential singer-songwriters, reads the final part of his witty, frank and very irreverent take on 40 years at the top of the music business.
Born Declan Patrick MacManus in London in 1954, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, the grandson of a trumpet player and son of dance-band singer. At twenty-four he had his first record deal and was at the forefront of the the first wave of the British punk and new wave. Costello's album, 'My Aim Is True', was a huge hit, and with his band, The Attractions, he went on to record some of the most influential albums in the 1980s and 90s. He has since gone on to collaborate with some of the greats in music this century, including Burt Bacharach, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and Van Morrison.
Today, infamy in the US, and protest songs at home.
Written and read by Elvis Costello
Producer: Justine Willett
Abridger: Richard Hamilton.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b06pnp3s)
Kate Winslet - The Dressmaker
Kate Winslet on her new film The Dressmaker - what it's like having to perfect accents - and why she wants to shield her children from social media...
One in five Conservative MPs is female, an increase claimed in part by Women2Win, a campaign set up ten years ago to get more women at Westminster. The party still lies behind Labour and the SNP in percentages of women in parliament so are there plans to boost numbers without positive action such as all-women shortlists? a question for W2W co-chairwoman Baroness Anne Jenkin.
We continue our series on appearance. We've been talking to a number of men and women, boys and girls about their own beauty regimes and how they see themselves. Today it's the turn of women in their 80's and 90's
Plus inspired by an article written by Caitlin Moran about using cards to give compliments to strangers, we did a little experiment and tried it out on the streets of London, and talk to Caitlin about why she thinks it's a good idea.
Presented by Jenni Murray
Produced by Beverley Purcell.
FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b06pddh1)
How Does That Make You Feel?
Episode 5
Richard tells his therapist Martha about his recent date at a Korean/Swedish fusion restaurant. However this latest romantic failure and the news that his son Toby has sold one of his kidneys online might just be enough to push him over the edge...
Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and Shirley (the Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2.
Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson
Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan.
FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape (b06pddh3)
Series 21
Goodbye to Boleyn
The Boleyn Ground, Upton Park. Home to West Ham since 1904. No one would call the stadium, or indeed the streets that closely bind it in the borough of Newham, beautiful but it has echoed to one of football's oldest anthems 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles' since the 1920's. Now that song and the stones & grass that have been an arena for legends like Hurst, Moore & Peters will not just fade and die but be demolished. Very soon the club will move from E13 to E20 & the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, no longer owners but tenants in a very different space. Match days around Green Street and the other roads that bind the stadium to the area will be like every other day. But for these last few months the pavements still reverberate to the returning tribes of Essex, their family ties strong in a place that has greatly changed since Bobby Moore and his other '66 immortals made West Ham a global name.
Amidst the throng on match day, Alan Dein weaves his way through the streets to chronicle lives enfolded by the stadium. On the corner of the ground stands Our Lady of Compassion, in fact it was the church that originally sold the ground to the club. Now their Saturday services are shaped by the footfall of match day. Directly opposite the stadium live two nuns with a new found affinity for the Claret & Blue. Standing on a step ladder, shouting to the arriving crowds a scary looking skinhead offers wise insight into the passing of time and place. Inside Queen's Market, flogging his apples and pears, Bradley is waiting until the clock hits
2.30 before he pulls on his replica shirt and dives out into the thickening crowds making their way towards the big match.
Producer: Mark Burman.
FRI 11:30 John Finnemore's Double Acts (b06pddh5)
Series 1
Hot Desk
For a few minutes, twice a day, at precisely seven in the morning and seven in the evening, a receptionist and a security guard meet to swap ownership of a desk.
Mathew Baynton and Jenny Bede star in the last of six two-handers written by Cabin Pressure's John Finnemore.
Written by John Finnemore
Produced by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:00 News Summary (b06p4jny)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:04 Across the Board (b05sy63d)
Series 3
Piers Morgan
Across The Board is a series of interviews conducted over a game of chess. In this programme Dominic Lawson talks to the outspoken journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan. The game turns out to be a brutal affair.
FRI 12:15 You and Yours (b06pddh7)
Wheelchair-accessible buses, Leasing a car, Organ donation
In a survey, nine out of ten wheelchair users said they had been refused space when they tried to get on a bus, and over half said they had experienced rudeness or intimidation from drivers. We speak to the charity, Leonard Cheshire Disability, who carried out the survey and First Bus about what needs to be done to make bus travel easier for disabled people.
