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Radio 4 Listings for 26 December 2015 – 1 January 2016 Page 1 of 17 SATURDAY 26 DECEMBER 2015 SAT 06:04 Weather (b06s6xt0) embellishment and the joy of African prints. The latest weather forecast. SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b06s6xsk) In February this year, Sean O'Brien was body-shamed after The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. photos of him dancing were posted online. After his story went Followed by Weather. SAT 06:07 Open Country (b06sdxfb) viral, an LA woman launched a global online search to find the Tale Valley, Devon person they dubbed "Dancing Man" in order to invite him to a big dance party in California. He joins Aasmah and Suzy to talk SAT 00:15 Christmas Meditation (b06sdvww) The Tale Valley is a little known corner of Devon that tourists about his extraordinary year, and how he has used the attention A reflection on the meaning of Christmas, with Tina Beattie, tend to bypass on their way down to Cornwall. However it has a to support anti bullying charities. theologian and writer. Tina looks back on 2015 and tells us how rich history, and as Helen Mark discovers, man and nature have events have influenced her Christmas. In her first year as a made an impact on the farming landscape we see today. We'll touch base with the Coxless Crew, a team of women who Grandmother, she recalls the birth of her own son, on Boxing will be achieving a world first by rowing 8,446 miles Day. He is now a father and her memories reflect on how One night in May 1941 this quiet valley witnessed the horror of unsupported across the Pacific Ocean in 2015, from America to generations of family cope with the fears and hopes of the war, when a German bomber crashed - scattering its four Australia, and in the process aim to raise quarter of a million coming year. airmen across four parishes. Farmer Derek Johns takes Helen pounds for their two charities Walking With the Wounded and alongside the River Tale to the spot where his father came Breast Cancer Care. The music of Simon and Garfunkel, The sounds of Silence, across one of the bodies as he was due to milk the cows the Christmas in the Holy Land: St Luke's Gospel 2:3-12, Monks of following morning. Helen also hears the stories of those who We've the inheritance tracks of Jon Culshaw. He chooses the Syrian Church and Kim Andre Arnesen's Magnificat, Tina were children at the time of the crash, to understand how the Memories performed by Elvis Presley and The Boy with the Beattie's music choice for the Christmas meditation. event affected the landscape and its people. Thorn in his side by The Smiths. Readers: Juliet Stevenson and Sir John Gielgud Theatre director and former drama lecturer John Somers tells JP meets Ken Dodd to talk about Christmas's past and we have Helen how an ambitious production was developed out of this your thank yous. Tina Beattie is a member of the Catholic Women Speak who true story, set in the field next to where one of the German have published "Catholic Women Speak: Bringing Our Gifts to airmen fell. Involving hundreds of residents, the play by Tale Russell Grant's Art of Astrology is out on December 31st the Table" published by Paulist Press: Valley Community Theatre is typical of the style of production Freehand Fashion by Chinelo Bally is out now catholicwomenspeak.com. John puts on to bring the community together, and give them an A Christmas Shang-A-Lang: The Bay City Rollers Album is out insight into their local area which they might not have now and their next gig is in Edinburgh on 27th December Producer: Carmel Lonergan. otherwise. Ken Dodd is doing two shows in his home city of Liverpool at the Philharmonic Hall on December 28th and 29th Helen meets Caius Nicholas, a young aspiring actor who had a SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b06t4pw9) lead role in one of the company's most recent productions, Producer: Corinna Jones The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees which was based on a real life soldier named on the war Editor: Karen Dalziel. memorial in the village of Payhembury. Helen then heads to a Episode 5 local landmark, Hembury Fort, where she volunteers to cut back scrub and bracken which has overwhelmed this historic site. SAT 10:30 Archive on 4 (b06sdxfl) In 2012, Robert Penn felled (and replanted) a great ash from a Former Devon county archaeologist, Professor Frances Jay Rayner Pigs Out Welsh wood. He set out to explore the true value of the tree of Griffith, and Carrel Jevons, who looks after this privately- which we have made the greatest and most varied use in human owned hill fort, outline the plans to clear the vegetation which Jay Rayner gets serious and sybaritic about pigs - starting with history. How many things can be made from one tree? will allow them to find out more about the Roman, Iron Age medieval Britain swarming with wild boars and ending with and Neolithic remains that lie below the ground. 