Lease to buy, or straightforward leasing deals have made it easier than ever to drive a new car, and in September alone we spent more than two billion pounds on new cars through such deals. But are they as good value as they look?
One in ten people on the organ transplant list will die before a suitable organ is found for them. More than 7,000 people are currently on the waiting list. We hear from one patient desperately hoping for a new kidney.
An alternative tipple to go with the weekend curry - the Indian wine that could soon be spicing up our dinner tables.
The rise of digital radio - could we ever see the FM signal switched off?
How do landlord licensing schemes protect tenants from rogue landlords?
Producer: Cecile Wright
Presenter: Peter White.
FRI 12:57 Weather (b06p4jp0)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 13:00 World at One (b06pddx3)
Jihadists have stormed a luxury hotel in Mali and are holding around 100 people hostage. We hear from eyewitnesses, and hear analysis about French military involvement in the region.
As European Union ministers meet to discuss what should happen to Europe's borders following the Paris attacks we hear from the Front National, who are calling for France to re-instate more stringent border checks. Our reporter Manveen Rana, who has been travelling from Jordan to Northern Europe with a refugee family tells us about the lax border controls they have encountered on the way, and we hear the latest episode in the family's journey.
After a torrid week for the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, one of his shadow cabinet allies - Jon Trickett - tells us about turbulence in the party and some intriguing details behind one of this week's rows.
FRI 13:45 Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen (b06pddx5)
Post-Black
In the last of his programmes tracing a century of black British theatre and screen, Lenny Henry explores the prospects for black British theatre and screen. He talks to black British film-director and creative artist Steve McQueen, who was the first ever black director to win an Academy Award for Best Picture - and who's also a proud winner of the Turner Prize for art. Lenny hears about Steve's new project for BBC television, a grand sweeping story of an African Caribbean family growing up across three decades from the late 1960s.
Also taking part in this assessment of the future shape of their art are director and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah, theatre director Michael Buffong and writer Roy Williams.
Series consultant Michael Pearce
Producer Simon Elmes.
FRI 14:00 The Archers (b06pdcf2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Drama (b06pdjgg)
Puellae - Or the Truth About Chips and Other Things
In Nalini Chetty's comic drama two friends meet in a wine bar during the Edinburgh Festival before going to see a show on the Fringe. Sixteen years after leaving St Myrtles School for Girls, Neve and Tess gossip about their school-days, diets, old boyfriends and political ideals, lost or discarded. As one bottle of wine leads to another - and with the Fringe show forgotten - the veneer of contentment at their well-balanced lives gradually disintegrates.
Producer/director: Bruce Young
BBC Scotland.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b06pdjgm)
Westonbirt Arboretum
Peter Gibbs hosts a tree special from Westonbirt Arboretum.
Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Bob Flowerdew answer the questions.
This week the panellists delve into the postbag to catch up on some queries about trees from GQT listeners in the UK and abroad.
Also, Chris Beardshaw meets with staff at Westonbirt to discuss the 2050 Glade project which trials plants from different provenances to see how they perform in a changing climate.
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:45 e=mc2 (b06pdjgt)
Ian Sansom - The Twin Paradox
It's the day of the first manned mission to Mars.
As Commander Carl Ehrlich's twin brother Kevin awaits the final countdown in a local bar it seems the mission just might offer him the perfect means of gaining some long-awaited one-upmanship on his internationally-renowned, hugely successful, ever-so-slightly older brother!
Taking inspiration from Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, Ian Sansom discovers it's all relative in his story of sibling rivalry and space travel.
Read by Trevor White
Writer ..... Ian Sansom
Producer: Heather Larmour
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015.
FRI 16:00 Last Word (b06pdjh0)
Roy Dommett, Warren Mitchell, Allen Toussaint, Cynthia Payne and Jonah Lomu
Matthew Bannister on
Roy Dommett, one of the UK's leading rocket scientists who was also a well known morris dancer.
Warren Mitchell, the actor best known for playing Alf Garnett in the TV sit com "Till Death Us Do Part"
Allen Toussaint, the New Orleans producer and musician who worked with many of the great names in rock.
Cynthia Payne, who ran a brothel at her home in Streatham where men exchanged luncheon vouchers for sex.
And Jonah Lomu, the rugby player who won 63 caps for the All Blacks and scored 37 international tries.
FRI 16:30 Feedback (b06pdjh3)
Paris Attacks Coverage
On Friday 13th November, Paris became the site of Western Europe's deadliest terrorist attack in over ten years. From the immediate aftermath of the attacks through to the end of the weekend and into this week, the story received heavy coverage across all BBC Radio networks, with BBC Radio 5 Live dedicating a whole day to rolling news about Paris on Saturday. It was a major story, but was BBC Radio's response proportionate? We hear your reaction.
As the fight over Britain's membership of the EU intensifies, the upcoming referendum has become ripe territory for BBC Radio 4's satirists. When last Friday's The Now Show took a comedic look at the subject, some listeners were deeply unhappy with what they perceived as a 'staying in' bias. Should the BBC be scrutinising its output for bias already? And is it possible to have truly balanced comedy? Roger Bolton speaks to the BBC's Chief Adviser on Politics, Ric Bailey.
This time last year, BBC Radio 5 Live's schedule was overhauled. Three of its biggest presenters, Shelagh Fogerty, Richard Bacon and Victoria Derbyshire, left and, as a consequence or not, so did 10% of the listenership. How has 5 Live fared since? Roger speaks to the network's controller Jonathan Wall to discuss ratings, sports rights and the booming sister station 5 Live Sports Extra.
Last week, a brand new DAB station called BBC Music Jazz burst into existence, offering listeners music by all the greats from Gershwin to Gillespie. BBC Music Jazz was a pop up station - a temporary digital channel created in collaboration with Jazz FM. And listeners loved it. We look back at the brief and smoking life of BBC Music's first Jazz pop up.
Producer: Katherine Godfrey.
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 16:55 The Listening Project (b06pdjh7)
Graham and Heather - Being Yourself
Fi Glover introduces a revealing conversation between a father and daughter about the impact his childhood experiences have had on his life. 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 (b06pdjh9)
PM at
5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b06p4jp2)
Commandos storm hotel where Islamist gunmen have been holding more than 130 hostages. EU to increase security checks at the external borders of the Schengen area.
FRI 18:30 The Now Show (b06pdjhc)
Series 47
Episode 2
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Freya Parker, John Robins, Emily Taylor, Mitch Benn and Mae Martin for a comedy take on the week's news.
Written by the cast with additional material from Gareth Gwynn, Andy Wolton, Sarah Campbell and Kiri Pritchard-McClean.
FRI 19:00 The Archers (b06pdjhf)
Kenton feels positive, looking forward to the Bull's grand reopening, which will coincide with the Christmas lights switch-on on December 4th. He relishes in the Ambridge 'Blitz Spirit', talking about things reopening and village activities including the upcoming touch-rugby tournament. Harrison talks of Fallon and Emma being busy with their catering business - with a big wedding coming up. Kenton notices that Charlie seems miserable, though. Charlie's trying to escape his worries, as he learns about the Grundy's having to move out of Grey Gables and problems for local dairy farmers.
Evasive Charlie admits to Adam that he's under pressure from Justin - like the Grundys, he could be out on his ear soon.
Ruth's busy sending an important email as David, Pip and Jill chivvy her along to join them for Pip's celebration dinner at La Femme Du Monde. Over dinner, Ruth tells David how proud she is of Pip - and raises a toast of her own. Ruth's so grateful at how they've managed without her during difficult times. But Ruth can't stop all the thoughts buzzing round her head, including her late Mum and the farm. She needs to get away and clear her head. Ruth has decided to go to New Zealand on a farm research trip - the one Pip mentioned a little while ago.
FRI 19:15 Front Row (b06pdjm8)
Emile Zola Special: JR, Michel Houellebecq
Kirsty Lang is in Paris seeking out the 21st Century French artists, writers and performers who are keeping the spirit of Zola alive in their work today.
Author Edouard Louis grew up in shocking poverty not unlike the conditions Zola observed in the 19th Century. His childhood is the subject of his first literary work Getting Rid of Eddy Bellegueule.
Zola's ability to shock is not unlike that of Michel Houellebecq - probably the most internationally famous novelist to come out of France in recent times and certainly the most controversial.
Abd al Malik is an award winning rapper and spoken word artist. He sees his work as a protest against racism and islamophobia in France.
JR - often described as the French Banksy - exhibits freely in the streets by gluing or pasting giant, blown up photographs onto buildings or entire streets in the council estates that surround Paris.