21st century pigs cannibalised for human spare parts. Over the next two years he travelled across Britain, to Europe and the USA, to the workshops and barns of a generation of Finally, Helen returns to the River Tale where she goes in Jay muses on recent rumours surrounding a certain Prime craftsmen committed to working in wood. He watched them search of the elusive water vole on the Escot estate. Sarah Hogg Minister and a pigs head. Does the pig-image make it all the make over 45 artefacts and tools that have been in continual use from the Tale Valley Trust and Derek Gow explain how the more taboo? This is the extraordinary and, at times, shocking for centuries, if not millennia. animal was successfully reintroduced to the river, continuing a tale of our relationship with the allegedly filthy animal. tradition of bringing back species to encourage man and nature For his final project, Rob wants to create a totem to embody his to work hand in hand. The archive groans and grunts with pig - much of it reverence not just for his tree, but for all Ash trees - a writing anthropomorphic, some fact and some fiction. desk. It's an ambitious project. With his friend Andy Dix, he Presenter: Helen Mark selects the perfect piece of timber for each component. The Producer: Fiona Clampin. Remember the Tamworth Two who escaped a Wiltshire finished product and its distinctive smell takes Rob back to the abattoir in 1998 and went on the run? They were renamed day his tree was felled. As his time with the tree comes to an Butch and Sundance and their intelligence was celebrated by the end, his new rapport with the ash is just beginning. SAT 06:30 Farming Today (b06sdxfd) world's press. Rescued by a popular tabloid, they escaped the Farming Today This Week: A look back at farming in 2015 slaughterhouse. Jay Rayner, on the other hand, has dutifully This is a tale about the joy of making things in wood, of its been to see pigs killed and dealt with the carcasses. touch and smell, its many uses, and the resonant, calming effect This programme looks back over the last twelve months. What of running our hands along a wooden surface. It is a celebration were the highs and lows of 2015 from the perspective of Animal lovers beware - this portrait of our fellow omnivores is of man's close relationship with this greatest of natural farming and the countryside? controversial. Jay is a non-observant Jew who loves pork - he materials and a reminder of the value of things made by hand cooks it, eats it, reviews it, reveres it. and made to last. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. Jay also considers pig as man's best friend, delighting in the Abridged by Jo Coombs poetry of Dylan Thomas and in another pig fancier, Winston Produced by Hannah Marshall Churchill. The upper classes have always loved their pigs. A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT 06:57 Weather (b06s6xt2) The latest weather forecast. In the hands of George Orwell however, the intelligence of the pig makes for some dark meat. And Jay hears from comedian SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b06s6xsm) Aatif Nawaz who explains why his mother can't even say the The latest shipping forecast. SAT 07:00 Today (b06sdxfg) word 'p*g.' Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. Plenty here about the pigs' fitness for cannibalising human SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes spare parts too. Our porcine friends share some startling (b06s6xsp) similarities to humans, including the size and pumping BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b06sdxfj) capacities of their hearts. resumes at 5.20am. Russell Grant Produced by Sarah Cuddon Join Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein for a live Boxing Day A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b06s6xsr) Saturday Live. The latest shipping forecast. Russell Grant has been synonymous with astrology ever since he SAT 11:00 The Forum (b06vfwd0) interpreted the stars on breakfast TV in the 1980s. But if you Core: A Journey to the Centre of the Things SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b06s6xst) remember his flamboyant outfits and presenting style, it wasn't The latest news from BBC Radio 4.