Florence Aubenas is best known for her immersive journalism. As the recession hit France, she posed as an unskilled worker and for 6 months cleaned toilets on a cross channel ferry.
Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Sarah Shebbeare.
FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b06pddh1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b06pdlg5)
Charles Clarke, Lindsey German, Lord Lawson, Sir Martin Sorrell
Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Charles Darwin School, Biggin Hill, Kent with a panel including the former Home Secretary Charles Clarke, the convenor of the Stop the War coalition, Lindsey German, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lawson and the businessman Sir Martin Sorrell.
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b06pdlgb)
Sarah Dunant: Crisis in Catholicism
Sarah Dunant sees a new crisis in the Catholic church as a result of unchanged policy over divorce, homosexuality, celibacy and the role of women.
"Men may truly believe in God but for most of them chastity is too big an ask and if enforced leads, at worst, to abuse and at best to a clergy and hierarchy ignorant of, and often unsympathetic to, the problems of being human. From there it's but a skip and a jump to the role of women and their exclusion from the heart of the church."
Producer: Sheila Cook.
FRI 21:00 Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen (b06pdlgr)
Omnibus: Part 2
The 1980s were a time of political upheaval and deep changes to the way the state engaged with British society, but for black theatre, perhaps paradoxically, it was a time of a great explosion of talent and opportunity. As Brixton and Toxteth burned, a host of new and brilliant young theatre groups burst into life, some benefiting from the final largesse of the dying Greater London Council, wound up by act of Parliament in 1986. Thus Talawa was born with an £80,000 GLC grant to stage its first, landmark production which required a cast of 23 - but there were many others too.
On television, Channel 4 brought new specialist magazine programming for black viewers, quickly emulated by the BBC, and series like Empire Road found ready and growing popularity, while the films of Isaac Julien addressed issues of race and sexuality for both niche and mainstream audiences. By the 1990s and early 2000s, new black writing talent like Roy Williams and Winsome Pinnock were reflecting sharp social divisions, and the problems faced by black youth in Britain's inner cities. This, too, was the world that young British-Nigerian writer Bola Agbaje grew up in, and powerfully wrote about in her groundbreaking new plays.
Consultant: Dr Michael Pearce
Producer: Simon Elmes.
FRI 21:58 Weather (b06p4jp4)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b06pdlgz)
A special programme about immigration and social cohesion with a panel and audience.
A special programme about immigration and cohesion with a panel and audience at the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University.
Will increased immigration lead to less integration and more tension in our communities?
Is it inevitable that these terrorist attacks make us worry more about the people in our neighbourhood, and thus harm social cohesion?
FRI 22:45 Death in the Fifth Position by Gore Vidal (b06qrn50)
Episode 10
With McCarthyism reaching fever pitch in 1950s America, Peter Sargeant - a dashing PR man - is hired by the Grand St Petersburg ballet to fend off rumours that their star choreographer is a communist. But New York's ballet world is shocked when, on the opening night, the lead ballerina plummets to her death from a wire, maintaining her classical pose in the 'fifth position' as she hits the floor.
Gore Vidal's earlier novel The City and the Pillar was published in 1948 when the author was 23 years old. Its central story of a homosexual relationship caused such a scandal that the New York Times book critic refused to review any book by Gore Vidal. Others followed his lead and the author found himself at a loss as to how to continue to earn a living through his pen until a publisher suggested that he turn his hand to writing under a different name. Death In the Fifth Position was published in 1952 - the first of a trio of entertainments featuring Peter Cutler Sargeant II as a publicist turned private eye.
Episode 10:
It would appear that Mr Washburn has decided to let Jane Garden take the fall. He is willing to see her arrested and have her reputation ruined even when she is found innocent, in order for the ballet company to continue its tour. Peter continues to piece together his theory of what happened, but time is running out. He needs to spend some time with Louis to find out what he knows. It's an evening that involves alcohol and a bathhouse.
The music used in the series is (as mentioned in the story) Bartok's Concerto For Orchestra.
Written by Edgar Box (Gore Vidal)
Read by Jamie Parker
Abridged by Isobel Creed
Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4
FRI 23:00 BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2015 (b06pdlh1)
Marcus Brigstocke looks back at twenty years of the BBC New Comedy Awards, including highlights from the 2015 final, which took place earlier in the day at London's Comedy Store and was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2.
He also talks to figures that put the awards into context - how long will it be before these bright young talents are part of the comedy firmament? Marcus himself knows that it's a long path to success - he won the awards back in 1996, but Giles Wemmbley-Hogg didn't arrive on Radio 4 until 2002...
Contributors include comedy industry insiders who gave seen new comedians come and go; comedians who have had success despite failing to reach any awards final; a comedian who did well in the competition but gave up nonetheless.
Producer: Ed Morrish
A BBC Radio Comedy Production.
FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament (b06pdlh3)
Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster.
FRI 23:55 The Listening Project (b06pdlh5)
Kevin and Derek - The Fine Art of Competition
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between artists who are friends but who cannot entirely escape the competitive nature of the art world. Another conversation in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 MON (b06p7b7s)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 MON (b06p7b7s)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 TUE (b06pb5pt)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 TUE (b06pb5pt)
15 Minute Drama
10:41 WED (b06pbtyk)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 WED (b06pbtyk)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 THU (b06pd3bk)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 THU (b06pd3bk)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 FRI (b06pddh1)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 FRI (b06pddh1)
A Good Read
16:30 TUE (b06pb74j)
A Point of View
08:48 SUN (b06mv4js)
A Point of View
20:50 FRI (b06pdlgb)
Across the Board
12:04 MON (b03mfn09)
Across the Board
12:04 TUE (b03mj945)
Across the Board
12:04 WED (b04mb80d)
Across the Board
12:04 THU (b04md54h)
Across the Board
12:04 FRI (b05sy63d)
Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section
18:30 THU (b01rfy5w)
Alice Is Still in Wonderland
11:30 TUE (b06pb5pw)
All in the Mind
21:00 TUE (b06pb835)
All in the Mind
15:30 WED (b06pb835)
Analysis
21:30 SUN (b06nnnlt)
Any Answers?
13:30 SAT (b06p46jm)
Any Questions?
20:00 FRI (b06pdlg5)
Archive on 4
20:00 SAT (b06p4cl2)
BBC Inside Science
16:30 THU (b06pdcf0)
BBC Inside Science
21:00 THU (b06pdcf0)
BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2015
23:00 FRI (b06pdlh1)
Behind Closed Doors
14:15 MON (b02qd1vc)
Behind Closed Doors
14:15 TUE (b02qncsf)
Bells on Sunday
05:43 SUN (b06p4ln1)
Bells on Sunday
00:45 MON (b06p4ln1)
Blood, Sex and Money: The Life and Work of Emile Zola
16:00 MON (b06p7cyt)
Book of the Week
00:30 SAT (b06qbvnm)
Book of the Week
09:45 MON (b06p7b7n)
Book of the Week
00:30 TUE (b06p7b7n)
Book of the Week
09:45 TUE (b06pb54n)
Book of the Week
00:30 WED (b06pb54n)
Book of the Week
09:45 WED (b06pbtyf)
Book of the Week
00:30 THU (b06pbtyf)
Book of the Week
09:45 THU (b06pd3bc)
Book of the Week
00:30 FRI (b06pd3bc)
Book of the Week
09:45 FRI (b06pddgz)
Broadcasting House
09:00 SUN (b06p4npc)
Changing Climate
20:00 MON (b06p7d29)
Comic Fringes
00:30 SUN (b038jkr9)
Costing the Earth
15:30 TUE (b06pb74d)
Costing the Earth
21:00 WED (b06pb74d)
Crossing Continents
20:30 MON (b06nrqvh)
Crossing Continents
11:00 THU (b06pd3bp)
Death in the Fifth Position by Gore Vidal
22:45 MON (b06qnmhn)
Death in the Fifth Position by Gore Vidal
22:45 TUE (b06qnmpb)
Death in the Fifth Position by Gore Vidal
22:45 WED (b06qnn2q)
Death in the Fifth Position by Gore Vidal
22:45 THU (b06qrmw8)
Death in the Fifth Position by Gore Vidal
22:45 FRI (b06qrn50)
Desert Island Discs
11:15 SUN (b06p4nph)
Desert Island Discs
09:00 FRI (b06p4nph)
Dilemma
11:30 MON (b01rgj1n)
Drama
14:30 SAT (b06p48lz)
Drama
21:00 SAT (b06np7nx)
Drama
15:00 SUN (b06p56zj)
Drama
14:15 WED (b03w16g8)
Drama
14:15 THU (b06pd8rv)
Drama
14:15 FRI (b06pdjgg)
Farming Today
06:30 SAT (b06p46bh)
Farming Today
05:45 MON (b06p7b7g)
Farming Today
05:45 TUE (b06pb4tb)
Farming Today
05:45 WED (b06pbwby)
Farming Today
05:45 THU (b06pd39x)
Farming Today
05:45 FRI (b06pdck2)
Feedback
20:00 SUN (b06ns27l)
Feedback
16:30 FRI (b06pdjh3)
File on 4
17:00 SUN (b06np61x)
Forgotten History
16:30 SUN (b06p56zt)
Four Thought
20:45 WED (b06pbwzr)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:30 SAT (b06nl5jr)
Front Row
19:15 MON (b06p7cz4)
Front Row
19:15 TUE (b06pb82z)
Front Row
19:15 WED (b06pbwzm)
Front Row
19:15 THU (b06pdcf4)
Front Row
19:15 FRI (b06pdjm8)
Gardeners' Question Time
14:00 SUN (b06ns0r0)
Gardeners' Question Time
15:00 FRI (b06pdjgm)
Gloomsbury
18:30 TUE (b040014b)
In Our Time
09:00 THU (b06pd3b9)
In Our Time
21:30 THU (b06pd3b9)
In Pod We Trust
10:30 SAT (b06p46bp)
In Touch
20:40 TUE (b06pb833)
John Finnemore's Double Acts
11:30 FRI (b06pddh5)
Jon Ronson On
23:00 THU (b01rlrjz)
Just a Minute
12:04 SUN (b06nnnlk)
Just a Minute
18:30 MON (b06p7cz0)
Last Word
20:30 SUN (b06ns27j)
Last Word
16:00 FRI (b06pdjh0)
Law in Action
16:00 TUE (b06pb74g)
Liam Williams: Ladhood
23:00 TUE (b06pb839)
Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair
23:00 WED (b06pbxjr)
Lives in a Landscape
11:00 FRI (b06pddh3)
Loose Ends
18:30 SAT (b06p4b25)
Mending Young Minds
23:00 MON (b06810pq)
Midnight News
00:00 SAT (b06nl5j7)
Midnight News
00:00 SUN (b06p4j9y)
Midnight News
00:00 MON (b06p4jf2)
Midnight News
00:00 TUE (b06p4jhh)
Midnight News
00:00 WED (b06p4jkg)
Midnight News
00:00 THU (b06p4jm1)
Midnight News
00:00 FRI (b06p4jnk)
Midweek
09:00 WED (b06pbtyc)
Midweek
21:30 WED (b06pbtyc)
Money Box
12:04 SAT (b06p46bw)
Money Box
21:00 SUN (b06p46bw)
Money Box
15:00 WED (b06pbwb3)
Moral Maze
22:15 SAT (b06nrjjg)
Moral Maze
20:00 WED (b06pbwzp)
Natural Histories
21:00 MON (b05w9lgt)
Natural Histories
11:00 TUE (b05w9ljp)
New Lyrical Ballads
23:30 SAT (b06npkhw)
News Briefing
05:30 SAT (b06nl5jh)
News Briefing
05:30 SUN (b06p4jbd)
News Briefing
05:30 MON (b06p4jfd)
News Briefing
05:30 TUE (b06p4jhw)
News Briefing
05:30 WED (b06p4jkq)
News Briefing
05:30 THU (b06p4jm9)
News Briefing
05:30 FRI (b06p4jnw)
News Headlines
06:00 SUN (b06p4jbg)
News Summary
12:00 SAT (b06nl5jt)
News Summary
12:00 SUN (b06p4jc0)
News Summary
12:00 MON (b06p4jfs)
News Summary
12:00 TUE (b06p4jj1)
News Summary
12:00 WED (b06p4jks)
News Summary
12:00 THU (b06p4jmc)
News Summary
12:00 FRI (b06p4jny)
News and Papers
06:00 SAT (b06nl5jk)
News and Papers
07:00 SUN (b06p4jbl)
News and Papers
08:00 SUN (b06p4jbq)
News and Weather
22:00 SAT (b06nl5k9)
News
13:00 SAT (b06nl5jy)
News
09:00 MON (b06rwtjy)
On Your Farm
06:35 SUN (b06p4ln5)
One Minute Silence
11:00 MON (b06rw474)
One to One
09:30 TUE (b06pb54l)
Open Book
16:00 SUN (b06p56zr)
Open Book
15:30 THU (b06p56zr)
Open Country
06:07 SAT (b06nrsrw)
Open Country
15:00 THU (b06pd8rx)
PM
17:00 SAT (b06p4b23)
PM
17:00 MON (b06p7cyy)
PM
17:00 TUE (b06pb74l)
PM
17:00 WED (b06pbwbk)
PM
17:00 THU (b06ppk4w)
PM
17:00 FRI (b06pdjh9)
Paris: Could It Happen Here?
20:00 THU (b06rywqs)
Pick of the Week
18:30 SUN (b06p5701)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 SAT (b06ns4bq)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 MON (b06qngf6)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 TUE (b06qsr0w)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 WED (b06r169x)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 THU (b06r5dgq)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 FRI (b06r9j65)
Profile
19:02 SAT (b06p4b27)
Profile
05:45 SUN (b06p4b27)
Profile
17:40 SUN (b06p4b27)
Radio 4 Appeal
07:54 SUN (b06p4ln9)
Radio 4 Appeal
21:26 SUN (b06p4ln9)
Radio 4 Appeal
15:27 THU (b06p4ln9)
Radio 4's Night of Comedy for Children In Need
19:20 SUN (b06nrxbj)
Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen
13:45 MON (b06p7b7z)
Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen
13:45 TUE (b06pb6sh)
Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen
13:45 WED (b06pbwb1)
Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen
13:45 THU (b06pd3c0)
Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen
13:45 FRI (b06pddx5)
Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen
21:00 FRI (b06pdlgr)
Round Britain Quiz
23:00 SAT (b06nnnl9)
Round Britain Quiz
15:00 MON (b06p7blp)
Saturday Live
09:00 SAT (b06p46bm)
Saturday Review
19:15 SAT (b06nl5k7)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SAT (b06nl5jc)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SUN (b06p4jb2)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 MON (b06p4jf6)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 TUE (b06p4jhr)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 WED (b06p4jkl)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 THU (b06p4jm5)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 FRI (b06p4jnr)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SAT (b06nl5j9)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SAT (b06nl5jf)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SAT (b06nl5k1)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SUN (b06p4jb0)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SUN (b06p4jb7)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SUN (b06p4jcb)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 MON (b06p4jf4)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 MON (b06p4jfb)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 TUE (b06p4jhp)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 TUE (b06p4jht)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 WED (b06p4jkj)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 WED (b06p4jkn)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 THU (b06p4jm3)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 THU (b06p4jm7)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 FRI (b06p4jnp)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 FRI (b06p4jnt)
Short Cuts
15:00 TUE (b06pb74b)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SAT (b06nl5k5)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SUN (b06p4jcq)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 MON (b06p4jfz)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 TUE (b06p4jj5)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 WED (b06p4jkx)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 THU (b06p4jmh)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 FRI (b06p4jp2)
Something Understood
06:05 SUN (b06p4ln3)
Something Understood
23:30 SUN (b06p4ln3)
Start the Week
09:03 MON (b06p7b7l)
Start the Week
21:30 MON (b06p7b7l)
Sunday Worship
08:10 SUN (b06p4lnf)
Sunday
07:10 SUN (b06p4ln7)
The Archers Omnibus
10:00 SUN (b06p4npf)
The Archers
19:00 SUN (b06p5705)
The Archers
14:00 MON (b06p5705)
The Archers
19:00 MON (b06p7cz2)
The Archers
14:00 TUE (b06p7cz2)
The Archers
19:00 TUE (b06pb82x)
The Archers
14:00 WED (b06pb82x)
The Archers
19:00 WED (b06pbwzk)
The Archers
14:00 THU (b06pbwzk)
The Archers
19:00 THU (b06pdcf2)
The Archers
14:00 FRI (b06pdcf2)
The Archers
19:00 FRI (b06pdjhf)
The Bottom Line
20:30 THU (b06pdcf6)
The Dictatorship of Data
20:00 TUE (b06pb831)
The Digital Human
16:30 MON (b06p7cyw)
The Film Programme
23:00 SUN (b06nrxb8)
The Film Programme
16:00 THU (b06pdcdy)
The Food Programme
12:32 SUN (b06p4r9r)
The Food Programme
15:30 MON (b06p4r9r)
The Forum
11:00 SAT (b06p46bt)
The Invention of...
11:03 MON (b06knmy9)
The Island at the End of the World
00:30 MON (b03mtkbm)
The Joy of 9 to 5
11:00 WED (b06pbw9v)
The Lentil Sorters
11:30 WED (b06pv0gx)
The Life Scientific
09:00 TUE (b06pb54j)
The Life Scientific
21:30 TUE (b06pb54j)
The Listening Project
14:45 SUN (b06p56z1)
The Listening Project
10:55 WED (b06pbtym)
The Listening Project
16:55 FRI (b06pdjh7)
The Listening Project
23:55 FRI (b06pdlh5)
The Media Show
16:30 WED (b06pbwb7)
The Now Show
12:30 SAT (b06ns27q)
The Now Show
18:30 FRI (b06pdjhc)
The World This Weekend
13:00 SUN (b06p52ct)
The World Tonight
22:00 MON (b06p7d03)
The World Tonight
22:00 TUE (b06pb837)
The World Tonight
22:00 WED (b06pbwzt)
The World Tonight
22:00 THU (b06pdcf8)
The World Tonight
22:00 FRI (b06pdlgz)
Thinking Allowed
16:00 WED (b06pbwb5)
Today in Parliament
23:30 MON (b06p7d05)
Today in Parliament
23:30 TUE (b06pb83c)
Today in Parliament
23:30 WED (b06pbxjt)
Today in Parliament
23:30 THU (b06pdcfb)
Today in Parliament
23:30 FRI (b06pdlh3)
Today
07:00 SAT (b06p46bk)
Today
06:00 MON (b06p7b7j)
Today
06:00 TUE (b06pb54g)
Today
06:00 WED (b06pbty9)
Today
06:00 THU (b06pd3b3)
Today
06:00 FRI (b06pddgx)
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups
18:30 WED (b06pbwzh)
Tweet of the Day
08:58 SUN (b04mlphq)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 MON (b04syywl)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 TUE (b04t0gsc)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 WED (b04t0gzx)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 THU (b04t0hgk)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 FRI (b04sylr1)
Warhorses of Letters
23:15 WED (b03s6jv7)
Weather
06:04 SAT (b06nl5jm)
Weather
06:57 SAT (b06nl5jp)
Weather
12:57 SAT (b06nl5jw)
Weather
17:57 SAT (b06nl5k3)
Weather
06:57 SUN (b06p4jbj)
Weather
07:57 SUN (b06p4jbn)
Weather
12:57 SUN (b06p4jc4)
Weather
17:57 SUN (b06p4jcj)
Weather
05:56 MON (b06p4jfj)
Weather
12:57 MON (b06p4jfx)
Weather
21:58 MON (b06p4jg4)
Weather
12:57 TUE (b06p4jj3)
Weather
21:58 TUE (b06p4jj7)
Weather
12:57 WED (b06p4jkv)
Weather
12:57 THU (b06p4jmf)
Weather
12:57 FRI (b06p4jp0)
Weather
21:58 FRI (b06p4jp4)
Westminster Hour
22:00 SUN (b06p4jcx)
What the Papers Say
22:45 SUN (b06p59dm)
When Stockhausen Came to Huddersfield
11:30 THU (b06pd3bt)
Woman's Hour
16:00 SAT (b06p48m3)
Woman's Hour
10:00 MON (b06p7b7q)
Woman's Hour
10:00 TUE (b06pb5pr)
Woman's Hour
10:00 WED (b06pbtyh)
Woman's Hour
10:00 THU (b06r8t1z)
Woman's Hour
10:00 FRI (b06pnp3s)
World at One
13:00 MON (b06p7b7x)
World at One
13:00 TUE (b06pjsc0)
World at One
13:00 WED (b06pbxjp)
World at One
13:00 THU (b06pmj9w)
World at One
13:00 FRI (b06pddx3)
You and Yours
12:15 MON (b06p7b7v)
You and Yours
12:15 TUE (b06pb6sf)
You and Yours
12:15 WED (b06pbw9z)
You and Yours
12:15 THU (b06pmj9t)
You and Yours
12:15 FRI (b06pddh7)
e=mc2
15:45 FRI (b06pdjgt)
iPM
05:45 SAT (b06ns4bs)